Well Planned Life

This post is long overdue.   I bought this bag last fall, October to be precise.   I meant to do a post then, but life gets in the way and other, more pressing topics came up.   So without further ado, here is a product review nine months in the making. I had been searching for a yoga bag for a while.   I had been using Timbuk2’s Scrunchie tote for this purpose, which worked well.   (You can read my review of this bag that I posted to the Bagsey blog .)   So the question is, if this bag worked so well, why did I switch? Because of a new T2 yoga bag (for some reason, it looks like the bag itself is no longer available, but it’s the bag the girl in the picture is using).   While the Scrunchie held my yoga mat beautifully, it was a little too big for what I actually carried.   This yoga bag allows me to carry my yoga supplies as well as my mat without leaving me with a ton of room leftover.   With the Scrunchie, you almost need to f...

There have been a couple of posts on meditation lately, and I am thankful for that.   In its most basic form, meditation is the practice of sitting quietly.   The point is to clear your mind of all thoughts.   If you’ve ever tried to do this, you know how extremely difficult it is, especially in the beginning.   Many yoga instructors include some form of meditation into the practice.  My yoga instructor tells us to sit quietly and just notice—without judgment—the thoughts that come into our minds.  I think this is a great way to introduce meditation.  One can sit quietly, but to clear one’s mind is so difficult.  I often find myself letting go of my mind, allowing it to move from one thought to another.  My thoughts are so controlled throughout the day, focusing on this or that task, that just letting it go where it will is meditation enough.  But just observing those thoughts without really attaching yourself to them takes the m...

After weeks of not being able to get around to setting this up, I have finally created my “Me” binder . (I feel like I need a better name for this binder, but alas, this is what it is.) I am using my personal Jade Finchley for this project. This idea sprang from my “Me” project that I have been working on. I decided that a small section wasn’t enough, that I wanted to expand the things I’m working and focusing on just for me. So this is what emerged. Currently, it is not packed with information but I am hoping to add to it as time goes on. Since I know everyone is so anxious to find out, here are the details: I have nothing in the pockets as of yet. My tabs are as follows: Health – For the last two plus months I have been battling terrible allergies. Since the middle of August I have had problem after problem and this is not like me at all. I’m usually very healthy and only go to the doctor for checkups, minus the occasional cold or something similar. So you can imagine my fr...