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The exercises I did yeterday not only made my hips feel better, they made them work better! Tonight was far and away the best practice I've had since the accident. I didn't sit out at all! And my hips mostly moved right (still a tad unstable, but workable!) and they stayed dropped!!! I haven't been able to do that right for weeks. It just wouldn't move that way. Damn that's been frustrating.

Becaue my hips were feeling better, I pushed stances a bit more, and near the end of Chen the muscles around my right hip began to beg for mercy. So I guess I have to rebuild them a bit... No biggie. Sprains, strains, tears and almost two months of not being able to do that, and I'm mostly surprised how much better they got so quickly.

I love my classes enough that I even kind of enjoy them when I'm too not able to do things right and in too much pain to really connect with what I'm doing... and they help even then, but damn, I was able to really focus on the form, and it felt good and I'm just bouncing around going "yeah, that's why I do this, this is supposed to be what it's like!"

I just hope my overworked hip is still talking to me in the morning...

Oh, and (as I should probably have noticed before now) I seem to be having some problems with increased anxiety around driving -- not a big deal most of the time, but downtown Seattle during rush hour traffic is enough to get me clenching muscles in my neck, which touches off a headache, which gets me more freaked out, and I was an achey overstressed mess before class, even though I'd been having a great day up until my commute. Taiji fixed all of that, too, and I'm not intending to stop driving or anything, but I'm going to try being aware of it instead of ignoring it as a coping strategy and see if that gets me further.

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Oh, and in the ongoing saga of Zukia the wonder car...

So she's been occaisionally stalling, for no apparent reason. (I mean, she really needed that new fuel filter, and runs much better with it, but she still stalls randomly, sometimes.) And I'm cheap and don't like to pay for towing, so each time it's happened I've eventually managed to get her going before taking her in to get looked at (but it usually takes at least twenty minutes, sometimes longer). And then she's fine for a few days...

Anyhow, we were picking up Craig's car and Zukia obligingly stalled out in the mechanic's parking lot. Where she's now staying over... Hopefully this will get this annoying bit cleared up -- she's doing great, and she'll be doing great and then all the sudden there's no power. It's kind of amazing.