Beads, beads and more beads!

This morning I did a few things around the house before walking down to the train station to catch the train to Chinatown. I got out there about 11 and went in search of the bead stores that the girls in my beading class had been talking about.

I came across one store that sold strings of semi-precious stones. I asked the lady if she did wholesale prices and she said yes. The price came down to one quarter of the retail! But the catch was I had to buy quite a bit. I ended up with strands of red agate, carnelian, garnet, lava stone (basalt), shell, bloodstone, black onyx and a few others.

From there, I had a look in one of the other bead stores up the road. I didn't find anything to my liking there so I walked back to Peter Ho for some lunch and a look around. I made it before the lunch hour, expat lady rush and managed to snag a piece of Chinese mushroom and tomato quiche - so good.

After a bit of a look around Peter Ho, I walked back down the street to find some more beading stores. I found one that sold Chinese crystals and went a bit nuts buying 22 strands of various colours and sizes. I also bought some headpins with little balls at the end of them - a bit different from the normal ones - and some ring frames.

The lady told me they also had another store and she took me over there where I filled up my basket with various findings - earring charms, chain, earring hooks and other bits and pieces. By this time, I was pretty much done.

I caught the train back to KLCC and then walked under cover back to the house. Again, I got home just in time before the storm. It pelted down! I had a bit of a break before having to head out in the rain to go to my chiropractor appointment.

I finally got in to see Nick the chiropractor. We talked for a bit about my lower back pain and shoulder pain. He asked me to stand up and he had a look at my feet. Immediately, he could see that my right foot had collapsed making my foot collapse in and therefore my alignment was out from my foot all the way up to my neck.

Next he checked my spine and said that I have a little bit of scoliosis - which I think I knew anyway - and also a pronounced curve in my spine. He asked me to lay down on the bed and he did some simple stretching and massaging before strapping my feet to the table. He then made the table go and and down at my hip level. This stretched my back again.

Next he did some manual adjustments (i.e. cracking) to my lower vertebrate and my neck. It was freaky how easily everything cracked. I stood up and felt a bit "lighter". Nick said that I should really come in twice a week for 6 weeks to get things aligned properly again. He also said that I should bring in my trainers so he can fit orthodics to help correct my collapsed arch in my right foot.

So I made an appointment for Saturday and drove home in peak hour traffic. I messed about with my new beads while waiting for Ross to come home. We made a chicken salad for dinner and then watched Transformers.