Stumble: Yoga and Starbucks Water Cup Edition

This week I went to yoga.  I love yoga.  I am not very good at it (Ali would say I need to have "compassion for my practice," and she'd be right, but my faint competitive streak comes out in these situations), but I am always calm and sore after, which is a nice combo.  Anyways, she kicked our tailfeathers on Saturday morning, making us do things like dolphin:

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Um, I had no idea my arms could bend like that.  Although I definitely didn't look like that.  

Which apparently leads into things like peacock scorpion, which, I seriously doubt:

Photo by maureen miranda

When I got home I realized I had somehow managed to skin my elbow during all the dolphin-ing.  It was weird.

As further evidence of my definite inability to be able to do any sort of freestanding armstand, today I attempted to use my very broken Starbucks cup (I dropped it on the way to work and the inner cup separated from the outer cup).  I filled the sad cup at the water cooler (yes, we have a literal water cooler.  No, no cool gossip or American Idol chitchat occurs there) and started on my way back to my office when I dropped said sad cup (I would like to blame this on its being broken, but let's be honest) and it bounced and then splashed ALL OVER my sweet, pregnant co-worker who was using our copy machine.  Also, the whole office is carpeted.  I'll just let all that sink in.

I got her some paper towels, I sopped up the water, I furtively swiped at the copier (I'm sure it's fine...), we laughed and moved on but seriously.  I cannot be trusted to do peacock scorpion!  It's a very, very bad idea!

Via Snuzzy

The end.

UPDATE: Ali informed me the above shots are of something called "scorpion," which sounds rather more unpleasant than peacock, but is perhaps more appropriate.