pixiglittrpants’s BodyBlog

T.G.I.-Leap!-F., my friends!  So a special shout-out goes to Curt and Court for making me laugh to hyena-mode… InvisiGrillz (by Curt) and PixiGlitterTeefus (by Court) was priceless!!  Thanks for the ab workout

So one confession that I will come right out and admit is that I love all butts (and I cannot lie).  If I’m running on the treadmill, I tend to choose the ones in the back, and if I’m in between sets at the gym (or just anywhere in public), I tend to check out the bum (plus I’m equal opportunity, so long as your 20ish and up ).  I also tend to pinch the bums of close friends (and luckily, I’m “quirky” enough to get away with it).  I blame it on being raised Catholic - all that sitdown-standup-sitdown-standup during Mass - what is at eye level of a little child standing up but pews and pews of buttocks!  So yeah, I’m obsessed… not in a pervy way, just in a… well, okay, sometimes pervy way.  But most of the times I just do it out of ogling habit!

Anyway, I got caught checking out this one chick (who we’ve nicknamed ‘exxxotica’ since she’s pretty sensual in her mannerisms) when she was doing squats and her booty was sticking out.  Mind you, this chick was truly representing on the squat machine - she had a few 45 plates on each side and she was doing a few reps at a time!  As much as I try to keep my ogling to a “one-alligator-two-alligator-look-away!” method, she kinda caught me (okay, everyone was looking and of course I get caught with my hand in the cookie jar!) and she totally gets on a machine kind of in front of me and stretches out her booty in a circular motion, again and again!!  Then she smiles and winks at me!  Oopsies!  Anyway, there’s no real point in this story, other than I need to control my habits (that or have some dollar bills on me.. I kid, I kid).  So if I ever meet you and your buns start to warm up as soon as you turn your back to me… my bad!  I’m seeking help, honest!

I’ve kept the workouts pretty basic this past week (torture tempo Wednesday and today, 5-6 mile runs), though with the family trip coming up in April I will be back in full force come March (hee, tomorrow).  Talks have been circulating to bring the guy to introduce (and the guy was stoked for the invite), so we’ll see.  Comedy club this Saturday for the last hurrah of this bday, but that’s pretty much it… hope y’all have a great weekend!!

So thanks again a thousandfold for all the lovin’s lately!  It was a very glorious kickstart to the Dirty Thirty, and I’m 110% motivated to grab every opportunity to make it a great year/decade/life!  I took some pics on Monday before going out to grub, but I didn’t have time to change into workout clothes.  Probably a good thing, since I’ve been all hopped up on sodium

Admittedly, I’ve had a lot of yumtastic food lately (home cooking, Island’s, sushi, Mexican, and Extraordinary Desserts), and though I feel kinda gross about eating out so many times (woke up in fetal position every day style!), I’m definitely ready to get my diet back on track.  My workouts are still consistent, but I know I should switch it up come March so I’m pretty sure I’m going to plagiarize GJ and Trixter’s workouts.   My running is still going great, but I don’t think I’m ready for an April half-marathon, so I think I’m going to hang around the 8 mile region for March.

Oh!  And for my next stupid human trick, I’m going to… drumroll please… wait for it, wait for it… get braces! lol  I know what you’re saying - holy junior high, batman!  But, growing up with a single mom and working since 12 to help her out and paying for college, car, everything on my own since 18 (yeah, I’m bitter lol), I’ve never had the opportunity to get pretty teefus.  But now I do and I can’t wait!  I’m getting Invisalign, which is bad because I’m a habitual gum chewer, but good because it’ll make me think twice before stuffing my face.  So I’m banking on it being the best diet ever!

I so wanted to catch up with you guys last night, but my monitor blew out (figures, as soon as I have some breathing room, a new expense pops up!).  I’m picking up a new one tonight, so I can’t wait to read the goings ons with you!  Hope all of you are doing well and training hard!

I’m-I’m-I’m-I’m I’m Shorty, it’s my birthday!  I’m gonna party like, It’s my birthday!… Hee, I’ve had the best time saying, "OMG, my 20’s were, like, sooo 10 hours ago…"  Yes, I’m a dork
  
  So the Dirty Thirty pre-bday weekend - awesome!  It first started off with sky diving (pic in previous entry) - torrential downpours occurred on Friday and Sunday, but on Saturday God said, "Now let there be no rain and blue skies so pixi can sky dive"… and it was so!  I don’t really know how to describe it - you sign your life away and promise to not even sue the grass, go up on a plane, you sit on your (very french) instructor’s lap and get harnessed in ("People pay top dollar for this you know!" I proclaimed), you stay seated on his lap (lol, he was like, "you’re so relaxed!  you know you’re sky diving, right??" and then does his French ‘haw-haw’ laugh (okay, I made that laugh up)), we crouch down towards the exit, and he hurls you off before you can think twice!  
  
