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Month: February 2011

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @innerwestlive Wait, what? Sick puppet?! @redambition

    @stufromoz I was hanging out with my healthy friends, the ones who are less of an EVIL TEMPTATION! 😛 @redambition

    Uploaded pic of brown cardigan that I’m knitting… for, uh, no particular reason. *SHIFTY GLANCE* http://flic.kr/p/9hK63P #topsekrit

    @drkknits Don’t you tell anyone! I might get disqualified, uh, er, NOT THAT I’M ENTERING ANY CONTEST WITH IT. OR ANYTHING.

    Tonight’s Jamie recipe: Curry Rogan Josh, Fluffy Rice, Carrot Salad, Poppadums, Flat Bread, Beer. SPOILER: HELLA GOOD.

    @tinkabel Great job!

    Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals experiment #4: Curry Rogan Josh, Fluffy Rice, Carrot Salad, Poppadoms, Flatbread, and BEER! http://bit.ly/feKYt8

    Brilliant new graffiti in Chippo @ Chippendale http://instagr.am/p/Bknr6/

    @Epaulette What happened? Did you have a break in?!

    @Epaulette Yikes! Hope missing phone is the worst of it and you’re okay…

    For Valentine’s Day, the Snook stopped me from eating toast that had mould on the bottom. Try not to swoon, ladies!

    Nothing like being passive-aggressive to start the week…

  • Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #4: Curry Rogan Josh

    This was our fourth official cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. The weather this weekend has been cooler, so we thought something warming was appropriate. We also had some pumpkin and carrots to use up from the veggie box, so one recipe leaped out at us: Curry Rogan Josh, Fluffy Rice, Carrot Salad, Poppadoms, Flatbread, and Beer. (I love that Beer is in the meal title!) No dessert with this one, but it made a huge feast’s worth of food.

    Curry Rogan Josh

    Quick verdict: The only substitution we made was using Kent pumpkin instead of butternut. Time-wise, we were worse than last week with an elapsed time of 48:02. There are definitely things we’d do to save time next time though. Overall I rated it 9/10, while the Snook rated it 8.5/10. (Personally, any recipe with two whole bunches of coriander/cilantro is A-OKAY by me!) However, we both agreed that the lemon pickle SUCKS.

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    Brilliant new graffiti in Chippo

    Brilliant new graffiti in Chippo

  • Shared today on Twitter

    DailyMile 5K run/meetup! (@ Bicentennial Park) http://4sq.com/fNYXIr

    Hello to all my guild friends!! http://twitpic.com/3yst0a (I’m a little sweaty. I just ran 5K.)

    @kunaal84 WHAT? OH NO! You didn’t have them in your pocket or anything, did you? Can you really not get in?!

    @kunaal84 Oh man, that sucks. I’m so sorry! Hope you get it sorted quick.

    @kunaal84 Oh thank goodness! Now take a shower!! 🙂

    @venks79 NOT A MENTAL IMAGE I NEEDED, VENKS.

    Congrats to everyone who ran the #warriordash today! Hope you get all the mud out. 🙂

    Slightly annoyed that free (secret) live updating appears to be gone from @runkeeper, but it finally prompted me to upgrade to Elite.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Off to podiatrist to discuss injured foot. Wish me luck…

    Foot is definite PF, but awesome doc says shouldn’t stop me running. Will be strapping til I get orthotics, which should allow me to heal!

    What a crazy week. Thought I scored a bigger desk at work, but perhaps not. Got some stuff done, at least.

    @chrishodgkins Plantar Fasciitis. Very common running injury where you strain tendons on bottom of foot.

    RT @amandapalmer: fantastic piece in the @guardian by bidisha_online re: PUBIC HAIR REMOVAL, read it & cheer http://bit.ly/FreedomDownThere

    Taped up foot feels really weird, like it’s cramped but it’s not.

    Wore plaits in my hair for the 1st time in years today, as it’s finally long enough. Nobody commented. Too juvenile? Too silly? 🙁

    @BeckTheWrecker Yep. Full update is on my blog.

    SMH website stylesheet is broken! Heh.

