Things to do with your coffee table:
1) Fall through it.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Sep 06, 2007 8:59:34 am PDT #8811 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ ita § - Sep 06, 2007 9:00:47 am PDT #8812 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph, here's stretch that can help open that up. Check the stretches on this page--you don't want to focus on just one set of muscles.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 06, 2007 9:05:02 am PDT #8813 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
NFL starts tonight! Whoo!
Guess I'll be rooting for the Saints. I would be rooting for them anyway against anyone but the Pats, but definitely if they are playing the Colts.
Sorry Liese
Daisy Jane - Sep 06, 2007 9:06:39 am PDT #8814 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Hooray Frank! Someone find me a way to send gumbo through the interpipes!
Liese S. - Sep 06, 2007 9:09:09 am PDT #8815 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
sulks
Dana - Sep 06, 2007 9:10:29 am PDT #8816 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
DJ, my husband was telling me about an Alton Brown show where he made a roux in the oven. Does that seem right to you? It doesn't seem right to me. Roux should involve being stuck at the stove for twenty minutes with a wooden spoon.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 06, 2007 9:11:21 am PDT #8817 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Tommy--what is Jar Jar?
That sound you just heard was the starter pistol firing at the Who Can Traumatize Whom the Most with Hyperlinks Olympics!
Daisy Jane - Sep 06, 2007 9:12:22 am PDT #8818 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
DJ, my husband was telling me about an Alton Brown show where he made a roux in the oven. Does that seem right to you?
No. I mean, I suppose you could, but no because this:
It doesn't seem right to me. Roux should involve being stuck at the stove for twenty minutes with a wooden spoon.
is the right of it. 20 minutes at least.
Vortex - Sep 06, 2007 9:14:09 am PDT #8819 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Roux should involve being stuck at the stove for twenty minutes with a wooden spoon.
yep. I do it with a magazine so that I am not tempted to walk away. I do the same thing with risotto.
lisah - Sep 06, 2007 9:14:17 am PDT #8820 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Teppy, from my yoga teacher friend:
Here is my advice.
First, practice the stretches in the picures, but instead of trying to clasp your hands, hold onto a yoga strap and separate your hands about 6 inches or so. This will give you a bit more room to stretch as you build flexibility in your shoulders.
Also, the two standard stretches that runners, yogis, etc, use are helpful.
When you are doing the stretches, practice deep even breathing in and out through your nose. Each inhale and exhale should last at least four counts. When you hold the stretches, do so for about 10 full breaths.
In a couple of weeks, you should find increased flexibility in your shoulders.
If you have a couple of seconds during your work day, try stretching then to avoid letting tons of tension build up around the top of the spine and in your shoulders. If you can't get away from your desk...do a few shoulder rolls forward and back and that should help a bit.