Most of us have felt lazy about something, at one point or another in our lives. But for those who suffer from ‘Chronic laziness’, it is a way of life. This chronic laziness can kill everything that makes life worth living. So it is very important to identify, understand and finally say ‘good-bye’ to chronic laziness. Let’s look at the 3 stages that help overcome laziness. Read More…

Lazy you!

The first day of vacation is almost at its end.  It was super-relaxing & extremely lazy.  Slept in, ate leftovers from last night for lunch, hung around with puppehs, went out to dinner, & went to the liquor store/grocery store to get a few last-minute things for tomorrow fantastic feast.  Right now I’m sitting on the couch @ Pat & Risa’s, two puppehs sleeping next to me, Mythbusters on the TV.  I shouldn’t be sleepy, but I am.

Random thought I had earlier today:  When I go on trips and shower elsewhere, it seems like an adventure to me.  It’s a totally different showering experience – the water pressure, the fixtures, the different products in the shower.  I am curious, and I like to try different shampoos, conditioners, and face washes in these strange showers.  I think it’s kind of fun.  So if I’ve used your shower, it’s likely I have used your shampoo.  My apologies, but it was just right there, saying “try me!”  I do promise that I haven’t used your razor or anything that isn’t… hygenic.  That’s just gross.

Okay, maybe I’ll just sprawl out on the futon with the puppehs [really missing the kittehs - we left them with a buttload of food & I hope they ration appropriately, but it's doubtful that will happen - hoping they don't barf everywhere due to over eating... eep!]  The pups are cute, but they are kind of smelly.  In my mind, cats have this warm, soothing smell to them [minus the times they smell like poo/kitty litter] and doggies seem to have this ever-present odor that I’m not terribly fond of.  I’m not sure what it is.  I know James wants a dog in the future, and I think it’s something that I can get used to.

Okay really, I’m rambling now.  Time to make James come over here so I can curl up next to him and use him as a pillow : ]

Regardless of how much I enjoy exercise, it is still very difficult for me to get off the couch, away from the tv and get my workout started, but I always feel so much better after I do. I want to workout, I want to get in shape, I want to be passed this uncomfortable stage of fitness; but in order to do that I need to put forth the effort. Tonight for example, I was sore from last night’s workout, tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I wanted to enjoy my time off work; I wanted to watch TV and hang out with my husband. However, I still got up did the workout I had lined up and that was that.

It wasn’t even a particularly good workout, but I did it. Even though the quality of the workout wasn’t wonderful, the feeling of accomplishment and being one step closer to where I physically want to be was worth the effort I put in. I got up and did it because I have figured out what I need to do to make myself get up and go.

I have a few inspirational pictures hanging on my fridge from the 2009 Figure Olympia and the Flex Bikini Model search in Vegas. Every time I walk past the fridge or go in the kitchen for some reason (which is a lot since the kitchen is a pass through for us) I look at those 4 pictures and it really seems to center me on the place I am headed physically.

I have reluctantly admitted a few things to myself recently that, while a little difficult to say out loud even to myself, have provided huge gains in my mental place for training.

1. I am lazy. I don’t want to push myself to my limit or just beyond. I don’t want to sweat or be out of breath or be uncomfortable. BUT (and that is a big one) I have to if I want to get to where I want to be. So I tell myself…SUCK IT UP!

2. I need visual inspiration to keep  inline. I wish I could say that just knowing how much better the quality of life is and how much better I fell when I work out is enough to make me go run or lift that loaded bar, unfortunately it is not. I need to be visually inspired to keep going. Hence the pictures from Olympia and Flex on my fridge. I take one look at those women competing and I am pushed to go. Also, having pictures of crazy fit women on my fridge for my husband to look at (that is the real reason I have never put them up until this point) is my greatest inspiration. I can’t allow the women on my fridge to be hotter than me.

