Livin' It Up When You're Goin' Down

[shanmonster]

My 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....

Comments

[superbrad.livejournal.com]

I find it cool that you're doing that sort of "everyday routine" training. I'm doing that too. I find it works really well.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

It works very well. I think I might start doing more glute squeezes at work late in the evenings when it gets slow.

[bloobert.livejournal.com]

See a doctor about the thumb! Infected nails can last forever. I stubbed a toe once when I was about 20 or 21... the nail became infected and I literally hobbled around for about a year and a half on that thing, soaking it in hot salt water every night (no exaggeration) in the hopes it would get better, but it never did. Eventually I had to have the toenail removed. I would strongly advise getting this looked at earlier rather than later! Hope you're feeling ok soon...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

It's feeling somewhat better, right now. If it doesn't continue to improve, I shall go to the clinic. Having my thumbnail removed would really, really, really suck.

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and the elevator has become my new dance practice space.

but is it big enough for poi? j/k.

I remebered an old entry of yours about practicing poi in the lobby at work.... couldn't help myself.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Actually.....

I have spun poi in the elevator. No fancy tricks, just basic circles and butterflies with shortened chains.