rant: Just found a small bag of suspicious looking white powder in purse. I don't know what it is, can only guess, and I know that it's not mine. What the fuck? The last time I used the purse at night, I went to a shady hole in the wall bar/grunge club. Who is this cocaine-fairy that is secretly giving out drugs to unsuspecting people? rave: I took this purse to work this week, right next to a police station that always has drug dogs around. Didn't get caught with drugs that aren't mine in front of my job. Whew.
Giant Rave: Got to work out with Justin Poundstone tonight. He's the brother of Derek Poundstone and a great powerlifter in his own right. He absolutely kicked my ass, and it was AWESOME. He also complimented my clean and press technique. On the outside, I was all "Hey, thanks man" *fist bump*. On the inside? "OMGOMGOMGOMG EEEEEEEE". Fuck yeah.
Rave: Awesome playing hockey again and the skills are slowly coming back. Had a few good touches today and scored a goal as well so everything is progressing nicely.
Rave: 11 hours of sleep after a week long conference in Las Vegas was just what the doctor ordered. Rant/Rave: I am a bachelor for the weekend as the wife is back home for her cousin's baby shower. Mostly a rant, because I was already gone for a week and miss her, but I do get to play golf today and go see Prometheus with my nerd friends tonight so minor rave. Rant?????: I have this odd desire to get a gym trip in this morning and post a pumped picture to the TIB'er thread. I don't know if I should be ashamed of myself at 34 for needing anonymous women to validate me.
rant: I am getting the FUCK out of the friendzone. It's not my natural habitat, I won't last here. It's fucking with my head. rave: getting back in shape swimming-wise. feels great.
Rave: MLG Spring Arena on the comp and Euro 2012 on the TV. Deadlifts later. Awesome saturday. Rave: Fuck yes Gomez, you beautiful bastard. Cristina is going to cry.
RAVE: I believe I've mentioned before that my mother is now in a nursing home and spends most of her time either sleeping, drooling, or talking to inanimate objects...ie...she's rocked out. A few days ago, apparently on a whim, my 12 year old niece (Once again, this is not a blood niece, she's my best friend's daughter) and a friend were passing by the nursing home and decided to pay my mother a visit. They had only met mom once when my niece's great grandmother was at the home. They walked in and asked if mom remembered them. A little light glowed in my mom's eye and she replied "You're Jim's daughter." They caught mom on one of her good days and had a nice little visit. As they left my mom said "Tell my son I love him." How cool is that? My niece is an awesome kid to think to go in and visit with my mom who she doesn't really know. As an aside, my niece was there the night I had my little near death experience. The next day she gave me a hug and said "I'm glad you're not still dead."
Rave: Taught Buddy how to shake hands. He very carefully and gingerly brings up his arm to be shaken. I think it's adorable. My husband calls him our pussy dog.
Rave: Holy crap a job opening! I'm applying, and calling every two days until they give me an interview. I am getting that job. Rant: Took a middle school math Praxis II today. I don't recall middle school math being that hard. Lots of geometry, high level algebra, and even a little trigonometry on the test. For middle school? Wow. Rave: Despite a lack of studying and not taking a real math class in 10 years, I'm still pretty confident I passed. If nothing else, it makes more versatile in my employment search.
RANT: Trying to share a couch with a Pekinese who thinks I'm his pillow. RAVE: He has arthritis in his arm, but whatever was making it incredibly sensitive is better. Much more importantly, my dad enjoyed his week in Jamaica and quit his pain patches. Almost got shot, but didn't get shot.
Rant: Pacquiao vs Bradley Spoiler Never again will I watch the bullshit that is professional boxing. Call me naive, but I assumed that the guy who lands more punches while throwing less shots is the more skillful boxer. No amount of mashing into the keyboard will make me feel better about this. All I can do is boycott this fixed nonsense and urge others to avoid getting conned by Vegas. Thank you and goodnight.
RANT: nothing is scarier to get a phone call from a hospital that your Dad layed his bike down doing about 65 km/h up in quebec on some shit ass mountain road. RANT: just got up here after driving 9 hours with mom to come pick him up. RAVE: thank god he only broke a rib and an ankle. It could have been a lot worse. His Harley is a write off but his leather saved him some serious road burn.
Jesus fucking Christ. Somehow I missed an email from my Dad that my brother had a car accident Tuesday night with my 2 year old nephew in the car. Broadsided at 70km/h on a highway. Thank Christ and Allah and everyone else that both of them walked away from it almost entirely unhurt. Fuck me. Im on a different continent and I can barely stop my hands shaking. Jesus fucking christ.
rave: I live in one of the greatest cities on earth. rant: unless it's winter rant: Mr. Lakeshore Path Lance Armstrong - you need to slow the fuck down. It's 9 AM, it's 80 degrees out, and there's kids, dogs, strollers, joggers, walkers, slow paced cyclists, and rollerbladers. Also, it says "SLOW" on the fucking ground in huge letters. I'm all for getting a workout, but wait til the path clears after the beaches.
Rave; Bahahaha. I added a couple of people here to facebook and they have been scrolling through my old photos. It is hard to say which they are more shocked by; the photos of me carrying an extra 30kg (´you were not beautiful then!´, or the photos of me and my brother holding the $3k we won playing poker on a cruise ship. I just looked up the average wage for Brazil and its not that far off $3k.
RANT Been in bed for the last 17 hours with the worst fever/flu. My body totally shut down, but I haven't been able to sleep much either. Currently in the process of trying to get someone to do my bar shift, which is double time for Public Holiday Monday, and I could have used the extra money. RAVE? Hooked up with a girl from work. Normally I'm totally against that sort of thing, but she's hot and I can see myself having feelings for her. She's a lot of fun. There are complications though, so I think I've got to be careful about the whole thing.
RAVE: I think it's hilarious that in the three years of TiB there was an unwritten rule about dudes not posting shirtless pictures of themselves, but apparently we've all wanted to do it this whole time. RAVE: Just saw a TED talk about porn/porn addiction, and what it does to the male mind and sex drive. Interesting stuff, and it makes a lot of sense. Apparently there's pretty good evidence that watching porn regularly really does fuck with your brain (ED, depression, anxiety, etc.). I don't have the link, but it's easy enough to find on youtube. So, I'm going to try my best to... gasp... QUIT PORN! I deleted my (terrifyingly large) porn folder, and plan on cutting out all internet porn completely. It's been one of those "I can stop any time I want to things," and I want to, so we'll see what happens. Hopefully it brings about some positive results!