Squad Day 78: Yoga, Laundry, and Bestie Date
The sky is a golden glow and the ground is silver this morning. I knew it was cold last night when I climbed in bed, I could feel it off the windows. It frosted last night, and this morning everything is a shimmering silver outside, even the trees. It’s been lovely to look at while I sip my tea.
I couldn’t even walk by the bedroom door to get into the living room this morning without tripping on the laundry basket, it was so full. In all the commotion of the Holiday and trying to relax with my food baby yesterday, I haven’t done any washing in days and it’s built up on me. Five people’s dirty clothes will do that rather quickly unfortunately. So before I could do anything, I started laundry. All my workout clothes are in there, dirty. In fact, most of my clothes are in there, dirty. It was time.
I can still do yoga while I’m waiting. In fact that’s my plan as soon as I’m done writing. One of the beautiful things about stretchy jammies is that I can still access those deeper stretches. I love starting the day with deep stretches. My cramps today are on the miserable side so I’m anticipating lots of twists and hip openers. When I’m not doing Valkyrie Yoga, I like to do an intuitive flow, and move through the poses that are the most comfortable or needed. And it’s less like flow, vs finding the pose, holding it and breathing through it until I can sink into it nicely, and then moving on. I’m not sure what that’s called, but it’s how I do most of my yoga.
At 10a Bestie will be here and off we go! We have a girl date today, and the very basis of that date is around hitting our favorite cafe for the best Chai around, and following it up with some town wandering and a thrift store trip. We have the best luck, always finding some fantastic goodies when we hit the thrift store together. We go around and around the shop 3 or 4 times, always finding something new on every pass through the same shelves. I’m so excited for a day out with her, she’s my Person. My Hetero Life Mate, if you will. We both need a break from the long weekend in with family and the hyper fixation of the Holiday.
When I get back this afternoon I might throw in some Motus drills, it feels like I haven’t done them enough lately, though I know that I still have a month of Blade work ahead of me and I’ll be getting Motus drills in more with that. I have a hard time with this week of rest. I always want to do more even when I’m feeling like crap. I struggle with guilt-brain when I’m not doing all the things, which I think is pretty common amongst women in general, but especially amongst Moms- we go go go through the day and get as much done as we possible can alone, and when we take a day to chill out or spend time with our friends, or even just relax for more than 10 minutes- the guilt comes in like a tidal wave. I can do more, I should do more, why am I not doing more, I’m a terrible person for not doing more… it’s a cycle we could do without. So I’m going to try and not think about it much, if I can.
Off to do some yoga, walk the Floof Face, and then visit with my Best Friend!
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