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[clevermanka]

Check out this amazing tutorial on how to make a high-end clothing collar. Damn, son. I need to try that next time I make a collared garment.

I would not ever in a million years get in the ball pit, but I'm happy there are people who would.

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This guide to resetting your body's movement vocabulary looks fantastic. When I can make more frequent and intense demands on my body, I'd love to incorporate this sort of thing into my activity schedule. However, there is question of where to do this sort of thing. Playing in our backyard is not an option thanks to horrible chigger and mosquito populations, not to mention uneven and treacherous terrain with hard clay soil. I need a rubberized mat playground. Preferably with air-conditioning.

One of the graduate students sent me this list of the twenty-two hottest hunks of PBS. IMO, they are really cheating by using BBC folks, but I'm not going to turn down the eye candy. Young David Attenborough, though.



This morning, a post rolled across my Tumblr dash that I nearly reblogged even though I never reblog stuff like that. I considered reblogging it because it's important to recognize stuff like this and not be ashamed of an invisible illness and support others who have them. On the other hand, I am trying to avoid defining myself by my chronic illness(es). It's a quandary.

Comments

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Hm. I guess I'm not into PBS hunks. Only (maybe) 3 of them were even vaguely interesting to me. And what a sadly unflattering pic of BC.
Sad me.

I wonder if we could rent some time at Point B Studio? All that body retraining does look wonderful. Or maybe I do have enough room downstairs? Wot you fink?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure your space downstairs isn't enough room, alas. And since I exercise first thing in the morning, you'll forgive me if I don't want to come over to your house at 6am three mornings a week! =D

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

HAHA! Oh, of course, I hadn't thought about the time frame.

Yah, that won't work for either of us.

[pamelonian.livejournal.com]

The ball pit video reminded me of my trip. You don't need random prompts to find something in common with strangers. (Or a ball pit, which I won't climb into, either!) I shared cat pictures with Cynthia, admired the beauty of nature with Sanya, discussed Ancient Aliens with Ricardo (they get that show in Brazil), and shared travel adventures with the guys from Germany.

Speaking with Brazilians who didn't know English was a challenge. If I spoke Spanish and they spoke Portuguese slooowly, we could mostly understand each other. The default language on these trips seems to be English or pidgin Spanish.

I am normally pretty bad at talking to strangers, but the extreme experiences we shared bonded us, even temporarily.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic! I'm glad there are friendly people like you in the world. It balances those of us who aren't.

[blackdwarv.livejournal.com]

One of the places that I taught preschool in had a ball pit, and it was the most relaxing thing ever. I admit... we'd go out on rainy days, and I'd sit in the pit watching the kids, mostly because it was fun.

I like the concept of the 'reseting body language', but am not really sure that it would do that much more then just getting out and walking a couple of times a day.
On the other hand, their basic tenants is not dissimilar to really moblie types of martial arts, like monkey-style or taido or even aikido.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

not really sure that it would do that much more then just getting out and walking a couple of times a day.

Yeah....tell you what, spend fifteen minutes just walking around and then spend fifteen minutes doing bear crawls, crab walks, playing on monkey bars and other kid-movement shenanigans. Tell me which wakes up your nervous system more and better incorporates full-body awareness. =D

[blackdwarv.livejournal.com]

True. And I am all for adult-sized playgrounds. I know there is one down in... Colorado? Soemthing like that. I think there should be more.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

That would be AWESOME.

[stuology.livejournal.com]

I would totally get in the ball pit! Not to talk to anyone. I just want to be in the ball pit!

The animated gif--what is that from? I recognize her, but I can't place it and it is DRIVING MY BRAIN CRAZY.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

This is (of course) the only gif I use that I don't know the source. I love it, though. If you ever find out, let me know.