sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.


amy's back and so am i.  for reals.  legit.  too legit.  REAL.

i'm just back from young wheemins and feeling a flush with thegiddinessofgirls.  it's a thing and it's catchy.  i wanted to do a new yearsy activity.  like fresh and rejuvie.  what's more rejuvie than yoga and green smoothies??  i ask you.

so let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start....  :D blogs really need emoji access.  anyfeller, this morning was like many a morning, five and a half hours of sleep is just not enough.  at 1:30am  a gilmore girls marathon seems like the most natural and right thing to be doing.  but at 7am you curse the night owl you and wish a thousand deaths upon it.  and then your neighbour is suddenly in the shower when you wanted to be and then you play a candy game that shall not be named on your phone to wake yourself up, but waste too much time so there's not enough time to shower and so then you waste more time and check some facebook and insta happs and snuggle into your softer than soft owl fuzzy molestable blanket.  when you finally drag yourself out of the cocoon of your bed into the frigid air and icy floor of your apartment, you have about ten minutes to eat and get ready.  luckily it's phase one and you can eat a piece of bread and some fruit.

i put my hair into a messy top bun, hiding the shame of it's unwashedness.  i wore my awesome red sea shell earrings that eryn whipped up for me in her super talented and awesomely magical way.  everyone loves them, "including and especially" (one of elder holland's favourite phrases.) me.  i got to work ten minutes late.  i'm a good example like that.

today wayne and i made the cheesiest ever seafood alfredo.  like that baby had the most real parm that i have ever put into an alfredo.  i'm not jorking.

it seemed to be the longest day ever.

for my fruit portion of lunch i ate my giant mango from australia that i bought from kins for 5.99.  it was seriously huge.  like the most massive mango of your life.  it was very sweet and tasted a little coconutty to some of us.  others were oblivious to the coconut (aka mireya denied)

i stayed late after work and looked up different things about yoga.  i found some different yoga games, that gave me ideas for other games... and then i looked up images of yoga poses by benefit.  for example for energizing, or for anxiety or stress release and printed those out and made little booklet handout thingies for the girls.

so then my friend called and was telling me a poem and wanting me to listen to the rhyming...and meanwhile i was trying to carry 7 yoga matts, my purse, the handouts and my phone, i tucked my phone under my chin of course.  i somehow made it like this out of the building, to my car, got the hatch back open...threw all the matts in...and while i was doing that the dumb hatch back was lowering (a new favourite trick it randomly likes doing) so that the exact moment i lifted my head it was there to cruely knock me in the forehead leaving a small gash and bruised lump and making me temporarily angry.  OW! i yelled.  my friend continued to babel on to me oblivious.  I JUST HURT MYSELF!  i angrily interrupt the blabbityblab.  nary a pause and a continuation o blabbity.  SHUT UP! I HURT MYSELF!  i don't want to listen to your foreign language poem while my head is throbbing buddy.  i don't know why i was mad, but at least acknowledge my experience, you know?

then i went to kins and bought, ginger, kale, apples, carrots, kiwi, avacado to add to the pineapple and mango that jane was bringing for our green smoothies.

then i rushed home, changed into yoga clothes, grabbed my blender and fed the cats and straight out the door to the church.

everyone was like "what happened to your head"  so i was obliged to act out the incident.

so we had a fun night.  first we all shared yoga poses.  so everone took turns teaching the group a pose and then they would tag off and the next would go up.  we did several rounds of that before we then did a couple of yoga games.  one was like the memory game where you stand in a circle and the first person leads a pose that everyone does, and then the next person does that first pose and adds one of their own and you continue on in that was around the circle.  another one was like the animal game.  that one was funny.  so you do your pose and then someone elses and then that person does their pose and someone elses until someone makes a mistake and then they go to the last spot and everyone shifts up.  know what i mean?  get it?  that one was funny because some were stand up and other poses were on floor and people were getting too good at it so i made a 3 second time limit to complete your turn so we were just letting our poses fly.  it was lots of fun.

then we went into the kitchen, shredded, chopped and scooped all our green smoothie ingredients, except a pear, lemon and lime did not get used.  we had two blenders so the miamaids made a smoothie and the behives did a smoothie and then we all tasted each other's.  they were pretty good.  we gave the bishop and the chinese sister missionaries some tastes too.  and then it was over.  and the flurry of cleanup etc happened.  and now i'm home in my owl blankie and chilled to the bone (and nose)

going to bed because that is what intelligent people do.  and i read the girls D&C 88:124 about going to bed early and getting up early that your bodies and minds will be invigorated... so i gotta live it.

night!

Comments

Beth-a-knee said…
it's so hard to go to bed early it's one's only free time! mmm that alfredo sounds really yummy. how long you gonna do diet for? i cheated a bunch before/during christmas so for like 3 weeks i only lost a couple lbs. now i am back on the wagon. *sigh*
H said…
I'm happy you're back for real! I love reading about your adventures!