I feel like I blinked and *poof* it’s mid-December. Where did you come from? Even though I’m not traveling for the holidays I’m looking forward to things being a little less crazy during the last 2 weeks of the year. In past years I’ve really overdone it on the subbing front — I’ll say YES to picking up all the extra classes. This year? I did my best to help out where I can but not overdo it. Girlfriend needs some rest.
It’s been a very hot second since I’ve done a little life update (July to be exact.) Here’s a bit about what’s been going down behind the scenes lately:
Teaching at Bar Method Noho
In the last life update blog post Bar Method Noho had just opened! We’ve now been open for almost 6 months.
As an instructor, I’m feeling about 100% more confident in my teaching skills. Prior to the studio opening, I was only teaching ~2 real classes a week. Now that I’m consistently teaching 6 or so classes every week I’m able to adjust and implement feedback a whole lot faster. The same thing happened to me on the yoga front when I started teaching more consistently. You’re just able to figure out what works and doesn’t work a whole lot faster.
It’s been pretty magical to watch our little community grow since the studio opened in June.
I use the word community intentionally, it truly feels like I’m part of a community. I find myself chilling at the studio every chance I can because it’s just a warm cozy place to be. I’ll see a lot of the same students day after day. It fills my heart with SO much joy to see a student do push-ups on their toes for the first time or see how stellar someone’s form is looking in a plank compared to months ago.
It’s impossible to walk into the studio to take a class and not see 10 people I’m excited to catch up with. With everything that’s been going down post-break-up, I’m just so freaking grateful to be a part of a community. To have this warm place to walk into where everyone literally knows your name.
I’m currently teaching 15 permanent classes a week.
6 barre classes at Bar Method and 9 yoga classes at Y7. And I also work 2 front desk shifts at Bar Method for extra moneys.
My schedule has come a LONG way since a year ago. For starters I can walk EVERYWHERE. Last year I was swiping my metro card like CRAZY running around from Williamsburg to Hoboken to Bryant Park… sometimes all in one day.
Most of my classes now are back-to-back or I’m able to teach a class at one studio and walk to the other for the next class. Last year I was losing my voice constantly. Right now there are days when my voice is tired by 9 PM but I haven’t lost it in ages. I hope I didn’t just jinx myself!
It’s still not a *perfect* schedule. If you follow me on Instagram you’ll know I teach 5 classes on Monday. It’s a beast of a day and not something I want to do forever. Financially only teaching 15 classes is not sustainable for the long run either, but physically I’m not sure I can handle any more classes.
I’m still figuring things out. But what else is new 😂
I don’t want to sound like I’m bitching because ultimately I love what I do. And I feel grateful to work at two studios I love.
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Life post-break-up
Ah, the topic EVERYONE wants to hear about these days…
Sorry to disappoint but I got nothing thrilling to report on the post-break-up front.
It still feels hard, but I guess that’s to be expected. We were together for 8 years and we’ve only been broken up for ~3 months. During the week I feel “okay” for the most part. My life is the same during the week as it always was since I only saw Jeremy on the weekends.
The weekends still feel tough and strange and lonely. There’s this delicate balance of keeping myself busy but also remembering that my job requires me to be super social and “on” so I need downtime too.
I miss being a lazy lump on the couch with him — especially now that the new season of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is out and I want nothing more than to watch it with him.
The “holiday season” has felt harder than I anticipated. Thanksgiving felt SO strange. Over the past couple of years, we’ve done double Thanksgivings going to both his family and mine. We grew up in the same town in Westchester. I’d usually go home to Westchester the Wednesday night before to hang out with our friends and then would spend the whole long weekend with him.
This year I traveled back-and-forth to Westchester on Thanksgiving day. I gotta say, being in the city on Thanksgiving was kind of nice. It was SO quiet downtown and the train from Grand Central on Thanksgiving is way more chill than the night before.
I feel like I’m trying to find new rituals so I’m not sad about losing the old ones but it still makes me sad. I think once I get past New Year’s there will be fewer reminders of Oh this is what Jeremy and I always did for this holiday or that holiday.
Break-ups are hard, y’all. They just are.
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Looking forward to:
I’m going to LA in January! I’m sure everyone is super shocked 😂
New York, I love you, but I’m so excited to get away for a few days. I feel like I always go to LA by default for vacation. Hey, it’s easy, I have a place to stay and it’s an excuse to spend a few days with my BFF. I’m looking forward to Disneyland, a few days of relaxing, hanging out with my LA friends and WARM WEATHER.
I’m also eying a trip to Nicaragua in March with Surf Yoga Beer, the peeps I went to Portugal with this summer. We shall see!
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WHAT I’M WATCHING: the newest season of Project Runway just started and I am SO EXCITED. I’ve also watched the In the Heights movie trailer about 25 times already… and I’ve cried every single time. I get so so so emotional thinking about seeing one of my favorite shows on the big screen.
WHAT I’M READING: I’ve been on a Christina Lauren binge lately. I just finished Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating which was super cute. I also read Love and Other Stories last month which I liked but didn’t love. The ending and big reveal totally destroyed me though.
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: I caught up on every episode of the podcast From Where She Sits. I think it’s the only podcast that I’ve listened to every episode. Even episodes I didn’t think I’d be super into like Her Nanny (what do I know about nannies? NOTHING) I ended up still loving. Every Monday I get so hyped for a new episode.
I also just listened to a super interesting episode of Dear Sugars on being child-free by choice. The episode shows a lot of points of views on this choice, and I wouldn’t say 100% reflects my point of view as to why I don’t want to have kids, but is a super interesting listen and dive into the topic.
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