2014

Weekend Warrior

Oh yeah. It’s Saturday. That day when I “sleep in” all the way until 9. I make breakfast, which is my favorite meal both to make and eat. And today, a workshop. But before that, let’s rewind the clock.

Yesterday was the monthly visit to the chiropractor. I know that I’ve been going there a while when we basically have a rundown of what I think is wrong before treatment. I’m usually correct. I mean, it IS my body after all. Yesterday it was the right hip. That bad boy was way out of line. After everything was back in line, I decided that when I don’t ask, I don’t know, so I asked about Graston. It’s a procedure to break up fascia, well, maybe break up isn’t the right phrase, but it’s good and it’s what they were doing for me at physical therapy last year. I figured that insurance wouldn’t cover it and that it would be really expensive, but NO! It’s within a budget range and I get to do it. Stoked.

Today, it was a return to a FabPole workshop. Phrases uttered included: ow, ow, ow, fa, fa, fa, fa, fuuuuuck and my vagina is on my back now. Fun? Yes. A bit ouchie? Also yes. I am sporting some angry red lines in my hip and ass area. But, definitely worth it because I need to keep challenging myself with new stuff.

Today was also a perfect day for relaxing with a bottle of KJ and looking at flowers. Flowers outside, flowers inside. They make me smile.

It’s Saturday. You got a video. I don’t have to post a lot. 😛

ROCO Friday – Damn, It Feels Good

To be in my yoga pants. At my house. Comfortable. Because it’s Friday. Still working, but working comfortably. The difference is huge, my friends, huge.

It’s just wonderful that it’s Friday. I am happy beyond words. But yet I’ll keep writing them down.

Two things:

I got beautiful “just because” flowers today.
I think that I found the perfect skin care regimen. When I wash my face in the shower, it feels so super smooth right now. I just want to stay in there and touch my face.

Hey, I hope you remembered to ROCO today.

Thwack

Oh man, oh man, ohhhhh maaaaaaaan.

Sometimes, there’s just a mental state that sets in and all one can do is sing along with something that requires only the tiniest amount of though. Enter the above. Plus it’s just fun to sing along with in its nonsensical way.

Something I learned the hard way last night is that I am no good the next day if I go to sleep, am woken from said sleep to do work, then have to try to go back to sleep. You see, I like my sleep which means I’m usually in bed by 10pm because 5am really does come pretty quickly. When my work phone rings at 11:30, I’m groggy at best and grumpy at worst. Then when I’m done with work at 12:15 and I go back to bed, it’s 45 minutes of tossing and turning and trying to relax and shut off my mind to get back to sleep. Yes! Being the boss is awesome.

This morning was my second go-round with Fit & Bendy. Knowing that the warmup in the video wasn’t quite enough for me, I knocked out 100 jumping jacks before I got started. Realistically, still not enough of a warmup, but better than nothing. Again today, I am feeling like I stretched and I could tell the difference from just one session in the opening of my upper back and shoulders. The real test will be to see if I get any movement from the upper back when I go to the chiropractor as he usually has a pretty tough time getting my upper back to adjust. That will be a small victory that ends up getting squashed by all of the other things that are out of place (right leg turns out, hips out of line, shoulders mild disaster). I am also seeing the tiniest bit of progress with my split as well, on both sides even! There’s a section for middle splits and I do that as well, however, I think that I fall into that category of people whose femurs sit deep in the hip socket which in turn does not allow for center splits. I promise you that I am not simply making this up as an excuse. I have X-rays and MRIs that show exactly that, but I’ll still work on getting them as far as my body will allow.

Thursday. Thirsty Thursday. No. But I can’t think of a word that starts with “th” that applies to me going to the firing range. Thwack Thwack Thursday. And it’s been the kind of week where thwack, thwack, thwack is certainly needed. It’s the little things that let me blow off steam and help keep me sane. Little things…firing off that 9mm and pole dancing. It sounds funny, but you’d probably be surprised how many gun enthusiast pole dancers there are. I mean, without even thinking, I know of five. It’s always fun to see one thing bring people together to learn that they have so much more in common.

Throw your hands up and just say ho! Hasta mañana.

Just Feeling This

If you were worried ’bout where I been or who I saw…then you’re too damned nosy.

But I really do love that song. And you are too nosy.

Halfway through the week and it just happens to be going a little more slowly than I would prefer. Last night, when talking to the Hubs, I swore up and down that it was already Wednesday. I think he almost felt bad that he had to burst my bubble with the reality that it was only Tuesday. Sad face.

