Massage School 911

Help!!!

If at first you don't succeed . . . try, try again, right?

And thank goodness that's the motto at my school. In fact, if you do pass the final the first time, they (the school, that is) suggests you take the other three finals as well just so you can know it all for the state boards.

Yay! I get to take the final three or more times just for the heck of it!? Even when I do pass!?

Yep . . . don't count your answers before they are scored, preppie.

With 200 questions to answer at .5 per question, I figured a person could miss 50 and still make that glorious score of 75. But I had to change a few and then they went from right to wrong in a single stroke. Okay, so I changed some others that went from wrong to right, but why couldn't I leave well enough alone? I ask you!!

I missed passing my first try by .5 points. Yep, that's right. But there's no use crying over spilled chromosomes. At this point you ask yourself . . . is the cup half full or half empty? That is the question . . .  or is it the answer? Perhaps it's 'none of the above'.

I chose to see the cup almost full because the cup only lacketh a snippet of correct info to be filled. Two more right answers would have made the cup runneth over . . . slightly. Oh joy!!

So it is I find myself at the threshold of another day which may bring, with my second try, correct answers spilling all over the school table whereupon I have laboured for three hours over alpha beta cells which produce glucagon, the posterior tibialis muscle which inverts the foot or plantar flexes it if the peroneus muscles don't get to it first and dorsi flex the foot in order to kick a football.

Ah . . .  to pass with flying colors and then be able to sit on my gluteus maximus while my buccinator coordinates the popcorn in my mouth while the rods in my eyes see black and white from my HDTV! As I hold my forearm out in supination I will click the remote using my thenar muscles, abduct it back to my lap where my cat purrs perched on my rectus femoris reaching up the length of my rectus abdominus with her paw to touch my sternoclavicular joint which is the only upper connection my axial skeleton has with my appendicular skeleton.

But let's not get all yin and yang about it or crawl all over someone's chi because dosha know that's messing with NRG.


Okay, so I got carried away. But you get the picture. Or if you haven't you can go to http://www.wikipedia.com/ and get all the info you desire about the human body and all its muscles, nerves, and systems.

We are awesomely and wonderfully made!!! And those words are right out of the mouth of God.

(P.S.  I passed the second school final with an "A". Plus I passed the Boards on my first try. Yay!)

(c) nancy 2.24.2011

ACHOO !!!

So . . . 2011 started out with a huge cold, and I don't mean the weather, although it has snowed here a lot compared to the past ten years, and we all know that a cold front gripped New York.

But . . .  the forecast here was stuffy with a chance of sinus infection. It began with sneezing and my nose running in a marathon of tissue usage. And then the next morning . . . 

Achoo!!!

I heard once that whatever you do on New Year's Day is what you will do all year. Does that mean I will be in bed all year, with Tissue as my best friend, and nothing decent to help me pass the time on my back-to-the-antenna-because-cablevision-is-too-high T.V. viewing at night? Of course, I'll admit, if the only channel I can receive through the airwaves is ABC so that I can watch 'General Hospital', then I am Okay. It helps that I can also watch 'Brothers and Sisters' as well as 'Desperate Housewives'. Yes . . . I still watch it. I am a Terri Hatcher fan, that's why I began watching it anyway. I can't stop now, right?

So, what did you do on the first day of 2011? Shoveled snow? Fell in love? Began writing a blog? Whatever it was I hope it was good so you can look forward to doing that all year.

Me, on the other hand? I am taking the positive thinking route and telling myself that it has to be all uphill from that first day . . .  AchOO !!
 

Bless Me!

(c) nancy 1.7.2011

2011

The sun has set on 2010. Should we have a party? A funeral? Say a prayer? Can you dig it back up. Do you want to? Maybe we just need to say a few parting words over the last year and wish it well. Believe that it is now in a better place and that you will be too. Let it go. Tomorrow the sun will rise in the year 2011. Sounds futuristic.

It is. It's your future.

Now . . .  turn around. Walk away from the sunset with the memories. Good and bad. Wake up to the sunrise and go find some fresh dirt to play in. Plant some seeds. Let those seeds be the dreams you have wished for upon a star. "If your heart is in your dream no request is too extreme". That's what Jimminy Cricket sang to me when I was young, and I became a believer in dreams coming true. A dream starts with a thought . . . a feeling . . .  a picture in your head of what you truly want if you could wave a magic wand, blink your eyes or just close them . . . entering into your wonderful imagination where all is possible.

