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Post by Phalon on Feb 13, 2015 7:50:49 GMT -6
I thought the heat might be an issue there. Here, it's the cold. In fact, it was so cold and windy the other day, that I skipped the outside walk, and did stairs instead. Our stairwell is just 17 steps up, and I did them up and down 10 times (up and back down as a complete rep). I thought my legs were going to fall off by the time I was done.
I definitely agree with that last part, and squats would burn calories, and tone up muscles, which is also what jumping rope does. Skipping rope is also a big cardio thing too though, and I don't think squats would have the same benefit. Alternating between the two would be a good idea...but only if it doesn't hurt her ankles once she gives them a rest.
No exercise for me last night. Instead, pizza (spinach and mushroom) and beer with Crazy Cheryl. Did get a nice ab workout in though....from laughing so hard.
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Post by stepper on Feb 13, 2015 12:10:21 GMT -6
I can understand skipping the outside walk because of the cold - especially if it's windy. You guys have had some seriously cold days this year. Our weather guessers are saying it'll come our way about the middle of next week. We're having really nice days at the moment - but there's a chance of mixed precipitation by Wednesday. We've been too warm for it to stick, but it's an indication of serious cold coming. Just what the orange and peach growers want to hear I'm sure. And about those stairs - moderation in all things! Are you in good enough condition to do reps on stairs to the point of burning? Don't injure yourself just in time to not be able to go to the nursery as the season opens up. Speaking of which, that'll be pretty soon won't it? I'm not so sure about that - the up and down should elevate the heart rate enough to count as cardio. A set of squats without the kick back part - the ones where you extend your arms in front while doing just the squat - that'll get your heart going and it burns oxygen which will get you breathing too. It won't leave you oxygen depleted like swimming will, but it might be a better option than doing thrusts too. Now that I think about it - I'm sure it would be a good option for all three of us. (Besides, you need better legs that what you were flashing last November! ) Oh - and I see you've returned your icon to being Phalon again.
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 13, 2015 17:32:36 GMT -6
I added weights to my MIP & MJJs. I put a one pound wrist weight on each ankle, and held a two pound dumbbell in each hand. I think the two pound dumbbells were too much for the MJJs though. I think tomorrow I'll get out my five pound ankle weights, and put the one pound wrist weights on my wrists. The ankle weights uses five one pound packets, so I'll remove four of them.
I was thinking of adding "Let Me Ins," but I'm not sure my door knobs are sturdy enough for that. And I don't know about using my kitchen table for pull ups. I have a vanity table top that may/may not work, since it's attached to the wall . . . and I'd have to turn off the electric radiator, or move it out of the way.
These are how you work your way up to using your door for chin/pull ups. Though I'd need a chair to stand on.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 14, 2015 8:25:46 GMT -6
Yes, and I don't know. Yes, I'm in good enough condition to do stair reps - I kind of enjoy the burn, actually. It's like riding a bike uphill vs x-country skiing - they use different muscles groups. Stairs and bike riding use the same leg muscles, as does skiing and walking/jogging.
I don't know actually when the nursery will reopen. Sometime in March? It's never been later than the first week in April. If you look outside now though - we are experiencing "blizzard conditions" - it seems like spring is a long way off. Looks like I'll be taking to the stairs again today.
I think I'm gonna pass on squats - there's entirely too much snap, crackle, popping going on in my knee when I do those.
Joxie, you sometimes crack me up...or rather, I crack myself up because I often have to do mini-drills to try and figure out your acronyms, and then give myself a "Duh, Phalon" slap to the forehead. MJJ - modified jumping jacks, I'm assuming. MIP? Drill says "minor in possession". HA! What exactly are you including in your workouts, Joxie?
Hubs and BP both gave me chocolate for Valentine's Day. Sigh.
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Post by stepper on Feb 14, 2015 14:31:21 GMT -6
You enjoy the burn?? I don't know if that's kinky or perverted!
