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Livin' It Up When You're Goin' Down
Sep. 14th, 2006 02:08 pmMy tortured thumbnail from the other night has taken a turn for the worse. The bit that was stabbed (right in the nail bed) fills with pus every hour or so, and until I can relieve the pressure by pulling the nail away, is absolutely excruciating. It makes work very difficult, as the thumb is my money handling thumb. Yesterday, a customer tried to be cute by yanking away the money he was handing to me just as I was taking it. I almost screamed as the ten dollar bill pulled against my thumb.
Yeah, really funny, dude.
And right before close, I went to check on the status of the iced cappucino cups. There were far less than I anticipated, and a sharpish piece of metal jammed itself full speed right in the sweet spot. On the pain scale of one to ten, this was a ten and a half. I managed to run to the back room before collapsing against a wall and grasping my thumb. I almost started bawling, but after a few moments, the pain subsided to something manageable, and I was able to resume my customer-serving skills.
I cut my thumb nails short this morning. It seems to have helped somewhat.
In BETTER news, I seem to have found an excellent series of exercises calculated to improve both my balance and ankle strength. I do a series of balance exercises on the Bosu ball(s). First, I stand in mountain asana. This causes an enormous amount of involuntary shimmying, but, if I concentrate, eventually I can stand stock still. And that's when I start doing one-legged stuff....
Oh yes, and the elevator has become my new dance practice space. I live on the 16th floor. When I first started drilling, I decided to focus on glute shimmies. My left arse cheek is the more adept of the two. I could do about 8 rapid squeezes between floors. My right butt cheek could only manage four or five. After about a month of practice, I've improved my right glute squeezes to eight or nine squeezes between floors.
My new elevator drill is the Egyptian ("knee") shimmy. I hadn't realized how inconsistent it was until I started trying to shimmy at a regular rhythm for 16 floors. Let's see how much better it is in a month's time....
Yeah, really funny, dude.
And right before close, I went to check on the status of the iced cappucino cups. There were far less than I anticipated, and a sharpish piece of metal jammed itself full speed right in the sweet spot. On the pain scale of one to ten, this was a ten and a half. I managed to run to the back room before collapsing against a wall and grasping my thumb. I almost started bawling, but after a few moments, the pain subsided to something manageable, and I was able to resume my customer-serving skills.
I cut my thumb nails short this morning. It seems to have helped somewhat.
In BETTER news, I seem to have found an excellent series of exercises calculated to improve both my balance and ankle strength. I do a series of balance exercises on the Bosu ball(s). First, I stand in mountain asana. This causes an enormous amount of involuntary shimmying, but, if I concentrate, eventually I can stand stock still. And that's when I start doing one-legged stuff....
Oh yes, and the elevator has become my new dance practice space. I live on the 16th floor. When I first started drilling, I decided to focus on glute shimmies. My left arse cheek is the more adept of the two. I could do about 8 rapid squeezes between floors. My right butt cheek could only manage four or five. After about a month of practice, I've improved my right glute squeezes to eight or nine squeezes between floors.
My new elevator drill is the Egyptian ("knee") shimmy. I hadn't realized how inconsistent it was until I started trying to shimmy at a regular rhythm for 16 floors. Let's see how much better it is in a month's time....
