My wix website at www.wix.com/dottynixon/frontpage
leading to Threshold Girl at www.tighsolas.ca/page10.pdf.pdf
and to my Threshold Girl blog at
http://thresholdgirl.wordpress.com/
and I hope to put a page on Red Room the author's site.
All very complicated.
As I write The 1912 Diary of Edith Nicholson,
a first bit posted at www.tighsolas.ca/page11.pdf.pdf
I'm not in a very focused or creative mood. So, I just plug away. I described the 1908 Tercentenary today, in Edith's Diary.
A huge pageant, a military show of force, on the Plains of Abrahama, totally forgotten for some reason, probably WWI, the event that likely was anticipated what with the Prince of Wales coming in on the battleship Indomitable...
And I'm watching Bringing Up Baby, sort of, after having done a good part of the second level of aeropilates, which is quite good.
Most home exercise machines are nonsense, but this one really works, in that I feel better than I have in a long time; Indeed, I wish I had this machine in my 20's and 30's. I bought a rowing machine after my first kid and it RUINED my knees.. and I had achey knees for years and years. There were times I couldn't go up stairs and I simply stopped running anywhere.
I was told my the doctor I some condition where my kneecaps had gotten, I dunno, roughed up and the doctor said, I shouldn't run downhill.
A USELESS therapist just gave me hell for doing STEP...and used water pressure to break up cartilege.
A few years ago I went to the gym and a personal trainer fixed me up quickly, with simple exercises that aligned my knees with my ankles, (Genius!) but I ran out of money for this type of thing, that is not covered by insurance, but should be, and now I have been using this machine, aero pilates and my knees are 100 percent and my back (which started to ache only in the past few years) is 98 percent. And I generally feel great.
I got in on the Shopping Channel.. by Stamina. Or course, the woman promoting it is some Scandinavian and my brother lives in Copenhagen,and I've been there, and I have no delusions...
But I really like this exercise. I do a little dancing to with this show The Barefoot Dancer. That's all I do.
Like everyone else I am fighting a 100 year trend that makes us eat more calories, while we do far far far less activity. The Nicholson women walked everywhere, in their lace up boots and corsets. And it took a long long time to prepare food. And IT WASN'T PROCESSED. Although certain famous products were being introduced. Heinz. Jello.
I also have an era picture of a swim club, a hundred young men. All thin, all with muscular thighs. Too bad women covered themselves from head to foot, so I can't tell if their legs were muscular. But I bet they were.
(And they weighed themselves with CLOTHES on.. Edith says she is 137. Marion 130... No way.,
