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Have you ever fainted?

#yes followed by 27 stitches above my left eye!

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Do these boops taste funny to you?

booped you tight and raised you from boopdition

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If at first,

Boop, Boop again!!

#boop

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#boop

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Bonus:

(Castillo’s got that cat in his office.  Poor Marty, someone should have bought him a cat, too.)

#boop

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Here is a gif of Harrison Ford and tiny Lukas Haas playing with kittens.

#boop

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This is a guy who really needed a boop.

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The official song of Leap Day (according to me!)

#the pirates of penzance #leap day #well quite a bit has happened since i posted this last leap day!!!!

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The ghosts of “A Christmas Carol”

#Merry Christmas!!!

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Another submission from my kid....

#tinker tailor soldier spy #colin firth #mark strong #bill haydon #jim prideaux #didivideo

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AJ, I have had many trick or treaters receive my offering of Smarties with thanks for helping them to become smarter and do better on tests and quizzes coming up in the next few school days. My ask to you is: Do Smarties candies actually make one smarter!?!?!?!?!

Yeah, probably lol [ie Foroughi CK, Monfort SS, Paczynski M, McKnight PE, Greenwood PM. Placebo effects in cognitive training. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jul 5;113(27):7470-4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601243113. Epub 2016 Jun 20. PMID: 27325761; PMCID: PMC4941515. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941515/]

I don't know much about psychology but I think that there's a combination of confidence and expectations for yourself that can help a lot with tests and quizzes! Plus like, sugar. Sugar makes the brain cells go wheeeeeeeeee. Sometimes that works in your favor....

[running total for bookkeeping purposes: $38] [send me a trick-or-treat ask for the @spnscripthunt RIP Medical Debt Fundraiser]

#yes...the sugar....the power...the smarties!!!!!

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#halloween #halloween 2023 #lovely weather....in the 50s and dry #surprisingly only 1 barbie #several spidermans and batmans #several Wednesday Adams and a couple of Rays #and for some reason quite a few bananas #larinahgif #243 trick or treaters tonight #everybody loves Smarties!!!! #and a lot of harry potter related costumes #one kid dressed as harry potter looked me straight in the eye and said #you know...you can't beat a classic #and then he turned and walked away..... #final count 262!!!

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okay i have a question based on things i see online. do people clap at the cinema and are you from the us?

#usually no #but if it's the opening weekend of a big film and everyone's first time seeing it together then yes #only if it's good of course! #so i said yes but that's only in special circumstances

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Here is a video from my kid. It's....uh.....something.

#the lighthouse #willem dafoe #robert pattinson

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This is what happens when you buy that canned Mai Tai stuff.

#coppy #canned mai tai in the hampton inn plus a week taking care of 90 year old mom #equals i bought a coppy guy #because i always liked that little fella

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OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s the focus?

1. Keep the flexibility in your spine

2. Stretch the muscles in the front

3. Strengthen the muscle in the back

Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen

Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day

The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down

Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there

Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards

If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.

Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up

There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving

Tips:

Do the best you can

If it hurts stop

Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises

#i'm visiting my 90 year old mother #and she is very hunched over #I've been working on my corset muscle but I'm definitely going to add these back exercises #because boy oh boy it's difficult for her to do practically everything #plus these actually feel good!

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You know what you don’t want to hear when you walk in your front door?

A voice calling from down in your crawl space frantically yelling “TURN OFF THE WATER!!!!!”

#luckily my spouse was barrelling down the stairs to do just that! #hello yes it's me...the person who now posts about twice a year #hello friends i hope you're doing well!!!