Moment of Silence

What I am currently craving...

While in general, I am doing quite well with OPERATION WONDER WOMAN, there are a few things that have slipped.

I didn't work out yesterday and my uncle's death has made me start craving some sort of homemade fruit dessert like there is no tomorrow. Peach cobbler, apple crisp, or some other homey-goodness.

I am going to start with a small slide. A cup of chai from that evil corporation in a few minutes. There may be cake tonight.

So then tomorrow, I'll go back to my workouts. Thursday I'll be in yoga as usual. And maybe this weekend I'll plan something fun and active to do. In the meantime, if you want to invite me over for some sweet stuff like the picture above, I would probably not say no. Or click over to my other blog to see the birthday cake I would like to get for my friend tonight.

The Price of Thinness

The price of thinness is, apparently, quite high. One head of lovely, milky-white cauliflower, one locally grown cucumber, a bottle of water, a can of tuna fish, and some plastic wrap just cost me $18.00.

The beautiful cauliflower was over $6.00.

I am now feeling the rising cost of food.

That means that I will work over 20 minutes - after taxes - to pay off that cauliflower. I hope it feels worth it while I am eating it. I'll let you know.

Operation Wonder Woman: An introduction

What I want: A List of Demands

- To lose enough weight that I put on my skinny jeans and think "Nice, these are hot AND comfortable"

- To cut down my dependence on a certain corporation that lures me in with friendly staff and steals all my money.

- To cut out as much sugar, dairy, and meat from my diet as I can while staying grounded, fun, and most importantly... HEALTHY!

- To continue to add more calcium, vegatables, and fruit to my diet and eat less processed food.

- Add to my workout routine until I meet the goal of 55 minutes of exercise, 5 days per week.

- To finish paying off the wonderful, magical spring that I spent with friends and family with or without a second job.

- To complete four major career goals: 1) Apply for a residency 2) Apply for a Grant 3) Apply for Graduate School and 4) Take the GREs.

I hate my hair...

I am really not liking my new haircut. I believe it is nearly indistinguishable from my first, super-short haircut. For almost a week, I've been trying to figure out why it feels so different.

Here's what I have come up with:

1) It's more humid than Satan's trousers. That translates to mean shrinkage. Not the kind you fellas worry about this time of year, but the super curly, Shirley-Temple kind of shrinkage.

2) The BANGS. Sweet Heidi had a last-minute impulse at the LAST haircut to give me some wispy bangs. BAD IDEA. Now I look like a combination of our friends at the top.

So expect that I will straighten as much as I can in the coming weeks. And eat alot of protein to try to encourage growth. I may even buy some topical treatment to see if I can get it to grow faster.

I'd like to start this back up...

I feel out of love with yoga when it became my job. I still enjoy a gentle class (Yay Corina at Wake Up Yoga!), and I still do yoga everyday on my own.

Maybe I will start posting photos of me doing my favorite poses. Kind of like a beginner class via the internet, except I cannot be responsible for anyone's actions or even my own, so imagine some fancy disclaimer here... consult a doctor, a lawyer and maybe even a psychiatrist before even attempting to do anything you find on the internet... here or elsewhere.

There, now let's see what kind of yoga fun we can have.

The end of my yoga experiment...

I have been working for a yoga company for the last four months. It was an attempt to do two things:

1- Generate $1500 revenue to donate to a new foundation
2- Increase my knowledge of the yoga offerings in the city
3- Allow me enough extra income to submit my graduate school applications and maintain my current lifestyle.

Unfortunately, these were the results:

1- I didn't even approach $1500 in earnings, let alone savings.
2- I was seriously injured twice, racking up $500 in yoga-related doctors bills
3- I spent $600 on clothing that neither I nor my family needed
4- I put off my graduate school application another year.
5- I took 4 sick days for yoga-related injuries and 4 vacation days for trainings.

Lessons learned:

1- I love yoga.
2- I need to come up with some other way to make money.
3- I play well with others (and I love my new yoga friends.)