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

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Bummer about the cherries, but if it's just gas, at least that's sort of fixable by moderation-whereas the other reaction can't be, other than by avoidance (Shut up, Carm; it's not your health).

And now that you're not eating them, have you ever tried
Rainier cherries? They are one of those happy accidents: someone was experimenting with crossing two tart pie cherries, and ended up with a wonderful sweet cherry that looks like a little non-fuzzy peach, all yellow and red!

That tat is gorgeous.

I have weird reactions to tattoos. I saw a guy last weekend who had his child's footprints tattooed on his ribcage (sort of as if he was holding the baby, and it put it's feet on his side, to give an idea of where), and while I've seen that sort of tattoos before, for some reason I wasn't very impressed with it.

But that handprint is really cool, and is placed just right, as if his dad has his arm around him.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

if it's just gas, at least that's sort of fixable by moderation-whereas the other reaction can't be, other than by avoidance

With my Super Speshul Issues, I've found that one is related to the other and repeated exposure to a trigger makes the reaction worse every time. So it's best to just leave something alone if I find it causes any sort of reaction. =(