- I love color. I also love Colossal. I think that's pretty obvious by now.
- Ivan reviews the Monteverde Artista Cristal - handwritten style!
- Free Mandala designs you can print AND COLOR! For those of you (like me) who like to color but can't draw at all.
- Super cool use of lines! Clever.
- Really pretty watercolor and ink art!
- Zentangles at Concerned Owl... I wish I was this good, but alas, I will keep trying and practicing.
- Spectacular watercolor by Mia - this girl has serious talent. If you haven't seen her work before, you really must check it out! There is something about the colors in this particular piece that really stand out to me.
- Don't judge me. It just tastes good in my head. I have no idea if it would actually be good. Probably too sweet...
- I've never had funnel cake before. Is it good? It looks yummy.
- Tomato butter? This looks like something you get at a fancy restaurant with your breadsticks.
- I have wanted to try ratatouille ever since I saw the movie!! It just looks so good...Perhaps this simple ratatouille will be a good place to start!
- I'm obsessed with food lately, apparently. Must be this boring low carb diet. Blueberry lemon muffins?!! Thank you, Melody!
- A rainbow under a bridge at night. Pretty!
- Painfully cute kittens. I want one. They remind me of Tyco when he was little (and ridiculous).
- Mr. Guilt's trip to The Wilds - lovely animal shots!
- A girl and the hedgehog - also painfully cute.
- A kinetic toy reinvented with light, at Colossal. This is so neat.
- I'm trying to explore this concept of active isolated stretching - anyone else familiar with this?
I have had those s'more graham treats and they are as delicious as you imagine! I think Kellogs (or whatever cereal company owns Golden Grahams) is actually selling these as bars, like they do rice crispy treats. I bet the home-made ones are even better though!
ReplyDeleteA few years ago I was in physical therapy after a minor back injury, and I was assigned several of those stretches, but I was holding them for five seconds then relaxing. I'm not sure if that counts as a short enough duration.
ReplyDeleteWhen I am going to work out, I usually do something to warm my body up (some jumping jacks, running in place for a couple of minutes, etc.), and then I start to stretch. I do very short stretches that I hold and release before I start my actual workout. Then I do a lot of "warm up" stretching activities (kicking and punching in the air, not on a bag). Once I'm warm, I do the longer stretches because they feel very good and help me to focus before I get down to business. After working out I do longer stretches, too.
I haven't ever found that the short duration stretches do much for me if I do them without combining the other stretches. I know that the ones I was doing for physical therapy did help to strengthen my back muscles, so it's probably just a matter of them doing good but not giving me a physical feeling of goodness when I'm done. Oh, and I was taught to do them using a towel, not a special gray band-thing :-)
Well, I'm done for. LOL. There goes any healthy diet I ever planned.
ReplyDeleteAWESOME. Thank you so much for sharing!! I was a bit skeptical about 2 - 3 second stretches... I just couldn't imagine how that would work. I will try to integrate your method into my exercising. Thank you for all the details :D
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