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it’s all in the family (or yoga meets nerdery and procrastination)

austin stair — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:04:09 +0000

my mom is a yogi. i have talked about this here and there over the course of the years. because my mom is a yogi, she is always posting pictures on facebook of crazy poses.

my mom can fly!

because my mom is yogi, her children also like to post crazy things on facebook related to their yogic attempts – i was not surprised this morning to see this video from my brother on facebook.

because my mom is a yogi and i am nerd, i had to follow my brother up with the follow video.

cold is temporary. glory is forever!

austin stair — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:02:00 +0000

it couldn’t have lasted 15 seconds and i don’t have a picture of me ACTUALLY in the lake (my mom was too busy preparing to save me with a broom that she didn’t snap a picture!), but i know i did it … and i have all of you to thank. so thanks for freaking my mom out [unnecessarily, of course, we now see that i did not die in the lake], thanks for making me more cold than i’ve been in a long, long while, possibly ever, and thanks most especially for helping me crush my goal of $500 ($739 and counting!!) raised for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by january 8th.

more details to come as my fingers warm up …

just write/like this

austin stair — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:34:00 +0000

my dad tucked me in last night and my mom woke me up this morning. i spent the morning careening through yoga pose after yoga pose, running from old neighborhoods and splashing in knee deep water with my nearly two-year old cousin. i watched football and tennis with my siblings, drank beer with my dad and cooked three turkeys and an X amount of corn with my aunt. i cannonballed into the lake of the top of our pontoon boat and swam to the shore. i ate more baked brie than usual (note: that would be a LOT)and then topped it off with two servings of ice cream and brownies. i conked out on the couch and dreamt i was back in minnesota.

i am sunburnt and sunbleached. i am tired, but wide awake. i am sleeping in a yoga loft in the trees. i am thinking about how to top today.

i don’t know that i can, but anything is possible at half moon circle.

in-"box" surprises

austin stair — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:21:00 +0000

attached in an email with the subject line “stair drinking tasty box beverage” – it’s not wine in a box, but i love it just the same. like mother, like daughter.

holler if you’re ready for summer

austin stair — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:17:00 +0000

if my mom doesn’t get my posts and pictures, i know i am in trouble. one, we usually are on the same page with the crazy and the antics – and two, she is one of my solid, everyday readers/stalkers.

in response to my last two pictures, she writes, i don’t get it, and i don’t get the oyster thing either…but the beach looks nice and you shouldn’t eat oysters in june.

hmmm. i thought. i mean, the beach day seems pretty self-explanatory (and the lyrics that referenced are from here). it was 80 degrees in minnesota and we brought our fine selves and some fine jams to the beach. then, because, why not continue to have a perfectly delicious day and go to an outdoor cafe and have beer, pomme frites and oysters? tthe last thing on my mind was whether or not you should have oysters in june – since the only thing on my mind was how much i love june and summer and friends who are up for random adventures, who will bike across town for beers and movies, who will walk over for sorbet and snacks, who will laugh when i am funny and shake their heads when i am trying and failing at the latter.

while ev and i were enjoying the least-sexually charged *date* with the most sexually referenced food , we must have said nine or 10 times how great this day was. he just asked me via chat what i am doing today. and i said, i hope i am doing the same thing as yesterday.

it’s 80 degrees. my swimsuit is about three minutes from being thrown on – followed by jean shorts and tank top and flip flops – hopping on my bike – grabbing a coffee – attempting the ny times crossword puzzle – evening out my tan lines – cracking a cold one open – watching em, P&K play softball – lingering in these few weeks were i can do these things and not feel like i should be doing something else.

so again, i could just refer to my earlier line, from jimmy buffet’s mouth reversed by my heart, the weather is beautiful – i wish you (and you, and you, and you!) were here.

come play soon.

and so she’s gone to party town, on her own

austin stair — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:12:00 +0000

i’ve missed posting a lot of things lately — daily chatter type things likei am really enjoying the tea my mom sent me in the mail or i made stove-top popcorn for the first time and didn’t burn the house down. i’ve also missed posted bigger things, the thoughts that happen in between the daily chatter … and the milestones, dates that you, at least figuratively, circle in red on the calendar, dates that you know by heart, with no prompting.

the least of those is four-year celebration of the birth of austinstair.com, which occurred four years ago in march. when i go back and read those early posts, remember what that version of myself was doing, it’s like reconnecting with an old friend, albeit hopefully a less mature and experienced one. there are memories and moments i wouldn’t conjure up so vividly without the prompting — yoga in NYC, ultimate frisbee in miami, summer in the springs — think about how much can change in a year and then think how much can change in four.

so, that’s great and grand, right? i am celebrating my blog ON my blog. there is an ego the size of an elephant on this page … which is the perfect segue for me to note the two other milestones i’ve been remiss about reporting, specfically my grandmother’s 87th birthday (she has a large collection of elephants) and my mother’s ??th birthday.

there are words to describe how much these matriachs matter to me and my family … but those words would take hours and hours to compile, and can be really summed up in three. i love you.