Burning man preparations!

I am super stoked to be going back to the Burn this year, this is going to be my first year truly going it alone. I am going to be camping with a big group of strangers basically, but they are going to be hella rad people.

I bought myself a soulpad 4000 hybrid for the burn this year, I am pretty damn excited about it! This year is going to be my most comfortable year yet, I definitely want to make some kind of swamp cooler so I don't get crazy hot.

I am feeling very creative lately, I am inspired to make yarn/fake dread headresses or "dreadresses" as  I like to call them. I just can't wait until I have dreads of my own!

Goals this week: I need to get back on track and start training more.

GOAL 1: hula hooping 30 minutes per day minimum

GOAL 2: go running for 20-30 minutes

GOAL 3: go hiking somewhere for 1-2 hours, hike UPHILL

GOAL 4: hot yoga twice per week

GOAL 5: do my pole dance workout one time this week

GOAL 6: Drink green juice! Try for everyday!

Finally... a day off!!!

Wow I am so tired today! Dianne, Alex, and I spun some fire at the park last night, it was pretty fun. We ran into some cool cats down there, it was nice to be with other fire spinners! We ended up staying up a bit late though, and we met up for breakfast this morning around 9am. I was soooo tired  but breakfast was yummy and I was able to say goodbye to Dianne before she left back home.  It was a good week! Here are some photos from our adventure:

                                                                      Flathead Lake

House of Vortex

House of Vortex

Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park

Today, I ate some yummy veggie browns at burns street bistro made with brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli and potatoes. After that, I basically went to go teach kids to hula hoop for an hour and then I fell asleep when I got home because I was so exhausted! So, just now, I treated myself to an almond milk frappe from Nitro with just a tiny bit of white chocolate so its not too sweet. YUM!

For Dinner, I NEED to make use of some of this zucchini from the garden so I think I will make pesto zoodles. I will post the recipe later! Ciao for now!

Enjoy Life

I haven't written for about 4 days, which doesn't mean that I have fallen off the wagon I have just been busy and not focused on my diet. My friend Dianne is here from southern california and so we have been hanging out with the Masc crew and doing fun stuff. We did alot of hanging out, flow arts, and we took a trip to Glacier and stopped at Flathead Lake and the House of Vortex... it was pretty amazing!!

My food choices have been pretty good, but I have decided today that I am ready to kick it up a notch and incorporate juice back into my diet. I have plenty of veggies in the garden that need harvesting and now would be a perfect time to start. I am going to the garden right after I write this post to water and check things out. I would also like to plant carrots and beets, maybe not today but maybe tomorrow.

I have been struggling with extreme fatigue lately. My moods have been subpar, I feel irritated, angry, and anxious a lot lately. I feel the stress of my job piling up and I feel like I really need a new job. I am going to work on my resume and apply at some local restaurants like the James Bar. I'm also considering not working this semester and focusing on school. The one great thing about the Cracker Barrel is the flexible scheduling. It was nice to only have to work like 10 hours a week during the winter.

I am planning on doing a few things to combat the fatigue. First of all, incorporating a cleansing diet with green juice and green smoothies. Secondly, I would like to quit smoking. Thirdly, I would like to eliminate coffee, at least for a few weeks or a month. And lastly, I would like to do more cardio exercise like hiking, running, jumping on a trampoline, etc.

I need to get more into teaching yoga. I need to develop my voice as a teacher. About focusing on the breath and such. I would like to memorize a script and use that until I am comfortable without it. I am going to call my class Yoga for Aerialists. I would also like to develop a restorative yoga class and call it Yoga Recovery for Athletes. I am going to be attending a lot more yoga classes and start writing down ideas after class about things I liked and didn't like. I need to start keeping a journal.

I am considering taking a semester off and taking part in Selena's 300 hour yoga teacher training in Thailand. Not only would I love to go to Thailand, I would have some friends with me and the familiarity of my teacher. My focus will be on yoga alignment and cross training with drills.

Fitness needs to become the center of my life. I am wondering if I can find a fitness-related job. For now, I am just asking the universe to provide me with the perfect job. I plan to spend some time by myself manifesting my perfect job/ boyfriend/ life.

All in all, I am confident about my future and excited about my year!!

Day 11

My eating habits were pretty good yesterday, I had my hemp milk/ cacao/ banana/ maca smoothie and it was YUM!! And then I picked up my friend Dianne from the airport and we made more smoothie and curry with basmati rice and naan, it was sooo good! But it was really HOT outside plus the curry was spicy and the stove heats up the house so I was sweating when I ate it haha.

Then I had a drink of tequila or two with my friends at Masc and we hula hooped, juggled, did yoga, and generally played around in the gym all silly-like. I love circus people so much!

I need to be around people, I need to be social or I get depressed.

So my plan for today is go to work (11-2... so awesome only 3-4 hours of work!) and when I get home, I am going to hit up my friends and go over to the studio to play with flow toys and I will probably go to aerial fitness.


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Day 8 9 and 10.. fall... get back on the horse!!!

