putting on the brakes, a bit.

I've decided that I need an entire day off ... devoted to making bread! And perhaps practicing some long put-off knit stitches ... that will happen probably just over a week from now, during April's I'm-not-going-anywhere spring break ; )

It just started to rain down here, it began sprinkling as I took a short after-dinner walk (homemade pizza, mmmm) down the streets on both sides of my house. There are some gorgeous old homes around here. The area is not elitist by any stretch, in fact some of the homes are a little worn down. What I wouldn't give to buy one of those and work for a few years fixing it up ... well, you never know. But I definitely want an old house with character. Maybe strip the inside and have it built again LEED green ... haha that's definitely pie-in-the-sky talk now.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but yoga class went really, really well. It is fairly close to my house (less than 10 min drive), and there were only two other students in the early morning class. The studio was small, with dimmed lighting (till the sun came up, of course!) and incense burning and while it was hard to get my still half-asleep body to do the poses, it was nice to know that I had done something well for myself without it feeling crammed in. I may go again tomorrow morning, though this will cost me! However the way I see it is when Mary moves out at the end of May, I can cancel the $30/month cable TV (ugh) and put what I would have paid for it toward the $70/month yoga membership. so that's old cable subsription plus an extra $10/week. Not so shabby when yoga runs $14/class! I can do tuesday and thursday mornings, and a sunday night (virtually unheard of in yoga world) restorative yoga class to begin the week. what a nice thrice-weekly schedule that would be! hm....well, i can't do much about it for now. finances are tight, and i've only just started really, truly, reigning the dollars in.

but where was i? ah, yes, still learning to slow down life and love it more. it's not easy. i can't explain it, but i'm sure you know what i mean. the rest of this night will be looking up a good homemade mac and cheese recipe (i'm trying to eventually quit, say, 90 percent of prepackaged organic foods altogether), drinking mint tea (on this note i'd like to go all loose leaf when all my bags are used up. this benefit is trifold: freeing up three glass jars currently filled to the brim with tea bags -- well, maybe two cause the leaves have to go somewhere! -- for other food storage, reducing impact on the environment, and well loose tea is just altogether better for you than bagged, which in most cases is just tea dust.), reading The Omnivore's Dilemma (just finished very disturbing chapter on factory beef farms), and writing a card to a friend back home.

In my next post, I'm going to copy something Rhonda wrote in her down---to---earth blogspot.
It's worth repeating. But give credit where credit is due --- this woman seems an amazing individual!

Love to you,

Karen

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