  As you’re careening towards earth, there are thoughts such as "OMG, I’m friggin sky diving!," "Frenchy loves his wine and brie (soft belly)!", and "This air sure is loud!" as you’re screaming your lungs off.  After a bit, he sets off the parachute (a red one, my favorite color!), and he gives me the controls for a bit so we can make left turns, right turns, swirl around, etc, as he points out downtown SD, Mexico (it was near the border), etc.  He commented that I was a great archer since you have to do that when you dive (thanks stability ball stretches!), and then kind of went on a tirade about how crappy guy students were compared to perfect ones like me.  A part of me thought, "dude, you’re kinda killing my buzz with your b!tching session…", but thought better than to say anything since he just saved my life and all.
  
  Overall - AWESOME!!  The adrenaline rush was phenomenal and makes me more driven to complete my other ‘adventure’ goals in life (i.e. marathons around the world, climb a mountain, motorcycle cross country, discover buried treasure, etc.).  If you want to see the other pics let me know but I look SO lame in them with my wobbly cheeks… despite me looking tardo, I love how I’m choking the instructor with my pigtails on this one!

  
  
I can’t wait for the video!!  Saturday night was a celebration of life with more friends (and that’s all I can legally divulge! j/k), and last night the guy cooked a yummy dinner and gave me some of my favorite gifts - smell goods (lotions), orchids, and lovin’.  Bummer that we had our first fight this morning, but I’m trying not to let it get to me.  The rest of the week is more dinner (yay for free food!), and then comedy club night this Saturday.  Fun!
  
  And don’t think I slacked off on my training (and eating, though I did consume more alcohol than usual)!  I ran 5 on Saturday, ran 7 yesterday, and biked 20 miles, as well as continued my weight training though my bod was a little sore from sky diving.  
  
  Thank you SO much for all your bday wishes, and especially VTDad for his entry!!  I love that I’m entering this new decade in my life with such awesome, supportive, amazing, freakishly strong people like you!!

The awesome news: sky diving was unfreakinbelievable (warning: if you have long lashes, it’s hard to friggin blink in those goggles!)!!!

Is that a marker in your pocket, instructor with a french accent or are you just happy to jump with me??

The AWFUL news: the friends I went sky diving with, of which I’ve known since welcome week of freshman year in college (I RA’ed with the chick and the guy was my roomie for 3 years and was a brother/therapist to me) is getting married on July 19th. - to the 100th degree!!  I am majorly bumming as I not only bought the ticket for the Bash, but I’d also feel it unacceptable to not go to their wedding.  This sucks huge!

Update later, but I felt the need to share right away.   Will give the deetz on the sky diving soon!!

Oh Madre de la Terra, porque, porque, porque?!?  The guy took me to a mini-getaway since I took a day off today and we were supposed to go on a nice motorcycle cruise but it got rained out.   And then - who knows if I’m going to be able to sky dive tomorrow?!  Geezo… Mother Nature sure knows how to c0ck block a chick’s fun sometimes… the upside at least is that I saw Junior Seau today at breakfast!  The down is that I didn’t know it was him til the guy pointed it out to me when Seau left lol… he had a juicy bum, though!

I’m not sure how much I’ll get to update over the weekend since some close friends are driving here to visit me (and the guy is cooking for me Sunday night since he wants to celebrate right at midnight… sooo cute!), but here are the results from the Dirty Thirty Challenge:

1) I’ve lost 1/2 inch in my waist and booty, 1/4 in both thighs, and that friggin inch in my breasteses

2) I’m consistently at 118-119 and the PT measured me at 17% bf (okay, perhaps I coulda done better with the diet… I’ll still gladly accept that 1% less, though!

3) I’ve increased all my weights (thanks Mike and Trixter!!!), including using 20 lb. db’s for biceps (I NEVER thought I’d be able to do that!), 17.5 db’s for shoulder presses (with the rest-pause method!), 15 lb. db tri extensions, 80 lbs for lat pulldowns and seated row (12 reps of them!), 70 lb chest press, 120 adductor/abductor, and 180 lb. leg press!

4) I’m wearing tank tops which has been a huge self-esteem booster and honestly - what the frick was I thinkin’ wearing long-sleeves this whole time?!

