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January 6, 2005
Better
This morning I had a talk with The Son about the McDonalds issue. Last night I sent a, maybe too heated, email to the principal but I haven't heard back about it. I wanted to know who/what committee initiated and approved this project and why the parents were not notified of it. So when I talked to The Son this morning I explained how strongly I felt about this subject and that I thought the program was inappropriate for school. The Son really wanted the bookmark and to earn the coupons for hamburgers. We explained last night that we would never take him to McDonalds because that's not something we do except on very special occasions or Grandma takes him and that if those occasions ever arose, we'd get him a Happy Meal and he didn't need a coupon. This morning he still expressed the desire to participate so I asked him if we could work out a separate program for him to do. My first stab, reading books for money, didn't fly with him. We talked some more and came up with the idea that instead of 10 books for a hamburger, he could do 15 for a particular game he wants (which equates to $1 a book) and we'd go to the bookstore and he can pick out his own bookmark. When I feel passionately about something like this, I talk to my child but, ultimately, its his decision so I'm anxiously awaiting his return from school to see if the peer pressure got to him or if he decided to decline the bookmark.
Practice today was good for me. The room was perfectly heated for me but my mat is still screwed up from that crap I put on it (Never, ever, use mat spray -- it doesn't work) and when I pulled out my YogiToes, oh Lord, was it horribly smelly... I'm not sure why, I don't often use it but it was horrid so I put it away and slipped a bit here and there. Really concentrating on my chatrungas is really helping, at least so it feels, and today I managed to jump through with relative quiet (no, not nice and light quiet yet unlike Tara who was practicing next to me and has bandhas of steel and can do all the floaty stuff which looks so beautiful) the entire practice which I believe is a first or second for me. The stamina of practicing the whole first series more than once a week is showing. I still have the wierd throat issue with tilting my head all the way back in utkatasana and the warrior sequence... I think that is emotional though and something I'm going to have to face sooner or later... I guess I keep pushing it to later but, eventually, it'll hit me smack dab in the center. Mari C was still excruciating today. The first side is not as bad as the second. On the second side, the teacher (isn't it wierd how I haven't taken to saying "my teacher" yet... I somehow don't feel worthy almost) came over and held my hip down and twisted and OH the difference... I said "Gee, if only you could do that everytime." He replied "Probably not!" LOL I wonder if whatever is really deep in that hip is emotional too -- it doesn't hurt in any other pose than that one. I managed to roll about 1/4 of the way around on my own in Garbha Pindasana before flailing over to the side. I can rock, I just can't figure out how to turn... if I don't roll deeply my spine is in agony and if I roll too deeply then I crash and burn. Backbends today were okay. When the teacher came over to do my dropbacks he warned me before starting that I needed to use my legs ;) I did use them more and they were better. On the final drop back it really feels like I'm doing most of the controlled descent down but I really don't know. After coming back up I got a "Better." which was encouraging... he asked me if I could feel my legs. I did feel my legs more but I was really concentrating on them... also I had put the YogiToes down nub side up which helped my traction some, well, a lot. I've decided that one day I need to get really warm and just sit here in my little room and drop back. I watched a couple girls dropping back today. Hands on the hips, sorta holding them there until they were halfway back... I can do that. Then they move their arms either up and over or out and around...and that's the part I can't figure out. It's like my head can't grasp at that point how to do that anymore than I can figure out how to get my hands off the ground to come up.
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