Balance at Home

Since I was up earlier than usual today, I started the morning with finally sweeping the porch. I've put it off because of the wind, but I finally decided that I simply could not put it off anymore. The piles of sticker ball pods and sticks were just too big. I don't really do much sweeping during the winter anyway, for obvious reasons. I'm just glad I can sweep the porch at all. This time last winter, I would have been pushing slush, snow, and ice away along with seed pods and wood. In fact, it did flurry a bit while I pushed bits and branches around, though it really didn't do much besides look pretty.

I volunteered at the Oaklyn Library after I finished with the sweeping and put the broom inside. It was very busy for such a lovely morning. There were at least two families with young children there when I arrived. I'd just started working on the picture book shelves when the kindergarten class arrived. I listened to their teacher read them a book about penguins while I worked on organizing the kids' non-fiction. I left as soon as the book was over.

When I got home, I decided to try something I hadn't done in a while. I bought a DVD, Yoga for Beginners, when I attempted to lose weight back in 2007. I got bored with doing yoga at home soon after I started doing classes and haven't touched the DVD in about three years. This Gaiam set emphasizes basic yoga postures like Proud Warrior and Down Dog and is pretty slow-going if you're used to vinyasa. It is, however, easier on the joins and probably better for me to work on flexibility at home than the Pilates DVD. I may continue to try to do it at least once or twice a week.

I had a quick lunch of leftovers while watching one of the two "bonus" episodes on the Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown DVD, It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown. As with There's No Time For Love, this one is misleadingly titled. It really should be You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown. Chuck and the gang play in their big homecoming game that is obviously a spoof of the Super Bowl and Rose Bowl, up to and including a big parade with floats made of flowers, Snoopy and Woodstock filming the event, and Lucy pulling the football away at every opportunity. (Who assigned her to the kicking crew?) Chuck cares less about the game than the fact that he's the escort for the Homecoming Queen Heather, also known as the Little Red Haired Girl...and he's supposed to kiss her at the homecoming dance!

Went to work shortly after the special ended. Work was pretty much the same as yesterday - busy during rush hour, fairly quiet the rest of the night. There were some problems in the last hour when two computers in a row slowed down so badly, I had to move somewhere else while we rebooted them. Otherwise, I was in and out.