May 6

An oldie, but goodie
So I'm organizing a group of 30 girls from my gym to do a mudrun in June. I got the paperwork together, I got everyone's payments, I sent in the paperwork. Some of the girls wrote checks directly to me. This was one of them. This is why I love the girls from my gym.

May 5

Fight Gone... better than I thought!
So there's this CrossFit workout. It's called Fight Gone Bad. And it's probably my least favorite workout of all the CrossFit workouts out there. Granted, I haven't done all of them, but this one SUCKS. Let me break it down for you:
It's a 17 minute workout.
Minute 1: Wall Balls (giant beach ball that weighs 14 lbs. Squat. Throw up against a wall. Catch. Squat. Repeat.)
Minute 2: Sumo Deadlift High Pull (55 lb bar. Pull from ground to shoulders with elbows up. Control bar back to ground. Repeat.)
Minute 3: Box Jumps (Jump from ground onto 20in box. Jump down. Repeat.)
Minute 4: Push Press (Lift 55lb bar from ground to rest on shoulders. Push bar above head, locking out elbows. Back to shoulders. Push above head. Repeat.)
Minute 5: Row for calories (Sit on a row machine. Strap in. Row the heck out it.)
Minute 6: Rest.
Minute 7: Repeat minute 1.
Minute 8: Repeat minute 2.
Minute 9: Repeat minute 3.
Minute 10: Repeat minute 4.
Minute 11: Repeat minute 5.
Minute 12: Rest.
Minute 13: Repeat minute 1.
Minute 14: Repeat minute 2.
Minute 15: Repeat minute 3.
Minute 16: Repeat minute 4.
Minute 17: Repeat minute 5.

Minute 18-20: Die.
Minute 21: Stand up and find out what you scored.

I've done this workout 3 times now. The first time I only did 35lbs and stepped up on the box (as opposed to jumped up). The second time I did the 55 pounds and wanted to die. I scored 188 total reps. This time I did it, 55lbs, had a difficult time getting the Wall Balls up high enough (aka ROM, range of motion), still wanted to die, but scored 213 reps. A big, fat PR (personal record).

Hell to the yeah.

May 4

Anyone?
Anyone need a refrigerator? It's from my old apartment. Was only used for 2 years... and if you know me, it wasn't used much. My new place came with appliances and this has been sitting in my garage since September.
No, but really. Refrigerator for sale. Inquire within.

May 3

I love them
It really is the small things that I love. For instance, dry, crunchy leaves. I LOVE to step on them. Something about the sound and feeling under my foot makes me so happy. So you can imagine my excitement when I walked onto my campus and saw this!!

I revel in the possibility of it...

May 2

Angel? Notsomuch
This has been in our staff lounge for a very long time, probably as long as I've worked at my school (this is my 9th year), and this is the first time I've really "noticed" it.
And then I laughed when I thought of 50 other words that could replace "angel".

May 1

When one door closes...
You know what they say about the ending of a chapter in one's life? Actually, I'm not sure how the ending of the chapter quote goes... but I'm sure we're talking something close to the door/window analogy.
My point is this... I hadn't realized that this door closing was such a large chapter in my life (see how I combined the two?). And when it was brought to my attention, it kind of side swiped me like, "Oh, duh, that makes complete sense," and I haven't been able to NOT think about it since then.
So the moral of my story for May 1st is that a door closed today. I didn't even realize it was such a huge, cathedral-type door, but it is. And maybe now that this realization has occurred, I can actually move on with the next chapter in my life.
Or maybe I just think about this stuff far too much....

April 30

Epic
What started out being an easy little Saturday morning, turned out to be the best.idea.ever. A friend of mine suggested that we all go golfing. Genius. I've never been golfing before, but I've been on a golf course a few times. So I said I'd drive a cart. I'm not sure how many of you "non-golfers" know this, but driving a golf cart around 9 holes of a golf course is amazing fun, if you're with the right people. I seriously haven't laughed that hard in a really long time. I actually golfed at a couple holes, which was fun, but honestly, driving the golf cart was the most fun. Especially in the dark, through sprinklers, screaming. I'm just sayin...