3. I am a personal trainer and a training company owner, I should need no guidance to get me through my workouts. WRONG! This was a big one for me. I have always been a person that wants to do it on their own and not rely on anyone or any tool to make me workout, but I realized recently what I want and what I need are different. Earlier this summer, I was in a friend’s wedding and basically wanted to show up the rest of the bridal party so I trained…trained hard and constantly for 3 months. I looked pretty good, better that I did when I started. But, I followed a three-month progression program from Oxygen magazine, I didn’t do it on my own, I didn’t make up my routine, I used someone else’s knowledge and know how and “training” to get me to where I was. Many of you won’t understand why that is hard to admit to myself, but some will.

I feel like I have grown a lot recently and really put myself out there and forced myself to look deep and figure out what makes me tick. I am so glad I did, because I understand myself better than before and that a makes it a lot easier for me to motivate and inspire myself to get up and go. Try it…really ask yourself those penetrating questions and be honest with yourself, even if you never tell another soul, admitting it to yourself will make a huge difference.

But the way…here was my workout from tonight.

Resistance Band pulldowns: 2 sets x 15 reps

Barbell Row: 2 sets x 15 reps (with ez bar)

Barbell Curl: 2 sets x 12 reps (same as above)

Incline Curl: 2 sets x 6-8 reps (really weak in this position)

Bicycle Crunch: 2 sets x 20-24 reps

Bench V-Up: 2 sets x 15 reps

Stability Ball Crunches: 2 sets x 12 reps

*This workout was courtesy of Oxygen magazine, March 2009.

For fucks sake – the weather in Scotland is exactly the fucking same EVERY fucking year!!!!!
So how is it that you somehow still seem surprised when there’s torrential pissing rain and 70mph winds for 8 days in a row and can’t make any of the fucking trains run on time. Apparently you’re all just incapable of adjusting the timetables and that makes a lot of people late.
So how’s about you stop being dumb assholes and actually even TRY and make a schedule that works.

K, thanks.

I felt lazy in the morning and plan to stay at home, Today was planning to do some laundry and try to clean the house. But suddenly the sound of duck woke me up..( OOOoooops it was a phone call from Jon) ..He` was asking why I am still not in his office? We have a meeting at 9.00…glance at my watch and it was 9.15 !!!!! how embarrassing!!! I have to catch up the meeting since it was scheduled 2 weeks ago and I need to show the simulation to him and discuss on the next experimental set up. Rushing to the toilet and grabbed my stuff and run to the department and was there in 10 minutes (macam superman pulak dah pagi ini)..The fist word was `Sorry Jon’ I thought it is tomorrow…

Despite the wake up call, we discussed on our PhD schedule. Jon was satisfied and happy to have some running code from me and I am happy to show that I can do it…It was me who never tried hard enough for him. He reminded me again that I am in my third year and he said, he still remember when I first entered the department 3 years ago ….He has a strong belief that I can finish my PhD …That is a great news ..which I think another wake up call for me..Hey!! I am on my third year, no more waking up late huh….

We promised to meet in 2 weeks time for the next experiment, This weekend to show some result…I managed to have some result ..wohooooo but I have to show to Jon first..this week…Occupied the whole week for some coding stuff and again writing it as part of my thesis…

Cheer up and do some writing first, Jon encourages me to give the first experimental result this week…will do and try…:(

Just as I had feared the overall production has slowed to a near crawl and I’m kind of upset.  When I was out there as a new employee I did not take the time to focus on what time of the year it is, what reason the customer might give as to why they couldn’t buy, or whatever excuse there may be.  My focus was on the positive and what I was going to do.  This is a mentality that not everyone understands and comprehends.  To be good at what you do in the world of sales you’ve got to be willing to do things differently than anyone else.  Failing to do so leads to the ever growing number of mediocrity and I will never settle for being mediocre. 

