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  1. I did get a lake swim in with a friend last weekend. We went at 9am, still warmish enough and only a few folks around. Sat in the sun on the wooden dock after for a bit catching up, left about 10:30am just as it was starting to get busy. Still plodding away with physio exercises, tacking on some feel-good yoga poses afterwards. Once a week jog 1km/walk 1km still happening. Hope for more time for more things this weekend.
  2. https://www.etsy.com/market/clear_mask
  3. Could you go visit alone? A quick 2-3 day getaway before September? Your family dynamic has changed since the kids were younger. Your dh is busy at work, your teens, as is typical, have greater time commitments. She will almost certainly miss the grandkids, and have to hold out for another time, but a girls' weekend, in the midst of a pandemic, might be better than nothing. You would be communicating your concern for her well-being and seeing her in person might dispel any worries you're carrying. You'd almost certainly have some peace of mind afterwards?
  4. I saw the photo. I read his explanation of the photo. The 'scandal' is a large part of why I avoid organized Christian groups. The fact that secular folks wield the same judgmental pitchfork when it suits them is ironic. Of course this is all from a distance, the guy could be a slimeball for all that I personally know. Has it come up yet that in fact Liberty did not contribute to some explosive Covid growth? I read they followed protocols on campus, and had results that did not stand out from the general population. That seems more relevant and hopeful.
  5. Hey you dependable posters, thanks for letting me drop in and out. Had a phone consult and two masked in-person physio visits. Diagnosis: hip bursitis. Told to rest or run less for a few weeks. Since work has been crazy, that was too easy. He did ultrasound on hip both visits, I got some hip exercises, he taped up my plantar, gave some plantar exercises. Nothing like someone to observe and correct your clamshells, lol. I can feel them doing something now, haha. Doing prescribed exercise sets daily, running 1km + walking 1km once per week (instead of running 2.7km 2x week). Just pulled out an old Zumba dvd, did a quick 20 minute routine with weights. Man, my lower back is stiff. Felt awesome, though. Really got to get my glutes working, I literally have a lazy a$$. Always dumping on my quads and other body parts, poor things. Did my annual work shoes purchase. DH and I are off to purchase a new mattress today. I think I will work yoga back in, focusing on lower back, stretching and relaxation, do not need any more hip opening! Will add body weight circuit back in as well. Would like to get lake swimming now that summer weather has showed up, just need a buddy.
  6. Really hard to do yoga any other way, lol.
  7. At the last high school reunion I attended there were several marriages, a couple of them Christian couples, from hmmm, I want to say eHarmony? If I have that right, the questionnaire is super extensive and thorough.
  8. Is that scenario scientifically possible? For reputable information about the likely course of this pandemic, maybe try Michael Osterholm. Edited: rushing
  9. Our provincial government attempted to raise the legal working age from 12 to 16 last year.
  10. Yes, context and tone matter. Since you were clearly both using the word correctly and not intending a put-down, the problem lies with those posters' perceptions. I worry that a very very small group with very loud voices (I mean really, who wants to be seen as intentionally hurting people?) are causing the rest of us endless tail-chasing.
  11. This is what pains me when people try to get others to stop using retarded as a slur - that word is no longer generally used to described people with disabilities. I hear it used in the baking world and as a (usually good-natured) slur, and that's pretty much it. I feel like they need to update their vocabulary to describe valuable people more accurately. I don't know that we need to update the term obesity. It still seems accurate and as others have said, any term can be used as a pejorative. Policing language sometimes seems more like attempting to shut down any personal responsibility - a Peter Pan response to avoid maturity?
  12. Both SWB and Bravewriter's Julie Bogart have addressed this type of writing assignment better than I could. I hope the OP can find something to salvage from churning out 400 words with her son: an introduction to deeper topics, brainstorming to find connections between your values, actual history, the movie, and the given intent. Learning to power through this stuff is probably a life skill (?), I just don't know why they have to practice it so much - you would think actual age-appropriate writing and analysis could easily fill 18 years. 😂😂
  13. When mature topics are given to younger age groups, I don't think it follows that homeschoolers are behind. Given the critical thinking level of a good chunk of that age group, it would seem to be more a way of transmitting social viewpoints as outlined in government learning objectives.
  14. I've seen it a couple times. I think your take on it could make an excellent topic for your son's assignment; i.e. does it reflect true colonialism? Has colonialism ever just been resource extraction, or has the invading culture always diffused and overriden the pre-existing group? The movie suffered from some lazy writing (Unobtanium, really?), but I actually kinda liked it. It's worth seeing, imo. My family members disagree, lol.
  15. I leave tea bags in the sink bottom for a short while then toss. Garbage cans need to be cleaned out from time to time, c'est la vie.
  16. Some poetic person has surely once said they had lost their composure, but it doesn't have the same flavour. 😛 My disposition is turbulent? I have zero chill might work. My mood is wretchedly miserable?
  17. Only read the book. It was looooong.
  18. I got mine a few years ago at a consignment sports store. Not sure how restrictions vary from place to place, and assuming if store are sold out, consignment stores likely are too?
  19. Some styles of water bottles or milk jugs filled with sand would be easier to grip.
  20. I am going to be a MIL! That is all.

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  21. My knees hyperextend, part of a range of issues I'm working on. I've had discomfort with too many warrior poses (perhaps it's the transitions?) and have had to train myself not to sink too deeply into the poses. I suspect my hip joint hyper extends, too. The focus in yoga used to be so much on downward dog, now it seems to be on hip opening stretches. These were little eye-openers for me, linking loose ligaments generally: hyperextended knees, pelvic tilt, plantar fasciitis, tight calves, weak ankles: https://www.elliehermanpilates.com/ellies-blog/2017/11/20/how-to-help-hyperextension-its-all-in-your-mind
  22. Same problem, Pinterest search and then browsing until I found a similar arrangement helped me.
  23. Yup, you can search up physical therapy videos on YouTube for plantar fasciitis and calf stretches are in there. I like Dr. Jo's stuff. I've added some stretches and exercises for plantar fasciitis and snapping hip syndrome (self-diagnosed, no IRL appts. this spring anyway) right after my body weight HIIT circuit once a week. Just added in some glute strengthening balance work (PT video I stumbled across on FB) a few other times a week.
  24. I have high arches and one foot is, not uncommonly, slightly bigger than the other. I have had to search up different techniques for lacing my shoes to avoid foot pain. I can tell if I pull the laces too tight, for sure!
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