The Lenten Saga: Day 22

I am still at work as I am typing this...

Cold, tired, hungry.

I am losing my energy. Will I be able to make it home?

I have so many things going on in my head. Everything is a blur... As a matter of fact, everything is beginning to get really blurry. This work must get done. No one else can do it but me. At least I found some time to work out my legs today, and boy did I give them one hell of a workout. Every part of my lower body was very tender coming out of the gym... I need food... I need water. My head is getting lighter. It is hard to focus on a lot of things. I need to do my caterpillar readings.... I am usually done by Wednesday for whatever we will be talking about on Saturday, but I am falling behind. It is hard to multitask, but I need to find a balance. I do not know how much longer I am going to last. I feel like sleeping here! But I can not! I must leave! I think I will go to the salsa social at 9... That should give me a little energy... enough to make it back to the Containment Area.

Lord, Help Me.

The Lenten Saga: Day 16

What a busy day!

Thursdays are my busiest day's out of the week. I guess it is because I have so much going on. In and out of work, with choir and working out... Plus running errands does not make the day any less busy. I got a lot done at work today but I still need to do more. Looks like I will be coming in on the weekend to get it all done! Such has been the way of things. Deadlines are tight, resources, tighter, time is a luxury no one seems to have... Wow, I have not even went salsa dancing in a long time! I will remedy that Saturday... wow, That is going to be a busy day too!

Well, I guess that is good, I am very active... No couch potato-isms here! Plus I am not in my apartment long enough to enjoy the craptacular one I have in my living room. Still looking at furniture for my new place... I want to get decent stuff... I will be here for awhile. I do want to live somewhat comfortably. Exciting times, busy times!

And somehow I survived 16 days of Lent! Hmm, have not received email about Caterpillar this weekend... I guess I will send out a reminder.

To day 17!

The Lenten Saga: Day 14

The day after the night before...

Yesterday, I was upset at some things that were happening around me. Today, I felt a little better, even though my day started off rocky. I could tell that a lot of things were on my mind from yesterday, and even earlier this morning when I got checked in (body measurements etc...) at the site gym for another upcoming general fitness competition. Even though I lost a lot of weight, and I do mean A LOT of weight, I had an elevated blood pressure of 140/80, which is basically hypertension. I am very confident that it was due to earlier events that happened in my day! I might have my blood pressure re-taken again because I know was not in the right of moods, and though it showed a lot on the outside, I took steps to make sure the least amount of people saw it.

Anger is a controlled emotion. I remember being told as a child that being angry was a sin. But I remember something that Father Massingale said at the Religious Education Congress in Anaheim one year... He said (or he might have been quoting this from someone, I think St. Thomas Aquinas), that anger is not a sin, it is an emotion, but there are sins against anger.

So I did what I have got accustomed to when I am not in the right of mind... I went to the gym. Today was cardio day, and I let it all out on the machines. I tried to keep my heart rate around 160, but there were multiple instances when it went above 170, which is the heart rate zone I try to avoid at all costs.

I will say, in all fairness to all sides, that my issue was resolved, and everyone reconciled. I will do what is necessary to put this all behind me. No "if's, and's or but's" about it. I am a part of a team, and I will do my part, and contribute to the best of my ability. This will not destroy me.

Still have not broken Lent. Still maintaining my Lenten commitments. I will pray to the Lord to help me through.

The Lenten Saga: Day 2

Well, at least I do not have to come up with any fancy titles for the next month! But today was a pretty routine day. I need to do my "Caterpillar Challenge" assignment, hopefully I can get that done by the time I am finished with work tomorrow. I also need to talk to my real estate agent. Since this pre-approval thing went through, I need to get on the ball and get my house search going. I know with the state of the economy the way it is, I am taking a risk either way, but even in the immediate/medium term, investing in a home is the financially smarter thing to do versus renting.... With that being said, let the house-hunt continue! 

It was such a long day, and I have no idea why. Maybe because I also started to resume working out on my 'non-weight-training' days... Maybe that was the reason why I was so tired during choir practice, and even now, as I am writing this. I upped my vitamin and minerals intake due to my own personal Lent challenge, at the recommendation of a fitness advisor at the Gym, but I guess it will take a few days for my body to get used to me training on M-W-F, AND cardio on T-R-S-Su. All this time, I have been weight training. 

All I know is that I am going to sleep well tonight! I am hardly ever in my apartment long enough to enjoy it. I guess that is good... This lets people know I have a very active, busy, and healthy lifestyle... The only time I come home is to sleep, shower, and eat, and then I am out again! No need to clean up, not here long enough to make a mess! 

And speaking of sleep...

Weird Gym Encounter

So I had another normal day at work, even though I need to do some more testing tomorrow, so I will be be going in bright and early... This early career professional gotta do his thing! 

Now heres where things got a little weird. So I am working out at the gym, pretty normal. After I workout, I go into the locker room. There was one guy there. So I get out of my gym clothes and go into the shower room. Now there are like 10-12 stalls. So I go to the furthest one down... I hop in the shower, and 1 min later, the only other guy that was in the locker room, steps into the shower stall next to mine.... Now keep in mind the following:

There were only 2 guys (including me) in the locker room...

I go to the furthest shower stall from the locker room...

The guy goes into the stall right next to me.... Of ALL the shower stalls, he goes into the one, right next to me....

Normally, I shower for 10 minutes, but for some reason, I felt clean after 2 and a half. 

I GOT OUT OF THERE QUICK.

Maybe it was my paranoia of the whole situation, but my instincts told me to get the !@#!@#$! out of there. It just seemed a little too weird.

I am going to write about the Dance Theater of Harlem performance I witnessed tonight, tomorrow. I need rest. 

My new OLD schedule, workout blues and Jade's upcoming 'surgery'

From the first days of working for my employer, my daily schedule went something like this:

0500 - WAKE UP

0515 - Breakfast

0530 - Shower, Shave, Brush Teeth

0545 - Get dressed for work

0615 - Start my 8 hr work day

1200 - Lunch

1515 - Done for the day!

1530 - Workout

1800 - Dinner

2100 - LIGHTS OUT

Thats right, I used to go to sleep at 2100 and wake up at 0500 during the weekdays! For those of you that are not familiar with military time, thats 9:00PM and 5:00AM respectively. And I have taken many steps to preserve that schedule for as long as I can in 2009. Only family and 'lucky' women can keep me up past my bedtime. ;-)

But today was crazy, so yea, got up at 5, did everything according to the above schedule, but I had to take my car, Jade (because she's green), in for its routine 3000 mi. oil service. Come to find out that I need to get new tires because the treads are worn thin, and she needs a new alignment... Her surgery is scheduled for the 15th!

And if that was not bad enough, I ended up getting a slight tear in my right leg (upper thigh, I think its the flexor or abductor muscle) during my workout, and could not do any squats or variants (this was supposed to be my Leg day)! I was able to work out all the other leg muscles though. Now that I'm home, I'm putting some ice on it.

Wellp, its dinner time for me, tonight's menu: 

-Lemon and Herb baked chicken

-Sweet Potato

-Squash

-Rice

Gotta feed and maintain this body!