photos online!
i forgot to add my photos from our trip to bc and hawaii:
http://photos.ming.org/main.php?g2_itemId=10
i forgot to add my photos from our trip to bc and hawaii:
http://photos.ming.org/main.php?g2_itemId=10
ever had a reading with a medium? i've meet the most wonderful person named linda here in toronto. she is able to communicate with those who have passed on. she even does past life readings. here is what she has told me this week: i'm on the right track with my osteo school (yay!) and that i'm doing just fine by plugging along. everyone else feels the same way about it. (its the hardest thing i've ever done! my computer and retail backgroud certainly has not prepared me for the amount of studying i've been doing! and body work is completely different.) bodywork/healing work is only scratching the surface of the potential of the human race. i'm only going to do 4 years of it here in toronto, then i may finish it somewhere else (bc perhaps?). she says she saw a little girl with a page boy haircut, about 2-3 yrs old and that this child will impact my life on a daily basis. funny, but the last time i had a reading with her i was certain that i was not going to have any kids. i'm still certain. bren and i have sort of talked about being a big brother/sister to someone. certainly not now though. she told me that i will be baking more. heh. i like that. i have not been so inspired to cook anything lately. another thing was something to do with horses. curious, i have not contact with any horses at the moment. i also have to watch my teeth. i clench at night and do have some issues with a molar.
its so fascinating to watch linda work and communicate with higher powers. or however one would call it. she says she has to increase her vibration to match theirs and they have to decrease it. its like listening to someone speaking in a foreign language. so she gets images and blips of information in her head. its so cool. i wonder if its difficult to turn off. she even knows when they are around. she can "see" them standing next to us. wow. its not all far fetched after all when you meet someone in person who has no reason to fake it.
there it is!
ok, so i'm not feeling the summer "i'm so in shape that i'm going to wear skimpy outfits" just yet. a fellow colleague turned me on to this: http://www.gyrotonic.com/. i have not taken a class yet, but her description of it sounds fantastic. and hey, if madonna likes it, it going to popular in no time. although in canada-time that will be about 5 years. fads move slowly here.
yay summer!
Its that time, again, to say "buh-bye" to another massage space. I guess I'm not really changing spaces as fast as others though. It just takes me longer to figure out what I really really want. (damn those spice girls and THAT song). Written emails are the best thing ever, no printing of paper, no stamps, no postal service to contend with. There is my notice in writing in front of you within minutes. its the 2nd day of the month, and the rules have changed, i need to give 2 months notice now. which i kind of remember her saying, but not reallly. we never put anything in writing. that was a biiiiiig mistake there for sure. a big clue that i should have left a long time ago. oh well.
I can concentrate on my own stuff now. At least the promise to create a brochure has now fallen on myself only and not someone else. I've waited for almost a year to have a new brochure created. Sheesh. I can't work like that, waiting for someone else to get their shit together. I need to work with others who have their shit together. And I know who that is and will call her right now.
ciao!
so dec is usually pretty busy for massage. here in ontario most have extended benefits through work that cover a fair amount of massage. so at the end of the year many have realized that they have a few massages to squeeze in. but thats not why i'm writting about massage. i live in a condo, 2 30 storey buildings. lots of people here. i have been prodded to advertise here as the resident RMT. i have tried that, but not very successfully or aggressively. so i did get a call, and in my nervousness severly undercharged. but hey, a 2 minute commute in the elevator, i can't really complain. so it was a pleasant experience and i got home in time for dinner. not bad. what makes me nervous about working on residents is the feeling that i know secrets about them. i dont know why that sort of turns me off and makes me not want to massage them. strange huh?
i really love my job. i love it even more now that i'm in the osteopathic program at http://www.osteopathiecollege.com/. i have a little more confidence in what i do on a daily basis and cant wait to finish the damn program. i'm in year 2 of 5. and that is not including the 2 years to work on and finish a thesis. ugh. i ask myself "what am i doing"?! but in the end, i will be able to help people and their aches and pains and make it go away. it has worked for me over the years too. i still have a long way to go.
that poem was just a lament for my leaving california yet again. everytime i leave (aka visit) i feel a part of me stays there. which also means that a new me shows up. ahhh the consistancy of change.
canada is friendly, yet its difficult to meet new ones. it makes me feel old. must be a midlife crisis coming along as well. i'm starting to read the ads for laser surgery and cosmetic dermatology. ha!
maybe i'll get my eyes worked on when i visit sher in hong kong....hahahaaa! yeah right. i hated contacts, therefore no sharp objects will be coming near my face.
would you do it?
