Chilling out, taxing, relaxing all cool

Hi gang! How’s life? Busy as balls? I mean bouncy-balls of course, don’t be gross.

How’s your week been because my week was kind of the worst. First of all, TAXES. Uncle Sam really had his way with me this year. Figuratively of course, stop being so gross, sheesh. I’ll spare you the dumb divorcey details but basically I didn’t get to claim any dependents and wasn’t aware of it. So that hurt me big time.

Then yesterday my son wandered away from a night-time church activity (the 12-year-old who should have known better) and was missing for long enough that we were about to get the police involved. We finally found him safe and sound, but any parent who has ever lost a kid for any period of time knows exactly what that terrible feeling feels like. It feels like terror and diarrhea.

Then someone in California stole my debit card number and tried to purchase an month-long stay at an AirB&B. Luckily my bank caught it in time so it wasn’t a big issue, but it’s still annoying and makes you feel a little icky and violated.

Man, sorry to rant.

So anyway, I was a hot lil’ ball of stress after all that and then some, so I went to a yoga class for the first time in over a year. And it felt GREAT. It’s such a good way to get out of your head for a while. I love that it just forces you to focus on breathing in and out and basically nothing else.  And the best part was at the end of class, the instructor put a little cotton pad with a drop of essential oil on my mat while I laid there like a smaller, cooler ball of stress, and it was wow so nice.

So here’s a drop of essential oil on a cotton pad that I am placing on your mental  yoga mat, in case you too have had a rough week.

It’s this gorgeous family room/kitchen redo from Helmick Hacienda.

Look at it! Look at it and breathe deeply and let go of all the stress and let your eyeballs dance over every delightful detail.

Don’t you feel better already? Namaste!