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floatingleafAnother symptom of approaching laptop death: random error messages popping up on my screen at random times. As in, EXTREMELY random. For example, something like: "Failed to load licensing libraries." Eeeee... what??? *blink blink*
In other exciting news, I signed up for overtime this week, so I am working tomorrow.:/ We are doing this endlessly time-consuming project for a client that basically involves a lot of web research. Which, in itself, isn't too bad - I like doing web research (obviously, some topics are more entertaining than others...;). However, doing it for a good few hours every day can prove a little tedious (see, I am practicing the noble art of understatement here... LOL). Not to mention getting nervous and frustrated about the regular work that just keeps piling up on the side while we are plodding our way through all those endless spreadsheets. *sigh*
Even less exciting, I somehow managed to fuck up my back to the point where it became literally painful to move. Namely, it hurt to turn my head to the side and look over my shoulder - especially if my arms were lifted. The pain seemed centered mostly somewhere around my right shoulder blade... but it sort of spread out from there and tended to shoot up my neck if I made a sudden move. I don't know what I did to cause it. I suspect it might have something do to with the usual position I sleep in - curled up on my left side. Now, I normally use two pillows on top of each other to support my neck, so that my spine stays level - but the thing is, I have wide hips, so there is always a bit of a tilt if I am lying on my side, no matter how hard I try to maintain an even position. And then maybe the two pillows are causing the upper part of the spine to tilt a little bit upwards too - so that the middle part sinks down while I sleep. At least that's the only explanation I can think of. So for the past few days I've been trying to sleep on the right side for a change, and I have replaced one of the pillows with a folded sweater. This seems to have helped - or maybe the pain just faded out on its own, hard to say. But I can still feel echoes of it somewhere in the background... and it's interfering with my regular neck & shoulder stretches, because tilting my head a certain way still feels very uncomfortable. Due to this, my neck is currently tense as all fuck. And I have to wait another week for my next chiropractic appointment.:/
Is it normal to feel that old and creaky at 39? Or did I fuck myself up permanently by neglecting exercise when I was younger, and now I have to pay the price? The funny thing is, I really want to take good care of myself at this point in my life - but when it comes to physical fitness, it seems I have woken up too late. I try to exercise regularly, but a simple 20-minute workout might cause me to wake up the next morning aching all over, so I can't really do it every day - and if I happen to accidentally screw up my back like I just did, then I am unable to do anything but very slow, careful stretches for about a week or so afterwards. It's pathetic. I don't want to end up in a wheelchair by the time I'm fifty.:(
Dear, I wasn't even planning on making such a whingey post. I actually wanted to talk about last weekend's spontaneous shopping trip that resulted in acquring THREE new dresses, in addition to another pair of track pants with a matching hoodie (see, I may never become a fitness junkie, but at least now I can dress like one... ;P). The only reason I went shopping at all was because I had this $10 off coupon that was only valid for that particular weekend - but I am so glad I did, because otherwise I might not have found those gorgeous dresses. They are fall/winter dresses, made of sweater-like fabric, tight-fitting around the upper body and with a skirt that starts widening a few inches above the waist. Which is THE absolutely perfect cut for me. "Emphasize the boobs, mask the hips" has always been my motto.:P And it's really not easy to find dresses cut like that (except in "maternity" section, lol... and I'm not sure I want to go THAT far :P). Especially those heavy winter-type dresses - they are usually tight and clingy in all the wrong places and make me look like a sack of potatoes.:/ So I am always ecstatic to find something that actually flatters my figure (yes, I may feel old & creaky, but I am still as vain as the next person... lol). Especially if it happens to be on sale.:) Never mind that the cashier's reading device wouldn't "take" my credit card for some reason and I had to go back home to retrieve my ATM card and pick up some cash - I just WASN'T letting go of those dresses, no matter what. There were very few left in my size, anyway, so if I came back next weekend, they'd probably be gone. And I just had this instant feeling of "WOW... this is it" in the fitting room that doesn't really happen very often anymore. That feeling can't be ignored.:D
So yeah, it seems that retail therapy still works for me.;) It wasn't random spending, though - I actually needed a little more variety in my fall wardrobe (I have a good amount of sturdy pants/very thick sweaters for the dead of winter, and plenty of nice summer clothes too - but in the late spring/early fall I usually have to wear the same few items over and over). And the prices were very reasonable. So no guilt this time.;)
It is probably a sad sign of the times (or of the utterly fascinating life I lead), though, that I can get so excited over a simple shopping trip...:P
Time to shut up, methinks. The boredom meter of an average LJ-reader has been beeping something fierce for a while.;)
In other exciting news, I signed up for overtime this week, so I am working tomorrow.:/ We are doing this endlessly time-consuming project for a client that basically involves a lot of web research. Which, in itself, isn't too bad - I like doing web research (obviously, some topics are more entertaining than others...;). However, doing it for a good few hours every day can prove a little tedious (see, I am practicing the noble art of understatement here... LOL). Not to mention getting nervous and frustrated about the regular work that just keeps piling up on the side while we are plodding our way through all those endless spreadsheets. *sigh*
