Helloooooo FALLUJAH!

Oh, well I guess Doc Doc Goose won't get this URL until he gets his mail in a couple of weeks, but HELLO anyway! Dusty enough for ya?

Saturday 3/29/08
4:30 wake (@#$@%!!!!)
9:30 salmon, avocado, coffee
1:30 salmon, avocado, omega egg, asparagus, cheddar, salsa omelet
4:00 orange, metabolic drive
5:30 (i can has!) cheeseburger, sweet potato fries, 2 bottles heineken

Belt test went fine, I broke my board on the first try which was a huge relief. We had to break with a 'turning kick', so the target is in front of you about 15 degrees to your right. You chamber up with the right knee pointing to the left and your whole leg horizontal to the ground, then snap at the knee and break the target with the ball of your foot. The trick is to get your toes pulled back so you break the board and not your toes. The right big toe is the one I wrecked last year and sometimes the joint flames up so I was a little worried, but it was good.

I was going to sleep in so I chilled, took ZMA, gave Catski a huge bowl of food…. And then I forgot to turn off the alarm clock. Once I was awake I was tired but couldn’t go back to sleep. Then I lay around feeling low-energy which is stupid because it would help if I got up and ate something.

Saw TWO movies last night: "Juno" and "Lost & Found". Really enjoyed "Juno", it doesn't qualify as a chick-flick, or if it does, it has enough going for it to keep anybody amused. Now, "Waitress" was a sticky sappy chick flick that could be vastly improved by the appearance of a shambling, rotting contingent of the undead ripping the heads off of all the boring townspeople and eating their limbs in gruesomely hilarious ways, especially Captain Malcolm for getting pudgy and tiresome, but I digress. "Juno" was in essence the story of how she finds what's really important, it was simple and sweet and I think the casting was super perfect which made it seem more effortless than it probably was. Granted, normal people don't all talk in a continuous stream of snappy one-liners, but they were clever and funny so the writers are forgiven. So if you're worried that the trailers contain the only funny lines in the movie, fear not! there are plenty more, and good ones too.

"Lost and Found" was a documentary about what I assume were professional skiers and snowboarders.... lots of slow motion footage of young people I've never heard of who inexplicably spend their entire winters heli-skiing, but it's always fun to watch amazing athletes do their thing. It was put together by the Teton Gravity Research Group... may I remind everyone that the Grande Tetons were named by lonely french trappers? and doesn't that change the whole meaning of "Teton Gravity Research"? hee hee hee

Apologies to the environment

4:30 wake
8:00 wake ($#%&!!!)
8:30 salmon, avocado
10:00 ….
11:00 huge coffee
12:00 salmon, asparagus, cashews
3:00 otter soup, rice, saltines
5:00 sausage/pepper spag sauce, rice
6:30 TKD 1h

I had to buy and use bleach! There were blood stains on my uniform (Juggernaut's Mom: "that blood looks pretty intimidating.", Me: "Yeah, but it'd be cooler if it weren't my OWN blood") so I thought I'd wash them properly in hot water and BIZ enzyme cleaner. Instead, I managed to turn them pink.... I have a belt test coming up!! I cannot test in a pink uniform! I tried washing them again in washing soda, but still pink. I finally removed the school patch and bleached the sucker. Sorry, fish!

After a week off

I took last week off because of all the sleep disturbance, somehow my nervous system gets really cranked up when I do a lot of heavy (for me) lifting and anaerobic work. I still went to class because there is another belt test coming up.

Am learning huge amounts in Instructor Foxy’s skills class even though he nearly killed us by letting a free-sparring round go for like five minutes. Eats were fine and even though I didn’t lift or fast I seem to have lost a pound! If anything I’ve increased the amount I eat because I added a half to whole avocado per day. Hooray for fat!

