luv4all7 said:

I don't think there are any Cracker Barrel restuarants around here...what's the black eyed peas thing?

Italians eat fish for good luck on Christmas.

January/Feb/March will bring weekends to Paris, Holland and (maybe) Rome...

April 2007 will see me leaving the UK after 2 years here... and going on a Road Trip across the US

May 2007 I will be back in Australia... after which the future is not quite as certain as the few months before it

To touch my toes.

NDRU said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

yoga is doing wonders for you

hopefully a new writing position

Move back home to the USA- I hope thus get a home etc

stop swearing

not gossiping

take risks cause if u never do then u'll stay in one place 4ever and others can step on ur toes.

Everything!

Haven't given it much thought. Hope to have a new position at work. Hope to take care of a few health things. Hoping to go to Hawaii too.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

My friend told me in all seriousness that since he started yoga he can bend over and put his whole palm on the floor.

I was amazed, this guy was always very stiff. And sure enough, he demonstrated, palms on the floor, knees almost completely bent!

NDRU said:

i've always been blessed with great flexibility, but that's about the extent of my athletic abilities.

so when you get there, be sure to post a pic!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

That's what's so sad, is I used to be a gymnast. I had incredible flexibility. But I quit just before I grew about 8 inches, so I still have the tendons of my 5'4" self. And just over 10 years ago I took up jogging, which made me even tighter.

I can remember what the splits feel like, but I can't bend at all.

Are you naturally flexible, or do you stretch a lot?

NDRU said:

oh man, interesting!

yeah, i'm just naturally flexible, as with many things in my life, i didn't exactly work hard for it.

NDRU said:

Can I borrow your 5'4" tendons then? Because ever since I stopped and dancing doing yoga daily, AND started running in place of those I'm horribly stiff compared to what I used to be.

I'm 5'4" btw.

minneapolisgenius said:

My tendons are rapidly becoming those of an old man, as well!

Running is great, but I never want to stretch afterwards. I do yoga sometimes, but not often enough to have made any difference in my flexibility.

You stopped dancing because of injury?

NDRU said:

Long (LONG!) story short ,yes. A bad back and neck injury. It will be two years in February.

But yeah, I make myself really stretch after I run now. I have to otherwise I just freeze up.

minneapolisgenius said:

you can't do yoga anymore? seems like that would be the best thing to help you heal, assuming you're really careful which stretches you do.

Of course, there's nothing like the circulation you get from running!

NDRU said:

Well, I think doing too much yoga is what got me in trouble in the first place. They still don't know what happened to me after over a year of testing. So I was forced to definitely NOT do yoga for a long time. I couldn't even get out of bed for a long time infact, so it's been a REALLY slow recovery. It's a muscle and nerve thing.

I can do yoga stretches now though. Just not anything too strenuous or anything that puts weight on my neck, such as the candle, or knees-to-ears. Something would definitely snap. They also told me I could never do headstands and handstands again.

BUT today was my 2nd pilates-based class, and I actually did plank position for the first time in almost 2 years!

I had to take a muscle relaxer though just 20 minutes ago. It's the only thing that helps sometimes.

NDRU said:

So, he's standing up and bending over placing the palms of his hands on the floor?... the knees almost completely bent kinda confused me..

minneapolisgenius said:

that sucks! I see yoga could be pretty harmful potentially. I am really careful not to force anything.

glad you're getting better. all this orging is bound to help

NDRU said:

I shouldn't even be on the computer much at all actually. I'm SO bad.

NAnomaly said:

imagine bending over to touch your toes from a standing position, only your knees are bent, so you're really just squatting down.

Still a good way to stretch (it's safer for your back that way to use your thighs push your butt in the air rather than hang on straight legs) but not what I pictured.

D I V O R C E

New life
New wife...perhaps....
Vasectomy reversal...
Child Support.....


Should be a good year.....

minneapolisgenius said:

I know, it's terrible for my body

NDRU said:

Ooohh, okay I see... it is better for your back to bend in the squatting position first. I bend both ways I think it doesn't bother me when I bend from the standing position because I've been doing it for so long but that's just my assessment.

eventually in the middle of 2007 I will graduate university and be able to start earning real money!!

Can't flipping wait

Apart from that, who knows?! Hopefully some exciting love affairs

the master has 6 months off work first half of the year



that is going to be a whole new experience

Immediately.....turning 40....giving up the cancer sticks for good....and getting my 2 mile run time down back down to 13 minutes....

By Summer....all of my unit home from Iraq in one piece....

By Years end....acceptance into the Defense Equal Opportunity Managment Institute and a job as an EO advisor in a unit that doesn't deploy....

...not asking for much.....

eh, who knows who blows

ZombieKitten said:

6 months????

TMPletz said:

yeah! this is a kind of make or break thing I reckon
after 10 years with one employer, we have a thing called long service leave, which is 3 months off, full pay. He is taking it twice as long but for half the pay. It is a hell of a long time!