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Happy Friday, y’all! This has been the happiest week because I found out my adjustments are holding (and the doctor didn’t have to adjust me at all on Tuesday) and I got to see my favorite band of all-time (Dave Matthews Band) live for the 29th time on Wednesday evening… I’m still riding that high! More on both of those things below, and also a few more favorites…
O N E – White Flowy Skirt
I have wanted a long flowy white skirt for pretty much my whole life, and I finally pulled the trigger on this one last week when I saw Shay from Mix and Match Mama post about it. It was on sale when I bought it (the price is now a bit higher), and I love it! It’s light and flowy and I love the wide, stretchy, elastic band at the top… that makes it easy to adjust so you can wear it however you’d like – high on the torso above the belly button, or low on the hips. This one is fully lined, too, and it comes in lots of colors! It’s going to look so cute this summer with some cropped tops!
T W O – Sandals
I bought these sandals months ago and I don’t think I ever shared them here on the blog. This is my favorite style of sandal, and the brown ones that I’ve had for, probably, 10 years are literally falling apart, so I finally found some new ones in this style and I looooveeee them. The bling and the knot detailing adds so much to them, and they’re really comfortable. They’re actually even prettier in person… the picture does not do them justice. They’re still fully stocked in all sizes!
T H R E E – Rainbow
Loom Creations
Olivia has been creating with her Rainbow Loom nonstop for the last couple of weeks, and she has made some really cool things. In addition to making these fancy bracelets, she also started watching YouTube videos to make little animals and Pokemon characters. They are so intricate and just plain amazing, and I cannot recommend this set enough if you have kids who love to create! There are endless possibilities for creating with these and it has kept Olivia (and Jacob) busy for hours these last couple of weeks!
On Tuesday, when I went for my fifth atlas/axis (C1 and C2) adjustment, my doctor told me that my adjustments have all been holding, and since my atlas and axis are both back in place from a nerve standpoint (they still need to move slightly for overall bone structure), he didn’t have to adjust me at all! I’ll talk more about that next week in my weekly update post, but today I wanted to share because it was definitely one of my favorite things from this week!
In addition to that, they also sent the digital files of all of my data, so I wanted to share these much clearer pictures than the ones I posted in my weekly update earlier this week. These are not actual pictures of my skull – they are renderings – but they were worked up based on my exact data and measurements, so they do show the actual position that my skull and neck and body were in before any of the adjustments. I went back and added these to my weekly update, too, since they were the ones I was wanting to include in the original post anyway.
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| Back view of my atlas and axis |
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| This shows where the force needs to go to correct it... they tap behind my right ear |
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| This is what it should look like after it's corrected |
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| This is a view of my atlas from above... see how bad that is?! |
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| This is what it should look like after it's corrected |
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| These are just some of the things that can be affected by this misalignment |
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| And another healthy view of what it looks like when everything is aligned |
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| A view of my body - note the short left leg, the high left hip, the low left shoulder |
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| This is what it should look like when everything is aligned |
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| The list of everything the atlas affects, part 1 |
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| The list of everything the atlas affects, part 2 |
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| This is a view of my neck with its lost c curve |
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| This is what it should look like after it's corrected |
F I V E – Dave Matthews
Band Concert Stats
Again, I’ll be posting all about the Dave Matthews Band concert we attended on Wednesday in next week’s weekly update post, but the concert was my very favorite thing for the week, so I couldn’t not share it here, too. :o) I’ve been a DMB fan since I was 12 years old, and us DMB fans are pretty hard core.
There is a website that has been around forever (antsmarching.org) that contains every single setlist for every single Dave Matthews Band concert ever (since 1989!!!!) and it tells all kinds of details like the rarest songs played at each show, the most common songs played at each show, etc.
You can start an account (it’s free) and create a personal database of all of the DMB shows you have attended, and the website will calculate all of your personalized DMB stats… it’s AMAZING. I joined it back in 2002 after my first DMB concert and it is always so exciting to add a new show to it each year and check out my statistics.
It tallies how many shows you’ve been to (with all data from each), it shows you the average rating for the show (based on ratings everyone else on the website rated the show), it shows the rarest song that you heard at your show, it provides a pie chart with all of the songs you’ve heard by album, it gives you the rarity index for each show (based on the songs they played), it shows a map of all of the states in which you’ve seen them (I’ve seen them in five!), and you can see your song statistics broken down by album (it tells you how many times you’ve heard each song live and when you last heard it), among other things.
What a lot of people don’t know is that DMB plays a completely different setlist every single night while they’re on tour, so every single song is a surprise. It’s nothing like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran and everyone else with their fixed setlists. So DMB is always playing a good mixture of old stuff and new stuff as well as cover songs and unreleased songs.
While I hated statistics class and I hate math, I actually really love quantifying things that are important to me, so this website is my favorite thing!! If this doesn’t prove how much of a DMB fanatic I am, then I don’t know what does! Haha.
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| These are all the concerts I've been to |
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| These are all the places I've seen them |
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| These are the songs I've heard live by album |
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| These are other random stats |
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| Songs I've heard by album... this list is MUCH longer, so this is just a little sample |
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| Other random stats |
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| Songs I've heard as an encore |
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| More random stats |
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Thank you for sharing an update of your atlas readjustment with us! It's just so amazing to me that something so little has controlled so much of your life. It just reaffirms that our bodies are amazing and so intricate! Also so jealous of your concert this past week!!! I wanted to see them in Birmingham so bad but it didn't work out with Dustin's schedule. And after I saw them share the setlist on IG, I wanted to cry even more LOL
ReplyDeleteI love all the DMB stats, that is so cool! And also cool to hear that things are going well with the readjustments!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad the readjustment is holding and that you are getting some relief. The stats for DMB are so interesting, and I loved seeing your stories from the concert! Hope you have a good weekend!
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