If day 7 was a day of getting things done, day 8 was a day of messing things up.

I ended up drinking a whole bottle of cab sav on thursday night. I had like two bars of symphony chocolate.

and then i woke up and ate cheesy scrambled eggs with hash browns and wheat toast from pauls pancake parlor. I had an almond milk latte that was way too sweet from nitro. And I had a piece of pizza from wordens and a a frappe from the break. I also had some popcorn from Ace.

The next few days were filled with Big Dipper ice cream (yum!), pesto sticks from the bridge (hey but i also ate a salad lol), and strawberry rhubarb pie with more big dipper ice cream

And salads. So i guess the salads make up for the rest? hahaha i was running around at work all day too. Get back on the horse!!

Day 7 - Do it NOW

I woke up feeling very depressed today. I don't know why. I went over to Mikes house for a bit and after that, I decided that even though I didn't feel good, I was going to accomplish things.

So I started off by cleaning the shower in my bathroom. It was disgusting and it really needed it. I was on a cleaning kick so I did the dishes upstairs and cleaned the kitchen.

I then had some leftover curry from  yesterday, I did SUCH an amazing job! And I ate the naan yesterday but not today, just the curry and a quinoa patty. And hot sauce.. of course. I put some of this zucchini in my curry as well, I just harvested it from my garden that very same day! For dessert I had a whole lotta banana, almond butter, cacao, maca, hemp milk smoothie. It was so good, and it has been so hot around here lately it was nice to have something cold.

Yesterday when I was cooking curry I was also eating carrot sticks with jalapeno hummus. I had some again today when I got home from washing my car. I feel accomplished, I also went to the recycling center and to the ...dun dun dun... dreaded Wal Mart. I bought a vacuum and some other cleaning supplies, sponges, a pink tupperware bin, and leopard print seat covers. After I cleaned up my car and washed it, I put a hello kitty decal on my car that I have literally been trying to do for like 3 or 4 years. I can't remember when I bought it except I bought it because it had hello kitty hula hooping. I am pretty stoked to finally have that on my car.

     

I made a smoothie for dinner that was my favorite combo of banana, almond butter, hemp milk, maca, cacao, and I also put it some of my vegan protein powder since it was for a meal. It was really yummy!!

I'm doing laundry now, it feels really really good to have my room clean. I feel pretty accomplished even though I woke up feeling depressed. It just goes to show, that if you start doing stuff you will probably feel better in the long run, even if you don't feel like it. Just do it. Do it NOW!!! That was my motto today... Do it NOW!!!

Day 6

Woohoo! I am off work for the day and I have off the next two days! I have a lot of things I want to get done and I am pretty excited.

First things first, I need to record my yoga class and run through it. I will be recording that today. I need to get paper for my printer, apparently I can't find the paper I had before. I should get nail polish remover too, because I got ink on my hands yesterday when I was replacing the ink cartridges. I also need to pick up my medicine.

I am going to make curry tonight, I have all the ingredients. I also need to water all the gardens. I would like to make chocolate almond butter cups later too.

Aside from that, tomorrow I have to get my independent contractor's license fixed and notarized and mailed. I also need to deposit money in the bank. I am going to do my laundry, and maybe buy a lawnmower if my roommates will pitch in on it.

I will be training the next couple days too. I can't get crazy sweaty but I can go to aerial fitness and go on hikes. I can also do some yoga as long as it doesn't affect my tattoo at all. I can definitely do handstands. I will be hula hooping a lot too, and running drills. I am going to practice splits with the hoops (with hoops on the knee, stomach, foot, and hand or hoops on the knees, stomach, ribs, hands. I will also practice some quad hooping. I should really bring my computer with me to Masc so that I can look at some of the tutorials I have saved on my computer.

Mike wants to pick huckleberries on Friday so I guess I will be doing that. I will also be cleaning and organizing my room.

Last night I ended up making some oven fries with ketchup instead of making curry. I was too lazy and it was getting late anyway. I also ate that brownie.

Today I had my usual breakfast : 1 cup gluten free hot cereal with sliced banana, blackberries, honey, and ghee.

At work today I ate some hashbrowns with ketchup that were a screw up from the kitchen,  I was pretty stoked. I have also been drinking coffee.

Tonights food will be curry and rice with naan and chocolate almond butter cups for dessert
Its gonna be gooooood

Day 4 and day 5

I forgot to write yesterday, I had the day off but I completely forgot!
I went up in the Rattlesnake and went on a little walk until I found a quaint little spot down the creek where I could be alone and journal. I wrote some lyrics as well. I taped a hoop (rather poorly) for my students, I need to make about ten more for beginners. I will be teaching at the Salvation Army Teen Center next weekend or I might be teaching yoga. I will also be teaching my first yoga class at the jail!! I am really excited, this yoga class is something I will be good at - easy, gentle yoga poses.

