Muscle Memory

Never really put too much thought into the phrase "muscle memory" until recently.

"Practice makes perfect" - typing wpm, music instruments, abacus, driving/riding, sports, knitting and list goes on.

Running on a treadmill or elliptical every day but your weight loss hit a plateau, is probably because of muscle memory.

Returning to an old house where I grew up 25 years later and still able to switch on lights before entering the next room or hallway, even the placement of the switches are far from logical, also thanks to muscle memory.

But what got my attention?

I found a locker combination lock that I used everyday during college years, wow that was 18 years ago.  Needless to say I don't remember the combinations but I DO remember writing them down.... somewhere... now only if I can remember where I placed that piece of paper.

Given up finding that paper, I googled "hack combination locks".  While watching one of the videos (which proven to be useless later) I was fiddling with the lock, rotating the dial with right hand thumb.  All of the sudden *click*, it opened!   Yay~!! But... how?  Well, at least I have the last number now.   For the next 30 minutes or so, I tried and tried but no luck.

So I watched more videos online and played with it more; consciously NOT paying attention to the lock and, of course, click, it opened again.  Darn, I still didn't know how I opened it.  My thumb must have its own brain.

Repeating this process several times, "pretending" to watch videos and peeping at the thumb frequently (if that makes any sense), finally I saw how it opened that damn lock!!  AMAZING MUSCLE MEMORY!

Haha, take that, thumb. You can't hide secrets from me.

Just stuff

Travel plans kept changing - how many times can you actually change your itinerary? And it's not like I am going to montreal - it's China we're talking about here. This sucks.

Need suggestions for fun games on iPhone - which will be in my possession for 10 days. Just about enough time to get hooked on a game and then unhook.

Going to miss my doggie... who's going to make me laugh for 2 weeks?

Reinstalled xp on viao - internet a lot faster now, why is that...?

2ft+ of snow is so pretty, but cleaning that snow off the SUV - NOT FUN!

Puppy hops around in 2ft of snow is fun to watch: he hops and walks around the back yard in a big figure 8 till the snow are padded down, then proceeds to do his daily business.

He needs a bath and a hair cut, maybe I'll just trim his bands that's covering the eyes.

Have 3 pairs of pants to hem (the invisible hem) - that's 6 legs! So much work, so lazy, but I am running out of good pants to wear. To hem or not to hem... I wonder where is my double sided tape???

Don't wanna travel alone :-(

It's actually hard to get $250 worth of useful things from Shoppers, speaking of which... Mish, I got a Quo lip gloss set for you.

I don't wanna have a dry, skinny and wrinkly face when I am old - better draft a fattening plan at age 65.

Wonder who assembled the first 刈包?

forgetting things

Tummy hurts - today sucks.

My biggest fear in this comfy life is to eat at a restaurant and find out I don't have money to pay, or when finished checking out at a grocery store and couldn't find my wallet.

I've always make sure I have MORE THAN ENOUGH money before I go into any store, just couldn't figure out how some people can bring exact change to buy something - what if they upped the price? What if the taxes are changed, what if....

I couldn't remember how many times I went to work without my wallet - but that's fine because there is no cafeteria, and I am always with co-workers when we go lunch. Also, luckily no cops stop me for random checks. So I forgot my wallet today, no biggie, except I left work early to go to a store some 10 minutes away, trying to buy work supplies. Spent 30 minutes to pick all the parts and realize the 6 cents at the bottom of my purse is not going to pay for these parts.... The company didn't have an account with the store either - how embarrassing.

Random question from a stranger...

You know how sometimes for no reason you turn your head to look and someone is just looking at you?

While waiting for a red light to turn green on my way home today, I turned my head to look over my left shoulder and this driver started to wave, signalling me to roll down my window. I thought there was something wrong with my car so I did. And guess what he asked me?.... ...

"Where can I get bubble tea?"