Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Sylvi-progress, some exercise and yoga

Weekends are supposed to be fun and relaxing, eh? Well, I had a (mostly) fun weekend, but I don't know where the "relaxed part" went...

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My progress on Sylvi has somewhat haltered. Being out of town last week and keeping busy all weekend, hasn't left me with a lot of knitting time. I'm nearly there when it comes to finishing Sylvi though. I have another ten rows to knit for the hood, maybe a blocking of the same, ten petals to knit and sew down and some ends to weave in. And I need to find buttons. And attach them.

It sounds to be more work than I thought when spelled out like this, but in my mind I'm close to finishing...

And I really want to finish Sylvi before I leave for my vacation. I'd love to bring her to Canada. (And the US.) But that only leaves me with 9 nights and I have plans made for 2 of those. And I probably should be packing instead of knitting the night before I leave for three weeks away from home...

I also need to figure out what knitting project(s) I should bring with me on my trip... Decisions. Decisions.

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I was a slacker last week at the gym due to being away on work business for three days. (Have you checked out the honeymoon suite I got at the hotel?) Anyways, yesterday I decided to go for an hour lifting weights and working out in the machines before doing an hour of yoga. I did my usual warm up; ten minutes on a track machine while getting bored out of my mind, before going upstairs to do my real work out. And I stopped just as I got up. The place was crowded. Completely packed with people. All the machines I usually use were occupied and there was even a line up formed at two of them. No way was I going to join the crowd...

I got downstairs again and found a treadmill that wasn't occupied. I actually got through 35 minutes of walking on the treadmill before I had to get over to my yoga class. And I didn't yawn once. Or sigh. Or find it awfully boring. Miracles do happen!

Yoga was good. Better than expected. The instructor had made quite a few changes to the routine since I was there last (some three weeks ago?) and this class had a better flow to it. And I got to do one of my favourite asana; sitting forward bend! Not only once, but twice. I'm stiffer now than I was a year a half ago, but I guess my body got a thourough warm up yesterday, 'cause my forward bend was soooo relaxed and I sank into it very quickly, being able to rest my chest on my thighs and put my face down on my legs.

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A random picture of me showing the world my butt while doing yoga:

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Me doing a variation of "The Plough" on a yoga retreat in France in 2007

2 comments:

Matte said...

Wow, Anna. Det var länge sedan jag kunde göra det där. Jag borde kanske börja göra min yoga oxå.

Bamse kramar.

crrly said...

Du är utmanad. Kram!