Destination...Adventure!: Back on the Trampoline

1/13/12

Back on the Trampoline

I've been coaching on and off for 18 years. I've been employed by Trapeze School New York since 2008, and have taught the Intermediate Trampoline class at the New York location for almost a year. I have a small group of regular students and enjoy watching them progress to new skills, overcome fears and discover new joys. I took a break for a couple of months and started up again tonight. My three regular students, Lauren, Chiara and Naomi, were so excited to get back to bouncing. We welcomed a new intermediate level student, Emma, who seems to have more talent than she realizes. These girls (they're all over 25 but I can call them girls if they wear silly outfits and roll around in my presence) are all excited to learn, encourage each other and have a ton of fun.

My goal when teaching is to arrive a bit early or stay a few minutes late to do some strength work. I've become complacent not working out, when I used to do everything I could to get in a training session or a workout.

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Adventures with Food

Mini-Apple Pies: Ben and I made mini-apple pies in glass containers. Lined the glasses with dough, then dumped in Granny Smith apples, cinnamon, other yummy stuff and topped with more dough. Perfect! Double YUM, especially a la mode.
Risotto-style pasta. Tried to cook the whole box at once, but as I added the beef broth the pasta got much bigger and overflowed the pan. Had to dump into another pan. Asparagus worked well. Yum.
Salmon with wrinkled olives, thinly sliced potatoes and olive oil. YUM. Try a different fish next time.
Butternut Squash- 1 inch squares with butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Soggy and not crispy at all. DON'T use Splenda mix for this.

GWH Quote

Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had a no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

Great quotes from Dan Millman's website

Dan Millman's site

The sacred is in the ordinary,
in one's daily life, in one's
neighbors, friends, and family,
in one's backyard.
--Abraham Maslow

It is worth a fortune
to have the habit of looking
on the bright side of things.
--Samuel Johnson

Think of what you speak,
but speak not all that you think.
--Patrick Delany

We can find on the outside
only what we possess on the inside.
--Adolfo Montiel

Everything is interconnected.
My interest is linked to everyone else's.
Our survival and future are linked.
Therefore the destruction of
your so-called enemy
is actually the destruction of your self.
--Dalai Lama

There is great value in service to others.
If many people in therapy offices
were asked to put their finger in a dike
or to take their place in a working line,
they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
--Elizabeth Berg

The little things? The little moments?
They aren't little.
--Jon Kabat-Zinn

Kindness is the universal language
that all people understand.
--Jake Gaither

Join with those who sing songs, tell stories,
enjoy life . . . because happiness is contageous.
Join those who walk with their heads high
even when they have tears in their eyes.
Avoid those who . . . have never shed a tear.
--Paulo Coelho

Life gets better when we get better.
--Sal Sorbera

I strive not to laugh at human actions,
not to weep at them or to hate them,
but to understand them.
--Benedict de Spinoza

Life is an attitude. Have a good one.
--Eric Lungaard

My new favorite science conversation:

me: Let's discuss Fecal Coliform Bacteria. Do you all remember testing for FCB? We took water samples and put in tablets and waited for the gooey stuff to appear. Does anyone remember what Fecal means?

student1: Isn't it like FATAL?

me: Nope, more like FECES. What does feces mean?

student 2: Waste!

me: Yes, but what kind of waste?

student 2: Bottles and trash and stuff?

me: Nope, it's more gross than that.

students: (silence)

me: POOP! IT'S POOP. HUMAN POOP AND ANIMAL POOP AND THE BACTERIA THAT TRAVELS WITH IT. It's poop.

Who can't remember learning about poop?
Kids these days.

According to a radio report, a middle school in Oregon was faced with a unique problem. A number of girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls into the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night. To demonstrate how difficult it was to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to clean one of the mirrors. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it into the toilet and then cleaned the mirror.
Since then there have been no lip prints on the mirror. There are teachers and then there are TEACHERS.

Destination...Adventure!

1/13/12

Back on the Trampoline

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Things I will do as soon as my body is ready, post-baby:

Adventures with Food

CDA: complete!

My shiny new tattoo!

Boatdad

New Cherry Blossom artwork

Read More Often!

1/13/12

Back on the Trampoline

0 comments:

Post #1

Things I will do as soon as my body is ready, post-baby:

Adventures with Food

CDA: complete!

My shiny new tattoo!