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  terri 10:28 pm on 2010/08/10 Permalink | Reply  

  Running Playlist 

  A consolidation of my Running Playlist over the past 12 months.  I tend to change it every month by adding stuff and taking stuff out that doesn’t work for me. Definitely looking to add more!

  
  

  Name	Artist	Album
  Gives You Hell	The All-American Rejects	When the World Comes Down
  Around the Bend	The Asteroids Galaxy Tour	Around the Bend – Single
  Love Shack	The B-52’s	Cosmic Thing
  Hazy Shade Of Winter	The Bangles	The Bangles Greatest Hits
  Walk Like an a Egyptian	The Bangles	Different Light
  In Your Room	The Bangles	Everything
  Intergalactic	Beastie Boys	Hello Nasty
  Sabotage	Beastie Boys	Ill Communication
  Cradle of Love	Billy Idol	Billy Idol Greatest Hits
  White Wedding (Part I)	Billy Idol	Billy Idol Greatest Hits
  Dancing With Myself	Billy Idol	Don’t Stop
  Let’s Get It Started	Black Eyed Peas	Elephunk
  Pump It	Black Eyed Peas	Monkey Business
  Don’t Phunk With My Heart	Black Eyed Peas	Monkey Business
  Circus	Britney Spears	Circus
  Dancing In The Dark	Bruce Springsteen	Born in the U.S.A.
  You Might Think	The Cars	Heartbeat City
  All Night Long (Touch Me)	Cathy Dennis	Move to This
  Bruises	Chairlift	Does You Inspire You
  I Feel For You	Chaka Khan	I Feel For You
  Fascinated	Company B	Jam on Me
  Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex	CSS	Cansei De Ser Sexy
  Just Like Heaven	The Cure	Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
  Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger	Daft Punk	Discovery
  Around The World	Daft Punk	Homework
  Technologic	Daft Punk	Human After All
  Gotta Get Thru This	Daniel Bedingfield	Gotta Get Thru This
  Modern Love	David Bowie	Let’s Dance
  Me, Myself and I	De La Soul	The Best of De La Soul
  World Shut Your Mouth (Non-Album Track)	Death Cab for Cutie	Crooked Teeth – EP
  No Sunlight	Death Cab for Cutie	Narrow Stairs
  I Was Once a Loyal Lover	Death Cab for Cutie	The Open Door – EP
  Soul Meets Body (Album Version)	Death Cab for Cutie	Plans
  Crooked Teeth (Album Version)	Death Cab for Cutie	Plans
  The Sound of Settling	Death Cab for Cutie	Transatlanticism
  The Boys Of Summer	Don Henley	Building the Perfect Beast
  What A Fool Believes	The Doobie Brothers	Minute By Minute
  Hungry Like The Wolf	Duran Duran	Rio
  September	Earth, Wind & Fire	Earth, Wind & Fire Greatest Hits
  Take Me Home Tonight	Eddie Money	Can’t Hold Back
  Lose Yourself	Eminem	8 Mile OST
  Missing	Everything But The Girl	Amplified Heart
  I Don’t Care	Fall Out Boy	Folie à deux
  The Rockefeller Shank	Fatboy Slim	You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
  Weapon Of Choice	Fatboy Slim feat. Bootsy Collins	Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
  My Moon My Man	Feist	The Reminder
  She Drives Me Crazy	Fine Young Cannibals	The Raw and the Cooked
  Good Thing	Fine Young Cannibals	The Raw and the Cooked
  My Hero	Foo Fighters	The Colour and the Shape
  The Pretender	Foo Fighters	Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
  All My Life	Foo Fighters	One By One
  The One	Foo Fighters	Orange County OST
  Learn To Fly	Foo Fighters	There is Nothing Left to Lose
  DARE	Gorillaz	Demon Days
  Holiday	Green Day	American Idiot
  Welcome to Paradise	Green Day	Dookie
  Warning	Green Day	Warning
  What You Waiting For	Gwen Stefani	Love.Angel.Music.Baby.
  Kiss on My List	Hall & Oates	The Essential Hall & Oates
  You Make My Dreams	Hall & Oates	The Essential Hall & Oates
  Out of Touch	Hall & Oates	The Essential Hall & Oates
  Exodus Honey	Honeycut	The Day I Turned to Glass
  Goodnight Goodnight	Hot Hot Heat	Elevator
  New Sensation	INXS	Kick
  What You Need	INXS	Listen Like Thieves