Admittedly - the last one was the biggest difference since it gave me a lot of confidence.  I’ll try to take some pics on Sunday (and hopefully I’ll have some sky diving pics!), but for now it’s chim-chimany-chim-chimany-chim-chim-charoo time since I have to get my clean on for my guests!  Have a great weekend, loves!

Oh, and I don’t really have to make those buttons, do I?  I’m pretty sure I just said that to try and get in your pants or something… I’ll gladly accept royalties to anyone who makes it, though!

Oh man, I thought of the best invention today!  So there I was, in an admitted moment of weakness because this one project wasn’t turning out right, and I was contemplating on eating the Snickers (my favorite!) given to me for V-Day.  My urges for it were starting to get overwhelming when a coworker cruised by my office and said, "damn, woman, you can see your arm muscles from underneath your sweater (kind of fitted sweater)!!"

In an instant, my urges were gone!  So I decided that I’m going to invent a CW button - kinda like Staples’ "that was easy" button except it it’ll say things like "you’ve been hitting those weights hard!," "wow, look at those pythons!", and "man, you are looking diesel!"  Because if those aren’t diet disaster deterrents, I don’t know what is!  Viva la CW!

Bicep/shoulders/chest today - I started using 12 pounders for the lateral raises!  I’m still only at 8 reps for the 20 pound db bicep curls, though… it’s mostly my left arm, the jerk!  Never was a team player… the right arm always does everything like open doors, text messages, one-arm "friend hugs", etc. 

Well Mike, you definitely know me all too well - it’s all too true that my anger has a shelf-life of about 2 minutes ("Oh my gosh, I can’t believe that guy cut me off, what a - oh look, a butterfly!" ).

As I intended, I had some pretty awesome workouts this weekend that my body is feeling all too deliciously sore over!  I did torture tempo chest/bi/shoulders with some stationary biking on Saturday (along with some painting for my friend’s house - hey, that counts!), torture tempo tri/back, abs, and a 3 mile run yesterday, and a 5 mile run and torture tempo legs today.  And I get to repeat the whole sequence regular tempo for the next three days, yay!

My eating has gone really well, too, and I think I have a good system down where if I know I’m running the next day, I’ll eat a sandwich, rice and tofu/vegetables, or black bean burrito to fill up my glycogen stores, but then eat less carbs (no rice, bread, or tortilla) if I’m not running the next day.  I’m not sure how I’ll prep when I start reaching 9 or so miles, but I think this is a pretty good system for the moment.  Increasing my protein to 115-120 grams a day is slow to acclimate to because my stomach always hurts the next morning, but it’s not as bad as in the beginning.

And I took my measurements today and I’m down half an inch in my waist (now 24.5 inches) and ghetto booty (now 35.5)!  The bad part, though, is that I’m a whole friggin inch less in my chest, so now it’s officially comparable to a Romanian boy gymnast.   I was actually contemplating on getting some enhancements on that region, and my current guy was like, "no way, I’d take a natural super lean girl any day… besides, I turn you over 80% of the time anyway."  I find SUCH romantic Mungos…. I definitely laughed, though, thank God he hasn’t taken away the backside!     

Perhaps it’s the paint fumes affecting me (um, yeah, I’m so not volunteering for any home reno stuff anymore ), but I kinda feel like ranting right now.  Now typically, I tend to reverse a lot of negative things into positive because I like to keep a half-full mentality.  For instance, if someone thinks a person is weird, I consider said person eccentric; or if someone is habitually flaky, then I call them free spirits.  However, I don’t tolerate rude people very well, and today it was just one rude person after another!

1)       Bad drivers, moreso when I have some SP circulating in my veins.  Did you ever see that Goofy cartoon where he’s walking on a sidewalk and waits for a snail to cross his path, and then he gets in his car and gets instant road rage?  Well, though that’s generally considered me, nothing bunches my panties more than drivers who go the wrong way on a one-way lane of a gym parking lot (hello, fu.cktard, notice how the cars are parked opposite of you?!), and then look at YOU crazy because you’re in their way!  Grrr…

2)       People who put their towel over the cardio time thingy because the gym is super crowded and they want to go over the time limit.  Yes, I understand that a good fat-burning zone is beyond the 20 minute time limit, but HELLO – you’re not a freakin child playing hide and seek where if you cup your eyes, then you are automatically “hiding.”  Respect the time limit and the other patrons, please!

