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(On the "rest" days, Friday had a 30 minute walk. Saturday and Monday had shit-tons of driving. Sunday had some unstructured walking and random frolicking - above 6,000 feet, which has got to count for something, though I'm not sure what.)

Today we did a lot of repeats from day 1:
push presses (3 sets for weight and 1 drop set at the end)
lunges
reverse flyes
frog hops
windmills
chin-ups (with a GREAT DEAL OF ASSISTANCE in some cases, mine included)
and
pistol squats.

Pistol squats are interesting. They let you know if one of your knees really sucks. My right knee apparently DOES NOT WORK AT ALL. Sigh.

Can't believe boot camp is more than half over. Not sure what I'll do next.

Did terrible things to my diet over the weekend. I can apparently do the "drink too much and go berserk" thing once a month without hard. Two days in a row? Bad. Wearing my big girl jeans today, not in a good way. Getting the foods back on track but it's hard because it destroys my brain when I go off the rails like that, and it's hard to fix things when my brain is destroyed.

We picked up a copy of "EA Sports Active - More Workouts" and it's pretty good so far.

I have been getting a fair amount of mileage out of the first one -- it's got some good exercises, you can set up a routine and just go, and it only glitches out maddeningly sometimes. The trainer feedback is also considerably less annoying than on the Wii Fit, which is a big plus.

The new one is a sequel, not an expansion, meaning that you can't mix & match the old & new exercises. That part is going to be annoying. It does have some very nice boxing and step aerobics workouts. The water skiing feels an awful lot like the roller blading from the old one with different scenery. :P I'm going to try some of the stretches and ab stuff tonight. I still refuse to jog around the living room though. I have some dignity.

You can import your profile from the old game to the new one, but not much carries over. You have to customize your appearance again, choosing from what actually seems to be a SMALLER set of dorky outfits. None of your old trophies come with you. Since the new game doesn't include the old exercises, obviously any custom exercise routines you made up don't come with you either. It does show some more informative stats which is nice.

Will I sweat to it? You betcha. Will I grumble and curse at having to swap discs to do other exercises? Almost certainly. Will it have fewer random pauses when it decides I'm holding the Wiimote wrong? Let's hope so.

OMG, it's Wii Fit for grownups!

No yoga, but the rest of the exercises are damned impressive. My squat muscles are sore already. (-:

( this is probably really only interesting to me )

In other news, I wonder if this idiotic heat wave is still scheduled to break for the weekend...

32 minutes.

When you pass 30 minutes for the day, the little piggy bank does a happy dance. I don't want to find out what happens if you do 60 minutes. Hopefully it tells you to get a life!

Also, I am not a tree. (At least I didn't actually fall off.)

Also also, I got a bunch of the high scores back. And I made it across the tightrope!

Last night I did some more cross stitch... I got to start TWO new colours, including the last shade of purple! I'm nearly done with the lower half, which is good as the page break is driving me crazy! (I even got to use one of the threads from my existing stash - will wonders never cease! The dark purple, of course.)

Yesterday I had a random bass line stuck in my head. I still have no idea where it actually originated, but today it came to my attention that it's awfully similar to the guitar line from "Nerve" by Shriekback. Yay, one more of life's little mysteries (possibly) solved.

This morning the cats were staring intently out onto the deck. Instead of the usual choices (squirrel; neighbor cat; mass hallucination) there was a tiny kitten out there! Awwwwwwwwww. I'm a little worried for the poor thing. Current plans involve Kitten Rescue Lady (who fortunately makes house calls) and a humane trap. She (the kitten, not the rescue lady) is tiny, looks about 6 weeks old at the absolute most, covered in fleas, and strangely friendly. She has at least one thing in common with Zoot, namely that she's so friendly she wouldn't last 5 minutes in the wild!

ARGH, I have a Weezer song stuck in my head. It's been there all of 5 minutes and it's getting mighty old.

Also I went to the gym Monday night. Hoo-eee. was that crowded. Carpe cross-trainer...

I'm sure there was more stuff but that's all I can think of right now.

Dragon boat practice yesterday went reasonably well. My back is still killing me. There was a captains' meeting in the evening, also in Long Beach; I came home between practice and the meeting for a shower and some loafing around, both of which were worth it. My useless co-co-captain (don't ask) showed up to the meeting about an hour and a half late. Why am I not surprised?

I also did some stitching yesterday. Yay me.

Today there has been sleeping in, laundry, more cross stitch (I got to start the fifth shade of purple!), and WoW. My little blood-elf hunter is level 57! I'm so excited. I'm *so* not going to get all my old-world quests done before I bail and go to Outland. I hope to at least get the mechanical yeti first...

I've decided to dump my gym, for various reasons. A co worker scored me a 2-week guest pass to Bally's, which I activated yesterday. I had a lovely workout, and it wasn't even crowded. (Thursdays are reportedly slow; I must drop by on a Monday or Tuesday and see how mobbed things are then.)

I have a few more options to investigate. There's a place in Redondo Beach that has a gym *and* tai chi classes -- Yang style! -- at a time I could actually attend!! And I also want to give LA Fitness a try. (Sadly the nearest Spectrum and Gold's are quite far away.) So we'll see what I end up with.

This is also sating my current deep need to punt something. (I can't punt my job unless I get a new one, and I apparently actually care about the dragon boat team so that's also out.) It's nice to have *something* I can do something about.

I stayed somewhat late at work because of an emergency that I discovered last night. (I don't cause trouble, but I'm reeeeeeeaallll good at finding it!)

Then I went to the gym. Had I said that Thursday was the magic day to go to the gym, day of fabled parking spots and treadmills? I lied. Thursday is now almost as unpleasant as Tuesday or Wednesday, except that there was miraculously *one* parking spot and *one* treadmill free. While I know I shouldn't be greedy, as one of each is all I need, I am finding the overcrowding really unpleasant. I've made a list of some options to try in the upcoming weeks. Not that I'm going to have time, but it's nice to have a plan.

I stopped by CVS before the gym but they didn't have the brand of battery I wanted. Oh well.

Then I came home and found that there is to be no parking on our side of the street tomorrow morning due to "trees". Heaven alone knows. And I'm also completely unaware of where the hell my husband is at the moment. Oh well, that's about to be more tea for me then. As soon as I can get out from under this cat.

(Hah! Speak of the devil and he will phone you up from the bar. Some people. :P)