internet killed the TV star

wow, this time I really forgot the blog.

I've been kind of busy, I'm trying to draw everyday, at least a couple of minutes, and trying to play guitar, and also I've had some projects to do, so I've been doing things.

Anyway my health issues haven't changed much. Mayb after playing guitar I felt some shapr pain, but it was gone quickly.

So things are fine I think however sometimes I have to do a lot in the day and I forget about my excercises, that's not good.

My TV died last night :c I feel sad becasue it was an analogue TV, and they are getting hard to find. It bring me so many memories from the 80s and 90's.

I walk alone

I feel sleepy today so I'll be short.

My body felt fine in general today. that's weird :p but yeah, only my elbow bothered me a bit when I was drawing and then the rest of the night, but it seems now there are times when my elbow doesn't hurt at all. So that's good. It's been a long time since that.

I want to work more but I know is not a good idea, until I feel is safe to do it. I'm feeling I'm drawing better these days, even if is just a little everyday, it gives me the feeling that my skills are not the same. I really don't understand how can I get better without using the pencil.

Be water, my friend

Today I woke up with no pain at all. Last night I used my TENS unit in my elbow and I guess it was a good thing.

So today I wanted to draw and paint as much as I could. I made a Chinese mountain using ink and kept working in a digital project. By the way, I discovered the existence of Krita 3.0 . I loved the software, it has many illustration options and you can do traditional animation as well. And it's free, I think is awesome. Unfortunately it still doesn't beat the vectorial tools of SAI, so my lineart will be still made in SAI.

After some drawing in the PC my elbow started to hurt. Not much thou but it seems the modifications I've made in my pencil are not enough. It helped me to understand how the pain is produced thou, maybe I'll find the way soon.

I still can't go to sleep earlier as I wish, can't change that bad habit.

Hacking myself

I was too tired to blog these days. I'm sorry. Anyway I think there's a good reason in the end.

I've been doing a lot of exercise, for some strange reason I felt I had to.

Well maybe not "a lot" but I'm increasing it.

I think, Friday my right hand started to hurt a lot before I went to bed. I did a stupid strong movement that I shouldn't.

I applied something warm and it helped. Saturday morning pain was gone, then it came back at night and finally was gone at Sunday.

Sunday I rode my bike a lot. it was weird because my legs were tired and when I started to ride it felt similar to my beginner training, I lost my balance and stuff. But after a while I could control the bike perfectly again. I didn't fell even once that day. So I guess I can say I totally learnt to ride a bike. I trained to stand in the pedals, and that skill is getting better. sometimes I feel like I will fall forward, but fortunately it didn't happen.

After that I fell it was a loong time since I felt so tired. It was nice cause I felt younger somehow :P

Today I was thinking about the pencil technique I posted about before and I was thinking.. maybe if I tie the pick to my hand, I can lay guitar effortlessly.

And it seems it worked. I'm not sure thou because sometimes I feel the pain the next day, but I really felt much better playing guitar that way, my right hand didn't feel the usual stress.

So it seems I have to hack my hands.

They are already hacked thou, since I use something in my hands since some time ago, but modifying things so they won't produce pain seems to be the way to go. Of course I have to keep doing exercise.

This makes me feel optimistic . I'll try to be more productive this week (unfortunately last week I wasn't) but in fact. Today I was drawing things I had to do, and I wish I keep being active.

Also I started to watch Paradise Kiss (some weeks ago). It was an anime I wanted to see someday but I always forgot to watch. I finally started and I'm liking the show a lot. I wonder if there are more animes like that.

Thicker is better

Today I spent most of the day thinking it was Saturday. Then I realized it was only Friday. I guess it doesn't change things too much anyway.

I made a discovery searching in google that may help me a lot I hope. I found that using a thicker pencil sometimes can help with arm injuries. So I tied something in the tablet pencil and it was really helpful. Of course it wasn't a miraculous solution but I feel less strain in my elbow now. So I'm wondering if something like that would help me to play guitar too, like using a thick guitar pick.

My hips are feeling much better now, so in the end my elbow is the only issue that is bothering me a lot. shoulders and knees too, but in a lower degree. I can't walk too much I guess, but there is an improvement.

I'll try to improve my aerobic condition, it seems I can do some things like that now.

Talking to myself

I forgot about the blog today.  however I'm feeling fine.  Just my stomach was in pain.  I feel I did a lot of exercise today.  I think I'm going to dance often again. only easy songs thou.  by the way  now I am writing this by voice,  I am dictating to my phone what I'm  trying to write. it works fine,  it's much better than the windows  voice recognition.  the only bad thing about it is that  I have to say short sentences,  I cannot speak long photographs,  but it's okay.

I'm starting to like the city again

Oh no I almost forgot about the blog. Today nothing important happened, except my kinesiologist came to my home and checked me.

I have new excercises to make. Also I truly learnt how to use a TENS unit.

My elbow was today's problem but I think it was a nice day in generla and my hips are hurting much less.

I think I'll make a larger entry next time