2020 and beyond was really rough on me. I finally split from my husband, bought a townhome by the beach, stopped running claiming an injury during shelter in place and wondered if I was just making an excuse not to run. My yoga studio closed and the home I bought was over the hill so when it reopened, it wasn’t reasonable to go.

Halloween, 2022, I lost my job. I am one of those weirdos and saved enough to pay immediate bills and I did get a severance package so I wasn’t 100% stressed. What I did lose was my anxiety that I didn’t realize my job gave me. I also realized I only saved enough for immediate bills and apparently, a wine club memberships. I’m justifying the wine club out now but I’m positive that membership was way better than a new dishwasher.

I was really stressed about Covid. The news, administration and people with opposite opinions voicing in a way by telling me my fears were irrational didn’t help.

Today, I went to my first hot power yoga class and the best part about it is that is an 1/8 of a mile away! Walking distance.

Rusty does not come close to describing how I felt in the class. What I will say is that I knew I was in for the long haul when I walked in and men, topless men, in tight shorts were doing various versions of backbends, handstands and I swear I saw one guy in lotus pose floating above the floor. There were beautiful all sizes and ages of women wearing teeny tiny tops, in a wide leg forward fold. ( okay maybe how close it is to my house isn’t the best part. )

I find a lot of things in Aptos. My home, bongs ( 2 to be exact) and now my yoga studio. I’m stoked.

I went to see the Circle Jerks at the Catalyst last week on a school night.  The last time I was at the Catalyst was in 2019 when I saw the Offspring play acoustic.  I went solo so my goal that evening was to be a groupie and make out with one of the band members.  I quickly aborted that plan when they waked past me on the balcony and I realized that time was not on their side.  

Awesome show even if I didn’t get laid. 

The Circle Jerks had two opening bands.  Negative Approach and Adolescence.

If you ever the opportunity to see Negative Approach, don’t.  Although this band was one of the pioneers of hardcore punk music, this band is the reason why every parent of the 80s and 90s hate and don’t understand punk music.  It was loud, staticy, high pitched and muffled all at once.  What the band di have going for them was showmanship and basically just representing the punk attitude.  I could only see two of the members, the bass player and the lead singer.  The bass player was celebrating his 60^th birthday.  Tall, big shouldered man with long grey hair bulled back in a tigh low ponytail.  His beard came  down to his belly and was tied together in two spots, leaving the middle looking like the puff on a poodle tail.  Super punk.  The lead was pretty much how I icture a hardcore punk.  His old tshirt as too wide and the sides and as stule goes, too short.  His pants were faded black, at tad bit too short and too big for him.  He needed a haircut.  Right before he was about to start screaming incoherently, he would smash the mike into his teeth and leave it there while he wailed.  After each song or 3 he would alsys say, “thank you Man’ His voice was unusually deep.  

Negative Approach did have at least one fan among us.  On fan that knew every word to every song.  He was as close to the stage as he could get, fist pumping in the air, and as far as I could tell with his N95 mask on, screaming every work.  Did you ever see that movie Trainspotting?  Remember the guy that did heroin and had a baby and the baby died?…that is what this fan looked like. 

As I was standing in line after the show to get a Negative Approach tshirt, the fan walked by and he did indeed look like the guy form Trainspotting, minus the heroin and dead baby, hopefully.

Adolescence.  What a surprise !  Loud, fast and hard.  You could totally understand what they were saying.  In fact, I found myself screaming the chorus in every song which I believe happened to be the same; FUCK YOU!  The lead singer looked similar to one of the guys form Zeppelin, the one that did an album with Aliison Krauss a few years back.  What mde him so bad ASS was that he did the whole 45 minute set, jumping around stage, screaming in tune  into the mike, all with a  surgical mask on.  Before any anti-maskers start spouting off that he can’t breathe,  he’s living in fear, taking away my freedom, this guy is in shape.  Hard core shape.  Let me just repeat, 45 minutes, jumping round stage, screaming in tune in a mike with a mask on is bad ass.  This guy is in shape and as the slow crawl of the apocalypse creeps into our lives, I want this guy on my side.  

After I bought tshirts, I went back up t the balcony to watch the show with my boyfriend, guaranteeing that I would be making out after this show.  

The main event.  Circle Jerks.  First of all, they look exactly the same.  What I love about punk bands is there is no standing around or eve a pause in between songs.  

I went to see the Circle Jerks at the Catalyst last week on a school night.  The last time I was at the Catalyst was in 2019 when I saw the Offspring play acoustic.  I went solo so my goal that evening was to be a groupie and make out with one of the band members.  I quickly aborted that plan when they waked past me on the balcony and I realized that time was not on their side.  

Awesome show even if I didn’t get laid. 

The Circle Jerks had two opening bands.  Negative Approach and Adolescence.

