My days since quiting my job

Since quitting my job 2 weeks ago tomorrow, I've been B-U-S-Y! These days, my calendar is ramped up and I'm loving it. My weekly schedule is as follows:

Mondays: I consider this my day off. I teach dance and yoga at Dance Fusion

Tuesdays: yoga practice before the sun rises (seriously), followed by hanging out with 15+ doggies at Dogpawsitive. This is Bunny who now only has one eye. She's pretty awesome.  Afterwards, I may attend some meetings.

Wednesday: Yoga practice in the morning followed by working at the yoga studio in the afternoon.

Thursday: Hang out with my doggie pals in the morning and go to yoga practice in the evening. Some afternoons, I meet with clients, friends or others for my businesses.

Friday: Work at the yoga studio during that day while attending my yoga training every other friday evening.

Saturday: Teach at the dance studio and attend yoga training every other saturday evening.

Sunday: Yoga at the dance studio and attend yoga training every other sunday evening.

During the pockets of spare time, I work on my businesses  ... ok, I also relax, snuggle with my hubby, and read vampire porn.

People, I'm as busy as I was when I was working fulltime. The only difference now is I'm working on what I want to. I don't wake up wishing it was friday, and the only crying I've wanted to do it tears of relief.

Happy Birthday to my real boyfriend

Meet Dave. Unknown to Rockstar and Dave, Dave is my real boyfriend.

Since I didn't want to make it obvious that I was dating Dave, I didn't want to wish him "Happy Birthday" on his actual birthday (which was yesterday). And, although I failed and went back to facebook (boo me) I REFUSE to wish people happy birthday because some stupid application tells me to.

That said, Happy Birthday Boyfriend!

See, told you Dave was my boyfriend :)

Liner Note: Dave is actually Rockstar's boyfriend ... or not.

Halloween Party x 2

Last week, I attended 2 halloween parties. No I'm not some crazy party animal who party hopped on Saturday. Instead I attended 2 kids parties. Oh yes I did!!

First was a party at my nephews's pre-kindergarden class.

Check out this Robot!! He was hilarious!

And I loved this little monkey

When the hulahoops came out, the kiddies (young and old) went wild!

After the party, we went back home where Jake should me his best downward dog. Not bad, not bad ..

Next party, was the dance fusion halloween party ...

And finally, some jumping pics of Robin and Shelby

Who said Halloween was for kids only? Loved hanging with a bunch of munchkins this year. What a great way to start my new life :)

My first yoga class and the downward dog series

This morning was my first class teaching yoga. Although there was a very small turn out, (1 was Robin and the other was one of her competative kids), I'm still happy. I taught my first class period.

Today I did a 60 min Ashtanga class focusing on the Primary Series (not all these postures were practiced).

The best part of the class is when Robin told me how she almost wanted to quit during "warm up" because her inner arms were not having fun. Why didn't she you ask? She didn't want her 11 yr old student out yogaing her.

For warm up, we do 5 x Surya Namaskara A and 5 x Surya Namaskara B. The part of this that most people dread is the downward dog series:

Jump back into plank and lower in Chaturanga Dandasana (on the exhale):

On the inhale go into Urdhva Mukah Svanasan (Upward Dog):

Exhale into Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward dog)

In Surya Namaskara A you this sequence once each flow. With the Surya Namaskara B the downward dog sequence is done 3 times each flow.

After the "warm up", you have done 20 downward dog flows. What some of my practioners didn't know, is that had I had 90 minutes slotted for the class, they would have this flow between every floor posture we practiced. Robin would have been cussing my for days :)

Class runs Sunday's 10:00am - 11:00am and Mondays's 8:30pm - 9:30pm at Dance Fusion

{images via AshtangaYoga.info}

"I love when you're here when I wake up"

Those my friends, were the very words my wicked rockstar said to me this morning. I didn't even ask him to say that. I think he actually likes my company.

When I was in college, I didn't believe guys could actually love someone. Seriously. I honest-to-gawd thought that boys didn't have the ability to fall in love, let alone get broken hearted.

So there you go, Rockstar actually loves me. Better yet, he still likes me.

{Picture taken by Greg Tjepkema}

Saying goodbye to corporate america ...

Today is my last day at company X. Today is such an important day, that I got up at 5am to blow dry my hair. That's how big of a day this is :)

As some of you may know, I've been wokring in IT for about 10 years now. At 30 years old, that's a long friggin time!! 1/3 of my life has been spent in this life. Wow, 1/3 of my life. Scary.

What's next you may ask?

• My main priority is to get my party planning biz shaking and moving. Right now it's a hobby. Now that I don't have the money to support my hobby, I need to put all my energy into making it kick ass. Which it will be (by the way). Be sure to contact me for help on planning your next big party!
• I also have 7 months left in my yoga teacher training. This means from 3 - 12 hours of yoga classes a week.
• I am also starting to offer beginner yoga for adults at Dance Fusion in Scarborough. Classes will be running Sundays from 10am - 11am and Mondays 830pm - 930pm. You should come register so I can pay my bills :)
• I also got a part time job as ... a dog walker. A couple of days a week, I will be walking dogs. Weird hey? But SO AWESOME!!

Not surprising, this game plan kicks in as of Sunday of this weekend. Not much of a vacay, but that's OK as I'm uber excited.

PS - here's me pre Company X when I was fun and cute and excited about life. I'm still excited about life, but not as skinny and cute. One day .. one day.

Breaking free from the Blackberry Handcuffs

It's been 4 days since I changed my phone plan. I went from a  fully loaded package to one I would have gotten as a 19 year old college kid. More accurately, when I was a 19 year old college kid (as we know these days kids have more junk on their phone than we do). My phone bill will go from an average of $175 a month (which work paid for) to one around the $40 mark.

Sidenote #1: I called Rogers to get out of the data plan, and they wanted to charge me $100.  I told them that after I have paid them more than $10,000 in the past 2 years for their services, the least they can do is override this unnecessary cash grab. They ended up only charging me $40. *Corporate a-holes*

4 days without my blackberry service, and it's been AWESOME!! I don't look at my phone ever to check emails or twitter, and my brain has shut off anything to do with work once I leave the office. What's' hilarious, it because I didn't check my email on the weekend, a task I needed to confirm got canceled (no biggie really).

Last Friday, I finally saw the person I used to be. I looked around the PATH and I swear 1 out of 3 people were not watching where they were going because they were checking their phone. It was then I fully realised that less than 24 hours earlier, I too sucked.

Sidenote #2: A guy at work told me how a woman he knows almost lost her husband because of her blackberry obsession. After he left her, she found out she was pregnant so they decided to make things work. Can you imagine being left because you were obsessed with your phone?

Sidenote #3: Here's an article about how the blackberry can ruin one's sex life.

Sidenote #4: Ontario peeps, while talking about how much blackberry's are the evil empire, the hands free law kicks in today, so take those damn phones and toss them in the trunk while you drive.

Rockstar, I am soooo sorry for being a gross, phone obsessed girlfriend/wifey for so long.