Fantastic weekend! On Saturday I went with my friend Emily to a restorative yoga class in Queen Anne. It’s taught every six months — I went back in December and blogged about it then. It’s three hours long, which scares people, but it’s not difficult yoga. You just hold these really relaxing poses for 10-15 minutes each while beautiful music plays and the instructor occasionally reads poetry. It’s completely relaxing; it’s like a three-hour massage for the body and soul. After that, I felt completely centered and relaxed.
Later that night I went with my boyfriend (!!!!) to a BBQ at his sister’s house. It was my first time meeting his sister and I was SO nervous. As we were pulling up I was like, “I changed my mind! I don’t want to go!” I don’t think I spoke more than two words for the first half hour or so. I’m so loud and outspoken around people I know that I forget how incredibly shy I can be when I’m put in new social situation. I think if someone read my gossip blog and then met me in a social situation like that — where I don’t know anyone and I’m just being Sasha, not playing the ‘Evil Beet’ role — they would be super confused. I just completely shut down and stuck by my boyfriend’s side like a puppy. I must have seemed so rude. Once I got comfortable and realized that the people there were actually nice, I perked up and made friends and had fun.
Then we came home and watched Alien on DVD — the first time I’d seen it — and I just don’t understand what the big deal is about that movie. I thought it was so stupid. It’s the same reason I couldn’t get into Star Trek: Voyager — the entire premise is based upon the crew making a really dumb decision that they had no business making. I couldn’t root for them. WTF is a commercial towing vehicle doing investigating a life form in deep space? And then every decision after that was wrong, too. I complained the whole time. Luckily Mike thought it was adorable. “You and your big brain,” he muttered.
Today we hit up the Ballard Farmer’s Market for a couple hours and then came home and napped for like four hours. I am teaching my boyfriend how to nap. He’s not normally a napper, but I think after watching me sleep peacefully at his house day after day after day he finally gave in and he napped with me today. The bad part of that is that there was no one to wake me up, and if no one forces me to wake up, I will just sleep for hours — which is exactly what we did. I am never falling asleep tonight. Totally worth it though. :)
