Moving To Philadelphia

a link to the photos for the week. This week Cynthia practices a bunch of "self care" (something she has learned to do in sobriety, to counteract her alcoholic tendency to completely self-destruct) and comes down with a cold during the process... though probably the cold is caused not by self care practices but instead by cardio class number two ("ripped abs") which pushes her outside her comfort zone and beyond her limits. Self care practices include a visit to the doctor, prompting a reenactment of a Saturday Night Live skit originally performed by Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin, on the subject of menstruation and its attendant horrors. The potentially magical benefits of IUDs are discovered and discussed. An "Ayurveda and the Art of Self Care" workshop reminds Cynthia of a particularly funny story from the funny story collection The Peterkin Papers, a children's book she recalls from childhood in which the voice of wisdom always came from - Cynthia is almost completely certain - "the lady from Philadelphia"!