TDetroit’s ramblings and nonsense

On another site, someone told me about using cranberry juice for protein shakes.  sounds good to me.   It’s just another flavor to try, and those poor saps in MA who don’t know much about anything else, need the jobs.

So, at the grocery store today, I’m looking for the cranberry juice.  They have organic - not necessary, just an excuse to charge a higher price, plus it’s probably not organic anyway.  They have cran-apple and various other - really, I am looking for just cranberry.  They have cranberry fro concentrate - now, if I wanted diluted cranberry juice, I would have gone to the store looking for diluted cranberry juice.  They do not have plain cranberry juice.

It’s the same problem with Orange juice.  High pulp, some pulp, no pulp.  What about just squeezing an orange into the carton?  No messing with it.  Is it too much to ask to get just orange juice with no modificcations?  Just freakin’ juice.  Squeeze the damn things and drink it.  And then we all walk around asking why there are so many sick people.  Because no one eats food.  It’s all processed with something.  What a pain in the ass it is to get just food.  Why can’t people with no taste buds be the ones to suffer, and I get to have my normal food?

did the same workout as the other day.

Perfect Pushups:  normal 20,12,8, 20, 12, 8.  then wide position 20, 12, 8.  then near postion 20, 12, 8

then some raises and small stuff with 10 lb DBs

then to the 45 lb DB for culrs 1×4, 3×2.  that’s one extra set in the exact same workout.  So I am getting there.   I would be nice if that second set had some extra in it to be able to do the third rep.

did the same workout as the other day.

Perfect Pushups:  normal 20,12,8, 20, 12, 8.  then wide position 20, 12, 8.  then near postion 20, 12, 8

then some raises and small stuff with 10 lb DBs

then to the 45 lb DB for culrs 1×4, 3×2.  that’s one extra set in the exact same workout.  So I am getting there.   I would be nice if that second set had some extra in it to be able to do the third rep.

so I had to start an account on Youtube.  Can you believe some dillweed stole my moniker?   I had to defend myself by calling myself RealTDetroit. 

Who steals someone else handle?  what kind of low down dirty dog that?  What if I changed my name to Hacksqaut?  Geesh!  What the world coming to.

Oh wait, what if I went around telling people I am Barak Obama?  Then I could tax everyone and get all the money.  hmmmmm.  A plan is forming.

I want to go to the gym so bad I can chew glass.  There is always something - snow storms, first communion practice, a sick kid, AT&T setup, a cabinet delivery.   Aaaagh! 

All I have is these 45 lb dumbells.  I suppose I could rearrange and do some heavy on one side at a time, but it just isn’t the same.

now, with the new business starting in just a few days too, I am going to be busy like you wouldn’t believe.  I get one weekend to get ahead of my co-workers to keep my clients whom they will gladly try to steal.   fortuantely, they’ve been inundated lately with a whole bunch of people leaving, so it will be hard for them to keep track of who is who. 

Anyway, back the matter at hand.  I want to lift.  Maybe I’ll go outside and pick up my beloved wife’s car.  Just some shrugs with a mercury sable.  Nah, I might break the bumper off, do you know how much that costs?

The goal is 50 curls with my right hand - in the bar grip, not the hammer grip.

Last week at the end of my work out, I did 1×3 and 1×1 at 45 lbs

Today

160 perfect pushups.  How this works.  normal position 20, 12, 8, 20, 12, 8.  Wide position 20, 12, 8  Close/near position 20, 12, 8  I uploaded a film of the 20 in wide position.

then I did some front raises with 10 lbs and then reverse curls with 10 lbs.

finally bar grib curls.  at 45 lbs  1×4, 2×2  That a lot more in just one week.  The goal first is to get to 6×4.  So having 3 sets already is a big step.  I am getting there.

Between all the passing out from the antianxiety meds - which I hope the doc will get me off of soon - I am getting into the gym a bit and doing some working out at home.

Did hammer curls yesterday  6×4 at 45

then did regular (bar grip) curls today.  1×3 at 45 and 1×1.  this is where I need work.  the goal is to be albe to do 10 reps with my right hand at 60 lbs by June.  I guess I need to work on the upper biceps, the brachialis seems to be fine, time to build the mound.

A trainer at the gym told me doing pullups with a rope instead of holding the bar would work the forearms better.  anyone heard of this.

