Update

Well it has been one week since my pole dancing escapade and I am finally regaining proper use of my arms in a way. I went to the gym last night and found as I was stretching that the muscles around my rib cages and in my arm pits are still sore. Well the stretching must have aggravated them because today I am having a hard time lifting my arms above my head again. :) Still contemplating going back :)

Pole Dancing

So Wednesday night I took part in a pole dancing class with a couple of girl friends. It was an interesting experience. It is a great workout and you can look like a sexy jack ass. When I left my arms were killing me from swinging my uncoordinated ass around the pole. Well yesterday morning as the alarm was going off, I went to reach for it and to my amazement had a very hard time moving my arms to grab it. So needless to say getting ready yesterday with Jello arms was a chore. The day went ok, except I didnt have any grip strength to do anything, and looked like an ass trying to put on my coat or carry anything. Last night I noticed that my arms were getting pretty stiff, so I did some stretches and went to bed. During the night I found myself waking up quite a few times wondering why I couldnt move my arms without being in pain. So I slept on my back most of the night and tried not to move them. So the alarm went off today and as I reached out for it I found that I couldnt straighten my arm all the way out to reach it. This is where I knew today was going to be great. :) I got out of bed and tried to stretch to find that my arms would not straighten unless I wanted to let out a yell, and I also found that my whole upper torso decided to join in the agony. Yes, my entire body from my waist to neck is sore. Now one would think that I would be excited that I got such a good workout, but the pain in my arms is making me think differently. I would like to rip them off and throw them at the damn pole!! It always seems that I have to have a few things going on at one time, so for some reason I have to sneeze alot today also. This in turn brings pain to my sore stomach and rib cage muscles and lets not forget raising my arm to cover my mouth. I also received several large bruises on the insides of my thighs and on my knees. (the knee is from my arms giving out swinging around the pole and falling to the ground) So I am going to have to think very hard about going back to this class, good upper body or misery. Hmmmm
I will tell you that I have a whole new respect for the ladies that do that everyday. It isnt as easy as it looks. :)

Winter....Not Awesome.

Well I made my 26 mile commute to work today in the first bad snow storm of the year. I have not missed the snow one bit. My street in my neighborhood got plowed, but the long stretch of freeway I take to come in was not plowed. This made for some white knuckle driving at about 25 miles per hour. My car is terrible in the snow. So now I have to decide, do I spent $5000 to buy a used SUV to get me back and forth in the winter, or do I spend $1000 to get snow tires and new rims for the car.......Hmmm. Just an FYI for all of you out there low profile or performance sized snow tires are twice the cost of regular tires. I can use the SUV in the summer for camping, where the tires will just be sitting in the garage. Guess I need to weigh the pros and cons. Good grief.