Mission Accomplished in Everyday Ramblings

Early Sunday I received a text from S. that she still wasn’t feeling up for a walk and said she hoped to see me in my public class Monday. I was disappointed as I was going to meet her at church and then hear about her trip to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand with stops in Hong Kong and San Francisco.

Trying to figure out how to best spend the time this change in plans freed up I decided to walk over the big hill behind me to the grocery store. It is a little over five miles with a good deal of elevation gain. That way I’d get my steps for the day and groceries. (I took the bus home.)

This is a shot I took with the camera on that walk.

I had managed to get my new wireless headphones working with my iPad the night before but I wanted to see if I could pair them with my android phone so I could listen to audiobooks while walking to and fro. My iPad is a mini but still a handful when one is out and about. I have a bicep sleeve for my phone, which would make listening totally hands free.

It is seriously cold enough here to have one’s hands in mittens and then in pockets.

Getting the volume level right was a lot easier once I got warmed up enough not to need my hat with earflaps. :)

I listen to a lot of classical music. My favorite show is Performance Today, which runs for two hours every weekday and features performances from live concerts all over the world. I have a beautiful Bose radio that I keep in the kitchen. The problem is…they don’t broadcast Performance Today here.

The only way I can hear it is to steam it via a computer or my iPad. And the sound quality is not all that great. That is kind of an understatement. If I listen with ear buds, which I do in the office it is better but I am tethered to the machine and am subject to the whims of both required and unintentional distraction.

With the Bose wireless headphones for the first time ever I can stream the program and move around at will folding laundry or cleaning, and yep, even sweeping up the patio! And the sound quality is very good. I am so excited, this is a dream come true for me. The show is only available for thirty days online before they lose rights but now I can catch up!

Right now I am happily procrastinating on getting activity outside at lunchtime typing this and listening to Movement 4 of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 in A minor played by the Warsaw Philharmonic.

I am on Day 27 of my Yoga Gratitude 30-Day Challenge.

This morning I had my six-month get completely naked in front of my dermatologist melanoma checkup. All clear! Yippee. He also burned three age spots on my face with a spray can of liquid nitrogen. Has anybody had that done? Yow! Now I am winter pale with pink blotches. He says they will only last a few days.

I have had concerns for weeks that the room I am teaching in at the church would not get warm enough if the outside temperature dropped below freezing. It is a huge cavernous dark room with one little heater mounted up near the ceiling. I called and had them turn it on early yesterday afternoon. I had nine intrepid students (we are on the verge of an ice storm) and when we got ready for Savasana (the rest period at the end of class) S. (who was there!) was laughing and marveling as my other students put on socks and wrapped themselves in blankets and coats they had brought for the few minutes I can bear to let them rest on that cold floor.

Anyway, yesterday our Program Director was in class and this made an impression on her and for the next 8 weeks they are going to give me the big beautiful warm room up on the third floor for free! And she sent out an email to all the students telling them that.

Yippee!

I think you can say that after almost a year of teaching there with a hugely loyal and fun student base I have paid — my — dues.

Mission accomplished.

Last updated December 02, 2015