soaking in the suds, soaking up my thoughts
soaking away the negative
soaking in the positive
convictions become clear, why, why, why am i here
i scrub away a layer, rinse it away with the bubbles down the drain
my tears melt into the droplets
warm water falls like rain down my hair, my eyebrows, past my nose
to my chest, ending up in my belly button.
am i the same? will i ever be? i fight to be.
each new experience melds into another changing my shape, my energy
my thoughts, my personal life philosophy.
its sticky like the maple syurp in the fridge.
change.
the subway system in toronto is awesome. it comes within 5 minutes. its not that full, when i'm on it. commute hours are pretty crowded, but thankfully with my flexible (aka slack) schedule, i dont have to feel like a sardine in a can. its open early and late. except not early enough on a sunday, or late enough on a friday/saturday.
my commute is so short i dont have much time to read, but its enough time to think about important things. such as the new fall line up on the global network. ugh. sometimes its just too much when a company takes over an entire cars ad space. i like the variety of ads on the subway. i can get help with credit, rent a car for cheap, upgrade my cell phone to the cute monkey company, or register for the next 10k. all in a few minutes. the latest is the subway ettiquette ads. those crack me up...a picture of a guy with a pig mask next to a pile of newspaper and coffee cups with several people looking disgusted at him for being the little piggy on the ttc. clean up your trash it says. indeed.
the stuff people take on the subway and public transportation is also entertaining. the baby strollers take up way too much space. why did the stroller companies create such monstrosities?! especially for an urban environment? they take up the entire walk way. aren't kids smaller than adults? why are their strollers so unreasonable bulky?
food. ok, i dont want to smell your mcd's big mac or chicken nuggets on the subway. eat quite and less stinky food please. and keep your mouth closed!
wow, i must be hungry ...
ok, so before all hell broke loose with airline travel, i had the opportunity to lug my shiny new travel hoop with me from toronto, to vancouver to honolulu and back. i kid you not my friends. it was attached to the outside of my backpack (mostly because it would not fit into my check-in baggage.) the nice counter person at air canada warned me that security was the last word on letting me take it with me and if they did not let me what would i do? well i couldn't just chuck it into the trash can now could i? my hands were still sore from making the damn thing! she saw my dilemma and offered to let me check it into over sized baggage without charge...thanks, very nice. so as i waited in line for security, removing shoes and pulling out the laptop, the first guard looked at me blankly and asked what the 4 curved tubes were (decorated with bright blue and white stripes), i flashed the biggest smile i could and said "its a hula hoop!", well, that was contagious and he smiled, said to the guard looking at the monitor "hula hoop coming through!".
excellent! that's the secret...most people get defensive and cranky to these regular people who are just doing a job, so passing on some happiness makes their day and their job a lot easier. i'm no terrorist, and i dint know any, so i'd like my travel to be easy and suspicion free. pass the word.
so i have finally figured out what all the hoopla is about. well, i've read about it, viewed .mov files online and seen it in action at a gathering. its only taken 3 years for me to catch on. i've been busy! my body needs the break from sitting on my ass in front of a computer or desk thinking about anatomy and osteopathy and how to get it into my brain that i crave....CRAVE the act of hula hooping. its beautiful, its sexy, its rhythmical, its fun, frustrating, painful, dizzying, did i mention painful? damn my shoulder and its current restrictions.
i met up with some toronto burners back in june for an evening of hooping. it was my first time meeting any of them in person, so i was a bit nervous. about 8 or so people showed up. they are a fun group of crazy and loveable people. people you want at your parties or to meet up with for after work drinks and some hula hooping, of course! found out that steph knew our friend wayne back in the day, back in sf. then greg and jen, the former from sf as well. ahhh...nice to meet some people with a connection to sf. i miss it constantly.
so back to the hooping. i taped up a dollar store hoop, after i filled it with dried beans. that was fun for about a week. there was a weak spot in the taping and it bent. oh well. but for the life of me i can't seem to find 1" or 3/4" pvc or polyethelyne at 125+psi in toronto. I've been snubbed by plumbing suppliers and home depot does not carry psi that high. boo. i'll have to keep calling around. that will be my monday priority to do. the tape will just have to be vinyl until i can find a supplier of gaffers tape. its a good thing i live in hollywood north.
the second time i tried hooping was in san fran in june. i signed up for a lesson with cristabel of hoopgirl.com. she is so sweet and a patient teacher. we met up at kezar stadium and wiggled to various artists from 11-12. i think i got a bit of a sunburn that day. i wish i could have taken her 3 day course. but i didnt have that much time and had lots of people to see. now i wish i brought back a collapsable hoop from her. oh well, something to look forward to later on.
i highly recommend hooping to anyone. its fun and freeing and a great workout without feeling like i-have-to-do-this-because-i-paid-for-my-gym-membership-and-i-should-use-it.
i just need a damn hoop!