Cruiser’s Current Thoughts

So I HAVE to comment on 2 other run-ins at work this past graveyard shift.

First, some guy walks in, I say good morning. He says nothing, handing me his ID, blank-prick look on his face. I scan his ID,and say ‘enjoy your workout.’ He says nothing, takes his ID, expressionless, never even bothers to make any sort of contact, walks away.

Well, for starters, I’d be pretty pissed off too if I had that kind of ridiculous kind of hair cut too.

But then he jumps on the treadmill for maybe 2 minutes and then leaves. Im thinkin, wow, what a waste of gas and time…

Then, more rude people. To one couple, said ‘have a good night…’ and then after they ignored me I said, ‘or not…’ to which I wanted to end with, ‘f*ckers…’ but I felt like that would get me in trouble. Damn, some people go out of their way to be total d*ckheads. I seriously hope they fall and break their leg or something. Right in front of me too! That way I can say, in a very mono tone sarcastic way, ‘Sucks…’ and then walk away. See how they like it.

Attitude Fitness: Come and enjoy a great workout environment, high tech cardio equipment, a no BS customer service reps, and the ‘no need’ to take sh*t from no one gym. If you don’t like us, you can die in a fire for all we care.

Am I bad?

Just thought I’d mention that. Close to the end of my shift, someone walks in and request that I change one of the Tv’s to their preferred channel. I said, as politely as I could, that the remotes are there for members to do it at their own convenience. At this they say they don’t know how to do it. SO, as patiently as I could, I went through the rocket science procedures (sarcasm) of changing the tv channel.

Another, we greet and say good bye to all members as they enter/leave the gym. I saw one person leave, not too long after they had just arrived. Now, either A: they forgot something in their car, or B: They’re done for the day. Lets just say in this case, it REALLY could have been either one. I said farewell, and they barked that they’ll be right back with an attitude. ‘excuse me…’ I thought, ‘I hope you break your leg between now and then’. Is that bad of me to think? No need to be rude, is all Im saying.

Definitely still getting accustom to this whole friendly costumer service thing in the outside world. In the military, I would bark right back. In many cases, even to higher ranking people. Here…it could lead to different consequences…

WHEN I open my own gym, Im thinking of calling it ‘Attitude Fitness’. YOUR attitude will reflect on how we react. Friendly smile? We’ll smile right back!   Rude and unpleasant?  You do NOT want to see how loud Jamie, the 23 year old 5′1 110lbs front desk rep, can get when she gets pissed. She’ll drop kick your ass.

Attitude Fitness, coming to a city near you.

I can’t seem to find the focus I had in the beginning of the year in the weight room. Im sure it’ll come back eventually, still trying to get accustom to this schedule, the gym, and no speed bag. (sad)

But I have the gym, I have access to aerobic classes, and I have a lot of free time. So now its just a matter of getting focused.

Eating is back to spot-on target, and sleep will be synchronized in time. I may go back to taking Cytogainer, just so I can get something in me quick between my workout and getting ready for work and relieving the person in the front desk.

Now just need to gain momentum on the weights, and see where it leads. The belly is almost down to a tolerable size, but strength was lost and build up will be a minor set back.

Best of all: I am riding my bike every single DAY. And loving it. Its why I changed the user name to cruiser mike. (wanted just cruiser, but they didnt pick that option…) Im always cruisin’ somewhere.

Alright. Enough from me. I’ll leave you with a joke. (tuesday n friday were the best ones…)

A Blonde’s Diary

GOOD NIGHT DEAR DIARY:
This has been such an exciting week. I can hardly wait for tomorrow to come so I can try out a new recipe on Ron. If only we could get a larger oven, I would love to surprise him with Chocolate Moose.

