Day 11 (Virtual Hate)

I went to bed right after Pucca (the Japanese anime that my tween tortures me with 5 nights a week) at about 9 last night. I either have a cold or am having allergy issues. This must be why the downward facing dog caused that immediate headache on Wednesday. The alarm clock went off at 4:45 though and I actually got up. I was hoping to use the walk instead of jumping jacks for cardio, but because I went to bed so early I had grading to do and could only work out for an hour.

That internet twit either thinks that people should progress faster than I am, or she meant for this week to be more cardio than strength training---I don’t know which. I did the 450 jumping jacks (if I was doing 3 sets of 1 minute, it would be about 1,000), but I still am not doing them with a smile on my face. It’s kind of scary that someone like me (who is a lover, not a fighter) can get a kick out of hating the internet TWIT. I don’t think I would hate her as much if I met her. There ought to be some kind of internet game that enables me to make her eat whatever I don’t eat (but want to, but she says to avoid empty calories) and get fatter and she should also get more out of shape and fat for every jumping jack she orders me to do. I think then, I could do jumping jacks with a smile on my face. If any of you knows someone who is good with computer graphics, maybe we could start our own internet get in shape business. I’d pay $5 a week to make that lady virtually obese---my hate for her is merely virtual. It’s not real.

Today’s humor came from the fact that I now have weights lighter than 10 lbs, but heavier than succotash cans, but they are just the weights that you put on barbells. I had barbells until my son Matt and his friends started using them. I don’t know where they are now. At first, I tried the fly lifts with the weights double bagged in plastic grocery bags. This was not a good plan---bags move and I kept hitting myself with them. Then I figured out that the best way to do this is to just hold the weights. They worked just fine. There were supposed to be leg lifts at first. I decided to do them bent legged. I thought it was a good plan. If I sat down with the measurements and weight of my legs I could actually figure out how much work I was saving myself. I smiled as I thought about that. Wouldn’t you know that that twit had the bent legged version of the leg lifts called reverse crunches in the next cycle of exercises! I tried to do the leg lifts that I had modified earlier, but it was the last exercise before the last set of jumping jacks and I had already done 60 sit ups of various kinds and couldn’t manage it, so I did more reverse crunches. Any ways, I did get the routine finished and enough grading done to make the kids happy.