DanicaX’s BodyBlog

Hello, friends! Well you all look very nice today. You! Feet off the table! Sit up straight! Ok let’s see….I owe 100 pushups to my drill sergeant, a road rage story to JJanet, a knuckle sandwich to King Marmoset, a picture to Decosta, a urine test to my probation officer, 50 cents to the flower lady at the farmers market still and  reps to BryanGee. Alright, a few of those are lies, but I may do them anyways. You know, pay it forward. No, I’m not on probation. Yes, it will be strange when I drop my sample off. And I have never "repped" anyone! I’ve never done anything w/ that so don’t think I’m rude if I inadvertently dissed you.
 
Ok, for awhile there I was riding my bike to a nice hill that I found to do HIIT training (run up, walk stairs on the way down) , then bike home. It takes about 25 min to bike there and longer to bike home (more uphill). Well, the problem was that I was so exhausted after the HIIT that I couldn’t bike home. I’d hang out there for awhile praying that if I passed out that the dude spraying pesticides all over the dang place right next to me would notice. Well, about 3 weeks ago I was really running low on time so I decided to just go from my house, around the block and up the hill that is right by me. It’s longer than the other hill, not quite as steep, but kicks my butt!! The first day I did the HIIT on it I used my bike. Bike up the hill, ride around the block. I could only do 8 hills that day. My hamstrings were just on fire! It’s so close that I even leave my garage door open b/c I’m going back by it everytime I go around. Ha! I think it’s funny that I was looking for a great hill somewhere else, and the whole time it was in my own back yard! Sort of.
 
So the next time I biked HIIT on that hill I did get my 10 hills. Then I was dead and had to call a cab for a ride home. "Where to?" "Oh just take me 3 doors down that way."  "That’ll be $8.00."  haha! Ok, I didn’t call a cab. So I’ve been doing HIIT on my hill with my bike, then I decided to change it up and run up, walk down. My hamstrings have never burned that bad before. My goal was 10, but I could only manage 8 running up, walk down. So then I went in my garage, grabbed my bike and got 2 more in on my bike!  Hey, I still got 10 ok.
 
Funny story. I live around a lot of retired people, and perhaps even some of their parents. I don’t know what it is with them wanting to clap at me. It’s happened more than once with different people clapping at me. So there I was dying biking up the hill. Now, I know these people think I’m weird, no doubt. They are probably wondering why I keep going up the same hill. So I was about 1/2 way through last week and near the top of the hill when this little lady was standing out in her driveway watching me. As I passed her she started clapping at me as I went by. Kinda like the Tour de France. It was cool, but the clapping is starting to freak me out a little. Maybe they have neighborhood meetings about the crazy person (me). "If you see her, don’t get close! Just stay back and clap. There’s no telling what she’ll do."
 
Ok, this pic is very deceiving! It doesn’t look steep in the pic, but it goes up, then curves and gets a little steeper. This is also the same hill that I would do walking lunges up last year. Doh! I can’t believe I never thought of doing my HIIT there before now. "GOSH!!….IDIOT!" -Napoleon Dynamite.
 

P.S.  Anyone got any good music recommendations? I am in need of more new tunes. What do you listen to when you lift? Cardio?

"I’m doin’ the work… I’m baby steppin’." hahaa! That’s what Bill Murray says in that movie,  What About  Bob?. Sometimes I want to say that out loud, but then realize nobody will know what the **** I’m talking about, as per always.

 Ok, so I’ve been setting new goals lately and am changing a lot of things. I’m like a whole new person over here. First off, I cut the mullet. No more party in the back for me; I’m all business, baby.  Ok, but really I’ve been setting new goals and am very excited about them.  I have my newly posted goal, which is to get down to 16% bodyfat (underwater) by Thanksgiving. I’d say Halloween, but I’m planning on a whole dramatic episode at Thanksgiving dinner when we are giving thanks. Yes, it involves flipping tables over and spiking turkeys.

No, really it may be Halloween, but either way I’ma act krazy just to freak people out a little. And if I get a, "Man, I wish I could eat like that and look that way" I’d be a very pleased indeed! Little do they know…I’ve been busting my a**! I’ve cleaned up the diet a lot, mixed things up and have kept a thorough journal for the past 10 days and it just keeps getting easier and easier.  I am writing down all my goals and planning out my day the day before, which helps me a lot to stay on track….dammit I love to check stuff off of lists. I’m a check-off junkie.

I’ve visited a few farms to check out their products, been going to the farmers market every Saturday right when it opens so I can get farm eggs before they run out. They ring a bell at 8am sharp…it’s a whole production that is taken very seriously. Believe me, last week I tried to do a little transaction before 0800 and every vendor said no. This lady even told me to jut take one of her flowers I wanted to buy b/c said she’d "get in trouble" if she accepted money before THE BELL. I told her I’d pay her for it next week, which was this morning, but she wasn’t there today! Now I have to walk around with this fifty cent debt hanging over my head for another week. Great.

Also, I found a new acupuncture place yesterday and they fit me in. It was different than the other place I go to. I had to change into a gown. Oooh, sounds serious. I’ve got 2 appointments for next week, too. She used way more needles than my other place. I counted 64 when she was pulling them out. Guess it shoulda been 65 b/c I found one in my calf when I was getting dressed. Yikes! I’m ok….I’m ok. That happened last time at the other place, too. Personally, I think they are terrorists trying to take one person out at a time, but I can’t prove it.

Another goal of mine is to go to hot yoga at least once per week, which I went last Sat and today (Sat to me, but really Sun since it’s after midnight).  Today was the first time I ever got my left leg and foot wrapped around my right calf in the "eagle pose"—I could always do the right over the left w/ no problem. Of course, I screwed it all up and fell over when I was patting myself on the back about it ;) 

I went out with a friend of mine tonight for dinner and "drinks" even though I planned to not drink. Mission accomplished, although I got made fun of by drunken A-holes all night. Like I care. I got 4 oz of salmon for dinner, and that’s the first time I’ve eaten out in 10 days. Yes, I’m patting myself on the back right now and typing with the other.  

Let’s see….I think that’s good enuf for now. Hope everyone is having a good weekend and behaving (you know who you are).