Yet stairs don't bother you? Hmm. Have you considered stretching exercises?
I like your definition better. I was guessing Marching In Place because of the added weights.
And you'd like us to help you dispose of it?
Wow Joxcee - you're moving right along there. I prefer to advance the workout a little more slowly, but if you're up to it then go for it!
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 14, 2015 22:51:31 GMT -6
Stepper is correct, it's Marching in Place. So, today I put on the wrist & ankle weights, and the wrist weights are heavier, so I'm guessing they're 2 lbs. Anyhoo, I only did 50 MJJs with the wrist weights, and 50 without. The 1 lb. ankle weights stayed on throughout the MIP & MJJs. I may start keeping them on as I move about the house . . . and maybe even when I go to Mom's to do my chores there.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 15, 2015 9:02:43 GMT -6
The stairs don't bother me unless my knee is already bothering me. And the squats don't hurt either; the crackling and popping sound, which I'm not even sure is a sound, though I can feel it, is only on the upward movement of the squat. I'm pretty sure it can't be a good thing though, and as you mentioned, I've got to preserve myself for when the nursery reopens.
Help yourselves to all you want! I left a bunch of it in a little gift bag along with some heart-shaped lollipops out for the mail lady yesterday. She's so sweet. She's afraid of the dog - mostly because she carries treats with her, and Quetta knows it so of course, if she's outside, she goes charging toward the mail lady when she sees her coming. Usually, if I see her first, I'll put the dog inside. Even then, often I'll find dog treats left in the mailbox though.
Good deal, Joxie! I've been thinking about getting those velcro-type weights for years to use when I go skiing. I never have though - now would be a good time. I've been skipping out on using the weights while marching - the five pound bar bells were probably too much to start with; after a few times using them, I was out chopping ice with the hulk-of-an-ice-chopper, and felt tinges of pain (again, I don't want to get hurt before I go back to work). I've got three pound bar bells....somewhere....could be anywhere, but I think the snap-on kind would be easier to use (like not getting clunked in the head with a bar bell, for example).
So. I'm fighting temptation. How often are you guys weighing yourselves? Was thinking I'd wait until the end of the month to get back on the scale, but tomorrow is one week since I got it, and I'm waaay curious.
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Post by stepper on Feb 15, 2015 17:58:42 GMT -6
Wow - you dumped off your Valentines presents (bypassing the chocolately goodness- and the calories) while simultaneously getting points with the mail person! My congratulations! Daily would make you crazy - weekly is fair, but you need to remember to weigh yourself at approximately the same time for a fair comparison. Friday evening after dinner one week and Saturday morning when you first get up the next time isn't a good check. You'll have different weights at different times during the day. Weekly works for me, although this week may be a skip for me because of Valentines. I got her/us chocolate covered strawberries, a medium sized heart shaped chocolate chip cookie with icing, lobster tails, filet mignon, a fairly large Hershey's Kiss, and way too much chocolate (like Reese’s Hearts.) I took off Friday so we're stretching it past one day to more like four - or could you tell? Anyway - I'm going with weekly. Why not monthly? Like you said "I'm waaay curious." and for me, a month would be counter productive. I'd tell myself it's not close enough to the last minute so I don't need to be serious yet and that would be a bad thing. I've been known to find steam rooms to sweat out some of the excess if I waited too long - for me it's better to know where I stand and that means reminders. Anyone care to voice an opinion on artificial sweeteners vice good ‘ole sugar?
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 16, 2015 0:11:53 GMT -6
Thank you.
The ankle weights I have have five one-pound sand bags in pockets. You might consider one of those, as you can build up to all five pounds. Which is what I plan on doing. My dumbbells are two-pounds, and maybe later I'll use them along with the wrist weights. I have a larger dumbbell set. I can't remember what the poundage is. Hopefully that info is on them somewhere. I think they're four or five-pounds.