This morning I was in the office around 7am trying to look at what I could potentially do to help increase my team’s numbers and I started noticing a trend.  People are creatures of habit and case work after case work demonstrated the same typical trends for each employee.  One year ago this month I had one of the best months ever in my sales career and to follow up November with December was I increased my business sales by over $80,000.  All around me I heard the negativity of how people were not going to buy this product because of Christmas, because of the holidays, because they had no money.  The people uttering these excuses well they didn’t do so well and I made sure that their perception did not cloud my judgment.

Who cares what time of the year it is?  If people waited until they could afford things to buy then they would never be able to do so.  Every month I have individuals call me up and tell me thank you for the service I was able to provide them and I take pride not in the sales but by helping others out.  Instead of making excuses start finding answers or as it is commonly referred to at work is be a problem solver not a problem maker.

Cave Chow went very recently to a modern, decked-out, very typical “gym” in North East Ohio in search of a treadmill to pound out some miles on (it was lung-constricting cold outside, that is the only reason why).  This particular fitness center seemed to cater more to the older population, illustrated by 1.  Lots of older people   2.  Doing way more talking than working out  3.  Feeble attempts or efforts when they were doing something  4.  A staff of trainers with very few of them actually in shape   5.   No less than 12 chiropractic and massage tables with the appropriate practitioners hovering around, and 6.  Enough group fitness classes to make your head spin.

Let’s put this in perspective to gyms in Southern California, where Cave Chow hangs out most of the time.

1.  Much less equipment focused – i.e.  open spaces, kettle bells, pull up bars, etc. are quite the norm

2.  People who call themselves trainers actually look the part

3.  Massages, etc. are considered a luxury

4.  People work more and talk less

Keep in mind, the above is not optimal, but it is noticeably better than NE Ohio.  Cave Chow has also done quite a bit of training in Cincinnati, Chicago, Minneapolis, London, and we’ve noticed some disturbing trends as we’ve gone from one gym to the other – mainly, few people sweating (rough measurement of effort), few people stretching (rough measurement of body knowledge), dependence on trainers (too lazy to work on your own), and faith in traditional doctors and painless approach to healing injuries (unfortunately a sad product of today’s subliminal submission and acceptance of advertising and “new discoveries”).

Old or young, in shape or not, there are some core principles that should apply for everyone who “works-out”.

• Warm up and Stretch.  As any athlete knows, a warm up and stretch is essential to performance during the workout.  What you may not be knowing is that without stretching (which you can’t do till you are warm), you have a VERY high likelihood of eventual injury
• Work Hard.  Thus the “work” in “work-out”.  If you aren’t sweating, you should get a poor grade for effort.  Stop measuring your calories or your little diet plans and progress charts and start working hard
• Breathe.  How many people breath properly during a workout with weights?  Very few.  Become conscious of your breathing habits, endurance workout or not – they will help you perform and benefit your health
• Hydrate.  While crucial, it’s the most hilarious thing to see people with water-bottle belts and fancy drink mixtures that aren’t even sweating.  Remember – hydrate during a workout to REPLENISH fluids lost – which requires sweat in the first place.
• Mind the Core.  Old or young, get familiar with your core (one of the few times we approve of a personal training session), strengthen it, and apply it throughout your training.  Save your back and make yourself stronger.
• Make your Own Way – If you’re not motivated enough to workout on your own, you are probably a lost cause long-term and could save some money by not hiring a babysitter (i.e. trainer) to help you workout and set goals for you.  Grab a knowledgable friend instead – half the time they will know more anyway.
• Avoid pills and supplements.  Come-on, people!!  Do you really think that taking weight loss, extra energy, or performance pills are actually going to help you?  That sucking down creatine or gobbling protein is a good long-term plan?  They don’t, and it’s not.
• Physical Therapists vs. Doctors.  When it comes to overcoming injuries, go the physical therapist route first.  Avoid doctors (even specialists), chiropractors, and anybody else preaching a painless or surgical approach to healing.  They will cost you more and many times, give you a crutch for the rest of your life.  There are some very good PT’s out there who can teach your body how to heal itself, the natural way.  Use this route whenever possible.