Even less exciting, I somehow managed to fuck up my back to the point where it became literally painful to move. Namely, it hurt to turn my head to the side and look over my shoulder - especially if my arms were lifted. The pain seemed centered mostly somewhere around my right shoulder blade... but it sort of spread out from there and tended to shoot up my neck if I made a sudden move. I don't know what I did to cause it. I suspect it might have something do to with the usual position I sleep in - curled up on my left side. Now, I normally use two pillows on top of each other to support my neck, so that my spine stays level - but the thing is, I have wide hips, so there is always a bit of a tilt if I am lying on my side, no matter how hard I try to maintain an even position. And then maybe the two pillows are causing the upper part of the spine to tilt a little bit upwards too - so that the middle part sinks down while I sleep. At least that's the only explanation I can think of. So for the past few days I've been trying to sleep on the right side for a change, and I have replaced one of the pillows with a folded sweater. This seems to have helped - or maybe the pain just faded out on its own, hard to say. But I can still feel echoes of it somewhere in the background... and it's interfering with my regular neck & shoulder stretches, because tilting my head a certain way still feels very uncomfortable. Due to this, my neck is currently tense as all fuck. And I have to wait another week for my next chiropractic appointment.:/
Is it normal to feel that old and creaky at 39? Or did I fuck myself up permanently by neglecting exercise when I was younger, and now I have to pay the price? The funny thing is, I really want to take good care of myself at this point in my life - but when it comes to physical fitness, it seems I have woken up too late. I try to exercise regularly, but a simple 20-minute workout might cause me to wake up the next morning aching all over, so I can't really do it every day - and if I happen to accidentally screw up my back like I just did, then I am unable to do anything but very slow, careful stretches for about a week or so afterwards. It's pathetic. I don't want to end up in a wheelchair by the time I'm fifty.:(
Dear, I wasn't even planning on making such a whingey post. I actually wanted to talk about last weekend's spontaneous shopping trip that resulted in acquring THREE new dresses, in addition to another pair of track pants with a matching hoodie (see, I may never become a fitness junkie, but at least now I can dress like one... ;P). The only reason I went shopping at all was because I had this $10 off coupon that was only valid for that particular weekend - but I am so glad I did, because otherwise I might not have found those gorgeous dresses. They are fall/winter dresses, made of sweater-like fabric, tight-fitting around the upper body and with a skirt that starts widening a few inches above the waist. Which is THE absolutely perfect cut for me. "Emphasize the boobs, mask the hips" has always been my motto.:P And it's really not easy to find dresses cut like that (except in "maternity" section, lol... and I'm not sure I want to go THAT far :P). Especially those heavy winter-type dresses - they are usually tight and clingy in all the wrong places and make me look like a sack of potatoes.:/ So I am always ecstatic to find something that actually flatters my figure (yes, I may feel old & creaky, but I am still as vain as the next person... lol). Especially if it happens to be on sale.:) Never mind that the cashier's reading device wouldn't "take" my credit card for some reason and I had to go back home to retrieve my ATM card and pick up some cash - I just WASN'T letting go of those dresses, no matter what. There were very few left in my size, anyway, so if I came back next weekend, they'd probably be gone. And I just had this instant feeling of "WOW... this is it" in the fitting room that doesn't really happen very often anymore. That feeling can't be ignored.:D
So yeah, it seems that retail therapy still works for me.;) It wasn't random spending, though - I actually needed a little more variety in my fall wardrobe (I have a good amount of sturdy pants/very thick sweaters for the dead of winter, and plenty of nice summer clothes too - but in the late spring/early fall I usually have to wear the same few items over and over). And the prices were very reasonable. So no guilt this time.;)
It is probably a sad sign of the times (or of the utterly fascinating life I lead), though, that I can get so excited over a simple shopping trip...:P
Time to shut up, methinks. The boredom meter of an average LJ-reader has been beeping something fierce for a while.;)
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Date: 2010-09-25 04:07 am (UTC)No kidding. Sometimes I would try to close a program or file, and get a message like: "Cannot close. These files/applications etc. are being used by someone else." THAT one seriously freaks me out... LOL.
Thanks for the recommendation! I went to Anat Baniel's website, and it seems like you've got me hooked.:) I downloaded the free mp3 lesson and signed up for the Desk Trainer. I've only done a few initial exercises so far (on the Desk Trainer), but it does seem like they bring instant relief - so I think I'll keep at it, lol. I might order the DVD's later, too - they seem a bit pricey, but of course it'd be totally worth it if the pain/stiffness indeed went away, like the website claims it would. Which seems a bit too good to be true at the moment... but we'll see. The explanations given for how this program works make perfect sense (I always believed in the holistic approach to healing), so I definitely want to try it for myself before I get all sceptical about it.;)