And now for a movie review!
“Doomsday” is an exciting stylish train wreck of the favorite Futuristic Dystopia movies of the last 30 years. We start out in “28 Days Later”, morphing into “Escape from New York”. After a little “Land of the Dead”, the situation rapidly degenerates into a Galliano fashion show and a scene from “Silent Hill”. Who needs "Soylent Green" when you can cut out the middleman? Here comes Sci-Fi Channel presents “Robin Hood”! Here comes "V for Vendetta!" Now let's top off this flaming wreck with a big chase scene a la Mad Max.

And did I say, "gory"? Exploding bunnies! Flattened cows! Smooshed punk rockers! Apparently in the future our couture choices will be either punk-inspired or medieval. I guess it’s good this all went down in the UK, because if you did it in the States our choices would be Crips-inspired couture vs. the Pilgrims. “Run! It’s Cain’s Executioner!” would be a lot less impressive if he looked like the Quaker Oats guy. In short, the perfect date movie...um, for ME =P.

Tips for future dystopians:

• When building an impenetrable tank, go for the shatterproof windshield
  
• If someone on the roof of your car is trying to kill you, roll up the windows
• When you’re really really angry, take a deep breath and scream, “Blah!”

Happy Bruise Day

7:00 wake
8:45 whey + WM
9:00 NR4W.P2A (New Rules of Lifting for Women, Phase 2, workout A – this is my new notation, henceforth!), walk, stretch
10:30 pineapple, berry, lime, whey smoothie. Eyed the leftover cheese crackers, decided against having inflamed hips
11:30 avocado, green tea
12:00 tkd 1h
1:00 sparring skills 1.5h
2:30 3 cheese crackers, rice, salmon, asparagus/green beans
6:00 dinner at parents’ (there was cake!)

Today was a new low of 124.4lb. Which is down .6 from my previous low of 125.0 back in December, lol. But seriously, I haven’t seen this number in 2 years so it feels good. I tried to take progress pictures, but I looked either the same or thicker.

In the MIRROR, I have much more definition around my collar bone and the weird fat pad over my lats is definitely shrinking. Also I need new pants. Some day I will have real definition that you’ll be able to see in a picture taken with a flash even when I’m blindingly pale.

I lifted this AM and then went to class for 2.5 hours and felt fine, go me! We were practicing blocking turning kicks and I took some naaasty elbow strikes to the shins and ankles... just another good reason to aim for the head! I'm a little leery about flying kicks because I have gotten my foot caught on top of a 5' heavy bag and I tweak my hip whenever I fall. On the other hand, that means I really could kick some people in the head. There's also the possibility of taking a flying leap into a fist a KO-ing myself, stay tuned!

Tonight's monster movie was "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars". From what I saw (whilst simultaneously playing Animal Crossing and checking my email with my back to the tv) Ice Cube and Jason Statham play space-marines who go to a Misfits concert. There was screaming. Catski stepped on the remote and turned off the tv.

Cheddar Bay Un-Biscuits

Since we were talking about Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuits (or the lack thereof),
here's a more PN Friendly Version!


Yes! all the goodness of Cheddar Cheese and Old Bay in...um... a mollusk!

Cheddar Bay Un-biscuits..."they're biscuit shaped!"
Sea scallops (the big-uns)
butter
cheddar cheese, grated
Old Bay seasoning
-Melt butter in large sautee pan and sear scallops on both sides
-sprinkle with Old Bay, remove to another dish
-sprinkle scallops with cheese and broil until cheese melts
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6:00 wake
8:00 lentil/bokchoy/mushroom/onion/bell pepper
10:00 orange, cashews
12:00 lentil/bokchoy/mushroom/onion/bell pepper
3:00 otter soup
6:30 tkd 1h
8:00 scallops, bok choy

Monday 3/10/08

4:30 wake

5:30 Syntrax & WM, NROL4W part 2 wo A, heavy bag

7:00 br rice farina, 2 omega eggs, swamp thing

10:00 stomach grumbly and upset, coffee place closed for spring break

12:00 salmon, green beans

3:00 stomach cramps

4:30 otter soup

5:30 tkd 1h

8:30 lo-carb ww tortilla w/avocado and beef

OK, I got bored with the break-in phase of NROL4W so I’m going on to the next phase! My weight was coming down, but since TOM stopped by I’m all the way back up to where I was 3 weeks ago. [update: TOM took her 3lbs with her, good riddance] My measurements haven’t changed, but my waist is up ¼” and my bust measurement is up .5”. I suspect that is because of my back which feels weirdly huge. Otherwise my clothes feel the same so I don’t think I accomplished anything.