Lastly, wake up America!!  You don’t need flat screens or cool work-out clothes to get in shape.

Cave Trainer

November 22, 2009 9:47 pm

listening to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me via podcast, and was surprised to hear that Paula Poundstone will be at the Calvin Theatre in my home town, which still freaks me out.  The Calvin was the cheap theatre when i was growing up, $3 movies, with $1 wednesday nights.  that was where i saw thelma and louise twice in a row for $2.  I didn’t mean to see it twice.  friends showed up as i was leaving and asked if i wanted to see the movie, and i said “again!  yes!”  granted, my brain was blown by the first time, because it was rare, back then, to see women standing up for themselves and fighting back and enjoying sex.  serious.  all three of those were not seen, together, ever.  hard to realize that it was actually a stupid Hollywood movie that could actually have a huge effect on a teenage girl.  argh.

the calvin is a weird place now, where famous people show up and do their thing, and my mom volunteers as an usher so she can see them do it for free.  it’s actually been that way for a long time, but it’s still hard for me to realize.  hard for me to move on.  some things change.  yeah.

i actually got to see Lewis Black there for free, by pretending to be a regular usher.  then, once the show started, we just sat down and laughed and laughed.

the lights just went out in the room, so i am typing this in a dark room.  the lights are on in the hallway, and there’s lots of talking in polish and … oop, the lights are back on now.  weird.  this building is creepy.  i think they went out on the whole floor, except the hallway lights.  yikes.

have to get up early tomorrow and bring my glasses in to the nice lady around the corner from the café where we have been spending all of our lives.  today i left mom and sara to work on the internet while i walked around the old and new towns, and basically spent some time by myself.  it was really nice, to be focusing on myself and my brain and to remember that i need that stuff to be sane.  and i sat in the new town square, which was a pile of dirt last time i checked.  it was being remodeled, i guess, and now it looks like a, well, town square.  i sat and wrote a heart-wrenching letter that says absolutely nothing.  pshaw.  and i watched birds flying up above, and i went to the ruins of the teutonic castle, which was pulled down by the townspeople hundreds of years ago.  weird.

and i still never finished that letter that is wrenching my heart.

argh.

thursday is thanksgiving, and we will probably be traveling to the south on that day.  the school i really want to work at is in Tarnów, and we have some relatives outside of Tarnów, and so we are going to go down there and see if i can get a job at the school where i really want to work.  argh.  there is also the school that i talked to yesterday, which is in the area.  actually, every school is in the area of the south there, so we’re gonna head down there.  and sara will probably be heading her own way, and that is sad-making.  ack.

i feel like nothing happens.  we go out in the morning to Marysha’s and she gives us coffee and breakfast, (and complains about it the whole time .. yay polish ladies!), and then we head down to one of two places that has internet, and then we sit there for hours and hours and try to figure out our lives, or waste our lives on facebook.  this is ok, and it is moving us forward in some way, but it makes the days blend together in a way.

maybe a little drunk.

and it is sunday night.  last sunday i was feeling crazy in prague, trying to figure out what to do about that feeling.  we were leaving so soon.  jesus Christ.

time moves on.

maybe a little drunk.

i have been trying to make friends with Marysha’s cat, mały kotek, though he doesn’t have a name, so i just call him by a variety of diminutives and kochannie, my dear.  i think he is a little bit crazy.

ok.  done.

filled with craziness still, and, well, stuff …

love all y’all.

