oondervaar
haven’t had a chance to be online much lately or reply to messages & whatnot because i have been consumed in the chaos of a family visit. good times… i’m missing teh kira already. <3
got to take my parents to an introductory pole dancing class yesterday-fun to see my mom and dad clinging to poles for dear life. =P they did well, though! would have gotten a couple photos if the class had been just them and my sister, but there were 7 other beginners there as well. o well. large classes are always hard because you have to take turns on the pole and get less time and attention from the teacher. i was glad that kira had been able to take part in a smaller pole class earlier in the week.
there are a lot of things going on with my parents right now that are hard to cope with (and i have it relatively easy because i’m older, and further away, and have more money and independence). but i am glad that the parents are open to the things i do. it’s been a slow progression, but now they’re quite impressed and gung-ho about the pole dancing. they don’t remember ever being at all iffy/uneasy about it, bless them. =)
i need to find other turns of phrase. i pick up too much folksy stuff, and still use a lot of dopey expressions people around me used back when i was a kid. sigh.
lots of tromping on the trails, the moors, the hoe, etc. lots of hurried intense conversations about relationships. knee still hurts, but i’ve been maxing out on ibuprofen every day and i think that somehow it’s slowly getting better despite all the activity.
have been doing more with my arms lately since my legs suck. i got the flag, a move in which you hold your entire body out from the pole, parallel to the floor. like this, except actually parallel to the floor rather than droopy. maybe i’ll get a photo of my own eventually, when moving craziness is over. cause i do it better, ha! i hope i don’t lose my strength during all the traveling.
holy crap. i was just now looking for a photo of a chinese pole performer doing the flag, cause they do it with a different hand hold that requires more strength. our version cheats a bit-the body is aided in achieving horizontalness by the propping of the hip on the elbow. but no, i didn’t find the chinese pole flag, i found this. hot damn! it’s like the knee hold (which i may opt never to do again, cause i’m sure that’s how i screwed up my right knee) but with feet. i am intrigued. i hope my leg gets better. =/ it isn’t terrible that i’ll be traveling, cause it will kind of force me to take it easy. there’s the lugging of luggage, sure, but also the hours of sitting. meh meh meh. doctor tomorrow morning.
also, my pole is broken. we were taking it down to pack it for transport, but it jammed and ended up getting busted in the disassembly. i need to buy the quick release tools, cause apparently this kind of thing happens to people all the time when they use the assembly/disassembly tools that come with the pole. stephen and my dad were kind enough to head up the disassembly effort, because i was stressing about it, so my mom and i took a walk while they worked on taking it down. it worked out well, because i might have flipped out a bit if i had been there at the moment of destruction. as it was, my mom and i took a long walk and talked about her and my dad’s impending divorce and my mom’s friends who are dying of heart troubles and how stephen and i will work out invites to thanksgiving dinners years from now when we have children and start holding big family thanksgiving dinners (my mom was the one guiding this conversation, heh, but she needs people she can talk to about this stuff…). hoo boy. so when we got back to the flat and poor stephen & dad & kira had to break the news that the pole was a goner, i was so completely stressed about other things that the broken pole didn’t even seem like a problem. i’ll need to get a couple replacement parts in the states. likely somewhat expensive, but eh. it’s all cool. i am so massively stressed from the rest of it all, though… coming down from this is going to be a real trip.
so yeah. the pole is down now, and all the working parts are traveling the uk with my family and will ultimately go home with them. once again i keep glancing over to the bare place in the room where i am accustomed to go up in the air, turn upside down, etc, and it seems strange that this will not work anymore. but yes, good for the leg to take a break.
my computer is being packed up as soon as i finish this entry.
i’m looking forward to that future time when i’m settled again… moving is hard. hope my computer survives this time-fed ex killed the last one.
plans for the rest of the day consist of listening to loud music and sorting of clothes into stuff to pack, stuff to give away and stuff to throw out. stretching too.
