this year for lent brendan and i gave up eating red meat. i gave up eating meat back in 2009, but i found this time much harder. last time i felt content not eating meat and felt i could've gone on much longer. this time, i was eagerly anticipating the end of lent. we found it particularly difficult in greece finding food we could eat. it's nice having fewer restrictions. yesterday as i walked home from my volunteer shift at KGH, i was tempted to stop at a hot dog stand, until i remembered that hot dogs is a pregnancy ban, not a lent ban. i'll have to wait a while yet til i can have a hot dog and a beer.
i like that leif vollebekk talks about trains, riding trains, and train stations in at least 3 songs on his latest album :)
yesterday i received two packages in the mail. the first was mother teresa's memoir called 'come be my light'. i suppose it's not ACTUALLY a memoir, but rather a compilation of her personal writings, but it feels more memoir-y than a biography. mother teresa has always been a very interesting woman to me and i'm keen to learn more about her. especially after b told me, that day we walked the paths at meteora, that people were astonished after she died to discover that she'd struggled with doubt her whole life. that just makes her more real to me.
the other package i received was a prenatal yoga dvd. i've tried a few different ones online, but found them hard to get into, but i can see now that part of that was my fault. i don't think i took them seriously enough. with this new dvd, i was able to play it on the tv, which gave me more room for my yoga practice. i watched it through once while i ate dinner (b was at work), so that i was familiar with the positions and would be less distracted. then i put on proper yoga clothes (the first time i tried yoga at home, i just wore jeans, which doesn't work) and turned off the lights. i had a really nice time! i think the intensity of yoga on the dvd is perfect for me. i'm not a new yogi, but i'm kind of a lazy yogi. i like the positions that are comfortable and relaxing more than the positions that challenge me and strain my body. the only difficulty i had was that i'm still so congested that it was super hard to do proper breathing techniques. i read today that this kind of sinus congestion is very common in pregnancy, and i'm losing hope that it will go away before july. but i have a midwife appointment tomorrow, so i'll ask heather about it then.
by 9:50 last night i was super tired and my legs were all jerky, so i headed to bed. i don't even remember when brendan joined me. apparently i was talking in my sleep about sandwiches. hahahaha. i really do have an obsession with sandwiches.
i like that leif vollebekk talks about trains, riding trains, and train stations in at least 3 songs on his latest album :)
yesterday i received two packages in the mail. the first was mother teresa's memoir called 'come be my light'. i suppose it's not ACTUALLY a memoir, but rather a compilation of her personal writings, but it feels more memoir-y than a biography. mother teresa has always been a very interesting woman to me and i'm keen to learn more about her. especially after b told me, that day we walked the paths at meteora, that people were astonished after she died to discover that she'd struggled with doubt her whole life. that just makes her more real to me.
the other package i received was a prenatal yoga dvd. i've tried a few different ones online, but found them hard to get into, but i can see now that part of that was my fault. i don't think i took them seriously enough. with this new dvd, i was able to play it on the tv, which gave me more room for my yoga practice. i watched it through once while i ate dinner (b was at work), so that i was familiar with the positions and would be less distracted. then i put on proper yoga clothes (the first time i tried yoga at home, i just wore jeans, which doesn't work) and turned off the lights. i had a really nice time! i think the intensity of yoga on the dvd is perfect for me. i'm not a new yogi, but i'm kind of a lazy yogi. i like the positions that are comfortable and relaxing more than the positions that challenge me and strain my body. the only difficulty i had was that i'm still so congested that it was super hard to do proper breathing techniques. i read today that this kind of sinus congestion is very common in pregnancy, and i'm losing hope that it will go away before july. but i have a midwife appointment tomorrow, so i'll ask heather about it then.
by 9:50 last night i was super tired and my legs were all jerky, so i headed to bed. i don't even remember when brendan joined me. apparently i was talking in my sleep about sandwiches. hahahaha. i really do have an obsession with sandwiches.
she leaned into talk and leaned in to listen.
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