This is something I’ve been struggling with as of late. Clearly, I needed some sort of creative outlet outside of the workplace, but the decision of which social media to go with has been haunting me like a thing that’s really, really haunting. Forgive me, my similes are, for lack of a better word, lazy*.  At first, I thought tweeting was the way to go. And maybe it is. But for now, I think there’s so much more to a story than can be summed up in 140 or characters or less. For example, a common tweet like “aww, that back pimple had lots of sweet goo” probably has a pretty interesting back story. Pun totes intended. You see, in a blog, you can discuss that backzit without fear that you won’t be able to get it all out in 140. Because when it’s a good one, you simply need more character bandwidth. At this point, I’m at over 145 words, with plenty of juicy puss that couldn’t be contained in a tweet. In summary, I choose blog because blog lets you get it all out whether it be with words, puss, or a jpeg of both.

*saying for lack of a better word in a blog post is also lazy.

okay, a secure network has been set up, with a password, and hopefully this is the last you have to hear about my internet woes.

look, it's my boobs/new t-shirt! hmm...my eyebrows look exceptionally evil...

Holy cows this season of Survivor is shaping up to be rather wicked awesome.  I picked a good one to come back to.  The tables are turning like crazy and I am giddy as heck about it.  I watch a lot of tv these days.  Soon all the shows will disappear for a while though so I’ll get a bit of a break…from being a couch potato who watches tv all the time….I will probably just spend my time on the internet…not much better…  I’ve gotten ever so slightly more social than before over the past couple of months though, baby steps right?  Bleah.

You guys remember Scott, the customer dude whom I platonically loved who got a job somewhere else a while ago and abandoned me?  Yeah I asked Steve, his buddy, about him the other day, and apparently he is unemployed…  I felt really bad, almost jokingly suggested he apply at Good Earth but then pictured him standing behind the counter wearing a burgundy apron and it was pretty much the most depressing picture of life.  Oh Scott.  Steve said he’d try to get him to come for coffee this week.  I have a feeling he won’t, but hopefully he’ll pass on my hello at least.  Oh Scott.

On a side note, apparently platonically isn’t a word (which everyone in the world probably knows), and when I clicked for the suggested spelling, it gave me “platonic ally” which I think is hilarious for some reason.  A good indie band name perhaps.

Oh and we have a new chick starting tomorrow.  I can’t remember her name but I met her ever so briefly today (she was hired right after her interview, which worries me a bit…I don’t trust Amyna’s judgement…).  Another person will be awesome for me so I can actually get some of my work done in the mornings, however our fearless leader isn’t coming til late tomorrow, and will be away the rest of the week (I get to work 6-4:30, wed-fri, yay overtime), and Rob my Korean whipping boy doesn’t really have the greatest English (understands well, but speaking not so great all the time…) and is pretty new himself, so I’m probably going to spending a lot of time training her the next couple days.  She doesn’t have any experience working in a coffee shop either.  Prepare for stress and frustration on my end.  She might be totally bright, and awesome, and everything could work out great.  Ya never know!

Okay!  I must now cut out some snowflakes and other assorted Christmas paraphernalia (I found construction paper!  Red and green, yay!) to finish off my decorating, then pictures!  Yay Christmas!!

I woke up with sickness paranoia. For the past few days, the moving has stirred up a lot of dust in the apartment and I’ve had relentless allergy attacks. But when I woke up this morning, I felt horrible so wondered if it was really allergy related or if I was coming down with something. So I decided to not fight it and slept it.

When I awoke later, it was 12:30 and I still didn’t feel much better. So it was a day of catching up on DVR TV.

It’s my opinion that The Office has totally lost its magic. The stories aren’t very funny or even believable. I hate to attribute it all to the marriage of Jim and Pam since I had faith that the writers could sustain their likability. But Pam doesn’t even seem to be much of a factor in the current shows, and Jim has been cast in a manager role that doesn’t really fit with the character we’ve watched over the years.

The show’s cousin, Parks and Recreation, has seemed to pick up the slack, as well as mimicked The Office’s second season turnaround. The characters are starting to take shape and the writers are figuring out how to create involving stories.