  • RunningBlog: Injury Update

    Regular readers will recall that about a year ago I started having some weird tightness and aches in the arch of my right foot. I took a few weeks off and had a bone scan – and was radioactive for a day, which was fun – that didn’t show any fractures or serious inflammation. The doctor (from a local sports med clinic) thought it was just overuse from three months of forefoot running. She advocated ice and stretching. Unfortunately that injury has plagued me off and on ever since, depending on the shoes I wear and the mileage I run. Taking time off hasn’t seemed to have helped at all. So today I finally went to a proper podiatrist to find out what the hell I should do about it.

    After hearing the whole saga, he flexed my big toe and poked the tendon in my arch, and I just about jumped off the table. OUCH. He said that even if it didn’t show on the scan last year, I definitely have Plantar Fasciitis. (The most common form involves heel pain, which I’ve never had. But you can have PF without it, apparently.) I’ve also got some strained ligaments along the side of my arch as well. The interesting thing he said is that the injury is such that stopping running wouldn’t help it heal. Simply walking around is enough to keep it from properly healing. I steeled myself at this point, figuring he was going to put me in a cast or something for 3 months. But to my surprise, he said that altering my running schedule would be our LAST resort with treatment. First he wanted to try taking some of the pressure off my arch with tape to see if it made an immediate difference in my pain level. So he strapped me up. He said to go ahead and do my scheduled runs this weekend. (Yay!) I’m also supposed to only wear shoes with support (as opposed to my beloved Converse). Next week I’ll see him again to discuss the outcome. It may well be that I end up getting orthotics for a while to allow me to keep running while it heals.

    So it’s both bad news and good news. Now I’m just sorry I waited so long to see a specialist! I’m glad I finally have a diagnosis and I can move forward on this.

  • Sock Monkeys

    For those of you who don’t know, back in 2004 I actually posted a photo tutorial for making your own sock monkey. So even if you don’t win this year’s Oscar Contest, you can always make your own!

  • RunningBlog: Week 6

    This week I bounced back from last week’s chin-up related setback. Sunday was my “long run,” but as it’s a cutback week I was only scheduled for 4 miles. The Snook and I did another mile time trial, and though I felt we were speeding along, the time was a disappointing 10:58. (I went back and cleaned up the GPS on our first time trial a month ago, and that one was 10:20.) My foot was bothering me, so I took Monday and Tuesday off to rest. Wednesday I had a morning run and then a Spudds session at lunch. (I KICKED ASS on the rower.) Yesterday I treated myself to a full-body massage in the evening, where a little Chinese man went to town on the knots and tightness in my legs. This morning I went for another run, and though my legs felt great my foot was pretty sore. I’m seeing the podiatrist at lunchtime, so hopefully he’ll be able to advise what to do.

    Feb. 6: 6.81km
    Feb. 9: 6.09km
    Feb. 11: 6.12km
    Total this week: 19.02km (11.9mi)
    Total in 2011: 130.97km (81.8mi)

    To meet my goal of running 1100km in 2011, I should be at 126.9km. So I’ve still got a 4km buffer. I actually have quite a lot of running scheduled this weekend. Tomorrow there’s a 5K Group Run/Meet-up with some of the Daily Mile folks. Then Sunday is my scheduled long run of 19.2km (12mi). Eek! Hope my foot is up to it.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    The 9th Annual web-goddess Oscar Contest is now LIVE! http://bit.ly/h6QtWs Prize is a pair of Black/White Swan ballerina sock monkeys. 🙂

    @eileenDCoE Hahaha… our comments got deleted. 🙂

    @Meshel_Laurie: You really liked Black Swan, right? I made them into sock monkeys. 🙂 http://bit.ly/h6QtWs

    @miss_reecie Damn. Maybe you’ll like the sock monkey version better. 🙂

    @imdominating @ScarlettLetters You guys are killing me… The rash was Snook’s idea. #creditwherecreditisdue

    @dancingman …outside the Casa Rosada crying “Eva Peron.” DAMN YOU. Once Banderas gets in my head, he’s stuck there.

    @kcarruthers Cheers for that! Just registered. #ozgd

    @mathowie Woooo, MeFi meetup in Sydney, then?!

    RT @wmyeoh: Realtime Sydney Buses: shows the GPS coordinates of Sydney Buses in real time. http://bit.ly/gWwBOZ // KILLER FRIGGIN’ APP!

    @wooliewombat They always bring a new one out around June, so not for a good 5 months yet…

    Petey enjoys watching Big Bang Theory. He likes when they make jokes about theoretical physics. http://twitpic.com/3y8zqx

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