Now I want a hula hoop!!

My old coworker got one of those "health" hula hoops one time (it's weighted, I guess), and I tried it out for a second, and loved it. I should get one. Too bad I left NYC, because I probably could have gotten her to give it to me after she realized she never uses it....

Java, you should totally get one. My friend C. uses one, and they are awesome. Great exercise, too!

ETA: Thanks so much for the swimming info, Kathy. I have to admit that in addition to the big "pool is broken" sign, I was a bit intimidated by the swimming itself. It's just a two-lane lap pool, and I have no idea how to share lanes. I did finally buy goggles, at least.

I finally called my doc to have her check out my shoulder. It has been bothering me on and off for at least 2 months with the painful times becoming increasingly more unbearable. I see her Friday. Watch, by then the current flare up will have subsided.

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Sharing lanes is easy, Pix! All you have to do is stay on one side of the lane if you're with one other person. (My wrist gets bruised because I'm always whacking it on the lane marker, though.) If there's three or more people, then it gets more complicated. I hate circle swimming, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. The worst part of circle swimming for me is that everyone is swimming at a different pace, so people pass you and then I feel guilty about holding them up, so I wait at the end of the pool and let them go ahead, which throws off my pacing.

Goggles are a definite requirement. I've got to get back to using the swim cap that I really hate and which does nothing to keep the water off of my hair. But, it's supposed to protect the color more than swimming without one, so I'll have to put it on again.

ita, if I had a magical pain-free wand, I think you would be the first person I waved it over.

Pix, go team you! I HAVE to start moving more, or else I'm going to freeze into a wretched little hunched computer gargirl.

Suzi, I hope you get relief for your shoulder. I've messed up my shoulder a couple of times, and you don't realize how much you really use your arms until the blazing pain reminds you.

Also, I think it's so awesome that CJ is doing rescue work. Scary, yet awesome.

tommyrot, hah! D's netbook is covered with stickers, and mine has been plain until last week. I went with this sticker pack: my favorite is the Drunk Librarian one, although THE Pynchon novel one is a close 2nd. [link]

Thanks Erin. My karate training partner is a nurse and I was describing the issue to her yesterday as - it is fine until it most assuredly is not. I was supposed to be on the next belt test, which is in two weeks, but my calendar already had a couple of immovable things on it. So now I have until September to prepare - including fixing my shoulder.

Not sure what kind of call CJ is on today. It is something in town, non-emergency, but not a planned event. I'm not finding anything in the news that fits the location they were headed to. Will get the details when he gets home.

I really want to get one of the adult weighted hula hoops. I've heard great things about it.

I am soooo bored.

Half an hour 'til I get back to my own desk. (BTW, new computer? Still not there.)