yadmit
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10-01-22 06:44 PM - Post#922300
(Rain, cold & darker sooner...gotta create a strategy to survive the winter 22/23).
Haha! Aren't we all... :)
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
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pink.pixie
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 10-05-22 04:15 AM - Post#922372
Back to basics: walks on forest roads, 1-1,5 h /day, some BW squats and push ups.
Eating in the morning (when I am not hungry) is not easy.
I keep it all light.
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yadmit
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10-05-22 10:20 AM - Post#922378
Walks on forest roads are amazing.. physically and mentally.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
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pink.pixie
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Thank you, you strengthened my resolve!
However, today the weather was sooo miserable- dark all day, rainy, windy, creepy cold and generally unpleasant so 'twas a miss for this miss. I let that be an exception to the rule and I beg to be excused just this once.
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pink.pixie
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...but after that day, daily walks...1h/terrain and forest road....diligently
The unwarranted neck pain is getting less, almost gone. It took all those weeks exactly as PT predicted- but it's healing which is the main thing.
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Here some evaluation of available science around keto diet that actually makes sense to me ( no data yet...more studies are needed i.e.on MCT oil).
Doctors Sherzai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulhdyC76lak&a mp;t=219s
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pink.pixie
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Still alive.
Still & alive.
Slow time.
Baaad weather.
Rrrr-aaa-iii-nn. Again.
More rain. Debilitating rain.
No blame.
No excuses.
No fantastic news.
No bad news-
either.
Less is more.
Progressive more
is always better.
Could do more.
Can't do more.
Not now.
Right?
No.
Why?
Who knows.
I am.
Fine.
No matter what I think
about anything.
Good ones, slow ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G_D8-Zpw4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztncdtBL48
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AAnnunz
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11-10-22 08:25 AM - Post#923161
Lovely poem, Pix!
May I ask what your PT had you do for your neck?
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Steve Rogers
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11-10-22 10:30 AM - Post#923167
Enjoyed the poem as well. I hope you have some good foul weather gear so you can get some friluftslive.
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pink.pixie
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Al,
Mostly to push in chin backward ( toward the spine so to speak) so that the neck straightens-> many reps( 5x10) many times a day. And than traction: resting head in my hands under jaws, elbows on the table. It was difficult to get any effect from that one.
He examined two weeks ago and found that if I looked a bit to the right and a bit down the place relaxed. So I've been mindful of that position. I'll go there for check up next Monday again.
I am not aware of any specific movement that caused it...just felt the pain one morning.
The pain got less, then more again and than less again....... kind of zig zag development.
Hopefully it will stay stable and ok from now on.
Otherwise I did different stretches that felt ok ( more like pilates and yoga style) and a bunch of stabilizing core exercises.
Shoulders:
I also used a short towel, applying a pull to it ( so that the towel doesn't give in) and raising arms up above head and behind head...it's no weight but still more power than just moving the arms.
Farmers walks and the bug were also all right.
Fluffy stuff.
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pink.pixie
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Enjoyed the poem as well. I hope you have some good foul weather gear so you can get some friluftslive.
Steve, we like friluftsliv! I have a good gear- fortunately- but this year it is bad beyond my tolerance limit. Marines would not mind.Their training is tougher, hahah. I did a few walks on roads during "dry hour patches". The ground in the forest it is really soaked and muddy.
Strangely enough the water level in the lake is still very low, far below what is normal.
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BrianBinVA
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11-10-22 01:52 PM - Post#923173
Sorry to hear you've not been able to get out, PP -- hopefully soon!
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pink.pixie
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11-20-22 05:59 PM - Post#923342
First snow today. Gotta switch to winter tires tomorrow.
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There is not much for me to log right now, methinks.
I have to stick to BW exercises and add stretches, flexibility, strength. I can't handle heavier weights because the body shuts down and it becomes two steps forward and five back dance. No gym restart this year.
I rely on different BW exercises, changing them and basically just go with the flow. My plan for December is to stick to 30 min a day. Plus walks whenever possible.Thus the 'less is more' style of 2022 continues.
