Once again

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There seems to be some confusion as of late as to the purpose of this site.

Once again, for all the new readers out there (all one of you), this site is for me. As much as I enjoy having friends comment on things I write, ultimately, this isn't for you, this is for me. How many times do I have to say it?

Selfish as this thought may be, it's true. And with this site's main purpose, which is to archive my life for me, censoring how I feel because someone else thinks my words will make EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD treat him like an idiot, is counter-productive.

So, polar bear, go away. Go read incorrectly into something else.

(Hi, Mom!)

My Jewish new year resolution

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I have decided for the new year, that I am going to give up complaining. Complaining doesn't help me solve any problems, it doesn't lighten my load, it doesn't reduce my stress levels. Quite the contrary, it brings me down, makes me less productive, and probably annoys the crap out of everyone I spend any amount of time with (and maybe some of those I don't).

So, I'm giving it up. Enough of the complaining.

Doyle laughed at me when I said this at work, so, I'm guessing I have more of a task ahead of me than I thought.

Today's Velocity

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After almost sleeping through today's Velocity (Paul really needs to start coming to these things - he'd get a real kick out of having his butt kicked by Bryanne), I hurriedly dressed, ate and dashed out the door with Kris to arrive at class late, but still during the warmup. We had one new new guy today, and two I didn't recognize. New new guy isn't a fast runner, so he's lucky he wasn't in Brynne and Heather's warmup group. Bad enough to have you ass handed to you by the old one, but by two girl's, too?

Maybe the old one (me) was bad enough, but I beat him by only a couple yards. Brynne would have beaten him by 10. Heh.

Today's workout was:

4 minutes of alternating with a partner:
Sled push down 20 yards and back
Step ups.

4 minutes of alternating with a partner:
Sled push down 20 yards and back
Bulgarian split squats (one leg backward, elevated on a block, squat one
leg)

2 minutes of alternating with a partner:
Sled pull down 20 yards and back
Squat jumps.

2 minutes of alternating with a partner:
Sled pull down 20 yards and back
Lunge jumps

We weren't told originally the time for each set, so we figured we went until someone puked. The workout was hard enough that some people almost did.

Ar the end of class, I wrote "go until someone pukes" at the bottom of the workout whiteboard. I wrote it in Bryanne's handwriting, and did a completely passable job. When Kris commented it was pretty good, I explained I use to practice other people's handwriting styles in college. Heather turned to me and smiled. "Of course, you did."

Indeed.

Relief!

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I had my follow up A.R.T. appointment today. When the doc asked, "How'd we do?" I let him know that, honestly, I hadn't experienced any changes. I had an hour or two of temporary relief last week, but everything was back to the same as it was before my appointment: my hamstring still hurt. My teammates theorized he had taken it easy on me because I'm a girl. If that's true, he made a mistake.

So, today, he dug in.

Can I say, holy crap, that hurt? I can? Great. Holy crap, that hurt.

It was the good pain, though, which meant that afterward, I've finally had some relief. After eight months of constant hamstring pain, this relief is unbelievable.

It's so wonderful, I can't decide if I should have sex with Kris or go for a run. They're both going to feel good.

Mystery event

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I have some event scheduled for tonight at 8:00 PM. I don't know what this particular event is, as it says only, "New Event" in my calendar. It's in the "Info" category, which doesn't help much (at all) in figuring out what the event is supposed to be. I asked Kris, and he said he didn't know. I asked Doyle and Mike, and both of them looked at me in the "how would I know?" sort of look I seem to be receiving a lot as of late.

I asked the dogs, but they just looked at me slying and said, that appointment? yeah, yeah, that one, that's when you're supposed to walk us, yeah, walk us, no, FEED us, yeah, that's it, FEED US.

I asked if they wanted dinner that late, they just said, no no, that was dinner number 2 at 8.

I stopped believing them.

So, I have no idea what this mystery event is. I guess I'll wait until 8:05 tonight and hope whereever I'm supposed to be, well, someone calls me from there and lets me know where I'm supposed to be.

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