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My plan is to use my planner more effectively.  First...find the thing (just kidding I know exactly where it is)

Calendar Section:

  • Buy new planner pages (pick something pretty)
  • Put classes in planner

Health Section :

  • General goals and objectives for cycling, weights, walking

Diet Section:

  • food log pages
  • shopping lists with beneficial and avoid foods

God Section

  • print weekly devotional
  • print out Bible reading plan
  • prayer log

Book and Music section

  • reading and music log
  • wish list

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At first I thought the optical eye needed cleaning or something.

Now I think the "clicker" went bad - it doesn't "grab" text.  That will annoy me later one.  For now I can happily use the pad on my laptop to copy and paste.  When I start writing for school, it will get frustrating to move back and forth from laptop to keyboard.

So, I'll drop one in my Amazon cart and when I get paid, I'll order one.  I also have a second DVD player in there to use upstairs (to exercise to).

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Thomas is on vacation and the fill-in massage therapist is a woman.

I've heard from other people that women just don't "get" therapeutic massage and maybe they're right.

It sometimes hurts during my massage, but that's because it's really getting deep into the tissue and I know that it's working.

Today felt good while I was getting it, but my "tight spots" still feel tight.

The other thing is (and I've floated the thought before) - I'm familiar with "runner's high" - the release of endorphins during physical stress (such as exercise) or pain.  When your body starts to calm down again, you can get the chills.  I experienced that after cortisone injections.

I start my massage therapy face-down.  I used to have a very sensitive spot at my spine right at the base of my neck.  Thomas goes very deep there and it really hurts.  When I turn over halfway through the massage, if he has gone very deep on my back, I get those chills, as if the deep tissue massage signaled my brain to release endorphins and as they "go away" I get those chills.

The upside to that is that I no longer have that bad spot at the base of my neck.

I haven't seen Thomas for two weeks and it's back a little bit.

Today, I didn't experience those chills...and my back is no better.