I have so far this year managed to exercise quite regularly, which is doing good things for my state of mind, but wow is yoga kicking my ass. How do I ease muscles that are mad because I stretched them? I have slathered my shoulders and back in Aspercreme and smell a bit like an old lady. Last week's bout of Aspercreme came when I started the ( Read more... )

I spent basically all of memorial day weekend in bed sick, which is just ... great. I can get up and walk around today, but am tiring really, really quickly, and unfortunately, there was a lot that needed to get done this weekend and some of it can't be put off any longer, which is to say, two customer orders, one of which is a multi-hour album ( Read more... )

I've started, I think, skirting around the edges of perimenopause, and the biggest symptoms other than some period weirdness has got to the be the sweaters. I sit down to work or read and I get really cold, so I start layering on the sweaters and gloves.

And then I go do pretty much anything (go to the kitchen for a glass of water) and I am ( Read more... )

 I just picked up my car from the mechanic and it drives like it's new again. I guess the clutch had been slowly declining for a long time.

I took the dog for a walk this morning so he would be a little less amped. Eventually - as in after we had been home for 15 minutes -- he got less amped.  Hauling around 20 pounds of jumpy puppy is challenging, ( Read more... )

Today was the day of Dan's sleep deprivation EEG test, which meant that, even though we broke the keeping-him-awake time into shifts, I only got 4 hours of sleep last night, on top of a long accumulation of underslept nights. And went to PT in the morning (I graduated to all standing exercises!)

I feel asleep in my chair while he slept for the EEG ( Read more... )

The Make Sale was a massive fail; they definitely had not yet built the audience to add a Spring Show. Add in horrible weather, and well, there just weren't very many people. I made back table, gas, and a little bit of materials, which was better than most of the other vendors I talked to but .. no. Not here for losing money, and spending 16 hours ( Read more... )

Had my first PT appointment today, and I'm now allowed to not use the mini-brace when I'm home, or when running short, flattish errands. Water-walking is also not only a go but a recommended, and I got more clarity on what weightlifting stuff I can do. Yoga is still a hell no. I can even start walking the dog for short distances, if he isn't too ( Read more... )

I have not been cleared to stop using the damn CAM boot brace thing.
I might get cleared *next* week. Maybe.
but that will mean graduating to an air splint, not to regular shoes.

I plan on wearing the 14 hole docs that should have arrived by then to the appointment, or at least one of them, to suggest that they are an adequate replacement for the damn ( Read more... )

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I'm definitely feeling some significant improvement. Sometimes people get to stop immobilizing at 4 weeks, so I'm hopeful. We will theoretically see on Tuesday when I should have an appointment and an x-ray, but given snowpocalypse mark 2, I suspect that's going to get rescheduled ( Read more... )