  Love Foolsophy	Jamiroquai	A Funk Odyssey
  Control	Janet Jackson	Control
  California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg)	Katy Perry	California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg) – Single
  Footloose	Kenny Loggins	Footloose OST
  When You Were Young	The Killers	Sam’s Town
  For Reasons Unknown	The Killers	Sam’s Town
  My Sharona	The Knack	Get The Knack
  Jump	Kriss Kross	Totally Krossed Out
  Just Dance	Lady GaGa	The Fame
  My Way	Limp Bizkit	Chocolate Starfish & Hot Dog Flavored Water
  Mama Said Knock You Out	LL Cool J	All World: Greatest Hits
  Dress You Up	Madonna	Like A Virgin
  Little Of Your Time	Maroon 5	It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
  How Far We’ve Come	matchbox twenty	How Far We’ve Come single
  Shake It	Metro Station	Metro Station
  Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough	Michael Jackson	Off The Wall
  Maniac	Michael Sembello	Flashdance Soundtrack
  O.P.P.	Naughty By Nature	Naughty By Nature
  Step By Step	New Kids on the Block	Step By Step
  You Get What You Give	The New Radicals	Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
  Smells Like Teen Spirit	Nirvana	Nevermind
  Come As You Are	Nirvana	Nevermind
  Lithium	Nirvana	Nevermind
  Ex-Girlfriend	No Doubt	Return of Saturn
  The Shock of the Lightning	Oasis	Dig Out Your Soul
  The Kids Aren’t Alright	The Offspring	Americana
  Staring At The Sun	The Offspring	Americana
  Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)	The Offspring	Americana
  You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid	The Offspring	Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
  Come Out and Play	The Offspring	Smash
  I Wanna Be Sedated	The Offspring	We’re a Happy Family
  Here It Goes Again	OK GO	Oh No
  Hey Ya	OutKast	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
  Starry Eyed Surprise	Paul Oakenfold feat. Shifty	Bunkka
  You Can’t Hurry Love	Phil Collins	…Hits
  Jump (For My Love)	Pointer Sisters	Break Out
  Let’s Go Crazy	Prince And The Revolution	Purple Rain
  C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train)	Quad City DJ’s	Get on Up and Dance
  Space Jam	Quad City DJ’s	Space Jam OST
  Crazy Little Thing Called Love	Queen	Greatest Hits I
  Under Pressure	Queen	Greatest Hits I
  Renegades of Funk	Rage Against The Machine	Renegades
  It Takes Two	Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock	It Takes Two
  This Is How A Heart Breaks	Rob Thomas	…Something to Be
  It’s Tricky	Run-D.M.C.	Run-D.M.C. Greatest Hits
  Walk This Way	Run-D.M.C. feat. Aerosmith	Raising Hell
  Push It	Salt-N-Pepa	Hot, Cool & Vicious
  Cry For You	September	In Orbit
  There Is a Light That Never Goes Out	The Smiths	The Sound of the Smiths (Deluxe Edition) [Remastere style='display:none'>d]
  Roll With It	Steve Winwood	Roll With It
  You, Me and the Bourgeoisie	The Submarines	Honeysuckle Weeks
  Pump Up The Jam	Technotronic	Pump Up the Jam: The Album
  Get Up! (Before the Night is Over)	Technotronic	Pump Up the Jam: The Album
  Semi-Charmed Life	Third Eye Blind	Third Eye Blind
  Shut Up and Let Me Go	The Ting Tings	We Started Nothing
  Runnin’ Down a Dream	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	Full Moon Fever
  Jump	Van Halen	1984
  Panama	Van Halen	1984
  Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!	Venga Boys	The Party Album!
  Keep Fishin’	Weezer	Maladroit
  Hash Pipe	Weezer	Weezer (Green Album)
  Troublemaker	Weezer	Weezer (Red Album)
  Wake Me Up Before You Go Go	Wham!	Make It Big
  Rock Steady	The Whispers	Just Gets Better With Time
  Men In Black	Will Smith	Big Willie Style
  Dreamin’	Will To Power	Will To Power
  Say It’s Gonna Rain	Will To Power	Will To Power
  Bust a Move	Young MC	Stone Cold Rhymin’

