thirty four

[threeplusfire]

I've thought about writing for at least a week but I never could bring myself to commit the words to the screen. But it's my birthday and maybe I should at least write something for that. Mike gave me a micro penguin and a blueberry muffin squishable, as well as a Loki action figure. It has an astonishing number of joints for a little plastic figure. I have him doing ballet poses on my computer.

I went dancing on Saturday. I only had three drinks and it was broiling in the club but it felt so good to dance. I need to go do that more. Driving downtown lately fills me with a certain anxiety thanks to the horrendous deaths this spring in multiple drunk driving incidents. Also the terrible parking situation, and my surge of depression, etc, etc.

Back in my gym routine. I feel less insane if I go do that. There was a gross dudebro there dropping weights today, but one of the employees told him to cool it. I'm not really impressed if you drop your massive weights on the floor. It just makes me think you're not as strong as you think you are. Anyway. My thigh muscles hurt, and I lifted heavier things this week than I did last week.

For a short while, I again contemplated buying an ereader device. Instead I bought the collectors edition for the next Dragon Age game. There's a tarot deck in the box. I've never felt compelled to ever pick up a tarot deck in my life but I want this for some reason. Also the pretty cloth map and all the shiny things. I'm playing through Dragon Age Origins with a new rogue and I'm wondering who to romance. I don't think I've ever picked Leliana.

Things are still strange on the dead father front. Soon I'll be done with actually dealing with legal things that require me to actually talk to anyone. That will at least be a relief.

We have to make some minor repairs to the siding, and the company we hired also does painting. Waiting on them to get us an estimate now. I'd like to paint the house like a big mint candy with white trim.

Comments

[kythryne.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

My gym actually encourages people to drop weights if we're going to fail a lift, but only if we're on the foam, have a rubber bumper plates and clips on the bar, and we truly can't manage to get it safely back down from overhead to floor. I probably drop about 25% of my lifts at this point, but I also know how to catch my bar so it doesn't go skittering halfway across the gym. And if I do it too many times in a row, heck yeah time to drop back on the weight.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

This guy was just dropping heavy hand weights on the floor, where there is not a mat. I also watched him kick a weight over to another bench. (Because it would be too heavy to carry? I dunno.) He would do a half dozen reps and then dramatically drop them to the floor. It was weird.

[kythryne.livejournal.com]

Oh, jeez, dropping a fucking DUMBBELL? (Or kettlebell?) That's just laziness. It's pretty easy to lose control of a barbell even if you're really good (I watch my trainers do it on a regular basis trying to make heavy lifts), but you dropping hand weights after half a dozen reps... damn, yo.

ALSO DO YOU EVEN LIFT BRO? Because I don't think I've seen hand weights go past 50lbs, and if he can't control 50lbs back to the floor then I would like to introduce him to some of the little old ladies at my gym.

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! :)

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)