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Val, Steve, thanks for visiting 
Yeah, Matt is also a massage therapist. He does some pretty good deep tissue work. I hate asking him to massage me or do any physio on me, because it's his JOB. But for some reason, he likes to give me a massage after I have physio. I think it's his way of making sure things "feel" right ... I'm really not sure. I've never asked him
As for the Travis thing, the process has to be totally legal or it just won't feel right to me. I work at a lawfirm, and I want all our i's dotted and our t's crossed. I know some people don't do it that way, but that's how I want it done, because the last thing I want is for immigration to find out that he's here "illegally" or under false pretense and then tell Travis he isn't allowed to live here anymore because he has a good job, speaks English and has a degree
I was REALLY surprised my arm felt so good, Steve. I wasn't the least bit surprised my back hurt, although today it's feeling fantastic, so I think it was just complaining a bit from using it too much. I'm quite amazed it settled down so quickly.
Dinner was great; massage was great. I'm back home now because I forgot that tomorrow I'm getting my blood work done and I have to fast. I HATE fasting
So I'm taking a stash of food to stuff down my throat immediately after they've finished taking blood so I don't pass out
Ahem, well anyway! Sorry your back hurt from the shoveling.
But you are BLESSED to have Matt massage you
Yeah, Matt is also a massage therapist. He does some pretty good deep tissue work. I hate asking him to massage me or do any physio on me, because it's his JOB. But for some reason, he likes to give me a massage after I have physio. I think it's his way of making sure things "feel" right ... I'm really not sure. I've never asked him
As for the Travis thing, the process has to be totally legal or it just won't feel right to me. I work at a lawfirm, and I want all our i's dotted and our t's crossed. I know some people don't do it that way, but that's how I want it done, because the last thing I want is for immigration to find out that he's here "illegally" or under false pretense and then tell Travis he isn't allowed to live here anymore because he has a good job, speaks English and has a degree
Glad to hear the arm felt well through shoveling. That's a good sign.
Enjoy dinner. And the massage. And whatever else happens.
I was REALLY surprised my arm felt so good, Steve. I wasn't the least bit surprised my back hurt, although today it's feeling fantastic, so I think it was just complaining a bit from using it too much. I'm quite amazed it settled down so quickly.
Dinner was great; massage was great. I'm back home now because I forgot that tomorrow I'm getting my blood work done and I have to fast. I HATE fasting
So I'm taking a stash of food to stuff down my throat immediately after they've finished taking blood so I don't pass out
Curvie Girlie
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Ugh, fasting makes me cranky and light-headed!
Glad you had a good night but too bad you couldn't spend the night!
And nice thinking on the Travis situation--wouldn't want him to get kicked out of the country just when things were getting good!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad you had a good night but too bad you couldn't spend the night!
And nice thinking on the Travis situation--wouldn't want him to get kicked out of the country just when things were getting good!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, fasting is a real pain for me -- light-headed is an understatement
There's always tomorrow
I'm totaly anal about stuff like that. Travis is too precious to take any stupid chances on
Since Travis left, I'm feeling like I need to kick my life up a notch -- I like to step outside my boundaries every now and then because I think it serves to make us better and more aware of ourselves in the long run.
Which is why I think I'm going to take a month or two off this year and travel.
I've done a lot of reflecting, and I've come to realize that although I really love working out and being athletic, it's not fulfilling me from the inside out ... i.e., my soul is being left out of the equation. I've been restless and a bit unfulfilled, and Matt finally came out last night and said "You're artistic. You need to address that side of you or you're never going to be completely fulfilled."
I was a real artsy fartsy girl as a kid, always drawing, painting, dancing, singing, playing the piano ... it really defined who I was inside. And I was very happy because I could express myself using all those media without talking. And since I was a very shy person, it worked well for me because I never had to actually talk to anybody. I was a much better listener
That being said, I think I'm going to have to get back to expressing myself via the world of art
Now I just have to figure out what I should focus on ...
Curvie Girlie
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I totally know what you mean. I am also artsy fartsy--I loved pencil, charcoal, and oil pastel drawing and have done my fair share of art in my life, but have not recently. I also miss going to museums--I'd kill (well, no but you get my drift ) to visit the Louvre again And I DO feel the urge to make some art again, but probably as a present for one of my friends I had an idea to take a really old fashioned painting of a female Buddha and re-do it, but with my girl friend's face, and give it to her for her birthday (Apr 23rd). We'll see though!!!
You should travel. Matt is right, what a darling to notice that in you!