   

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  terri 9:22 pm on 2010/07/14 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: arthritis (9), itami   

  Ow, the Nerve! 

  I hit the back of my right hand against the corner of a table at work today and now my fingers and arm has pains shooting throughout. I’m going to try to sleep this off, but the pain has me a bit worried. Going to call the rheumatologist if this continues on to the weekend.

   
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  terri 10:14 pm on 2010/07/13 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: nikeplus (8)   

  Road v. Treadmill 

  Since utilizing my YMCA membership, I’ve taken the opportunity to go running on their treadmills for about 30 minutes each visit. I have to say that running on a treadmill is very difficult for me. I think my stamina has been good for the intervals I’ve set, but I just have this constant fear that I’m going to trip and fall and in front of so many people. Thankfully, nothing like that has happened yet, but my experience on the treadmill these past few weeks has gotten me thinking that I enjoy running best when I’m on the road. I like being able to set my own pace as I go along the road; on the treadmill, I end up stressing out over the intervals changing on me and me not being prepared for the change in pace.

  Right now, the only road running I do is the 2.5+ mile block around my house (usually 2 or 3 times). I tried doing Kapiolani Park for a few weeks, but I gave up after awhile because it was rather bothersome to run earlier in the day because of my schedule and because of my blood sugar management. I may look to occasionally do that, but I think it works best for me to run around my neighborhood, though I do enjoy new running scenery now and then.

  With all that said, I have been seriously considering entering road races because I think I can actually thrive in that kind of setting. When I did the GAR this past February, I thought I would just be walking because I thought it would be hard to make pace with the huge crowds of people there, but it turned out to be rather energizing and fun to have a lot of people running alongside you. It made for fun times running behind people and trying to keep pace with them (and then when you got tired, you walk for awhile and then run behind someone else…heheh.) Signing up for road races is something I have to plan out because I need to request the days off I need from work. If anyone has any good suggestions, please let me know.

  I thought about embedding this video to this entry, but it probably would have been a little corny to do so. Incidentally, this is a song I like running to.

   
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  terri 8:25 pm on 2010/07/01 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: arthritis (9), enbrel   

  15 Seconds, Give or Take 

  This is a video of me doing my weekly 15 second Enbrel injection this morning, captured by Hunny using my iPhone 3GS (hence the vertical orientation of the video.) It’s evidence that even after months of doing this week after week, I just can’t get used to it! I know my house is messy and my voice is annoying, but I’m putting out there anyways. As much as I hate doing these injections, the drugs are working. 15 seconds of discomfort week after week (and all the anxiety preceding it) has been worth it. So grateful to my job for medical insurance…eternally grateful.

   
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  terri 10:51 pm on 2010/06/29 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: nikeplus (8), tunes (3)   

  Roll With It, Baby 

  I’ve been meaning to post a “power song” for every run that I do. I think it’s good to share songs that I like to jog to since I’m always open to discovering good running songs.

  When you think about it hard enough, Steve Winwood songs are pretty awesome; I can’t think of a song of his I don’t like. For me, “Roll With It” is one of those songs that invokes childhood memories because of its heavy radio rotation back in 1988. Somehow I ended up putting it in my running playlist, and it has turned out to be a really great song to move to with a steady beat and rather motivating lyrics.

