What Americans sound like to non-English speakers [link]

I messed my knee up good in June (I didn't do anything special, it just decided to go FUBAR). Because of my move, I couldn't stay off it the way I was supposed to. There was tons of going up and down stairs 'til the end of July. I've tried to keep mostly off it since and that's partly why my move has been so traumatic. Not only do I not have a car but I can't even bike or walk very far. I was looking forward to taking daily walks with my dad and building up fitness again.

I haven't yet seen the doc and gotten an assessment of my MRI but my dad invited me to take a walk today. I tried to find something nearby to go to that would be about 1 mi total walk. We were talking so I didn't pay attn to where we should go so we actually walked more like 1.5 mi. The knee feels about the same right now so that's good. My fingers are fat as sausages from all the blood rushing to them. While I don't like that feeling, it's good because I normally have such circulation problems in my arms. Anything that drives more blood there is good. Now having a cold soda and catching up with boards, email.

Spidra -- I had a friend with a serious RSI ( as in she was told not to use her arms for 6 months or she might lose all use of them ). She was supposed to walk a lot ( no knee problems ) to increase her circulation. While she was walking , she was told to lift her arms over her head every so often. That was to keep the blood from pooling in her fingers and improve her circulation.

Huh. Well, the lifting above my head isn't so great in my case because the main kind of RSI I've got is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. I start to lose circulation to my arms when I even have my arm partially raised. OTOH, I need to stretch that stuff sometime or I'll lose mobility.

I definitely want to keep cardiovascular exercise up. It's just that the knee has been complicating it all. I have some sort of popliteal cyst in it. I've done some swimming since coming here and some short bike rides. But I look forward to getting the all clear on the knee so I can get back to regular and daily cardiovascular exercise.

I'm trying to get settled enough here that I can make myself do daily PT as well.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Nora!

yes, that wouldn't work for you . Does passive stretching help, Spidra? When DH had some shoulder stuff going on and they had him hang his arm off the side of the bed. Just curious - don't feel you have to answer.

Yep, that's one of the PT things that is recommended for me. Doing it with a foam roller or with a bench.

Continued ~ma for bonny! And congrats to Drew on the upswing and continued ~ma to PixDesigns.

Serial, sorry.

Dear guy who sent me a wink on a popular personals site,

You seem reasonably intelligent yet you clearly didn't read my profile completely before sending me the wink. YOU contacted me. Being cautious, I responded only with something about the intellectual pursuits you mentioned in your wink message. When you asked if I was interested in meeting (cutting to the chase because apparently any actual exchange of epistles is something you see as a waste of your time), I said approximately when I'd have time for meeting but suggested that after reading YOUR profile, I didn't fit what you professed to be looking for. You then send me two separate messages. One saying that *maybe* you can handle my size and asking me my dress size and another one saying you can't handle my coloring and good luck to me. Presumably my coloring is exactly the same as it ever was in the photos you looked at on my profile.

I would recommend working on other sorts of intelligence than the type you say you possess. If you don't want to "waste" time communicating in written form, you might also want to save your time by not contacting people who are candid on their profile about possessing traits you say on *your* profile that you find unattractive.

Now I feel a bit shitty about myself and if you'd spent one extra minute of energy, that could have been avoided.

Signed,

Woman who should know better but keeps giving the benefit of the doubt

Ew, Spidra. And don't feel even a bit shitty about yourself - that was 100% on him, and you dodged a bullet getting shed of him in an hour or so without the agony of an in-person meeting. However unpleasant the wink and the follow-ups were, an actual meeting would have been exponentially worse.