Gaia

i took the day off and it was so great.... we (H and and 3 other friends) went on a fantastic hike in the mountains. it was so beautiful and sunny. it really got my heart pumping and my legs working. the hike ended at a lake and we stopped there for lunch. it was so great, we were surrounded by blueberry bushes. so yummy and so many. i mean thousands of blueberry bushes all bursting with wild berries.

after the hike, my friend and i went to see the movie; talladega nights, the ballad of ricky bobby. it was funny, but not as funny as i thought it would be. it was pretty much over the top.

my mind has slowed down and i am a bit more at peace right now, but not completely. i am working on it. and trying to move forward. my market season is coming to a close mid-october. so, right now i am planning my fall/winter shows. the transition time is so hard because statis quo has be interupted and now i have to plan plan plan otherwise i don't get paid. man, working for yourself is great, but it is a lot of work and sometimes i just don't feel like it (like right now for instance) and it sucks because you have to keep going and coming up with new ideas all the time and lay down money for stuff all the time. you know, it's not just selling jewelry, it's making jewelry and ordering stuff and designing stuff including postcards and business cards and website and doing books and taxes and designing displays and setting up tents and taking them down and jurying for shows and asking people to have shows for you and being creative and blah blah blah..... it's great, really, i am not complaining but i am burned out i've done 61 markets since may and i have 20 some left and i am tired.....when i was in madison, i did 15 markets all season. so, next year i will not feel like this at the end of the season because i am going to make some changes and that is something else that i am working on.......phew. sorry to put you through all that... but there is more and i will not bore you with it...

no yoga today. moon day. but yes yoga tomorrow and yes i bought plane tickets to go to zihuatenaja mexico with my cousin and we are super excited...... yay!!!! traveling is my muse..

i have such a hard time with daily titles for this blog. i feel like they are always really boring and then half the time i barely even write anything about what the title is pertaining to.... oh well....

I had a nice work weekend. It rained a little on saturday, but then got nice right as the market ended which was good. sunday i had a good day too. I need a little time to catch up, but it doesn't look like that is anywhere in the near future.

H's mom is here for a few days and we have a full social schedule lined up. i kind of just want to stay home and work and watch movies, but that's not the plan and i know it will all be fun. Literally, though i don't think we've had a free night in weeks. so, it's a little draining. i just wish i could say no. no. no. to people, but i can't and i always have fun. so i guess there is nothing to complain about. right???

today a friend of H's is coming one of his oldest friends i have never met before. so, my mom-in-law, the friend and i will do something today/tonight, then tomorrow my bro-in-laws 50th b-day and he is up from arizona especially for his b-day and then wed market/ H's mom is leaving, Thurs i teach yoga from 6-7:15 then the market and then dinner with a friend, fri my friend from london comes for one week. she's never been here before and we are going to have so much fun....

how do i work in between all of that???

my practice has been so hot and cold. my teacher talked to me a few weeks ago when i was having a really hard time, about how sometimes energy needs to go elsewhere and everything is ok..... he told me to practice just primary for a while, but then i started feeling a lot better and started 2nd again. and then today i asked him he thought, i should start doing second again and he said stay with just primary for awhile. so, once again i just have to surrender to the crazy flow. it's amazing how much my practice suffers when i am not in balance. like all the bullshit that is going on in my life is directly reflected in my practice and all of that just needs time to be back in balance and once things are flowing more smoothly i think my life will be more consistent and hopefully my practice will too.

it is so amazing to take time each day to reflect on ourselves and what is going on inside. i think i would be so much more confused about everything if i didn't.

The week has been really nice. H's mom was here and that is always fun. I created a serious amount of jewelry on Monday, which was so awesome. I am almost, but not quite caught up to what i sold last week. I'll have another create day on Friday. I also got to meet one of H's oldest friends on monday and we had a nice time together. Today was slow at the market, but a friend of mine ordered a gold pendant and i am sooooooo excited about it. it'll be really beautiful. she has this awesome piece of green sea glass, she wants it set in gold with a pearl, attached on it somewhere and we are going to figure out the engraving on the back together. i am sooooo psyched about it.

tonight we are home, for the first time in ages and i am going to take a bath with my new himalayan bath salts.... oh that sounds so great. It was overcast and chilly all day so after being outside, i think a bath will be awesome.

tomorrow, i am teaching (subbing) yoga at 6am and i am really happy about it. i think it will be fun. i start my own class the beginning of october for one month and then another intensive in november. i am really ready to have more time to focus on yoga and my practice once the market season ends. which is oct 19...

right now i am working on a few projects which include setting up my holiday selling season, getting a business plan together so i can have more focus and see where i want this to go, and getting ready for india by designing gold pieces like crazy. it's so much fun to design and come up with cool new ideas... oh man, when i am in create mode, i can't sleep and i have to create. i feel this coming on in a big way and that is exciting for me .

well, i guess all my stress has caught up to me and now i have the flu. i'm achy and stufffy and you know, it sucks.

my friend from london flies in tonight so, i am hoping this illness passes super fast. i went to the chiropractor today and she did a little work on my sinuses, already i am less stuffy. yay!!!!

practice was slow today, i just did what i could and moved on. it's funny, i moved here two years ago, exactly, and my practice is back to where it was then. ugh.... but i know i just need to get through these injuries and sicknesses and it will get better too. one thing i like about doing primary, is i am really able to go slowly and work on bandhas and lifting my body and all the stuff i don't always do when my practice is two hours long. it's been nice not to be rushed and enjoy the flow.

jewelry making was fun today. i had just gotten in a shipment of beads. so, it's always fun to make when i have new stuff to work with.

I just received a package full of sea glass from my cousin in Maine. I am so excited about it and I've already started designing jewelry with it. yay!!!

Last week my friend from London was here and we had so much fun. She came to some markets with me, we shopped, we went on a little hike, we went to the spa... so great. she totally makes me laugh and helped me chill out for a week. it was fun having her here. i am going to visit her in Jan on my way to India and in March on my way back. i am soooooo excited about that too.

Then, last weekend we went to a going away party for a friend and it was out on Whidbey Island. it was so awesome to get away for a couple of days and chill out. I really feel refreshed after my friends visit and our little getaway. This week, I am back to it, planning holiday shows, getting designs ready for India, and making plans for expansion. it's all going pretty well and i am staying sane right now.

Practice has been really good considering my last two months of funk and pain. my shoulder and leg/hip are still bothering me and i still can't do chatauranga, but my energy is back and the flow is there (at least this week). I start teaching again next week and i will teach for two months. Again, the beginner intensive. i am really excited about it and i have been thinking a lot about it and taking notes in my head, as well as trying to remember stuff.

the dog is panting and i think he wants to go out. so i better take him.