Hey pals! Been a crazy couple days but keepin’ after it!
Had a really uplifting phone call from a dear friend Saturday morning first thing that just started things off great & put me in SUCH a good mood nothing could scratch it! Mid Saturday morning I had my first visit with an acupuncturist for my shoulder that went to nearly Noon followed by working at the side job til fairly late Saturday night. The acupuncture was fairly bizarre! Little Asian doc came in, shook my hand, asked me a bazillion questions about everything from diet to exercise to virility (which made me laugh given recent life) & was particularly interested in my intake of items having flour & my drinking of water! Dude explained, the same as trainer Sam, that flour is evil! Bread, pasta, ANYTHING with flour is my enemy if I want to lose weight! Then he blew my mind with the water thing! Upside down & backwards from ALL I’d ever heard! He said I should ONLY drink water IF I’m thirsty!!! Too much water is bad in his professional opinion & it should never be colder than room temp! He thinks NOTHING you eat or drink should be colder than room temp since your body will focus too much energy on warming your insides back up which takes away its focus on proper digestion! Uhhhmmm, not so sure about that part but the flour part I’ll work on!
Took a nice morning walk to kick off Sunday, showered & worked most of the day, cut up a downed tree in 100F temps Sunday late afternoon then had a pretty good time Sunday evening at a fun biker & blues bar & grille most of Sunday evening!
Hit Helga’s House of Pain for quads & glutes yesterday morning & had my head back on just right for the first time in ages! Every station just felt right!!! Ground down 71,225 LBs of iron, showered & headed for the car. Got to the car & had a follow up phone call from Saturday that just made my day, hearing happiness in the voice of a dear friend that’s had some real personal life challenges lately. Got to the day job, did my time flying the desk, cruised across town to the side job & had a great night cranking out some hot parts needed in surgery later this week, it was ALL good!
Hit Helga’s again today for chest, shoulders & triceps which are never the favorite BUT need done nonetheless. The place was packed for some reason today but luckily my stations just seemed to be empty at just the right times so I managed 40,770 LBs of UBWO iron grinding this AM which must’ve hit the mark since my arms, especially forearms for some reason, were literally throbbing & had sweat running down them, even AFTER showering, while carrying the gym bag to the car!
Driving to work I kept getting texts from JRs mom, telling me of her latest physical ailment. During our recent 7 mile walk we both got a bit too much sun, to which she’s always been sensitive. She apparently happened to have a doc’s appointment the following week & he didn’t like the looks of something he saw on her sun burnt arms so they did tissue biopsies from a couple spots & called her yesterday, telling her she needed to be in their office when it opened at 7:00 this AM. Turns out she has a mild form of lupus that may have been causing some of her other issues all along, just nobody had figured it out until she got scorched just right. Add this to the fact that after a recent false alarm breast cancer scare her doc took her off her hormone replacement medication that she’d been on since having her hysterectomy 15 years ago & she’s kind of a basket case right now & insists on sharing & communicating NOW after years of refusal to do so LOL! Apparently hormone replacements have to be followed & tweaked from time to time & for whatever reason they’d decided she has to come CLEAR off of them for a month then go through some testing to determine what she actually really needs now SOOO her body actually thinks she going through “the change” which I’d always been thankful it seemed she wouldn’t have to go through but NO! Doc just has to play with her, like a grandparent giving your child M&Ms & Mt Dew RIGHT before sending them back home & now after all these years, NOW she wants to talk about what all went wrong over our last 10 or 15 of 25 years & why of course it’s all my fault, one way or another, LOL! Ahhh! Life is good…or so I keep hearing LMAO!
Some days you’re the windshield & some days you’re the bug but by God…I’m gonna be the baddest assed bug around if I make it through all this crap!!!
Rock on pals!
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