2014

Back To The Grind

Because of COURSE this is appropriate Monday morning music! The majority of us are getting up and getting our grind on in one way or another. This could become the official song of Monday morning…in my world.

Back on that grind means back to working out and stretching. After Saturday’s shoulderplant, I knew that some exercises were gonna suck, but I wasn’t sure which ones. Pullups/chinups were ok. Pushups were ok with only mild discomfort. Yes, everything was going along fine until it was time for weighted flys. That’s where shit got real. Real uncomfortable. I think that, until I figure out what I hurt or it heals itself, I’ll stick to doing those flys with no weights.

This shoulder is also putting a slight damper on my 28-day handstand challenge. Luckily, the way the program is set up, I think I have another day or two before it should actually start if I do it on their schedule rather than my own. Their program has a second portion which may be something I should just skip ahead to, but the arm strength struggles this morning say otherwise. I swear I’ve thrown myself backwards at least a month. Ah well, keep on truckin’.

In the land of win, I’m still experimenting with my mini loaf pans. Last night was caramel pecan banana bread. I think I overbaked it just a touch as I’d like it to be more moist, but flavor-wise, I’m pretty much on point. Texture-wise, I think I’m more around muffin than bread, but live and learn. I don’t bake enough to truly get better at it, but I also don’t bake enough to truly feel (and see) what happens when I eat too many baked goods. So there’s that. Also in the land of win, after a slight stretching hiatus, I was back at it this morning and was further down in my split than I have possibly ever been. My body just loves those lazy days and rewards me for them in better flexibility while it punishes me for them with decreased strength. Can’t win them all and I think that right now, I’m going to opt for flexy over strong. Or flexy over added strong.

Well, as per the norm, so much to do, so little time. Hit the showers, kid! Now go out there and conquer the world!

Weekend Remnants

With a mere 3.5 hours left in the weekend, I once again find myself wondering where it went. I mean, I know a lot of it was spent flying down the mountain and smashing my shoulder into it, but where’d the rest go? Am I in a Star Trek episode where I think I’ve been knocked out for 30 seconds and it’s actually been a whole day? (Oh, *thats* where my weekend went – Star Trek: TNG marathons.)

Physicality. That “word” pisses me off to no end. I do not care if it is in the dictionary. It sounds stupid to me. Always has and always will.

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Sometimes, I just throw in a random picture. It was beautiful outside today. We don’t get this a heck of a lot where the snow sticks on the branches.

I’d hang out and chat more here, but I need to go start bolstering my positive energy now because tomorrow is gonna be a superbowl sad day in Peyton-land. Take care!

Snowy Saturday Super Smashup Silliness!

Hey, Lukas, hope you’re doing well. Using your video here to demonstrate my fail today that we didn’t get on video.

Hi everybody else. So yeah, that video, that’s not me (kinda obviously), but that’s what I did today. No, not the cool part, but the part that starts around 9 seconds. I caught my front edge, slammed my shoulder into the ground, and subsequently bounced my head off of said ground….on the first run of the day. The helmet saved my gourd, but my shoulder was not so lucky. I’m pretty sure I fell on my acromion. Say what?!?!

AcromionSee those red places on the ole skeleton over there? Those are the acromion of the scapula. And that is where the bone is sore. Thanks, Wikipedia, for the cool gif. It links back to your page. I didn’t know what this bone was called. I didn’t even know that it was some separate bone (kinda) with a cool-sounding name. See? You really CAN learn something new every day!

Of course, the muscles around there are all sore now too. Probably the couple times I tried to heelslide a jump landing and jarred my shoulders when putting my hands down. I’m a snowboarding genius. I didn’t let those jumps get me down though! The speed with which I went over them might be classified as crawling, but I didn’t fall.

Well, I am, what the kids call exhausted. I’m sure I’ll be back tomorrow to discuss the details of your dreams. That last sentence was created by picking the next suggested word by the spell checker. See ya tomorrow.

ROCO Friday – One Of Those Days

I swear, that might as well be called “The Period Song”.

Even though, yes, TGIF and it’s payday too (yay to the first full promotion paycheck!), it’s still starting out to be one of those days.

