Cold morning...

[fajrdrako]

I walked in to work today. Went through the doors at exactly 8:30 a.m. - triumph! Tired legs, though. Cold, numb toes. I can't walk fast enough now to keep myself warm. But it could have been worse: it was sunny and not too icy, and miraculously, not snowing.

So later today I have to walk to the Rideau Centre, and to the bank, and then home. Good exercise. I hope I can move tomorrow.

After doing yoga daily for three weeks, I lapsed over the weekend, because I was feeling unwell. Back to it now! Yes! Amazing what a difference it makes.

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[abrakadabrah.livejournal.com]

It's snowing in NYC, but I haven't been out yet today - am going soon. Yesterday was a really warm day, too.

Good for you for doing yoga 3 weeks in a row straight. It really does make a difference, doesn't it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The yoga makes an incredible difference. I wasn't even doing a lot - only averaging about 20 minutes - but I felt so much better with it.

With any luck I'll be soon into the habit of walking to/from work (as the weather lets up) and doing daily yoga.

[abrakadabrah.livejournal.com]

It's amazing you have the discipline to do it at home. I just always go to classes. Though I practice inversions at home or other weird asanas I'm trying to learn but don't make myself do the regular yoga stuff.

[abrakadabrah.livejournal.com]

whoops, hit the wrong posting button, that was supposed to be under your last reply - which you'll already have figured out no doubt, making this post pointless. But, hey!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, I figured that out, but it was fun to see another message anyway.

Sometimes - especially when I'm tired after a day at work - I find classes push me a little further than I want to go, or I simply do too much and get stiff the next day. Overextending. This is why I like early morning classes - but dammit, I can't find enough convenient classes that start at 6 a.m. - I wish.

And no, I'm not actually getting up at 6 for classes, either. I might, if I could drag myself to bed a little earlier than I usually do!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's amazing you have the discipline to do it at home. I just always go to classes.

It's easier to fit in the time when I don't have to factor in transit to and from the class. Especially with no buses - ! I may take a class again soon, but at the moment, I just do it when I get home from work, before I do anything. That gives me incentive, because I don't get to eat supper till I'm done, and I'm usually getting hungry by then.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! You are wonderful -- for doing yoga daily for three weeks (with a lapse that's totally ok, yep) and for walking to work in spite of the tired legs and numb toes and scary footing. Good for you.

I'm sitting here just having gotten my contented got-my-tax-refund-direct-deposited-and-did-several-long-waiting-buys glow all smeared with oh-crapcrapcrap, because not only have I just realized that I lost twenty dollars out of my pocket when I paid for gas earlier today (must have been then! damn), but I may have foolishly stumbled right into a phishing scam as well, all while thinking I was in the website's secure zone. Crap crap crap!

But... life's okay, for now. My car's in fine shape (new brakes, two new tires, engine in tune) and menopause is moving at its own speed, and I just wish I could shake the lowering dread, dang it. Crap!

xo to you in the cold of February.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear about your car. I know a lot of people with car troubles right now. I think the extreme cold here is hard on them.

Yeah, the yoga is great. I still do it most evening. This evening? Not yet. Maybe later.

Re phishing scam: My rule of thumb is that if my bank contacts me by email it's a scam; if I contact them by phone or their secure site, it's not. I once almost made a mistake, and hastily changed my password. No harm was done.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

My car still has trouble starting out on a cold day, but the engine soon warms up. It is a hardy little car, and I suspect it may be half Canadian.

I think I'll be okay with the phishing attempt. I notified my card right away and will be checking daily, online, to see that none but my own charges go there. If I see even one, I'll immediately take steps. But the little phishing screen never vanished on its own, because I never put all the info in -- I'm begging the Fates that this will have been enough to have kept it from snagging any of my info. Am I naive?

You have a good guiding protocol, there, and I should consciously adopt it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You're probably okay with the phishing site. I think if any harm was done it would happen fairly quickly. Unnerving when these things happen, though.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for saying so! I feel better as each day passes and nothing not-mine shows up on the list.

But, want to hear the really weird part? That was a "reloadable" VISA card. One buys it, for a slight fee, and gets the right to put one's own money onto it. Basically, it is a debit card without a bank account. Well, after I bought a few things online on Wednesday, I needed to add more to my account -- but, when I went back to the same grocery store whose Gift Cards display had been my main place for getting the Reload cards, there was a sign that said they'd discontinued that item, sorry for the inconvenience! Well, uh, crap! And I have not been able to find any other place to get the Reload cards. In further fun coincidence, my account was down to exactly $2.88 after all my spending that day. Which means... no loss, there, not really. The store had a different company's brand of reloadable VISA card there, now, and I just got one of them instead (I have two automatically-deducted payments coming that I prefer to put on this card instead of out of my checking account); the terms and conditions seem just about identical. I wonder what the heck happened? The first one (now unavailable) was Netspend; the current (so far still available) one is called Only1 (as in, "only" and the numberal 1). Such a fun set of odd occurrences, there.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

A reloadable Visa card - sort of like a phone card? I never heard of such a thing. I don't think we have them in Canada. How cool.