Usually about once a week. The other day it said I was 121.8, and then later on I got the same number, and then it quickly switched to 120.4 ... hmmmmmmm ... I didn't think it was that long ago I put in a new battery, but maybe it was. I mostly care about how my clothes fit. They're still a bit tight, but they aren't digging in. And my arm pits are becoming innies and no longer outies. Got nice biceps too. Still flabby in the triceps department. May need to add a pullup of some kind. I'm still trying to figure out where to go from here.
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 16, 2015 0:23:23 GMT -6
I say use sugar. You can start out with how much you normally use, and decrease it slowly over time. And when you hit the limit where you cannot go any lower, stop. I use less sugar in my tea than my family does. I never really cared for tea. I only liked it when it was first made. My sister hates new tea. She likes it after it has aged a few days. When I made my own tea, I discovered I love it with less sugar than they put in it. And I like it weak. If I don't drink it up before it gets stronger, I boil some water and add it to the tea to weaken it again.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 16, 2015 8:28:00 GMT -6
Oh, how sweet! (In more ways than one - chocolate-covered strawberries sound wonderful!) We were going to go out for Valentine's dinner, but the weather kept us in.
Hhmmm...not really an issue with me. I drink my coffee black, and since I don't drink soda, don't have to choose between regular and diet (I pretty sure diet soda has artificial sweeteners?). I don't drink tea either, except on rare occasion - green tea for colds only because something hot opens up sinuses; I don't sweeten it.
I would say though, sugar over artificial sweetener. Artificial anything doesn't sound like a good thing to put in your body.
Yes! That's what I need - the wrist kind. Sooner than later. Since my skiing has been curtailed - which is an excellent arm workout - I'd like to ease into getting them ready for work instead of one day nothing and then the next, walking around like a monkey with my arms dragging the ground because they're so tired.
Dumbbells! Slaps forehead, because I am one. I honestly couldn't think of what they were called...I was using 5 pound dumbbells; not 5 pound barbells (and not bar bells either - another slap to the forehead).
Ok, weekly it is....
D@mn, stupid ****ing dumb-@ss scale!!! WTF!!! Seriously? All giddy-like, I weighed myself this morning, honestly expecting to see a lower number than I did last week at this time. I mean, I've been sticking like glue to the exercise routine, completely cut-out bakery goods and Cappuccinos (which surprisingly I haven't missed), stopped snacking during the day, and sticking to healthy snacks at night - how is it possible to not lose weight?! Grrrr.
Could be worse though. I weigh exactly the same as I did last week.
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 16, 2015 18:21:02 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Feb 17, 2015 7:33:17 GMT -6
Put your bubble back together, Missy (I suggest using duct tape). To say that "muscle weighs more than fat is a myth" is misleading. It's true that 1 pound of muscle equals 1 pound of fat - even I can do that math. But muscle is denser than fat. It's like that age-old kids' riddle - which weighs more; 100 pounds of feathers or 100 pounds of cement? Though they weigh the same, if you look at a 100 pounds of each, the cement is going to take up less space than the feathers, because the cement is denser. It stands to reason then, that a pound of muscle is going to take up less space than a pound of fat - so when fat turns to muscle on your body, you're not going to be as big. Sounds good to me, anyway. Here are four good little blurbs from health and fitness experts on why a person who is exercising may not be losing weight: www.sharecare.com/health/exercise-weight-loss/how-long-start-see-changes Since Stepper brought up the sugar versus artificial sweetener question, here's another... Do you pay attention to whether what you're eating does or doesn't contain hydrogenated oil?
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 17, 2015 17:58:28 GMT -6
I don't pay any attention at all to what I eat. I eat as I always have. The healthy eating part won't be as easy as getting off my butt and doing some exercises.
