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quidditchgrrl1. Muchas gracias once again, friends, for all of your kind words and encouragement about Bernie dog. He is doing very well. The vet agreed with our decision in light of that, and listed him as not requiring further vaccination. We have some "oncosupport" food supplement, and the vet cleared him to eat rawhide and popcorn again. My puppy is a happy boy!
2. A group of former co-workers and I have started a new tradition for first Fridays - International Supper Club. This month, it was Spain Restaurant, which is one of those places inside a hotel where you could never imagine there could be food so good, yet you realize that culinary yumminess is inevitable. Next month is Ha Long Bay. *anticipates*
3. 1,000-calorie Saturdays are back! I did my Spinning class, then an aerobics class Saturday morning with my friend Shannon. I will get her to join a gym yet - I know she loved the Y, if she was a little salty with me about the intensity level of the aerobics class.
I've been thinking about getting a personal training certificate more and more, if only to have a piece of paper that would qualify me to actually work to get people who've never worked out before into a program they can enjoy.
Much of Shannon's frustration stemmed from not being able to "keep up" with the moves the instructor was doing. The instructor - and I don't think they're trained to this - didn't really give her instructions on performing the moves with lower intensity. So, when we recovered, I told Shannon how to take it down a notch so she could keep going at a pace that was a) keeping up with the class but b) not spiking her heart rate to dangerous levels.
I feel like this is a big reason new folks quit so quickly; it's discouraging to wheeze and struggle through a class, barely hanging on, when it appears that everyone else is doing just fine. And, I get *really* upset when an instructor uses the term "take a break" or "back down" when you adjust your form or work at a lower intensity - I would call that "adjusting your form" or "lower the intensity". You're not taking a break unless you stop!
Luckily for me, my long-time step aerobics instructor is someone who knows how to engage everyone of all levels and invites everyone to successfully take part in even the most advanced classes, teaching every different combination and variation. In her classes, the folks who quit are the ones who refuse to listen to her instructions.
Just saying, I would like to be able to help people transition into mainstream gym work rather than just working on the elliptical because they are self-conscious about what they look like or fear looking silly.
Next week will be the Dublin Irish Festival 4-miler, then I should be back to 8-milers on Saturday mornings. Ah, warm weather!
4. I promptly ate up my 1,000 calories by having lunch at The Dube, and dinner at Bonefish Grill. (Hey, I was carb-loading!)
5. Today I ran the Arnold Classic 5K with my friend Andrew (who is the cutest, sexiest, and NICEST gay man on the planet). Set a new PR, too - 29:42! I know it doesn't sound impressive, but that's about 6 minutes faster than my last 5K, and I am a big girl. But yay me! My inner thighs are super-sore though (WTH)?
Being at the Arnold is very, as Andrew put it, distracting - imagine every type of person, of every fitness level, walking around - and this is the important part - confidently and without judgment. It was crazy, I loved it!
The 'roided out women are also crazy, I couldn't stop staring.
6. Then I went to The Dube, again, for lunch. Mmmm.
7. Uninterested in Watchmen. Utterly.
8. Totally interested in Chester French. Totally.
9. In the realm of the shitty, I'm now deep within the life of quiet desperation illuminated by Henry David Thoreau as regards my marriage. Literally no conversation, and sometimes I just leave off in the middle of a sentence because it is so obvious that I'm wasting my breath. There are times when I am so lonely I want to cry, and I don't cry.
10. Other than that, life is great. Really. :-)
2. A group of former co-workers and I have started a new tradition for first Fridays - International Supper Club. This month, it was Spain Restaurant, which is one of those places inside a hotel where you could never imagine there could be food so good, yet you realize that culinary yumminess is inevitable. Next month is Ha Long Bay. *anticipates*
3. 1,000-calorie Saturdays are back! I did my Spinning class, then an aerobics class Saturday morning with my friend Shannon. I will get her to join a gym yet - I know she loved the Y, if she was a little salty with me about the intensity level of the aerobics class.