) to visit the Louvre again And I DO feel the urge to make some art again, but probably as a present for one of my friends I had an idea to take a really old fashioned painting of a female Buddha and re-do it, but with my girl friend's face, and give it to her for her birthday (Apr 23rd). We'll see though!!!You should travel. Matt is right, what a darling to notice that in you!
OMG, that would be a dream come true!
The world would tremble.
Ah, but it would be a good tremble all the same
I HAVE NOTHING TO REPORT
OK, I lied. I do have something to report:
I'M BORING!!!
OK ... I did manage to get in two workouts since my last post. Although I've done ZERO cardio, I don't miss that shit at all. I do, however, miss the ergo, which I know is cardio, but it doesn't FEEL like cardio, so I can pretend it isn't. It really feels more like a workout with weights, because I get callouses from rowing just like I get callouses from lifting weights
I LOVE THE CALLOUSES ON MY HANDS I TAKE VERY GOOD CARE OF THEM!
Seriously, if you don't take care of them, they split, tear and bleed like crazy. And that hurts. So what I do is I cut them back and file them every week. Yes, this sounds absolutely disgusting, but what else would you expect from me? Filing those suckers keeps them flat and then the knurling on the DBs and BBs doesn't dig in so badly and hurt my delicate female flesh
I've had callouses on my hands since gymnastics and they've never gone away. Rowing just made them worse
I'm so incredibly unmotivated to do anything today. Matt had to work today (they rotate every 8th Saturday) and I'm sitting here at home thinking "Yeah, I really should be cleaning, going to the grocery store, going to the gym, and being productive" ... but my body is saying "Fuck off. I'm happy having my ass in this warm leather chair sipping on a latte."
And apparently my body won that argument
Although when I go over to Matt's this evening, he will expect me to tell him that I did my 20 minutes of rehab and 30 minutes of leg work.
Which means I will have to get off my lazy ass and actually DO something.
So I guess I better get up off my lazy ass before it falls asleep and actually DO something
BYE!!!!
OK, I lied. I do have something to report:
I'M BORING!!!
OK ... I did manage to get in two workouts since my last post. Although I've done ZERO cardio, I don't miss that shit at all. I do, however, miss the ergo, which I know is cardio, but it doesn't FEEL like cardio, so I can pretend it isn't. It really feels more like a workout with weights, because I get callouses from rowing just like I get callouses from lifting weights
I LOVE THE CALLOUSES ON MY HANDS
I TAKE VERY GOOD CARE OF THEM!Seriously, if you don't take care of them, they split, tear and bleed like crazy. And that hurts. So what I do is I cut them back and file them every week. Yes, this sounds absolutely disgusting, but what else would you expect from me? Filing those suckers keeps them flat and then the knurling on the DBs and BBs doesn't dig in so badly and hurt my delicate female flesh
I've had callouses on my hands since gymnastics and they've never gone away. Rowing just made them worse
I'm so incredibly unmotivated to do anything today. Matt had to work today (they rotate every 8th Saturday) and I'm sitting here at home thinking "Yeah, I really should be cleaning, going to the grocery store, going to the gym, and being productive" ... but my body is saying "Fuck off. I'm happy having my ass in this warm leather chair sipping on a latte."
And apparently my body won that argument
Although when I go over to Matt's this evening, he will expect me to tell him that I did my 20 minutes of rehab and 30 minutes of leg work.
Which means I will have to get off my lazy ass and actually DO something.
So I guess I better get up off my lazy ass before it falls asleep and actually DO something
BYE!!!!
I LOVE THE CALLOUSES ON MY HANDS
Seriously, if you don't take care of them, they split, tear and bleed like crazy. And that hurts. So what I do is I cut them back and file them every week. Yes, this sounds absolutely disgusting, but what else would you expect from me? Filing those suckers keeps them flat and then the knurling on the DBs and BBs doesn't dig in so badly and hurt my delicate female flesh
I am soooo glad i am not the only freak around here
I love my callouses tooo 
sammyboy24
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Hey
Good on you to realize you need to fulfill your soul a little more by exploring your artistic side some. I feel like I used to be artistic but perhaps outgrew it? I used to draw and take art classes in highschool but I just don't do it anymore... I really don't know why. Perhaps I feel now I express my creative side through the clothing I wear, or how I interact with people on a day to day basis? I remember I loved photography and sculpture classes.
Hope you got to the gym and got a workout in
Take Care,
Sam
Good on you to realize you need to fulfill your soul a little more by exploring your artistic side some. I feel like I used to be artistic but perhaps outgrew it? I used to draw and take art classes in highschool but I just don't do it anymore... I really don't know why. Perhaps I feel now I express my creative side through the clothing I wear, or how I interact with people on a day to day basis? I remember I loved photography and sculpture classes.
