kicking my butt!

dude! all weight issues aside, i am SOOOOO not in shape! i just bought a quick-start 30 minute pilates dvd, thinking "this won't be too hard, i occasionally still stretch using pilates moves from when i used to do pilates like four and a half years ago". let me tell you, it kicked my butt. KICKED. but i am glad of it!

other things kicking my butt:
school.
the more i get done, the more that i feel i need to do! lesson planning for my two classes is the biggest one. office work sometimes gets in the way of planning my classes and i really need to spend more time on it. but all in all, it's going really well.

my garden.
exhibit a: when you thought your pink rosebush was just having a late summer bloom, but later realize it is one of your overgrown wild morning glories that has weaved its way up the rosebush and just happens to be a similar color, you know your gardening skills have slacked a little!




lastly, i would like to leave you with a picture of this huge and slightly creepy spider who made a web off our back porch. he since seems to have disappeared, but was causing no trouble while he took residence in our yard. fare thee well, hopefully-non-poisonous buddy!