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>.< /comfort. What happened to your legs? <;.;>
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What happened to your legs? <;.;>
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Nuahahaha...
Well, last Wednesday I went to LA Fitness across the street from my house and got a membership. I wanted to lose some weight and tone up a bit. I've had memberships before at other places, like a circuit training and such, but that was like 4 years ago. I've had a desk job for 2 years now and I'm all flabby.
So I go in and the 'personal trainier' guy they give me starts his sales speak stuff. How do you lose weight, how to get calories burned, change your metabolism and such. It's a whole lot of corporate speak blended with a tiny bit of marginally acceptable science. We want to train you for cardio, strength and then rest. Okay! okay!
So.... we start this workout - and he doesn't have me stretch out, doesn't put me on a bike or cardio machine to get my blood going at all, or my heart rate up. He in fact never took my actual weight (which was around 8 lbs higher than I guessed at) nor any measurements beyond that little hand-held fatometer thing. It's a heavy leg workout - deep knee lunges across 10 meters with a medicine ball. Back without it. I barely made that, because like I said, I've had a desk job for 2 years and I have no muscle tone.
Then we start doing horse-stance crunches with the ball.... and I fall down. Literally after about 10 of these deep knee bend things my legs stop working. And after I get back up? * I DO MORE*. Now, I know having a personal trainer there your'e supposed to meet the challenge and get pushed a little.
Well we walk over to the calf machine. I tell him, "I have to work tommorow and I stand all day at my other job. I get leg cramps there constantly." So we do ... calf lifts. Where you stand under the weight and lift with only the toes, like to increase your calfs.
Yeah. So I cramp in my foot there, unsurprisingly, and then the guy has me do 2 more sets. Not reps - SETS of these things. By the time he pulls me onto the balance ball of goo, I can hardly stand anyway. I rest up, I'm taking drinks of water here and there while doing it, but I'm ready to do something *other than* leg work.
But we don't do that. Insead he pulls me to the offices again and *tries to sell me a personal trainer extra gig* for another freaking 99 $ + 39 a month IN ADDITION to the 50 I'm already spending.
I'm like.... no. Sorry, but no.
I myself went out to do 10 minutes on a bike, to just get in the cardio you're *supposed* to have done, and I leave. I was planning on coming back on Friday.
So Thursday, I have to work 8 hours at the shell station. I stand up all day. I don't know how. I didn't crouch or bend or anything the whole time but I'm trying desperately to keep stretching to keep my legs from siezing up.
But by friday they were solid. I mean - the tops and backs of my thighs, and my calves, are effectively *blocks of wood*. While my thighs got better by saturday, I had to work Sunday so I had my friend come over and give me a massage Saturday.
I could actually put my heels back on the ground by Sunday, though that day was when my feet started swelling. I have never had swelling, Edema is a thing that I only read about. I know I don't have any heart trouble, diabetes or breathing trouble, so there was only one explanation for this. My feet and ankles and lower calves *were all the same width*. Seriously, my feet and legs looked like pale, white-girl sausages.
Went to the doctor on Monday and she's like, yup thats shinsplints. From my calves having been locked into position for 3 days or so, no liquid was leaving my legs. It all kind of gathered at my feet. So I had to spend a bunch of money to get those anti-embolism socks, for me to sit down with, and then slept all night with my feet up about half a foot which did help. But they're not back to normal yet, so I took the day off from standing *again*.
SO yeah. I don't recommend anyone use the LA Fitness 'personal' trainers - I'm going to be sending a detailed complaint to their company office, and pretty much chew the guy out for being such an idiot. I've had lots of success with real circuit training. I don't need to kill myself for one body part, then move on to the next. That's a farce. I like doing a little at a time, and that was apparently way beyond what this guy knew how to do. I hope he gets fired. I hope their entire corporate structure doesn't do it this way. Though honestly if it does I'm positive I'd be able to find a good number of injured people and get a class action against them (if only to get them to change their training policies). Feh.
But eventually when the swelling goes down I'll be able to go back and use their facilities MY way.
So that's my story. 
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So, their bad trainers cost you two or more days of pay?
Ouch.
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Wow <>.<> that sucks <;.;> <~.~> I'm too lazy to work out... now I'm kinda glad lol <X_X>;
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lol. The lesson learned here is Train At Your Own Pace. That's what I plan on doing, I know how to do the machines and I know how to balance it with cardio. ANd yeah, they've cost me an 8 hour day at least, unless I volunteer someone else's shift which I don't really want to do. Meh.
Update:
Cierra colored! Everyone else in group 3 scanned!
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I've got the whole group 3 colored and ready to be put on Character Info Sheets (though they're still not all named).
Group 4 has mostly been sketched.
Here is an Otherforest Information Page!
And yes - for those who are tuning in late, I will *always* take new submissions for elves. Just *be sure to tell me who you are* here, because otherwise I get confused.
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ye gods!!
yet another reason to fall back on the YMCA.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
The info page has been updated - Bond Critters includes links to flora and fauna at the bottom, and the Holt Inhabitants now has... dun dun dunnnn, a timeline of all the arrivals.
Now I must actually write *story*
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Update!
Story = working on part 2.
Cierra, Bob, Trickshooter, River, Gymli, Volks, Doc Ryan and Nylonus = colored, working on character sheets.
Mr Graham, Ojin, Grumble, Badge, Snowkitty, Nightblade_g, Tatsu, Dirtwolf and Rizzo = sketched
Amber, Demilion, Blazing Blue, Woodnymph, Abeedo, Proton Chicken, Ruenshock and Back Alley Scrapper (the real one) = Sketched
Everyone else - working on stats and powers, names.
