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Trip
What a great trip we had to California visiting family! Thanks to everyone that was involved. We hope that we can do it again soon.
Sick, sick, sick
Sure is nice to have such a wonderful wife who can take care of a screaming baby and bawling husband… very sick last night and today I’m just fighting off the aftermath. Must have been the flu or something.
Ji’s Great-Great-Grandmother
Rest in peace, Ione Faye Davidson-Stronsick (August 26, 1926 – December 17, 2004)
Tigard, OR
Had a nice trip outside the house today to visit a Longs store and help out with some training on new software. Of course, the managers are flabbergasted that we have to do this in the middle of December, but what can I do but shrug my shoulders? (It’s not my fault, really) Other than that they were very pleasant and I usually enjoy meeting with the other field techs anyway.
Driving across the 405 and 5 bridges is always a pleasure too. I don’t know if I could ever bring myself to leave this part of the country.
We’re going on our first full week of trying to get Johnathan to sleep in his own crib. My gut is quite against it because I think it’s goes against our animal instinct to want to “pile” together with our family. Society tells me that it is best — so I’ll remain an extreme skeptic and observe.
Update
I haven’t been able to make any updates lately. Keeping these stores up (or trying anyways) has turned into quite a project this year. Longs technicians have really stepped up to the plate, but like most things that I’m finding out in the corporate world, it may be too little too late. Our other stores are doing alright but I may be making another trip to AZ to help open another store and try to make some sense of the existing system problems. On top of all that, there is a mild software crisis in Hawaii and, heaven forbid, I may also have to go down there to help train on some new software.
On a good note, we ended up with a check from financial aid for the Fall quarter. Didn’t expect that one!
yoga
I’ve been enjoying my hatha yoga class (here) so much. Most Tuesday nights I come home fully feeling the physical benefits (soreness, for example!) of my practice but last night’s class was a little different. We practiced all restorative poses which allow and incourage one to be, rather than to do. If someone were to walk down the street and peek through the window it would appear that we were all taking a group nap. Restoratives bring a quiteness to all parts of the being, which is why Paul, the instuctor, advised us to take a moment to prepare ourselves for the busy world outside and increase the reaction time we needed before driving away in our vehicles. Very interesting. We also were led through breathing exercises at the end of class while in Savasana, the corpse pose. Paul asked us, first, to take note of the breath without changing it. Then to add a steadiness to the breath before invisioning the lungs as having three seperate chambers. He instructed us to gently allow air into the first chamber, pause (not as to hold the breath, but as the natural pause between inhalation and exhalation.), let air into the second, pause, and the third before letting the air exit completely without force. We were advised to drop the breathing exercises and just stay in Savasana if problems with the nervous system or a warmth on the back of the neck occured. This warning interested me more than the breathing practice itself.
Just thought I’d share. (smile)