Too busy and it's all my fault
Feb. 17th, 2007 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonIt's official. I have taken on too much, and I have way too many scheduled events outside of work (which means I've had a hard time getting hours in on my admittedly behind project, which means I also have to do work outside of work). Gah. But I want to learn hardware, I want to learn NASM stuff, I want to go to PT to fix my hamstring!
I'm slowly turning a corner with handbalancing. I've found that the nursing/sick room at Colubrid is perfect for balance work -- there are 6 feet between the walls, so if I get into a split handstand in the very center I can basically be close enough to either wall that I can't fall either way. Or rather, if I do fall, the wall catches me soon enough that I can still shift myself off it again. In that room I've found the learning process a lot like learning to juggle. At first, I would be against one wall. I would press and shift weight and think fix the underbalance and fall to the other wall. Then I would press and shift weight and think fix the overbalance. Back and forth. The trick, of course, is to fix the over/underbalances before actually hitting the wall. To do that continuously is to be handbalancing (and wobbling, okay, but still!). Ideally you aren't oscillating that much at all, and you get it down to micromovements, but I feel like this is important for me to learn -- to be able to correct, and pull myself back toward the ideal from the nonideal. On Friday I actually balanced for about six seconds, I think, and for the first time I felt what I read once about a good handstand usually being in a slight state of overbalance but with the fingers pushing down to counteract that. Yeah!
Also, on Wednesday I straddled up from the floor to a 4" or 5" mat for the first time. That makes the first time ever straddling up to something higher than the floor. If I hadn't basically peed all over my grey leggings while doing trampoline work, I wouldn't have even been hiding in that corner, behind a giant foam block, doing straddle-ups where the mat was. Now I'm sort of glad, but at the same time, from now on I'm wearing black. Sigh.
I got my armpits lasered for the first time yesterday (usually it takes three treatments, depending on the cycles of follicle activity and dormancy). It hurt more than I was expecting. Basically, the laser heats up dark things. It does nothing perceptible to my pale skin if no hairs are there. If it encounters a single hair you can hear (and sometimes feel) a little pop, but it doesn't hurt much. If it encounters a lot of hairs densely packed together it starts to feel like a knife... but, as advertised, it doesn't take very long. It's weird, now my underarms seem just like they always are a day after I shave them, but it's creepy to think that all those little hairs I can see are dead now. They'll fall out soon, according to the laser people. I almost backed out of this several times, but ended up doing it because I figured I wanted to eventually, and permanent stuff may as well be done sooner rather than later.
There; I think this post is weird and biological enough now, don't you?
I'm slowly turning a corner with handbalancing. I've found that the nursing/sick room at Colubrid is perfect for balance work -- there are 6 feet between the walls, so if I get into a split handstand in the very center I can basically be close enough to either wall that I can't fall either way. Or rather, if I do fall, the wall catches me soon enough that I can still shift myself off it again. In that room I've found the learning process a lot like learning to juggle. At first, I would be against one wall. I would press and shift weight and think fix the underbalance and fall to the other wall. Then I would press and shift weight and think fix the overbalance. Back and forth. The trick, of course, is to fix the over/underbalances before actually hitting the wall. To do that continuously is to be handbalancing (and wobbling, okay, but still!). Ideally you aren't oscillating that much at all, and you get it down to micromovements, but I feel like this is important for me to learn -- to be able to correct, and pull myself back toward the ideal from the nonideal. On Friday I actually balanced for about six seconds, I think, and for the first time I felt what I read once about a good handstand usually being in a slight state of overbalance but with the fingers pushing down to counteract that. Yeah!
Also, on Wednesday I straddled up from the floor to a 4" or 5" mat for the first time. That makes the first time ever straddling up to something higher than the floor. If I hadn't basically peed all over my grey leggings while doing trampoline work, I wouldn't have even been hiding in that corner, behind a giant foam block, doing straddle-ups where the mat was. Now I'm sort of glad, but at the same time, from now on I'm wearing black. Sigh.
I got my armpits lasered for the first time yesterday (usually it takes three treatments, depending on the cycles of follicle activity and dormancy). It hurt more than I was expecting. Basically, the laser heats up dark things. It does nothing perceptible to my pale skin if no hairs are there. If it encounters a single hair you can hear (and sometimes feel) a little pop, but it doesn't hurt much. If it encounters a lot of hairs densely packed together it starts to feel like a knife... but, as advertised, it doesn't take very long. It's weird, now my underarms seem just like they always are a day after I shave them, but it's creepy to think that all those little hairs I can see are dead now. They'll fall out soon, according to the laser people. I almost backed out of this several times, but ended up doing it because I figured I wanted to eventually, and permanent stuff may as well be done sooner rather than later.
There; I think this post is weird and biological enough now, don't you?
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Date: 2007-02-18 10:48 pm (UTC)I thought this hurt more than the Essure follow-up. Without having a good reference point for 10 (maybe 10 is where you'd scream?) I thought that was about 4 or 5. This was 3 or 4 for most of it but spiked to about 8 for a couple of sensitive spots.
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Date: 2007-02-18 11:51 pm (UTC)