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26 weeks
The Israel/Gaza Situation Has Me Broken

Ignore if you hate this topic. I avoid social media, and I'd rather rant here than the hellhole that is Twitter
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33 weeks
Already on Step 4

Check this out if you have zero clue what I'm talking about haha.
Did bodyweight squats in front of my physical therapist, and they were good!! Super smooth, great range of motion, and zero tightness for the first few sets. This puts me on step 4 out of 5.
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37 weeks
Plan to Cross the Finish Line

Gameplan my physical therapist and I made to overcome my joint issues once and for all. I'd say I'm 90% there, so here is the plan for the last 10%. Primary remaining issue is the left hip weakness causing me to shift much of my weight onto the right hip, which also causes my entire trunk/upper body to twist to compensate for the lean. This messes up my shoulder blade movement as well, leading to
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46 weeks
Can Almost See the Light at the End of the Tunnel

After almost a full decade of pain affecting my waking hours, sleep, ability to exercise, and ability to just have fun, I'm almost done!!!!
I define me being done as: Being able to exercise, sleep, stand, sit, lie down, and walk with no pain, instability, or unevenness. It's hard to put a number on a goal like this, but I'd say I'm 85% there.
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69 weeks
Almost Done Beating Genetics

Ughhhhhh why can't I be 100% done, though
Alright, so despite basically every joint having issues at first, I can minimize the major starting issues to:
- Right hip tear + instability
- Left hip tear + instability
- Left shoulder instability
- Right shoulder instability
The two bolded ones were the biggest issues. As of now, I have:
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Mar

12th

2022

50 Expressions in Record Time · 3:24am Mar 12th, 2022

Alrighty, here is the first challenge I did. Fifty expressions as fast as I could. To make it extra hard:

- I had to do the underdrawing (contours, light pencil marks, etc) and then forced myself to move on to darkening the lines. NO redos (except for one exception)
- At points, I chose different art styles that I had never attempted before
- At points, I chose characters I've never attempted before. For example, I have NEVER done Spike, any stallions, or Goku before this.

The purpose of this was to get the essence of the expression, not necessarily mimic the exact style or lines. Anyway, here are the 50 expressions zoomed out. As always, remember to zoom in since my camera is terrible.