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  1. Time is Passing So Quickly I Think I Need a Crash Helmet

    February 27, 2012 by Jane from Maine

    I can’t take credit for that catchy title. I got it from my friend Mary who is a riot! Anyway, I really do feel that way some days. I read a research article that said people who have consistently changed up theirs lives for good or bad do feel that life has passed more slowly than those who have been in a daily routine. My life has switched up so many times in addition to the crash helmet I think I need a score card.

    This weekend is my annual girls weekend. I’ll get together with my chickelt buddies and we will knit, watch movies, eat great food and snow shoe. But mostly we will relax and laugh our heads off.

    So what does this have to do with massage? Nothing except I think all female MT’s should have a girls weekend!

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  2. The Winter

    January 30, 2012 by Jane from Maine

    Here on the rocky coast of Maine the winter just seems to drag on and on. But that is not what today’s post is about that was just about me thinking out loud.

    Today’s post is about the difference between going to school years ago (in the 80′s for me) and going to a massage school today. I had a massage from an MT who had recently graduated from massage school. She completely avoided my gluteal ridge. I requested she work the ridge along with the piriformis and gluteals. She had no experience and had never been show how to properly drape and work this area of the body. For all you massage school owners please do not over look these very important muscles and muscle groups. It was expected when I attended school many moons ago that a full body massage included these key muscles and muscle groups. With proper training all MT’s can successfully access this area of the body and massage accordingly.

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  3. Home for the Holidays……YIKES!

    December 23, 2011 by Jane from Maine

    OK, so I pride myself on blogging with a short and sweet humorous tone, something light about massage. Not today. Today’s post is about me. I can feel a never ending diatribe of craziness just waiting to burst out of my finger tips as I stroke the keys.

    Most of us have thought about going home for the holidays with some romantic notion that this will be the best holiday ever. Your blogger (yours truly) is no different. The initial plan was for all of us, my sister (Sissy) my daughter Lizzie and me to gather at my mom’s for the week preceding the holiday. After a few days of drama prior to everyone’s departure….…. who is sleeping where, will we be tying up the dining room wrapping gifts? What time will be taking showers? We have to talk about parking, are you all bringing cars? And the list goes on and on, my sister and I decided to rent a hotel room. I have to say once you wrap your head around it you’re all set. Currently we are staying at a hotel up the street from my Mom’s house. So instead of; why are you eating a bagel with cream cheese or how much did you pay for that hair cut (yes, my Mom actually asked me that, I think what she meant was I hate your hair cut) my sissy and I have been awaking in the comfort of our own room with a full continental breakfast just a few floors away.

    We visit in the day and retreat to the hotel room at night. I advise anyone if you can afford it, do it. Last night they had warm cookies at the front desk. I could eat as many as I wanted without explanation. The crazy part is, it’s not the actual eating of the cookie it’s all about getting up in my grill. I learned that (getting up in my grill) from my cousin’s 15 year old son. I love it. I even used it on my parents. They both looked at me like a deer in the head lights. It was awesome.

    Yesterday we stopped by prior to hitting the mall. I asked if they had a sharpie. I had cracked open a bottle of water and wanted to put my initials on the cap before I threw it back in the frig. What I really wanted to avoid was one of my parents standing by the open frig door with the bottle of water in their hand asking “who’s water is this”? You think I requested the recipe to the atom bomb. What do you need it for? What are you going to write on? This is a sharpie (it was a wet/dry marker) and last but not least why aren’t you just drinking the whole bottle. At one point my sister joined in. I told her now we really need to get out your turning!

    Plus were Italian, lots of yelling over each other and no one is listening. The good news….. Lots of great food.  

    The good stuff; I’m two Italian subs with everything deep from Richard’s and I bumped into an old pal from high school at the bank yesterday. Let’s go back to Richard’s. I live in Maine. You cannot get an Italian with everything. It does not exist. The first time I ordered an Italian with everything in a Maine sub shop they asked me if I wanted mayo or mustard. I knew immediately I was in trouble. So when I go home I have to have the Richard’s Italian with everything.

    Sissy and I shopped at the Braintree Plaza yesterday. I watched them break ground on the plaza from my 6th grade math class many moons ago. The place was mobbed but we didn’t care because we had our very own hotel room to retreat to after the chaos of a full shopping day.