(sarcasm through out)

Video. Watch it first: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=15216298&ch=4226723&src=news

Oh yes…swine flu…because it has been SUCH a pandemic since april…so many people have been infected and so many more are running scared…we need 2 shots to combat this PANDEMIC from preventing to wipe out over half of ALL the people in the united states. Oh no, what ever shall we do, what-ever-shall-we-do…

Okay, they REALLY tried for the scare tactic through the course of 2 months earlier this year. Trying to push to make it seem a hell of a lot worse that it really was. Failed! What ended up happening? Maybe 100 people in the US died, 50 total (maybe, I can’t remember) in europe, and scattered singles throughout the rest of the world. Mexico had the highest toll I think near 1000. But honestly, with as many armed soldiers that they sent down there to “combat” the swine flu, I dont believe that all the deaths were due to it. There was some serious business going on down there. Soldiers dressed in black ordering people to stay inside their homes and not come out?

In the end, they still declared it a pandemic because of how much it had spread. Yeah, 1 in england, 2 in germany, 1 in greece, 4 in russia, 2 in korea….oh the horror.

Now their doing it again. Do these shots REALLY protect from the swine flu? In the military, we had to get 6 shots for anthrax. spread somewhat evenly throughout 6 months. Did this really help? And all this time, have you ever heard of an anthrax attack since 9-11-01? and those burned like a mother f*cker!

They use the media to scare you into submission. They say YOU NEED these shots in order to survive this "pandemic" So many people will get infected. BUT ONLY when they come in contact with other people that are ALREADY infected. How is this? You know all these medical programs that they have established. "Sign up for this medical study and you get 1000 dollars!" hmmmm….trust worthy? They can feed you bullsh*t on what they’re putting into your body, and now you have the swine flu. "Go my little grasshopper! Spread your wings and fly…!" So then they get possible phony doctors to come on tv and tell you the truth on the swine flu and how you will die because of it. ANYONE can put on stethoscopes, a white coat, glasses, and talk edumacational. Then put a name at the bottom of the screen with M.D. under that to make it seem real. Yeah, who can you trust in the media. Not many, thats for sure.

Look into it yourself and figure it out. Im not getting these double shots. And if I end up dying due to the swine flu, by golly talk about karma. until then, I will continue to seek the truth.

Kicked my ASS!

So Im definitely taking full advantage of the benefits of working at a gym. I tried out shadow boxing aerobics today and WOW.

For starters, my knees are indeed bad. Just ducking and bobbing were causing pains in both of them. So damn on that part.

Second, timing and endurance were a tad off. I was laughing at some points cause I’d miss a punch or move wrong. Oh well, good thing it isn’t basic military training cause I would have one of those instructors in my face (after eating pickle juice. adds to the bad breath and spit) screaming at the top of his/her lungs of why Im smiling and not doing it right.

Sorry, 1: if something is funny, even during a serious situation, IM GOING TO LAUGH. I can’t help myself, and never can. 2: I enjoy taking a flaw and pointing it out on how funny it is. If I mess up in a move, I laugh. ITS FUNNY.

Back to shadow boxing. It was fun. Something I would like to do more often, AND EVEN work my way up to doing it as an instructor. (something Im already looking into doing) but it definitely kicked my ass.

Then it was 15 minutes of abs blasting. I was reallyreallyreally…(get the point) disappointed on my performance on that. My abs seriously lost a lot of strength and endurance. I  couldn’t complete repetitions, and had to take more breathers than I expected.

But hey, I knew this might happen, and now I just have to work up to getting back to some stronger abs. The abs I had in may!

MAY!

Kinda sad. I was thinking about it on the ride home from work this morning. While in the military, I enjoyed being a sort of rebel. Bending rules, breaking more. Doing the opposite of what they ordered me.

Under occupation on my page, I even put ‘rebel’. For sh*ts and giggles…

But now I dont have anything to rebel against. there is no ‘you can do this, you have to look like that, you have to wear this at all times, GRRR GRRR GRRR, BARK BARK BARK!’

I can have my hair down. I can relax. I dont have to wear every single type of protective gear before I go riding on my bike. (I know its for the better, but come on!)

And thats what it is in the end. I can relax. It…feels…amazing. Like a big deep breath of fresh air on a nice autumn morning…and Thats what I had today. I walked out of work, felt good, took a breath, and rode home. So weird, and as much as I can try to explain it, I dont know if Im getting my point across.

