Yesterday, a woman posted an ad offering a free carpet cleaner. Since the only floor-related item I've wanted more than a carpet cleaner is a hard floor cleaner*, I jumped on it. Then she put up an ad for cookie tins. "Cookie tins!" I thought, and jumped on those as well. Then she advertised "miscellaneous kitchen items," which is seriously ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I shared with ROG my mom's favorite line for when she's strongly hitting me over the head with the fact that she wants grandchildren ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the single hardest day of ballet class ever. I, for a moment, thought my right calf would literally explode. ( Read more... )

For the past week, at least, it's been sports channel 24/7 in my house. I've watched so much sports broadcasting I think my head might implode ( Read more... )

Today's my first day subbing for the dance class. Coincidentally, today's also the first day of bellydance boot camp. I'll be at the dance studio from 6-7 for the latter, and then from 8:30-9:30ish for the former. Should be interesting ( Read more... )

I'm not sure whether to blame TKB or the stability ball or some less obvious factor. (I think I'll blame the stability ball, just because it's evil ( Read more... )

I decided a few days ago to stop taking the ibuprofen, with the idea that if I couldn't feel the pain I wouldn't know whether or not it was going away.

Current status: ouch.

"Dear [stuberyl],

Congratulations! Your personal commitment to health and wellness [aka 'your personal commitment to earning the money that we offered as an incentive'] has earned you an invitation to the BeWell Recognition Event, honoring the 1,324 participants who completed Step 3 of the 2009 Program ( Read more... )

I think I could get attached to this three ibuprofen a day thing. My arm still hurts a bit, but nothing else does ( Read more... )

Having finished the course of rx-strength vitamin d a few weeks ago, I finally decided to follow up on the doc's advice to get myself a heavy duty d supplement. While I was at it, I got an iron supplement, to see what that would do. The only times my iron level has been an issue were a couple of occasions when it fell below the baseline required ( Read more... )