157/365: TWIST OUT AND SHOUT

6 JUNE 14

 

Another twist out attempt on this TWA. Today was a day to just get out of the house and run a few errands. Typically I think we all just throw on some jeans or something and go, but I decided, lets not look like we crawled out of a cave today, so I really got dressed up. I'm wearing the lace cut dress I wore almost a year ago to my now Sister-in-laws bridal shower with a shrug and my arrowhead necklace and some hoops. I wanted to wear my heels, but by god, my hamstrings are still killing me. My brother suggested in might actually be sciatica, and given where the pain is coming from, I tend to agree. Today was the first day in forever that I felt any sort energy enough to walk. The pain has made it most difficult to just walk straight. I have had to compensate by sort of rocking on leg forward or sliding my leg in a sort of shuffling fashion. I'm icing it and Ben Gaying it, but I'm still only at 60% today.

 

Anyway, today was hotter than the devils balls. It seemed like just about every one of my friends status updates had something to do with how hot it was. My thermometer in the shade read 100 degrees all the way up until 7:30 at night. As all of us H-towners know, its not the heat that will kill you, it's the humidity, and that it was. Typically when I pull up to some place, I can turn the air off, and rifle through my stuff looking for whatever I need and then go, but now-a-days, I have to leave the a/c on up until the absolute last minute before I open the car door. I have wanted to go to G-town for ages, and now as I feared it is just much too hot to go out there and try to hang out on the water for any reason. Unlike other people who live near the water, ours is absolutely not blue so getting in is like an at your own risk thing, not that I would be out there swimming anyway. The last time I officially went in the drink, I was in the 6th grade at a pool party. I haven't been swimming since that day mainly because for nearly 17 years I had permed hair, and you don't get that wet, but now with the natural, I still have no desire to really go swimming.

 

Thanks to Netflix and my third free trial, woot, I was able to rent the last hundred seasons of all the shows I haven't been able to see. I'm trying to catch up on Game of Thrones, True Blood, Shameless, and Orange is the New Black. Binge watching is something else. In like a day, you can be caught up with an entire show. TV has changed so much from when I was a kid. I remember for one, the summer was a dead period on tv. There was no new programming, so you had re-runs for about 4 months solid, and now summer tv is where new shows that might not typically survive in the Fall, are debuted. Of course now, with DVD and Blu Ray, even if the show you love is cancelled or maybe you just haven't been able to see it all season, you can pick it up on dvd and watch it forever if you'd like. You also really never have to worry about missing a show for the aforementioned reason and because with DVR, you can simply record your show but unlike VCR's, if the power goes out or your tape gets messed up, you've lost your show, but with DVR, its on there basically forever until you choose to delete it or watch it. And then even after all of that, you still have things like On Demand where you can watch your shows, or HULU, or any internet device, or you can buy an episode and watch whenever and wherever you want. I mean when we think about how many leaps and bounds TV technology has made, it is absolutely astounding. I remember getting into fights with my brother over who controlled Saturday morning cartoons. If I had kids, this wouldn't even be an issue.

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