I am thankful for my husband and my family (which of course includes Hooper, our wonder dog). I am thankful for the wonderful friends that bless my life. I am also thankful for my great job. I am thankful for the small things like the million times a day that Chris makes me laugh. I am (slightly) thankful for this cold weather only because it’s the only time Hooper will lay still on my lap for hours. I am thankful for the roof over our heads and the food we are about to eat.
Chris hardly ever says things like “Now that’s a band I’d really like to see in concert�. So, when he said that about Modest Mouse, I quickly snatched up tickets for that concert. I decided to make it an early birthday present for Chris. We had really good seats. Chris’s seat was the aisle seat and it allowed him a perfect view of all the boobies walking up the aisle. At one point he looked over at me with a huge grin on his face and said “These are the greatest seats!�.
Modest Mouse was great. I’m not sure I would have gone to that concert without Chris, but I’m glad I didn’t miss it. We even enjoyed the opening bands, Love As Laughter and ManBand. ManBand was very entertaining. They were kind of a cross of Squirrel Nut Zippers and The Muppets.
The concert was at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman. On the way there I told Chris that I’d never been to the Lloyd Noble Center for anything. He said the last time he was there was when he was in high school and he went to see Chicago. I looked over at him with a look of horror on my face. He said “That’s right. I said Chicago�. My poor nerdy husband.
Well, I’m going to do it. I am going to become a yoga teacher. My application and money has been mailed and I start classes in January. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while now, but I haven’t been able to find a program that I could get in to and not have to leave work for a month.
Most teacher training sessions require you to go somewhere for a month (200hrs) and in my case I’d have to go out of state somewhere. Also there’s the cost. It’s expensive and they don’t include living expenses along with that hefty price tag. I had just about decided that yoga teacher training wasn’t going to happen for me in this life.
Then, I found a website through Yoga Alliance. Someone was offering a teacher training program right here in Oklahoma and it’s scheduled on weekends. It’s kind of like joining the National Guard. For the next year and half, I’ll be spending one weekend a month in teacher training classes. Plus, I don’t have to pay my tuition all up front; I can pay it out on a monthly basis.
I’m really excited about this, but also a little nervous. I’ve met my yoga teacher and she’s really intense. I’m worried that I won’t be strong enough. A lot of times during my yoga practice these days, I just keep noticing all the poses that I struggle with or can’t do at all (like arm balancing poses). Then I stop and say “wait a minute�. This is yoga practice, not yoga perfection. I’ll be fine right? It’s totally normal to be nervous. I mean I am technically going back to school, something I didn’t think I’d ever do again.
The above picture is a record Chris found for me during one of our thrift store shopping days. We both kind of saw it as a sign. Unfortunately I don’t have a record player, but I’m dying to know what’s on that record because it’s FOR AMERICANS.
We spent Halloween over at our friends Chris and Traci’s house this year. I told my Chris that I was tired of handing out candy to un-costumed teenagers and I wanted to see what a real neighborhood looked like on Halloween night.
I was not disappointed. As we pulled on to their street, my jaw dropped open. There were children running everywhere dressed up as princess, supermans, pirates, you name it. People sitting outside elaborately decorated homes handed out candy to hordes of trick-or-treaters. I was in awe.
I tagged along with Traci, Quinn, her friend C and her little girl J as they trick-or-treated through the neighborhood. Quinn picked up the concept really quickly and before long Traci was no longer allowed to accompany him to the front steps of houses as he asked for candy. I think it was so he could ask people for more candy, which he did on a number of occasions.
