I’ve had a number of people ask about the fugly custom yarn dolls – so here goes.
mini-LinteeBean made of yarn and stuffing
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Fugly custom yarn dolls
Posted in Knot misbehaving, Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged crochet, dolls, yarn on August 13, 2013| 4 Comments »
Little Old Neighbor Man II
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged man, matchmaker, neighbor on May 16, 2013|
Years ago, I wrote about some of my adventures with my little old neighbor man. I haven’t seen him in years, as I changed which route I take walking to the train station. However, there’s no shortage of little old men in my neighborhood.
I think my “relationship” with Little Old Neighbor Man II started almost a year ago. It started innocently enough. I was walking home from work one night and saw a little old man watering his flowers. I waved hello, and told him that his flowers were lovely.
As seems par for the course in my world, the story does not end there.
‘Roid rage
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged duel, exercise, fitness on April 18, 2013| 2 Comments »
Back in March, I mentioned I had started a second duel with midnightyell – the 6’5″ much-younger-than-me man from Texas. This one was a “free-for-all”, the most Fitocracy points wins – every activity counts. At that time, I held a somewhat comfortable lead of 9,223 to 7,743. Things were going well, and I admit I was a tad smug knowing how many points I could rack up using barbell complexes. Things appeared to be going my way this time around, unlike the push-up duel fiasco.
Then something very bad happened. Well, bad for me. Great for midnightyell. Midnightyell apparently discovered strongman exercises like tire flipping and sled pushing. These things are worth a LOT of points. Also, I cannot do these things as I am little and not very strong. I was in trouble.
Behaving rashly
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged allergies, hives on April 7, 2013| 9 Comments »
I’ve decided I better write this while I can. If it’s possible to die from whining, I may do so. My ex-boyfriend says if anyone can die from whining, I can. It’s rather comforting he has faith in me.
It all started innocently enough, if that’s how it started. Despite the number of hours I’ve spent watching educational shows like “House”, “The Walking Dead”, etc., I’m not a medical professional. However, assuming it may be related, it started with what I thought was “dry, itchy skin” maybe six months ago. My forehead and ears were itchy, dry, and flaky. I chalked it up to my visits to the gym and the perspiration I put out there, and switched to a softer cloth for sweat-dabbing.
Things didn’t improve, they got worse. I decided maybe it was my new facial cleanser, and went back to my old one. I added a thicker moisturizing cream at night.
I continued to blissfully ignore any signs of something more insidious, until a couple of weeks ago. This was when that “dry flaky skin” became more obviously HIVES. Raised nasty bumps near my eyes and on my hands. Given my vast medical knowledge garnered from movies like “Contagion” and “Outbreak”, I knew this was NOT RIGHT. I made an appointment with my doctor.
Hives by my eyes
Training a trainer
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged exercise, fitness, personal trainer, trainer, training on March 31, 2013| 2 Comments »
I had my first session with my new personal trainer, Nick, this week. It was okay. He has a lot to learn.
We started by just sitting down and getting to know each other a little. I told him my whiny-ness level was at a 7 tonight (on a scale 1 to 10). He seemed surprised I start my sessions this way. I find it’s good to give my trainer an idea what they are in for before I land up throwing a tantrum in the middle of the gym, flailing my arms and whining “this is HARD!!!!”. They should plan accordingly.
Grueling dueling
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged duel, fitness, Fitocracy, pull-ups on March 24, 2013| 2 Comments »
I’ve mentioned my past push-up duel with MidnightYell on Fitocracy, as well as my current pull-up/chin-up duel with ImpishFae. Well, the situation has grown. You see, FairLillith commented that she wished someone would challenge HER to a pull-up duel, so she’d be encouraged to do pull-ups. So, both ImpishFae and I challenged her – and now we have a sort of three-way pull-up/chin-up duel going on through April 9. Honestly, it’s not really fair since ImpishFae was only logging her unassisted pull-ups… and I couldn’t even DO unassisted pull-ups, so I was using about 50 pounds of assistance.
Touche!
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged chin-ups, exercise, fitness, personal trainer, pull-ups, trainer on March 10, 2013|
I had another personal training session with Ron on Saturday. That leaves two sessions remaining before he moves out of state. Sadness.
Chin-up, Lintee Bean
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged chin-ups, fitness, gym, personal trainer, trainer on March 4, 2013| 2 Comments »
Personal training with the awesome Ron tonight! I did a little stretching while he finished up with his earlier client. I’m starting a new stage of my “New Rules of Lifting: Supercharged” program and I like to go over my exercise choices with Ron, review form, etc.
Quest hoar
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged fitness, Fitocracy, quests on February 28, 2013|
I had a personal training session with Ron Wednesday night. Yes, he’s still made of muscles and awesome, even though he is leaving me.
Fix me up and put me back in the game!
Posted in Life of the Lintee Bean, tagged back, chiropractor, massage, push-ups, shoulder on February 28, 2013|
I had an appointment with my chiropractor today. When Dr. Jen asked me how I was doing today, I told her that I’d hurt myself. I explained about how, sadly, it was NOT when I was lifting heavy stuff or doing push-ups or whatnot. I was simply doing some stretching (I can’t remember the specifics – whether I was in yoga class or warming up before a workout or stretching after lifting or what). Suddenly, the muscle in my upper right back, over my shoulder blade, went “NOOOO!!!!” and hurt. I told her that now that muscle hurt whenever I tried to do push-ups or other horizontal motions – or carried heavy things – or shoveled snow. So I’d stopped doing push-ups over a week ago. I was now behind in my 20,013 push-ups in 2013 challenge and frustrated and hoped she and/or the massage therapist could tell me when I’d be healed so I could get back to it.
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