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Hobbies (click to jump):

⛶ Aerial Yoga ⛶ Cello ⛶ I don't have the heart to remove this photo of my dog ⛶

To be added:

• Film photography
• Cross stitch
• Lyra

Aerial Yoga

Aerial yoga gets a lot of shit from the yoga community for being gimmicky. It also gets a lot of shit from the aerial arts community for being gimmicky and (typically) unsafe. Honestly, neither of these groups are wrong! Regardless, I had a great time doing this for probably a year. It marks the start of my fitness journey.

I found the studio through Class Pass when I was around 30. I realized that I needed to be doing some sort of fitness but didn't have the heart to just join a regular gym. It turns out my brain really likes being upside down. Some of the hammock poses feel like you're wrapped in a little floating womb. It was really good for me.

I quit going when it got to the point that I felt like I was mostly being challenged from a yoga perspective and not the aerial perspective anymore. I figured if I was going to be challenged from the yoga end that I should be taking straight yoga for cheaper and closer to my house. I didn't want to move up into the advanced tricks-based class because the floors of the studio are concrete and they only use yoga mats for padding. I'm still not sure how they are covered by insurance with a bring your own yoga mat as a crash pad studio policy.

Did I move on to yoga after this? No, I found a studio that offered lyra and had crash mats.

Cello

In high school I desperately wanted to play the cello. I was roughly second chair violin and my teacher insisted that she couldn't lose me there. So I swapped to classical guitar for the rest of high school. This was an extracurricular, lady.

A decade later I had expendable income, free will, and realized I could get a cheap mass-produced cello off of Ebay for under $200. I will spare you from watching a video of me playing hot cross buns. I worked through the first two Essential Elements books and then realized that I was not willing to put in the work to get good enough to be listenable. I listed the whole batch on fb marketplace and made a music teacher happy.

My tips, if you want to live out your childhood cello dreams:

• Reddit is going to tell you these cheap cellos are not worth it. They're wrong if you're self-teaching. The limit is going to be your skill for a long time. Long enough for you to know whether or not you want to stick with it and get A Real Cello.
• The main complaint with the cheap cellos is that they wont hold a tune. Buy peg drops and basically glue the pegs in.
• You can be allergic to the rosin. The hypo-allergenic rosin is great.

Unrelated Rosie photo from this page being constructed.

Here's a photo of my dog being very normal to reward you for your click on this empty page.