    Christmas Eve is two days away. I can’t wait. Family will gather at my Mom’s and everyone will yell over each over to be heard. I shouldn’t say everyone, just the Italians, my family. Most of the outlaws (inlaws) will all just watch. For what ever reason most of us married non Italians. Anyway, at the end of the day its all good, there is no place like home!

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  4. Gift Certificates

    November 30, 2011 by Jane from Maine

    I would be remiss in responsibilities if I did not post about the gift certificate. I sold many between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Who doesn’t need extra cash during the holiday season? This is what I did year after year and I cleaned up. I offered a discounted massage on a gift certificate. Sure you have to make good down the road but the good news is that the GC’s will drizzle in over the next year.

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  5. Beer Can Chicken

    October 27, 2011 by Jane from Maine

    Summer time in Maine, 2009. This is the time of year us Maniacs all wait for. Finally the temp reaches 75 or 80 degrees and it is grillin time. For me it is beer can chicken time. You cook this on the grill, it is simple and easy to make. For those of you unfamiliar with this delicacy please go buy  the book “Beer Can Chicken”. You won’t be sorry. It is delicious.

    On this day I was visited by my good friend Tiffany, a fellow MT who I had worked with for many years at the Sugarloaf Health and Fitness Club located at Sugarloaf ski resort. We spent many a day over many many winters skiing and massaging. Not at the same time. That job was a blast. Great money, great staff, great guests.  

    Back to the chicken. So Tiff is visiting with Becky. Becky was another friend from the Loaf. She was a hair stylist not an MT. I told them we were having beer can chicken for dinner. Tiff had heard so much about the beer can chicken she wanted to assist me with the prep to get a feel so to speak for the process. I was cooking to two chickens so this would work out well. Tiff could prep one chicken and I would prep the second. First we washed the chickens. Then we placed the chickens on the beer can chicken stands. Then we dried the chickens. The next two steps were apply olive oil to the chicken then apply the beer can chicken rub. I poured some oil in Tiff’s hands and told her to rub the chicken. Then I began applying oil to my chicken. Picture this; Tiff massaging her chicken while I’m massaging mine. I’m commenting on what a great job she was doing. I watched as she  lifted the little chicken wing and applied oil to be sure she had full coverage. Then she reached down the back of the chicken and massaged her way up. As we were doing this Becky looked at us and said “do you see what your doing?” We had no idea what she was talking about. She told us we were actually massaging the chickens.  Once an MT always an MT even in the kitchen. Every Time I make beer can chicken I think of that story and have a little chuckle for myself.

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  6. Tell Him I’m on the Massage Table

    October 1, 2011 by Jane from Maine

    Circa 1996. I had a client, a very wealthy client who unbeknownst to me was involved in politics. I would never had known that if he had not requested I answer the phone while he was on the massage table. Anywhoooo, I’m there at his summer home here in Maine for his weekly appointment when the phone rings. He asks me to answer it. I motion to him that my mitts are oily. He doesn’t seem to care and why would he they have a live in house keeper who cleans up after them. I answer the phone and a man asks if Biff (I have changed the name to protect the innocent….) is available. I tell him Biff is on the massage table. In the mean time Biff requests I ask who is calling. I ask and the caller tells me its Cap. I tell Biff, Biff says tell him I’ll call him back. I do and comment to Biff on what an odd name that is. He launches into how Cap Weinberger got his name. I don’t hear what he is telling me, I’m still stuck on Biff not taking his call. Caspar Weinberger the secretary of defense? That Caspar Weinberger?

    This is the same guy who answered the door for one of my other appointments drinking a frosty cold Evian water. As I set up the table he asked me if I would like some water. I replied yes and moments later he handed me a glass from the tap, no ice, just moderately cool tap water. But it wasn’t all bad he did on occasion give me a $50 tip. That made the tap water worth it!

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  7. Is That wood Stove Hot?

    September 23, 2011 by Jane from Maine

    Who heats with a wood stove??? I do now that I live in Maine. I moved to the rocky coast in 1993 into a very small house. I heated that house with oil. I realized that many of my fellow maniacs heated with wood. It was not an option for me as my rental house at the time did not have a wood stove. Eventually I bought a log cabin with a big beautiful fire place and we installed a wood stove. Now my house is at a balmy 72 all winter long. 

