girmander

testing again and again and again

so, i have this new blog. not sure what to do with it. altho i love MT's functionality. this thing is wicked cool and much better than blogger (sorry google/pyra labs but i still love ya google).

i have another blog and address that i might get the dns switched to here. but then i still need server space to hold all my portfolio crap and random stuff i'd like to upload (aka playlists or songs for my nearest and dearest peeps). so, i'm thinking about getting space from a ex-coworker of the lion's. but he's prancing around in france for the whole month of july (bastard!!) and won't be back for a week. he runs a win2000 box with cfmx7. and since i'm mostly coding cfm, me thinks that it would be wise. not only to add to that, i have a unix account and 5 email addresses that i check. ARGH! must simplify!

i also helped out a a friend of a friend of mine's bf (oh hell.. she's my friend too i guess) on the cf coding front. it's very cool to take matters into your own hands. hopefully he'll enjoy it just as much as i did when i first started (heh).

today i went to my first accupuncture visit. i would have to say i was a bit scared. i didn't know how i was going to feel. but master chen definitely made me feel ok. i especially liked the fact that he would talk to me and then bam! a needle would go in. then it was like i wasn't waiting in anticipation freaking myself out. i do have to say energetically, it was pretty cool. i went into a relaxive and meditative state almost immediately.

apparently, i am very suceptible to energy both universal (good) and electromagnetic (bad). and that i should limit my tv and computer time. that's pretty funny because i'm a programmer by profession. he worked on my back for this first session. he told me that my chi was all up in my neck and not moving down to my hip (which i'm having my problem). so he "unblocked" it for me.

as or my pesky hip problem, i haven't been practicing for about a week now. i guess i'm to strong minded and i set "goals" or i "make myself practice". so, master chen tells me to get back into doing yoga for the sake of doing yoga and not because i "have to". so, i'm not really sure what to do with that.

and then i had to get a referal from my regular doctor to go see master chen. so i told dr chu what was going on and he told me that maybe i should go and see a chiropractor because my whole left side sits lower than my right side. so he thinks i've twisted my pelvis or as he says "the foundation is twisted" he also thinks it's because i also might have slight scoliosis to the left (!!!). so, pretty much he told me to go to master chen and then get adjusted.

sigh, i hope this passes soon.

so, i did indeed practice yesterday. a whole lotta restoratives and a whole lotta ouchiness. sometimes i really do think you need a break and i really do think that your body tells you when you need one whether you like it or not.

it's kind of nice just to slow down. by far ashtanga is my primary practice but, on occasion you need to go off the beaten path. maybe this is a way to prepare me to teach on the 13th @ alphastate. i hope they like me enough to offer me a class. :|

so, it's a rainy and slightly chilly day here in cowtown. definite relief from the oppressive heat and humidity. i'm sure my container plants will enjoy the reprieve as well.

thinking about rainy days thus rainy day funds, i'm getting a bonus check from work and i'm thinking of buying myself a present or two. and then spedning some to complete our outdoor renovations and the rest to not so fun stuff. so, i'm thinking of getting a LV murakami cherry print planner and a new wallet (LV of course!). but, i'm kind of stuck on which wallet to get. i know i want a long one that can also double up as a clutch. but, i don't necessarily want to go matchy matchy with my purse.

:|

Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no

- all these things that i have done [the killers]

so i bought the cherry print planner. it's oh so cute and small! i got it before my bonus check because they only had 2 and they're discontinuing the line. plastic... it's such a love/hate relationship.

everyone likes the daimier print zipped wallet more so than the epi wallet (which hasn't come out yet in the mocha). so, we'll see what's avaliable after my check.

i'm thinking of doing a slow practice today to see how my hip feels. maybe some restoratives. my first class back into ashtanga will probably be standing poses and then i think i'll keep on adding. hopefully i'll be back into action *fully* by the middle of august. now what to do with the tri training...