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For the last six weeks I have been in an intensive ashtanga vinyasa yoga teacher training in India. I have loved yoga for years, and this time has completely exceeded my expectations in its richness. It has stimulated my mind, challenged my body, expanded my heart, and filled my spirit. Two more weeks and I will have completed a 500 hour certification. I can't wait to start teaching!

The body holds tension, anticipation in the muscles all day long. When I do yoga in just the right way, I feel that it is released, in a beautiful, powerful, graceful push. At the end of such a practice, I feel peaceful, timeless, empty and full all at once.

#Yoga #meditation

a long time

I haven't updated in ages, for good reason. For a full explanation, check out the last few pages of my personal blog.

The short version is that on my birthday, at my party, there was a home invasion. Myself and three of my friends were shot.

I have written a few times about my dear friend I called Wolverine. We had gotten together, though I hadn't shared it here. I loved him more vastly than I thought it was possible to love a person. Being with him was as easy and felt as sustaining as breathing. He was my dead sea. He was my companion in mischief and adventure and life.

He was killed that night.

I was badly injured but am recovering well.

I plan to get certified to teach yoga and try to make a career out that and freelance artwork. Or maybe get a job as a trail guide in Colorado. Really, just whichever works out best and makes me happy.

Personal blog: sea-kraken.tumblr.com

It has been ages since I posted, just thought I'd pop in to say I'm alive and well! Life is great, I'm optimistic about many things, and fitness and diet is just fitting seamlessly in with my life. I hope you all are doing wonderfully and having an awesome March! I'm just super ready for spring!

Weight is just a number:

In which I've gained ~10lbs and it wasn't the end of the world!

productive day!

I went massive grocery shopping. So now I have plenty of healthy things to take to work and to make meals at home (I was mostly eating out or at work before). Ran some really important errands.

Went on an awesome long run. You guys have to check out the "zombies run" app on iphone or android. I'm having a blast with it. It's basically interactive radio theater.

4.5 miles run/walking in 55 minutes. I'm pleased with that after not really doing much high intensity cardio for a while.

I'm rehydrating, and then either tackling some yoga or hitting up a friend to hang out before going to a wedding tonight.

And the weather is freaking perfect. Wonderful day.

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I want to do this

Most of the time, I like living alone. But sometimes it is lonely. Especially on days that I'm not either off working a double. If I'm just off, it's easy to make plans with people. If I'm on a double, I'm around work friends all day and maybe hanging out with them over the break. But like today, I won't go in until around 5 today. It's just quiet. And strange.

Anyway. The plan is yoga, running, and then buying some healthy snacks to take to work like you guys suggested! If I've got time after I think I'm going to go chill in a coffee shop with book.

ok so!

I don't know if I'm going to be posting consistently yet. I'm trying to figure out what the best thing would be for me mental-health wise.

But here's the deal!

I've got the basics of a life fairly together. I have a job that has a decent working environment, and pays the bills even during slow weeks. I'm making friends, I've grown comfortable with spending time alone. I'm even working on promoting my art.

However! Lots of my healthy habits have fallen out of habit. I've got some work to do to get them back, and to get some balance back to my life that way.

So I may start posting about that journey--trying to fit a healthy lifestyle around a demanding and erractic schedule without obsessing, worrying about every little thing, or driving myself crazy.

Oh hey, do any fellow servers/people working jobs with odd hours/surrounded by ridiculous foods have tips for me? I'd love to hear them!?

on serving:

Constantly waking up at night with cramps in my calves

I will eat nearly anything after a double. 10-12 hours on my feet and I no longer give any cares. And really, I'm okay with that.

And possibly unrelated:

Teeth grinding. Any tips on this?

lol okay that is all.

mini-update

I don't know that I'll ever be "back" completely, but here's what is going on:

I'm working 40-60 hours a week between the two jobs. This leaves little time for actual workouts, sadly. I hope that once I'm actually in my apartment, I'll be able to establish more of a routine. I think once I am in, I'm going to have a dedicated yoga space-which is pretty exciting! I'm also toying with buying some weights, we shall see.

The apartment: tiny, private, in a vintage building--overall, perfect. It is just having a lot LOT of work being done to it so my move-in date is a little up in the air. It will hopefully be the first part of July! It is going to be amazing to have my own space.

Still doing the veg/pescetarian thing. The restaurant I work at has great sushi, haha, so I still do fish sometimes. And I eat lots of salads and have them add tofu...I love having that option when I get off work!

Annnd I another reason I'm excited for moving into my apartment is that I think food wise things will be better. The people I'm staying with are fairly far away from where I work, so when I leave the house in the morning I'm gone all day and it's usually late when I get back. Once I have my own space and it's actually close to where I spend most of my time, healthy-lifestyle wise things should be much easier.

Life: I'm trying to figure me out. Again, this feels like it'll be on hold until I can have my own space and routine, but being alone is getting easier, and I'm working on making more friends. Well, that's about it!

hiatus

I don't know for how long. I'm dealing with a lot, and I've been becoming increasingly unplugged in the process. It feels good, so I'm going to go with it for now.

I wish you all peace, happiness, acceptance, positivity, and love.

oscarwildething replied to your post: thoughts:

Hah.. er, wait, the cashier didn’t actually say “stripper or server?” did they?!

She asked if I had any weekend plans, I said just working, she asked where, I told her the name of the restaurant, she asked if I was a server and then said, "ah, with all the ones it was either that or a stripper." Yep.

thoughts:

It's already happened. I was paying for my groceries today and the cashier assumed I was a either a stripper or a server. Those weren't even restaurant tips, they were coffee tips. Good lord. Note to self: remember to cash out the ones in tips before leaving either job.

Weekends are hard.

When you spend most of your time with/investing in one person, you don't realize how comparatively under-developed the rest of your relationships are. Yesterday was pretty successful as far as time spent alone, but I'm feeling pretty lonely today.

I had nasty gut feelings about that one apartment, and so did there rest of my family, but I found one a few blocks away from it that is currently being renovated and will be perfectly in my price range. I had nice homey feelings instead of *danger Will Robinson, danger!* ones, and the lady is supposed to keep me updated on it!

a good day

Still dealing with some scheduling conflict, but I think both jobs are going to be great.

Downgrading to a "dumb" phone tomorrow, probably. I simply can't justify a nearly $100 phone bill for just me. I'm a little sad to give up cardio trainer and google books D: but my phone bill will be about half that, so I'll survive.

Working at the coffee shop again tomorrow :D

Also I feel so out of touch with my body and eating right now, or at least I have no idea what to expect from it. I hope that clears up soon.

I LOVE THE COFFEE SHOP JOB

So wonderful. Amazing people. Amazing atmosphere. Amazing work. Love love love.

I'm shadowing the hostess tonight at the restaurant, hopefully it is just as great!

That moment I never expected where I think I've gained a little weight back and LOVE how it looks

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