After having taken the summer off from blogging (because it takes SO much time...), I am back to re-instate my life online.
This summer has been much less like a vacation and much more like a what-am-I-doing-with-my-life-let's-fill-one-hundred-percent-of-our-time-with-any-and-every-thing-we-possibly-can. Whew. And that's just about what I did. I finished my yoga teacher training and received my certification. I started ballroom dancing again. I'm still working at the lobster, only now I'm training all the new servers that come in (which I have found, to my delight, I truly, truly enjoy doing). I started teaching at a yoga studio in town. I started with 8 classes a week, but with the economy, we downsized that to only 4 classes, and I sub for other teachers when I can. I'm also teaching yoga at my alma mater- only one class a week. I also was in an independent film- I was a hired assassin and got to do some serious fight choreography. (The lead I was fighting with had little stage combat experience and he literally beat the crap out of me. I was black and blue for 2 weeks. Still totally worth it.) On top of all this work, I've attempted to have SOME semblance of a social life, which has amounted to seeing my best friend about once a week. I TOTALLY lost the battle with healthy eating and have gained all my weight back with a vengeance...and then some. I have gone to 2 Thai Bodywork workshops and have taken up practicing on all my friends. I really, really enjoy it, and I find those I practice on really, really enjoy it, too.
I've become absolutely obsessed with learning how to West Coast Swing, a type of ballroom dancing I've attempted to learn in the past but have had very little of the rhythm necessary. Not this time! This time I win. Damn it. I've fallen in love with hiking and attempt to go as often as I can, which so far has amounted to thrice this summer. But go I do...my phobia of spiders, ticks, and wasps be damned. I also have started to find the word "Damn" really funny. I read tons of books, including the entire Hunger Games Trilogy in just 3 days. I'm FINALLY getting around to reading Eat Pray Love, and I bought The Help after watching the film, but haven't read it yet. I did, however, read Water For Elephants after having watched THAT film, and I must say while the movie was good, the book was incredible. You should probably read it, too. I've fallen in love with partner yoga, mala beads (although I haven't had an opportunity to own any yet), pretzels with cheese, incense (particularly the cinnamon kind), forearm/arm balances, anjanayasana, sushi, barre workouts, and hiking (of course). I've re-fallen in love with raisinets (we fought for awhile), going to the movie theatre, margaritas, going on walks (and sometimes jogs), reading, blogging, and, last but certainly not least, eating at out-door cafes. Mmm mmm good. I'm preparing to re-fall in love with coffee, working out, autumn, scarves, and quieter days.
I'm also preparing to send in my headshot and resume to hopefully receive invitations to audition for the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC. If I receive no invitations I'm going to take that as a sign that theatre is not what I should be pursuing right now and throw myself into getting my masters in counseling. I've become obsessed with the idea of working, perhaps, in an abused women's shelter, combining counseling, yoga therapy, and thai bodywork into a holistic kind of therapy that will encourage, inspire, and heal. Whatever happens, I'm hoping to be accepting, energetic, and hopeful as I not so much walk, but LEAP into the future.
Book Currently Reading: Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