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Post by stepper on Feb 17, 2015 21:38:14 GMT -6
First: Phalon is right - a pound = a pound, but the mass to weight ratio is different. Additionally, muscle burns energy where as fat is stored energy. More muscle burns more energy = less stored energy = less fat. The body, everyone's, is supposed to have some fat. It's a question of how much - what's right for you. No. I already use butter mostly, but not always; I very much prefer white bread, I like hot dogs and hamburgers, the occasional donut, and tortillas are a must with tacos which means breakfast Mon-Fri. The only good thing is that I use very little vegetable shortening - it's required when cooking taquitos if you have good ones because it deals with the increased heat you need to properly cook them - and we have a lady on the first floor at work who hand rolls the BEST taquitos. And darn you for pointing it out too! This is partly why I don't diet - everything I eat is evil and verboten. Man, I sure understand that one.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 18, 2015 7:36:37 GMT -6
Sorry. But, but, but...
Not even little changes to the way you eat? Eating healthier is not the same as dieting, you know. When you use margarine, substituting one that doesn't contain hydrogenated oil isn't going to affect the taste at all, for example. Same with peanut butter. I switched to both of those years ago.
When we were hanging around the kitchen sink talking about cholesterol before we moved in here, I drilled ways to lower it. I knew trans fats were bad - they lower good cholesterol while raising the bad - which is why I decided to severely limit crackers and baked goods, two of my vices. I didn't know until drilling however, that nutrition labels often say "0 trans fats and 0 cholesterol", but still contain hydrogenated oil. I was surprised for example, to learn that powdered hot chocolate mixes are one of the biggest "hidden" hydrogenated oil culprits - only hidden because I was reading the nutrition labels, and not the ingredient list.
Reading labels has become a big deal when grocery shopping for the last couple of months....ever since BP watched "Food Inc.". The shopping experience since has been an eye-opener for us both - she was surprised at how much I bought and why I chose this brand over that brand, fit in with her whole new non-GMO, free-range, non-caged, no hormones, no antibiotics, humanely processed ideology. I learned to read labels better. And that going through the meat department with her greatly taxes my patience.
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Post by stepper on Feb 19, 2015 22:33:32 GMT -6
Just keep in mind that I always get the grumps when I'm telling myself I can't have something - like food I like.
You know, it's not her fault that your school system is polluting innocent children with this stuff, and I'm beginning to not like them. How are you going to fix her when they teach her all this cr@p while she's young??
So, you're pretty much consuming tofu? Give the poor girl a sirloin!
Oh, yeah. -4.6 - I'd say it was water weight but I'm drinking too much iced water for that to be it.
Joxcee - you didn't say recently. How are you progressing with the coffee table push ups? Or are you temporarily counting snow shovel lifting was sufficient upper torso exercises?
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Post by Phalon on Feb 20, 2015 7:43:19 GMT -6
LMAO. I know you don't care about this stuff, but I'm glad that she does. She didn't see the documentary at school; she and her friend rented it on Netflix...and hopefully, learning this stuff while she's young will help her to prevent having some of the food-related health issues that so many Americans have when they're older.
Nah - the girl loves her steak; she has no intentions of becoming a vegetarian or vegan. It's pretty easy to find chicken, for example, labeled 'hormone and antibiotic free'; I was buying that anyway. 'Non-caged', 'free range', and 'organic' is a different story - it's readily available, but it's more than double the cost. The biggest issue when shopping the meat department with her though, is beef and pork. It's not prepackaged; our grocery store butchers the cuts, and sticks their own label on it, which doesn't have anything but basically the weight and price. I suppose if we went earlier in the day instead of evenings, there'd be someone in the meat department to ask, but in the evenings there are only stockers working who don't know cr@p.
I am waaay jealous! I honestly thought it'd be easy to lose three pounds in a month - three pounds in a week for that matter! Doing everything I set out do to - that's actually quite easy, but I was surprised it didn't translate to a lower number on the scale this past Monday. Ah well, maybe next Monday.
