Shoes Don’t Straiten

To walk with bare feet on clean white sandy beaches gives a good feeling. Beneficial to god knows how many bones and muscles. Very likely you can come up with more of such places. But shoes remain essential, and yet, without reach of so many.

Feet That Won’t Fail

Say –shoe– and you got my immediate attention. Never mind those diamonds, shoes are this girl’s best friend. And like friendships can get more developed, fitted and unfolded through time, shoes can too. Being a runner now, my view on shoes has been changed. I still like the flimsy and fashionable shoes, no worries. But having been surrounded with hundreds, if not thousands of running shoes, I’ve become more aware of the complexity of human bodies while they’re running.

All developments are great, as such. But some aren’t the best pick for all of us, at all times. For instance, I noticed that many professional runner kicks out his very expensive custom made shoes afterwards. I heard those are thrown away even after very short distances as a 100 metres. Shoes might be against human nature, without them can be a painful experience too.

A development such as mbt shoes isn’t a bad thing. I’m sure that certain qualities of them can make a difference. What worries me is that I’m told not to wear them on slippery wet surfaces, that they’re heavy and the latest generation of them isn’t comparable with the first.

Whatever you want to do, there’s at least one classic that remains you standing on solid ground: never buy shoes online, go to a real shop of mortar and bricks, fit them, smell them. Listen to the advices given, but foremost; listen to your body.

Big Strength, Big Smile

I wish you all the big strength to get a big smile like the ones in this clip.

Maverick Of Matrimony

It might be me, but my first impression of most designs of wedding invitations online is not even close to what I would recall a party time. Or it has to be the traditional drink after a funeral. That occasion can be less gloomy as you might think. I even have fond memories of one in particular. But that’s another story. Wedding invitations was the subject. Not one of them had the pinch-me-hard factor. Maybe I was looking in the wrong direction. Maybe I’m a Maverick of Matrimony. Maybe your mail man throws one after the other perfect invitation in the mail box? Let me know. Invite me.

A French Folly

You don’t have to speak French to have a laugh about this one. A ‘usb drive’ hard to be overlooked. This is what you get ‘when the wine’s in the man’.

The Infinity Of A Flash Drive

Saviour of many a dear picture to me is the flash drive. This ever getting smaller device with bigger and bigger storage capacity has been around for just a decade or so. In this relatively short time it has proven its reliability. A flash drive is very robust, near to being indestructible, according some weird tests in which it was being cooked, ran over with trucks and shot against walls. The availability comes close to a loaf of bread or a gallon of gas. The downside may be its small size: it’s easily misplaced or lost. However, you could buy one of the extraordinary exotics among flash drives that look like sushi or twigs of wood to make sure you will be reminded. Till you run into some collector at the airport who’s having no flies on him and gets overwhelmed, that’s the test it won’t survive. And make you walk to buy another one.

Leave No Toe Unturned

I ran out of air to find a clip related to the previous post. From all revealing but informative lung animations to a dozen or more versions of Kate Bush’s ‘Running That Hill’. Finally it has become this clip, because I’m a sucker for that kind of running shoes. It makes my toes make a Wave. I better keep them that cheerful. They deserve it.

To Lunge For Longs

Running miles on a regular base, like I’m doing recently, has a number of beneficial sides to it. The most obvious one is the ever improving physical condition. I admit wholeheartedly that mine was next to nothing. And improvement was likely to show pretty fast. More unexpected was the opportunity to have my lung capacity checked with a wireless spirometer. I instantly lunged for this godsend. It saved me a visit to a much more expensive clinic or hospital. I guess that these windfalls make me smile and even enjoy the strains and pains.

Lease For Happy Landings

Always check and double check the small print of contracts. Words can have a double meaning. When it’s written on a jacket's back there isn’t much room for doubt and wrong interpretation, it’s clear language. Of course, it’s still advisable to check even those... or come to terms with your conscience.

A Fitting Finish

Being in my thirties, in my prime years, so I’ve been told, this might be the time for me to look for term life insurance quotes online. Feeling I’m on the right track and getting stable should make me search. Then again, even with possiblities I hadn’t heard of before, such as the return of premium already been paid and that’s considered income tax free, a term life insurance isn’t really my thing. I’m still single and there’s no one I’ll leave behind who depends on me. But a fitting insurance might await me at the finish line after one of the near future runs.

Misfortune And Miss Fame

One other thing that happened lately just before the start of a Walkathon, was my bumping into a crew of a local tv station. For some reason they picked me out of hundreds of contestants for an interview. I had my minutes of fame. Fortunately they weren’t a witness of my temporary black out not that much later. Failure and fame can be in each others proximity. In one and the same mile.

Miles With Metabolism

Since I’ve started with Walkathons and the number of miles done is gradually growing, something else has grown as well. And it’s not my constant source of anxiety, my tummy. That shows signs of improvement. No, it’s what you can read in for instance apidexin reviews. I admit, it’s always been a hard stretch for me to have even the slightest confidence in the claims made in reviews. Forget the ever vague ingredients and let’s talk hard and tangible facts here. One we all understand: money. It seems that the average monthly costs for apidexin takes you down 50 US dollars. My participation in Walkathons has cost me some sweat and megrim but not a penny, I feel much better and it brings charity some cash. How much more does one need?

A Do-gooder And A Dog

Technically, this isn’t cheating and has nothing to do with hormones. It’s not even covering up things: it’s a wide open convertible. The side-effect however of this innocent drive could become nasty and not ‘small beer’ at all.

