Fairy skipping (Cotter warmup, and made me feel pretty)
It must be something in the Houston Air (maybe all the rain?) Bob was doing his impression of feeling pretty too last night
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It must be something in the Houston Air (maybe all the rain?) Bob was doing his impression of feeling pretty too last night
You mean he did it in view of another person?!? That takes bigger (or maybe smaller...) balls than I've got.
Tonight is date night, aw yeah. Kids are going to The Little Gym for a few hours of playtime. I think the adults are going to a seafood restaurant and a movie.
Guess who brought in four contracts today?
Good thing Ben finally got to use that picture again. I bet he was running out of plausible excuses for keeping it on his hard drive.
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Yes Bob did it in front of someone.... He got bonus points for it cuz he made me laugh
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
However I don't think either of you compare to being pretty as much as this guy does
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
You know if you get any more successful you'll be designated as the buyer of the first round in LR right?
Pshshshttt... if you only knew how little my commission is! 2oz apple ciders for everyone!
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A special song just for you RL
Ha; thanks! I was born in Arkansas, lived in Kansas City for 10 years and now live in Texas. I'm fortunate to have experienced some great BBQ over the years! And I'll be cooking some ribs soon here at home.
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Keep going on the contracts RL! Don't let up now. Congrats on reaching the goals. Always a great thing.
Oh yeah, I'm at 8 contracts with one week to go in August. I don't plan to stop if I hit my goal of 10.
And I worked out yesterday:
Hip/glute stuff
Walking lunges -- 35 lbs each hand
Squat rows -- 170 lbs
Pullups
T-pushups
DB skullcrushers
Farmer's holds -- 85 lbs each hand, 30seconds on, 60s rest, repeat
Ab wheel rollouts
Our date was excellent. We went the cheap route with a low-profile seafood place, a visit to the pharmacy to buy candy to smuggle into the movie theater, and then we used our free movie tickets to see Transsiberian and loved it. The first hour is just saturated in this sense of impending doom... and then things start to get crazy. A good, small, personal thriller. I wish there were more movies like this being made, since we weren't interested in seeing the 25 summer big-budget dumbfests also showing the theaters right now.
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No official workouts over the weekend but I was fairly active. We sort of had a "last hurrah" family weekend before Samantha starts kingergarten today. Big milestone there.
We went bowling on Saturday and I was once again reminded of how kids intuitively know how to use their bodies to move weights. Jack (3yo) picked up the bowling ball on his own and walked it up to the line, in perfect strongman atlas stone-form. Arms locked, shoulders high... it was beautiful.
In the first frame I score a 3. One pin on the first ball, two on the second. Whoa. Got a new ball. Ended up with a 204, because apparently if you get 7 strikes in 8 frames the game's scoring system rewards that kind of thing.
My abs still hurt from the ab wheel rollouts. Makes Ross Enamait's videos all the more impressive.
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Personal trivia time, with the knowledge this may be used against me later. One summer between years of college I was in a bowling league with my brother and two buddies. It was an adult co-ed league, mostly 40-something women, and there were the four of us college guys every Sunday afternoon at the lanes.
Our team name was "Smackmelon" and our uniforms were used mechanics' shirts from goodwill, complete with original names on the front. Mine was "Dwayne". My brother was "Chuck E." I don't think we won the league but that one hour of hilarity every Sunday was welcomed and cherished.
My keyboard arrived yesterday! Jack called me on the phone to tell me what had come in the mail, and when I asked if we could play it together he told me he "didn't need any help".
I sat down with it last night and started some unorganized messing around. I'll get to some more formal lessons shortly, although all by myself I've already learned the entire piano intro to "The Reason" by Hoobastank. So Mozart isn't far away.
Brought in contract #9 yesterday. Time's running short.
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The fantasy of cougars met the reality of Sunday afternoon bowling women and everything exploded in a vortex of mom jeans and mullets.
A client just told me that she's emailing in her contract shortly, which will make #10. Boomshakalaka!
And I emailed the whole project plan for my new call center team to the Executives today -- already got some good feedback. Looks like my first team member might be an internal transfer, which would save me tons of time and energy on training.
With all this money-making and professional stuff, workout might not get done today. Crap.
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- Mignon McLaughlin
But good work on the contracts, now if your new kindergardener has a hula hoop, you could have her show you how and get both bonding and a workout in. (man, would that be a sight.)
I managed to squeeze in a workout anyway. Some days you're just efficient and you gotta rock da house when those days come:
Warmup stuff -- no fairies this time
DB Snatches -- worked up to a 3x3 with 70-lb
Weak man rows
PNF
Rotating planks of suck
As I was getting dressed after the workout, I was thinking I would log another old YMCA story tonight, since nothing interesting had happened at the Y today. Then two bros walked into the locker room and awesomeness ensued:
Bro1: So my bench is back up to 245 now. How do I get it higher?
Bro2: You need endurance work. Like sets of 15 with 145 pounds. And do your cardio every day.
Bro1: Cool, thanks. If I can get my weight down I think that will help.
Bro2: No problem, man. Some of this stuff is tough to understand. It's like you gotta know somebody to make progress.
Bro1: I hear that. You need a hookup to get in a club, get a job or even get into heaven. Not everybody can even get into this YMCA, I bet.
Bro2: You think they'd let you in here if you had crabs?
Bro1: Like the food??
Bro2: Naw man, like lice. Those crabs.
Bro1: I don't know bout that stuff, man. Nasty.
Bro2: It's like HPV, man. You can't keep people out because of that. Like 80 percent of people have it.
Bro1: Is that like herpes?
Bro2: Yeah man. And sometimes it shows up on your hands like a rash or something... I dunno.
Bro1: Yeah I don't know 'bout that stuff either.
Bro2: That's not what your girlfriend said. Oh I'm sorry, I meant your boyfriend.
Bro1: Screw you man -- you just come in here to see naked guys.
And that was enough for me. I opened the door with my non-rash hands and left.
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- Mignon McLaughlin
I also spent over an hour last night on piano lessons and practicing. Learned some of the major scales and how to apply them to the keys. Did some left-hand and right-hand practice, then combined them. My former guitar skills are sorta helpful and problematic all at the same time. I have great finger dexterity but I'm used to the pinky finger of my left hand being for the highest notes. On the piano it's for the lowest, and the thumb is for the highest notes on the left hand.
That paragraph is ripe for quoting out of context, I know. Expect more talk about "hand skills" in the weeks to come -- when writing about piano there's just no way around it.
Oh, and you know what is an awesome break and distraction every 15 minutes or so during piano practice? Playing the intro to "Jump" by Van Halen. One way a keyboard has an advantage over a piano right there.
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"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
I drifted from note-reading to playing by ear for awhile. It was fun but ultimately unproductive. I miss my saxophones. I also have a very nice violin going unused that I really need a teacher for.
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Maybe the shoulder presses, but prolly won't do a thing for your pullups or whatnot.
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Oh, and you know what is an awesome break and distraction every 15 minutes or so during piano practice? Playing the intro to "Jump" by Van Halen. One way a keyboard has an advantage over a piano right there.
We did Axel F. Well, I and my cousin did. Her brother just constantly wanted to play chopsticks.
Axel F is on my list of fun stuff for sure, Aoife. Along with Take on Me, Runaway and Sister Christian. And honestly, can I still qualify as an American if my first fun keyboard song wasn't The Final Countdown? Major mistake on my part. Oh, and don't forget the Fletch theme.
Dang, I gotta get busy. The 80s beckon.
And yep, Lisa -- that's what I'm expecting when my parents visit for Thanksgiving. Might as well give 'em what they want!
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