I was thinking yesterday while shoveling, that my upper torso is going to be lopsided by the time winter is over. I always shovel the same way, and actually laughed out loud at myself, when I tried to switch; I can't do it.
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Post by stepper on Feb 20, 2015 19:21:00 GMT -6
You seem to have the space. Every consider a chicken coop? Raising chickens isn't that hard and it can be fun. And the eggs come in handy too. I thought it'd be a realistic target - and I'm with you - I'm surprised that you didn't gain or lose. I didn't do anything serious - cut a couple of soda's, try to knock off some of the late night snacking (which is turning out to be really, really hard), and I cut back on salt. I've been known to sometimes have food with my salt. Ya know? But I can't just cut it - I think it'd be too drastic a change for my system. So you're not ambidux..bi-dimention...you don't swing both...um...you drive with the right hand but never the left?
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Post by Phalon on Feb 21, 2015 8:49:22 GMT -6
Shhhhh!!! Do you want her to hear?! It'd be a cold day in hell (and I don't mean Hell, Michigan, which I'm sure is froze over right now) before I even remotely entertained the thought of raising chickens. Fun, you say? Pfft! It'd be a total pain in the @ss, I'm thinking.
Even cutting out a couple of sodas, and some of your salt intake is a good thing - yay for you! Nightly snacking - I'm actually quite pleased with myself; I thought it would be way harder than it is to give up bakery goods and cappuccino; I haven't had any since the Mid-week cappuccino and oatmeal cookie break the first week.
Maybe my scale reading is misleading; I could say my jeans fit looser, but that could just be wishful thinking. The time of day that I'm weighing myself? Might try weighing myself earlier in the morning. I wonder how much 3/4 of a pot of coffee weighs?
I think I might be shoveling left-handed (I'm right-handed). I dunno, is there such a thing as shoveling (or driving) right or left-handed? I suppose there could be - I've been told I wear my watch, and hang clothes like a left-handed person; I never realized there was a left or right way of doing these things either. Seems when shoveling, it's my left arm doing all the work, while my right just guides the direction...which now that I think about it, does indicate dominance in a way.
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 21, 2015 22:19:24 GMT -6
The last time I did them, which was on Monday, Feb. 16 . . . I did 25. The 25 is still a bit tough. I thought I'd wait until I got up to 40 maybe before moving to the floor. I post my progress here:
bchelsierraremly.runboard.com/f32
I haven't been shoveling any snow. Heavy rains and above freezing weather is getting rid of it for me.
Yeah. It's really hard for me to do it left-handed. But I do use my left hand/arm more than a lot of right-handed people. I think that's because I don't see out of my right eye.
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Post by stepper on Feb 21, 2015 23:06:03 GMT -6
25 is pretty darn good - and I agree with your decision to up the number a little before you change which one you are doing. You want them to be a little more comfortable before switching positions. And if it proves to be a problem for one reason or another, you can always stick with the table push-ups. Just don't quit because you'll have to cut back on the reps and work your way back up again.
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Post by stepper on Feb 21, 2015 23:06:58 GMT -6
Productive pets! What's wrong with that? And I'm sure BP would LOVE to give it a try. And if it doesn't work out you could always just eat a lot of chicken soup. And this way you could ensure they not caged, not antibiotics....it's such a good idea!!
What??!! Oatmeal cookies are bad?? No flipping way! Oatmeal is good for you!
Weighing yourself before you start sucking down coffee would seem to be the preferred method. How much does the 3/4's weigh? Put it in a mason jar and put it on your scale.
Yes, actually there is.
So you wear your watch on your right wrist? The way you describe shoveling snow would make you a lefty - right hand is a fulcrum and left hand/arm provides the power. When you write, are you left handed?
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 22, 2015 0:10:34 GMT -6
25 is pretty darn good - and I agree with your decision to up the number a little before you change which one you are doing. You want them to be a little more comfortable before switching positions. And if it proves to be a problem for one reason or another, you can always stick with the table push-ups. Just don't quit because you'll have to cut back on the reps and work your way back up again.
