It's OK Michele. He's a sensitive guy.
There was also some discussion about how lucky Loren is to have parents that believe him. At one point Robert's room was off the garage, and if he had ever been up that late and had tried to warn his family of a fire, everyone probably would have perished as his parents argued with him about if he was lying or not, and what he was doing up so late and how he's in big trouble etc. His parents just didn't trust him. And are/were so stubborn they would put themselves into danger rather than listen to him the first time. As lucky as you are to have Loren, Loren's lucky to have the family he has. (even Dh's brother would have argued with him, and maybe his sister, depending how how old she was at the hypothetical time...if she was still in the worship-the-older-brother phase or in the grown-teenager-icky-brother phase)
blather blather blather, talk talk talk...
It's HOT. Yeah yeah, others have it hotter. But it's still hot! I bought a bunch of clothes yesterday and am currently wearing a sundress that's not as cool and breezy as I was hoping it would be. Then again I'm just sitting in the living room, not standing in front of a fan, so maybe my expectations are off.
I'm still waiting out this foot thing until I feel OK running again; the shoe store person we saw yesterday (they sent me a $20 giftcard out of the blue! I had to get a pouch/belt thing to hold all my electrolyte replacements, and while we were there we realized the kid's feet had grown again) thinks that the weight loss has caused a change in my gait, and my tendons/ligaments/muscles/bones are just getting used to it. There's weirdness in my heel bone (calcaneous) and how it relates to the other bones around it (talus, especially). My chiro is good at non-spine manipulations as well as spinal adjustments, so he's helping out during the process. So annoying to not run and to have weird pain. Interesting, but annoying. It's not often that grownups get to sort of re-grow, so it's also intriguing to deal with the progress.
I'd been seeking out all sorts of advice, and it suddenly struck me as silly. I'm highly intuitive about other peoples' health and what they need and who they should see, and I had a conversation with myself about why I don't turn that on myself. Answer was...health "care" "professionals" blasted my confidence to smithereens 9+ years ago. But if I continue to feel like I don't know my own body (and I totally did back then but no one was listening...if I'd followed my intuition it would have been vastly different, because the things that ran through my head then were EXACTLY a solution to the problems I later figured out were happening), then they continue to hold power over me.
So forget that, that's DONE, and I'm listening to myself. Seek help when I feel I need it; follow my own advice when I feel that's warranted. I feel this foot thing is a process towards a better leg/foot joint situation, so I'll treat it as such. And I've also noticed that the alignment of my leg is different; it was all off for YEARS before this. I'd notice it when doing ab exercises, or Pilates, and I noticed it looked better the other night while doing yoga.
And the yoga is new. A few weeks back at our WW meeting, they had an open house all about activity. A local yoga studio did a presentation, and Robert's been chomping at the bit to go. So we went, all three of us, the other night to a 90 minute long HOT yoga class.
They keep the room at 115. Aughhhh. E made it 65 minutes before he had to leave the room; Robert made it 75. I muscled my way through the whole class. Lucky guys; if you leave before it's done they give you an electrolyte replacement drink (maybe just for the first time). If you do the whole class you can choose to buy it. So they felt WAY better than I did b/c I didn't choose to buy it.
During the class I noticed how strong my feet felt after, and how the yoga could really help strengthen my feet for running. I'm not sure the actual running is strengthening the feet; helping my muscles and lungs and heart prepare for the zombie apocalypse, sure, but not actually helping my feet.
But the yoga could be a great help in many ways.
Robert did another class the next day, and did the whole 90 minutes. Amazing! He has found his niche, his activity-passion, I think. He REALLY loved it. I like the results, I like the flexibility, I like saying "I do hot yoga", but I'm not sure I like IT.
And yet we're probably doing it later this afternoon. First, though, the guys have to get home from visiting MIL (what a surprise, I stayed home) and we have to go get the husband-person some new shorts, as he has FINALLY admitted that his shorts are way too big! So we'll see what size we get to buy him. Alas the brand he has bought for years is no more at JCP, so it can't be a same-brand comparison, but it'll still be good.
Told you it was a bunch of blather.
Anything new for the trip? I got a reservation for tea at the Gardenview Tea Room, one of our faves. However, it's WAY too close to our Kona reservation, and so we have to change something. I actually think I might let the guys figure out if they want that, and let just them go to Kona. I think I'll head to the expo in the morning, then maybe we can meet up at Epcot later or something.
I also have to squeeze in a Rainforest or T-rex evening, because it'll be my birthday month and I'll have money from them because of it. That might have to be during the Universal portion of the trip, though.
Augh, I gotta work out a rental car, too! But before that I should look at flights coming in; I'm still hoping I can get on a flight that leaves EARLY and gets in EARLY, because that would take care of the Expo problem on Saturday. And the menfolk could have manly traveling time together. Which would give them a great opportunity to be upgraded (Alaska and United will upgrade the gold-or-whatever person and ONE companion, not two companions). Decisions decisions!
(well, maybe not all of them...)
I don't know how you do hot yoga. I think I would die! 115? Good grief!! I may just be a wimp when it comes to heat though...
I talked to the instructors about if they thought it would help in any way to prepare me for TOT, and they said that doing hot yoga makes *everything* feel easier (since it's not being done in that heat), and they thought it could help. Guess we'll see. 
Nowadays I'm just too nervous to sleep. LIke...the plane needs my mental energy to stay up in the air. 'cuz I'm just THAT powerful. 
