florianschild: A blue dragon on a dark blue background with the text "Dragon's Winter" below (dragons winter)
The year is ending and I had a bunch of use-it-or-lose-it vacation time, so I took a staycation. I was really excited to get a bunch of stuff done around the house, and I kept myself really busy all week. Here's what I managed to accomplish:

- Baked Christmas cookies
- Got snow tires put on my car
- Got my oil changed
- Took our big comforter to the laundromat to wash
- Organized my bookshelves
- Organized my instagram props
- Cleaned the bathroom and organized the closet
- Researched places to stay for an upcoming trip
- Got about 90% finished with my quilt project (just the binding left to do!)
- Finished *most* of my Christmas shopping (probably still need 1-2 more errand runs to be completely done)
- Finished three and a half books

When I sum it all up, it really doesn't seem like that much for a whole week of time off. But it felt really productive at the time, so I guess that's what counts!
florianschild: Marilyn Monroe seated in front of a black backdrop (marilyn sit)
I did something mean to my back lately. I'm not sure exactly what I did, but my back has been protesting loudly (and painfully) for a few days.

It could have been:
  • The car accident I was in back in July (I was sitting in the back seat of a car that was rear-ended)
  • Hunching over my sewing table all weekend (I'm working on a new quilt!)
  • Power washing my front porch (I was pretending I was Ripley from the Alien movies)
  • Some other bad habit? Computer use?


Either way, this new back pain has led me back (lol) down a rabbit hole that I've poked around in before. It's the world of Natural Movement theory. Katy Bowman seems to be the most famous writer/teacher in the space. I bought her book Don't Just Sit There and I've also been browsing around her blog.

I found this article about sleeping postures pretty interesting: Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological and zoological approach to treatment of low back and joint pain. Although my issue is actually upper back pain, but I like the picture of the man and the dog sleeping in the same position. I tried laying on my hardwood floor like that and it did feel pretty good.

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