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[flemmings]

Could be returned allergies, could be returned rainy weather, but I'm inclined to blame my Pilates exercises for the current 'run over by a car' feeling. Was going to say 'mild as they are' but of course today is the day after a full hour of them. Shall see how I feel tomorrow.

Did get to laundromat. Must not go on weekends. Rarely as I do go- maybe once every six weeks- this is the second time I've run into the maskless loud-voiced Spesshul Snowflake who never stops talking- bellowing, actually- if she finds a victim to latch onto, and who  does five bags worth of laundry at a time, including sheets and comforters. Times I wish I weren't a Torontonian so I could tell her to put her flipping mask on.

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[anna_wing]

Pilates exercises are much less mild than they feel while you're doing them, oh yes.

[flemmings]

'Only those whom the snake has bit can tell each other how it feels.' When did (or do?) you do Pilates?

[anna_wing]

Goodness, nearly thirty years ago now. I was young, but already feeling some of the damage I did to myself practicing martials arts in university. The teacher was a retired ballerina, so when I said, "I have this clicky hip problem", she understood me immediately! Hers was from all those developpes and mine was from a lot of kicking, but we were on the same page...It was only the floor exercises, not that universal reformer thing, and they did help, but it amounted to real physiotherapy. Not easy at all to do correctly, not to mention very expensive. Now I do taichi and bodyweight exercises, which are free.

[flemmings]

Yes, it really does amount to physiotherapy, but it's much more intensive than most of my physios were, the slackers. And costs as much as the Good Physiotherapist did, so value for money, I guess.