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July 2, 2004
Disk Worthy
We spent the afternoon today retrofitting our car to hook up my new iPod to the line in on the stereo (which is in the dashboard -- we basically took the whole front off, removed the stereo, hooked up this little thing calling a blitzsafe, ran wires through the middle section of the car and up into the consoloe..complete with drilling holes in places you didn't expect to in your vehicle). I was supposed to be done in time for yoga and, well, I didn't think it was appropriate to leave in the middle of a job that my husband thought would take one hour and had turned into 4... for something that I bought and wanted that he'll likely never use. Fair enough, if I do the Friday night class I'm often too exhausted physically to get up at 8 and do the morning class. So tomorrow it is.
This evening without yoga has been a fairly interesting foray into musical tastes. We are now going through our entire CD selection and separating them into stacks... this stack for CDs on which we want only a song or more... that stack for CDs that we know we want to rip 100%. It's interesting to note your mental checklist of each CD, the songs and then the determination if you like the songs on the CD enough to warrant the disk space. I don't think we ever considered whether a CD warranted half a shelf space or a whole shelf space, know what I mean. It's a brave new world and disk space on my new iPod feels too unknown.
The interesting part is seeing what doesn't change. Picking up Crackle, a Bauhaus CD, there's not even a question in my mind. Absolute, 100% stack. Einsturzende NewBauten... mhmmmm... not even sure if there is an entire song I dug enough for disk space. The classics come up... Legend (Bob Marley), Deep (Peter Murphy), Substance (New Order)... Dead Can Dance, etc. Then there's the ones that aren't classics but you clearly must keep purely for nostaligia like Yaz, hell Erasure and, of course, the new ones Coldplay, Richard Ashcroft!, Anyway, if you note the list of classics, you'll guess my age... and that, my friends, is why I came to the realization tonight that I've, against all precautions to now, become my parents. I mean don't you remember that your parents always had all *their* "classics" around.
Posted by ashtangagirl at 9:24 PM | Comments (5)
Slow Yoga
Yesterday I took The Daughter to her yoga class for the first time. Normally M, my yoga teacher/babysitter, takes her. I was interested in what they do so I stayed. The teacher has a really great message but I'm afraid she is a little too slow for the kids. Don't get me wrong I wish with all my heart that asking my kids to sit in a circle and be calm would work.... but anyone with kids will know that usually has the opposite effect. I will give the teacher a few things... a lot of kids were late disrupting the class, a few moms stayed including myself which probably also disrupted the class and the kids were generally a little wild yesterday (moon related likely). I found it interesting... she did do yoga poses and she even had them do a bit of Reiki but I generally go the feeling she wasn't commanding their attention. Again, since The Daughter normally loves this class, it was likely the day. Anyway, about halfway through I ended up joining the class to help The Daughter focus. I was helping her with the poses the teacher was asking her to do and talking to her quietly about what to do. After the class was over the teacher asked me if I taught and I said no. Then she asked me if I would be interested in subbing for her. At first I said a clear no but then she said I should just come for a few classes and watch and get a feel for it. It might be fun. Last night I was coming up with ideas in my head for ways to get kids excited about yoga... In downward dog asking them to see if they can jump all the way to their hands type of thing. I'll think on it. I think teaching yoga to kids would be so awesome someday though I was thinking more at the elementary school level.... might be fun.
I've had to put some rules in place for myself with Ashtangi.NET. I am only working on little bits of it here and there during the day. I was beginning to do way more than I should and ignoring the very real projects I have going on with my very real job. So if you see things coming and going, it's just me playing. I purchased software to basically manage the site which allows me to have people who are publishers who can add things as well but the software wasn't necessarily created to do what I'm asking it to do. As a result, I'm having to hack it up myself... fun but takes time. I'm getting there. In the meantime, where are all you bloggers??????
Posted by ashtangagirl at 8:46 AM | Comments (5)