Yoga # 59 / writing update

[supercheesegirl]

Yoga # 59
Tuesday June 29, early morning
25 minutes
1770 minutes total

It's been a week and a half since my last yoga practice. Ugh. I took my mat with me on the honeymoon and everything, but it just didn't happen.

Now that the wedding's over, F and I are both doing summer hours at work--an alternate schedule where we put in 3-4 hours of extra time at the office over the course of the week and then take a half day every Friday. This means getting up extra early. Today we began implementing our new morning schedule: alarm at 5:55, F gets up, heads for kitchen to start breakfast, next alarm goes off at 5:58, I drag myself out of bed to join F in the kitchen, we make and eat breakfast, I do yoga 6:30-7:00 while F showers, then F writes 7:00-7:30 while I shower, and we leave the house at 7:50 for work. Today this plan went really well, so much so that I was totally ready to leave 8 minutes early. I think next time I can do a full 30 minutes of yoga if I start by 6:30.

(We actually meant to implement the new morning schedule on Monday, but the fire alarm in our building went off at 12:15 Sunday night, so we were woken up and had to go sit outside and were consequently too zonked the next morning to think about getting up extra early.)

Getting back to yoga felt great. I was tired, and sore in a lot of places from the lack of activity, but it felt very good to get back to the mat. I did some weights, and it was a little sad how hard it was to lift after less than two weeks away. Then I did my standing work routine.

I have a new bedtime routine too that I'm really enjoying. Lately, especially with the wedding, I've been having trouble falling asleep because my mind has been so busy. Now before bed I've been reading a few chapters of Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh. I'd been wanting to reread it anyway, and it's so calming and joyful. It really helps to cool down my brain. Then I read a little poetry, write for a few minutes, and turn off the light. I don't know that I'm actually sleeping better yet--it's been so hot--but at least I'm feeling more peaceful. Also, since I'm reading Hanh at night, I felt like I had a little more to bring to my meditation in yoga this morning. I think I'll try to keep this up, get some of Hanh's books from the library once I finish this one.

I'm still digesting a lot of stuff about the wedding. I've written four poem drafts in two days and I still have a lot to write. The poems I'm writing now are following really naturally on the work I've been doing over the past year (loosely titled the "Please F Don't Die" series) and I really think if I keep up good writing habits I'll have a whole book draft pretty soon. I even have a title in mind. Provided the poems are any good, of course. I figure I'm maybe halfway there? A book of poems needs at least 48 pages, and I know I've got around 25, not counting the most recent stuff, and I'll need to write extra so I can have the freedom to drop anything that's not working. so I'm maybe halfway. And then there's all the revising. This work is different than anything I've ever done before, so the revising is particularly tough. A lot of work ahead with this project, but it feels really good, like I'm on the right track.

Comments

[danchan22.livejournal.com]

"Now that the wedding's over, F and I...have a new bedtime routine too that I'm really enjoying."

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I did not say that, there are like two paragraphs where you put that ellipse!

Besides, we're not doing that at bedtime, we've been doing it right after work. That is a new routine, actually, but not one that I was planning to post about in detail.

[birdmaddgirl.livejournal.com]

yay poem writing! i am hoping to get some stuff that's been gestating for a while to start happening on the page. it's been too long...