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gottawonder) wrote2025-07-01 01:21 am
gottawonder) wrote2025-07-01 01:21 am
Monday, June 30
Today I am grateful for:
Nice weather. Sunny and warm, not too hot.
Good sleep.
I was able to get to my physiotherapy appointment without too much stress, on time for a change.
Medical stuff is always a little weird. Having someone look at your body, to pay close attention to you, when they are basically a stranger.
I spent an hour and a half with a person who I'd never met before, doing movements so he could see what was going on, being touched, and so on.
I know they do this professionally, and it did not feel creepy at all, it's just odd, when you think about it.
So, he saw a few things that I had suspected, that I have a lot of tightness in the lower back on the right side, that in general I have weak glutes and not enough stability in my core, and that my right ankle is very stiff (I had always thought of it as having a weak left ankle, but maybe my right ankle is stiff from compensating).
He used the electrical stimulation thingy on my lower back, and I loved it. He said the only people who don't like it are electricians, because they can't relax with it being more or less a type of electrocution.
When I talked to my Sweetie about it, he said he'd had it a long time ago, and hated it. He's also done electrical work.
So, I have some pretty straight forward exercises to do, and an appointment to go back in three weeks to see if I'm ready to move on to progressively harder ones.
I really hope that I can break this ongoing cycle of things hurting.
I got groceries, a pretty big haul this time. Every so often, we are somehow out of or low on just about everything, in spite of me getting groceries every week.
I came home and my Sweetie had already let everyone out into their bigger pastures, and he helped me put away groceries.
Then we sat outside on the swing for a while, in the most lovely evening weather, until it was time to bring everyone back in.
Then we watched "Better Man", the biopic of Robbie Williams. His story was pretty familiar, in that so many celebrities go through the same cycle of addiction, but it was such an interestingly filmed creation, with an absolutely astounding dance sequence. You almost don't need to know who he is to enjoy it.
Nice weather. Sunny and warm, not too hot.
Good sleep.
I was able to get to my physiotherapy appointment without too much stress, on time for a change.
Medical stuff is always a little weird. Having someone look at your body, to pay close attention to you, when they are basically a stranger.
I spent an hour and a half with a person who I'd never met before, doing movements so he could see what was going on, being touched, and so on.
I know they do this professionally, and it did not feel creepy at all, it's just odd, when you think about it.
So, he saw a few things that I had suspected, that I have a lot of tightness in the lower back on the right side, that in general I have weak glutes and not enough stability in my core, and that my right ankle is very stiff (I had always thought of it as having a weak left ankle, but maybe my right ankle is stiff from compensating).
He used the electrical stimulation thingy on my lower back, and I loved it. He said the only people who don't like it are electricians, because they can't relax with it being more or less a type of electrocution.
When I talked to my Sweetie about it, he said he'd had it a long time ago, and hated it. He's also done electrical work.
So, I have some pretty straight forward exercises to do, and an appointment to go back in three weeks to see if I'm ready to move on to progressively harder ones.
I really hope that I can break this ongoing cycle of things hurting.
I got groceries, a pretty big haul this time. Every so often, we are somehow out of or low on just about everything, in spite of me getting groceries every week.
I came home and my Sweetie had already let everyone out into their bigger pastures, and he helped me put away groceries.
Then we sat outside on the swing for a while, in the most lovely evening weather, until it was time to bring everyone back in.
Then we watched "Better Man", the biopic of Robbie Williams. His story was pretty familiar, in that so many celebrities go through the same cycle of addiction, but it was such an interestingly filmed creation, with an absolutely astounding dance sequence. You almost don't need to know who he is to enjoy it.
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Ours can fold out so you can lie down, and it has a cushion.
It was my big thing for this summer, to have a nice seating area on the concrete pad on the north side of the house, and to have a little fire box.
Years ago we had a fire pit, but it was hard to mow around and you couldn't use it if there was a risk of fire spreading.
Somehow, with all the work on the house, we never got around to making anywhere nice to sit outside.
When I go home to visit family, and sit out at the farm where my brother T has a nice area to sit, and a propane fire table, I really enjoy it, and this year I finally said "why don't we have anything like this? We're nuts for not enjoying our evenings more".
So, I insisted that we do this for ourselves.
We've only used the fire box a few times, but we have sat a fair amount outside on the swing, folded it out once and napped, and it's lovely. I hope we get to use it often.
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It's good to enjoy nice things like swings, fire pits and pretty patios! I was a bit of a martinet about shovels, power tools, boots and garden hoses left on the porch, but it's much nicer now.
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They're not horribly pricey, and not too bad to assemble.
Our concrete slab isn't very pretty, but I'm doing my best to make it something pleasant.
What's that saying? "Polish that turd!".
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You might edge your slab with cedars planted in urns - one on either side of the swing, maybe. Or you can put a bench directly across from the swing, for a lively summer conversation area.
I am on the lookout for inexpensive boxwoods and the like to put on the front porch urns I once found roadside. So far, no luck.
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a) line the urns with plastic and newspaper before putting in soil and the cedars
b) slide the cedars out of the urn when the weather gets colder
c) heel the cedar root ball into deep soil to overwinter
d) wrap the branches in burlap to prevent dessication
In the spring, you'd dig them out of their heeled-in position and drop them back into the urns.
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We're getting personal now...(!) but I know that when I look at my body, my glutes are not round, they're flat. It IS possible to use hips and so on and not engage glutes that much.