This weekend was a fun aerial-filled time.  On Saturday, Fitness Dynamics, where we take our aerial classes, had an open house benefiting the American Heart Association.  For your entry donation you got a swag bag full of coupons for spa things, a Fitness Dynamics t-shirt, a lemon-scented organic sugar scrub, and raffle tickets.  You also got to ( Read more... )

Star Drop, badly executed:

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Montreal, first try:

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...but he's still saying what clearly needed to be said!

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Below is a FOAF's blog entry including a transcript.
 http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/10/get-out-of-way.html

Combining two discrete ideas often brings valuable insight:
Mother/Child skin-to-skin contact saves preemie's life

Note where the article mentions that a woman cuddling a baby thermoregulates to suit the baby's needs.  If the baby is too cold, she warms up.  If the baby is too warm, her core temperature decreases to help lower the baby's temperature ( Read more... )

From tigerbright :

I propose a US health care meme which might help put faces on how screwed up the current system is.

If you are a US citizen and could never under any circumstances afford private health insurance, copy this meme to your LJ. Even if you have health care through work now, write as if your one-layoff-away-from-losing-it has happened and you're ( Read more... )

At last count, my cohort's problems consisted of 2 abdominal surgeries, 1 dental surgery, 3 people with fibromyalgia (one of whom also has rheumatism), one sufferer of ME, one heart surgery, a bike accident resulting in hospitalization, one Behcet's Disease, a jammed finger, one possibly metastatic returning colon cancer, and about 30 cases of Con ( Read more... )

Rachel has a hoop on loan from a friend this week.  I have an interesting new set of contusions and abrasions.

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The REAL reason we're in Arizona:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiYwF0dMEk

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Two suits walk into my front office.

Suits: "Hi, I'm [name redacted] and I'm with [staffing agency redacted].  We're just in your area to see if we can fill any staffing needs."

Me:  "Yes, I remember you.  I had an interview with you in December.  You told me I didn't seem career-oriented enough for you to bother placing me.  Take a hike."

World's ( Read more... )

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me ( Read more... )