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Perky Fleurs

Woke up this morning & stumbled on down the stairs to make a cup of tea, and what should I find waving at me through the garden windows?  Bright, cheery, unashamedly perky flowers!

Threelip?

It seems that the gentlemen who previously owned our house left us a few pleasant surprises in the garden for springtime…now I just need to find time to get up before the bees to pull some weeds and do some pruning of the old stuff!

We have pink and yellow tulips, and when I went to take a picture from a better angle, I spotted this lonely little girl standing off in a corner by one of the garden lights…

daffydil!

Absolutely gorgeous.  Made my morning, as I woke up with my back screaming at me and all sorts of other unpleasant girly things that I won’t go into.  My back has been giving me problems for a couple of months now, and only just finally got around to making a visit to the chiropractor’s office.  Since it’s been years since I last visited, they did a full assessment, and I’ll find out the results today.  I got a pretty good idea from Dr. J, who made some pretty telling comments about my hip being so out of alignment that my left leg is slightly twisted & consequently shorter than the other by about an inch or two.  Yeah, that will cause some problems.

So while I was waiting for all this to happen, I whipped out the Robinsock and did a few rows.  Apparently they see quite a few knitters, and have to tell them to stop hunching over their work.  I guess I shouldn’t be telling them that I’ve been spinning too… ;)

Robinsock goes to the chiropractor

Yes, that’s their website address.  If you need a chiropractor, I highly recommend them.

Finally…since it’s the weekend, I leave you with the following example of “Ur Doing It Wrong”.

Ur doing it wrong

I was getting ready to leave work the other day, when I noticed that the silver car ahead of me was parked rather oddly over the lines.  Notice that there is plenty of space to park on either side of it.  Little black car comes whipping into the lot, pulls up *proportionately* next to the silver car, and this girl gets out and hurries into the building (license plates have been deliberately blurred to protect privacy).  You notice that she didn’t even stop to consider that maybe…just maybe….she was doing it wrong?

Maybe it’s just my sense of symmetry that’s affronted, but c’mon…

Happy weekend!

Published May 14th, 2010 in Health, Knitting, absurdity | Comments Off

The Grand Experiment

I did a little experiment over the almost-month stretch that was the end of August to mid-September. My workplace was having a little incentive that allowed us to dress casually for about 3 or 4 weeks. I set the goal to shrink out of a pair of jeans in that time. It almost worked, too…the jeans, which were a pair of hip-huggers, are practically falling off my butt. I have no idea what keeps them suspended, but they stubbornly refuse to fall.

I lost about 10 or 15 pounds in that time, through eating healthily and getting a bit more exercise.  Mostly through cutting out unecessary sugars and starches, though, as we haven’t been able to get my elliptical trainer out of the garage and into the workout room upstairs.  I’ve kept it off, and taken off about another 5, but I’m noticing that it’s trying to creep back on.  I had an evil little conversation with myself this evening about cinnamon-raisin bagels and the merits of hard-shelled tacos vs. taco salad (sans tortilla).  In other words…I’m getting lazy.

I have another 3 week casual-dress stretch at work, followed by vacation time at the end of the month.  I’m thinking that I need to repeat my experiment.  There will, of course, be some allowances for the season.  Christmas Day will have the requisite turkey with all the trimmings, and New Years will include alcohol if I’m not driving.  Other than that, I plan on following my fooding plan a hell of a lot closer than I currently am (the trouble is that I’m slacking on cooking dinner), and I will be getting my Elliptical in the house, even if I have to take it apart and move it piece by piece.  It also doesn’t hurt that we have a lot more space in the basement, so I should be able to do a couple of my workout DVDs.

The goal?  Well, I’d like to have the current (newer and less droopy) jeans get as baggy as the old jeans are now.  I’d like the old jeans to, ideally, be unwearable.  This, I figure, will put me in line to renew my goals at the beginning of the year, and set my new goal for February.

What are your goals for the end of the year, and how do you plan on achieving them? I’m feeling pretty good about this, particularly since I’ll be ending the year at least 35 lbs lighter than I started it, if I don’t lose any more weight this year.  I guess this is one of the few times when a deficit at the end of the year isn’t such a bad thing!

In more knitterly news: Almost finished the Creamsicle Baby Surprise Jacket (not sure I mentioned it before, so that may be another post later), and I have the home stretch to do on a rather large sock.  At some point I’ll talk about the yarn.  It’s another project of mine — testing out different Canadian-dyed yarns.  It’s a very tactile and fun adventure!

Published December 1st, 2009 in Diet, Diversions, Health, Knitting, Uncategorized | Comments Off