Some Saturday Stuff
Sep. 16th, 2017 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. We lost power for 7 hours on Monday; the temperature was great and we had awesome food lined up to eat. A tree fell down and didn't hurt any of us or the house. Other people in town just had power restored yesterday! Nothing like a little gratitude about the big stuff to get you through the car refusing to start and some necessary repairs. LOL Normally, I'd get all anxious and pissed off about that kind of thing. Not this week.
2. Tuesday, I picked up limbs for two hours solid and I have been paying for it ever since. Y'all know how physically active I am. I go to the gym every day. I'm biking like 13 miles at a time. I can run on the elliptical forever if the boredom doesn't kill me first. Picking up those limbs kicked my ass, and it surprised me. My hamstrings have been on fire ever since. I went to the gym on Wed and Thursday and they hurt so bad on Thursday night that I just didn't go on Friday. I might not go to today. It feels like such a little and stupid thing to be affecting me this way. I picked up limbs for an hour today, but I squatted to do it instead of bending at the waist like I did on Tuesday, and I think that's actually made my hamstrings feel somewhat better? IDK I'll let y'all know when I'm in agony again tonight and trying to sleep.
3. I got some new underwear! I had to go down another size, and the Bali underwear I've been buying doesn't come in a smaller size than 6/7 which is definitely WTF. But I got some Jockey ones and some Hanes ones at Target to try out.
4.
Rising Strong by Brené Brown
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I think this is a good way of framing how to get through emotional difficulties and failures. I appreciate Brown's use of stories and her reliance on storytelling as a way to get at truth. I also appreciate that she's using sound research methods alongside these more subjective ways of understanding our lives and problems. I don't think there's anything new or revelatory here; if you've read in this genre before, much of what she's saying will be familiar. But I like her use of "the story I'm making up about this is" to help readers understand that often our emotional reactions to a situation are based on what we think is going on rather than actual fact. I also like her suggestion to believe that most people are doing the best they can, even the scofflaws and the sewer rats; that was the most moving part of the book and something that I'm hoping to foreground in my own life. The other takeaway for me is trying to be much more aware of when I'm feeling emotion, why I'm feeling it, and what I'm doing with it when I feel it.
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2. Tuesday, I picked up limbs for two hours solid and I have been paying for it ever since. Y'all know how physically active I am. I go to the gym every day. I'm biking like 13 miles at a time. I can run on the elliptical forever if the boredom doesn't kill me first. Picking up those limbs kicked my ass, and it surprised me. My hamstrings have been on fire ever since. I went to the gym on Wed and Thursday and they hurt so bad on Thursday night that I just didn't go on Friday. I might not go to today. It feels like such a little and stupid thing to be affecting me this way. I picked up limbs for an hour today, but I squatted to do it instead of bending at the waist like I did on Tuesday, and I think that's actually made my hamstrings feel somewhat better? IDK I'll let y'all know when I'm in agony again tonight and trying to sleep.
3. I got some new underwear! I had to go down another size, and the Bali underwear I've been buying doesn't come in a smaller size than 6/7 which is definitely WTF. But I got some Jockey ones and some Hanes ones at Target to try out.
4.
Rising Strong by Brené BrownMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I think this is a good way of framing how to get through emotional difficulties and failures. I appreciate Brown's use of stories and her reliance on storytelling as a way to get at truth. I also appreciate that she's using sound research methods alongside these more subjective ways of understanding our lives and problems. I don't think there's anything new or revelatory here; if you've read in this genre before, much of what she's saying will be familiar. But I like her use of "the story I'm making up about this is" to help readers understand that often our emotional reactions to a situation are based on what we think is going on rather than actual fact. I also like her suggestion to believe that most people are doing the best they can, even the scofflaws and the sewer rats; that was the most moving part of the book and something that I'm hoping to foreground in my own life. The other takeaway for me is trying to be much more aware of when I'm feeling emotion, why I'm feeling it, and what I'm doing with it when I feel it.
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