Another - well - day...

[piplover]

Today was safety day. This means we got to sit through five hours of such -er- fascinating lectures as propper tire pressure and the importance of drip pans.
*shakes head in the vain attempt to regain some lost braincells*
After we broke for lunch, we went to a safety fair, and that was actually kind of cool. There was a guy doing acupuncture, and I managed to work up the nerve and ask him to do something for my depression. I ended up wandering around with a needle stuck in my head and chest for about 10 minutes. But it worked, there was no pain, and it was hilariouse to see people's reactions. I feel great now.
I got my friend to try it, and even though he was hesitant at first, he admitted that he had not felt so relaxed in a long long time.
There were several people too, who were getting it done. It was great, seeing all these people walking around with needles in their heads and hands and the back of their necks. We looked like robots in uniforms!

Comments

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

That sounds like fun, seeing all the people with needles everywhere I mean. I`m so glad it helped you. I`ve actually spent the evening with a woman who does "alternative medicine" like homeopathi and other things I can`t translate (foot zone therapy?), and it was really interesting talking to her.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Foot zone therapy? Never heard of that. I would love to talk to a person like that. I love the alternative medicines. I mean, most of them were around a lot longer than some of these drugs. Plus, the humor factor of seeing about 20 soldiers with pins sticking out of various body parts is just too good to resist.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

I´m not sure foot zone therapy is the right word for it, but translated it´s just wat it says. The idea is that you have points for all organs and muscles and extremeties in your foot and with putting preassure on the right point you heal. I´ve not tried it myself, but it sounds logical.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Hmm, sounds like shiatsu.

[pippinswolf.livejournal.com]

Think you learned enough to try it on me when I come? LOL, just kidding.
Glad it made you feel better!

[piplover.livejournal.com]

So am I. I'll have to make an appointment to see what other body parts he can poke!
(And you can get the dirty smile off your face)
Hugs!

[pippinswolf.livejournal.com]

look out, Arizona, here comes Pip and Pip, Perpetrators of Pierced and Poked Pressure Points.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Lol, Oh the thoughts racing through my head! Bad Pip, bad!
Hugs!

[pippinswolf.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Glad the needles worked and sorry that you had to sit through a full day of lectures. What a way to make sure that people don't absorb the info!

In the Air National Guard we had a safety lecture (on a different topic each time) every drill weekend, but it's not hard to pay attention for twenty minutes...

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Some of the lectures would have been intersting if we hadn't heard them like fifteen times before. The lightening safety one is always electrifying to sit through, and the suicide prevention I have heard at least six times since I got here in October. Oh, well. We were able to sit down for them, at any rate, and a candy bowl kept mysteriously refilling itself. Sugar always makes things more bearable.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately someone told the brass that repetition is the only way to get information so ingrained that it feels natural to know it...

True, but boring.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

I suppose if anyone actually paid attention it would work. However, after seeing all the bobbing heads and glazed eyes, I can already tell that another saftey day is in the making.

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

The matrix!!!

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Lol, I didn't think of it that way, but now that you mention it...I did have a case of deja vu the other day.
Ahhhhh!

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

Check all of the windows and doors to make sure they aren't made of bricks, and if they are.... defy gravity!!!!

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Whew, just checked the window, so far so good, just good old metal and plaster. Of course, if they changed the programming, how would I know they were always metal and plaster? Hmmmm, defying gravity just to be on the safe side!

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

It might just ~look~ like plaster and glass and metal and what not, but just to be on the safe side, toss a brick or two through the window. That'll give you the truth!!
Or will it?
*eyes red pill and blue pill*
*chooses purple pill*

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, tossing brick resulted in shattered glass and loud noise, but could all be a ruse to lull me into complacency. Must hide under bed and murmer White rabbit white rabbit to myself while debating whether or not to take the phone call on my cell phone.
(white rabbit white rabbit)

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

Check the window, if it's 'healed' that means you are in the matrix...yet they could know that you are not following the usual story, and so just leave it to make you happy...
*has trouble swallowing purple pill*

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Peeking up from bed to see still broken window. Still not trusting. Hides under bed some more, chanting. Phone is still ringing, and am fighting desire to suddenly hover in midair.

