Suit up

[clevermanka]

I participated in the early voting opportunity yesterday. It was...anticlimactic. I think I prefer voting on Election Day. There's just this air of DRAMA that I appreciate. There was a noticeable lack of DRAMA AIR at the Burge Union. Interestingly (if unsurprisingly), my information didn't autofill in the poll-worker's computer like mckitterick's did. Yet another issue with my identity being screwy (or flagged) in someone's system (but not as traumatic as the passport debacle).

Last night's yoga class was intense. It's not the class I'll be attending regularly (thank goodness), because I don't know that I'd be able to keep up with it. I loved the instructor and the way she ran the class--very engaging and humorous and demanding--but I'm just not strong enough (anymore/yet) to keep up. We held poses for so long that I started to sweat and shake. Not the restorative/rejuvenating yoga that Kiva recommended. Once I'm back in good health, though, I think I'll enroll in this class.

I learned One Very Interesting Thing in the class. One of the poses was basically this backbend, only supported by a chair. I tried it, and managed to hang backward over the seat of the chair for about five seconds before I started to get dizzy and nauseated. When the instructor came over to check on me, I told her what was going on and she said "That's your liver." Huh! I know my liver, spleen and kidneys are all trouble spots in regards to my acupuncture treatments, and the idea that my liver health might be causing my motion sickness issues is intriguing. I'll be mentioning this to Kiva at our next appointment.

For those of you who like eBooks and are interested in Healthy Living, check out my friend Melissa's Big Bundle of eBook Goodness at her blog. In Melissa's words: They’re not all paleo, but there’s a good chunk of paleo peeps, along with bloggers focused on real food, gardening, generally living healthier, and making your own skincare products. I might buy this for my mom for the holidays.

New Tumblr collection is up! Tuesday, October 30: Suits and Slumming. Pretty much what it says. Men in suits. Men slumming. All pretty.

Comments

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

For the first time EVER, I recognized every single one of those gentlemen. Go, hipster me. Or something.

I've been itching to get back to yoga or...well, anything. There are a bajillion yoga DVDs in the house, but it'd be super to have the time/proximity for the advantage of a teacher once in a while. Or maybe even an uninterrupted 20 minutes or so with a DVD. :)

As I learned when researching gall bladder ick, the liver is HUGE. Hope your own recuperative (post-faire) phase is going well.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

For the first time EVER, I recognized every single one of those gentlemen

Perhaps it's my excellent influence. =D

I tried to find photos of other people (Callum Keith Rennie being my most-lamented absence), but I couldn't find good pics of him from a photo shoot, and I avoided publicity pictures for a show. I wanted to show the actors, not the characters they portrayed.

Good luck making the time and finding the peace for some yoga!

Hope your own recuperative (post-faire) phase is going well.

It's not, really, but that's because I've been lazy as fuck.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

I watched as each of your tumblr pics popped up on my dashboard and yes, ALL PRETTY. ;P

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm happy that people can see them! About five minutes after I put up the collection, the whole website stopped loading for me. I hope it's just me and not the servers. Which, I believe, are located on the northeastern coast.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Well, mine is still refreshing, but slowly.

Did you see that video of Jared Padalecki? I just lost it at his expression there!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Well, Tumblr loaded long enough for me to follow you. Erm...what video?

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

It's one I reblogged; it's a Q & A session, and the fan asks him about the worst costume he's had to wear. The X at the bottom is a link to the YT video.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

He's adorable.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! I just lost it when I saw how flustered he got at her response!

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

I may be pestering you for the next who knows how long to figure out how to do stuff on tumblr. I need to add comments to my dashboard, and figure out how to comment on other's posts. So far, the only way I can comment is by simply reblogging and adding my comment their....

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that *is* the only way you can comment for 99.9% of Tumblr posts. Some people have a reply bubble, but for the life of me, I've been unable to figure out how to set those up. Or why most people don't use them.

I don't know what you mean by adding comments to your dashboard. Do you mean reposting things people send you in your ask box?

Tumblr isn't for communication, basically. At least not the way I use it. It's for image sharing.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Their FAQ says you can add commenting to your page by using disqus. Since I'm trying to be a good employee, I decided I should do my stuff like that at home. ;)

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Tumblr kept giving me the "Sorry!" page last night. Not just you. But I think it got fixed.

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

Voting is all pretty much anticlimactic here. We get ballots in the mail.

