Bah, Humbug

Not that we are particularly anti-christmas, round these parts. We just are not really into it....

Can't say why, exactly. Partly, I am wrapped up in other parts of life - yoga and mentoring and work and therapy and enlightenment intensives. When you are hacking an alternate road up the mountain to the divine, it's hard to get excited about the cultural freeway. Zippy is a non-christian, so his holiday festing is somewhat obligatory and not heartfelt. And neither of us is flush with holiday cash this year....

SO even though we have an attic full of decorations and the like, I suspect they will remain there this year. Maybe I will get motivated to go fetch them this weekend, but maybe not.....if the weather warms up we have some yard work that needs to be done (mostly rogue piles of leaves and the gutters)

In other news, today will be a particularly social (and not particularly productive) day - yoga this a.m. with Carissa (I miss her, I've been binging on Nykki classes), lunch in Middletown with an old client / friend (Indian.....yum), then a social visit with some old friends of the Zipsters, then dinner with Zippy's dad. I'll squeeze in some work in there - before yoga, after yoga, and after lunch - but really, I'm not expecting to get too much done.....

Down at the studio, big doings. Ana Forrest is in town for a five day training. I'm not ready for continuing Forrest training yet, but I was sorely tempted by the 5 days of morning intensives (7 - 9, with optional meditation from 6 to 6:45). I was honestly on the fence until about 4:00 p.m. yesterday - it was sort of out of my mind , but I was working at the studio (getting sign-in sheets and stuff put together) when Ana arrived and in true fashion I just felt myself pulled to her, she has that way about her. So it was a hard decision. But with the holidays coming up, a fairly fruitful period of end-of-the-year work in progress, an upcoming enlightenment intensive, not a lot of extra cash and teacher training looming (along with a large check due for that), I decided better lay low this time. I'm getting a lot of yoga in, so it's not like its all or nothing on the asana front.....