It is fun to put Matilda on top of things and see what she does.
Last week it was a Crate and Barrel Box.
She was pissed.
Today I put her on the lawn chair.
Nope, she didn’t like that so much either. Oh well.
We don’t have anything else to put her on right now. If we think of something, you’ll see a photo of it.
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Recently I was sucked into the Steig Larsson trilogy [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc,] so I understand now why Mike has been staying up until about 1am finishing up the first book. Apparently, the dogs are staying up a little late as well. They have been in bed until about 11am the last two days.
It’s making it quite difficult to get up and moving in the morning, because I rarely get to snuggle with both my girls. It’s rarely even quiet in the morning.
Mike has finished his book and will likely go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight. We’ll see if this prevents the two Misses Lazybones from sleeping until noon.
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Our neighborhood hosts Seafood Fest every year. It’s a really a Scandinavian festival, too, since Ballard is a Scandinavian neighborhood. (That’s why the Swedish meatballs – yum!) It’s the best festival to buy your helmet with horns, if you were looking for one of those.
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Lately it’s been a whole lotta yoga.
During 40 days — while I was high on endorphins, apparently — I signed up for the Teacher Assisting Program at our studio. It’s a 2 weekend program (24 hours of training total) where you learn how to assist all the basic poses in our style of yoga. It’s super tough, because you also have to do all the poses and get pulled and pushed into all the tough places the poses can go. Exhausting but illuminating. I attended it to grow and learn, I like making my practice better. It was yet another indicator that I still don’t really care to teach yoga (but I already knew that) – but what I want is to be awesome at it ;) These trainings just help me get better. Plus, as usual with all my yogadvetures, I met some super great people. Plus, when you’re touching people in that way, it just helps you let go a little and relax around other people — you can even translate that into how you interact with anyone.
Right now I’m sore and exhausted! The downside to the extreme yoga is that it throws me off of my regular schedule. I haven’t been to my normal amount of classes due to just needing extra time and needing some recovery time. But, it was good.
Secondly, Mike is in the process of getting on the sub teaching list at our studio. It’s a huge big deal, and a really tough process, but he’s just checking off the requirements one by one. You have to go through the teacher assistant program, go through the mentorship program (which he’s doing now by assisting the intro yoga series two nights a week), go to Level I training, some other stuff, and go through a series of practice classes. His first class was last week and his second class was today. I attended both. I hate giving feedback in general, and it’s tough to give feedback (we call them “gems and opportunities,” by the way) to someone I know so very well. Today someone called it “wife-back.” And yet, I’m so good at nagging him about other things… ;)
He’s doing great. He’ll have another class scheduled soon — I’m glad he has a couple of weeks to marinate on it. I thought his class was excellent today — he thought it could have gone better, but it’s all just part of the experience. He’s like my dad in that he has a gift for teaching for sure. (My grandpa once said you either are a teacher or you aren’t.) Mike is, for sure. I’m glad he has a teaching outlet right now. He’s still just finding his feet. His bare feet, I guess… At least he has his wife to give him man pedicures if needed.
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