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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2019-12-09 03:46 pm

Where have they gone to, say the bells of Torontoo

You think if maybe I had a one bedroom apartment, I might lose fewer things in it? The latest desaparacidos are the attachments to my new vacuum cleaner, which ought to be attached to the cannister (or inserted into the cavities designed to hold them) and of course aren't. Nor are they in the room where I last stashed the vacuum (study) or where I last used them (front bedroom). Gremlins, I tells you, it's gremlins what plague the weary-boned mentally fogged aged.

Otherwise it's a theoretically warmish 6°C and I don't have to work, but it's raining coldly and persistently, so once again my sheets haven't gone to the laundromat. Some day, maybe even before our next bout of snow. Succeeded only in depositing my last paycheque and vacuuming/ scrubbing the front hall and livingroom, which I suppose is accomplishment, however half-assed the results. Back still yells about housecleaning postures just as it always has. I'd be down-hearted if not for that article in the Guardian-was-it? by the woman who confesses that pilates changed her (crippled with back pain) life, *but only after three years of doing it*. So I mustn't expect results after a mere year of not nearly pilates level exercise. Drattit.

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2019-12-10 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
Pilates is a wonderful exercise. I really ought to get some DVDs from the library and do them regularly. Currently I've started Taichi, which is also good, but more for balance and less for core.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2019-12-10 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm iffy about doing Pilates by myself just because of disintegrating vertebrae in the neck, and mysterious! lower back pain that no one wants to label one thing or another. If I could find a practitioner who actually worked with older and debilitated adults, maybe... But all this is out of pocket on top of acupuncture, massage, and physio. Enh, will see.

I liked Taichi when I did it, thirty years ago, but with these knees, nope. As ever, after the operation.

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2019-12-11 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I might have to abandon Taichi if the knees won't take it, but Pilates feels like I'm a turtle stuck on it's back, which is no fun. I've been seeing ads for "chair core" workouts, which I might check out, but really I can predict all of it, it's just I lack motivation.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2019-12-12 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Chair core sounds possible. I should check it out. And I have motivation to burn: everything hurts always.