Little-ness

Rosie is now (reluctantly) going up the stairs on her own! Just a few days ago we were still carrying her up half the flight and then putting her down. But just the other day, I tried to get her to follow me up with a cookie. She stopped short and Mich had a little chat with her. I swear, she can really talk to them because Rosie got right up and ran up the stairs. She was in such a hurry that she ended up with her head between Amos’ back legs! LOL She was going down the stairs slowly about a week ago, so now that she’s going down without any encouragement, we’ve been asking her to come up every night. She is still really timid about it, but she’s doing it!!! HUGE progress!
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I gave my notice to EY. I told them I would teach for another month, but as is their fashion, they are going to have my classes covered by the beginning of the month. So, that’s taken care of. And I’m giving away one of the community classes. So, after all of this is taken care of, I’ll only be teaching one class a week. I haven’t taught just one class a week in ages. It is going to be odd but very nice.
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Work is still nice. Bounding with the ladies in Miami was great and I feel really happy to go into the office and see them now. Not that I didn’t before. I had my first real stress from work last night — but most of the stress was because I feel like I screwed up. Its something that can be fixed, but my boss noticed it and so I feel crappy about it.
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I can’t believe I forgot to write about my birthday. It was so awesome. Oh my god… after all my crying last year, this year was simply amazing. First — my younger brother sent me card!!! He actually remember and sent me a card this year! I was overjoyed. Actually I got a lot of paper cards in the mail this year! My whole mantel is filled with them. I guess my mantra about abundance is working! Also my new coworkers got me a cake and sang to me! And it was carrot cake, my favorite. That was just a guess by one of the ladies.

I taught yoga the morning of my birthday, but took the afternoon off. Mich gave me a nice massage and then we got ready to go out. We were planning to go to my favorite martini bar and a friend was going to meet at our house. Mich was still upstairs getting ready and I was texting when the doorbell rang. I was still texting when I answered it and Oh my freaking god… it was my Stepdad standing at the door!!! Holy crap!!  LOL I squeeled and laughed and actually jumped up and down… I couldn’t believe it. Everyone knew he was coming except me! He was actually in town to see his brother, but came to our house for my birthday!!! We still went to the martini bar and had a wonderful time. It was a whirlwind visit, but made me feel amazing.

Last year I guess I was feeling sorry for myself and didn’t have my birthday as public on Facebook, but this year, I figured, what the hell… who cares. So, I made it public. I used to think it was cheating… but you know what… there are people who come up on my reminder on Facebook and I STILL miss getting a little message to them… So, I left the notice up and oh my god it made me feel so good to get all of those little notes. And I responded to each and every one which felt even better to me.

Since things were so wild on my actual birthday, we waited until Saturday to go to Mich’s parent’s house for cake. Mich made me a german chocolate cake and we took some left over carrot cake. In addition to the massage, Mich bought me the new Airborne Toxic Event CD on iTunes and her parents gave me $50 which I used to buy a cute pair of sneakers. Mich told me that the sneakers are "very you" which is really weird for a codependent person to hear! LOL I actually picked out something that was very "me" and not what I thought someone else would like! I think of that every time I put them on. LOL