If you can dream it, then you can begin to speak it. Speak it into being as God spoke the heavens and the earth back into being after it went null and void with darkness upon the face of the deep.

Where do you begin? Light. Then you can see. Create the world in which you want to live and be happy. Do it now. Consciously separate the darkness from the light and let the light rule over the day and the night.

It's a new year. 2011. That's a good binary, back-to-basic number to begin your journey. A year of discoveries . . . about yourself . . .  a lot of things. Make it happen. Be bold. Be you. Be happy. Why do you think we all cheer 'Happy New Year' at the stroke of midnight? Because that's what we all want . . . to be happy.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! 

(c) nancy 12.31.2010

The Moon and all its Colors

As some of you know, the Lunar Eclipse falls on the Winter Solstice this Tuesday. So get up sleepy heads or just don't go to bed because this phenomenon doesn't happen every year. You might see the moon change colors from gray to orange to red. Where's that high tech camera when you need it, right? I'm sure we will be able to go online the morning after and view some awesome shots taken from all over the globe. Especially from NASA, I hope.

Maybe you should mark that day as a day that you too will do something out of the ordinary . . . in a good way, my friend. Don't do something out of the ordinary that'll hurt you or someone else, O.K.?

Okay.

Now that we have that ironed out, I suggest a change of color for you too. How about having a total eclipse of your attitude? If it's been dark, then let there be light!

A total eclipse of your relationship? If it's been colorless, turn the colored spotlights on it.

A total eclipse of your person? Cut your hair, grow it, get a perm, get extensions, shave it, lose weight, gain weight, eat a cookie.

Just don't get all Lunar toons about it. You don't want to freak out your cat.

Remember that the Winter Solstice is the longest night of the year so get crackin' with your eclipse ideas. Your reward? A better you staying up to see a big, beautiful red moon hanging out in the sky changing its colors too.

(c) nancy 12.19.2010

Halloween 1959

It's Halloween Night

It's Halloween Night

The Ghosts and Goblins are out Tonight

It's Halloween Night

It's Halloween Night

If you don't WATCH OUT

You might get a FRIGHT !!

(c) nancy October 2010

Fall 
everchanging season
of reds
oranges
browns
Earth 
covered with
maple
oaks
dogwood
magnolia
Leaves 
that clog
gutters
grass
street curbs
Piles 
raked
stuffed
bagged
Children
running
jumping
splashing
Desire 
for changing
weather
circumstances
Love 
of family
Treat-or-Treating
Thanks Giving
Christmas
Sparkling 
white lights
hope
dreams
wishes
to come true


© Nancy9.22. 2010

KICKING A BALL

That's the title of my school project this month. I am in massage school and my class is learning all about the muscles in the human body. I am learning how "awesomely and wonderfully made" we are as humans. I don't know how a person can say that there is no God if they begin to learn all the intricacies that went into our bodies being formed, made, and created. It's pretty fascinating but overwhelming when you have to memorize all those muscles and what they do. By the way, who was in charge of naming them? It's all Greek and Latin to me.

For instance . . .  what really goes on in the body when a person does something as simple as kicking a ball? That's what I have to research and write about and hand in three weeks from now. I am having fun browsing through wikipedia and other places in the web of information. Some of the old Grey's Anatomy drawings of the leg and thigh muscles are fabulous. Just for fun, here are a few of the names of these muscles . . . 

Flexor Digitorum Longus

Soleus

Psoas Major

Popliteus

Adductor Brevis, Longus and Magnus

Some of these muscle groups sound like brothers who all play on the football team at Superjock High. Others sound like a spell straight out of a Harry Potter movie. Imagine yourself holding your special wand in your hand, waving it around in the air as you say with conviction, "Flexor Digitorum Longus!" and POOF! . . . your enemy's leg grows three inches and they begin to waddle around in circles on their way to their potion's class. You feel pretty smug before you trip over your own robes, falling flat on your gluteus maximus.

So if you get bored at work or just want to learn something about yourself, check out the human body and all its muscles on the world wide web. Take a vacation inside your body and travel through your arteries and veins and get a glimpse of how wonderful and awesome you are!!

(c) Nancy 8.3. 2010