Umm, why am I here?

What did I want to post? I can't remember. My brain is fried due to lack of sleep. That would be because of Will. Of course. Crying out for me at ten til five to come rub his back. Dude, how many times have I told you, if you wake me from a dead sleep I will come lay down with you but I will NOT rub your back.

The night before he came and got in our bed, which woke me up, then after I had gotten back to sleep finally, he woke up again complaining of a tummyache, so I had to stay up and wipe his butt after he pooped (a rather large amount, so he had to have felt better after). Then I got back in bed with him and had a hard time falling asleep. So I'm going on two days' sleep deficit here. I really need at least seven uninterrupted hours of sleep and I'm not getting it most nights.

Anyway....started my period yesterday....felt gross and crampy yesterday. No practice. Or did I? Damn if I can remember. No, I didn't practice - I was at Michael's school yesterday morning at dropoff to check for more carnation orders, then I came home and made a flourless chocolate torte, then I went to Will's school for his Valentine's party (a heart-shaped pinata and valentine's exchange), then back to Michael's school to distribute the carnation orders, then to coffee w/Gloria, then back to Michael's school to help with his class party, then to Will's school to pick him up, then BACK AGAIN to Michael's school to pick him up.

Last night I made chicken scallopine w/pesto sauce, whole wheat egg noodles, roasted asparagus, and the aforementioned flourless chocolate torte w/homemade whipped cream. We had a bottle of McManis chardonnay with it. I must say, that's one of my favorite chardonnays. Really good and very cheap too.

So this morning I felt like hell, not hungover, but very tired and foggy headed. I took Will to school, then came home and seriously thought about laying down and taking a nap. Instead, I got out my mat, put in my yoga cds (music I downloaded), got out my David Swenson book, and started with Surya Namaskars. I was going to stop there if I still felt like crap. I went pretty slowly, but I kept going once I was done with them. Slowly I am making progress w/my arm strength! I can now lower myself to just above the floor and hover there. I cannot go into updog from there yet, though. I have to drop my legs down briefly to start the upward motion, then I lift them back up.

Anyway....this was the first time doing it without the DVD. I could hear David Swenson in my head giving me instructions. In Mari D today, I was able to touch my fingers together, all by myself! I had to twist and grab hold of my thigh, then twist some more using my thigh to brace against, but then I could link my index fingers together before I had to let go and stop myself from falling over. I'm sure that I screwed up most of the transitions between postures once I got past utkatasana and virabhadrasana. I did most of the vinyasas even between sides...did all the navasanas...then did plow (which gave me a fabulous stretch of my sore and achy upper back), pushed up into a kind of feeble backbend, attempted headstand a few times, then took a savasana.

I'm so glad I practiced. I took it really slowly and held some of the postures for more than five breaths because it just felt good to hang out there. But I guess that is the benefit of practicing all by yourself at home.

I was looking at the DHY schedule today and Debbie has an ashtanga class on the schedule! It's only once a week, Tuesdays at 6:00. I probably won't be able to make it every week. But I'm very excited about it! IT's taught by Leslie who taught the Intro to Ashtanga series they had, also Tuesday night, which I couldn't commit to because of the time it was held.

No school tomorrow or Monday. I'm not sure what we're going to do tomorrow...it's been so cold here. Maybe the zoo if it warms up a bit. Will's YogaKids got cancelled today because of teacher training, but there is a makeup tomorrow afternoon.