CaliNoDayJob

I have my plane tickets, my boat tickets, and my amazing friends waiting for me to accomplish this in about one month. I am so very excited. Lets hope there are less leeches than last time I backpacked in the U.P.

I have been working from home recently and it is so hard to retain focus. So I have decided to Refocus on Focus! :D

A daily goal list appeals to me, and I am going to go make one after I am done typing this in the format shown on this blog: http://cornflowerbluestudio.blogspot.com/2012/02/diy-rotating-goal-list.html

On that daily goal list: Set up my FREAKing desk. Ugh, how can I focus on the bed? lol. I will check back in after a week, to see what has helped/what has not!

This goal has been on my list for a while, and as I looked at it today I wondered what the heck I was waiting for? So today I made my first loan to Eunice in Mumias, Kenya so she increase he molasses production to support her family. Awesome, I am excited to finally get started with this.

I have been meaning to make a tee shirt quilt for a while, but without a template have little faith in myself. Instead I have started using the format of this “Scrap Vomit” quilt – http://imagingermonkey.blogspot.com/2010/10/care-for-some-scrap-vomit-aka-quilt.html with my tees. My initial goal is to fish in the next 4 month!

1. List how your pets will be taken care of during the day – THEY CARE! While most other companies are like – “What, they are not children? Who cares?”

2. You have to be a Vegan while working at PETA (right?)

3. Name dropping your crazy animal welfare twitter account in your cover letter – totally legit.

you have gotta read this. http://www.theawl.com/2011/08/why-yoga-can-be-so-irritating-although-you-should-go-anyway#more Plus she is tottaly from the city I am siting in right NOW.

I fell off the proverbial mat last week when I went home for a friends wedding. there was so much going on and I felt obnoxious having to “insist” to do yoga even though I was supposed to be around others and visiting/driving to visit people at all times.

Oh well, I will officially restart today with yoga for runners: http://www.fitsugar.com/Yoga-Runners-Video-Explanation-14921385

I think this is day eight. in the last 5 days I have done some weird sessions…

-A yoga for runners that was super complex. They should know my legs wont bend like that, and give me an alternate
- Poor night time yoga youtube video, which searching for lead to the discovery of “Sexy yoga” on youtube, ugh.
-Randomly stretching my back to different poses researched online
-& sun salutations when everything seems to get out of hand

Today though I checked out netflix instant for some videos and the women who instructs “Yoga for Health: Basic” is the most calming person I heard online. I want a recording of her telling me to relax for my flight latter tonight.

after missing a day because of a crazy driving schedule/being lazy sleepy I have my routine from last night and this morning.

Evening Wind Down from YogaToday (12min): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zohLERGZ-U

Morning Flow from Yogatic (9.5 min): http://www.yogatic.com/yoga-video/morning-flow/

I know I have been doing some very short sessions – but I am still warming up to it. Something is better then nothing, right? And really I just want to make this a routine, and I feel like I can still do 10 mins of yoga and not be late to work – but 20 is pushing it. I should do some evening yoga earlier and get to sleep on time so I can wake up early again!

In the spirit of the 30 day challenges (check out this TED talk!: http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days.html ) I want to challenge myself to do yoga. I have taken quite a few classes before, but find practicing by my own broke self very challenging. My back has been feeling funny though… and I will be sleeping on a plane and a backpacking mat soon, so:

My day one resource comes from a quick google search of morning practices. It is a good video, with alto of kneeling and standing poses. I think the sun salutation left me off balance though. http://www.yogajournal.com/video/53

There is a special offer now where 4000 people that are invited to Kiva now can make their first $25 loan free of charge. how awesome is that? Sign up at – http://kiva.org/invitedby/denise7403

Somehow, the keys from my old domain name did not transfer to my new domain host and my web address was lost to the gods of the internet. Super unfortunate that this happened around the time my computer dies to so all my back up are gone. I THINK though that my files, which were on the new host, can now with a multitude of fees for things that I should not have had had to fix, can be pointed to a new domain name I bought. Then I will have a photoblog to update! Hooray!

Cause we have day passes! End of August is my plan, but the boyfriend still wants to try and get passes in September for spending the night in Yosemite valley. Anyhow, going to happen!

Does anyone know what type of shoes are pest for the cables? I want to tell myself that the barefoot merrells I am getting would be awesome for this but I think I am weaving myself lies to allow me to buy the shoes ;)

I only read one. Albeit that I started this goal in the middle of the month, but it is so hard when I am parsing info from 4 other books for work to focus on one.

I would recommend tina feys new book bossypants though.

Also I should join this book social network my mom insists I join. maybe she/the rest of my family on there can help me to get excited. if only I could remember the name of it!

Have a bit of debt that has been floating since the holidays mostly from flying home and want to pay it off soon despite my americorps stipend not being too terribly large. With mint.com I set my goal to be out of debt in 4 months… just in time to buy a plane ticket for a wedding ! hahaha.

I have decided that one of the key things one must have to remain focused is inspiration, or at least the feeling when something must/needs to get done. Inspiration as a procrastinator is an impending deadline, while inspiration in the romantic scene is the want to make some sort of statement to our world.

Today I am trying to get focused on a project for work and am reading this blog on inspiration to help me get my head together: http://zenhabits.net/little-inspiration-guide/

After being in Monterey the weekend of the half marathon there, I think I really want to do this, and I know if I just stopped being so lazy I could run one.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good training site/book/magazine?

I just had an unexpected phone interview with a hiring manager who is forwarding my info to the supervisor. * crosses fingers *... All I can hope for is another interview soon!

I have a phone interview for one of the americorps positions I applied for tomorrow morning. I REALLY need to prep for it tonight. I have this bad feeling that they are just interviewing everyone, but a girl can hope that if she sounds really informed and enthusiastic at least it will be good practice, right?

Took two days, too long for a 5 hour project! I need to figure out some inspiration for my other goal of FOCUS to enable me to work more efficiently on these projects.