More stomach problems today as well, greens powder? Salmon? I made up a big batch of lentils with mushrooms, peppers, bok choy, and onion to eat tomorrow. I’m also thinking I do better when I don’t eat beef which is sort of a drag because I bought a huge pack of steaks at Sam’s a few months ago. That’s alright. I’d rather eat wild caught seafood than something that spent its last days in a stinky feedlot.

Was reading some of the threads on ‘nutrigenomics’ and thinking that I was at my leanest when I wasn’t eating meat and yet everyone is telling me with my ‘type’ I should do well on fatty meats. I suspect a lot of being 10-14%bf had to do with being in my 20’s. I know I perform better without carbs (more explosive, less inflammation), so what am I supposed to live on? Fat? I think I’ll drop beef this month, work in some vegetable meals and see how things go. Part of me says “Carbs? Nooooo!”, the other part says, “if something isn’t working, then how is doing it really well going to help?”

Oops, heh heh

Apologies to whoever has been faithfully checking my blog every other day all month. I totally thought it was sk. Did not realize anybody was reading.
Not much to report other than I tried to kill myself on Saturday. I was really determined to get in three weight workouts since I only did two last week so I went to the gym at when it opened at 9:00, came home, showered, ate breakfast. Went to tkd class at 12:00 and was dragging a bit. Then there was sparring skills class at 1:00 and I actually had to bow out 10 minutes early due to some embarassing issues. Went home, ate lunch, took a nap and woke up feeling like I wanted to barf and spent the rest of the day on the couch.

On the plus side, I got to watch 2 episodes of "Torchwood" playing all day long which meant I also got to watch the Sci-Fi Saturday Night monster movie (a.k.a. it's not like I'm dating or anything). This time it was "Ogre" (starring Bo Duke!) which was reminiscent of "The (Stupidest) Village (in the World)" except that it wasn't just a bunch of yuppies who decided to dress and talk like Nathaniel Hawthorne and the monster was real.

I was pleased that it was solidly upper-middle-of-the-pack. So far my favorite was "Dog Soldiers". I have no idea why they called it that, but the plot was better than expected, the acting was good, the gore had a refreshing ferocity about it without being sick or cruel. My least favorite is a toss-up between "SS Doomtrooper" which was written by a 5th grader and apparently animated by one too, OR, that one about the planet.... The previews looked really good: scientists develop a teleporter that takes them to a perfect uninhabited world except that it has the 'perfect predator' (rapid scenes of people screaming and being dragged into the underbrush). The away-team teleports and is attacked by Bear Footage! People would yell and run and fire weapons and then it would cut to a bear looking fierce. I don't know how many times they showed the same shot of a grizzly in a field standing and roaring. I don't think they've shown it since, so maybe Sci-Fi channel was mocked mercilessly for that one. They deserve it.

Hiatus?

Tuesday:
5:00 wake
6:00 Syntrax & WM, HIIT
7:00 cottage cheese, oatmeal, pineapple
9:30 ½ protein bar, orange (where is my orange?)
12:00 spaghetti squash, teriyaki pork
3:00 otter soup, orange (here it is)
6:00 grilled low carb wraps with steak, tomato and cheddar

I love price clubs because you can get individually wrapped wild Alaskan salmon for $5.50/lb. But what is it about seeing something you never eat packaged in bulk that makes it seem like a good idea? I escaped relatively unscathed, but for a 3.5lb package of Ghiradelli bittersweet chocolate chips. A friend of mine sent me a Wii for my bday so I decided I would make a batch my favorite chocolate chip cookies for his. 3.5lb of chips makes a loooooottt of cookies….