Like that link to Melissa's blog!! I wouldn't be a bundle person, but the skincare pubs & condiments recipes, I might just get myself.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yay! Happy shopping! Glad you liked the link.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

What a cool combination of dressy and grubby atop handsome fellas.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

If they'd been a-topping, that would've been even better.

HEY-O

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

An internet search of this term, "a-topping," supplies me with no answers. Fandom-speak?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Let's just cut it short to "topping" and see if you get the innuendo.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

So I have some little oddities in my body (a slight swayback, "tibial torsion") that makes it so my toes point out, duck-style, when I'm relaxed. And my knees are slightly more forward but not entirely. I mean, like, I have to adapt MOUNTAIN POSE for fuck's sake, because having my feet line up totally parallel and close together hurts my knees and lower back.

Anyway, it means that almost all backbends are no-go for me because my lower back goes CRUNCH. My cobra is nothing, I don't even really do camel. The one you posted? AHAHAHAHAH NO.

Seriously, the only backbend I can actually do is upward-facing dog, because it forces my legs to rotate in a way that takes the pressure off my lower back. I can't physically do that kind of rotation on my own.

Man, yoga and dance teachers LOVE me. (Well, sometimes they find me fascinating. "Wow, your body really doesn't do that." NOPE. IT SURE DOESN'T.)

On the upside, I have flexible hamstrings. If I do yoga a few times a week it's not long before I can put my hands flat on the floor without bending my knees.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I have to adapt MOUNTAIN POSE for fuck's sake



Seriously, though, poor thing! I feel ya. Bodies are so weird. Thank goodness for the patient instructors who work with us when our bodies can't do what others can.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Oh, feel free to LOL, I do.

One of the reasons I love the yoga studio I do (although I've dropped out of attendance, and I really need to start going again, what with winter and it being depressing and me being on the couch on tumblr all goddamn day) is that they assume everyone will need to adapt some of the poses. We start class with a blanket and blocks nearby, and the teachers will tell you how to adapt poses as they go along, "if this pose feels icky in your knees, sit on your block or a folded blanket," that kind of thing. So you don't feel self-conscious or less-hardcore if you have to adapt a pose. And they also tell you, "if this pose feels easy, here's how to push yourself," which is also very handy! There's a lot of playing with the poses to see what feels best and a constant gentle encouragement to push yourself without hurting yourself. But there's just a general acceptance that all bodies are different, even just from one day to the next, and it doesn't make them good or bad.

I really need to start doing yoga again. Damn.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, that studio sounds fantastic!

One of the things I'm thinking about incorporating into the AutoImmune Protocol is a bit of daily yoga. Nothing terribly involved, but maybe five minutes of meditation, ten sun salutations, a minute of shoulder stand, and then five minutes of savasana. Every day. Surely I can find time to do fifteen minutes of yoga every day. Right? RIGHT.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I've meant to start working sun salutations (at the very least) into my day, but I find that I really just don't enjoy yoga as much in my cluttered bedroom. I love the studio environment (hah, even the way it smells) and hearing my teacher's voice.

I should probably just push through and get over it though.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

For the first time EVER, I recognized every single one of those gentlemen. Go, hipster me. Or something.

I've been itching to get back to yoga or...well, anything. There are a bajillion yoga DVDs in the house, but it'd be super to have the time/proximity for the advantage of a teacher once in a while. Or maybe even an uninterrupted 20 minutes or so with a DVD. :)

As I learned when researching gall bladder ick, the liver is HUGE. Hope your own recuperative (post-faire) phase is going well.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

For the first time EVER, I recognized every single one of those gentlemen

Perhaps it's my excellent influence. =D

I tried to find photos of other people (Callum Keith Rennie being my most-lamented absence), but I couldn't find good pics of him from a photo shoot, and I avoided publicity pictures for a show. I wanted to show the actors, not the characters they portrayed.

Good luck making the time and finding the peace for some yoga!

Hope your own recuperative (post-faire) phase is going well.

It's not, really, but that's because I've been lazy as fuck.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

I watched as each of your tumblr pics popped up on my dashboard and yes, ALL PRETTY. ;P

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm happy that people can see them! About five minutes after I put up the collection, the whole website stopped loading for me. I hope it's just me and not the servers. Which, I believe, are located on the northeastern coast.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Well, mine is still refreshing, but slowly.