Hope you got to the gym and got a workout in
Take Care,
Sam
Thanks for stopping in, Tru and Sam I appreciate it XO
This is now my favorite song:
Make sure "SOUL HEAVEN" is the song playing -- to be released February 8, 2009 CAN'T WAIT!!!! "Land of the Wolves" isn't bad, either ... kinda cool if you like club music/circuit party stuff.
I just wanna keep dancing to this song every time I hear it, which has been about 25 times so far today, and I'm sure I'll listen to it another 10 times before I leave work to go to physio
I'll report back after physio ... I hope my arm is doing better. So far so good, but this morning in the shower, my entire shoulder girdle seized up on my left arm (the injured one) and I couldn't move it for about 10 minutes without screaming in agony. I don't know what I did this time. Oh well ... what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!
I appreciate it XOThis is now my favorite song:
Make sure "SOUL HEAVEN" is the song playing -- to be released February 8, 2009
CAN'T WAIT!!!! "Land of the Wolves" isn't bad, either ... kinda cool if you like club music/circuit party stuff.I just wanna keep dancing to this song every time I hear it, which has been about 25 times so far today, and I'm sure I'll listen to it another 10 times before I leave work to go to physio
I'll report back after physio ... I hope my arm is doing better. So far so good, but this morning in the shower, my entire shoulder girdle seized up on my left arm (the injured one) and I couldn't move it for about 10 minutes without screaming in agony. I don't know what I did this time. Oh well ... what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!
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I am soooo glad i am not the only freak around here
Yeah, I like to feel them from time to time, too. The knurling on DBs and barbells really keeps them quite lovely, and so does rowing
I originally got them from gymnastics. Chalk and grips/tape were zero help
I've had them ever since.
Hey
Good on you to realize you need to fulfill your soul a little more by exploring your artistic side some. I feel like I used to be artistic but perhaps outgrew it? I used to draw and take art classes in highschool but I just don't do it anymore... I really don't know why. Perhaps I feel now I express my creative side through the clothing I wear, or how I interact with people on a day to day basis? I remember I loved photography and sculpture classes.
Hope you got to the gym and got a workout in
Take Care,
Sam
Sam, I think what happens is that "life" gets in the way of our creative nature and our artistic side becomes stifled. Eventually, it will fight its way back out and force you to address it
I bet you were a good artist, and equally as good at photography and sculpture, too
Do you ever get a yen to do any of that anymore? Obviously not now with your school, but maybe in the future?
Curvie Girlie
New member
HEY I was just thinking of a cool art project for Burning Man: body paint and Acroyoga to make trippy, colorful formations!
LOL!!!
That makes sense. Callouses are a good thing in many instances!
FUCKING A that's terrible!
What a horrible nuisance! Bodies are weird sometimes Hey I hope the physio DOES something about that........Physio went well ... thanks for asking, Steve
But I got two new exercises to do and I think I overdid it a bit. My arm is still a bit tender -- and probably too many push-ups on top of everything else (I'm a bad girl).
I'm hoping it will be gone by tomorrow morning. If not, I'll just make another appointment for this week and get some more ultrasound to settle things down a bit
But I got two new exercises to do and I think I overdid it a bit. My arm is still a bit tender -- and probably too many push-ups on top of everything else (I'm a bad girl).
I'm hoping it will be gone by tomorrow morning. If not, I'll just make another appointment for this week and get some more ultrasound to settle things down a bit
Good thinking, Steve. As I've said many times, the obvious eludes me
From what I can tell, this is all stemming from my trap -- it's in spasm and pulling on my supraspinatus/infraspinatus and fucking everything up in my shoulder. My trap was so tight last night at physio, she had trouble pushing the acupuncture needles in. All I can say is that it hurt like a fucker for a couple of minutes until it settled down ...
My physio isn't qualified to do ART, but my massage therapist is. Matt does ART as well, but I hate asking him because it's his JOB. I know he wouldn't mind, but he works with his hands/arms all day, and he gets tired, too. He's 43 ... he needs a break every now and then
I just booked with my MT on Saturday. I figured he'd be fully booked until then ... he's pretty popular Then I can have a leg workout afterwards. He works at the gym I go to, so he's quite handy! The owner of the gym stole him from World Gym because we all said we wanted him to come over. I guess the owner made him a deal he couldn't refuse, because he's been working at the gym now for about 2 years
My shoulder feels pretty good today. No problems sleeping ... no sharp pain ... just a little tenderness in the tendon. So it settled down quite nicely after sucking back two anti-inflammatories
NOW FOR THE NEW INJURY I HAVE SUSTAINED
Yes, it is a never-ending journey with me!!!