I guess after a couple of years of living an unstable, but secure life, I traded that for a stable, but unsecured life. Unstable=Constant moving, hardly see family, deploy, training, constant shift changes. Secure=paycheck, health care, security.

Flip it around, I feel relaxed. I definitely feel the pressure of my paycheck being sliced in half, actually more than half, but I will get through it and will work it out. Dont have to work so hard to be a rebel anymore. Whats rebellious in the service, is normal out here!

Going to bed, everyone enjoy the rest of their day!

How would you feel if a doctor said that too you? Knees are beginning to develop pains, weakness, and instability. ONLY the beginning though, but can be something that could lead to further complications if not taken care of, or maintained.

Well, it sucks. It straight up f*cking sucks to hear that. And what do I have to thank for that. Im not a huge fan of running, but I know the benefits that come with it. Plus my favorite sport, and only sport I play for that matter, is soccer. Lots of running involved. Deep squats? out of the question.

This is all unless I want to start up using a cane at some point in my life. Yay.

But Im curious, how would y’all react?

The doctor did say, ‘The hardest part is to teach someone so young.’ as in not doing things to avoid straining the knees more.

In other news, Im back in the gym. Finally finally finally. And boy did I miss the weights…

4 days at the gym working. heres what Im thinking:

day1 before work workout-Arms, bi’s tri’s fores
day1 after work workout-shoulders, delts n traps
day2 bww-legs, quads n calves

day2 aww-chest

day3 bww-back

day3 aww-abs/lowerback
day4 bww- legs, glutes n hams

day4 aww-arms again

3 days off from work:

cardio/cycling/yoga?/tai chi?/kickboxing?/

wont start this cycle till next week thursday, but if theres any input you guys have, let me know. I’ve never done this whole 2 workouts in a day before, and I dont know how to approach it so i went with the ‘all out’ approach.

can you tell what my focus is YET again?…

Okay, primary job is front desk at a 24 fitness. What I was looking for. So now Im thinkin, 1 hour workout before work. 1 hour workout after work. 4 times a week. Some sort of cardio on the other 3 days off. (oh, graveyard shift, by the way…)

THAT IS, unless I get this other general labor job to help with money. Which good chances I will. Then I’ll be doing that part time on the other 3 days. Who knows what, but maybe It’ll be some sort of workout.

Im really excited about this new job, and can’t wait to be doing it full time. Then slowly but surely, move my way up.

I FINALLY got my certificate in fitness n nutrition today, and will be using that to maybe begin my career as a personal trainer/dietitian. But by no means am I either just yet. Going to get back in the game, slowly, but I can see it coming.

On the side, I will be doing open mic’s with my guitar here around austin. Now Im just looking for a name.

Now, Im already a biker, but have always been a fan of cowboys. So I got the biker vest, a cowboy hat, and biker boots in cowboy style. (Meaning, the bottom, and look is biker, but its in the shape of cowboy boots.)

I’ll put a picture up at some point, see what kinda nickname I should go for. Any help would be appreciated.

A toast to the future! The beginning will undoubtedly be harsh, as it is right now, but good things are coming.

I can see it!

The School Answering Machine  This is hilarious - no wonder some people were offended!  This is the message that the Maroochydore High School Queensland, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine.  This is the actual answering machine message for the school.  This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children’s absences and missing homework.

The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children’s failing grades changed to passing grades - even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough school work to pass their classes.  The outgoing message:

Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all the options before making a selection:

To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1

To make excuses for why your child did not do his work - Press 2

To complain about what we do - Press 3

To swear at staff members - Press 4

To ask why you didn’t get information that was already enclosed in your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you - Press 5

If you want us to raise your child - Press 6

If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone - Press 7

To request another teacher, for the third time this year - Press 8

To complain about bus transportation - Press 9

To complain about school lunches - Press 0

If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable and responsible for his/her own behaviour, class work, homework and that it’s not the teachers’ fault for your child’s lack of effort: Hang up and have a nice day!

If you want this in another language, move to a country that speaks it.