So, hey, why not say hello?

I lost today. It was a great match, I played well but she played better. She was a great opponent, we had a lot of fun (too much fun? I think that perhaps I got a little too chatty and out of my game a little bit.). I came out strong with a par on one (which is a really tough hole) but then things got weird as we had to wait a long time on 2 (behind a 4some, bad planning on our part, should have looked at the tee sheet), then played through them, rushing, and it just got rushy and off tempo through 2 and three, and I lost both holes. It went back and forth for a bit, I had a thrilling birdie on 5 (birdies are rare for me on this course as its so tough) and was really feeling it ~ but then lost 6. Anyway, without recapping the entire match, I lost on 17. I'm disappointed, but so thrilled to have gotten to the Semis, am excited that I'm in the quarterfinals of the Handicap Match Play Club Championship, and will keep on keeping on!  I'm trying to get out again on Saturday afternoon to sneak in one more round before vacation. I plan to play twice on vacation, which will be fun ~ I'm looking forward to playing a different course. I have posted 30 (THIRTY) rounds this season according to GHIN. That is CRAZY. That may well be more rounds than I have posted in the past 5 years due to pregnancy, nursing, and a broken hip. And its only JULY!

As soon as I was done all I wanted to do was RUN. I was a little bit sad and a little bit frustrated, and I just wanted to run it out of my system. I ran home to switch out Nate's car for Brooke's (these are the days that living three miles from the club is the best thing ever)……changed, threw lunch in a cooler for myself, and took off in her car. She had the kids at the pool. I hightailed it over to the CVT, and ran a fast 8 miles, replaying the match in my head. It was the full on heat of the day, being 1:00, but the trail is 90% shade and totally flat, so it felt great.

I've decided to start being more systematic in my approach to how I play golf, and am on the hunt for some sort of easy tracking system ~ I want to start tracking fairways hit, greens hit in regulation, putts, etc. I already count my putts/round, but then don't DO anything with the info. I think that if I could really start tracking this stuff, then input it into some sort of spreadsheet, it would really help me identify exactly where I am making my mistakes and then target my practice to those areas. There has to be some sort of software or ap or something like that out there.

I hit the Nordstrom Anniversary sale hard today. I was in desperate need of some rain boots, and had been holding off on Hunters for all of these years, but the new tall Moto boots are cool, and on a great sale, so I bit. Between those and my big fuzzy topped Sorels I'm probably set for about every day of my life this fall and winter. Yoga pants and boots? Check. For evenings I had been needing a new pair of tall black boots for about two seasons now, and I finally found some. I found a great pair of workout pants, I keep hearing good things about the Zella brand of leggings and I scored a great deal on the "Move it" pant. I'm loving the "Be Present" cotton yoga pants that I got on massive clearance thanks to Jenn recently, and I'm finding something wonderful and natural and great about practicing in natural fibers. Is that strange? It just feels right. I find myself increasingly seeking out loose, more drapey pants rather than leggings. Hm. After living through a full winter with feathers leaking out of a hole in my beat up down jacket I also found a cute puffy down jacket for winter. I'm hoping that its warm enough to get me through the winter. I'm happy, it took minutes, and no store! Have I mentioned that I don't enjoy shopping? I have a gift card from my birthday and a crazy amount of gap rewards that I'm hoarding to stock up on new Athleta stuff but I'm waiting till fall. I'm teaching a class at both of our local Athleta's ~ one in September and one in October, and I'm making myself hold off on getting new teaching clothes until then. I figure once I get the kids some school clothes I will have a ton more rewards money so a full refresh should be free. Have I mentioned how much I love my Gap Card?

So I have some new readers. Toledo Ohio? Fort Worth Texas, you've been reading forever and daily, who are you? And Grand Rapids, you kill me! Its been years now, and I still don't know who you are? Newtown Square Pa, Pittsburgh, PA! Charleston SC, Elmhurst IL. Gatineau, Quebec! Folsom, Louisiana! There are a lot of new readers, and this is in no way a call out, I'd just love to "meet" you. You know a lot about me, and I'd love to know…..do you practice yoga? Are you a teacher? Do you golf? A runner maybe? A Mom?

Anyway. Don't be shy. I'd love to hear from you ~ whether you read because you love or hate my blog, its cool, but I admit that I'm curious about who you are and how you got here! Throw me a bone?

Cheers all. We are having the laziest day ever at the pool, Sweet Jake has been passed out cold here by my side for 2 hours now and I dozed off myself for about an hour. The benefit of having capable swimmers and multiple, real, attentive lifeguards (vs the danger that was the ACAC pool) is so nice. My job is very easy here. Matt is coming into town tonight so I think that we are planning dinner out, the boys are playing golf in the morning. I teach at 9:30 and will either get up for 6 am yoga or else do the 8:30 crossfit class. I'm not sure why I keep torturing myself with that when I don't like it…..other than that its so damn convenient as the kids can go to a kids crossfit class while I work out, then I teach right there at the studio. Efficient.

So, please? Say hi? I don't bite. And I'd truly love to get to know you.