Happiness is Only Real When Shared

I love them

2012-02-13T21:33:00.000-07:00

Do I look like Skrillex? :(

2012-02-13T21:32:00.002-07:00

Battle of Brothers

2012-02-13T21:32:00.001-07:00

Pub

2012-02-13T21:31:00.000-07:00

GACW

2012-02-13T21:30:00.000-07:00

Ferby had a good day

2012-02-05T21:09:00.002-07:00

Joyridin'

2012-02-05T21:09:00.001-07:00

My Instagram Hands

2012-02-05T21:08:00.000-07:00

Heh

2012-02-02T21:07:00.000-07:00

Ugh, Slug

2012-01-29T20:51:00.002-07:00

Lee is in Portland and there's now dog barf in my car

2012-01-29T20:51:00.001-07:00

This was a bad cake

2012-01-29T20:50:00.002-07:00

Blue, brown, and pink

2012-01-29T20:50:00.001-07:00

Candle light and iPhone light

2012-01-29T20:49:00.000-07:00

Bro Date

2012-01-28T14:01:00.001-07:00

There are currently 112 roller coasters in my classroom

2012-01-25T20:34:00.001-07:00

Our time with the POTUS

2012-01-25T20:32:00.002-07:00

In the same house

2012-01-23T21:38:00.001-07:00

Wilco

2012-01-22T21:20:00.001-07:00

Went to The Sanctuary for brunch

2012-01-22T20:59:00.002-07:00

Things I Love

2012-01-22T20:53:00.001-07:00

Sounds so good until we get there...

2012-01-19T22:00:00.001-07:00

Can you spot the cat waiting for me to come home?

2012-01-18T18:34:00.002-07:00

MY MOM IS FAMOUS

2012-01-18T18:34:00.001-07:00

Yogals

2012-01-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

Still animals

2012-01-18T18:31:00.003-07:00

Chiguhr Bowl

2012-01-18T18:31:00.001-07:00

NYE 2011

2012-01-18T18:27:00.005-07:00

BLAM

2012-01-18T18:27:00.003-07:00

Long Lost Friends

2012-01-18T18:27:00.001-07:00

South Mountain

2012-01-18T18:24:00.001-07:00

Chessin'

2012-01-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

So we got another one

2012-01-18T18:19:00.000-07:00

The next day

2012-01-18T18:14:00.001-07:00

Chrimbus Day

2012-01-18T18:03:00.003-07:00

COD PANTS

2012-01-18T18:02:00.000-07:00

Camelback

2012-01-18T17:59:00.001-07:00

Dog? Cat? Dat? Cog?

2012-01-18T17:58:00.000-07:00

Secret Santa with the best people

2012-01-18T17:51:00.005-07:00

I am So Scottsdale!

2012-01-18T17:46:00.001-07:00

Long story, but the worst ever picture of me was in a magazine called So Scottsdale!

So funny!

Nevermind

2012-01-18T17:45:00.001-07:00

Before working on my new blog goal, I'm going to get caught up. So here goes...

Why not??

2012-01-18T17:42:00.001-07:00

Blog Goal

2012-01-18T17:40:00.002-07:00

I'm going to try to update once a day, rather than 7 posts in one day and then 0 posts for weeks.

Cool dude

2011-12-19T20:42:00.000-07:00

Can you spot the cool dude playing Carcassonne in the middle of Fry's?

Weather has been great

2011-12-19T20:41:00.003-07:00

Chiaobama

2011-12-19T20:41:00.001-07:00

Eats

2011-12-19T20:39:00.000-07:00

Succulent

2011-12-19T20:38:00.000-07:00

School Daze

2011-12-19T20:37:00.001-07:00

She is a dog

2011-12-19T20:32:00.002-07:00

They are cats

2011-12-19T20:27:00.003-07:00

Lonely

2011-12-19T20:25:00.000-07:00

An Engagement Picture

2011-12-19T20:19:00.002-07:00

By Caleb Cooke at the Desert Botanical Gardens.

Some CBs

2011-12-04T21:47:00.000-07:00

We don't care

2011-12-04T21:45:00.001-07:00

Dogs don't

2011-12-04T21:44:00.000-07:00

Nothing Beats Cats

2011-12-04T21:41:00.002-07:00

Obsessed with these wreaths

2011-12-04T21:40:00.001-07:00

A moment of peace

2011-12-04T21:39:00.000-07:00

Is this cat not BOY???

2011-12-01T21:11:00.001-07:00

So ready for it

2011-12-01T21:10:00.000-07:00

Thxgivin

2011-12-01T21:08:00.000-07:00

Went to the MIM

2011-12-01T21:04:00.002-07:00

Ila is growing so fast

2011-12-01T21:02:00.000-07:00

I'm surrounded by nerds

2011-12-01T21:01:00.000-07:00

Long time no talk

2011-12-01T20:48:00.007-07:00

Hello. Here are all (some of) the animal pictures I've taken in my absence.

Max

2011-11-11T09:27:00.001-07:00

She's getting so big!

