What's Up, Yo?

By Gaby -
Just a teeny update so I'm not completely off the radar:

- Haven't run since the Cincy half marathon.  No real excuses, except that I'm feeling slothful.

- Tried the rowing machine we own after watching the movie True Blue and getting pumped, only to get bored and exhausted after 15 minutes of doing that.  Plus, I got annoying blisters from the handle bars.  I'm not giving up on the rowing, but just haven't found the motivation to go back to it just yet.  I would like to incorporate other forms of physical activity other than running.  Maybe tennis or rock climbing?

-This sweet weather we've been having is giving me serious "senioritis", which is kinda silly considering that I don't actually get any kind of break during the summers since I'm a private music teacher and therefore, must keep teaching all year 'round in order to pay the bills.  I have re-organized my schedule, however, so that I get Fridays off this summer.  I'm hoping that I gain some kind of sanity back as a result.

- I'm doing this 100 mile relay next weekend, and while I think it will be a lot of fun, I'm also not looking forward to being completely disgusting by the end of the relay as we will all have been running for 24 hours in small legs.

- Counting the weeks off until our trips to Kentucky and then Aspen, CO for vacation!  Vacations can never come soon enough, but then once they do, they're over in a heartbeat. Whyyyyy?!?!

-The weekend is almost here!  I'll be going back home to be with my grandma while my parents are still in Argentina.  They get back next week--so excited to see them again!

What are you doing this weekend??

Comments

Lisa - respect the shoes said…
100 mile relay?! Oh girl, you don't need a second activity - I'm worn out just thinking about it, haha!
May 17, 2012 at 8:08 PM
Gaby said…
woops, should have been more specific--five of us are splitting up 100 miles, so each person is doing 20 miles each, broken up here and there.
I'd die if I did 100 miles all by myself!
May 17, 2012 at 9:39 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I can't wait!!

By Gaby -
Today, I opened up my laptop to catch up on my blog reading, and came across Puttin' On the G.R.I.T.S' blog with pictures of her Aspen trip...and it totally reminded me that in just about two weeks or so, I'll be GOING TO ASPEN!!!!  Can't believe how close it's getting.  Ryan and I have been patiently anticipating this trip since January.  Poor Ry, he needs to get away so badly.  New position = new stresses. But before that, I'll be going to Lexington, KY and Nashville, TN w/ my parents and two doggies.  Lexington is first to meet a 2nd (or 3rd?) cousin that I've never met before on my grandfather's side.  This is exciting for me b/c I never got to meet my grandfather as he died 2 months before I was born. After that, we'll be moving on to Nashville to see some old family friends.  We'll be there for most of the week, so I think I may take my violin with me as it'll be two retired couples + me.  I suspect there will lots of down time.  I ...
Read more

Warning: Do not read if you dislike feeling depressed:/

By Gaby -
This summer will have been my fifth year living and working in Columbus, and as I experience a turnover nearly every single year, I've been pondering more and more in recent weeks that I need to change some things.  I don't think any violin teacher or artist out there ever thinks they are doing the wrong thing or teaching their students incorrectly--don't we all tend to like the way we think and/or do things?!  But, even though I come to expect turnovers in students as a regular and normal thing, this year has just been so...weird.  I thought that I had matured enough and was experienced enough to get over those humps and not take it so personally when students left or quit as I did when I first started teaching, but I really have to admit--I've been shaken by particular students leaving, and with specific experiences w/ some parents.  Feelings of doubt--even incompetence--have washed over me, and that quickly turns into anger and defensive reactions when I can't pu...
Read more

Life lately

By Gaby -
Image
There are good days and there are bad days.  The good days are when I'm distracted from all things concerning my mom, or the times I see her in person or over Skype and catch her smiling or talking normally and it calms my soul;  the bad days catch me by surprise and kind of piss me off, quite frankly.  Like yesterday-- I was doing just fine, as I think I'd been for the past week, until I sat down last evening and opened a book I picked up from the library that I'd seen on someone's recent book list:   When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi.  I am not sure what I was thinking, reading a book written by a man around my age who died of terminal lung cancer shortly after writing it, especially in the midst of my own mother's terminal cancer diagnosis. I guess I thought it would help me come to terms with the concept of death and dying.  And it IS a good book--Kalinithi was a good writer, a neurosurgeon by training, but writer and philosopher at heart (he al...
Read more