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Moscow Mules
0Ah, hello. I got home last night about midnightish and somehow the blog didn’t make it on my radar. Not much to report, though, for yesterday or today. Tomorrow (technically today, I guess) is my arbitrary end, because I’m all out of interesting things to say every day. I’m very sleepy right now, which I have no right to be since I slept in and then did nothing all day, but somehow that sort of day always ends up leaving me sleepy. When I’m busy, I wish for boring weekends, and when I have boring weekends, I wish to be busy. What can you do.
Whelp, let’s get to it.
Food:
Breakfast: Do I even have to say it at this point? PB&J
Lunch: Taco/burrito/whatevers
Other: Supper was a special dish I call a Peanut Buster. Provided by my friend Dairy Queen. She’s very nice.
Yesterday started out identical, and then I went to a housewarming party and that would be too complicated to try to document. Various party-type foods, and a Moscow Mule. If you’re not familiar, and a surprising number of people at the party were not, the Moscow Mule is an alcoholic beverage best known for being served in a copper mug, and for the fact that bars make you give them a credit card and a drivers license before they’ll serve you one – so you don’t make off with the mug. The copper is important for its reaction with the ginger beer, or so they say. Anyway, it was interesting, and pretty good, but I don’t know if I need that much ginger in my life. Half of one would do me fine.
Current Weight: Yesterday 161, Today 159
A Day
0Have I told you that I like kickboxing? Just kidding, I think I tell you that every day. But I do, in case you were wondering. My shoulder doesn’t think so today, too many push ups this week, but it will survive. It’s so close to being better, but I’m only a little bit good at keeping it rested. I rest it when I’m at home, right? That should count for something.
No workout tomorrow, though, I have places to go and my shoulder needs a break. Saturday, maybe, if I’m feeling motivated. As miserable as the last time was, I’m not feeling too keen, but I don’t like going the whole weekend without a workout either. One of the things that sucks about working out is how fast you can lose conditioning. Even just missing a couple days last week, I felt it when I got back to class on Tuesday. So anyway, we’ll see what happens over the weekend.
Food:
I could summarize this part by saying ‘yesterday, again’
Breakfast: PB&J
Lunch: Tacos. Although I added some beans, so maybe they’re burritos now. I was never really sure where that line is.
Other: Milk, 1/2 a can of Dr. Pepper (the other half went all over my coffee table and almost got my laptop…good times)
Mexican food is delicious, but the difference between most of the dishes is nuanced at best.
Current Weight: 161
Meaningful
0Oh hai! Sorry about that. I disappeared a little. I apologize.
The wedding weekend was great, I saw so many old family friends that it was like going to a reunion. I also got the opportunity to hang out with two kids who I knew very well, both through my church and from babysitting them for around 10 years. I haven’t seen them in 5 years (they were 12 and 7 then, they’re 17 and 12 now) so it felt like being put through a time machine. I always had high expectations for them, but I was completely blown away. They have become the most beautiful, smart, and incredibly personable young people…I feel grateful to have had even a small part in their lives.
I’ve spent so much time working on ‘real job’ kind of things for the last few years, but I look back on it and it doesn’t mean anything to me. Those two kids mean everything, and every other kid that I’ve taught or mentored in the last few years…Some pixels on a screen pale in comparison to that. It’s why I’ve always loved teaching Taekwondo, and why I miss teaching it now. It’s not so much what’s being taught as the impact that it has on kid’s lives.
So anyway…after that. I went to my final ballet class last night – it was almost a relief. As much as I would love to have the abilities of a dancer, I don’t connect with the experience of training the same way I do to martial arts. I enjoyed it while I was there, but I didn’t find myself practicing in my off days, or really wanting to go back to class the way I do with Taekwondo. It was a fun and worthwhile experience, but I’m glad I don’t have to rely on it as my new hobby. Maybe I was wrong, and what’s being taught does matter…passion matters. It took me one whole paragraph to change my mind on that subject.
Tonight I had kickboxing, and even though it is much more brutal and exhausting physically, I would much rather be there. The fact that I have friends who take class with me is a factor as well, but it’s where I want to be. I’m glad that everything came together to get me into that class – it was a hard decision at the time, but it’s been the right choice by far. I’m wired to kick things, or something.
Food:
Yes, food. We’re still doing this?
Breakfast: PB&J
Lunch: BBQ Pork sandwich (wedding leftovers…win.)
Other: Chocolate Milk, and I think I ate some other things but I forgot. Sorry.
Seriously drawing a blank on the rest. Ah, well, there was food there somewhere. The wedding weekend didn’t derail me as badly as I thought it might, although I certainly ate too much. But I think (knock on wood) that I’m done with crazy holidays, weddings, graduations, baby showers (did I mention the baby shower the day after the wedding? Same family, different couple ;), and the like, so I can go back to eating like a normal person for more than a week at a time.
Current Weight: 161
Love via Food
0Tonight featured the Return of the Killer Leg Workout from last week. I have no idea why they chose to torture me this way. I could have gone another month or ten without doing that many lunges again, but they seemed to think it was a good idea. I liked busting out some high kicks yesterday much better.
I’m headed out tomorrow for a wedding, back in my old stomping grounds. An old family friend is getting married, and lots of old friends are coming, so it’s becoming a reunion of sorts. I won’t attempt to blog while I’m home, so I’ll have to leave you until Sunday or Monday, when I get back.
While I’m home I’ll try to fight the good fight and not eat until I die. Seriously. My family speaks the language of food. We love with food, Holidays revolve around meals, we celebrate with food, we mourn with food…you get the idea. It took me a long time to be able to say ‘no’ to my grandparents pushing second and third helpings of everything, and I think they’ve learned not to take it personally. Regardless, it’s hard – when my family’s around the food is amazing. A-ma-zing. And I don’t have to cook it all by myself, which makes everything taste better.
Food:
Breakfast: PB&J
Lunch: More leftover enchiladas
Supper: (look Ma, three meals!) Pizza
Other: Cookies, Milk, Soda
Well hello there appetite, I wondered where you’d gone. I missed you…sort of.
Current Weight: 162
Have a fantastical rest of the week and a magnificent weekend, and I’ll be back Sunday!
Quiet on Sunday
0Sunday: Slept in, ran errands, grilled a steak. Watched a movie, picked up my guitar for the first time in a long time and played blisters into my fingers. Found some sweet new music, got some new and much-needed workout clothes, read for a while, watched pointless tv, browsed pointless internet, stayed out of the heat.
Hope your weekend was excellent – see you Monday.