Tomorrow, we’re going to head up to Keystone to enjoy some of the nearly two feet of snow they’ve gotten in the last 48 hours. For this excursion, we’re up at 5am. Well, I nearly stroked out when I woke up in the middle of the night, bewildered, thinking we hadn’t set the alarm and we were way behind schedule, only to realize when I was halfway out of bed that it was only Friday. I don’t even know what time it was at that point. Probably like 3 in the morning. Who wakes from dead sleep like that? Oh yeah, I do. I once woke up yelling, “Chips and salsa to table 73!!” when I’d been doing too many shifts at Don Pablo’s, but there can’t possibly be such a thing as too much snowboarding. (Not a question…not even a rhetorical one.)

Finish up with that whole sleeping thing and get up and have coffee and breakfast (hooray for work from home Fridays!!) and set up my little office area and I call in to our morning meeting. After only hearing hold music for 5 minutes, I send an IM to someone else and ask if I dialed in to the wrong number to which she replied, “It’s not 8:30 yet.”  Yes, I was calling in a half an hour early. I mean, it isn’t as though I haven’t been dialing in to this meeting at the same time every day for almost a year and a half. Yes, TGIF cuz it’s one of those days.

Let’s talk about some positive things because it is, after all, Friday. It’s WFH Friday! I really appreciated that as I sat here in the kitchen with my coffee listening to my neighbors scrape their windshields.

Aaaaand, emergency, I’ve created a (work) disaster. It’s been fun. Have a great Friday!!

 

A Mild Slump – But A Video Too!

That’s where I am. The rational part of my mind realizes that I do plenty enough; the irrational part thinks all I do is lay on the couch and eat BonBons. The rational part of my mind knows there are only so many hours in a day; the irrational part says I could be doing SO. MUCH. MORE with my time. Hey mind, how’s about you get your act together?!?!

With only today and tomorrow left in the month, I could either finish strong or take it easy. You go ahead and guess which train I’m on. I think that having a “recovery week” in any exercise program is detrimental to my progress. It happens every time. I get lazy and I don’t do the recovery week exercises because they aren’t challenging enough. The rational part of my mind says that’s because it’s a RECOVERY week you moron; the irrational part says you’re so lazy because you aren’t sweating. Just sit around instead (because that somehow makes me LESS lazy?) On Monday, I’ll start the whole program over again. It’s not actually that bad to start over since it will have me finishing three weeks closer to vacation. Still leaves a month to spare. 122 days and counting. That will be a challenge – to write every day whilst on vacation. Trying to keep up a routine of anything while on a ship is tough. When you’re not working there, that is, and I certainly will not be working.

On the list of accomplishments for January, I completed our FabPole routines class. Video below. Hard to believe that we did this over the course of four weeks with only one hour per class. There will be a prettified version at some point, but this is it for now. I’d like to do it over, tweak some things here and there, but for the most part, I’m satisfied. Also, my armpits have fabric burn. Schmexy!

So at least there is that accomplishment for January, combined with I have put words in this blog every day and I worked out for most of the month. (As much as I know that numbers on the scale shouldn’t mean crap, I was still pretty disappointed when I got on the scale at the gym earlier this week.) Promotion plus raise is good. Bringing my gym membership fees down to a steal of $20 a month is pretty outrageous. Even if I only go to one Zumba class a week, I’m still saving at least $20 a month with this membership. It’s out of control and I love it! Bonus hot tub, steam room, and sauna included.

A family friend is a part of an event tonight that we’ve been invited to. Said event is in a strip club (which you *know* I have no issue with) and they’re combining with a “strip-off”. I didn’t know about this part until I started doing some research. Prize is $200. Chances hubby would not blow a gasket if I breathed in that direction? 2000%, lol. Perhaps I’ll just send my brother and he’ll have a good time. Because if you can believe the meteorologists, and you can’t, it’s supposed to snow 20 feet tonight or some minuscule amount that everyone will act like is 20 feet. Buck up already! This is Colorado where you should be used to the snow driving by now.  There can’t be that many transplants here from non-snowy states, although there are a lot of transplants here, us included. 🙂 We add flava to this pretty white state. (You add or remove punctuation as you wish there.)

Well, kids, we’re in the home stretch of this week. Be proud of yourself that you made it this far and give yourself something to look forward to every day even if it’s only the end of your work day. Have a great Thursday and be excellent to each other – name the movie.

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