Call me Anarcha...I saw the orthorpedo-something today about my elbow. He was friggin awesome - he knew the sports I mentioned off the top of his head, asked me if skull-crushers aggravated it (he...he knew what skull crushers were!) and also mentioned he had the same problem!

The very bad news? My good intelligent sports-educated doctor has the same effity problem I do - can you imagine a more horrible prognosis? He can't cure his own damn elbow and he's the doc - he knows enough people in the field he could swap out his elbow with chrome gears with led lights running down the side (I asked him to do just that for me - "rice up" my elbow, doc!) He did x-rays, bad news was no problem showing so the issue is soft tissue. His diagnosis: golfer's elbow (same diag as before) or
Lateral Epicondylas? Triceps tendinitis? It's hard to read his writing.

So since it's been an issue for over a hear, the prescription was a shot of cortozone into the elbow and no upper body weights at all for 6 weeks. No hitting. No nuddin. Also, wear this wrist imobilizer thing on my hand.

Program go bye bye. I'm pissed.

But I'm going to do what the doc says with the hope that the break will help me be fixed in the long term. My workout has been sad for over a year now, and it's just got to stop (rather my program has to resume full force).

The annoying thing is that the most sensible thing to do is resume running. I like running and this is a great time of year to do it, but the other thing I can do is leg weights in the gym. The problem is while I can do squats, leg press, curls...I can also do leg-oriented cardio. One is impaired by the other - you can't get significant strength gains while doing cardio with the same muscles. I'm going to try and find a balance so I can keep the squats going but pick up the running too. So color me a jogger who does tiny little leg routines in the gym, and hope my arms and chest don't disappear in the interim.

Also hope I get better at all. My Jesus-like doc can't heal himself - how likely is it that he'll be able to help me?

http://community.livejournal.com/herpers/2060359.html?view=16917831#t16917831

internet forums are supposed to be a place for people who share interests to discuss and share about those common interestes. whether it be a hobby, career interest, pets, cooking, etc etc.
lately i have been noticing more and more people getting online and just being arrogant assumptive assholes. i am so fed up with snarky comments, it's disgusting. since when was sharing about a common interest and discussing it suddenly an open season free for all to be insulted and picked apart?

above is just the most recent example, and a tame one. (i am posting it since the OP is mine)
this is going on in the dog forum i no longer bother to frequent much anymore for this reason, and even in the industry forums within the MUA and modeling community.

what the hell has crawled up everyone's ass?!!
i'm so annoyed with seeing so many nasty remarks and petty drama. and i am noticing that within the lj communities it is often the same folks over and over in other posts that drag things down to this level.
i don't want to leave communities over this stupid shit, but i'm really thinking about it.

From the same people that made the tiger video from yesterday come snow leopard babies. Bonus videos of their checkups from when they were younger! Note: Some videos include mom.

( Especially when exploring their exhibit for the first time! )

( Baby Snow Leopards chirp. Who knew? )

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I don't think I ever posted these here. Daisy is now around 2 years old, but these are from when we first rescued her.
( Same kitty, same fishie; three months apart )

Psst...mainstream media is all about the Ft Hood shooter's religion, but recently a resident of Sherman TX, John Russell, killed 5 colleagues in a psyc clinic in Baghdad.
Stars and stripes link http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65542

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/06/when-soldier-turn-on-soldiers
(link to list of soldier on soldier murders)
The two most recent were single shots at parties (guns and drinking rule) while of the 3 mass co-soldier murders, 1 was the Sherman fellow while 2 appear to be Muslims (the other was prior to the 2003 invasion, Hasan Akbar, who lobbed grenades in co-soldier's tents and shot people as they ran out, killing only 2)

My mom is in town visiting, which means I'm knee deep in politics. All this morning it's been a marathon of cspan, and wow...nothing says nutjob like someone without a job who takes the time out of their day to call into a news program. It's odd - like facebook or eljay they're not actually asking questions: The vast majority are merely stating their platform of beliefs with no question to ask. The poor hosts sit there trying to look interested while the insane people rant. The insanity seems to have three basic flavors:
1. socialism/political correctness caused the shooting in texas (the solution of course is to stop pretending that muslims are people and throw the lot of them out of the country)
2. the prisons and torture are the reason for muslims hating usia and that's why we have to stop the madness which results in attacks on the US.
One fine fellow interviewed (a real person, not a caller) was kind and thoughtful enough to remind the nuts of Tim McVeigh and how a right-winger engaged in one of the worst terrorist attacks on USian soil. He was probably a secret muslim?
3. you can't trust any of them muslims/darkies and we should address that (see #1)

While typing this 2 low flying military jets just flew over my house (about 2 blocks from Iwo Jima / Marine War Memorial) and set off all the car alarms. They...they know I was typing subversive messages.

While the news was talking about executing the Mohammad fellow, a converted to muslim man who people forget didn't do his shooting spree as a terrorist act but as a blackmail scheme to make money, the news came out that another school shooter type has held is Asst principal hostage in a NY school.
situation resolved - an 80s graduate was still holding a grudge...it was NOT me, I repeat, I was NOT in NY for HS...
A friend noted that she finds execution to be cruel and unusual punishment, and good for it because he deserves cruel and unusual treatment. I am of 2 minds there - I'm all about torturing people who do wrong on a personal visceral level, but as a matter of public policy I oppose anything like it. It does no preventative good and we've found many people falsely in jail once we came up with the ability to test for DNA evidence.

My mom enjoys the news mre than I do - I like to stay informed sure, but I grow weary of the idiots calling in. I think for her it's just background noise that she mostly tunes out, but I lack the tune-out gene. I hear the idiocy in everything from the callers to the commercials. I'm looking forward to when we go out today.

Yesterday we walked from the Marine Memorial to the Vietnam wall, hit some buildings in and around the area, and walked back. It was a perfect 70 degree day with no rain and the crowds were small compared to what Wed will be like.

Today I see the doc about my stupid elbow.

I regret that I'm no photographer, but I attempted some shots over on the beach the other day when the ocean was wild and the wind wilder.







And here's our foster buddy, Hobbs. I think he's going to find a good home this Thurs., which will hopefully be a happy end to his sad story. Apparently, his owner was sent to a nursing home and he and his brother were just left to starve by her sons. They wandered the refuge until they came upon a wolf trap, and of course went after the bait b/c they were starving. Hobbs dragged the trap around on his leg for two days before he was finally tracked down and taken to the vet. Poor dude.

So cute!


( Hamster cupcakes! )

I've been searching off and on for months for the account I knew I had with pics of my kids when they were itty bitty puppies. Well, I finally found it and transferred the pics to my current photo hosting.

( Click through for a preview and link to the album. )

These are pics taken from about 3 weeks old to about 2 months old. Note a few pics include the Mom.

Hello Kiddies,

Just a little bloody tidbit! In celebration of his Knighthood I have now collected all of the Christopher Lee Dracula films. The last one was this out of print classic, which was a favorite masochistic viewing of my childhood. (I think I slept with a cross by my bed for about a month).

Dan: one would think they know better then to open a link from you by now. but no i had a brain fart and did it. you're an ass

 I do, and I remember seeing this air when I was a little kid on Saturday night!