Today is one of those days where I am rushing from one thing to the next – I feel like I am meeting myself coming and going! I planned to eat breakfast at home today, but I decided to cherish an extra 20 minutes of sleep over preparing breakfast and got up at the last minute. I grabbed a Baker and Spice cranberry oat scone and some coffee on my way out to a meeting and gobbled it down in the car. I know, that’s not conscious eating, but sometimes life gets in the way.
That’s an old, unglamorous photo… sorry!!
I did have a good morning though – I recruited another leader for Stand for Children in a chapter that’s rebuilding, so that’s a step in the right direction. That’s especially good because it sounds like we have our work cut out for us getting a couple of candidates reelected to the legislature in November, based on what I heard at the Candidates’ Forum Luncheon I went to today. The local Chamber of Commerce hosted a lunch today with the two local representatives and single senator from the area where they talked about their work in the legislative session that just ended and opened up for questions as well. It was to say the least a hostile environment – as it kind of is with a lot of Dems now from business – and it may be tough to keep a pr0-schools majority. Never a dull moment in this work!
I spent my lunch there and felt it inappropriate to take pictures… sorry 
I had a simple turkey sandwich that was really unexciting and some coffee.
I rushed from there to a new yoga class at Corepower in NW Portland. Most of Corepower’s classes are heated – not necessarily all Bikram hot or in that style, but heated. This class was called Yoga Sculpt and the room was about 90 degrees – which felt great at first but once we got going I was sweating like crazy! It was interesting because we incorporated light dumbbells into the yoga practice.
The class opened with a lot of vinyasa flows to get us comfortable with the sequence, and then we did the same flow with pauses for weight segments. For instance, we did the chatarunga high to low pushup, to downward dog, to lifting one of our legs to step through to a crescent lunge – and then did shoulder presses while holding crescent lunge. We also held warrior two and did bicep curls. It was cool, but definitely hard! I skipped the yoga/abs this morning since I knew yoga was in the plans.
I worked at a coffee shop after and snacked on some pom Chobani with TJ’s strawberry yogurt O’s and coffee around 3:30pm. The pom Chobani was great! I haven’t found too many places that have Chobani in PDX, and it’s only occasonally on sale at Whole Foods. Otherwise I stick with TJ’s greek since other types are muy expensivo!
I had a personal appt after and now I’m home to eat some dinner before a conference call this evening with leaders to debrief the superintendent mtg yesterday and our game plan going forward.
I think a spaghetti squash, sweet potato, black bean type mix is in my dinner future? Be back later!
