Ten And We're In!!!........At 5:45 AM

Well, we're back at it at 5:45 AM.  AND we're a third of the way through our challenge! WOOOO!

Our teacher today was Nora.  As you may recall, she was the first teacher we ever had, and she's basically amazing.  Part of the reason we're sticking to this self challenge of 30 days is because when we told her what we wanted to do she was SUPER supportive and told us how excited she was for us and totally encouraged us, which is exactly what we needed on our first day from the first person we told.  Here is a picture of her cool self after our class....
Nora, thanks for motivating us to keep going - here we are at day 10!

5:45 wasn't early for Kassy cause she went to bed at 7:45 pm.  Grace, on the other hand, went to bed at 1 am (no awesome pajama parties to speak of...just lame homework).  When the alarm went off at 5, she wanted to cry.   But Bikram yoga called, and today ended up being a great yoga day (thank goodness...otherwise Grace would really have cried over not sleeping for a terrible yoga day).   Grace could take the heat and didn't sit out for any positions...Kassy was awesome as usual and was actually up at 5 am.  "Is that a mistype?" you ask  No.  Its not.  It really is the truth....we promise. 

This is Kassy's empty second water bottle and Grace dying for water after finishing an entire bottle of gatorade and a thing of water.

Also, going at 5:45 am means prime parking..woo hoo!  We took a picture to document he amazingness of our parking spot.  (Note the Bikram Yoga sign that is incredibly close to where we are parked..)

Day 11, we will be getting the best of you tomorrow.

To The Nines!

So basically, the place where we do yoga is the COOLEST PLACE EVER (refer to picture).  They gave us quarters!!!!  Grace got out of yoga class, and as she was leaving she said goodbye to Kathy, the manager at pure bikram yoga, and Kathy said "wait!  I have something for you!"  And then handed her a roll of quarters with a note that said "For Grace & Kassy!  Way to go w/ your challenge so far!  Keep on sweatin'  =] Pure BY!"   QUARTERS?!?  From our yoga place?!?!  This is the most incredible thing ever.  We love them.  We also love being able to do laundry.    And now, with our clean clothes, we can dress to the nines to go to yoga.  Hence the title of today's post.  Oh hello there, creative genius....Welcome Back.
Also next time we see Kathy we're totally gonna take her picture and put her on the blog so you can see her and her awesomeness.

In yoga news, Grace could not take the heat today.  For some reason, the room just felt waaayyy hotter than it normally does.  She sweated.  A lot.  I don't even think you can call it sweating...more like draining the body of all possible liquid in the form of rivers.  Gross.  And she sat down for a couple postures.  But not too many!  At least this time it wasn't because she didn't eat.  But she drank a gatorade in like the first 20 minutes of class.  Ridiculous.  She doesn't even like gatorade.  Although when you're sweating that much, she has to admit it kind of tastes like heaven.  A lot.


 Kassy had the worst day EVER. Her alarm didn't go off and she was 2 hours late to work. She didn't take a lunch break because she was already sooo late. She got home starving and decided to cook and was so exhausted that she was in bed by 7:45PM (if you know Kassy, you know that for her to be in bed before 2AM is unheard of!) Needless to say, there was no yoga for her today. She plans to make it up by going twice sometime this week.

Just because our awesome yoga place gave us quarters, don't think you're off the hook.

8 And We're Great!

We know, we know, the titles are getting worse and worse as time goes on.   We don't really care that much though, or we would just be writing COMPLETELY lame titles.  Guess that whole creative geniuses thing isn't working out too well for us.

Happy Valentine's Day.  Or Single's Awareness Day, whichever you prefer.

Also, the title is a total lie.  Grace is exhausted.  Grace has puffy eyes cause she is allergic to everything known to mankind and tried a new mascara...BAD IDEA (picture below..you should have seen it last night - this picture makes her look like she's just being whiny but she says since it's her blog she can whine all she wants).  Grace's neck hurts...she thinks she may have done some yoga poses in the wrong position yesterday...whoops.  Either that or she's just working her neck muscles and they're mad at her.  Take your pick.  So on top of it all she's still pretty bad at this....but she doesn't care. It's only been a week.

