You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat.

Tagging this.

Five minutes later I walk in the living room, and he's got Jilli's Tumblr on his screen.

Ha! Please report on what he decides to wear.

For me, I have to worry about my knees.

Yeah, that's my worry about the squat challenge. My knees have been getting crankier and crankier about going up stairs.

I did the challenge and my lower back is not cranky anymore. It made a huge difference. My current goal is to do 100 almost everyday- I have my eye on skirt I want when I hit 30 days. I plan to take less than 40 to get there.

If you do squats right it will not hurt your knees. And it should strengthen all the muscles around your knees- which will hep them. But I would go really slow and careful

I have to be very cautious with my knees, but the squat challenge did not adversely effect them.

I got to 120 squats and then petered out...for other than physical reasons.

Y'all have inspired me to start again today.

Beth, that makes sense. I just don't have all the muscles that most people can rely on or everything aligned properly. So, it can be trickier for me not to hurt myself.

We're on our way to the wedding. I'm regretting my decision not to refill my anxiety meds.

I've been on the "squats=will wreck my knees" thought train myself. But hearing the good things it does for hips and lower backs, I shall have to research further.

There is no way this headline can be improved "Far-Right Extremists Chased Through London by Women Dressed as Badgers" . Unfortunately every link I find includes annoying autoplay ads that my popup blocker fails to block " [link] . So fair warning against clicking the link unless your speakers are off.

I've been on the "squats=will wreck my knees" thought train myself. But hearing the good things it does for hips and lower backs, I shall have to research further.

This is me. My middle back could really use help so I should give this a try.

Mom was released from the hospital and Bobby is graduated! His cousin has her ceremony at 7:30 so we are meeting that family for food after. Way past my eating time so I'll just watch the pizza consumption. Not sure what the deal is with mom. I'll see her tomorrow. They said all her tests were good and the nitro stopped her chest pain.

At the graduation ceremony I was quite tempted to toss this woman off the balcony. MIL and I were scoping out seats and headed down the row with 7 empty seats when $&):-@ insisted she was saving those seats for her people. I have no issue with saving 1 seat for the person parking the car, but 7!!! I really really wanted to just sit down and make her try and remove me, but MIL chose to sit elsewhere. And not surprisingly at least 3 of the seats, maybe 4, NEVER were occupied. Seriously, I am still pissed off. Grrrrrrrrr

Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

I wanna slap a boss.

One of the behaviors I will be documenting in my "reasons not to borrow me from house X ever again" file is unbuckling a seatbelt in a moving vehicle (on a county road, in a 50mph zone, in an area where we had to continue driving for at least half a mile before finding a safe place to pull over).

You know, there have been times when I have lost patience and said some snappish things, moments that I learn from (mostly my own warning signs so I don't get that impatient). There is precisely one situation in which I will go apeshit and yell* unrepentently at the individuals I support. And that one is unbuckling a seatbelt in a vehicle moving at highway speeds.

I stand by my unrepentent attitude.

Also, I greatly prefer being tested on my non-inflamatory response to inappropriate urination.

ETA: *My version of yelling in this context may be actually fairly tame. And there is no name-calling. Merely the simple command, "You buckle your seatbelt right now!" In a loud and commanding voice. At the time I feel like I am freaking my shit completely out.