40 days of yoga - day 37 & 38

day 37 was a long day. i didn't exactly get in a personal practice but i definitely got it a LOT of movement. i taught 2 yoga classes and did 4 massages. i also treated myself to my favorite place to eat in morgantown - mother india for their fabulous lunch buffet & some masala chai! yum!! i also indulged in a mid-day nap since my day was split up nicely.


day 38 - i got in my practice this morning shortly after waking. i did a baron baptiste inspired practice. very inspiring!!

if you are inspired by this challenge and would like to start your own yoga challenge, yoga journal is doing a 21 day challenge starting jan 10th. i signed up, i figured why not, right?! :)

hugs & namaste

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i heart snow

it's no secret, i love snow. every time the local news stations predicts that we are going to get some snow i always scoff because usually they are wrong. i am happy to say that this time they were right!!

the view from our house over sabraton

view of jerome park area of sabraton

cadyn is not a big fan of the snow due to her size. she absolutely refused to look at me when i was trying to take a picture of her. she is adorable in her little sweater and snow on her nose.
a closer view of the snowy nose

wild honeysuckle

wild honeysuckle grows rampant around morgantown. and i am SO happy that it does. it smells absolutely divine!! we dug some up and planted it by our bedroom window in hopes that we will have sweet dreams to the wonderful smell of honeysuckle. ahhhhh!!

my two days of bliss

i haven't been online as much in the past two days and for good reason.

yesterday, i had an amazing day. i fought the urge to sleep in and got up at 7:30. after i dropped ryan off at work, i came back home and did my planning for the day. i scheduled a massage for later that evening. i met ryan for lunch. we had bento boxes at our favorite local sushi joint. after dropping him back off at work, i had an solo artist date. i did a little bookstore browsing at the local barnes and noble. after that i hit up tarjay to see what there was to see. i ended up getting a small scrapbook (that was on the dollar rack) to put some of our 2009 traveling mementos in. i then headed to tj maxx. between those three stores i could drop a ton of money, but i was strong. i only ended up buying an accordion folder to put some important papers in and two boxes of english tea.

after getting back home from my artist date, i got ready for yoga and my massage. i met my dear friend for yoga at bliss bliss bliss and afterwords we went for smoothies. after smoothies it was time to head back to bliss bliss bliss for my massage. and let me tell you, it was BLISS! after my wonderful relaxing massage i headed home to a hot bath to soak. had a lovely salad for dinner and some hot tea and then to bed. it was a fabulous day!

today was almost as good. it started very much the same. i dropped ryan off at work and then headed to a local cafe for breakfast. i enjoyed a wonderful lox bagel and some coffee. after breakfast, i went to the beauty college to get something different done to my tresses. i have been admiring people decorating their hair with pink streaks, from kimberly wilson to carolyn to yogadiva. these lovely ladies serve as daily inspiration for me. and what can i say, the pink bug bit me :-) i also decided to get bangs. i haven't had bangs in years!!



pink streaks in my hair isn't exactly daring for me. you are reading the blog of a girl who once had a mohawk. yep, you read that right, a mohawk. and let me tell you, it was a kick ass mohawk too.

photos by ryan

biking our way into summer

yesterday we decided to get off our butts and have a little fun. we went for a bike ride. i would love to have a cutey beach cruiser but the hills of morgantown kick my butt in the lowest gear on my schwinn. and yes, it is a boys bike but i for some reason like them better than girls bikes. ryan bought me my little basket so that i could throw all of my crap in it. and yes, like most girls, i have a lot of crap. :)



photos by moi

bookstore browsing

i spent most of today in bed. you know how it goes sometimes. woke up with a headache, went back to sleep, woke up later with the same headache, went back to sleep, woke up later, yep, headache still there. it wasn't completely debilitating thankfully. after ryan got off of work he swung by the house and picked me up and we went to help an older lady around her house. i usually go to her house at least once a month, sometimes more.

after helping her out, ryan treated me to crab legs at our local seafood restaurant, back bay. we both ordered all you can eat crab legs. it was excellent! after dinner and stuffed with crab we decided to go bookstore browsing. one of my favorite past times. i didn't actually get anything this time (it's true!). although they did have a book that i've been eyeing for sometime now, baron baptiste's 40 days to a personal revolution. anyone have it? if so, what are your thoughts?

i did come across a magazine cover that i absolutely adored. sorry, the glossyness of the magazine really caused some glare in the pic. i love hitchcock's silhouette. i think on of my favorite hitchcock movies was the birds. i remember seeing this when i was younger and was fascinated. do you guys have a favorite hitchcock movie?

photo by moi

sushi for two

hello my fellow sushi lovers. all this talk on twitter this evening by naturally nina and city girl about sushi really got me wanting some. after ryan got home from his bonsai class the usual "what do you want for dinner" "i dunno, what do you want" began. i was of course wanting some sushi! while at dinner i decided to take a few snapshots of what we were having. (sorry that last pic is after we got more than half way through and i realized we forgot to take a pic.)





photos by moi & ryan

napping the day away

today was a pretty uneventful day. got up this morning and went to the farmers market. i HEART the farmers market! too bad the one here is only on saturdays from 8:30 until noon. you have to get there early if you want anything. no sleeping in on saturdays now. (pics of the farmers market to be posted later).

after returning home and putting away the goods i decided to take a nap. what is better than taking an afternoon nap?! so i crawled in bed with my kitty and pup and we napped the day away. i am a serious fan of siestas! after the nap-athon, i took cadyn (my pup) for a walk around the neighborhood. you see, i was starting to feel guilty for not really doing anything today. after the walk around the 'hood, i came back to the house and watched two lovers. it was ok, nothing phenomenal or anything, but pretty good.

so that is how i spent my saturday. how about you guys? get into anything cool/interesting today?

oh tulips, how i love thee

tulips are by far one of my favorite flowers. they are only here for a little while each spring. they give me such joy. they come in such an array of colors and even shapes. the variegated colors are really quite spectacular. if i could, i'd plant a field of tulips just to take picnics there every spring. since that is not possible, i did a little walking around town and snapping away at some of the locals...





photos by moi

run fatgirl run

well, i finished my first ever 5k today. i walked most of it (as you can tell by my time across the finish line). sure, i would have loved to have done better, but i am ok with my time considering i haven't been running at all recently and haven't been for several weeks now. when i passed by ryan (who was playing photographer this time) i told him i felt like that movie run fatboy run, except it was run fatgirl run in my case :) it's a pretty good movie if you haven't seen it.


there were several kiosks set up for the earth day 5k celebration that i got to peruse around before the race began. one of the kiosks was friends of the four-legged. there were some cute kitties up for adoption. but what surprised me was after i crossed the finish line, there was an owl there waiting for me. i know, you weren't expecting that, were you? rusty, the screech owl, was hit by a car and unfortunately lost an eye. but he was rescued and doctored up and taken in. let me tell you, he was SO cute. check him out, isn't he adorable?!


after the 5k, we headed into downtown for the chocolate lovers day. ah, instant gratification for completing the race. we walked around to the downtown morgantown businesses that were participating in the festivities until we got sick of eating chocolate.

later we came home and i enjoyed a nap. getting ready to head out and go to 123 pleasant st to watch some local bands preform radiohead's ok computer and pavement's slanted & enchanted.

photos by ryan