Tonight on COM (is that comedy central - I don’t know, I just look at the 3 letter codes), Idiocracy.

It is a movie about what happens when the entire earth eats carbs and electrolytes and no protein.  The physical dumbing down of our global population.  Not only is it a movie, but it is happening in real life, right before our eyes.  No one is willing to stop it.  I intend to teach my progeny to eat right and conquer the future useless people of out world with their superior intellect.  It will be fun to look down from my heavanly perch and watch the world wallow in their own filth while my progeny (and the progeny of the readers) enjoy the good life because we had the forethought to learn the truth about food.

Yesterday was one of those days.  It was a very sad day because of 2 events.

The first was the dedication of the new church.  Actually we tookk the old church and built and addition to become the new church, so same building just a lot bigger.  Anyway, a Catholic Dedication Mass is a big deal, there are lot of Priests and a Bishop.  We actually take the 2 hours - which never happens in a Catholic Mass.

It would seem a happy event, but Audrey was not there with me, at least not how I had hoped all this time.  When we moved here, we expirimented with a few parishes before SHE found this one.  She did a great job of finding a church for our family.  She made us go to the fundraisers so we could help raise money for the construction, and she watched as it was being built.  By the time we got to her funeral, people could walk through the nearly completed construction, and a lot of the items from the old church had already been moved to the new.

I brought her Rosary and Wedding rings with me so she could be there in some physical way.  It brought tears to my eyes that she didn’t get to sit in the new pews and take eucharist from a Bishop.  She is very religious.

Afterward, I had to represent her at a funeral for a man I never met.  Dan was diagnosed with the same cancer roughly 2 months after Audrey.  They went to chemo together, same treatment.  Dan is a Pastor at a local church and he helped her with religion as they sat next to each other in those luxury chairs (i’ll tell chemo patients have some aswesome chairs). 

Audrey had a rubber band bracelt with a scripture on it.  2 Corinthians 12:9  and the words "Live Weak".  After she passed, I saw pictures of her and started looking for things.  I found it in my den.  How it got there I don’t know.  She never came home and she was wearing it in the hospital.  It was covered in and oily substance, likely vasoline or something.  I washed it and now I wear it.

I only met Lynette a couple of times.  Dan was in the room right across the hall from Audrey, she was there for her last time, he was there for his warning shot - when the liver goes haywire but they fix it and send you home to wait for it to do it again (that will be your last time).  Lynette introduced herself to me as we were in the hall.  On the cancer ward, everyone is family, there are no strangers.  A couple weeks after Audrey went home, Lynette found the phone number and called me to ask houw Audrey was doing.  I asked her for her phone number and told her to give my number to someone to call when Dan passed.

I got the call a few days ago and went to his website.  The funeral visitation was to be at the church where he is Pastor.  When I finally made it to Lynette and the kids, I noticed they were all wearing the same bracelet.  I asked, "Did Dan give Audrey this?"  Lynette said yes.  One more mystery of My Love is solved.  No, it does not feel better.  It just feels…

I went to the casket and all I could think was to say Thank you for taking care of my wife, Audrey.  I walked out barely keeping myself together and in the car I broke down.  It was the ending of a chapter, and now I have to start reading the next painful one.

Thank You Dan, I can’t say it enough.

Michel

I am picking up anergy and lifting a bit heavier now.  Actually did 2 sets of 10 at 225 on the squat rack.  Real good form, all the way level.  It felt great.

The meds were killing me.  First there was the screw up with ativan (my fault) which was like not taking anything.  So we upped the dose and returned to xanax - a wonderful drug with a sleepy side effect.  Then the shrink said I needed to tell the doc to increase my dose of lexapro because i was still too depressed.  Well, lexapro helps benzos work better, the the xanax was kicking my ass and had my pinned to the couch.

Went in to the doc the other day for a 4 week progress report.  I told him it ws kicking my ass.  He didn’t like what he had to do - i can tell, I am a master salesman.  He decided to try an older drug, it works - and he left the word hanging, he wanted to say, "but…"

if it is older than xanax and ativan, then why do we have the latter ones.  easy, it must clearly have a bad side effect.  what could that be?  I’ll bet it is the most addictive benzo.  that’s why he doesn’t like it.  but, no sleepy.  I am doing pushups like a mad man.  getting stuff done. etc.

I guess we can deal with the addiction when it happens.

that’s the update from Detroit