168 days is wonderful! Wait until you get to the one year mark: your hair will look fantastic!
Glad your boyfriend is okay! Scary! He's lucky he wasn't hurt!

168 days! Hurray!
Swimming is good for exercising and strengthening the muscles in your legs. So is cycling. I am trying to remember what the doctor told me about reducing the pain in the shortened muscles from the tensed position I was holding the legs in, all I can think of is that he said it will take a bit of time to help them stretch out back to where they were before all the pain in the hip and back interfered.
Good that your boyfriend is ok. Glad it worked out for his class internship. Keep quiet, keep smiling, and it will be over with soon.
Stay strong, hands down!

Thanks Inkiri.... I can't even think of being pull free for a year yet. Madness! Thanks for your well wishes.

Thanks Mid for your advice :)

169 days pf. Hands down. Gotta stop straightening. I did well yesterday, but today... not so much. Gotta CHILL THE FECK OUT!

170 days pull free (minus 2-3 accidental pulls, spaced months apart)

Good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chill, girl. Get your nails done.

I agree, get your nails done. I can see 170 days, wow! Hurray for you, ok, if you wanna stress, stress about your smile, make it reach your beautiful eyes, and feel it flowing out your hands! Hands down, you can do this!
Stay strong! Hugs!

you are doing so well. keep it up xxxxx

Ha no point getting my nails done Phoebe, with my job they'd be ruined in minutes. But I think I do need a massage, rather desperately.

Ha Mid, yeah I should probably smile more!

:) :) I will. I think I had a dream last night that I pulled, hm...

Thanks so much everyone, 171 days pf

I hate those dreams, they really unsettle me - hope u feeling ok though xx

I stopped having them months ago. I normally remember them vividly the next day, that's why I'm not sure about this one. Meh!

172 days pf.

Bleh, that is all. I'm stuck in a dirty stupid rut, and I must dig myself out of it. Maybe it's just this miserable weather making me feel miserable, torrential rain I tells ya!

Just shows how careful us trichsters have to be hey. weather here was bad for a few days - hoep it brightens up for you x

I bet you are out of your rut already. Ruts pass, just like urges. xoxoxo

Thanks Mrs Kolo :) I hope so too!

Hehe you're right Phoebe, I'm feeling fantastic today. Could have something to do with the fact that I'm motivated to work on a design job, I'm meeting a good friend for lunch and a movie, and I'm going to yoga tonight. I think trying to balance work, play and exercise into every day is important, just hard a lot of the time.

Hm so 173 days pf. A week to go!

Oh yeah and I don't have to work at the cafe today, that's a big plus!!

You are such a neat person!! So glad you decided to join our group (I know you've been here a while, but I've been gone most of that time so you're somewhat new to me). I skimmed through and read to try and catch up with your story. So cool that you're a graphic designer (did I read that right?!! My husband tinkers with that a bit (he's a web developer mainly). Fantastic on 173 days pull free, wow, you've come a long way!!! It's so easy to not even realize or give ourselves credit for what we've accomplished!! What is it that's worked for you? Hip HIp Hooray for you!!! : )