5 posts tagged “nablopomo”

Blame it on caffeine-induced bodies, I guess. People were actually really nice (knock on wood) at the airport at 5:30am. Helpful, genuinely nice, accommodating…wow. Unbelievable.

Liquids are allowed now, btw, as long as your liquid containers are 100ml or less, you should put all of them (the bottles of liquids, not mix the liquids) in a ziplock bag for all the officers to see. They didn’t let my 500ml purified water bottle through security (so now I know!), so I paid for a tiny bottle of Evian for $2.54. I am bitter, yes. And I drank that water like it was ice cold margarita after a really bad work day.

My flight to Phoenix was bumpy. We encountered a lot of turbulence. They showed “You, Me, and Dupree”. It was ok. We arrived 45 minutes than the expected time of arrival and we actually had to wait for the plane to taxi into an exitway.

We had dinner with my boyfriend’s family, and the kids. Aww. Then we watched “Borat”. Me and D just got back from the movie and are just waiting to chill our chardonnay to end the night.

I’d like to blog more but I’d rather spend the time with D. ;)

While taking your well-deserved shower after yoga.

“I’m sorry ladies, but we have to evacuate the building NOW!”

K, thanks, I’m naked.

I trekked all the way downtown to buy this hair foam from Toni & Guy that my hairdresser used on my hair after she cut it, because baaahh, man, I can't seem to get how it looked like after I left the salon.  My hair is short and layered, and it's styled to have to bedhed/JBF(just-been-f***ed)/toussled look.  The week that I had my hair frustrated me to no end because I couldn't get it 'big' enough.  Funny that the product is called 'Big and Bigger Volumizing Foam'.  Haha.

I'm no hair or makeup guru and I use as few as possible products because I am soo lazy with primping.  I just had to give in to this foam and the hair spray called "Work It".  I love their names.

Long story short, I bought them and after yoga I tried them.  F******ck, I wish I bought them a week ago!  I walked out of my yoga studio with the JBF hair and the yoga afterglow on my face, which really makes looks like I've J-B-F good.  I faked it!  Ha-har-har.

I don’t know if I posted about this but I bought a travel skincare kit from Skoah last week, hoping to try their products at the eternal gushings of one of my yoga instructors. At that time, my skin was beginning to flare out because of hormones. Y’know. So I was thinking that maybe, a change of skincare regimen would do my skin good. Anyway, zits just presented themselves one after the other. And I began getting them in places I don’t usually get them, and in sizes that are reminiscent of forgotten high school catastrophes. After getting the facial and getting additional bumps on my eyelids (my eyelids for crying out loud!), I decided to ditch this trial and go back to my beloved Philosphy line.

Overnight my skin looked better and my red minions were not as enraged as they were. Today, my skin is doing even better. It’s like my face is breathing a sigh of relief, “It’s good to be back home!”

Locker room/shower room stories were never a part of my life. First of all, I wasn’t athletic that I get to hang out in those rooms for the most part of my life. Second, I seem to be around men more than women. I missed a lot of days, weeks, years, of bathroom talk, girlie talk, shower talk, locker room talk. Yoga has reintroduced me to this world of vanity that I am missing. The world where we discuss concerns like weight, flabs, lip balms, weight loss, and did I mention weight? Things that I don’t usually discuss or delve into.

Yesterday a couple of women were asking some of us whether doing the 30-day challenge makes a difference to your body. Based on my personal experience–

1. I dropped a full size for both tops and bottoms.
   
2. Being pear-shaped I am not grossed out with myself anymore when I look at myself in the mirror when in skinny jeans. The concept of wearing skinny jeans was once lost after my 3rd year in college.
   
3. My whole body is now toned compared to a month ago. I flinch at the thought of how it was before.
   
4. I lost some of my belly and love handle(s?) (a challenge for someone who sits in front of the computer all day).
   
5. My clothes fit better, if not looser, especially around my waist and hips.
   
6. My ass looks perkier, I think…if you could even use that adjective for your butt.
   
7. Related to #3…my legs look better…erm, thinner–thighs are not as jiggly anymore. HAHA. I’m short and I’m pear-shaped, so you can just imagine. I’m not overweight, but I pack it up in my thighs and mid-section.
   
8. I was describing to my boyfriend about that scary muscle action on my calves, and according to him, it’s called soccer calves. When I flex my legs I can see my hard work and those standing postures that make me want to cry and call my mommy.
9. My shoulders are now more defined, too. Really cool, I love it. =)
10. My back pains are gone.
11. I get a really good sleep every night.
12. My hip pain and sciatica-ish pain are gone.
13. I don’t crave for junk food (chips) anymore.
14. I eat healthier.
15. I feel I have more energy.

After exchanging these “changes” with other women who are on the 30-day challenge as well, the 2 women were motivated to get on the bandwagon and do it. Mind you I got my mother to do Bikram yoga everyday when she saw my very loose pair of pants. My other friend goes regularly now, too.

And I told them, “This just proves that one of the major motivating factor for women to try something…ANYTHING…is proven weight loss!”

One of my other yoga-mates also approached me about her winter chapped-lips problem. No problem! I told her my holy grail of lip balms is Aveda’s Lip Saver so I told her I’d get her one since I’m always in Metrotown passing by the salon that sells it. I ended up going to Eccotique and buying myself a Lip Saver, a dark vampy lipstick to match my hair, and dark vampy nail polish to match with the lipstick.

Based on my boyfriend’s standards, I’m getting girly with all that makeup. Funny. I’m still TOO lazy for makeup. What I need is a “smart” makeup cream that I put on my face and it will just magically turn into blush where I need it to, turn to dramatic eyeshadow on my eyes, rearrange and line my eyebrows, curl and thicken my eyelashes magically, and make my lips redder according to my body heat. Now wouldn’t that be something to charm me into the world of makeup.

Helloooo November! I can’t believe the year is almost over. What the hell?

I think I signed my life away by signing up for NaBloPoMo. Haha. Blogging every day for the whole month of November would be especially tough because I’ll be in AZ half of the time. And you know how often I blog when I’m with my boyfriend! Hah. We’ll see what happens.

In other news, THREE more days and I’m done w/ my 30-day Bikram yoga challenge. Woohoo! The pain on my left hip also disappeared miraculously last Monday. Effin’ weird. It looks like it just decided to quit on me because I won’t quit moving.

More yoga…I’ll be watching the Western Canada Hatha Yoga Championship this Sunday so expect photos from the event later that day. I just hope I remember to charge my digicam’s battery.