In not-very-much happier news, today was also a bad yoga day for Grace.  She started class and then when she started seeing black spots, realized she had only eaten one energy bar at 7:30 AM.  Class was at 3 PM.  Grace, when will you learn? The sweat dripped into her puffy eyes. Stupid allergic reaction-causing mascara.  Stupid sweat.  Stupid not eating. Grace is mad!

In happier news, Grace had Nora for a teacher again.  Nora was the first teacher we ever had, so that was pretty cool.  Too bad Grace couldn't do half the class cause she forgot to eat.

BUT... yoga made Grace super productive today.  She drew.  She did homework.  SHE ATE (and cooked what she ate - broccoli and chicken).  She took out the trash.  She cleaned a little.  She's considering doing laundry.  And tonight she will be shooting the first part of her photo assignment.  After yoga today, she is, in short, on FIRE.

See the picture below?  That, in English terms, is called making yourself a Japanese Ham Sandwich.  After class Grace was stretching her legs some more and tried to do this.  In the shower.  Let's just say she almost slipped, and therefore almost died.  She knows you were all thinking about doing this in the shower as soon as you saw the picture.  She decided to warn you. 

Kassy had an awesome yoga day although she was pretty tired because she stayed up designing business cards last night. 

She had a yoga instructor that she had never had before, which is always a nice change of pace (even though all the instructors say the exact same thing everyone has their own way of saying it).

She went to the 7:30PM class because she had work all day and didn't want to wake up for the 5:30AM class. 

Only downer of the day, her brakes are acting up and sound AWFUL. She needs to go get her car checked tomorrow. Hopefully it's not anything tooooo serious/expensive.

In other news.... Yoga was her Valentine this year! <3

[She knows the photo/photoshop work is cheesy! haha that's the point! :) ]

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! 

SUCCESSFUL DAY  8!!

A Week! A Week! A Weak?

No - we are not weak!  We are stronger than ever, and have 7 days of yoga in a row to prove it.  (And yes, we know the title doesn't EXACTLY make sense...but we don't care...we still fancy ourselves as creative geniuses) :D

Can't believe we made it to the 7 day mark without missing a day.  Yaaayyy for our first milestone!

Kassy apparently rubbed off on Grace, because Grace didn't go to bed until 5 am due to a rockin' pajama party at Jenna and Adam's house.  Don't worry - you will see pictures in a later post.  Anyway, bikram class was at 9 am.  So Grace is going on 3.5 hours of sleep.  She's blaming Kassy for setting a bad example.  Kassy wears it's a good example.  She's wrong.
        She DID, however, touch her head to her knees while stretching for the first time today. Woo!
        Also, she totally has better posture now.  Mama would be proud.

This is Grace after a shower.  You should all feel privileged that she saved you from seeing the sweatiness.

Today was a great day for Kassy. She bummed around, had a lazy Sunday and went to the 5:30PM yoga class with all the other people still recovering from Saturday night shenanigans :)

She remembered her water and wallet today (to pay for yesterday's water) and didn't get corrected during rabbit pose for the third day in a row. EXCITING! 

It was an intense class. Everyone was dripping sweat (I know these details can be gross! But its over 100 degrees in that room what do you expect?!). During one of the poses Kathy (the yoga instructor) said "Can you all hear the rain? The bikram rain that is" and everyone started cracking up.

Only down side of the day was that Grace had to go to the morning class so we were split up which was lameeeeee.

Didn't take pictures at yoga today, so here is a picture from Friday night downtown.

We feel like you ought to know what we look like while not dripping in sweat :)

Day Six, We're Back Together And Better Than Ever!

- Yesterday we had to split up and it was heartbreaking.  Today, we were reunited in our sweat.  It was beautiful.

