TDetroit’s ramblings and nonsense

I’ve been rollerblading so much that when I get to bed at night I can’t sleep because my legs are on fire.  Sort of a jelly legs DOMS.

I am not getting much sleep because of the burning.  I go lay down and then it’s a long time layng there awake but not enough awake to get up and do something.  too tired to attempt to make use of the time.

I am now one of those who waits for teh weekend to be able to get some sleep.

Side note to all of you bikers out there. 

My friend Harvey, was riding down to TN to pick up some …ahem… party supplies.  He was in the lead and his friend dropped back just a bit.  A car squeezed in between and nudged Harvey’s rear tire.  Harvey went out of control and hit the car in front of him, fell of his bike and the car who nudged him ran him over. 

It really sucks.  Why can’t car drivers have respect for motorcyclists? 

The funeral viewing is today and the funeral is tomorrow. 

These days suck!

Damn! forgot to turn of the alarm clock.  It went off at 5:45 on a Saturday morning.  Now I am awake.  What was I thinking.

Now, most people would just go back to sleep, and I am very tired.  However, the DOMS are burning.  Arms, legs, butt, back even my chest which never feels DOMS is getting a bit.  So now I am sleepy, and can’t sleep.  I can close my eyes, and even drift away, but then POW, I am back awake.  It’s like being dipped in bengay.

I should get up and get some protein and potassium, but it is 6:30 on a Saturday mornning.  I don’t want to do that.   I am hoping that babbling hear will make me sleepy.

I am too tired to do anything.  I skipped teh gym because I feel lethargic and find my own body to heavy to lift off the couch.  I have a head ache and jaw ache (TMJ at night), and I would sleep if it was night.  the dog keeps bringing me her rope so I can throw it upstairs in the bath room (then she brings it back), but my arm is weak today and I am not getting it up there enough. - she is quite distressed.

I know I should be eating more, but I am tooo tired to eat. 

so it looks like it’s couch time.  and my fantasy team is loosing, kinda… i did manage to get back to a tie, but I am playing a receiver and kicker v a quarterback.  I have Burress and Carney, he has JT O’sullivan.  Currently, JT is screwing up and pulling a rookie, but my guys are palying against the best D in the league.

Maybe I’ll go out in the middle of the night and do some yard work, that’s when I’ll probably get my second wind.

the back work out yesterday was like an attack.  I went in and hit the sets hard and fast.  I didn’t put much into the rest periods.  it was more like a cardio workout. 

today, I am paying for it.  everything hurts - from the deadlifts.  my lats feel like they are torn, my hammies are throbbing, my tris are burning (I did the pushup workout 2 days before), mid back, center back at the top, forearms, let’s just say i got it all with those dead lifts.

I am wearing swimming shorts and a cut up T-shirt today.  on the advice of NinjaBill, I looked in the mirror.  lookin’ good if I do say so.  the t-shirt covers up the love handles.  I have these bag-like things that hub my obliques, from ribcage to just above the hips.  I’d like to get rid of those.  I know it’s cardio, but I don’t want to give up the leg mass.  the real plan would be - do the cardio until the bags are gone, and then rebuild the legs in a clean bulk.  now it’s a fight between my brain and my stubborness.  You’d think my brain would win, but you’ve never met an Italian as stubborn as me. 

I am taking bets.   The line is for the stubborn Italian to win handily, but the brain pays 3 to 1.  place your bets.

i still have aches and pains just about everywhere.  i hate being sick.  (can’t imagine what the wife is going through) - and my damned mouth tastes like crap with aluminum dust topping.  if the doc ever prescribes clariythromycin, ask for something else, it makes your mouth …. blek!

my knees feel like I was making a bridge and people were walking on them and bending them backward.  ouch.

anyway, maybe friday night I can get in.  great, then wake up and drive 12 hours on saturday.  sounds like boat loads of fun

damn bronchitis is actually getting worse.  now I can’t even sleep in.  maybe i’ll go run sprints - problem is I don’t think I can stand for a long time let alone run 100yards.  it’s just sitting for me.  I feel like I might grow hemorhoids if I stay sick too long.

I hate being sick like this.  I am used to keeping active.  just keep moving.  keep doing something all the time.  now that I am not doing anything, I am thinking about stuff.  I hate that.  I don’t want to think, I just want to do!  I never realized how depressed I really am.  I need to get better so I can refill my life with my distractions.

Sunday is the day I do squats.  sometimes I push it off until monday.  but the bronchitis has me out of the gym for a few days.  so I’ll be late to the gym for squats.  with the dead line for the charity coming up, I only have this workout left to train for my new max.  I already know I blew away my goal, but it would be nice to get that last session in and really hit it hard.

instead, i am at home with my head feeling like it is going to explode.  the antibiotics are leaving a taste in my mouth like I’ve been licking a copper pipe coated in amonia.  my whole body hurts and I don’t think I have teh balance to do squats and won’t have it for a few days.

but I did spend a lot of time organizing the pics on my computer.  with the wife having cancer, I have taken a lot of pics (just for me type - to remember her)  and I made a movie of her on movie maker.   it won’t be the same thing, but i confess, as much trouble as she is, I will miss her like few people can understand.

it’s funny how the doc’s don’t beleive me and need to do all the workup and x-rays, then it is bronchitis.

then I say, "so, i’ll need a scripp for a z pack" and they are looking at me like "who’s the doctor?"

hey, when you get the same thing every year for 15 years (that’s how long I’ve been married - I used to get that once every 2 years, but we figured that is where the kids come from, so now we don’t do that anymoe) you start to know the answers.

Feeling it all over.  Probably not a good idea to do 2 major lifts and plus a workout all in one day. 

the right hammy and the left lower back have a tightness and pain.  this has greatly reduced the flexibility.  I tried to do my normal stretching, but I am severly hampered by stiffness.  Plus, sleeping in a strange bed has also caused pain and stiffness all over.  My whole spine is out of whack.  my neck is all bunched up from the wrong pillow.

 oh well, this too shall pass.  can’t wait to get home and sleep normal.

I should rant sometime on people’s need to get away from home.  but not today…

It hasn’t gone away.  Yesterday I bought 4 bags of salt.  When I tried to take them out of the car, it came roaring back.  I forced myself to lift them to my shoulder.

Now I have to go become an expert on elbows.  I’ll have to do research on every muscle, tendon, ligiment, and bone and cartilage in the elbow.  I know what hurts, but I will have to see the diagram to figure that out.  then, once I know all there is to know about thehealthy elbow, and which part of mine is hurt, I’ll have to learn how to fix it.

So, I am off to the internet to look for a diagram…