Friday, December 29, 2017

I Want Your Phone

Buddy decided my new phone was something he wanted.

My First Smartphone

I finally got me one of them snazzy smartphones everyone's been talkin' 'bout. 😂 
Welcome to the 21st century.

A popsocket for my 1st smartphone.

I've caught my first Pokemon.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Graduate orientation today

Graduate orientation today. I'm taking a different way to the school to avoid the freeway!

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Healing Plantar Fascia Issues

Walking with toe separators on is a new walking experience. I'm trying to heal my plantar fascia issues.

My left side is what's bad, since my left side is my weaker side.  I hurt myself by doing 95% of the moving to our new house back in May.  Lots of tight muscles that I didn't stretch out.  So I really did a number on myself.  On top of that, I have lost a ton of strength and flexibility in my whole body from sitting so much for class and studying... for 3-1/2 years.

I've been wearing Croc style shoes for a long time now, but I don't think they challenge my feet.. or support them well enough through the fascia.  However, they have kept my toes free to move around and not be crunched up in shoes.

So, I'm doing all sorts of things to help heal mine.  I am approaching this from a whole body perspective.  So, I've been doing yoga (some especially for foot problems)... it helps stretch out and strengthen the whole body.  Any part of my body that's out of alignment can affect my feet... and visa versa.

I've been icing my feet... both with a frozen ice roller and by submersion in a tub of ice water. I  do self-massage on my feet and calves.  I've started wearing toe separators around the house.  I've purchased a pair of Kenkoh Massage Sandals, and I have my eye on a number of Birkenstocks on eBay.

Got my Kenkoh sandals today! (7/17/17)

I've already started to see some improvement.  This morning when I got out of bed I could walk almost without the pain and severe limp that I typically suffer through everyday.  And this is with only a week of daily focus on doing all of these things that promote healing.

If I don't see more drastic improvement in another week or so, I'll order one of those boots that keeps my foot flexed while I'm sleeping.

I plan to start Pilates soon, for more overall body strength and lengthening. An d some sort of cardio that doesn't require that I be up on my feet while they're trying to heal.  So probably some Vinyasa-flow yoga and some chair cardio workouts.  Maybe my stationary bike, if I can make a place for it in the house.

Quote: Deepak Chopra

"The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity." - Deepak Chopra

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Frank Antonson's YouTube School

I've restarted Frank's School and am working through the first year videos.  I have started and stopped so many times, never getting any further than the study on Romeo & Juliet where he has us watch parts of Shakespeare In Love, which by the way is an awesome movie.

As of right now, I have no wheels, so I'm pretty isolated to the house on a daily basis.  Although, I'm seriously considering checking out the city bus schedule.  But with so much time at home, I need things to keep me busy.  So, Frank's school is one of those things that I intend to work though this summer.

Right now Frank has started with Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing.  It is an awesome movie.  I had never watched it until I started Frank's videos a few years ago.  I loved it so much that I bought the DVD.  I may queue it up again today.  It's super funny and always enjoyable.



I will keep a few special blog posts or pages here for Frank's "vocab" list that he wan't us to keep as we work through the first year.  I've misplaced my paper list right now, and it may turn out that it's easier to blog about it anyway.

So, I'm going to get back to Frank's videos.  I'm watching them on my TV via the YouTube app on my Roku.  I'm also putting together a playlist of the first year videos.  I'll link to that when it's completed.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Dinner with Aimee

Had dinner with my friend Aimee at Casa Fuentes tonight... talked her ear off... and had the best fajita that I've ever had (probably because my taste buds actually taste the nuances in food now).

Captain Kangaroo

What do you mean you don't have The Captain in your record collection?





Hoping for an Internship

There were various issues with submitting my personal goal statement through the online form, so I've emailed my answers to the prompts to both the assistantship & internship offices. Everything is submitted. It's out of my hands now. I NEED one of these opportunities, but I've done my part. Now I wait and see if I'll get chosen to be interviewed for a position or two.

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Friends Day Fun

Did a ton of thrift shopping with Sarah... stopped at the music store and found some great vinyl... and got my first mani/pedi (with massage, exfoliation, hot wax, and hot stone massage included).









Now I must get the personal statement done for the grad school $ stuffs.