Gym @ MindSay 
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Today I hit the gym for the first time.. in my entire life. It was great. I used to run, but my legs wouldn't let me run more than 20 minutes, so I gave up. But at the gym I can switch activities whenever I'm tired, and with the machines, there's zero to none strain on my joints - awesome.
Started with a 10 minute jog, 10 minutes rowing, 20 minutes bicycle, 10 minutes elliptical and ended with 10 minutes rowing - felt AWESOME - and at 30 euros a month, free pass.. it's hmm.. awesome.
Last night I had another strike of insomnia and with it, I decided to go through my crappy, extensive, unorganized, illegally downloaded music collection and make a thorough selection of the "must have" tracks. The idea is to use the selected tracks as a playlist for the LEGAL, fully tagged tracks that should download in a near future.
The next step is finding a decent website to buy decent quality MP3 songs. I have to buy songs from the 60s all the way till the 00s. And please don't say iTunes! I am not downloading that thing! I bet they don't even use the MP3 format!
Ok. That's all for now. Happy tour everyone. Or whatever you're are doing..
there was a hanson concert she'd wanted me to go to, originally written on the calendar (pink for her, purple for amanda, and an as-yet undecided color for me (mostly because i can't find a green marker, and my 27-pack or whatever of sharpies is still down at the new house)) as being on thursday the 22nd, later corrected to tuesday the 20th. day came and went (yesterday), and marleah couldn't switch her off days, or wasn't particularly enthusiastic about wanting to go, so amanda didn't, either..
annnyhow, it feels good to get back into the swing of things..who knows, maybe i'll even find a new workout buddy there, if the girls keep not going/not being able to go..and ultimately, get big and skrong! because no matter how big i think i am, i could always be bigger!..at least, until i've put on 30lbs. or so, then i might okay for a while. it always amuses me slightly though, that the average person probably needs to and/or is trying to lose weight..course, i'm sure that'll come in handy once i'm my dad's age..
Today was a pretty good’n. Except for the fact that Nichole called today because she almost hospitalized D last night; I feel so bad that I can’t do more for her. I’m very afraid he isn’t going to be with us for a little bit; I will miss him terribly if that happens. I know that it might actually help him get better, but … I’m selfish. He’s MY student and I want him to stay with me until the year is over, if not into next year, too.
The kids had an OK day; Parker was out sick again, but they weren’t too upset that TWO days in a row they didn’t have their buddy. We had Delia as a sub again, and she and A were getting along so well this morning, and I was writing up my phone conversation with Nichole, so she took him to gym to start while I worked. I went down, and they were playing BADMINTON (I loooooooooove Badminton), but she said they were fine down there, so I let her stay and I went down to our room and tried to organize my life a little. A came back early and had some issues w/ having to do work, but then he and I settled in to read this book, “Hi, Fly Guy”, and… he kicked its ass. I wish there was a more eloquent, teacher-sounding, child-friendly term for it, but… it had an ass, and he kicked it. I almost cried I was so proud of him. Did he read every word? No, we shared reading responsibility. Was it a hard book? No, your 6 year old could probably have zipped through it, but it had ‘chapters’ and wasn’t a hokey rhyming book … and he read it with fluency. Not the way he reads, “No, David!” which he’s read 500 times before and knows the words without looking at the page. There was an actual rhythm to his reading. My heart was actually soaring, and I had to work very hard to not tear-up; this is what I’ve been wanting for him since September.
They all cashed-in for ordering pizza from Christopher’s for lunch, which was fine. E paid a dollar because D didn’t have nearly enough, and it was nice (except that D ended up NOT EATING THE PIZZA and eating his hotdog instead). I can’t tell you how polite E was today; they all had a few moments of ‘can you please ______?’ and things like that, but E was putting them out there really consistently. I mean, at lunch, for absolutely NO REASON or prompting, he looked at me and said, “Thank you for the pizza, Miss E”. OH MAN. I <3 little moments. E also made my heart jump into my throat when before first cash-in, he looked at his desk (while waiting for D to finish reading a bit because he doesn’t settle into work right away and has to run over) and says, “I need to clean my desk”. He NEVER notices things like that. It was incredible.
Overall, I’m going to say, ‘good day’. D had some serious snappage, and signing off the computer was an issue, but overall…I could live with the next 38 days or so being just like today. With Parker included, of course. It definitely feels better when all 3 of us are there.
Even after 8 years of going to the gym, it's still weird that there is often some naked dude in the shower stall next to me. While you can't make out anything in detail, you can still see the basic body shape and whatnot -- and this is all perfectly normal to people, apparently. Anyway - here's my plan..
Place the shower stalls in a line, but the entrance to each alternates between the men's and women's locker room areas. Each stall is frosted glass from floor to ceiling. The men's and women's areas are physically separated and not much else is different, the only difference is I'm not showering next to a dude.
It's fun, it's sexy, and the experience doesn't go beyond "PG-13" - about the same level as visiting a public beach. As long as a gym provided traditional showers for the timid on the side, I can see this actually working out at one of those 'hip' gyms...
On Sunday a friend of mine was having boyfriend problems. So, being an awesome friend who has awesome ideas, I decided we should go see that movie "He's Just not that into you." I'm not big on chick flicks, but I knew she wanted to see it and if we didn't do something she would sit around and be bum all night. 9:30 comes around and we go. 1) Not the best movie to see if you're having boy problems (It made my friend cry...yeah). 2) We were literally the only people in the theatre who were not a couple. Worst idea ever. But so funny. I didn't realize people went to see chick flicks with their boyfriend. I definitely would never go see one with my boyfriend. The most "worst" movie I ever made him see was Freedom Writers and only that because, duh, I teach. Aren't they called chick flicks because only chicks should watch them? Also, I didn't realize that many people went to the movies on a Sunday. Loser. Oh well.
I'm listening to Keane right now. I'm not all that big into them but for some reason if I hear Keane being played anywhere-a car that drives by, the mall, whatever- I feel this crazy need to listen to them. That happens with other bands and I'll think, "oh, I haven't listened to them in forever, I really want to go home and listen now." But with Keane its insane. Like I HAVE to listen to them asap. Weird.
I hate football players in the gym. I hate football in general but I especially hate them in the gym. I wonder what would happen if I just walked up to one of them and punched them in the face. hahaha. Maybe that would put an end to them yelling "WORK WORK WORK" at the top of their manly lungs as they lift those oh so heavy weights. I don't hate a lot of things but I do hate that. I'm going to ruin my ears by the time I'm 25 from turning up my ipod in order to drown them out. Plus they swarm the free weight area so I can't get anything but cardio and abs done. Jesus. The end.
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