Here's to the "dealing with it" half

[clevermanka]

I think I found my next international vacation destination. I need to do a little more research about how stable these things are, because I'm a little worried they'd trigger my sensitive motion-sickness issues, but if it sounds like I'd be okay, sign me the fuck up for a barge tour. I have no words for how absolutely amazing that sounds. Right now, please.

Speaking of Things I Want: This Placemat. For. Real. People. I want it. I want several. THESE WOULD NEVER LEAVE OUR DINING TABLE.

Speaking of Dining: Last night was another lesson in Things I Can't Eat Anymore. I love those lessons, let me tell you. Checker's had Bing Cherries on sale for $3.48/lb, so I bought a little bag (about a pound and a half), thinking that would be a spectacular treat for the evening. Well...it was certainly spectacular. I admit I ate a lot, but I intended to! It was a treat! I ate probably half the bag (about a cereal bowl's worth), and half an hour later I was bloated and uncomfortable like whoa. My stomach was hard to the touch, and the peripheral swelling (back, sides) was minimal, so this was largely gas bloat, not tissue swelling. Misery. redheadfae, I wonder if my gradual decrease in fruit consumption has caused my body to slip into fructose malabsorption. Gonna have to do some digging on what foods have a higher fructose than glucose content since my Google-fu is not spectacular (except when it comes to GIFs) and I'm having problems finding a simple list. Grump.

Ah, well. Live and learn, right? Preach it, Henry.

I'm still a little swollen this morning, but Kiva got things moving with this morning's session (thank goodness). She told me to take it easy today--no heavy exertion--which makes me a little sad because today's WOD looks pretty awesome:
Warm-up:
25 Squats
20 Wallball (20/16)
15 Power Skips each leg
10 Tuck Jumps
5 Burpees
Skill:
Press 3×10
Push Press 10×3
Front Squats 8×8
Pull-up Progressions:
-Hollow/Superman
-Bar Kipping
-Active Shoulders
WOD:
Mini “Cindy” 7 minute AMRAP
5 Pull-ups
10 Push-ups
15 Squats

Today's schedule is chock-full of things I can either do well, or things I need work on. Also, I am dying to watch these people skip around the box. I wonder if people would look askance at me if I did everything but the WOD. Hm.

Um. So this is sexy. And creepy. And an example of some amazingly good video editing.


For those of you who aren't hip to the reference, that is Lady Gaga kissing Jo Calderone. Her drag alter-ego. So that's Gaga kissing herself. Wow. WOW AND LOVE.

This is one of the best tattoos I've ever seen. SFW. Grab a tissue if you're feeling emotionally delicate, though.

Comments

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I've been on a barge, and they are AWESOME. Since I don't get travel sickness, I can't testify to their motion-sickness inducing potency, but for the most part, barges are very slow moving and stick to rivers and canals, so you should be okay. I don't know what you've used to combat the motion sickness in the past, but my mother's used a ginger-based version before, and it worked out well for her.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Alas, ginger doesn't work for me. Mine's not a stomach-based nausea. It's a weird inner-ear vertigo thing that can be triggered by something as simple as turning around in my office chair too fast. HATE IT.

Um, looking at your icon...you've seen this tumblr (http://fuckyeahhockeyladies.tumblr.com/), yes?

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Hmm-can you use those motion sickness patches? They tend to work on inner-ear as well as nausea, since the balance-out-of-whack is what causes the nausea, from what I understand.

And I've had that exact thing happen to me! I was falling asleep on a car ride; we stopped, and I shook my head to wake myself up, and LITERALLY GOT A CASE OF BED-SPINS (without the bed, of course, and without one drop of alcohol!). My eyes wouldn't even hold still, my equilibrium was so fucked up! It scared me half to death.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

can you use those motion sickness patches?

Those ones that go behind the ear? I've never tried them. To be honest, I'm so terrified of getting motion sick these days that I avoid any and all situations that have even the potential to make me wobbly.

CrossFit has a couple standard movements that, when I can eventually do them correctly, might trigger my motion-sickness issues. Perhaps I'll give them a try then.

The wristband thing does not work for me.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Oh man that is awful. :/

... no I had not. omg. *runs to add it*

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love sharing good Tumblr discoveries.