I’ve been pulling for Community because I like several of the actors/characters but it’s still a pretty uneven shows. Some episodes are hysterical and then others are just meh.

30 Rock has been firing on all cylinders, delivering solid, joke-packed episodes that leave me in awe. It’s amazing that this show isn’t more of a blockbuster, but probably the fact that most of America can’t relate to its New-York-ness as well as my friends and I do.

It is astounding to find out how NBC is totally floundering, especially with these shows that I just mentioned. But that’s just 2 hours of one night. The Leno experiment has been deemed all but a total disaster, and it’s sad to hear that Conan will probably be a victim of collateral damage.

I was initially looking forward to a wild Friday night but with my “sickness” and an impending crazy weekend, it may be best to keep it on the down low.

Daily Panic Level: Low
Financial Outlook: Broke as a joke
Job Scorecard (Interviews – Freelance Work – Freelance Busts): 8 – 4 – 28
Last Night’s Meal: Pasta with vodka sauce, leftovers

After two grueling sit-ups, PuffyNuts cawls it quitz.

i can tell u mah workawt sekrit.

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I’ve done NOTHING!

Well I have pee’d at one point but that isn’t classifiable as relevant.

Last night I couldn’t sleep till about 5.30 am which is bollocks to the commoners but to us insomniac folk it’s just another day… or night. So what was my magnificent idea? French toasts. To fatten up a whale. And then I watched mega old, extremely hilarious BBC comedy Girls On Top. And still nothing. I came across a website which is almost my new favourite thing. It’s random, makes no sense and is highly entertaining. Oh and it adds to your culture.

Learn Something Every Day

Isn’t it the BOMB when you go to class and suddenly just splurt a random fact out? Immediately shoots you to the top list of the intelligent folk! Ah, the sad life of a science student…

Anyhoos, this brings us to today. As I hadn’t slept much by 8am which would be the time to get out of bed, I skipped classes and spent the day at home. And it’s now 6.30 pm and I’m still in bed. But I need to get dressed to buy groceries, namely CHOCOLATE because, and this is the part where we actually come to the point of this post, I need hot chocolate and today has been what I call a perfect autumn day.

Ingredients:

• No Classes
• Sleep Late
• Stay In Bed For The Day
• Have Hot Chocolate
• Watch Good Movie/Tv Series

Only 2 to go!

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Saturday. safdgfndhndrgnf

– License

THIS PARTICULAR POST IS NOT INTENDED TO DEGRADE ANY POLITICAL PARTY OR GOVERNMENT, ITS SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENTERTAINMENT.

Hyderabad. John Gupta, an MNC dude, wants to pay his tax using modern technological tools like facebook status updates or twitter tweets. Mr. Gupta, who hates to come out of his room and has made his company arrange for a workstation there itself, is planning to launch a mass agitation from within his room to force the government into accepting his demands.

“This is ridiculous. The UPA government claims it represents the young India but what is it doing to prove it? A young common Indian has to run from one office to another and gather a heap of documents even to pay money to the government. The government should take all the trouble in gathering information and documenting them if it wants money.” Mr. Gupta told Fake News.

Mr. Gupta wants the I-T department to make either a facebook or a twitter ID.

“I-T department can have a twitter ID and start following all of us young Indians. We would declare our earnings through tweets and the department can analyze and archive the data. If that sounds too cumbersome, the department could have a facebook page where we would put the required information regarding our earnings, savings etc. on the wall, if those lazy fellows don’t want to follow our status updates on facebook as well. We can even upload scanned documents on the facebook page wall if the government really wants to pain us and asks for proof.” Mr. Gupta expounded his proposed action plan.

He has sent a memorandum to the government and asked them to implement his plan within two weeks failing which he’d start a mass agitation by making facebook groups, orkut communities and various public blogs. He has asked all like minded individuals to support him in his endeavors. He was too lazy to give our reporter his contact details, where lazy like minded individuals could contact him.