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amberfocus) wrote2011-08-25 02:10 pm
amberfocus) wrote2011-08-25 02:10 pm
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Update of Updateyness
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me with the issue of LJ signing me out all the time. Well, I uploaded the most recent version of Firefox (had an older one) and now LJ isn't signing me out anymore. I don't really like IE9 much anyway (though I really liked IE8 and was resentful when I had to upgrade it in order to make my banking software work because it lost a couple of features that I used all the time. Firefox doesn't have that exact feature but it does, I found, having something similar that serves the same purpose, so yay. It is weird though. Everything is fat, like it is in IE9 when you're in compatibility mode. I'm sure I'll get used to it.
So is LJ still having brain freezes when it comes to editing and posting LJ cuts and embedding media, putting everything where you don't want it to go? I don't even want to attempt to post a fic until that is straightened out. Not that I've finished a chapter, but I am hopeful that I will have one ready this weekend, but I don't want to play LJ's reindeer games.
Now I just have to go read the instructions for returning the new so-called improved yahoo mail back to classic, that someone (Dev?) was kind enough to send me. You know, sometimes an upgrade is not a grade up AT ALL.
Chris took Tobias to orientation at the middle school today. I can't believe my little boy is starting sixth grade. 8th graders had it yesterday and 7nth graders this morning. No one has been in this school since it burned down so it's like going to a totally new school for all three grades, since it burned when the 8th graders were in 5th grade. It is so gorgeous on the outside now. They kept the concrete frame but put in all new windows and painted it white and it's just lovely. It no longer looks vaguely like a prison. It'll be open to the public on the 1st so I will go see it that day.
I managed to lock my lower back up on Friday (I think it was from using the electric wheel chair for several hours at the Fair) and it's just starting to get to the point now where I can walk without wanting to shoot things, so another week and it should be better. Lots of ice on it meantime and forcing myself to at least walk up and down the driveway a few times a day and do some stretches and minor back strengthening exercises slowly. Friday I am allowed back into the pool and to start moderate exercise as the incision has healed. That will help with my back. So will the hot tub.
Chris and I are thinking about discontinuing our health club membership. I hate the machines there, you have to adjust them to every new person who uses them. I much prefer hydraulic ones you don't adjust at all. Since the kids are back in dance and tae kwon do respectively and we don't use the pool too much in the fall/winter because someone always has a cold, DH and I are thinking about getting seperate memberships instead, him at a much cheaper club next to the tae kwon do studio so he can work out while T has class and me at Curves (which I've done before and really liked, but had to quit when I messed up my knee a few years ago). The PT has okayed the equipment they have there except one machine that I will have to skip. Coincidentally it was the only machine I ever hated. If we decide we want to use a pool there is always the city pool. Paying a few bucks to go swim once or twice a month will be better than keeping such an expensive gym membership that we have barely used this summer because of my surgery.
Speaking of my surgery, it is looking more and more like I may not need the other one. Which would really be amazing. It would mean I could totally be up on my feet again and stay there without getting knocked down again in November. Of course if I don't need it then I won't have an excuse to get out of jury duty again and will have to serve. If I am feeling good that might be fun. But I would really have to build the strength in my back up again. After several weeks on bedrest those muscles have weakened and sitting for more than two hours at a stretch becomes really uncomfortable to downright painful. I would have to be strong enough to sit for eight hours a day for 2 weeks. That'll mean a lot of work, but I think I can do it. I've lost 20 pounds since the surgery so that should help with any exercise I need to do.
All right, I'm off to write. I think my fic brain is back. I hope so.
So is LJ still having brain freezes when it comes to editing and posting LJ cuts and embedding media, putting everything where you don't want it to go? I don't even want to attempt to post a fic until that is straightened out. Not that I've finished a chapter, but I am hopeful that I will have one ready this weekend, but I don't want to play LJ's reindeer games.
Now I just have to go read the instructions for returning the new so-called improved yahoo mail back to classic, that someone (Dev?) was kind enough to send me. You know, sometimes an upgrade is not a grade up AT ALL.
Chris took Tobias to orientation at the middle school today. I can't believe my little boy is starting sixth grade. 8th graders had it yesterday and 7nth graders this morning. No one has been in this school since it burned down so it's like going to a totally new school for all three grades, since it burned when the 8th graders were in 5th grade. It is so gorgeous on the outside now. They kept the concrete frame but put in all new windows and painted it white and it's just lovely. It no longer looks vaguely like a prison. It'll be open to the public on the 1st so I will go see it that day.
I managed to lock my lower back up on Friday (I think it was from using the electric wheel chair for several hours at the Fair) and it's just starting to get to the point now where I can walk without wanting to shoot things, so another week and it should be better. Lots of ice on it meantime and forcing myself to at least walk up and down the driveway a few times a day and do some stretches and minor back strengthening exercises slowly. Friday I am allowed back into the pool and to start moderate exercise as the incision has healed. That will help with my back. So will the hot tub.
Chris and I are thinking about discontinuing our health club membership. I hate the machines there, you have to adjust them to every new person who uses them. I much prefer hydraulic ones you don't adjust at all. Since the kids are back in dance and tae kwon do respectively and we don't use the pool too much in the fall/winter because someone always has a cold, DH and I are thinking about getting seperate memberships instead, him at a much cheaper club next to the tae kwon do studio so he can work out while T has class and me at Curves (which I've done before and really liked, but had to quit when I messed up my knee a few years ago). The PT has okayed the equipment they have there except one machine that I will have to skip. Coincidentally it was the only machine I ever hated. If we decide we want to use a pool there is always the city pool. Paying a few bucks to go swim once or twice a month will be better than keeping such an expensive gym membership that we have barely used this summer because of my surgery.
Speaking of my surgery, it is looking more and more like I may not need the other one. Which would really be amazing. It would mean I could totally be up on my feet again and stay there without getting knocked down again in November. Of course if I don't need it then I won't have an excuse to get out of jury duty again and will have to serve. If I am feeling good that might be fun. But I would really have to build the strength in my back up again. After several weeks on bedrest those muscles have weakened and sitting for more than two hours at a stretch becomes really uncomfortable to downright painful. I would have to be strong enough to sit for eight hours a day for 2 weeks. That'll mean a lot of work, but I think I can do it. I've lost 20 pounds since the surgery so that should help with any exercise I need to do.
All right, I'm off to write. I think my fic brain is back. I hope so.