I asked my physio last night about some pain I'm having in my left inner thigh, and she said I probably have a partially torn hamstring tendon and that I've damaged my adductor longus.
This is how it happened ... I am able to do handstands again, so I was practicing some handstands on the weekend, doing the splits, etc. and I thought "I'm going to the gymnastics club and taking my aerial silks with me. They have a spot where I can use them." So off I went.
Things were going really great because I wasn't using my arms too much ... then I wrapped my lower legs around the silk and flipped upside down into the side splits. I guess I wasn't warmed up enough because I felt a sharp hot pain down the inside of my thigh. It quickly went away, so I thought "Maybe it was neural" ... yes, denial setting in once again
I continued practicing my routine (what I could do of it anyway), and then went home.
Saturday night I felt nothing. Sunday, I went to do some leg work. I went into the front splits, right leg forward, no problem. Left leg forward, BIG PROBLEM.
Then I thought "WTF is going on?", so I put my ass up to the wall and spread my legs apart to see how far my left leg would go down before hurting ---- AND THE RESULT WAS:
45° was all I could do until it started heating up. So now I've got to deal with that, too!!!!!
My physio asked me last night why I was doing the side splits anyway. I said "because I can". She said "Apparently you can't anymore because you hurt yourself. So don't do them anymore."
I said "I'm doing them because I need to perform publicly just one last time on the silks. All I have to be able to do is support my body weight at the end of my legs (wrapped in silk) in the side splits. Are you telling me I can't do this anymore?"
She said "You're insane. All I'm going to say is you're going to have to be REALLY warm when you stretch now. And don't do anything if it hurts. Period."
My body is a fucking train wreck
From what I can tell, this is all stemming from my trap -- it's in spasm and pulling on my supraspinatus/infraspinatus and fucking everything up in my shoulder. My trap was so tight last night at physio, she had trouble pushing the acupuncture needles in. All I can say is that it hurt like a fucker for a couple of minutes until it settled down ...
My physio isn't qualified to do ART, but my massage therapist is. Matt does ART as well, but I hate asking him because it's his JOB. I know he wouldn't mind, but he works with his hands/arms all day, and he gets tired, too. He's 43 ... he needs a break every now and then
I just booked with my MT on Saturday. I figured he'd be fully booked until then ... he's pretty popular
Then I can have a leg workout afterwards. He works at the gym I go to, so he's quite handy! The owner of the gym stole him from World Gym because we all said we wanted him to come over. I guess the owner made him a deal he couldn't refuse, because he's been working at the gym now for about 2 years My shoulder feels pretty good today. No problems sleeping ... no sharp pain ... just a little tenderness in the tendon. So it settled down quite nicely after sucking back two anti-inflammatories
NOW FOR THE NEW INJURY I HAVE SUSTAINED
Yes, it is a never-ending journey with me!!!I asked my physio last night about some pain I'm having in my left inner thigh, and she said I probably have a partially torn hamstring tendon and that I've damaged my adductor longus.
This is how it happened ... I am able to do handstands again, so I was practicing some handstands on the weekend, doing the splits, etc. and I thought "I'm going to the gymnastics club and taking my aerial silks with me. They have a spot where I can use them." So off I went.
Things were going really great because I wasn't using my arms too much ... then I wrapped my lower legs around the silk and flipped upside down into the side splits. I guess I wasn't warmed up enough because I felt a sharp hot pain down the inside of my thigh. It quickly went away, so I thought "Maybe it was neural" ... yes, denial setting in once again
I continued practicing my routine (what I could do of it anyway), and then went home.
Saturday night I felt nothing. Sunday, I went to do some leg work. I went into the front splits, right leg forward, no problem. Left leg forward, BIG PROBLEM.
Then I thought "WTF is going on?", so I put my ass up to the wall and spread my legs apart to see how far my left leg would go down before hurting ---- AND THE RESULT WAS:
45° was all I could do until it started heating up. So now I've got to deal with that, too!!!!!
My physio asked me last night why I was doing the side splits anyway. I said "because I can". She said "Apparently you can't anymore because you hurt yourself. So don't do them anymore."
I said "I'm doing them because I need to perform publicly just one last time on the silks. All I have to be able to do is support my body weight at the end of my legs (wrapped in silk) in the side splits. Are you telling me I can't do this anymore?"
She said "You're insane. All I'm going to say is you're going to have to be REALLY warm when you stretch now. And don't do anything if it hurts. Period."
My body is a fucking train wreck
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Yeah, I'll have to get James (my MT) to delve into my nether regions on Saturday as well ...
Maybe I should ask Matt to do that one