Shoulders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyVFLbzt6RY
PS
(They did some traction treatment for the neck but unfortunately it got worse after that and the pain increased again.
For now I decided to continue with the 'retracting the chin backwards exercise' only because it worked before. However, many times it was actually best just to rest.)
All is well in the pink state. 
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pink.pixie
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Steve Rogers
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11-20-22 08:40 PM - Post#923352
Way to keep moving Pink!
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yadmit
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11-21-22 08:56 AM - Post#923359
Good to see you on here. Keep up the movement!
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Life's short, take lots of pictures.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
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Diablo
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Keep bombing!!! (in that good DD way, you know:)
Diablo
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pink.pixie
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Still breathing...
A while ago I decided no more IF. It lasted about a week or two and then I felt too stuffed on three meals a day....so my eating slided back to two meals a day.
What did I learn from it? A shorter eating window (4h) worked better. Go figure....plus at times I need to eat whenever if I am hungry. Next day the body will return to two meals maximum. I keep experimenting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDJHQz2JHeA
The whole lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXWEdipBEg
Training:
I recently invested into a few programs from Scott Sonnon- TACFIT.
BW at home? I'll see how goes with that.
Be back soon.
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yadmit
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12-05-22 07:30 PM - Post#923634
Good to see you're still at it!
Still Lots to Learn
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Life's short, take lots of pictures.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
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pink.pixie
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Hi yadmit,
Gym didn't work so well for me at this time. I can't do repetitive movements for long, neither heavy enough weights. The body protests. I get too exhausted instead of feeling invigorated -something is not the same so I need to listen.
However, I have KBs and DBs at home so I might do simple complexes and stick to basics because the resistance training is definitely needed.
It seems like 20-30 min works best. 2x20min medium intensity/day feels better than one hour at the gym. Running works best in intervals. Walking in shorter distances 45 min better than 1,5 h.
Weather is not friendly right now so I am out only when it feels good. However, I feel the need to move!
The Sonnons programs are complex. I just start from thievery beginning. It feels like a life time project, hahah.
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pink.pixie
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Keep bombing!!! (in that good DD way, you know:)
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12-16-22 04:44 PM - Post#923870
Awful lot of snow shoveling, lately. I wouldn't call it a WO but it takes a lot of energy and body awareness. One needs to watch the obliques and switch sides.
Otherwise it is just a " body maintenance on minimum level".
Sleep has been "somewhat better" lately (thanks god- fingers crossed). Until that sleep pattern settles no decent training progress is possible.
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Last but not least:
Today afternoon I was lucky! I got stuck on a railway crossing, the boom hit the car roof and I could only try to somehow back out from there. It worked, train swished by, duh. but there is a "maxi scratch line" the whole length the roof. No insurance for it, but I am here! Going nowhere, yet!
However, the odd thing is that it simply didn't occur to me just get out of the car!!!!...Instead I tried to "fix it". I still can't piece it all together in my mind.I was pretty shocked, I realized afterward. But it ended well. Thanks God and all the guardian angels!
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Steve Rogers
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12-16-22 06:41 PM - Post#923873
Glad you're all right!
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yadmit
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12-16-22 07:08 PM - Post#923874
Wow! Glad you're okay!
Still Lots to Learn
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Life's short, take lots of pictures.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
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AAnnunz
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12-16-22 07:44 PM - Post#923876
Yikes! Be careful, Pixie. You're too precious to lose.
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Ville
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12-17-22 09:44 AM - Post#923879
Wow, that was a lucky escape! Glad you're ok.
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pink.pixie
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12-18-22 10:40 PM - Post#923895
Thanks. I sorted out the memory fragments yesterday and I was able to let go and move on. I hope life unfolds kindly.
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JDII
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12-19-22 06:08 AM - Post#923896
Definition of a "close call" glad you're ok
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pink.pixie
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Merry Christmas to everybody! Take care and have fun.
Lots of love and protein, strength and endurance.
Toast to DD and all good immortal souls.
Pink dust over any sorrows.
