Category Archives: Misc
Recommended Reading: Stretching by Bob Anderson
Stretching by Bob Anderson << HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!! 🙂
Note from lil ole me: If you can afford to buy only one book, then buy this one. If you can’t afford to buy it then get it through a library. I used this book so much that I wore out my first copy and had to buy a replacement. No matter what sport you do, there are stretches for it in this book. There are also general purpose stretches included as well. And it starts from a zero knowledge base which means they explain everything in simple terms. VERY WELL DONE! 🙂
Description from Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 0936070463 This is the book that people tell their friends about, that trainers suggest for virtually every sport and activity, and that medical professionals recommend to people just starting to get back in shape. Stretching first appeared in 1980 as a new generation of Americans became committed to running, cycling, aerobic training, and workouts in the gym — all of which are commonplace now.
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My apologies to my followers… …Maxima Mea Culpa!
Twice < scratch that… *sigh*
Not once, not twice, but THREE times over the past few days I’ve clicked on the wrong button and sent out drafts that were not ready to be published.
My most sincere apologies for cluttering your in-boxes. I do wish WordPress had a way to retract those posts. *SIGH*
Of course, in both cases *sigh* all THREE cases, I realized my mistake as soon as I clicked the BIG HUGE HONKIN’ BLUE button! The button which clearly says “Publish” Not “Save as draft” *sigh*
Note to self — look at the online help pages to see if there is a setting that I can change that makes me click “PUBLISH” twice before it is actually shipped out to all of you.
UPDATE: I’m still looking. Haven’t found it yet, but I’m looking. When I find it I will share the info.
Again, my apologies. I’m still new at this whole blogging thing. <insert image of me begging and grovelling and pleading for forgiveness>
See ya on the dance floor!
(I’ll be easy to spot. I’m the one with the red face!)
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It’s NOT “just” a Diet Coke!
Earlier this week, I was out running a lot errands: dropping off clothes at the cleaners, picking up my mail from my post office box, swinging by Walgreens for some fabric stain remover prewash spray gunk, filling up the truck with gas. You know the drill, doing a whole bunch of the minutia of life.
I had just finished at Jenny Craig, where I weighed 283.6 lbs, a loss of 1.6 lbs from the week before!
Woo Hoo! Happy dance! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! [doing that circle thing with hands out in front of me]
But I digress…
I had my week’s Jenny Craig food in my truck and was headed North on Central Drive. While I was basking in the good feelings from the weigh-in, I was mentally running down the list of what was next “to do.” Then…
[cue the foreboding music!]
There IT was!
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“World Championships” mean it’s time to plan for the coming Competition Year
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Heat # 55, bringing to the floor in Male Newcomer Pro-Ams, number 442 dancing with his pro….”
“Now for the dance of love… Polka!”
“Remember gentlemen, you’re supposed to gaze lovingly at her during the night club”
“Let’s hear it for our dancers” *applause*
“And in first place, our new World Champion in Male Newcomer Open…”
Ah, the sounds of competition at the UCWDC Country Dance World Championships, “Worlds” for short. The World Championships are held the first week of January each year and there are dancers from all over the world competing. This year it is in Orlando Florida. The dancers at the event have been working all year long toward this final event of the year, the culmination of 12 months of effort.
Screen capture from live broadcast of Worlds XX Femaile Newcomer Waltz
Just so you know, Worlds XX is actually going on right now; right this very minute in fact. I’m watching the Female Starter B and Female Newcomer Pro-Am competition right now as I type this, streaming live from GlobalDance.TV. They are just finishing Night Club and then they’ll do Cha-Cha, followed by the Waltz heats.
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5-6-7-8 Has a New Address: txcowboydancer.com
Welcome to
TxCowboyDancer.com
..
Yes sirre, it is official. I done and got me one of them thar doe-manes.
So if you would be so kind as to update yer bookmarks
fer me, that would be right neighborly of ya. Thank ya kindly. 🙂
And ifin this here is yer first visit, yer welcome to wander about tha place.
Make yerself at home. Be sure to say “Howdy!” b’fer ya leave!
Do you know how hard it is to type in “Texan?” LOL All kidding aside, according to the WordPress.com help pages, the old URL www.txcowboydancer.wordpress.com will still work just fine so links to my blog using the old URL should smoothly transfer to the new domain with no problems.
5-6-7-8 Dancing My Way to a Healthy Me! 