Okay onto business...
I believe it is fair to say that I am a disheveled mess of a human being these days, with my workout routine totally interupted by the holidays and crazy schedule. This has left me to do the best I can within my means and just fluff my way through the rest of 2008. I've just come to the conclusion that I an just a stupid human civilian with a life to live.
But luckily, the new year is well on its way, and I’m trying my best to chip away at my new list of my of things to do. My ultimate goal this year is to rid myself of all the irons I have and clean and simplify my life…
~ Job....who cares, I am probably going to end up getting fired anyways
~ Apt....oh, well. As long as I can continue to break stuff while I am here...I think I will stay.
~ Relationships.....Oh…don’t even get me started…
~ Family....I’m open to bartering.
~ Friends....Can’t figure out why I don’t have any so this one I can check off
~ Fan Club...My CAT is the only real member so I’ll be killin 2 birds with one stone once I get rid of him.
Then what? After careful consideration I’ve decided my calling in life is to become a cooped up fitness freak for the next 3months...and then come out of hibernation with a bang!
You know...so I can be just one person shy of having other's drooling all over themselves when I come out...
I’ve also decided that if I’m going to hell in the process, then I may as well take you all down with me!! haha!
Happy Holidays....Bring on 2009!
Yeah, yeah…so I said I wasn’t doing any working out today. I lie. It’s what I do. I got up extra early this morning to fit in some cardio before I started my day. I was gonna take the day off, but am taking it off tomorrow instead because I got more sleep last night than I will get tonight…..always a method to my madness.
So I went to the gym bright and early this morning for a little cardio, I wanted to do it early and since I have set a "no treadmill" before 9am rule in the apartment....off I went.
What I did discover is what amazing personal info comes out of the mouths of complete strangers while in the sauna. I learn so much about people everytime I go in there. Lately it’s been packed and I think that dry heat makes people spill their guts…others become counselors….I just sit and soak it all in and try to stretch within the parameters I’m alloted.
The dude across from me couldn’t drive because his license was revoked for DUI’s….the guy next to me was an interesting lad. Divorced since ‘96, but just recently got full custody of his kids after $9,000 in legal fees. He apparently couldn’t have them before before he was considered "dangerous" after putting a guy in a coma after a fight he got into on "accident." Sold his house, can’t wait for the new Walmart to open, his boy is a B/C student, he wants to be a police officer (good luck…) and he’s gonna start eating salads everyday for lunch....are you even kidding me????
Okay...so I have been on track now since my surgery for 22 days now....but really about 528 hours now if you want to get technical.....
Speaking of hours...sort of..…I got this huge, gigantic watch today…mens watch…..it’s pretty cool ok…sort of overbearing on my wrist, but it’s all part of my scheme to get attention, kinda like how I like to drop my dumbells on the ground so everyone looks at me when I'm done; I like the attention. That's just the way I am.
Oh...and I went on an Under Armour shopping frenzy tonight! Lululemons was too foo foo for me.....and UA's logo is way cooler.
Even more "cooler" was the chest and back workout I did tonight.....in my new "cool" UA threads with the "cool" logo. I'm sure Mr Cat thought I looked "cool"
so cool.
The way I felt today, I could have like worked out for hours. The problem is that I am paranoid about getting bigger. I’m pretty sure the quads are bigger because I’ve been tearing through the seams of my jeans like crazy. Plus, I hear people whispering and pointing "Oh my gosh! Her quads are getting bigger! Her quads are getting bigger!" Rude if you ask me. Seriously, though, I’m cutting out squats and today when I did legs I only did a few exercises. Oh, and there is this creepy old guy who came up to me awhile back and stood on the treadmill next to me saying some kind of creepy nonsense. Yeah, I refused to turn off my music so I could hear him and ended up shouting "I’ll come find you when I’m done" **hint, hint, SCRAM, weirdo** Well that was the first time I’d seen him since. But guess what? Mr lovely ended up in my sauna, creeping everyone the hell out. There was nobody in there, but still….He was just getting out, THANK THE LORD!!! He stepped aside and saluted me as I walked by. Nice…I pretended not to see. He was probably saluting my quads anyways….eewwww..even creepier. I told him to get his formaldehyde-smelling, quad-salutin droopy butt outta my way....okay I mummbled it under my breath...okay I lied...I said it out loud in my head.
I did some time on the elliptical, I felt fine after about 7 minutes, so I did some zig zag crunches on that sucker, too. Incline and resistance up—I’m doing it in my chair RIGHT NOW trying to explain it! Kind of a crossover really— You gotta have the right song though…...
This particular machine didn't have a little ledge to put a magazine, and didn’t have a spot for water either…..I need those two things to be present!! Do I read or drink water on there….hell no, but I need it!!
This particular Gym, (which I won't be going to much longer, because I am a GYM slut and have been getting around)....has some coolio aspects. 1) the water is super cold–the coldest I’ve ever had 2) In the locker room there was a giant roll of what I thought were paper towels for hand drying, but when I went to grab for some with my soaking wet grubby hands, I realized they weren’t paper towels at all….they were plastic trash bags to put your wet clothes in. I was so impressed with that!! That’s the type of thing that impresses me….At other Gyms, I usually put my wet clothes in that spinner thing that the swimmers put their trunks in to get out the excess water. That’s how much I sweat, folks. Oh…..and I don’t wash my hands. That was a joke…I believe there is a direct correlation between the fact that I am dirty and never wash my hands and the fact that I never get sick. Coincidence? No.
But I did have a few scares today, both of which made me thank god for my MP3.…one of the greatest inventions ever, besides Pez dispensers. Those will always be first in my book but anyways.....