    Back to my earlier years….. I was bartering massage for pottery lessons. Did I forget to tell everyone that most people in Maine are broke? Byron, my pottery teacher requested a massage session prior to on of our pottery lessons. It was a really cold winters day and by the time I arrived at his house my massage product was freezing cold. As I set up the table I rested my product on top of the wood stove. As soon as I put it down I realized the house nice and toasty because the stove was burning wood. I reached to retrieve the bottle and as I picked up the bottle the bottom of the bottle had already melted to the stove. Picture this….. I’m picking up the bottle, the bottom is melted to the stove and the product escapes from the gaping hole all over the stove. Luckily Byron was a friend and he got a big boot out of it!

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  8. Those Million Dollar Mitts

    September 13, 2011 by Jane from Maine

    As promised this post is about a hilarious experience I had here in Maine one summer, circa 2003. I was working at a 5 star inn in Northeast Harbor. It was early evening and I did not have any additional appointments that day. I wandered from my massage room which looked more like a tree house than a massage room, to the front desk to relish in my very busy and profitable day with a few of the front desk kids. The front desk manager told me that a certain someone was checking in and wanted a massage that evening. I’ll give you a hint. He wrote a Chorus Line, The Sting and several other musicals. When he was not writing musicals he was Barbara Streisand’s personal composer. Anyway, I waited around for him to check in. I finally got him on the table 7 oclockish. He brought his wife who relaxed on the couch and was really quite amusing. So there I am massaging along when I pick up one of his hands. He immediately tenses up, opens his eyes, lifts his head and just stares at me. I said to him “whats the matter (so in so) are you afraid I’m going to injure your million dollar mitts? His wife cracked up. I must say he thought it was humorous as well. I finished up the massage and that was that.

    He performed at the Bangor Arts Center that October. Myself, my daughter, her best friend and her best friends mom all went see him perform. After the show we stuck around. He came back on stage after 20 minutes or so. At this point there were about 20 of us left in the hall. In the midst of all these older women waiving their programs and requesting an autograph was my daughter and her friend. He walked right over to them past all the older woman and asked what are you doing here, your much too young. My daughter responded with “my mom massaged you”. He looked over saw me and gave me a big hello.

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  9. The Saturday Morning Snow Storm

    September 6, 2011 by Jane from Maine

    This episode takes place circa 1989……

    I arrived at work in the early am, same place that I mentioned in my last blog. A busy chiro office on Cape Cod. It had snowed the night before leaving the streets a mess. We are not used to snow that actual sticks on the Cape.  Anyway, I got to work and parked in my usual spot behind the office. Pete, the doc I worked with on Saturdays was shoveling the front steps. His plan was to shovel then sand and salt. For those who have never lived in a snowy climate and think this really sounds like a lot of work; it is! Now I live in Maine and clearing snow is a way of life.

    I entered the office and headed for the waiting room, then opened front door and said hello to Pete. I  commented on what a great job he was doing. John, the chiro who owned the office arrived a few minutes later. He parked rather quickly and ran into the office. He ran past me and yanked open the front door. He bellowed out to Pete “how can we capture the slip and fall biz if you clear the steps”. Pete chuckled and kept clearing. I think John was serious!

    Next weeks post: The Million Dollar Mitts

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  10. My first post, please READ

    August 29, 2011 by Jane from Maine

    I’m tired of reading these blogs that are to be quite honest just plain boring. I intend to deliver humorous posts from my many years working as an MT out there in the trenches! So here goes. I began my career as an MT in 1987. I worked at a chiropractic office on old Cape Cod. Unfortunately the Doc I worked for died last summer of pacreatic cancer. I will dedicate my first few blogs to him, John Fanara. John gave me my start as an MT and provided a working environment that was magic. Now I know that sounds crazy but it was. (not crazy, magic) It was the 1980′s, Reagan was president and were all making money hand over fist. The average age of the employee’s was 30. There were 4 doc’s, 2 MT’s, 6 or so front desk staff and the billing dept. of 4 more. We did have a manager, her name was Dee. Dee had absolutely no control over any of us. One of my good buddies in the office was named Joy. She implemented the electrical stim on the clients after they has their adjustments. One of the tx’s she administered was called “combo” My massage room was located next to Joy’s room. Everytime one of the doc’s walked a patient to Joy’s location and told her to perform combo Joy and I would sing combo, combo, combo, combo! All the while dancing like those Brazilains you see street dancing on the news. It was a riot. The patients loved it and we did too. Now I spend my days writing content for my website: www.mylearninglibrary.coursehost.com

    Stay tuned for my next post; It’s a little something I call “The Saturday Snow Storm”

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