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Sweet, can't wait to see 'em! 
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Here is an update! Two actually!
First - new images and docs, along with an updated map. I did have to re-do the map a little because the JPG was FALLING APART (why I hate them), so I re-applied the names and stuff. There might be a fraction of a difference in where your elves are, but it's a 40 mile wide dot over the map, right? inexact sciences rule!
http://www.droppin-the-fork.com/elve.../protector.htm
I've added group 3! Remember, read at your own risk, as there may be spoilers in each person's character sheet - along with semi-personal information that you don't need to talk about So if you read something you 'don't like' on someone else's sheet that's not yours? Tough - it's not yours 
And arts!
Bob as Aggro
VolksMech as Cannonade
Doc Ryan as Foundit
Gymli as Lancer
Cierra as Lillypad
Nylonus as Quicken
Riverdancer as Red River
Trickshooter as Spotter
Any commentary and such please leave on the images in DA!
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And update TWO - very very important to anyone who's given me a Form but has NOT seen their name on my list!!
------ My form is not hosted on my own site. It's hosted at a friend's site which has on occasion gone down *while people were filling out forms*. In those cases, I get a semi- or incomplete form, or one which does not have a correct email address for you.
I was getting email after email from this mysterious address and thought (because I had no idea the site would go down) that it was all from one person... But then I'm sorting through them to see what's up and to get my emails ready to spam you all in your actual email with my actual email for updates.... when I notice, "Hey, Blue Dagger isn't the same guy as this other dude, and that's Thor's Assassin! I know this isn't right!"
So I investigated and found out that the system is borked on occasion.
IF the name you gave me on your form is:
GYFFES
SQUIGS
DREWOLFF
BLUE DAGGER
TA (I have your info)
Or if you have not seen your name on the list and you KNOW you've filled one out - email me to give me your actual email address so I can keep up on your updates. I swear for the longest time I was convinced it was one crazy person sending me all these mostly blank forms. It turns out, the form will send the *default answers* to me, if it's not working right... There is one other that was filled out but there's no name at all on it,
your favorite animal is RAVENS.
--- So any of you lot above? Please PLEASE send me a note saying who you are on the list, and that you are from here, so I can get your elf actually made.
Send to (remove the + marks please for spam purposes)
lethe.gr+ay@sbc+global.n+et
I feel like such a tard because I didn't realize this would be a problem I'm working on an improved form hosted on my own site, but I don't know anything about CGI bin and have no programming experience with perl or anything so... yeah. The new form will have a text area for email reply, in addition to using a form for it.
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lol well glad you got it sorted out though!
I was beginning to think you didn't like me! 
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I'm Blue Dagger! 
My email is in my profile i think, but I can't actually send you anything right now. I can later if you need me to though.
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I'm Blue Dagger! My email is in my profile i think, but I can't actually send you anything right now. I can later if you need me to though.
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Cool I'll hunt that down and make sure I put it into my email list correctly I'm sorry about the messup everyone!
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A brief update:
Inked - Grumble, Ojin, Graham, Badge, Snowkitty, Nightblade, Tatsu, Dirt, Rizzo;; Amber, Blazing Blue, Demilion, Woodnymph, Abeedo, Ruen, Proton Chicken, BAS;; Dee, Tsuk, MarDun, Rasta, Sillver, Dano, Boudicia, Tom/Al, Audrey + Chris g, Argelia, Tim
named - a few in there
I will be taking the guys that I missed by not having the email correct in the form (form's fault) and doing them next, and I'm working on stat pages and colors for the first batch there.
Ish. fill it out. *glares at the purple guy*
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Hooray! Dano is inked! Glee!
your = Belonging to you.
you're = Contraction meaning "You are."
Ur = The name of an ancient Mesopotamian city.
ur = This is not a word.
yeah I'm actually at the point of needing to print out more of my notes in order to do more sketches at work. Now the hard part is coming up with names....
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How about Beef Master for BAS? Summoner of wild beef!!! XD
Good luck on the names, can't wait to see them!
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i dont know whats going on
Just fill out the form in Z's signature about yourself or Yellow and you become an elf
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i did that like 4 times
Might want to wait then - the form is glitchy as heck right now 
I will have to put up a link to something that does work. :/ I definitely don't want to exclude anyone but I have had trouble with the thing since it's not actually hosted on My site, it's on another person's and sometimes their site is down.
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Here is a link to the TEXT of the form, which you can copy and paste, and send to me via the email on the form! So if you're not sure whether I've gotten you please send this and make sure that you clearly fill out the top at least. (And also please tell me if and when you might have filled out the form itself, and what might have been a feature of it so I can look through my records to maybe find it.)
http://droppin-the-fork.com/elves/survey-text.htm
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An update!
(weapons and descriptions of the Holts are pretty much all that's left).
Since I have injured my legs and shouldn't stand up (thank you LA Fitness idiots!) today I'm going to be coloring Group 3!
Group 3 - Cierra, Bob (NAMED), Trickshooter (NAMED), Riverdancer, Gymli, Doc Ryan, Volksmech, Nylonus (ALMOST named)
Then I'm gonna keep writing for group 2 because I haven't done much with the story since putting it up.
I have a lot of background information for the world which I'll be putting up on that site shortly, too, explaining the powers, skills and such. It wasn't quite finished when I gave up on it last time I was doing it, but that means it's almost done now.
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