3)       Rude people who bump you and don’t apologize!  Now perhaps it’s because I’m the opposite and tend to over-apologize, but this rude teenager obviously bumped me in the weight room and then just walked away, didn’t apologize or anything!  Someone needs to teach that stupid kid manners… and to let him know that that stupid long bangs swept sideways from the 80’s was a mistake, as he probably was, too!

4)       People who don’t put away the weights in their proper place.  Even if you were freakin dyslexic, there is no way you could mistake 10, 15, or 20 for any other place, because most weights run in intervals of 2.5 or 5!  So put a little effort and put them in their proper place, jerkface, think of it as exercising your thinking muscle if you have to shuffle the weights around a bit (okay, I admit, I kinda like doing that sometimes since I’m weird about organizing… but not all the freakin time!).
Surprisingly, I’m somewhat sedated now… and yeah, it gave me a grrrreat bicep/shoulder/chest routine because I got angrier with each exercise.  Hope everyone’s having a great weekend! xo

Konichiwa, my diesel friends!  So I got my tax refund today and guess what I bought with it??  Tickets to fly over to Hawaii for a friend’s wedding so you know I gotta look good for that, and most importantly - tickets to fly over for the Circle Bash!!!  I’m incredibly excited of the thought that I’m actually going to meet some of you, and if it ends up not happening, then, uh, NB, you’re gonna have a random asian chick camping out on your lawn for that weekend!  

I also bought an entry fee for the Mud Run out here since I was recruited by my friend to join her team.  I’m still marinating on signing up for the half marathon here in April, mostly because it has a brutal hill (every year I’ve ran it (4) there’s always been an ambulance going up said hill in the middle of the race!) and I don’t know if my ankle will hold up, but I’ll see how I am mid-March.  The rest is allocated to savings since I’m trying my darndest to be all responsible and stuff, but… I do want me some motorcycle riding lessons… and motorcycle (well, like a 250 cc to start off)!  So we’ll see

Had a rather gluttonous Valentine’s Day that I thought I’d work off today, but I only mustered 6 miles (wanted to do 8 ).  Apparently, red wine does not constitute as carbo-loading.    I plan on attacking the weights brutally this long weekend, and I think I get to help my friend paint her house.  I LOVE shows like Trading Spaces, but always lose the motivation once the show is over (yay ADD)… but since she is moving into new digs, I figured I could channel my renovations desires for her benefit.  Sweet!

Sorry I’ve been MIA - I’ve had to, like, actually work and stuff during work hours (the nerve!  cuttin’ into my putzin’ around time ), and afterwards I’ve had to tend to a lot of "real life" friends to play Therapist Pixi since there always seem to be an influx of break-ups in winter (conversely, there’s always a surge of hook-ups come spring… we’re interesting creatures).  In addition to working out from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., I practically conk out as soon as I get home… so sorry I haven’t been keepin’ up with your wonderful progress!  The good news is that whenever I had lunch/dinner with said friends, I made healthy choices (my favorite being the Seared Ahi Salad with dressing on the side from The Yard House… yums).  The bad news is that my nose is uber-raw since I often cry with them… ha, I’m such a pansy!

But, my eating has been great and I’m staying around 118-119.  My workouts have been awesome, though I probably won’t run until the long weekend (been consistent with either 20-mile bike rides or spin class, though!).  And my weight training has been going great… it’s still quite the challenge to graduate even to increments of 5 pounds, but the weights I’m usually "stuck" at are easy peasy and I can do 12-15 reps when before I could barely muster 8 (say, a couple months ago… Trixter’s plan rocks the house, yo!).  Plus while most chicks are using both hands to do tricep extensions with 12.5 lb. weights, I’m using 15 lb. weight with one arm… Yay!  For some reason, though, gravity pulls a dirty trick on me when I try to convert that same weight to skull crushers… oh well, I’ll get there!  Thanks Mike, for being so positive about me not failing with 3 reps.

Gonna catch up with everyone this weekend (so sorry, I miss you, though!).  And since tomorrow will be killer and I might come in late, cough cough - early Happy Valentine’s Day, mi corazons! *gives hug, hand "travels" downward and cops a feel on the booty, muhahahaha*  I know a lot of people think V-Day is too commercialized and yada yada, but I love it - I don’t think people express their love enough and/or take loved ones for granted (myself included), so if a holiday needs to be set aside for it, I’m all for it.  Doesn’t mean you have to shell out chocolates and flowers, a simple call would do… but if they do buy it, well, it’s not like I’ll kick it outta bed, either, hee.  Plus, red and pink are the best colors ever… so in conclusion, I love me some V-Day!  Amen.