I’ve had so much dry needling for so many injuries. Some it helped and some it didn’t. It’s really super personal! Back before I had overall chronic pain in most of my body, it helped when I had really specific injuries…these days it overwhelms my nervous system. I think it’s great to try it, it can really help get those stubborn muscles to release.
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I had dry needling to try to get a muscle to release. It is very stubborn and would not, even with multiple sessions. But I have no regrets about trying it.
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I’ve had real acupuncture, and I think I’ve had 2 people do dry needling. The acupuncture helped and the dry needling made it worse.
ETA I’ve had 2 rolfing visits and I think that is making a positive difference.
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Update from my eSIM adventure: it works great for things that are data (signal, WhatsApp, Facebook messenger) but I don’t seem to have a phone number, and therefore can’t text or make phone calls. I’m not too bothered by this, but I have had to borrow other peoples phones twice to make a phone call. It’s possible that I just installed it wrong or that other carriers do it differently, I haven’t tried very hard to fix it.
Plus it was hard to switch on. Maybe next time I won’t even try to install it until I’m in the new country? It didn’t activate while I was in America and then I had to reinstall it anyway.
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Where would you buy an affordable area rug that won’t fall apart immediately?
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Define affordable?
I don’t love it forever, but for this phase of my life I’m really happy with our ruggable area rug. Its extremely low ply and it really does fit in the washing machine. The colors have faded a little faster than I anticipated but it still looks good 18 months later. The biggest downside is that you can’t use a traditional vacuum on it, but I’ve found that the Roomba is fine.
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Like, under $150?
Ruggable is definitely more expensive than that, sorry!
Home Depot, maybe?
My luck with Ikea rugs has been pretty poor.
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Safavieh rug brand. I got my 8x10 living room rug for about $100 on Amazon. It continues to hold super well 5 years later. I think @MonkeyJenga also ended up getting one.
The brand sells all over the place and at various prices points so figure out a pattern you like and then do a reverse image search to find it on all the different sites and price compare.
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I think I saw that brand at Rugs Direct.
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I have an Ollie’s outlet near me, we got three large cheap rugs that have stood up well fit several years now. We didn’t want to spend too much because of kid/dog. Our choices were pretty limited but what we found was fine.
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Estate sales are great for rugs!
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I second this. Plus you can better quality older rugs at them, too. We got a huge wool area rug for around $100 at an estate sale a few years ago. The ones at Home Depot other other affordable new ones are all made from synthetic materials. That means they ignite and burn much, much quicker in the event of a fire.
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I have one of these too and its been about 4 years and still looks good with two rugrats all over it.
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I’ve got an IKEA rug that looks great and it’s been years.
But usually a buy rugs at Aldi, but they only have them sometimes and then they’ll only have a couple of patterns. They had ruggable knockoffs earlier this year. I bought a runner to replace an ugly rug downstairs.
The ReStore has (new) area rugs.
And I’ve bought one from Amazon at some point, which was harder because there were a million to choose from.
eSIM twist: it doesn’t work in Northern Ireland. Stupid brexit.
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I have two of these- one in my living room and one under my dining room table. They’re a matched set. We’ve been using them for 10 years across like 6 different places, and I got them as a used hand me down from my mom where they were at least 5 years older than that. They’re still in great shape. I vacuum them multiple times per week, the dog and kid play on them, I’ve chipped food and playdoh out, etc. I’ve used a carpet cleaner on them several times.
I’m seriously impressed with that brand.
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Does anyone know of any bands/artists that combine string instruments and EDM?
I love Lindsey Stirling but would love to branch out.
I found out the song I walked down the aisle to has an edm remix and I kind of love it.
I also love 2Cellos, pentatonix, etc.
Basically share your fun electronic/classical music recs with me please 
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Similar vein but do you like electro swing? Caravan Palace, Parov Stelar, etc.
Covers like Lindsay stirling- vitamin string quartet, the piano guys.
Clean Bandit?
Harder but so so so good is Overwerk. Omg I could listen to Overwerk for hours and get goosebumps the whole time haha. I think it’s “Cannon” is the one that we listen to most? (ETA the album)
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