If you've never watched the show The Office you really should. I rarely find TV entertaining enough to watch but that show is really good... and really accurate. I've been so far removed from The Office over the past 8 years that The Office is really having an impact on me. Yesterday was one of those days where everything goes wrong and as the day goes on, more and more shit just gets blown into the fan and boom, your whole day is shit. It sucks to start a day like that without a practice under your belt but I had kid duty in the morning, then kid pick-up in the afternoon and then finally kid cupcake duty which I forced Tiffany to come help me with (afterall, she is single and an ashtangi and therefore has little if any social life ;) ). Finally done with all the kid stuff at 6:20, we went and practiced at the Health Club. We did an "improv" class essentially.. As started out normally but then for Bs she had us hold the Utkatasana for a breath then immediately over into the next Sun Sal. Interesting. From there we went to Surya Namaskara C... she did an interesting take on it... we also did some fun other stuff and then she had us pick "one" seated forward bend..anyone we wanted. The guy across from me told me I wasn't allowed to pick an "easy" one so he chose Janu Shirasana C for me. We did some second series stuff and then went into backbends and a nice closing sequence. My quads were still sore from Tuesday and we did a lot of quad burner stuff (oh and a BUNCH of ab burner stuff around Navasana) so I was pretty tired and strung out after class. Whenever I practice late at night I end up having wild and wierd dreams and last night was no exception.

With a start I woke up this morning at 6am. Threw on yoga clothes and headed into the office... no shower, no makeup, no work clothes. I figured NO ONE in their right mind would be in the office at 6am but I was wrong.... in fact, there were a few people here! I figured I could shower after The Son's Cupcake Party...

Practice today was rockin'.... nice and hot and humid in the room and, again, lots of people! I was speeding through practice today which meant only 3As and 3Bs (but really that was plenty given the already heated up room). I was having a really nice, mentally out there practice when I got to Mari B. Mari B is my meditational pose... suddenly I had this thought "I can stand up from a backbend" and then I couldn't let go of it (and let's not get you suspensful, I did not standup from a backbend). I kept trying to concentrate on the breath and my mind wouldn't stop thinking that if I just said to myself it would happen. Second side, let go of the thought.... let go.... I really enjoyed Supta K today. Kurmasana just felt awesome, my legs felt really straight and my chin on the ground was like resting on a soft blanket. I'm not sure why, maybe the time of day, but it was so precious I could have stayed there. I got to my finger tips..just barely trying to bind on my own, did Supta K without help since everyone was busy and then had Rich put me into Dwi Pada. I keep trying to feel if I could keep at least one leg behind my head on my own (I never get to "try" it) but I still don't seem to be able to even though I can get the left one back there all the way.

What posting would be complete without talk of backbends? Oh backbends. I was actually enjoying my backbends today and had decided to play around with them some. I was on my 5th one when, in my backbend, Tim was suddenly leaning down in my face!!! He says "What is going on here!? How many?" It was pretty funny actually. So he helped me up, we dropped back... and I was really sweaty on that last one and my hands were slipping on the mat when he told me to walk it in.... and then he was doing the one hand thing and I didn't panic and I knew I could do it... and I did... and I actually came up with very little rocking and a lot more of my own force so that I was over forceful and had to take a step back. Tim says "You did it!" The miracle of the mind.

The crap at work has been in and out all day... when the hardware guy, in an effort to get me setup for developing off Sharepoint 12 (aka Office 2007 which was just announced today), tried to switch harddrives and/or CPUs and ended up blue screening the computer... and everything on it. Fortunately I'd grabbed my code off of it and unfortunately, I forgot to grab all the software I'd downloaded and, now, I get to do it all over again.... a large project that can be utterly time consuming and boring.

No ideas what tomorrow holds... a Mysore practice or Intro to Second depending on The Husband's desire to surf in the morning. If he surfs I could potentially bring the kids to practice and stick them in the other room with a movie.... always thinking...