my journey into becoming a southern belle... yah right (old myspace blog re-posted here)

First, Brian and I have moved! We still live down here in Southern Alabama so dont get too excited. But we moved from a two-bedroom apartment in Enterprise to a two-story town house in Daleville, which is only the next (very small) town over. I will spare you the gory details of why we left the old place, but lets just say it was infested with cockroaches. Now, I understand that living in the south will bring a certain level of bugs that one just has to become used to. But this was on a whole new level. Basically, the man living below us dug through all the local dumpsters and collected trash and cans to sell for a living. Thus, his entire apartment was filled with items found dumpster diving which encouraged bugs for miles to come and live in his (and our) lovely abode. Needless to say, the move was necessary.

The new place is fabulous. It has a little yard out front and a little fenced in yard (massive jungle of weeds) with a patio in the back. The first floor has a full bathroom, kitchen, dining room, and living room; the second floor has two bedrooms and a joint bathroom between the two. The only negative thing about the move is that we are no longer across the street from the two popular bars everyone (seriously its the whole town hang out) goes to on Friday nights. Now we must plan ahead instead of stumbling home. However, we did move closer to the sweet karaoke bar where I hope to be showcasing my lovely vocals while belting out Journey hits this very weekend. Poor Brian.

Second biggest update: We got a puppy! Llittle Skeletor Scruffles is doing fantastic! However, he did overshadow the purchase of our other two pets, which was a month ago and old news now, but Brian and I had bought two Beta fish before Scruffles in an attempt to see if the fish would fill our need for a puppy. As you can tell, it didnt work. But our two fish, Johnny and June (Cash and Carter if you didnt catch the reference) WERE doing well until yesterday when June went belly up. So basically, now I live in a house full of boys: Brian, Scruffles, and Johnny. I can just see a house mutiny ensuing soon where the boys take over for good and dub me merely house wench.

Lastly, my job as the Yoga Instructor has been going pretty well. I am super pleased with my class turnouts so far although they arent very consistent. For the population of the city and the size of the gym, I have heard that my class sizes are either average or a bit above which is encouraging. I am still adjusting to being a twenty something teaching a class to fourty somethings, half worried one of them will pipe up and ask if I am really qualified. I have gotten some very surprised looks when I introduce myself as the instructor but by the end of the class, I have heard nothing but positive feedback so I feel I am able to prove that I deserve to be up there. I am really looking forward to gaining a year of this valuable experience and hope to be able to teach in a studio when I come back to Seattle. We will see; the competition out there is much more stiff then here in Alabama...