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

*finally swallows purple pill. hovers above and teases you* come on up!! There's nothing to be afraid of.
~You only shall fear the One Phone if it comes in delivery and then begins ringing. Besides, it is a portal to the 'real' world~

[piplover.livejournal.com]

*swallows purple pill*
Ohhh, pretty colors! Wow, the world really is different from this angle! Cool!

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

;) Nexium does everyone wonders. Problems or not. That is why the matrix claims they dissapear, they simply go to the real world...*gets crazy look*

On another thought... I STILL HAVE NOT SEEN THE THIRD MATRIX!! MOM DIDN'T LET ME SEE IT WHILE IN THEATERS!!

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Ohh, bad mom! Must see Matrix 3, must must must! If only to find out how the story ends. Now run, little grasshoper, run to your local video rental!

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

Netflix works! I don't really know where the video rental is around here yet...
*if you haven't heard I recently moved to OR from CA*

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Ohh, where are you in OR? My hometown is in WA, about 3 hours away from Portland and about 45 minutes from Hermiston.

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

ooooooooo, I'm in Bend. Bend, Oregon.You know what I just reminded myself of? Bond. James Bond.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Lol! I know Bend, its only about 2 hours away from my hometown is! Wow, the world really is a small place! That's really cool! I'm from the Tri Cities, Richland to be exact, in WA.

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

"It's a small world after all! It's a small world after all! It's a small, small world!!!" OOOOO. I would say 'maybe we can meet some time' except it would have to be in about a year since mom has decree'd I shan't meet internet people.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Lol, that's ok. I'm currently stationed in Arizona, and will probably be deployed within the next six months, so I may only be home for about 20 days in August for my sister's wedding. After that, I fear that it will probably be another year if not more before I am home again. With luck, though, my fiance will be back from Germany, and the Middle East, and stationed in WA, so when I get out of the Army I will be home once more. If all goes according to plan, which we know nothing ever does. But that's what I'm hoping for. Maybe we can meet then.

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

Maybe!! LoL. Send my congrats to your sister.

[shirebound]

You could get a plot bunny out of that! Pippin's eyes glazing over as, one night around the fire, Gimli regales the group with the details of Dwarvish mining techniques...

:)

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Oh, brilliant! And believe me, I saw plenty of glazed eyes today, when my own were focused, and head bobs and a little bit of drooling, too.
*shudder*
Horrible lectures.

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

So acupuncture really helps? I was thinking of going to an acupuncturist myself. I'm not sure yet, though. Currently I've been seeing a homeophathist for almost a year now, but that doesn't help at all.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! I only had two needles in me for about ten minutes, and I still feel more relaxed than I have in a long time. And my friend was so relaxed he was ready for a nap! I would definately recomend going. And if you are scared of needles,well, I am absolutely terrified of them! I wouldn't even let them give me an iv when had heat exhaustion. It didn't hurt at all, and it was a wonderful experiance!

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

I will try it then, if I can find one in the neighbourhood. And I'm not the least bit scared of needles (my brother and I used to stick pins through our skin on our fingers to gross out our mother) We were strange kids :)

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Lol! I used to be unafraid of a lot of things when I was younger, including spiders and needles. Now, however, I have become such a girl, as my brother would say.

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm more afraid of things now than when I was little. I became more shy. Why? (And a funny fact: my brother is scared of spiders!)

[piplover.livejournal.com]

I guess that the more we learn, the more we realize that maybe some of the things we did were not quite the smartest. At least in my case.

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, once some friends and I build a fire somewhere outside, and a lock of my hair got on fire. That was stupid. And I have done lots of other stupid things besides that.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I remember cutting myself on a knife because I wondered how sharp it was. Duh! And always I had scraped knees and dirty hands from rolling in the dirt and playing soldeir with my little brother. Now here I am, a real soldier, and hating to get dirty! Amazing how time changes us!

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Yes it is. I was a real tomboy groing up. Well I'm still not the most femenine person, but at least a lot more "ladylike".

[piplover.livejournal.com]

The completely ironic thing is that I am more ladylike and enjoy more feminin things now than before I joined the Army. I think I am compensating for having to go days at a time without a bath and covered in grime. I don't mind doing my job and getting filthy with the boys, but really, I enjoy a good bubble bath and lotion as much as the next girl.

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is ironic.