I'm Back in the Saddle Again

Good morning everyone -- you might notice what time i'm writing this with a bit of astonishment. Me too. I have an appointment with a dentist specialist who is going to test my teeth for strength and sensitivity or something like that at 9am today. So i got ready for work at my normal time, and then when it would have been time to leave the house normally, i turned on my computer and started working from home a bit. Needless to say, there wasn't much to do. That usually happens later in the day with a job like mine.

I sincerely thought that returning to work was going to be just about the most miserably painful experience of my life. And you know -- it wasn't. In fact, it was perfectly fine. All that meditating i did to stay in the present moment and to accept what is worked on me. I knew there was no way for me to get out of going to work, so i accepted it, and moved on. And i really enjoyed the walk through the snow to the train station! It was so beautiful! I was parading through a winter wonderland. And then when i got on the train, i had my iPod shuffle on Beck's Guero, and i was people watching. It was lovely. My coworkers didn't pressure me into doing anything, and i just dived in at my own pace. Wow.

That's not to say that I can't wait to go back to Kripalu. I'm really looking forward to it. The goodbyes with my yoga tribe were tearful and heartfelt, and we'll see each other all again in another five weeks. In the meantime, i am churning the gears of getting a yoga group for me to practice teach at work -- LOTS of interest... nowhere to DO it. I'll keep you posted.

Valentine's Day was sweet, sweet, sweet. Not full of sugar except that of my darling love daN. We met at the Bombay Club for Indian food, and last night they had a special prix fix menu -- you could choose a vegetarian menu, non-vegetarian (which included chicken and lamb), or seafood. Predictably, I went for the veggie, and daN went for the non-veggie. It was, in a word, delicious. The menus included two appetizers (small, of course), and then the entree was a large platter for each that included some fluffy bread, lemon basmatti rice, and five small bowls of entree options for dipping or eating straight. Mine was comprised mainly of various potato, bean, and eggplant dishes, and there was a lusciously tart cucumber yogurt that offset the spiciness of the rest of the menu perfectly. THEN there was one dessert each, and daN and i shared these amazing grape rosewater dumplings and a rosewater pistachio rice pudding with cardamom. WOW. None of this stuff is on their menu normally, so it was so much fun to taste all the things there were to taste. Plus, it was delightfully romantic.

So were the roses with which daN surprised me :) He got me six -- for this is our sixth Valentine' Day together. Isn't he cute?