Yeah. I think it's a good number too. My biceps are getting pretty toned. (I need to add an exercise that works the triceps.) When I get home from the hospital I just don't feel like doing anything. Sitting in their chairs makes me too stiff to even want to move. I plan on doing the coffee table pushups whenever I start back exercising. It probably won't take as long to build back up to 25 as it did the first time. I hope.
I didn't think about doing some of my exercises while in the hospital. Then I'd only have the hula hoop & treadmill to do when I got home.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 22, 2015 9:37:25 GMT -6
I'm completely ignoring this.
Crazy Cheryl has laying hens, and she bring us eggs when she comes into town...when she remembers...which is usually right after I've bought eggs at the grocery store.
Yes, I write with my right hand, but have always worn my watch on my right wrist, which I never realized was the left-handed preference until someone, and many people since, pointed it out to me. I've noticed also at the nursery, I tend to lift more with my left arm than I do with my right. Maybe it's partially genetic - both my brothers are left-handed. Mike, to my knowledge, was a complete lefty - he did everything left-handed (as does LX). Bobby, on the other hand (pun or no), though he's not ambidextrous, writes with his left, but has always done every sport he's participated in - baseball, hockey, archery, shooting - right handed.
Sitting in a hospital is as physically draining as it is mentally draining. Hope she's home soon, Joxie.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 23, 2015 7:32:20 GMT -6
Weekly weigh-in day, and HA! Lopsided or not, I have shoveled, exercised, and healthily ate my way to...
...weighing exactly the same as when I started.
Oh, and one cup of coffee (I forgot to weigh myself before the first cup) weighs exactly the same as 5 1/2 cups. I weighed myself before and after coffee just out of curiosity.
LMAO. My metabolism is just limbering up; I can feel it.
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Post by stepper on Feb 23, 2015 20:04:49 GMT -6
To quote someone who recently said this... But, but, but... Then I realized what's happening here. You want ME to mention it to her so Hubs won't be upset about the pets! No problem! Except that I don't have her e-mail address and I'm sure her id isn't BP. Tell you what, I'll send you some pictures of mature chickens and you can help her pick 'em out. At least she's bring them. Are any of them starting to develop? Or double yolked? I've never seen a double yolk except from someone's personal coup. I don't know if commercial hatcheries scan them out of the group, but I'm thinking they do something. What you describe used to be common. For reasons I don't remember, it didn't matter if you were right or left handed, teachers insisted everyone in the class had to learn to write with their right hand - it seemed like they were overly impressed with the hand writing example they had stretched across the side wall. We had a lefty in our class who was left handed for everything except writing. I suspect they pretty much ignore that anymore - hopefully so - I'm sure it's difficult to force yourself to do something that requires the precision of writing with the "wrong" hand. But we can learn to do anything. San Antonio crowned a new beauty queen over the weekend - and to honest she really is decent looking. For her talent she played a guitar and sang - decently. The decently part is the amazing part - she's completely deaf. Can't hear a word of what she's saying or singing, nor can she hear the guitar. She just refused to accept anything as a limitation. She feels the vibrations for tones and then practices until she can reproduce them. She can even pronounce SH like should and shell. When the announced she won the announcer had his back to her and towards the audience. She didn't know she'd won until another one of the ladies told her (and she could read the lips of the person telling her.) One more thing - it was her first contest. I think she'd fix in the shero thread nicely. People who overcome those kinds of odds are impressive. And before I forget - is the scale on a hard floor or carpet? I feel like that with alarming frequency.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 24, 2015 7:38:01 GMT -6
This sounds all too familiar...like the time Hubs and I were shown carefully orchestrated Power Point Presentations of exotic breeds of small pigs, followed months later by snake breeds, and finally, breeds of dogs. LX was the master of 'bait and switch'.