I've been thinking about getting a personal training certificate more and more, if only to have a piece of paper that would qualify me to actually work to get people who've never worked out before into a program they can enjoy.
Much of Shannon's frustration stemmed from not being able to "keep up" with the moves the instructor was doing. The instructor - and I don't think they're trained to this - didn't really give her instructions on performing the moves with lower intensity. So, when we recovered, I told Shannon how to take it down a notch so she could keep going at a pace that was a) keeping up with the class but b) not spiking her heart rate to dangerous levels.
I feel like this is a big reason new folks quit so quickly; it's discouraging to wheeze and struggle through a class, barely hanging on, when it appears that everyone else is doing just fine. And, I get *really* upset when an instructor uses the term "take a break" or "back down" when you adjust your form or work at a lower intensity - I would call that "adjusting your form" or "lower the intensity". You're not taking a break unless you stop!
Luckily for me, my long-time step aerobics instructor is someone who knows how to engage everyone of all levels and invites everyone to successfully take part in even the most advanced classes, teaching every different combination and variation. In her classes, the folks who quit are the ones who refuse to listen to her instructions.
Just saying, I would like to be able to help people transition into mainstream gym work rather than just working on the elliptical because they are self-conscious about what they look like or fear looking silly.
Next week will be the Dublin Irish Festival 4-miler, then I should be back to 8-milers on Saturday mornings. Ah, warm weather!
4. I promptly ate up my 1,000 calories by having lunch at The Dube, and dinner at Bonefish Grill. (Hey, I was carb-loading!)
5. Today I ran the Arnold Classic 5K with my friend Andrew (who is the cutest, sexiest, and NICEST gay man on the planet). Set a new PR, too - 29:42! I know it doesn't sound impressive, but that's about 6 minutes faster than my last 5K, and I am a big girl. But yay me! My inner thighs are super-sore though (WTH)?
Being at the Arnold is very, as Andrew put it, distracting - imagine every type of person, of every fitness level, walking around - and this is the important part - confidently and without judgment. It was crazy, I loved it!
The 'roided out women are also crazy, I couldn't stop staring.
6. Then I went to The Dube, again, for lunch. Mmmm.
7. Uninterested in Watchmen. Utterly.
8. Totally interested in Chester French. Totally.
9. In the realm of the shitty, I'm now deep within the life of quiet desperation illuminated by Henry David Thoreau as regards my marriage. Literally no conversation, and sometimes I just leave off in the middle of a sentence because it is so obvious that I'm wasting my breath. There are times when I am so lonely I want to cry, and I don't cry.
10. Other than that, life is great. Really. :-)
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Date: 2009-03-09 03:13 am (UTC)Also not interested in Watchmen, at least not enough to warrant spending the money and driving to the theater. Eh.
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Date: 2009-03-09 03:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-09 03:13 pm (UTC)*huggles* Did you get my screened comment? If there's anything you want, just give me a shout!
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Date: 2009-03-11 12:35 am (UTC)Might you be able to wing me some Walker's chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies? They don't import them to my neck of the woods anymore.
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Date: 2009-03-12 06:57 pm (UTC)http://www.walkersshortbread.com/OnlineShop/Category.aspx?Category=84
The lady at the shop whom I asked called me sweetheart while answering, which made me want to smack her. Elderly men calling me 'love' I am totally down with, but that? Nope.
Also, I need your address (to slashkilter [at] gmail [dot] com)!
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Date: 2009-03-13 01:30 am (UTC)http://www.walkersshortbread.com/OnlineShop/Product.aspx?Category=84&Product=1547
MMMmMMMMM
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Date: 2009-03-25 12:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-09 03:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-09 05:29 pm (UTC)I'm sorry about #9. I was there a long time ago. It is a hard place to be. Good luck to you on whatever you decide is best.
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Date: 2009-03-10 06:28 am (UTC)As for #9, I'm sorry. I know how bad it is for you and you know what I want for you, but I'm sorry you have to go through it anyway.
Much love.