I finally got around to changing my ring tone on my phone. This is a big deal, as it involves choreographing new dance moves that I will be doing in short 5-12 second increments everytime the phone rings for the next few months. Anyways, I put my ear buds in and was looking at my player's screen A Kanye West song was highlighted, but I hadn’t pushed play yet. Then I heard my phone ring…a different KW song…. :) I started trippin!! Whoa, this is creeepy..”Don’t do this to me NOW! I need you, I love you….WE WERE MEANT TO BE!!” Oh, it’s the phone.......Thank god cause I was about to busta cap up in that Mp3 player–no lie. That was scary player “Ima lose it” incident #1.
Incident #2 came about an hour later when I parked my keister on a treadmill front and center. OK, when you start pushing arrows on cardio equipment in attempt to skip tracks on the player, just stop–you are in a funky aerobic stupor and it’s only going to get worse from there. Cardio session over! Get up and walk away while you still have a shot at looking cool. Nobody really knew what you were trying to do anyways. I was just happy it was my brain that was broken and not my Player because then I’d hafta hurt somebody!!
Ohhhh and today, I forgot my towels so I had to rub antiperspirant all over my entire body so I could keep my sweating under control. That was SUCH a good idea.
On the way home.....I ice skated in a giant pot hole in the street that was FILLED WITH WATER Man, that was pretty much the best idea I’ve ever had!! I had orange cones, construction barrels and crime scene tape set up around me so I wouldn’t get ran over….I basically put myself on display for the Windsor locals.
I want to skate so bad.....just sayin.
Another day is behind me! HOrray! Ok, I’ll stop there with the annoying rhyming crap. I’m just a white girl….not a rapper like I am in my dreams…and when drinking. And occasionally in church. Ok, so I didn’t mention this the other day for fear of sounding like a “weirdo”—ha–but I searched high and low for some stinking snow boots. Snow boots…it’s winter, there is snow…this sounds like an easy task. Well, apparently it’s a surprise to everyone besides myself that a snow flake or two may fall in the wintertime in this part of Canada. I went to five places looking and I’m not counting the one place that actually did have two pair….conveniently sized 6 and 12…don’t get me started on that…
So I had to go to Columbia today anyways so I figured I’d check there. To my disbelief, they actually had the boots I was looking for. In normal sizes, too! So….I kinda killed two birds with one stone in that little trip, cause I was so excited to try em out in the snow. Haaha! Take that stupid snow!! Stay the hell outta my pant legs!!! Small victories….me, one. Snow, zero.
But Man, it was super cold today...... Single digits. Once upon a time approximately 2 weeks ago I had some bangin’ mittens. They were lovely, all black and sock puppet-like. The cool thing was they were gloves halfway (to about mid-finger), then had the mitten part you could flip over your fingers for the conversion!! The thumb even had it’s own flapper thing. Sometimes you need those fingers free. I, however, should wear them year-round while driving b/c I have a "flippin" road rage problem, if you catch my drift!! Wear mittens, problem solved. Anyways, I left my glove/mittens somewhere about 2 weeks ago. Of course someone took them I am sure of it…they were totally cool. I’ve been mourning their loss ever since and have been wearing my other gloves despite the fact they don’t match anything!! So I was driving, had my phone plugged in….I’m freezing…I’m trying to jam out. I go to make a call….Sorry, folks…You can’t do that with gloves on. I tried more than once. The glove-slash-mittens were awesome b/c I could have my thumb flapper up and that would leave me with 1/2 an exposed thumb to do the touch thing on my touch phone. Stupid gloves!! No way was I taking off the whole glove…It was FREEZING!!! I am happy to report that the tongue does almost as good a job as a thumb!! That is right…..YES! I! DID! It was just a natural instinct really, I didn’t think of the trizillion germs on it until after the fact. Making important phone calls cannot be interrupted by the bitter cold…not if I have anything to say about it!I stopped into my fitness equiptment store.....been window shopping for a new treadmill.....I ended up there for an hour. Yes...cause they had this bangin thing called the Absolo. Oh, man that thing is like an arcade basketball game kind of. Here’s a pic…..http://www.absolo.com/. I just did like 10 sets, you know…just to try it. I rocked at it!! I kept thinking I was winning a lot of tickets and could maybe go buy a nice protein bar or something…..but no. No tickets pop out of anywhere! I checked. But abs are definately done for the day! Otherwise, I had an awesome Leg/back workout today. Can't wait to work on some arms again....the veins in my hands/forearms have always shown pretty well—just like my grandma's did..... but I’ve been shooting to see one in my upper arm...…just haven’t been able to get my arms lean enough. I’ve been wanting it for years!!! Well, the past week or two I’ve thought maybe I’ve seen it…but wasn’t sure. So, basically I stand there and when I think I see it I’m like “OMG…is that it? I don’t know. I think so. Yep…that’s it.” then I start turning around at different angles to see if it’s maybe just a shadow or something. Then I try to feel it. I look like a total weirdo I’m sure. The last few times I haven’t really seen anyone I’ve known too well to ask them if they can see it too. I’ve decided that next time I don’t care if I know anyone or not….I’m asking the first person I see…”hey, excuse me…yeah, you…can you come over here and stand right about THERE…I’m gonna curl this bar and you tell me if you can see this vein pop out a little, ok? Thanks.” ….it’s sooo annoying when you wanna ask someone whether or not they can see your damn vein in your arm and they aren’t there!!! bummer. Anyways…I’m looking to lean out my arms more......
....I also had to switch activities up as my work/weekend schedule has been busy and all over the map........so back on track starting Monday....
