It’s a little hard to think of stuff to do when it’s freezing cold in the middle of winter, isn’t it? Sometimes, you just feel like you’ve watched every DVD, every news story online, surfed every website, etc. BUT, I haven’t lost the novelty of hiding in a corner under a minky with WiKKiD sipping hot chocolate and mini marshmallows… Mmm… I want to save money and try not to use the gas heater, too. Most of the time the muscles in my back and shoulders are so tight from me trying to ’shrink’ myself to keep warm, I feel sick and lethargic. There’s also that knot of muscle near my left shoulder blade that will never go away, and be a constant source of pain. Winter, what a pain in the tail.

Perhaps in the future when I’ve saved enough money, I can get a Siberian Husky to keep me warm, active, and on my toes I can also finally buy some gym equipment and work out again. It’d be a waste to not maintain what my old personal trainer helped me to accomplish. I can’t really go out for runs either because it’s either too hot or too cold here, and I need proper cardio equipment that absorbs shock instead of the hard tarmac due to the latter being too harsh on your joints and ligaments. And if someone thinks that I should toughen up anyway and go for it, you have to take into account that I have a ‘less fortunate’ knee that’s dislocated twice in 3 years.

Oh, and since I’ve been handing out tips for the past two posts, here’s another one: Cod liver oil. Start taking them now and thank me later. They’ll be a godsend to joint health. Because cod liver oil is like the WD-40 for the body, it keeps everything going smoothly.