Over the weekend we went to R’s company holiday party. It was at one of our fave restaurants, which meant great food and super-duper margaritas! There was a white elephant gift exchange, in which R got his cool gifts stolen about 4 times and then we ended up with a small version of the game Boggle. We already have Boggle and this was a disappointment since we took a very cool gift. I mean seriously, we took a Trader Joe’s gift card and some Peppermint Joe’s. That’s cool. (And on his 3rd trip up to choose a gift, I told R to just take our gift, which he did, but then it got stolen. Boo) But, it’s all in fun and we did, in fact, have fun with it.

There was also karaoke and at the beginning of the night, when he first spied it, R said, “Ugh, I hate karaoke.” Toward the end of the evening, guess where he was?

He’s fooling himself that he “hates karaoke”. I am now of the belief that he unwittingly LOVES karaoke, although if you ask him he will maintain that he hates it. But come on, look at that photo…

All in all we had a great time.
My company holiday party is this Friday ~ which I believe will also be fun!
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if you remember, i danced on the set of ghost whisperer a bit ago.
if you forgot, this is how i looked…

the episode airs this friday at 8pm on CBS. tune in to see what glimpses of me in my short blonde wig you might catch. but don’t blink.

my friend and fellow teacher, Rie, choreographed for Jennifer! click here for the teaser.
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I just realized it’s been a month since I’ve made a peep on this here blog. Oops. I am a delinquent blogger and I don’t mind!

So much has been going on. Let me list…

1) I began yoga teacher training 5 weeks ago. (see? i said it had been awhile)
training has been going well. it is wonderfully challenging, humbling and engaging. i am learning the major bones and muscles of the body and memorizing the Sanskrit names of the poses such as Adho Mukha Svanasana = Downward Facing Dog. i am also learning so much beyond the physical side of yoga. i am now very interested in chakras, which is the energy anatomy of our bodies. i can’t wait to start some teaching, which i can see will be a growth process that will take lots of practice…

2) Wedding planning is going well.
we found our band! we’ve got our flower decor sorted out. i am narrowing in on bridesmaid dresses. our honeymoon destination is still up in the air, but i am looking forward to our food tasting next week!

3) I went to NYC.
rj and i went to NYC the weekend before Halloween and had a fantastic time. we actually enjoyed the rain that everybody kept apologizing for. we also saw Avenue Q off broadway and loved it madly. it was the best fun i’ve had at the theatre in a long time. i then stayed for a couple of extra days to work at the studio there. i even got to stay in brooklyn with Lindsey for one night! i have yet to post my photos, but they are coming soon.

4) I am now in Chicago.
i am in Chicago, enjoying the beautiful, crisp, Fall weather. i will be working here for 2 more days before i fly to Houston for less than 24 hours. i must be home by Thursday night so i can be back in yoga training on Friday. it’s a whirlwind. whew!

5) Work is hard.
i am really working to grow, learn and breathe through a lot of the tumult going on at work. why is it always something? i love teaching and training, but i don’t want to be in charge anymore. i’d really like to find the courage to move on from management, but then what? there’s this thing called a mortgage…

6) I am so excited for Thanksgiving.
i get to visit my parents for 4 whole days! i am excited because i know they will l feed me well, let me rest and play board games with me. yum mashed potatoes and gravy, yum stuffing, yum pumpkin pie. hooray for giving thanks. hip hip hooray for Fall holidays!

photos soon!
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There haven’t been any new developments on the wedding planning front, except for imagining things. We got two big things done (location & dress) and then everything else has come along very slowly…

What’s been keeping us busy is operation: co-habitation.

So far, it’s been good, although we are still surrounded in boxes and things we’re yard selling. I have lived alone for 7 years now and it was definitely an adjustment to have a guy move in. Things just feel different, smell different and look different (not bad, just different), but I am *so* happy to have him. Speaking of adjustments, R was a trooper and sold a lot of his furniture and we still have a lot of arranging to do to change it from “my place” to “our place”…

In other news, I begin yoga teacher training in two weeks! Hooray! I’ve been planning and waiting to do this for almost a year, so I can’t wait. I hope that by the time I finish in November I will be able to do Tittibhasana, or Firefly Pose. And because blogs are better with picture, here’s what it looks like:

Tomorrow morning, at 6am, I will be filming on “The Ghost Whisperer”. I’ll give you one guess what I will be doing on the show. Give up?

Yes, pole dancing. Very classy, though: it’s prime time people. So, that should be fun. I’ll be filming with 4 of my fellow teachers and I do plan to take photos. “Love”, as she’s called, has been taking classes with us and she’s so excited by it that they wrote in an episode about it. Cool eh?

And then, on Friday…REUNION! I get to fly to Oregon for my college reunion. Ten years here I come!

Hopefully, I will take photos so my blogging doesn’t get so stale that y’all stop visiting.

Now it’s time for bed ~ with a 6am make-up call I’d better get my beauty sleep…
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