south philly burrito explorers.

these two pieces are right next to each other in south philly. close to 8th and wash.

asher and i went burrito advent-uring.

no luck with what we ate. any burrito suggestions? we'll keep on trucking til we find something delicious. aren't these murals amazing?

nyc. you defeat me.

it rained it poured. i bought a poncho and when i opened it, this is what i saw... officially a tourist in times square after a long day of photo assisting.
this is mr. gilbert. he's a puppy. very cute.
my very first strand bookstore bag. swanky pigeons.
defeat sticker on bike in alphabet city.

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this is my second trip to nyc recently and i always feel defeated afterwards. i feel no desire or urge to live in that city. ever. never. even if i was a millionaire. it's extremely tense there. i find myself walking much slower than everyone else and i get pushed around a bunch. philly is a good place for me. i'm tired.

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i practiced mysore at yoga sutra nyc. john campbell and his assistant constanza roldan. got an amazing assist in supta kurmasana from constanza. she's so great! i like practicing in a new place and not knowing anyone. no drama. no fuss. i keep to myself on the mat and it's nice. back to yoga squared for a few days before making the big move over to yoga sutra philly. hope everything goes smoothly for everyone making that transition.

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the great south philly adventure.

what is this, one might ask? it's a sofa in a car! don't believe me... look below!
hmmm. ok ok. it's not a sofa, it's a love seat! close enough..
the itty bitty scion that could! love seat tied in and secured. drove home via south philly instead of the freeway. and we had no problems.

amazing!

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i'm off to nyc for the day tomorrow to be a photo assistant for the day.

also, my roommate, pal, confidant, friend: jillian! got engaged! i'm so excited for her. it happened after a ride through central park on tandem bike, the proposal spot at the alice and wonderland statue in the park. so romantic!

favorite view of center city?

i love philadelphia. i love seeing it from all angles. i love being able to see city hall all the way from west philly when you're looking down market. or when you're looking up broad..

it's amazing

i have a favorite view of the city sky line from my bike and it's at 32nd and baring, there's a cement park of sorts right after baring street. i've never stopped to sit there, although i will. i love the view.

asher's favorite view is from the peco building from the 43rd floor. (he gets to go to all the cool buildings when he's delivering the pitas.)

do you have a favorite view? spot? location to make out at? anything. i'm looking for places to explore. i have another year in this beautiful city and i'm definitely going to make the best of it.

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went to honey's sit and eat for a late lunch with asher. i needed some soul food after attending jill-ji's last wake up class this morning. there were 36 of us. lots of regulars. one newbie. ha! i cried, not hysterically, but the tears just flowed down my face during the final chant. we had a celebration afterwards. food. champagne. presents. chatting. hugging. stories. i love wakeup. i really love it. the people and the love there is just overwhelming.

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lunch hour yoga.

i've been having this problem lately with waking up super early for mysore practice. i've been experimenting with vinyasa classes at wakeup... i've thought about doing night time mysore...

but

i love the morning mysore crew. so i went on monday... practiced. and by 11am. i HAD HAD HAD to nap when the baby napped. so i was exhausted. tuesday night jill's vinyasa class. wednesday night corina's vinyasa class. i slept incredibly well both of those nights. thursday morning: today.

alarm was set for 5:45. i turned it off and decided i was not in the mood to be up and i went back to sleep with my loverboy for another hour or so.

i brought my mat and yoga clothes to work so that i could maybe practice while j-man napped.

so i did it. mysore practice in the kitchen. i think it ended up being a solid hour. no music. no candles. no incense. just me and the mat on a dirty kitchen floor. i did the entire practice, but it was quicker than usual because of being a "new place."

anyway, i feel really good about this. i might keep doing this lunch time yoga practice... when i don't make it to mysore mornings... which will now be at sutra. the word is out. squared is merging with sutra. don't ask me questions about it. but it's happening august 3rd. the end.

love to love you baby.

also. i'm definitely signing up for wake up's teacher training. i fall in love more and more with their style of vinyasa with every class i take... so i'm excited!

check out tom.

i added a blog to my 'blogs i heart' list. tom just started the blog. but it's bound to be bountiful!

thanks tom for blogging!! i love reading good stuff.

one year ago... (i'm stealing this idea from jill.)

what were you doing one year ago? today, july 21st 2008... i was... working as a nanny for a girl named petra in baltimore. i had probably just interviewed with the family i'm with now. i was probably waiting around to hear from them.

i was contemplating my life in philly.

now i am here. one year later. everything has changed. and everything is changing again.

moving to a new apartment in less than two weeks. yoga teachers leaving. yoga teachers coming. studios. teacher trainings. etc etc etc.

lots of change. i will blog more when the changes happen. but for now. just thinking about how much has already happened. and how much will happen in the next year.