What is in your cup?

[pdurrant]

Orangeade with zero added sugar. (I'm cutting back on the Coke Zero!)

[Stitchawl]

Hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart
Sweet Mary Lou, I'm so in love with you
I knew Mary Lou, we'd never part
So hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart

You passed me by one sunny day
Flashed those big brown eyes my way
And oo I wanted you forever more
Now I'm not one that gets around
Swear my feet stuck to the ground
And though I never did meet you before

I said, hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart
Sweet Mary Lou, I'm so in love with you
I knew Mary Lou, we'd never part
So hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLkCWT2neuI )


Good morning, everyone! Happy Friday! (It IS Friday, right?) Twining's "Prince of Wales" with a double shot of tea leaves today, along with a ham sandwich loaded with sliced pickles and spicy brown mustard. I could probably be just as happy to leave out the ham...

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Stitchawl's recommendation does seem to be very good - I read some of the site, and the idea that you need to change movement habits rather than do specific exercises seems very sensible to me.

Careful here... While she does stress that it's the everyday movement habits that make the difference, she does recommend very specific exercises to be done each day. What she says is that the exercises ALONE are not going to get the job done. The important part is doing the movements correctly all day long so that they become the 'natural' ones. Just like ProfCrash's leg pointing the wrong direction, it's exercises that get it pointing straight then a lot of hard work remembering to walk that way.

We all know about using the knees to lift things rather than bending over and using our backs. But before I met Jolie I never considered what I was doing when reaching for things on higher shelves... In fact I was arching my back rather than raising my arms higher at the shoulders... It seems this is VERY common. So every time I was lifting my arms I was stressing my lower back! Watching other people move, I see this almost every day! And now I'm VERY careful to use my shoulders these days rather than my lower back! It works!

Stitchawl

[aceflor]

Cafe con leche in my cup.

I followed your link to her website too, thanks for that Stitch. It is indeed really good, and confirms a lot I have experienced myself. My main attention with my posture is my core because I found out that if I am careful of a keeping my core "blocked" in the right position while I move (daily business or exercising), my back does not hurt afterwards and my exercising is more effective.

By core I mean the "belt" around my mid-body (abs, hips, lower back, bottom). I now understand why pilates work so well for many persons I know. I personally do not like floor exercise, so I tried pilates two or three times and it is not my thing, but I have to admit the principles make sense and are in a line with the advices given by your friend on her site.

[pdurrant]

Coke Zero #1. And, alas, another long-ish drive today. It's hard to sit well in a car seat!

[ProfCrash]

Pilates and yoga are both great because they focus on the core. If your core is strong, you are in much better shape. I keep trying to convince the Hubby of this but he is stubborn.

I am so excited about the prospect of getting back to the gym and working out again...

So baby boy will make his entrance sometime in the last week of June. He is big and getting bigger so the Doctor wants to induce in week 39 to decrease the chance of a c-section. Baby boy does not seem to agree with this assessment and is happily avoiding dropping while chilaxing in the womb. Given that I am a few days away from week 38, this is a bit unusual. The next couple of weeks should be very exciting.

I can just picture the little big guy going "Nah, I want to come now" and making an appearence next week just cause he can. (winks)

[Latinandgreek]

Ahmad mint green tea in my cup. It is starting to get ridiculously hot here. I made a peach coffee cake with streusel today.

[ProfCrash]

ohhh that sounds yummy

[Stitchawl]

Havin' my baby
What a lovely way of sayin'
How much you love me
Havin' my baby
What a lovely way of sayin'
What you're thinkin' of me
I can see it, face is glowin'
I can see in your eyes
I'm happy you know it

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4iuus8X4o )

Good morning, all! Saturday morning breakfast... "English Breakfast" tea from Taylors of Harrogate, and warm French bread right out of the oven, sliced cold cuts, a few different cheeses, and all is well in my world.

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

So baby boy will make his entrance sometime in the last week of June. He is big and getting bigger so the Doctor wants to induce in week 39 to decrease the chance of a c-section.

