pearly_54's blog

I have so much time for random thoughts during my workout at the gym.  I am feeling bad about having to cut out some of my exercises for a while.  That dumb psoas muscle injury, strain, or whatever.  I am feeling much, much better.  But, doc said hold off on some of the weight lifting stuff that would aggravate it.  Bah!  Actually, anything that works on my "core", seems to effect it, so I cut out 4 that work on my back, and cut my weight to 40 lbs. on the crunch machine.  It was toooo easy, so I doubled my crunches.  Still was easy.

ohhhh, nice.  I just listened to the new "Phreak on Geeks" podcast.  They spent a considerable amount of time pitching the New England Lan.  Wow!  I'll be famous!  Too funny.  Well, they are right.  Lans are a blast.  The best part is putting a face to a name.  And the other stuff?  Ahhhh, too cool to mention.  They did emphasize the need for more peeps to sign up.  I am sooo psyched!  And we have enuf room that Mike James does not have to sleep in the bathtub!  Ha!  Listen to the podcast to find out! 

ohhhh, nice.  I just listened to the new "Phreak on Geeks" podcast.  They spent a considerable amount of time pitching the New England Lan.  Wow!  I'll be famous!  Too funny.  Well, they are right.  Lans are a blast.  The best part is putting a face to a name.  And the other stuff?  Ahhhh, too cool to mention.  They did emphasize the need for more peeps to sign up.  I am sooo psyched!  And we have enuf room that Mike James does not have to sleep in the bathtub!  Ha!  Listen to the podcast to find out! 

March is right around the corner.  We have to wait an extra day cuz of leap year.  Oh well.  No biggie.  My b-day is in March.  Wouldn't you like to know?  I'll tell you this much...the "30 day count down" has already begun.  It's a little game we play in our family.  No one seems to have a very good memory, so if an "event" is going to happen, you start 30 days ahead of time and start reminding the rest of them what slackers they are cuz they don't remember your b-day.  It gets on their nerves, so they "remember" to get you off their back.  What fun!

March is right around the corner.  We have to wait an extra day cuz of leap year.  Oh well.  No biggie.  My b-day is in March.  Wouldn't you like to know?  I'll tell you this much...the "30 day count down" has already begun.  It's a little game we play in our family.  No one seems to have a very good memory, so if an "event" is going to happen, you start 30 days ahead of time and start reminding the rest of them what slackers they are cuz they don't remember your b-day.  It gets on their nerves, so they "remember" to get you off their back.  What fun!

I have some very weird friends.  People in the medical profession are more nuts than you could ever imagine.  We have a PA that puts these beautiful silk butterflies on all the IV poles, decorated the stairwell with hearts, flowers, more butterflies, whatever stickies he can find.  Not regular stickies.  More like 3D, maybe.  The butterflies look real, and the other things are made out of felt or some other material.  Very nice.  First time I saw the stairwell I just stood there and laughed.  I knew John had done it.

I have some very weird friends.  People in the medical profession are more nuts than you could ever imagine.  We have a PA that puts these beautiful silk butterflies on all the IV poles, decorated the stairwell with hearts, flowers, more butterflies, whatever stickies he can find.  Not regular stickies.  More like 3D, maybe.  The butterflies look real, and the other things are made out of felt or some other material.  Very nice.  First time I saw the stairwell I just stood there and laughed.  I knew John had done it.

I have been having problems with my right hip, lower back and overall yukiness.  I go to the chiropractor every other week, so I don't know how this happened.  I told her a few weeks ago that I had this strange "tightness" in my tendons that work my quads.  We both pondered that one for a while, and kinda shrugged and said to watch and wait, do some stretching, apply some heat/ice, whatever.  That didn't get better.  In fact, it progressed to the small of my back, then up the right side of my spine.  I have my anatomy book in front of me, so I have sorta figured out how all this connects. 

I have been having problems with my right hip, lower back and overall yukiness.  I go to the chiropractor every other week, so I don't know how this happened.  I told her a few weeks ago that I had this strange "tightness" in my tendons that work my quads.  We both pondered that one for a while, and kinda shrugged and said to watch and wait, do some stretching, apply some heat/ice, whatever.  That didn't get better.  In fact, it progressed to the small of my back, then up the right side of my spine.  I have my anatomy book in front of me, so I have sorta figured out how all this connects. 

I just got back from the gym.  I think I start all my Saturday blogs that way.    It's cuz I have soo much time to think while i'm doing that treadmill thing.  Oh, yeh, and I lost 1.5 lbs last week.  Not trying, just not hungry, I guess....