A personal coup - is that like a moment of individual brilliance? I can't remember if we've ever cracked open an egg with a double yolk, but none that were starting to develop: when you raise chickens you have to collect eggs daily, so there is no chance for an embryo to start to develop - just another reason not to raise chickens; no way I want to trudge through the snow and wind every day to collect eggs. Commercial hatcheries candle their eggs to ensure there are no defects within the egg; something I know from my food inspector days.
With Bob, considering he learned to shoot a rifle and bow much older than school age, I'm guessing because he switches from being left-handed to right-handed for particular tasks, he could be right eye dominate; I've read before that it's quite common for someone to have a different hand than an eye dominance.
By the time we were school-age in the 70s, I don't think they tried to force children to be right handed in school anymore. It is difficult to teach a lefty though. Teaching LX to tie her shoes was nearly impossible until I showed her the double rabbit ear way; she ended up learning the regular way from a left-handed worker at day care. She "failed" scissors 101 in preschool which surprised me because she never had a problem using scissors before; Mom suggested sending LX with her own scissors which Mom - having raised two lefties - had given LX - they were left-handed scissors. When she first learned to write, her teacher thought she might be dyslexic because she, though her letters weren't backwards, wrote from right to left across the paper - she did it that way, of course, just so she could see what she was writing. A left-handed person covers up what they've written as they write; for a kid learning to write, they tend to want to see what they're doing.
The scale is on a hard floor. I'm not worried about it though - maybe surprised, but not worried; I read that it can take 2-6 weeks for people to start losing weight, and this is only the second week I've actually weighed myself. <shrugs> It'll happen eventually. I hope.
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Post by stepper on Feb 24, 2015 19:17:42 GMT -6
She'll have a stellar career in sales - without college! It'll save you a bundle! And, and, you could save even more as you replace vehicles that you take skating! You're thinking of a coup d'aha - it's much like a coup d'etat but more funner and much less violent - although if it comes with brain cramps that does sort of detract a bit. But, no, I meant the kind that comes with layers - egg layers and I know what you just thought! (That would be a coup d'woohoo!) I meant layers with fluffy legs and that produce furtile eggs and you can say "Hey little chickie" and they come check you out and you don't lose teeth, money in a divorce, or get kicked in the shins. And you'd be lucky to have them - they're such clucky little things. The guy I work with is a lefty - he doesn't write right to left, but he turns the page to a severe angle when he writes. It looks really odd, but when he straightens out the page he writing looks normal. I'm sure it will - as long as you don't commit death by Easter Egg you're going to drop it - actually you probably already are but since you purchased a normal scale that doesn't weigh you in ounces you can't tell yet. I bet that the jeans really are a touch looser and your scale is a liar, or it's like me and teases you at nearly every chance.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 26, 2015 7:46:55 GMT -6
Just as fitting, one of her majors is integrative public relations. I think she'll do well since she's already so good at telling people how they should think.
And if they stage an uprising? A coup d' coop - no thanks.
LX obviously doesn't write right to left anymore - that was just the first couple of weeks of kindergarten. She doesn't turn the paper either (I have a co-worker that does that). She holds her hand at a strange angle though, below whatever she's writing so she writes upward. My brother does the opposite - his hand curls downward above the words. Both ways look painful to me, but the reason - or so I've been told by the lefties in my life - is so they don't smear what they've just written.
I know I shouldn't ask, but death by Easter Egg? Hard-boiled bombs lobbed in the direction of the unsuspecting? And if a person is lucky enough to survive, I suppose they'd suffer from egg shell-shock afterward.
Sometimes I think how can we possibly devise new ways to make ourselves unhealthy, and then Voila! Someone comes along and makes it easier. I saw a commercial last night for a new Little Caesar's creation - a thick crust pizza wrapped in over 3 feet of bacon, topped with gobs of cheese, pepperoni, and even more bacon. Seriously? Why not just inject pure cholesterol into your veins.
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