In less than a week, the first quarter of the year comes to a close. How the hell did that happen?!?! I mean, it feels like Christmas was a long time ago (even though I didn’t decorate since we weren’t at home), certainly longer than three months. I feel like with my calendar filling the way it is, it’ll be Christmas again before we even know it…and this year I may decorate again. Hey, Home Depot, why not throw me one of those $5k gift cards? I’d have the most rocking Christmas village EVER!

Sidebar: When I don’t write in the morning, all day I try to get this done and I’m all, hey! A squirrel!

Back to the present and the future, I have 14 weeks in which to prepare a routine to submit for consideration of my participation in a competition later this year. That’s a lot of –tion. I think I’ll also need some motivation, preparation (hopefully not H, PLEASE not H), gumption, strengthification and flexification. Maybe I make up words, maybe I don’t. I honestly don’t understand how people do this sort of thing on the regular. I know that, for me, I absolutely must dance to songs that I know and can sing along with. I need songs where I really know every note and every beat inside and out so that I don’t miss my own cues. So here’s to thinking that I have at least 4 of those types of songs that I would like to use and I just have to narrow it down. And I think I have, but I keep waffling. I’ll probably end up prepping choreography for 2 and then deciding where to go from there. Much will depend on my actual goal for this endeavor. Time will tell, my friends, time will tell.

Sidebar: People are probably second guessing being my friend on Facebook after I posted a bunch of pictures from high school today.

I saw interesting new followers on Twitter today (and I can’t wait to watch The Following from Monday). Perhaps some new poor souls will make their way over to my daily brain dump to have their heads filled with music and mayhem. That would be fun. Maybe one day, I’ll promote this blog to try to get people to read it, but that won’t be until after I start writing porn erotica. Oh yeah, it’s coming. All over the place.

Seems like it’s time to wrap this up as it’s quickly falling apart. Hope you’re getting your hump on.

Insert Techno Beat Here

Move – slowly out of bed
Shake – the headache I woke up with
Drop – it like it’s hot

This morning was a tough one indeed. Don’t you just hate when you wake up with a headache? I do and I did. Luckily there were no weights involved in this morning’s workout. I actually skipped the assigned P90X for the day so I could do my new DVD. I heard about it through a 90 day splits challenge group to which I belong. It’s called Fit & Bendy and it’s by Kristina Nekyia, who is trained in all kinds of flexy stuff.

The DVD goes for approximately an hour and is broken up into 6 sections, I think. It’s been several hours ago. First there’s an all-over warmup, followed by a splits warmup, stretching for splits, shoulder/back warmup, backbend work, and a cool down. I was familiar with all of the stretches in the video, however, each of them had its own little tweak that made it new. Mostly the new stuff involved PNF.

Realistically speaking, the all-over warmup isn’t enough of a warmup for me personally. I think I need to put in a half hour of cardio or something to that effect before I really feel warm enough to get a good stretch going. I would imagine that most folks would need a little more, but on the first time out, you live and learn. I’m not going to go through every single thing in the video, but there are hamstring, quad, and groin stretches in the splits part, working for both front and center splits as well as upper and lower back stretches in the backbend section.

At the end of the video, I was tired. Granted, it was also 6:30 in the morning and I was fighting a headache, but it’s more than just stretching and less than a full-on workout. The best part of it all didn’t happen until about 2.5 hours later when my body felt GREAT! I really and truly felt as though I was taller and just had better overall movement.

Let’s take an inventory by memory of the current list of items in the stretching arsenal:

· Fit and Bendy DVD

· Cleo the Hurricane DVD (Which I don’t use because I don’t find it to be safe for my body)

· Valentino Brothers DVD (front split, side split, general stretching)

· P90X (1,2,and 3) DVD (there’s some sort of stretching in each of those)

· Foam roller

· Lacrosse ball

· Maxi-Flex stretching band (ha, go look that up)

· Daily glucosamine/chondroitin (yummy fish oil burps)

With all of these things, one might imagine that I will certainly get that MF split soon. At least I better.

Porky Pig just popped out of a cartoon window and I second what he said. That’s all folks!

2014

Weekend Warrior

ROCO Friday – Damn, It Feels Good

Thwack

Just Feeling This

Insert Techno Beat Here

You Missed

Nothing To See Here

Too Damn Slow

Ghosts (of Days Gone By)

Raunchy Activated