October 17th. What a weird week!
Ok……..so despite the fact that I got REALLY sick…..AGAIN!!!!…..I have continued to get my ass into the gym every day, and have been working hard, and even finally started doing some ab work! I have had some really great workouts, and feeling good about how hard I am working is always a continuing source of motivation and drive for me to get back in there the next day. It’s Friday, and all I can think about is wanting to hit the gym again tonight and do my back rather than going out and doing something fun lol. As for the ab work, I have all of these grand ideas about doing crazy ab workouts and everything, but then I always bail on them when push comes to shove, so I decided to start out slowly and build up to the crazy workouts that I have been planning. Baby steps I guess, but if I am consistent with my baby steps, it should only take me a week or two before I am really into the swing of things and making a habit out of my ab workouts. I need to start taking the same approach to my marathon training!!! I have a friend, Teascha, who runs the ultra marathons, which are like 50 mile races or something ridiculous, and she said that I could train with her anytime, or she would help me to train, so I need to start taking the baby steps necessary to get that ball rolling as well, because I really do want to accomplish that goal before my next birthday in April.
Doing the marathon is something that will put somewhat of a cramp in my weightlifting workouts, but since it has been a goal of mine for a few years now, I really want to do it. I am trying to learn to appreciate all of the blessings in my life, especially my health, and not take them for granted. My neighbor and I had a really long talk, and he has soooo much regret in his life for all of the things that he always wanted to do, but never did because he just assumed he had his whole life to accomplish them. But sometimes the best laid plans and dreams just aren’t so simple because at age 36 he got really bad osteo-arthritis and some other kind of arthritis, and now even going for a walk leaves him in terrible pain! You never know when your health may take an unexpected turn for the worse, or something will happen to leave you incapable of things that you now just take for granted as normal activities, and you can’t just assume that you will still be running, exercising, or even alive in 10 years or whatever. I guess the moral of the story is to always take care of yourself, but also appreciate and take advantage of the things that you have now because once they are gone you can’t always get them back.
So I’m not really sure what was wrong with me, I just know that all of a sudden I got VERY sick last week, and I overmedicated, which led to a CRAZY night that involved sleepwalking, waking up on the freeway driving 15 miles an hour and not knowing how I got there, and somehow having new shoes and donuts that I don’t ever remember buying. Very weird night. I won’t ever take that much medicine or mix medicines again! Also this week, my friend Stacey drove over from Ball-Sacramento to visit me because I had convinced her that it was my birthday hahahaha! She bought me lunch and ice cream and brought me 5 bday presents lol, I’m kind of a bastard, but it was very sweet of her. Oh, and Stephanie was really nice to me this week too, especially when I was sick, so I owe her a big thank you! And now, she somehow got strep throat, which is really lame cuz she should have crazy good karma working for her lol. Last night I had a nice friendly chat at the gym with Carolyn, she was having a really rough day, but she wouldn’t say why. But when she’s crying, I’m of course gonna be there to give her a hug and try to make her feel better. Even though we don’t really hang out or talk very often anymore, she is still my friend. And she may actually give me a job since the night time guy at the gym quit on her, so I told her I would just take the position if she needs someone. I hope she took me seriously, cuz I’m usually awake and at the gym at that time anyway, might as well be getting paid to be there lol.
Missy got EXTREMELY angry with me this week!!!!! I love Missy. She is probably my favorite person in the whole world right now, but she lacks patience, and oftentimes jumps to conclusions and gets emotional before she takes the time to get all the facts or talk about what is bothering her. I dunno, I prefer to talk first and then decide if getting upset or angry is even worth it, rather than just go through the drama of fighting and being upset, and then finding out later that it wasn’t really warranted. She is young still, and I can’t even remember what it was like to be that age lol, but her presence in my life has been a huge blessing these past few months, and especially in the past few weeks, and I don’t think I do enough to show her how much I love and appreciate her. She is a wonderful person, and an even better friend, and I’m lucky that she takes time out of her busy life to talk to me everyday. Oh boy, my computer is about to die so I hafta cut this short. Hopefully I will keep my enthusiasm and put in a great back workout tonight!!! And I need to be more diligent about my legs dammit!!! Even Jamie was making fun of me last night cuz I am a pansy and I don’t work hard enough on them.