Let's count all our blessings and dumbbells and KBs.
Merry eating and dancing.
Here the weather gods set up the stage properly: white and freezing. However, it is grey so that everybody can shine best they can.
I changed the song a bit:
Merry Christmas to you
Merry X mas to U
Merry Christmas dear.....( your name).....
Merry Christmas to Uuuuuu.
Cheers.
ho ho ho ho
Don't forget the weight(s).
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Steve Rogers
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12-24-22 08:11 AM - Post#923978
Merry Christmas!
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pink.pixie
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Thank you Steve. It was calm, peaceful, comfy& nice and pleasantly uneventful.
Now I better figure out how to start the 2023 in a good way.
*******Happy New Year to all ! ********
We just do the best, more than that we can't ever do. Onward.
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BrianBinVA
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01-01-23 08:18 PM - Post#924097
here's to a great 2023, PP! :-)
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pink.pixie
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Thanks Brian. Very much wished for.
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I see many of you here are on the road to success. Awesome and inspiring.
I concentrate on getting my sleep right. No joke. Just an attempt to establish a regular reliable sleeping pattern. No sleep, no life.
The weather has been crazy, too icy and slippery to enjoy any walking. But now the roads are clear again after the a lot of snow/and immediately thereafter a lot of rain ->switch game. On and off. Repeat.
Tiring because it unfolds as a kind of sad unreliable winter that doesn't allow for much fun.
However, I understod while some indigenous people up North have so many different words for snow. It's been changing by an hour at times and the resulting practical conditions were very different...kinda interesting discovery.
Anyhow. My training year 2023 starts on January 15th.
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Interesting talk on cognitive health. I only wish the interviewer would allow the neurologist to speak to the point before interrupting him...sigh.
But see it as an intro to the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAbdQnCb9cc
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yadmit
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01-10-23 12:51 PM - Post#924244
Where I am we've had all the weather so far..
Blistering cold with wind... freezing rain (which finally melted off my car after two weeks), fog, and back to some freezing again.
Walking outside has taken great skill.
Good luck on the 2023 journey!
Still Lots to Learn
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Life's short, take lots of pictures.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
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pink.pixie
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Exactly Yadmit: 40 cm snow during one day, but the very same night a heavy rain which of course froze into a thick crust of ice early in the morning. A neighbour who had an appointment at her doctor's office, tried all four doors of her vehicle in order to get in and failed. In an hour- all of a sudden- plus four degrees Celsius so it all started to melt. Followed by a new delivery of "crystalic snow" during the night covering everything. Windy. Then it all froze again before the next rain came down...in between the fog, too. Hey ho.
They are really having fun and laughing out loud up there in the skies.
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yadmit
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01-10-23 04:42 PM - Post#924251
Wow! what a bonkers bunch of weather.
Still Lots to Learn
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Life's short, take lots of pictures.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
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JonZ
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01-11-23 03:06 AM - Post#924261
Idaho has pattern, almost. Snow, clears up, then below 0 F. Then snow. Rain tonight. I slipped on the front porch and took out the Christmas decorations we had not taken down yet. But then I did. It will freeze again. Getting out of the yard will be an adventure. Even with AWD. More snow on the way. We seem to be getting northern end of the storms that are soaking the California coast.
Bacon is the gateway meat. - Anthony Bourdain
The world needs fewer business majors and more history majors. - Carl Sagan
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pink.pixie
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Hello friends,
IOL forum is closing down. Ouch. That moment had to come.
There are things eternal and there are things that end.
Thank you all for everything and I wish you the very best.
I did set up an e-mail group today for those who wish to continue to train & maintain existential health and in so doing also support each other in their pursuit of their goals- very much in the same spirit as we did here on the Training Logs.
The mail group itself is not listed, topics are closed to general public in order to keep a safe space. Normal netiquette, not moderated, organizing the threads so it doesn't get too overwhelming. You are welcome if you wish.
If you have any questions pls mail me:
iolfriends+owner@groups.io
God speed.