 I still need to record my script for yoga teacher training, but the good news is I wrote the rest of my script yesterday and now I just need to record it! I am going to do my own class once I record it so that I know it works well and is easy to follow. I feel very happy that I am getting back into my yoga practice. It sucks that I bought that hot yoga membership and then got this tattoo. I wasn't thinking about that, I'm not supposed to get it wet and I sweat A LOT in hot yoga. I swear I am the sweatiest person in there. But I also usually get there just in the nick of time and then the only open spots are right next to the heaters.

I felt kind of off yesterday, I felt nauseous and exhausted. Probably from working too much last weekend, I worked my first double on Sunday. I served from 7-3:30 and then I was the Server Assistant from 4-8:30. It was a really long day. I was kind of down in the dumps yesterday, I can't really pinpoint why. I did manage to water my garden plot and all of Haley's plants too, as well as do my laundry and use the sprinkler to water the lawn. Which remind me, I need to water my plot today, as well as finish watering the lawn. We also need to start thinking about buying a lawnmower. I might go to Wal Mart later and check them out, I might buy printer ink as well, so I can print out my yoga script.

I did a little bit of hula hooping yesterday but I really wasn't feeling well so I didn't do as much as I would have liked. I felt proud that I did any hooping at all.

Yesterdays food intake: almond milk latte, some leftover pesto pasta, small salad from the GFS with lemon tahini dressing, veggie burger on whole wheat bun with lots of ketchup, one vegan brownie

Today I woke up late and I wasn't able to eat breakfast, I pretty much just went straight to work. I had some coffee while I was there, I brought some hemp milk/coconut milk creamer. I didn't have any time to eat yet, I wasn't very hungry when I was so busy. I was thinking I can warm up some of the pesto pasta and have that. And later I was thinking I could buy some groceries and make curry with basmati rice. I would really like the naan but I am trying not to eat white bread, but it sooo hard not to eat naan!

I will probably have another vegan brownie for dessert, considering that I already have one sitting on my desk that I bought yesterday.

My planned activities include watering my garden and Haleys garden, going to wal mart to get printer ink, watering the lawn, hula hooping at the park.

Its hard to train when I work so much, I am going to focus on hula hooping for now and I think I might go for a run later, if I can find my other running shoe.

I might do some strength training exercises and drills as well.

I will keep this updated on what I actually do! To be continued....



Update: 7:42pm
I just got home from the good food store. I ate the leftover pesto pasta and then went to wal mart to buy ink for my printer. I was originally going to go to Natural Grocery but I found out they were closed for the 4th of July so I went to the Good Food Store instead. I only planned on buying a few things, but of course I always end up spending more somehow. I bought a chocolate banana almond butter smoothie and it was soooo good and refreshing that I bought the ingredients to make another one at home. Of course raw almond butter is like $15. And I needed to buy cacao, which was another $10 in itself. I also bought some stuff for curry, and I ended up buying the Naan. Whatever. I love Naan and it makes me pretty damn happy so i'll be damned if I am not gonna eat it with my Indian food.

I came home and made a duplicate smoothie with banana, hemp milk, cacao, raw almond butter, and a tiny bit of honey. Wow.. soooooooo goood!!! It was better than the one I bought from the GFS. I have a feeling this smoothie will be making an appearance in my diet quite a bit this summer.

So I am planning on making the curry later after I water the garden plots. Then I am going to record my yoga sequence. I plan on hula hooping when I go out to water the garden, at least run some drills.

I will keep you posted...

Days 2 and 3

So I didn't have time to write the last couple days because I had an INSANE weekend at work and I had no time or energy for much else. I worked 22 hours altogether, which was super draining on me and I am still recovering. Thank God I have off today!! Being a waitress can be super stressful. As an introverted empath, I may be happier at a different job.. although the money is really good right now. But the question is, what is more important? My money or my life? I was wanting to keep my job because I wanted to have at least one year experience before I quit. That will roll around in July. Right now I need to tough it out and save some money for myself. I might have to quit before Burning Man because I don't know if they will give me the time off.

However, I did take the time to plan ahead my meals so I didn't end up eating junk food. I had a green smoothie and hot gluten-free cereal with banana and blackberries and honey.

Then I brought a small salad to work from the GFS, but I didn't have time to eat it until close to midnight. I didn't finish it either, It had 2 green garbanzo cakes and tahini dressing.

The next day I had to wake up and go to work by 7am but I managed to make some steel cut oats with banana, berries, and honey for breakfast anyway. I didn't have a chance to eat again until 3:30 when I ate a big salad from the GFS with tahini dressing, avocado, and 3 garbanzo cakes.

When I got home, I ate a cashew cookie lara bar. I made pesto pasta a little bit later with whole grain noodles, pesto, tomatoes, and broccoli. I was only able to eat a little bit and then I went downstairs to pass out.

I don't like eating so close to bedtime but with how late I have been working, its been difficult to avoid.


Today I ate some leftover pesto pasta so far, its abut 1:17pm. I plan on hula hooping today, working on handstands, yoga homework, and maybe some strength training. I want to develop a routine.

I would also like to go for a walk/hike around town or in the rattlesnake.

So I think I will go about my day and give an update later. PEACE!