So hopefully everyone’s enjoying the travel stuff.  Just thought I’d pop my head in for a minute and write about some stuff that is happening now (a full month and then some after these travels).  January is proving to be awesome and I have that amazing feeling that 2010 is filled with potential.  I am super excited about a ton of new stuff – two main things though. First, I got a little p/t job (totally on the spur of the moment) at this awesome little independent bookstore across the street from my house (not precisely, but it’s literally a 3 min walk).  I’ll be at Perfect Books on Wednesday nights, at least for Feb. We’ll see what the future brings!  It’s so great to be around people who care about books and want to discuss.  And its a great way to recharge after being a cubicle troll all day.

I think that I’ve confirmed that I’m an extrovert.  I need to recharge my batteries by being around people.  Yes!  Which brings me to thing 2 that I’m really excited about.  I have finally started going to yoga class.  Yep, there are some lovely teachers at this studio, again about 50 steps from my front door (serendipitous, no?), and I feel very at home there.  The first class that my friend Angie took me to was a ‘yin yoga’ class.  Not a practice I’ve taken before but one that I think I really like. It’s all about opening the heart space and all about being open to good things.  I am aware, all the more acutely after a conversation with my good friend Jessica, that I am carrying around a lot of anger. The reasons for this, I am aware of, and aren’t really relevant for this blog.  What is relevant is that I feel very empowered to not only deal with this anger, but deal with it in a way that will enrich me and who I am.  And probably benefit other people in my life.

So.  There that is.  Also, I finally bought a guitar.  After years of talking about it, I now have my musical game face on and have purchased this instrument that I think will be really helpful for me to channel more ‘feelings’.  Oh emotions… I am reminded of something AV used to say: “eat it emotions!”  He’s right – sometimes we need to just shelve them.  Sometimes though, for the benefit of ourselves and of the people we care about, we need to cut through the bullshit and help ourselves out.  I’m ready.

Also, I’d like to start planning a summer trip.  I hope we get to go down to MD for a 2nd “small” family reunion.  The big one was last year, and will come again in 2011 but I hope that the immediate 4 families get together again.  It was awesome to be down in the States and save the Fs some travel.  We’ll see.  Of course I would plan around it, but I’d like to go to England and do a train journey all the way north.  See the C-Ts and the GAP girls… yeah, let’s looks into that.

PS -

  1. Movie recommendation: Manic (with my favourite actor,  Joseph Gordon-Leavitt, and the incomparable Don Cheadle).  Totally excellent, and anyone who has ever dealt with anything mental health related will probably be stunned at how accurate it is.  I wept. 
  2. Book recommendation: Finnie Walsh by Stephen Galloway (Cellist of Sarajevo, Ascension).  This was his first novel and it is brilliant.
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