::edit::
computer is packed. am sharing stephen’s computer. we’re sending one computer overseas before the other in order to retain our lifeline to the internet for as long as possible, and then resume it again in pittsburgh as quickly as we can.
got to take my parents to an introductory pole dancing class yesterday-fun to see my mom and dad clinging to poles for dear life. =P they did well, though! would have gotten a couple photos if the class had been just them and my sister, but there were 7 other beginners there as well. o well. large classes are always hard because you have to take turns on the pole and get less time and attention from the teacher. i was glad that kira had been able to take part in a smaller pole class earlier in the week.
there are a lot of things going on with my parents right now that are hard to cope with (and i have it relatively easy because i’m older, and further away, and have more money and independence). but i am glad that the parents are open to the things i do. it’s been a slow progression, but now they’re quite impressed and gung-ho about the pole dancing. they don’t remember ever being at all iffy/uneasy about it, bless them. =)
i need to find other turns of phrase. i pick up too much folksy stuff, and still use a lot of dopey expressions people around me used back when i was a kid. sigh.
lots of tromping on the trails, the moors, the hoe, etc. lots of hurried intense conversations about relationships. knee still hurts, but i’ve been maxing out on ibuprofen every day and i think that somehow it’s slowly getting better despite all the activity.
have been doing more with my arms lately since my legs suck. i got the flag, a move in which you hold your entire body out from the pole, parallel to the floor. like this, except actually parallel to the floor rather than droopy. maybe i’ll get a photo of my own eventually, when moving craziness is over. cause i do it better, ha! i hope i don’t lose my strength during all the traveling.
holy crap. i was just now looking for a photo of a chinese pole performer doing the flag, cause they do it with a different hand hold that requires more strength. our version cheats a bit-the body is aided in achieving horizontalness by the propping of the hip on the elbow. but no, i didn’t find the chinese pole flag, i found this. hot damn! it’s like the knee hold (which i may opt never to do again, cause i’m sure that’s how i screwed up my right knee) but with feet. i am intrigued. i hope my leg gets better. =/ it isn’t terrible that i’ll be traveling, cause it will kind of force me to take it easy. there’s the lugging of luggage, sure, but also the hours of sitting. meh meh meh. doctor tomorrow morning.
also, my pole is broken. we were taking it down to pack it for transport, but it jammed and ended up getting busted in the disassembly. i need to buy the quick release tools, cause apparently this kind of thing happens to people all the time when they use the assembly/disassembly tools that come with the pole. stephen and my dad were kind enough to head up the disassembly effort, because i was stressing about it, so my mom and i took a walk while they worked on taking it down. it worked out well, because i might have flipped out a bit if i had been there at the moment of destruction. as it was, my mom and i took a long walk and talked about her and my dad’s impending divorce and my mom’s friends who are dying of heart troubles and how stephen and i will work out invites to thanksgiving dinners years from now when we have children and start holding big family thanksgiving dinners (my mom was the one guiding this conversation, heh, but she needs people she can talk to about this stuff…). hoo boy. so when we got back to the flat and poor stephen & dad & kira had to break the news that the pole was a goner, i was so completely stressed about other things that the broken pole didn’t even seem like a problem. i’ll need to get a couple replacement parts in the states. likely somewhat expensive, but eh. it’s all cool. i am so massively stressed from the rest of it all, though… coming down from this is going to be a real trip.
so yeah. the pole is down now, and all the working parts are traveling the uk with my family and will ultimately go home with them. once again i keep glancing over to the bare place in the room where i am accustomed to go up in the air, turn upside down, etc, and it seems strange that this will not work anymore. but yes, good for the leg to take a break.
my computer is being packed up as soon as i finish this entry.
i’m looking forward to that future time when i’m settled again… moving is hard. hope my computer survives this time-fed ex killed the last one.
plans for the rest of the day consist of listening to loud music and sorting of clothes into stuff to pack, stuff to give away and stuff to throw out. stretching too.
::edit::
computer is packed. am sharing stephen’s computer. we’re sending one computer overseas before the other in order to retain our lifeline to the internet for as long as possible, and then resume it again in pittsburgh as quickly as we can.