The other
night I was out with Sarah for happy hour, and we went to World Market to walk
off the food. Did you know they sell delightfully whimsical utensils
individually? That makes for a great work fork and spoon instead of having to
use plastic or steal from the home utensil set.
Last night
I christened my Crock Pot with some horrible recipe I found online. It wasn’t
healthy at all, and if that’s not bad enough, it wasn’t even GOOD. But
whatever, it was four ingredients, very easy, and it got the Crock Pot out of
the box. Of course, that turned out to be dangerous. I held the box and Ant
pulled the Crock Pot out, but because he is still learning how the world works,
he didn’t know that he should continue holding the Crock Pot upright. The lid
fell first, and directly hit the floor where it thankfully did not break. The stoneware
did not hit the floor directly because it broke its fall on my shin. The
stoneware both hit my shin hard and scraped downward, which was a painful yet
interesting sensation. Ant felt horrible and tried to make me feel better by
telling me that MMA fighters deliberately kick wood to strengthen their shins.
I’m sure that doesn’t really strengthen anything so much as build tolerance or
Actually, I
just looked this up.
“Muay Thai fighters and Kickboxers train with
repeated strikes using the forearms and shins. In Thailand, before the advent
of heavy bags, pads and other modern tools, they would kick banana trees and
other hard objects to condition their shins. Many modern day
practitioners use bamboo as a striking surface to both deaden the nerves in the
shin. Once the striking is done, the bamboo rods are rolled against the
shin to further compress the bone. This stress also creates micro fractures
in the bone that induce repair of the bone material which leads to a more
robust honey comb structure that is more resilient to damage.”
So that’s
roughly what I figured, only without the vocabulary, but basically scar tissue
being stronger, building bone density, yadda yadda. This is apparently known as
bone remodeling. Gggggguhhhhhh gross.
Let me know
if you need me to kick a Crock Pot.
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