The Cream And Not Very Clear

There are weird games that people play. Weird as in funny. Some of those games however are less harmless. Some of them start with crossing carefully executed lines with full awareness. Perhaps a good example is cheating. Where a prank stops and a pack of lies start is to be found at www.testosteronecreams.org. But let me start with a true fact (although not very recommandable). Here’s one of the quotes down there you can read yourself: “it’s used by world-class athletes”. Athletes in covering up anabolic steroids more like it. And what to think of another quote: "side-effect free"? The real horrible thing seems to happen when those steroids move from the tracks to the tots at home. The Cream and the Clear might not sound horrendous to you, but the development of pubic hair, enlarged genitalia and premature bone aging among children between nine months and five years, according a 2008 FDA report, should ring a bell. For the final round, I hope.

Balance In The Buttocks

Here’s a Portuguese singing Pixie and her tune might bring you back in balance and full swing for the rest of the day.

A Path Of Pixies And Pirates

Exceptional stuff makes exceptional situations. Exposed in a case like that is a thin line between the better and the worse and of such a frailty you better think twice before setting foot on it. It might be a path of Pixies and Pirates. The use of a hgh spray, or one of the other forms of taking in human growth hormones, shows on your left people in need like children and adults with a growth disorder and on your right people having little scruples. Like with entering any unknown territory: be on guard and keep your balance.

Bars, Bedfellows And Blunders

To read bar codes with scanners is one thing. With the exception of the occasional coffee stain or plain dust, the simple black and white is very clear. Most of the time you get what it says. To read people is a totally different story.

The Scope Of Scanners

We take lots of things for granted. Not that it’s out of lazyness or carelessness. We simply not always know what it takes to make things go the way they go. Queueing up for counters of supermarkets or getting lost in a IKEA warehouse, nothing special will draw our attention, till something goes wrong. Only then things like handheld scanners such as the Symbol LS2208 show their value, to staff and customer. Especially my Swedish Adventure with up and offloading three seperately but identical sets of a Billy book-case and dragging them on a very noisy and stubborn trailer between two counters because of dirty and damaged barcodes, is one I’ll won’t forget easily.

A Crispy Cookie That Curls

Sometimes the answer for one of our pounding problems is to be found close at home...or in the drawer of the local barber shop.

Restore The Runner-Up

Where it’s the face to be our most personal feature, it’s our hair that’s without a doubt the runner-up. For some people it will be a tough choice between what’s worse: losing face or losing hair. Losing face might be embedded into the cultural background of an individual. Losing hair is mainly attached to past generations. Poor diet or illness and stress are a few minor causes. In other words: it’s genetics that make or break the hairgrowth. In that respect, a shampoo for thinning hair won’t be of much help. The process of thinning of hair is part of the gradually shortening and eventually ending the growth of every single hair. And that’s all done in the hair follicles too deeply buried in the skin for a shampoo to get. Keep your hair on. There are worse things.

To Fade A Face

Some brilliant stuff here. I only wonder how much soap or facial cleanser is needed to remove all that paint (or whatever it is). And if that face will stand year after year of creating faces like these. Won't he lose his own?

Face Up To Facts Of Fabric

If there’s one particular part of our body that will be the outstanding number one feature that shows who we are, it’s the face. And it’s the same face that very often is a battlefield. Next to age and gravity, it’s being exposed to the elements of nature such as sun and wind, and very often forgotten; air pollution, that bombards its surface and even below. Because of the patchwork of oily tissue, dry, or a mixture of them that evolves through time, a general cleansing is hard to apply, if not impossible. By trial and error one will find the best personal way. Banning bars of soap and make use of a mild acne cleanser have been doing great and lasting things to my face. But, like I said: there’s not such a thing as an identical face.

Chumping Chunks Of Calories

Pictures speak louder than words. If you doubt what I said in the previous post and like to know more: here’s a clip that shows you plenty of 100 calorie tips. You’re entitled to pick 5 of them, and they’re your daily menu. Oh, of course: plus that daily injection. Bon Appetit.

Natural Hormones, Nasty Horrors

Your life trembles in the balance more often then you might realize. Everytime you leave your home (where lots of accidents happen) to go to work, school or seeing friends, something unexpected can tap you on the shoulder, or even with much more violence. That’s a danger where we can live with, hence explained why we aren’t aware of this all the time. To joggle with high explosives is something practically none of us will do. And yet, that’s what I feel you’re doing if you start with a hcg diet. A life preservative and perfectly natural as some of the used ingredients are, it’s considered too controversial. It triggers too many possibilities that might make it all get out of hand. You also don’t step out of your house blindfolded... or do you? A 500 calorie diet, far below what’s considered healthy, and a weekly, if not daily hcg-injection, make me shiver.

It's Not All Jam In A Jar

It makes you think, this clip. Perhaps a multitasking husband here? Don't ask me what's in that jar, but if it works, and if I were this woman, I would get me a few of those and presto.

The Multitasking Of Multivitamins

A perfect world, a Garden of Eden will provide everything that’s essential to life. Not many of us will see themselves walking around in such a place. Realists as we are, we’re aware that places and times of availability of the basics aren’t always corresponding with having all our sails set. Multitasking before, during and after the Nine-To-Five, we might grab into thin air, lack intake of certain food, such as fruit, vegetables and dairy. Therefor rely on supplements. Not necessarily a bad choice. But to find the best multivitamins for you at a particular time or stage in your life, takes attention. Like certain fruits and veggies could be better left alone, for such a simple reason as that they’re not edible yet or over priced, certain supplements have ingredients that could be a no go for you. Like at the market: keep your eyes and nostrils open and compare.