check it out! i finally launched my indiegogo campaign to finance my trip to fall 2012 bikram yoga teacher training! i’m excited, scared, nervous. what if it doesn’t work? well, the only way it can work is if i try, so i’m trying and if it doesn’t work at least i can say i tried. that’s a lot better than saying, “i should” and only thinking about it. at least, now i’m doing something. it’s like toe stand, i never used to try toe stand because i couldn’t figure out how people were doing it. then one day i realized that the only way i was going to get into toe stand was if i tried doing it. you gotta try otherwise you won’t ever do it. toe stand didn’t happen overnight, it took me a while, trying everyday until finally i was doing it.
more exciting news! i got a job at a local place here in utah. this is good but what’s even better is that in a few hours, i’m on my way back to california for another job interview, only a retail job, but at least it’s in california. i’m super stoked, so look for an update on saturday and think positive for me until then. xo,m
here’s the view behind the tuacahn amphitheater. i know it looks pretty, but after about a week of only seeing scenery like this, it gets boring! i’m anxious to get back to california where you have the beach and the mountains. what can i say? i’m one of those people who likes a little variety in my life. life is like pizza, you can’t order pepperoni every single time, it’s good to switch things up. that’s why i like santa cruz so much—you can easily bike from the pacific ocean to the redwood sea in 20 minutes.
well, there’s lots of exciting things happening right now. i’ve got an interview with target that would bring me back home! i’m also about to launch an indiegogo fundraiser to collect money for bikram yoga teacher training, which is the ultimate goal for me. when i become a bikram teacher, i’ll be able to travel the united states, teaching and photographing, that would be my dream life. well, enough talking about it, time to start the journey. i love you all,m
here’s a photo from another time that’s really from this afternoon. there was a car show down the road, so i staked out a spot after it was over in hopes of catching some hot rods and this was the best one i got. wish it had been one of the rat rods or 40s/50s cars, but whatevs, this looks cool at least, except for those godawful rims, ha ha.
so i had a job interview yesterday and it went really well, i think. i made them laugh a lot, which i always think is good and the night manager kept saying she really liked what i had to say about stress: “stress is only a by-product of how you handle a situation.” for almost every question they asked me, i was able to bring it back to stuff i learned from the yoga studio. they kept posed a lot of different scenarios to me, how would you handle this, kind of stuff and i was able to relate my experiences from when i was the front desk person at village yoga. like i said, i felt it went well and it’s only a seasonal job til december, but the idea of spending summer in utah is too depressing to even think about. next week i have an interview in santa cruz, which, if hired will present a lot of logistical problems (where will i live? how will i eat?), but it’s gotta be better than this. we’ll see what happens, but think positive for me, okay? xo,m
some days it’s hard to imagine that i used to bike ride along this coast everyday. one of my favorite things to do after bikram would be to ride along california’s edge and hit the beach. oh, how i miss it so. i tried going for a nice, long bike ride today but it was debilitatingly hot and windy, i even waited til after 5pm to ride, but that still did no good. a few weeks ago, i had a phone interview with a local place and the hr woman asked me, “what’s your favorite thing about living here?” wow, did that throw me off. i got flustered because there’s nothing i like about living here. after a long ummmmmmmm, i managed to say, “the scenery.” ha ha. that’s a joke because there is no scenery, it’s all dirt and rocks. despite my stumbles during the phone interview, i managed to get an in-person second, interview which is tomorrow. even though i don’t want to work there, i need a job and minimum wage is still money. i’m really looking at tomorrow’s interview as a warm-up for next week’s interview at target, back in santa cruz. again, not really a job i want, but it pays better than minimum wage and is in california, the only place i can imagine living. so, tomorrow is gonna be practise for next week, which is the only thing on my mind right now.
did you see the avengers movie yet? i remember when they announced it a few years ago, i can’t believe it’s finally out. it was totally worth the wait too, if you like comic book movies. last night i saw “the hills have eyes.” i like scary movies, but this was more slasher than scary. i like movies more like blair witch project or paranmormal activity, scary but not blatantly violent. my favorite genres, in order, are documentaries, rom coms, dumb coms, comic book, action and scary. if you have any suggestions for me, leave them in the comments. also, let me know how your yoga class is going. since i’m not yogaing right now i’ve been doing sit-ups, free weights and bike riding (when it’s okay to bike), plus the odd yoga pose or two. not much, but i’m doing what i can. xo,m
i’ve been applying to jobs like crazy and today i heard back from whole foods. the e-mail said they were going to “pursue other applicants” for the job. oh boy, i got kinda bummed out. i’d like to think that i could work at a grocery store, how hard can it really be? besides that, it’d be a good paying job with benefits. these are two things i would really like until i can go to bikram yoga teacher training. instead of staying bummed, i went for a bike ride and found this dilapidated old chevy truck. i like the freedom and silence a bike ride gives you—on a good day all you hear is your breath and the sound your bike makes. trying to stay positive without yoga is hard, but the bike rides help. okay friends, hope this note finds you well. all of my love, all of my kissin, m
hey, that looks like a pretty good burger, doesn’t it? you wanna know what? it was! three miles one way makes this a difficult place to visit, but since i have a gift card, i rode my bike out there today to get another one. well, the joke was on me because they went out of business on saturday! that’s the kind of luck i have, but i’m gonna try and turn that around. this week i’ll be interviewing for a crap minimum wage job here in town. i really don’t want to work there, but i’m going to look at it as practise for next week’s interview with target, back home in santa cruz. i don’t even really want that job, i’d like to do something that uses my brain and artistic abilities, but i’ll take whatever i can if it gets me back in california. living in utah is not for me, everyone here is right-wing republican with a small town mentality. i need to live in a blue state, you know? so, here’s hoping my luck starts changing soon! xo,m
trixie lee kitty, queen of the backyard jungle. so, um, yeah, as some of you may have heard, trixie passed away in february. it was really quite a shock to me. i thought i was quite attentive to her health and then one day i realized how shockingly skinny she had become. then it seemed like the next day she wasn’t eating and could barely move. oh my gosh, it was horrible, but she died with my arm around her, next to me in bed. i kept telling her how much i loved her and before i knew it she stopped breathing. i didn’t want her to stop, but i knew she had to. i’d been telling her mr. purr and motor would be there waiting for her and i know my 3 kitties are now together, waiting for me to complete the family. i miss all of them, everyday and that will prolly never change. thank you for letting me share her with you. hugs,m
