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Sunrise in Poipu, Kauai, a month ago, January 27th

Thor woke us up several times last night. Eventually I got up at 5:30am, took him out and then decided to stay up. Made myself coffee and watched the sunrise. During the darkest winter days, the sun didn’t reach in to our apartment for very long (we’re facing east) but now we are going towards the days with sun warming up our home from early morning til afternoon. Love it!

So, the reason why Thor was awake a lot was because he wanted to run upstairs and see if our neighbors were there. This was because instead of teaching a pilates/stretch class at the gym last night, I had them come over to hang out in the “Fanny Room” (still haven’t come up with a better name). One neighbor couldn’t make it in time so the other one and I decided that stretching and tea sounded good. Eventually the other woman joined us. They stayed for a while. One has problems with her piriformis and muscles around it so the other one, the masseuse, checked her muscles and I gave her some exersises to do to build strength. And then we ended up just talking. We are three women in different ages, but we all have the same things to work on but in different versions of it and sharing can help. It’s nice to have found lovely neighbors that can exchange things – body work, mind work and body care.

After this, Thor wanted to check if they were still there, just like he does when someone is staying over. He saw them leave but maybe he thought they had been sneaking in:)

Good morning and happy Monday! Hope you had an awesome weekend!
We woke up early on Saturday. Jim took Thor to the vet (a normal check up) and when they got back, J and I went to IHOP for breakfast. I’ve never been to an ihop before and that’s why J thought I should go at least once in my life. It’s not a place I would ever go back to. After some grocery shopping, we went home to pick up Thor and we drove down to the southern part of Stamford. It’s just one big construction zone there, but if you walk along the water it’s kinda nice. We walked around the Kosciuszko Park and then back to the car and drove home. Right after, we walked to downtown and saw the movie Annihilation, a pretty interesting movie actually. I loved the music! A pretty relaxed afternoon and evening after that. I did a little bit of yoga in my “studio” upstairs, but it was so hard for me to breathe when upside down that I ended up just stretching instead. I haven’t recovered yet, still coughing and got the sniffles. Sucks big time, but I got energy back at least. 
It was raining the whole day yesterday. We read books, went shopping at Walmart, organized in the storage room, watched some tv and read some more.
Plans for this week is to fully recover and go back to work out and take yoga classes.
Have a wonderful week! 

“dance, dance, otherwise we are lost”
– Pina Bausch 

We started to have warmer temperatures last week. On Saturday we all of a sudden out of nowhere got lots of snow. The next day we were back to warm temps again and the snow melted away. Yesterday we had 21 degrees! 21!! I’m still not feeling too awesome so I’m not doing much other than resting at home. Since it was so nice and sunny outside, I took Thor to the park in front of the church next to our building and sat on the grass. So lovely to go out to get some fresh air and not freeze the second you open the door. After awhile I felt that I had a wet butt from sitting on the grass, so we went back inside.
I know this isn’t the beginning of spring, it’s only February and anything can happen, but it was very nice to not having to wear 5 layers of clothes when going outside:)

Good Morning! I’m finally feeling way better than I have been the past 5 days. Got a cough on Thursday and later came the congestion from hell. I’ve been in bed or on the couch with a few breaks outside every day. Not a very fun three day weekend for Jim who btw was the best husband ever and took Thor for walks, ordered food when I was hungry and played relaxing music so I could sleep. I really really hope he doesn’t get this. I haven’t had this bad of a cold since I was a kid, wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Hopefully this is over in a day or two, I’m tired of this now and I’m tired of staying inside.
Today I think I’m just gonna continue to watch Friends, listen to The Greatest Showman soundtrack and rest my body. Nothing exciting, but it is what it is. Have a wonderful day!