I Hate When…

People park in front of my house.  It bugs me and I can’t really exactly tell you why.  Something about some car in front of my house just unsettles me, even if it is my own because we’ve moved cars to the other person can take their car in the morning.

I see the car out there and I go “Who’s that?  Are they coming to my house?  Why didn’t they park in front of whoever’s house it is that they are visiting?  How long is it going to be there?”

ANNOYING

It’s especially annoying when the car parked has blocked me from getting out.  This happened the other day where the car on the street half covered my driveway space and there was no way that I could have gotten out.  I wasn’t going anywhere for hours. But I felt inclined to check on the status of this street parked car every twenty minutes or so.  Is it still there? Why did this idiot park half in front of my driveway when there is a whole street to park on?

It drove me crazy for the whole two or three hours that the person was parked there.  When they finally left I felt so relieved that I would be able to get out of my driveway.  I then continued to play games for another couple hours before I had to go anywhere.

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Putting On Weight

As anyone who has read most of this blog would know, I spent a lot of time last year losing weight, “bad” weight.  It’s been talked about a few times.

Now I’m putting on weight, “good” weight and actually have been since about October.  My lowest weight was about 150 pounds! Yikes! And now I weigh about 164 give or take depending on the day.  Still a far cry from what I used to weigh and all the clothes I bought when I weighed 150 or so still fit perfectly (though the shoulders are a little tight in some of them), so the weight I have put on has been in the right areas and through the building of muscle.  Fantastic.

But it is really a struggle to be ok with gaining weight when one has gone to such great lengths to lose so much weight and so every now and then I feel the need to measure my fitness progress in a way that leaves weight out of the equation really.

Once I had met with Jodi last summer there was a standard sheet she had to track the goals and progress of someone that was under her tutelage it measured weight, skinfolds and that type of thing but for fitness it has pushups, crunchies and a standing high jump.  In February we decided that after having done 5 of those sheets I think that we had maxed out what that sheet could tell us and I asked her to devise some other sort of test to gauge my fitness progress.

She invented an obstacle course that involved doing laps around the gym while getting over a chest height wall, going up and down stairs, pushups, medicine ball smashes, burpees and dragging a fireman dummy.  All of this was done after going as long as my legs could carry me during the dreaded beep test! 

We first did this set of tests in March, I completed level 8 of the beep test and the course took me 6:47.66.  Which is not bad, but we also only had the one set of data.  We just did the test again this past week and I completed level 9.5 on the beep test and did the course in 5:54.62.  which added over a minute of running to the beep test and shaved over a minute off the course time!  Pretty impressive.

We also talked to one of the other trainers at the gym about what a good body fat percentage is for someone who is like me (short and over 30) and his “ummm… *this number*” was much higher than what mine is and when Jodi showed him the other measurements we had taken that day he said he was a bit jealous of a few of them.

So I’m in shape, but even still being ok with putting on weight is a hard thing to do.  I’ve been told by a few people though, most notably Amber and Jodi, that I was too thin last summer and where I’m at now is much, much better.  I do agree with that at least.

Lunchtime Entertainment

I love my samsung phone. It's a Galaxy S, I can pretty much do anything with it. I got it almost a year ago now. I'm able to blog with it here at work just by sending an email to my blog.

If I am having my lunch alone here often this might become a typical thing because they only get a couple of channels out here and each day that I have been here Oprah has been on, yuck.

This is a far cry from the entertainment at lunch while I was at CIP when Damion and I would watch series of shows like The Tick, Family Guy, My Name is Earl or the IT crowd, hilarious shows that made the day so much more enjoyable.

I do this now in the mornings before I head off to work, watching The Big Bang Theory. But I think that with the power of my phone I might bring some shows to work to entertain myself at work.

I realize just now, that working in a field dominated by women, my lunch hours will never be as great as those spent at CIP, watching cartoons.

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Oranges

So I go get sushi a lot now a days and the whole experience is something that warrants it’s own blog post, but for the moment I want to focus on the oranges.

We go to Matsu Sushi on Hunter St. here in Peterborough and it’s the kind of place that goes the extra mile to make the experience a great one.  Part of it is an included “dessert” of an orange gloriously cut up so that you just eat it with a toothpick and no mess.

I recently had a cold and part of my solution was to get some oranges.  I was about to peel it like most people would normally do, and get orange stuff all under my fingernails and crap when I thought ‘I should eat this orange like a civilized person, and some barbarian.’

Out came the knife!

Peel!

Cut into pieces.

Eat.

Yum! And none of that stupid pith ruining your orange deliciousness!