  I had a fairly good run today. Went about 2 and a half times around my block, which equated to about 6 miles in about 1 hour: http://nikerunning.nike.com/nikeos/p/nikeplus/en_US/plus/#//runs/detail/807837932/5185814/all/allRuns/

   
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  terri 10:37 pm on 2010/06/29 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: arthritis (9)   

  June 29th 2009 — One Year Later 

  A year ago, I kept a journal as I was trying to figure out how I was going to manage issues with my health. On June 29, 2009, I wrote a very short, but important entry:

  “Today was a very significant day. I finally had my appointment with the rheumatologist. I came in very hopeful that I have at last been paired with the right doctor to give me a diagnosis. I left with a diagnosis and was rather satisfied with the level of care that I had received…

  Bottom line: I have been diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis.”

  I know I probably will never be cured, but I am happy that I’ve been able to manage the symptoms this past year, thanks to the miracle of drugs and the resolve that I can get better and live normally even if I deal with “having” this for the rest of my life.

  I celebrated today by taking a jog and basking in some endorphins. Yay for working joints…!

   
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  terri 8:44 pm on 2010/06/21 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: geektech   

  Wish List Fulfillment 

  

  I typed this note out on my iPhone over 2 years ago before iPhone 2.0 came out. With the release of iOS4, a few more can finally be checked off. My favorite feature so far? Being able to use a Bluetooth Keyboard with my iPhone.

   
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  terri 8:15 am on 2010/06/18 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: flexibility, miifit (3)   

  Stretching For This Dummy 

  

  Yes, I actually bought a book called Stretching For Dummies.. I just want to write in this short entry that stretching is not to be taken lightly. When I started exercising again, my thought was that stretching would just prevent getting a cramp during exercise and since I never really got cramps, I saw no need to do it. How wrong I was. As a result of not stretching, my groin muscles have gotten so tight that I can’t even sit cross-legged on the floor without it hurting. I hope that I can correct the tightness in my legs by coming up with some kind of stretching routine. Yoga isn’t too feasible at this point because I am way too inflexible. The book is pretty informative, but I have to be sure to follow through. I will probably try stretching at work or while I am out and about in addition to making it part of my current exercise routine of jogging and weight training.

   
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  terri 9:18 pm on 2010/06/04 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: arthritis (9), miifit (3), nikeplus (8), weight training (2)   

  Chee to the Hoo! I am at Level Blue! 

  

  By the hair of my chinny chin chin, I finally hit Nike+ Level Blue, which means I have accumulated 1000 kilometers (or 621 miles) since starting on Nike+ back in March 2009. I had set a goal for myself to do this by the end of May but unfortunately, that didn’t happen. I did run the distance but on my last run when I supposed to have hit Level Blue, my iPod Nano (ironically called “Little Bloo”) decided to freeze and when I had to hard reset it, I lost the run. I was a grrr-bag, to put it mildly. Oh well, better late than never.

  So, what’s next? Well, the next level is Purple which is 931 miles away. Needless to say, I’m not shooting for that anytime soon as that is just too far to reach. Who knows though? I had said the same thing about Level Blue and here I am; I have to say that it’s a miracle that I made it this far. On the other hand, I may have to consider giving my joints a rest from running because of my arthritis, but the strange thing is that I’m enjoying running more due to my weight training. By improving my flexibility and strength in my back and arms, I feel it really makes running bearable and enjoyable in addition to giving me the endorphin afterglow.

  Never say never, I guess. Here’s to the next goal…however long that may take!

   
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  terri 8:56 pm on 2010/05/31 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: nikeplus (8), weight training (2)   

  A Week of Difference 

  It has been a week since I started weight training and after only doing it three times in this one week, I have definitely noticed a difference. The things I need to lift on a day to day basis feels lighter and less of a strain on my overall upper body. Then when I did my run around the neighborhood, my back was able to stay straight and it just gave me more stamina to go faster. I don’t know if it was all a fluke, or if it’s all in my mind but this feeling is definitely giving me motivation to just keep going.