THE STORE:

I left work early yesterday to pick up my New Balance shoes at Foot Solutions. I've waited a long time and worked hard for these shoes. They are white with silver and blue trim. It's actually good that I had to pre-order them, at least color-wise. Otherwise I'd be stuck with silver and red trim, a color combination I try my darndest to ( Read more... )

When I tried on the New Balance shoes I had ordered, the right one was a half size too small (my right foot is a half size larger than my left). New Balance does make shoes in half sizes, so they will order a new right shoe in a half size larger. It will be good to have shoes that fit both my feet, but now I have to wait another week. Disappointing ( Read more... )

Remember when I bought new athletic shoes six weeks ago? That didn't quite work out all that well ( Read more... )

Saturday morning I realized that for once we had a free weekend with no commitments. I was so busy Friday that this fact crept up and surprised me. What to do with a free day? Go shopping, of course!

rfunk and I stopped by a hardware store to pick up some things on a list we had been making for a while. Then later I picked up a few new clothes at Kohl' ( Read more... )

In early March I purchased the Yoga For Every Body DVD. My plan was to try using it for a few weeks and then post a review. Since then, this DVD has become my default go-to for my daily practice. It contains yoga practice sessions at progressive levels of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced; some 35 workouts in all. At each difficulty ( Read more... )

The word of the week in my yoga practice is ease. Last week my muscles felt the effects of my efforts on the elliptical (in a good way). My goal this week is to let them adjust to the exercise. I’m not slacking off, but I’m not increasing my exercise either. Just taking it easy. I’m doing a consistent 12-15 minutes of warm up on the elliptical, ( Read more... )

Checking my LiveJournal archives, I see that I have been taking glucosamine and chondroiten for 5 weeks now. I want you to know that sitting down no longer produces twinges of pain in my knees. This morning I knelt down to pick something up off the floor with an easy, smooth, graceful movement, and no pain. Glucosamine works ( Read more... )

Yesterday I noticed that the tingling in my foot is worse when I walk down stairs. Plantar fasciitis maybe? I have been wearing my New Balance shoes with strong arch support today, and my feet feel much better. I'll be wearing them every day for a while. I should stay off the exercise bike for a few days too, though that makes me sad. It would ( Read more... )

Over the weekend rfunk helped me clear the clutter out of my middle bedroom, which hadn't been straightened up since last spring sometime and had also been serving as the-room-where-stuff-goes-that-I-don't-know-what-to-do-with. I now have a large pile to go to the thrift store and yard sales, and a pile of broken down boxes that I will take to recycling ( Read more... )

I finally broke down and bought a dehumidifier yesterday, after having talked about getting one since before I moved into my house. After installing the dehumidifier in the basement, I took the vacuum cleaner down and vacuumed up spider webs and about half a million dead spiders. That has to be one of the ickiest things I've done in a while. I ( Read more... )