The drug of choice for induction is "P-tosin," or better known as Oxytocin. It's sometimes called the 'let down hormone.' It causes contractions and it stimulates milk flow... One of the body's natural 'triggers' for oxytocin production is stimulation of the mammary glands. The word oxytocin was derived from the Greek ὼκυτοκίνη, ōkytokínē, meaning “quick birth”, after its uterine-contracting properties were discovered by British pharmacologist Sir Henry Hallett Dale in 1906. Let's avoid the Doctor's role in this, and get hubby into the act... NOW is the time for natural production of oxytocin to bring on natural delivery... Jiggle! Play! Jiggle! Take a look here.

Baby boy does not seem to agree with this assessment and is happily avoiding dropping while chilaxing in the womb.

Having tried to crawl back in several times myself, I can understand his reluctance to leave...

I can just picture the little big guy going "Nah, I want to come now" and making an appearence next week just cause he can. (winks)

When my son decided he didn't want to arrive just yet, we tried all the usual tricks... rides down very bumpy roads... going off into the woods where there were no phones to call a doctor... etc.,. Being a true son of mine, he waited until I had had a very late night and really wanted to sleep in, and woke my wife up at 6:30 with 'Mom, here I come.' She woke me, simply refused to let me have 'just another 15 minutes, please?' and off we went with the baby knocking on the door the whole ride into town. We got to the hospital with just enough time for each of us to go to our respective dressing rooms, then the delivery room, (which is where I learned how much fun it could be helping to stimulate Oxytocin production, as that was my job in the delivery,) and then Whooosh!!! Out popped a baby a few minutes later! They didn't permit cameras in the delivery room in those days, but I sure do have the pictures right inside my head! What a sight!

ProfCrash... it's going to be just as easy for you too! We're all pulling for ya!


Stitchawl

[CRussel]

ProfCrash -- Stitchawl is right. We're all pulling for you. I could use a good addition to the world, since I lost a friend last night. A fellow author, and a fellow Microsoft MVP, Eriq was someone I respected a great deal. It wasn't a surprise, we'd known it was coming for a year, basically, but it's still tough.

Finishing up tonight with a glass of Oban, his favourite. Here's to you, friend.

[Djedefre]

Vodka and Diet Squirt

[aceflor]

Sorry for your loss Charlie. We have not enough joyful new arrivals around us either to balance with the sad departures, so I am rooting for Prof's passenger ! Turn around, baby, head down, come on !

Coffee before a day filled with kids activities, tennis, playdate, and so on...will stop at Carrefour to refill the "treats" cupboard and to buy DH good undies

[Stitchawl]

I wonder why Carrefour and Tessco haven't opened stores in the US? Although I will add that Tessco's Japanese stores just sold out to Aeon... Carrefour and Tessco are all over South East Asia as huge mega-stores.

Four of the clock here, rainy and wet, I've spent two hours in deep meditation and now it's time for some Ice tea, popcorn, and play catch-up with e-mails!


Stitchawl

[pdurrant]

Coke Zero #2 in my cup. (An early morning today, and a little weeding in the garden.)

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

ProfCrash... it's going to be just as easy for you too! We're all pulling for ya!

Shouldn't that be "We're all pushing for ya!"? Which we are, of course. Good luck Prof.

Sorry to hear about your friend, CRussel. We just lost an engineer here at work, and it was unexpected. Life certainly likes to creep up on you once in a while and give a swift kick up the pants.

Rooibos. Always Rooibos.

[red_phoenix]

Originally Posted by CRussel

ProfCrash -- Stitchawl is right. We're all pulling for you. I could use a good addition to the world, since I lost a friend last night. A fellow author, and a fellow Microsoft MVP, Eriq was someone I respected a great deal. It wasn't a surprise, we'd known it was coming for a year, basically, but it's still tough.

Finishing up tonight with a glass of Oban, his favourite. Here's to you, friend.

I'm sorry for your loss CRussel. Whether expected or not it is still a blow to lose someone.