If you ever the opportunity to see Negative Approach, don’t.  Although this band was one of the pioneers of hardcore punk music, this band is the reason why every parent of the 80s and 90s hate and don’t understand punk music.  It was loud, staticy, high pitched and muffled all at once.  What the band di have going for them was showmanship and basically just representing the punk attitude.  I could only see two of the members, the bass player and the lead singer.  The bass player was celebrating his 60^th birthday.  Tall, big shouldered man with long grey hair bulled back in a tigh low ponytail.  His beard came  down to his belly and was tied together in two spots, leaving the middle looking like the puff on a poodle tail.  Super punk.  The lead was pretty much how I icture a hardcore punk.  His old tshirt as too wide and the sides and as stule goes, too short.  His pants were faded black, at tad bit too short and too big for him.  He needed a haircut.  Right before he was about to start screaming incoherently, he would smash the mike into his teeth and leave it there while he wailed.  After each song or 3 he would alsys say, “thank you Man’ His voice was unusually deep.  

Negative Approach did have at least one fan among us.  On fan that knew every word to every song.  He was as close to the stage as he could get, fist pumping in the air, and as far as I could tell with his N95 mask on, screaming every work.  Did you ever see that movie Trainspotting?  Remember the guy that did heroin and had a baby and the baby died?…that is what this fan looked like. 

As I was standing in line after the show to get a Negative Approach tshirt, the fan walked by and he did indeed look like the guy form Trainspotting, minus the heroin and dead baby, hopefully.

Adolescence.  What a surprise !  Loud, fast and hard.  You could totally understand what they were saying.  In fact, I found myself screaming the chorus in every song which I believe happened to be the same; FUCK YOU!  The lead singer looked similar to one of the guys form Zeppelin, the one that did an album with Aliison Krauss a few years back.  What mde him so bad ASS was that he did the whole 45 minute set, jumping around stage, screaming in tune  into the mike, all with a  surgical mask on.  Before any anti-maskers start spouting off that he can’t breathe,  he’s living in fear, taking away my freedom, this guy is in shape.  Hard core shape.  Let me just repeat, 45 minutes, jumping round stage, screaming in tune in a mike with a mask on is bad ass.  This guy is in shape and as the slow crawl of the apocalypse creeps into our lives, I want this guy on my side.  

After I bought tshirts, I went back up t the balcony to watch the show with my boyfriend, guaranteeing that I would be making out after this show.  

The main event.  Circle Jerks.  First of all, they look exactly the same.  What I love about punk bands is there is no standing around or eve a pause in between songs.  

I went to see the Circle Jerks at the Catalyst last week on a school night.  The last time I was at the Catalyst was in 2019 when I saw the Offspring play acoustic.  I went solo so my goal that evening was to be a groupie and make out with one of the band members.  I quickly aborted that plan when they waked past me on the balcony and I realized that time was not on their side.  

Awesome show even if I didn’t get laid. 

The Circle Jerks had two opening bands.  Negative Approach and Adolescence.

If you ever the opportunity to see Negative Approach, don’t.  Although this band was one of the pioneers of hardcore punk music, this band is the reason why every parent of the 80s and 90s hate and don’t understand punk music.  It was loud, staticy, high pitched and muffled all at once.  What the band di have going for them was showmanship and basically just representing the punk attitude.  I could only see two of the members, the bass player and the lead singer.  The bass player was celebrating his 60^th birthday.  Tall, big shouldered man with long grey hair bulled back in a tigh low ponytail.  His beard came  down to his belly and was tied together in two spots, leaving the middle looking like the puff on a poodle tail.  Super punk.  The lead was pretty much how I icture a hardcore punk.  His old tshirt as too wide and the sides and as stule goes, too short.  His pants were faded black, at tad bit too short and too big for him.  He needed a haircut.  Right before he was about to start screaming incoherently, he would smash the mike into his teeth and leave it there while he wailed.  After each song or 3 he would alsys say, “thank you Man’ His voice was unusually deep.  

Negative Approach did have at least one fan among us.  On fan that knew every word to every song.  He was as close to the stage as he could get, fist pumping in the air, and as far as I could tell with his N95 mask on, screaming every work.  Did you ever see that movie Trainspotting?  Remember the guy that did heroin and had a baby and the baby died?…that is what this fan looked like. 

As I was standing in line after the show to get a Negative Approach tshirt, the fan walked by and he did indeed look like the guy form Trainspotting, minus the heroin and dead baby, hopefully.

Adolescence.  What a surprise !  Loud, fast and hard.  You could totally understand what they were saying.  In fact, I found myself screaming the chorus in every song which I believe happened to be the same; FUCK YOU!  The lead singer looked similar to one of the guys form Zeppelin, the one that did an album with Aliison Krauss a few years back.  What mde him so bad ASS was that he did the whole 45 minute set, jumping around stage, screaming in tune  into the mike, all with a  surgical mask on.  Before any anti-maskers start spouting off that he can’t breathe,  he’s living in fear, taking away my freedom, this guy is in shape.  Hard core shape.  Let me just repeat, 45 minutes, jumping round stage, screaming in tune in a mike with a mask on is bad ass.  This guy is in shape and as the slow crawl of the apocalypse creeps into our lives, I want this guy on my side.  

After I bought tshirts, I went back up t the balcony to watch the show with my boyfriend, guaranteeing that I would be making out after this show.  

The main event.  Circle Jerks.  First of all, they look exactly the same.  What I love about punk bands is there is no standing around or eve a pause in between songs.