Day 12-Not with the program today

The yoga "care package" from my mommy, Jan Atkins, owner of Fish Tree Yoga in Pensacola.

Day 12-October 1, 2010

Received a package from my wonderful tofu eating yogi mom yesterday.  See ya slip-n-slide mat of my daughters.  I am a stylin yogi now.  I even got some of her yogi-me-downs so now I can sweat next to perfect body girl and at least match.  Got home from work today and was totally exhausted.  Made a bee line for my bed.  My husband...."aren't you gonna meditate?"  Me.......grunt, sneer, close the bedroom door.  I am sure he was thinking lovely.  Got horizontal and didn't move for the next 5 hours.  Awoke finally and had sheet wrinkles on my face.  Put on my new yoga togs and headed up to heat the mancave and meditate.  Burned my finger while lighting the candle....great start.  Got still, calm and was zipping through my meditation and was 2/3 done when the light flicked on.  Freaked me out.  Called for my hubby, but he was at lunch with his company.  Opened the door and there stood our little dog Thor looking at me.  Naw he can't reach the light.  Apparently didn't get the switch flicked all the way down and it turned itself on.  Crap....I have to start over again.  Really hard to focus now.  Finished up and started my yoga on my new super nice Jade mat.  For some reason I thought changing mats would magically make me stronger.  Struggled through the whole practice. Tried side plank without the modification and crashed and burned.  How can I lift 400 lb people at work and not lift myself.  Oh wait, I have help.  My tree pose which is usually one of my better poses kinda resembled a tropical storm flailing all over.  Maybe my body was rebelling that is was not gonna get a Coke Zero today or maybe I should have gone to the studio this morning.  I do much better at home with my husband practicing with me.  I am realizing that I do not like to work out alone and need people around to energize me.  I guess that is why I have had a gym membership since I was 15 and almost always had a running buddy to train with for marathons.  I like community.  So tomorrow morning after work I will trot my happy hiney in my new matching clothes down to the studio to sweat with the yogis.