Did you see that video of Jared Padalecki? I just lost it at his expression there!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Well, Tumblr loaded long enough for me to follow you. Erm...what video?

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

It's one I reblogged; it's a Q & A session, and the fan asks him about the worst costume he's had to wear. The X at the bottom is a link to the YT video.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

He's adorable.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! I just lost it when I saw how flustered he got at her response!

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

I may be pestering you for the next who knows how long to figure out how to do stuff on tumblr. I need to add comments to my dashboard, and figure out how to comment on other's posts. So far, the only way I can comment is by simply reblogging and adding my comment their....

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that *is* the only way you can comment for 99.9% of Tumblr posts. Some people have a reply bubble, but for the life of me, I've been unable to figure out how to set those up. Or why most people don't use them.

I don't know what you mean by adding comments to your dashboard. Do you mean reposting things people send you in your ask box?

Tumblr isn't for communication, basically. At least not the way I use it. It's for image sharing.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Their FAQ says you can add commenting to your page by using disqus. Since I'm trying to be a good employee, I decided I should do my stuff like that at home. ;)

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Tumblr kept giving me the "Sorry!" page last night. Not just you. But I think it got fixed.

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

Voting is all pretty much anticlimactic here. We get ballots in the mail.

Like that link to Melissa's blog!! I wouldn't be a bundle person, but the skincare pubs & condiments recipes, I might just get myself.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yay! Happy shopping! Glad you liked the link.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

What a cool combination of dressy and grubby atop handsome fellas.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

If they'd been a-topping, that would've been even better.

HEY-O

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

An internet search of this term, "a-topping," supplies me with no answers. Fandom-speak?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Let's just cut it short to "topping" and see if you get the innuendo.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

So I have some little oddities in my body (a slight swayback, "tibial torsion") that makes it so my toes point out, duck-style, when I'm relaxed. And my knees are slightly more forward but not entirely. I mean, like, I have to adapt MOUNTAIN POSE for fuck's sake, because having my feet line up totally parallel and close together hurts my knees and lower back.

Anyway, it means that almost all backbends are no-go for me because my lower back goes CRUNCH. My cobra is nothing, I don't even really do camel. The one you posted? AHAHAHAHAH NO.

Seriously, the only backbend I can actually do is upward-facing dog, because it forces my legs to rotate in a way that takes the pressure off my lower back. I can't physically do that kind of rotation on my own.

Man, yoga and dance teachers LOVE me. (Well, sometimes they find me fascinating. "Wow, your body really doesn't do that." NOPE. IT SURE DOESN'T.)

On the upside, I have flexible hamstrings. If I do yoga a few times a week it's not long before I can put my hands flat on the floor without bending my knees.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I have to adapt MOUNTAIN POSE for fuck's sake



Seriously, though, poor thing! I feel ya. Bodies are so weird. Thank goodness for the patient instructors who work with us when our bodies can't do what others can.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Oh, feel free to LOL, I do.

One of the reasons I love the yoga studio I do (although I've dropped out of attendance, and I really need to start going again, what with winter and it being depressing and me being on the couch on tumblr all goddamn day) is that they assume everyone will need to adapt some of the poses. We start class with a blanket and blocks nearby, and the teachers will tell you how to adapt poses as they go along, "if this pose feels icky in your knees, sit on your block or a folded blanket," that kind of thing. So you don't feel self-conscious or less-hardcore if you have to adapt a pose. And they also tell you, "if this pose feels easy, here's how to push yourself," which is also very handy! There's a lot of playing with the poses to see what feels best and a constant gentle encouragement to push yourself without hurting yourself. But there's just a general acceptance that all bodies are different, even just from one day to the next, and it doesn't make them good or bad.

I really need to start doing yoga again. Damn.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, that studio sounds fantastic!

One of the things I'm thinking about incorporating into the AutoImmune Protocol is a bit of daily yoga. Nothing terribly involved, but maybe five minutes of meditation, ten sun salutations, a minute of shoulder stand, and then five minutes of savasana. Every day. Surely I can find time to do fifteen minutes of yoga every day. Right? RIGHT.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I've meant to start working sun salutations (at the very least) into my day, but I find that I really just don't enjoy yoga as much in my cluttered bedroom. I love the studio environment (hah, even the way it smells) and hearing my teacher's voice.

I should probably just push through and get over it though.