Sleeping in until noon.
Deep cleaning the fridge.
Family dinner and game night.
Controlling the snack attacks after dinner.
Say goodbye to back breaking shoveling of the driveway and hello to my new toy!
Sarah and Caroline got me a HUGE cookbook for the holiday. It called “Cooking School” and is from something called “America’s Test Kitchen.”
I brought it home and without even opening it, I pulled off my first risotto! Not only was it delicious, but it was even dairy-free. I’ve eaten two bowls of it already. Granted I got the recipe for the risotto from Vegan Dad’s website, but I altered it since I was missing some ingredients and the book worked! I was more confident and successful!
Today is the last day of classes for 2013. Tomorrow is our Holly Days Hafla. These events are both an ending and a beginning; the end of me running a dance studio and the beginning of a new chapter for me as a dancer and as a teacher.
I gave this endeavor of trying to be a studio owner over four years, made my share of mistakes, learned a lot about running a business, but in the end I found that it was far more work and stress than what it was worth to me; I opened the studio thinking I was doing something for myself and my dance community, but found that such self-sacrifice is definitely not my calling.
In 2014 I will return to doing what I really do love; teaching dance. I will still be managing the space where we dance, but with a lot less responsibility and a lot less financial stress and worry. I can focus on myself and my classes.
Without my family, friends, and students I could not do this. I thank you all for a great year and for your patience and support.
Heard most of the day yesterday: “Hey, I’m relaxingâ€! “Hey, Check me out, I’m relaxingâ€! “Look at me, I’m relaxingâ€!
You know it’s been too long when you do something and can only marvel at your ability to do it.
My inbox has gotten out of control in the last year, probably due very much to the fact that I feel like so much else in my life also got out of control and I’d given up on a trying to keep up with a lot of stuff. Â My inbox showed over 4.5k message in my inbox this morning when I looked at it.
Yes, you read that right: four thousand and five hundred, plus some.
I’ve got just one more week of running the studio and needing to be there every night of the week. Â I’m tired and worn out, but I also know I’m heading towards something new and felt that I could tackle something this morning, so I started with my usual schedule of checking my emails and started deleting email newsletters, unsubscribing for a bunch of them at the same time. Â Then I found my groove and started really clearing stuff out.
Today I deleted over one thousand emails.
That feels liberating.
Just got my driveway plowed and it’s awesome! Very fair prices and great service. Why have I been shoveling for five years?
Woke up this morning to the sound of a very disgruntled Missy Kitty. I came downstairs to let the ferrets out, only to realize that one of the ferrets had figured out how to get out of the playpen, only to get herself stuck in the same thing she used to escape the pen, that being the “ball pitâ€, a popup type zippered crate that I put all their balls into and usually leave outside their playpen standing it up on its end (not like the photo linked below, which shows it on its side). Apparently the ball pit was close enough to the playpen that allowed her to use it to escape! She was smart enough to figure out how to escape the playpen, I imagine by using the netting on the side and climbing it through the wires of the playpen, but when she fell or climbed down into the ball pit, she was not big enough to topple it over so she was stuck there when I woke up this morning.
Tonight the ball pit goes farther from the playpen so it won’t be an escape route again.
I’m sensing a need for my world to shrink. I need to pull in and pull away from doing things that don’t serve me or my well-being.
Just finished up 1,900 lines of sql code. Runs, but throws database error due to locking. At least the errors are entertaining: “…was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim.â€
I just wish I got to choose the victim sometimes.