Pink Pixie
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AussieMerv
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02-03-23 04:14 PM - Post#924664
Thanks for this Pink. The main thing is that we've got somewhere to stay in touch... all my IOL friends are to valuable than to just vaporise into this air.
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"EVERYTHING IS LIGHT AFTER LIFTING SEVERAL TONS OF IRON" ~ DD
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pink.pixie
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It's been a long time since I've been logging any WOs ( because I felt there was not much to say).
Truth to tell it was a struggle after the "pandemic times." Not all seems to beas it were before and my body reacts very differently- I tire very easily and even a moderate weight training seems to aggravate the situation considerably.
I did a sincere trial in the end of spring and during the summer 2022 but it didn't become any reliable routine. I had to scale down. .My energy gets very quickly depleted and such state then lasts for days. After that I need to rebuild slowly starting always from zero. So it feels.
In a long run this led to a state where I rather do not exert myself but OTH it can slide into not being active enough which is not a good "feed back spiral". I was not able to do much walking/hiking without a set back either. That was really boring.
All basic tests the doc took came back normal. No further action there. He just said that the tiredness must depend on "something else".
I have been navigating these "murky times" for quite some time, doing a bit of stretching, some yoga, a couple of squats and push ups here and there plus very simple BW exercises without any extra weights.That approach worked best.
However, it feels also a bit frustrating because I'd like to go back to what was my "normal training routine" when I was able to do swings with 24 kg KB (prior to "pandemi time"). Now that seems more like a utopia.
My hope is that during this year I might be able to start some RMAX program and stick to it. Within that system one can really build up slowly but steadily according to the given frame. We'll see. how that goes.
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I planned to start "own daily routine" mid January but there was a lot of stress in my daily life during the last two weeks so it didn't happen.
Key word is REGULAR and continuity is the main focus. Time: 10 - 30 min /day.
Therefore I decided to log my activities during February 2023 while the forum is still operative and use that time as a spring board into a better future.
It is more empowering to finish on the best possible mark.
Life is happening and I am staying true to my IOL motto.
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3.2.23
Morning: Shoveling snow 2,5 h ( We've got 20 cm overnight)
Afternoon: walk 3km ( flat surface)
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pink.pixie
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02-03-23 04:45 PM - Post#924666
Thanks for this Pink. The main thing is that we've got somewhere to stay in touch... all my IOL friends are to valuable than to just vaporise into this air.
Absolutely, Merv. I agree. We are stronger together.
Super. I'll be in touch with all who were interested towards the end of this month.
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Volumiza
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02-05-23 04:22 PM - Post#924684
Yo PP!
Just thought I’d pop in and say tata! I hope you stay fit and well.
Take care,
Spencer
'You can throw in the towel or use it to wipe the sweat off your face and keep going'
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pink.pixie
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I was thinking about you the other day.... well enough probably for you to pop up here on IOL. So great to hear from you.
Join the mailing group if you want- some of us will hang out there.
( See above how in that case.)
Take care!
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pink.pixie
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02-06-23 09:42 AM - Post#924696
4.2.23
Walk
Home Wo BW exercises and stretch.
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pink.pixie
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pink.pixie
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02-12-23 11:13 PM - Post#924772
During the week: Walks, yoga and BW exercises.
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Mr. Kent
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02-15-23 06:23 PM - Post#924810
Hey Pink,
Just wanted to say hi and, well...bye. I always appreciated your encouragement in my log.
I feel like it's the end of the school year (I grew up in a time before the internet and cell phones) and we're signing each other's year books and hoping to see one another over the summer. Anyhow, take care.
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pink.pixie
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02-16-23 08:13 PM - Post#924827
Thank you Mr. Kent.
Toward the bright future.
Join us at the mailing list if you want.
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Mr. Kent
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02-20-23 09:36 AM - Post#924865
I didn't realize there was a mailing list! I'd love to continue contact with the good people I've met here. How do I join?
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pink.pixie
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Hi Mr. Kent,
Mail me on:
iolfriends+owner@groups.io
The aim is to carry on in the good spirits we know here.
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