my dreamworld involves a lot of barter. Perhaps I hem pants for my private yoga teacher, or maybe I make her agave/spelt/low-fat carrot cake, or maybe I take her child to school each morning with mac.

Bartering is very good. My daughter and a friend trade off, Alexia cuts her hair and her friend is Alexia's personal trainer at the gym they go to. You might be able to find something like that where you take Mac.

nah, I take mac to the Y.

I once semi-bartered my hair dying. I bought dinner for us both and was open to either her coming to me or me going to her which ever fit her schedule best.

I'd love to figure out some bartering options with people in my building, but there are precious few with kids and my offerings for bartering are few right now.

I am hoping to find some Pilates or yoga classes nearby. I was hoping to get back to regular skating, but it looks like the DH's movie is going to go (yay!), so he'll be away for 6 weeks or so. I will have to come right home from work to walk the dog every day and can't add an extra two hours to get to the rink and skate. I bought a rebounder which I have heard good things about, so I can exercise at home. I tried it out yesterday--and it is very fun and very hard, so I'm happy.

Oh! I have a rebounder. I should do that this weekend.

See, if I lived near Scrappy, I could walk her dog as a barter.

See, if I lived near Scrappy, I could walk her dog as a barter.

Me too!! I always feel that I have very little to barter (having no crafting skills, for example and to be thread-topical) but maybe I do?

I am hoping to find some Pilates or yoga classes nearby. I was hoping to get back to regular skating,

I think you'll find that either of those (but choose yoga, go yoga!) will help you out a lot with the skating when you do have a chance to get back to it. Because of how they strengthen your core muscles so much.

I have not been as regular with yoga as I would like. And I'm moving further from my studio rather than closer. Which would be sad, but is balanced out by me liking most everything else about my new location.

Lisa, what kind of yoga does your teacher do?

Lisa, what kind of yoga does your teacher do?

I don't have one teacher in particular but I go to this studio

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which offers a variety of style classes. I mostly do a hatha class and vinyasa/vinyasa flow/hot vinyasa. I've also done the astanga which is a little too regimented for me but is sometimes a good challenge.

oh, kat, one of the teachers I love there just had twins (well his wife did). Identical twin girls.

Emmett is bummed because the magazine project he worked on for school (on baseball) only got him an A-minus. I explained that merely meeting all the requirements and doing them well is what an A-minus is for, and that you have to do something extra, above-and-beyond what is required to get that A or A-plus.

It's tough to see him sad about it because he did work hard on it and was proud of it, but at the same time this is exactly why he's an A-minus/B-plus student. He never does more than what's asked of him. And I had suggested a couple things for the project that I know would've put him over the top (doing some simple baseball statistics formulas, and drawing his own art) but he wouldn't do it. It would've been about an hour's more work but since it wasn't in the project description he didn't want to do it.

Worse, his friend and classmate Alex also did a baseball magazine and got an A-plus.