idle musings

It’s been a most productive evening. I sandpapered the entire chair I am redoing – only the rough coat so far, so it needs the softer paper and then will be ready to paint. I cleaned my stove completely – we’re talking burnings, drip trays, the works. Baking soda is seriously amazing stuff. Next up [...]

Maia had an amazing day at the agility trial. Calm, greeting people, being curious and friendly … who are you and where did you put my reactive dog? Actually, never mind – I like this one better!
Agility looks like so much fun when I see it done on a course – not that I didn’t [...]

Today’s to-do list:

coffee with Sarah – completed
yoga at 6:15pm – done! (and I’m tired!)
baking-soda-and-vinegar the kitchen drain – completed
clean last shelf in fridge – meh. putting it off until tomorrow.

Andy, enthroned on the La-Z-Boy at my parents’ house. He has let me stroke him a few times, and has not run out of the room in a panic. We are making progress!

Accomplished:

vacuumed the stairs, upstairs hallway, bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen
finished the laundry

Still to do:

clean one shelf of the fridge
go to yoga at 8

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Due to unforeseen and unexpected circumstances, Ziggy’s new home had to give him up. I met them today down at Peace Arch Park to bring him back home. I brought Maia as well, so [...]

Today I went to the 9:30 yoga class and it was a tough one. I’m talking sweat actually dripping off my face onto my mat. Felt so good!
Then I met up with Lori and we had our annual BACON!EXTRAVAGANZA! although this year it seemed to be more about what we could drown in butter and [...]

As of yesterday, I am on stress leave from work. Depression and anxiety just SUCK.
However, today was a decent day and I got some things accomplished:

went to yoga
bought toothpaste (I had been squeezing the remnants out of the tube for the past few days)
stocked up on doggie treats and food for Maia
cooked dinner
threw out the [...]

We’ve had a 30 day yoga challenge at my studio that ends on Sunday. Part of the challenge was to do a minimum of 20 classes, with the other 10 points coming from a variety of ‘homework’ assignments designed to teach you more about yoga.
I thought I was doing fine for classes until my schedule [...]

Tonight was Maia’s and my first agility class, at Dizine Canine with Dana Gallagher.
It was awesome.
I had emailed Dana ahead of time to let her know of Maia’s reactivity to people, and she is obviously very well versed in dog language because she bribed Maia with goodies and made quick friends. Maia was a little [...]