I recently bought a pair of very expensive Swiss made MBT (Masai Barefoot Technology) shoes - they are constructed inside to be unstable, so that when you walk, you have to use more muscles in your legs, pelvic girdle and back. Like walking on loose sand or something. Supposed to tone up these slack muscles and teach you better deportment and active walking.
Well, I started out using them a month ago, but getting caught up in my emotional drama caused me to forget recently. Will report back when I see any improvement!
Livnlearn
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
Wow, you are really doing great! Im very happy for you. To hear that he wants to have children with you and he said he wants to grow old with you is just awesome! Many of us would do anything to hear these words. Just keep doing what you are doing because it is paying off .
If you get a chance, I can use a little support in my forum. Thanks! =)
Anything worth having is worth working HARD for!
Making a New Move
Hey, those shoes sound great! Definately let me know if they help! I googled them...very interesting!
Poepad,
I've never heard of it. I googled it and the results all came up with another language...so I wasn't able to read about it. I did find something called Lap Band that talked about surgery and putting a band on the stomach...was that what you were talking about?
Marc_d,
Thank you for your kind words, I'll pop over to your thread in a minute!
Soo...this weekend, Husband and I had a great time. I treated him to his Birthday Dinner on Sunday. My parents joined us and gave him a book by Robert Jordan..he was happy! Then I treated him to a movie...Butterfly Effect.
Man that was really intense...and very disturbing.
Afterwards, Husband and I went and spent time in Barnes and Nobles. I spent a happy 45 minutes looking at different journals, and finally deciding on one.
When we got back home, I went to gather all the stuff I'd need for my journal and I found in amongst my supplies an old journal entry.
It was dated from 8/02. I read through it and was surprised. I think I had been writing it from a 'Care and Feeding of PIB' perspective. I had a lot of things that work for me in there...such as flylady, going to bed the same time every night...EXERCISE etc.
And then...the thing I want to share with y'all, I found at the very end of the journal entry was this memory:
When I was in preschool, I used to play with a group of guys. One of the games we'd play, was that we were characters from Star-Wars. As I was the only girl in our group, I was always 'Princess Leah'.
Well, 'Darth Vader' captured me and put me to sleep. So, I'd go over to the picnic bench and put my head down on my arms and wait for 'Luke' to come rescue me.
After 'Luke' rescued me, I would get up, run around and then go back to put my head down so that 'Luke' would know I had been captured and needed to be rescued again. I imagine this was the only time I ever voluntarily put my head down on the table and stayed quiet.
After several times of this, 'Luke' told me that I had to stop getting captured...that he didn't want to rescue me anymore. The game was no longer fun.
My journal entry goes on to say that I realized I had been doing the same thing with my husband.
And that his walking away from our marriage was him saying he didn't want to rescue me anymore.
Reading that again, hurt my heart.
But, it was a great reminder of all the things I do right as well as reminding me about something I need to make sure I don't slip back into doing.
Just wanted to share with y'all!
Oh, and so, last night, I tore those pages out, stapled them together and filed them away in my 'important' file. After I added a journal entry dated Feb 22, 2004:
After making all these changes and more, PIB won her husband's heart again. And won herself back.
I really thought your story was cute, about the Star Wars game. It made me laugh a little, but I see how you were able to relate that to your current situation and that is great how you picked that up. Sounds like you had a good date with Husband. Its always fun to finish the night off by visiting a local Barnes and Nobles. You remind me of my GF, and how big of a procsess it is to pick out a journal. Well, you sure dont need any help, but just keep it up and Im very proud of you! I hope I can be as successful as you have been!
Anything worth having is worth working HARD for!
Making a New Move
Thank you for stopping in and saying such nice things to me!
I have been busy with 2 major projects, for me, for fun that I've undertaken recently.
I'm very excited about them, and have been off planning instead of posting here.
Don't think I've forgotten about y'all cause I'd never do that!
Lol!
One of my projects is to take my back yard and build a labyrinth.
Yesterday I went out there to clear the area, thinking I could get started. I quickly saw how much trash is out there from the previous owners...I'll have several hours work just getting the trash out of that one area.
It's a bunch of little things, peices of ceramic, bits of cloths, bits of plastic. Nothing big ...but still annoying!!
For those who don't know about labyrinths, they are used for 'walking meditation'. Some people start with a question in mind and walk the labyrinth with the intention of receiving an answer from their Deity of Choice.
I've walked a labyrinth twice in my life...both times were very profound experiences. I'm so excited about having one in my own back yard!
It's a big project, but it gives me a wonderful reason to get outside and exercise.
My husband keeps adding to the positives!
I've found a little notebook that I post in daily. I use color sparkly pens and love doing it. It's a sort of journal.
He called me up this morning to ask me if I had recieved the phone message he left for me last night. In the phone message he told me that he 'missed me terribly and couldn't wait to come home and snuggle with me in bed' he also told me to go to bed early and not wait for him to get home.
So sweet!
I told him that his phone message was definately going into the positives notebook.
He told me he loves doing things for me and having them go into the notebook!
Then he told me he was wearing his wedding ring today!
Woo hoo!
I look forward to the day that he wears it every day!
He says the reason he doesn't wear it at night is because when he wakes up, his hands are swollen and the ring hurts him. And he doesn't usually remember to put it on when he gets up for the day.
Wonderful baby step for him to call me up and tell me he was wearing it!!
The game was no longer fun.