2011-11-11T09:25:00.000-07:00

M83!

2011-11-11T09:23:00.002-07:00

This is our computer room after being ripped apart because we couldn't find our tickets.

Still Got Them Too

2011-11-11T09:21:00.001-07:00

Good Girl

2011-11-11T09:18:00.001-07:00

American Badass!!!!

2011-10-25T21:22:00.003-07:00

So many babies

2011-10-23T16:54:00.001-07:00

Let's eat

2011-10-23T16:51:00.000-07:00

Doing a lot of walking

2011-10-23T16:48:00.004-07:00

Dealin with it

2011-10-23T16:48:00.001-07:00

CHROMEO part 2

2011-10-23T10:50:00.002-07:00

Nice legs

2011-10-23T10:50:00.001-07:00

All the Dogs

2011-10-23T10:49:00.001-07:00

An alternate song for the wedding

2011-10-13T23:56:00.001-07:00

Am I saying wedding too much? Wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding!

They are just the best

2011-10-13T23:55:00.001-07:00

Some special students wrote a song that they will be performing at my wedding. How cool is that? LOVE THEM.

No longer the weird people with just cats...

2011-10-13T23:43:00.003-07:00

...now we have a dawg too.

Slug has gone from being visibly upset to being extremely irritated (see above) to now simply being disgusted. Rang and Boy are being wimps. Rang I'm especially ashamed of because he's basically the same size as Phoebe (that's her name).

Rolling

2011-10-13T23:36:00.002-07:00

A nice pic at a nice dinner

2011-10-01T23:31:00.001-07:00

Rang climbs a tree

2011-10-01T08:37:00.003-07:00

Boy comes home

2011-10-01T08:36:00.000-07:00

Look what I got!

2011-09-26T17:14:00.000-07:00

In the yard

2011-09-26T17:13:00.001-07:00

He loves me!!!!

2011-09-21T18:48:00.002-07:00

Kerang

2011-09-17T09:45:00.001-07:00

A Muppet with teeth

2011-09-16T20:58:00.001-07:00

Oh, you know

2011-09-16T20:57:00.002-07:00

...just chillin' at The Phoenician

Bon Iver & Fleet Foxes

2011-09-16T20:49:00.003-07:00

Relief

2011-09-11T16:20:00.003-07:00

I got a new haircut that, for the first time, actually looks like a new haircut. I can't explain the relief I feel not having long hair anymore.

We can't even make chocolate covered strawed berries right

2011-09-10T22:38:00.001-07:00

At The Vig

2011-09-10T22:37:00.002-07:00

Another beautiful baby I now know

2011-09-10T22:36:00.002-07:00

The Three of Them

2011-09-10T22:36:00.001-07:00

The most fun party

2011-09-04T18:18:00.001-07:00

On July 7th, 2012, we'll be getting married here:

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty excited.

Adho Mukha Svanasana

2011-09-04T17:50:00.002-07:00

I get that there's nothing more annoying than someone talking about yoga, trust me, I GET IT, but since this is my blog, and very few people ever come here, I'm going to talk about it anyway.

Yoga is kind of a big part of my life now, which is good, because exercise, in any form, has never been a big part of my life. Since I started doing yoga regularly about a year ago, I've lost a significant amount of weight, even though I didn't take up yoga for this reason (it probably should have been my reason...). I don't know exactly how much weight I have lost, because I didn't start weighing myself until I started doing yoga, but the difference between what I know to have been my heaviest weight and my weight now is substantial.

My diet hasn't changed at all. I still eat out a lot, eat junk, sometimes eat healthy, can't eat a lot in one sitting, love all things sweet, have to have dessert with every meal, always eat breakfast, eat processed and unprocessed foods. Because my diet hasn't changed, I've attributed my weight loss to either yoga or, I'm dying. When my doctor noticed that my weight had changed he asked if I knew why, and I told him that the only thing that had changed was that I started doing yoga. He said, "You can't lose weight from doing yoga" and I said, "Ok" and then he moved on. Obviously he wasn't too concerned, and obviously I am not a doctor, but I do think he's wrong. I think that if I'm doing something that's active (my heart rate always increases), and I'm doing it regularly (at least 4 times a week now and over the summer, every day), then why can't I lose weight from it? Before I did yoga, I didn't really move at all. I did nothing. So, doing something has got to be different, right?

Well, I feel better, and that's good. I also feel like I have a hobby now, and that's nice. So, I'm going to continue to do yoga (I do it at the gym, a studio and at home), maybe stop weighing myself (because, what's the point?), and keep trying to convince myself that I'm not dying. My main goal, and it was one of my resolutions this year, is to get better at yoga, and I'm excited, because I think I am. Below is a picture of me doing downward-facing dog. Notice that I can't get my heels to the ground (my hamstrings are still very tight), but my shoulders are so much more open than they've ever been. I still have a long, long way to go, but staying in downward-facing dog for an extended period of time used to be a nightmare, and now, I can relax in it like I'm supposed to.