-   It was Grace's best day EVER.  She is super excited because yesterday was such a bad bikram day.  She did every single pose better than she had before.  AND SHE NOW HAS A LAMP POST!!

- Kassy went to bed at 6 am (she's just crazy), but since we went to class at noon she still had a good day.  (*cough* SHE FORGOT WATER AGAIN *cough*)

- Since Kassy forgot her water, she had to run up to the front desk and ask to buy a water...too bad she also forgot her wallet.  But the guy at the desk was super nice and let her take a water and said she could pay them back tomorrow.  And THEN he said "hey, are you the girl from the blog?"  WOOOO HHOOOOO! We're known by the yoga people!!! His name is Jeff, and he is now our most favorite person ever cause he knows who we are.  FROM THIS BLOG.  Incredible.

- There was a guy in class today with a TOP HAT that had RABBIT EARS.  We don't even know what to say about this.  It was the most amazing thing we've ever seen.

- Also in class, three guys who sweated like rivers were all next to each other.  The teacher talked about how worried he was that they might drown someone.  And the fact that he forgot his snorkeling gear.

- It was a packed room  so we had to split up in the room.  Grace chose a way better spot than Kassy because she was super speedy and took the best available.  Kassy was pushed up against a mirror and couldn't do poses when any part of her body need to be on the left.  Ya snooze, ya lose. Kassy says "lesson learned" (But that obviously doesn't go for the whole bringing water thing).

- Grace has super bad allergies to Cleo.  But now they're gone.  She's not taking any medicine or anything, and today in class the instructor told a sneezing girl that bikram yoga helped allergies.  Who knows?  Maybe yoga has cured grace of itchy skin and sneezing.

See you tomorrow!

Day 5 And We're Trying To Survive....Literally.

This is hard. Really hard.

Today was lame cause we couldn't make it to the same class, and going to different classes is just not the same.

Grace couldn't do any of the standing poses today because every time she stood up she felt like she was going to faint.  But she did all the floor poses, so that was good.  She thinks she didn't drink enough water today.
      She almost missed class because she was taking a nap. Whoops.
      All of her workout clothes are dirty.  ALL OF THEM.  Literally.
      She can almost stretch with her leg flat on the floor and her head touching that leg's knee. Woo hoo!
      She reeeaaaalllllyyyyyy didn't want to go to class today.  But she did!  Five days in a row!

Kassy had to rush like crazy to make it to her class on time after work.  But she made it!  AND she had an awesome class, probably her best yet.

We decided to take pictures of our favorite pose, and this is the one we want to be able to do perfectly at the end of the 30 days.  You make your leg a lamp post (or, ya know, just stand on one leg and lock your knee...making it a lamp post sounds cooler though) so Grace can't really do it well at all.  Kassy is pretty good though.  We don't know what it's called.  We should probably figure that out.

Kassy



                                        
                                            Grace



We're not sore anymore!  Woo hoo!

Cleo the Cat

Since this is technically a roommate blog, we felt that Cleo needed a little blurb, since the cat is part of the household and therefore kind of a roommate.  Here are the things you need to know about Cleo:

- Cleo was caught in our parking lot by Grace, Lauren, and Hank at 3 am.  Lauren and Hank are our neighbors and friends.  Cleo was a runaway and just hung out around the apartments and got in tough cat fights.

- Cleo was first named Sanky.  LAMEST NAME EVER.

- Grace renamed Sanky Cleo (short for Cleopatra) a few days later with the help of her sister Molly.

- Cleo is polydactyl, so basically the coolest cat EVER.  7 toes on each front paw, and 5 on each back paw.

- Cleo had her first vet visit, and a gender identity crisis ensued.  Everyone thought Cleo was a girl.  He was not.

- Cleopatra became Cleopatro.

- If he could do yoga we would take him to Bikram with us.

-  He's so cool that we still keep him and love him even though Grace is so allergic to him she was going to have to get allergy shots and Kassy hates cats.

Annnddd.....we adore him.  Coolest. Cat. Ever.