Foundations

Knocking Them Down, and Building Them Back Up

So, with my last Epic Anxiety Attack having come and gone, I am still feeling the after effects in the form of not sleeping. With my mind running in a million different direction imagining at least as many outcomes and possibilities of things that can happen in the course of climbing a mountain, sleep has been nigh impossible to achieve. Tonight I seek medicinal means by which to achieve slumber. Because I’m going to need it with the week coming up. 

24 hours from now (roughly) GISHWHES starts. Words cannot describe how excited I am to be a part of this event. Our team got merged with other teams. We have our full 15 team members, with the team name The Fire Ferrets Loves Tricksters. (Its grammatically incorrect, I know. But that isn’t anyone’s fault, really. Gishbot- an automated program – does all of the merging and renaming, taking elements from the team names being merged. I want to drop the ‘s’ on ‘Loves’ so bad it almost hurts.) 

We have 7 people in Connecticut, 3 people in Colorado, 1 person in Texas, 1 person in Indiana, 1 person in Massachusetts, and 2 people in Canada. I’ve reached out to the five people that I don’t know (1 in CO, 1 in IN, and the 2 girls in Canada) and they are all wonderful people. I feel lucky to have such awesome peeps working with me. I don’t know yet if we’re going to be at a disadvantage, having so few people abroad. But I think we’re creative enough to be able to interpret a few things to get the items in. 

That starts tomorrow. 

In the middle of the week – Tuesday – Trainer Tim comes back from his Alabama road trip and it is back to Business As Usual on the workout front. Not that I’ve really been slacking, but I always work harder when I know I’ll be having a face-to-face sesh in the middle of the week. Tuesdays are murder. 

Back to working hard. 

At the end of next week – Friday through Monday – I have WildFire. And I am already gearing up for that. In my sleepless state (when I’m not anxiety ridden) I’m thinking about all the new things I want to do and try and learn while I’m there. I’m planning on taking a ton of poi classes, because I need all the help I can get. I’m taking a movement class, because I haven’t yet learned to actually move my feet other than to turn while I’m spinning. Intro staff. Intro Devil sticks. Contemplating a contact juggling class and belly dancing. DRUM CIRCLE.

I spent half of my afternoon practicing some basic bongo rhythms in preparations for the drum circle. Because why not? I might pick up Sam’s devil sticks later tonight and try them out. I’m stealing a bunch of stuff from Sam for WildFire next week. Because he just happens to have awesome stuff that could be used for WildFire shenanigans. 

So… jam-packed week coming up. Both looking forward to next week and dreading the lack of sleep that will be coming along with it. 

FILDI. 

Bring it, week. I’m going to own you. 

ALW