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The other night my wife took my oldest daughter to a birthday party.  Afterward they returned with a few party favors, one of which was a Micky Mouse Coin Bank/Bubble Bath combo.  She was all excited about the coin bank and I didn’t know about the bubble bath in in until she brought it to me last night when her younger sister managed to get the top off and spill it in her bed room.

I took the bubble bath and poured the remaining liquid into a plastic water bottle and put it in the bathroom for later use.  Ally likes her bubble baths, as I’m sure most little girls her age do too.  Before I put the bottle in the bathroom, I made sure to tell my wife, that way she knew what it was.

Apparently, my mother-in-law who stays with us didn’t get the memo.  Since she doesn’t speak English and I don’t speed Spanish, we have some great conversations.  I can’t say I don’t like not being able to understand each other, in fact I know many who would love to have the same problem.  Sometimes, it’s not very convenient though.  Unknown to me, she thought the bottle of bubble bath was a bottle of fruit punch instead.  Last week, my wife’s uncle gave us a box of sugar free Hawaiian Punch packets that you mix into individual bottles.  Since it’s sugar free, we’d been letting the girls have some.

So, the M.I.L. takes the bottle of bubble bath from the bathroom and moves it from the bathroom and into the fridge.  The liquid is water melon scented and is a fruity red color.  I can understand how she mistook it for fruit punch, because I did the same thing tonight when I was getting ready for my workout.  As I was getting me some water, I spied the bottle of fruity red liquid and thought it would be mighty tasty.  I unscrewed the lid and took a big swig.. Only to find myself running to the kitchen sink and vomiting.  It was not an enjoyable experience and just thinking about and writing about it makes my body shiver with disgust.   It is a very difficult flavor to get out of your mouth and even now, about 3 hours later I’m still tasting it.

I can say with authority that vomit tastes better than bubble bath, no matter how enticing the scents are.

After I recovered my composure, I went out to my screen room where my weights are and completed my workout.  Today is day 11 of Stronglifts, workout A:  Squat @100 lbs., Bench Press @70 lbs., reverse curls x3 sets to fail and push-ups x3 sets to fail.

The weights are really starting to feel heavy and really make make me work up a sweat.  On the bench presses, I’ve really started noticing the strength difference in my left and right shoulders.  Last summer I injured my right shoulder causing an inflamed rotater cuff.  Since October of last year, I’ve tried to let my shoulder heal and have done hardly any physical activity.  The constant pain really put me into a depression and I totally quit working out and completely fell off my diet, putting back 20 of the 48 lbs. I lost last year.  Now I’m trying to play catch up.

On bench presses and over head presses, I struggle with my right shoulder more with the lifts.  I’m hoping that I’ll be able to build my strength up more and the last remaining pain will eventually go away with some strengthening.

Tonight’s workout:

Stronglifts 5×5 day 11
Date: 2010-06-07
Repetitions: 1
kcal: 401
Weight: 265.0 lbs.
Heart Rate: 89 / 126 / 167 – bpm (min/avg/max)
Duration: 00:41:57 (HH:MM:SS)

Once again, I just worked on my Stronglifts.  Today is the 10th day, or the first day of week 4.  Not a lot to report, just workout B tonight.  Squats @ 95 lbs., Over head press @ 65 lbs., Dead lifts @ 130 lbs., pull-ups and prone bridges.  Pull-ups still give me trouble, and my shoulder is starting to get sore again.  I’m going to go pop some Motrin and see if that helps.

Stronglifts 5×5 day 10
Date: 2010-06-05
Repetitions: 1
kcal: 351
Weight: 265.0 lbs.
Heart Rate: 98 / 126 / 149 – bpm (min/avg/max)
Duration: 00:36:38 (HH:MM:SS)

No running, biking or walking tonight.  My treadmill doesn’t like me any more and it’s been storming like crazy today.  I hope to ride my bike tomorrow though.

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We got back from a trip early morning on the 2nd.  A short 2.5 hour nap later, I’m heading to work.  After work, I laid down to take a short nap before I worked out and ended up sleeping nearly 6 hours.  Yeah, I was tired!

We needed to get dog food and I got duped by my wife into a “quick” trip to Walmart that lasted an hour an a half..   So finally once I’m home I can finally start my much delayed workout.

I don’t really feel like making the graphs tonight, so just a copy and paste of my workout stats tonight.  Just Stronglifts and no cardio tonight.

Stronglifts 5×5 day 9
Date: 2010-06-02
Repetitions: 1
kcal: 311
Weight: 265.0 lbs.
Heart Rate: 87 / 119 / 149 – bpm (min/avg/max)
Duration: 00:38:20 (HH:MM:SS)

Yeah, if your noticing I put on some weight on my trip.  All that eating out, but I’m sure most of it is from sodium.  It’s hard to eat low sodium when your eating out nearly every meal for a week.

I received this spam email the other day. Do people really fall for this?

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Tonight was day 8 of the Stronglifts 5×5 strength program.  Squats @85 lbs, Overhead press @60 lbs, dead lift @ 120 lbs plus pull-ups and prone bridges.  Pull-ups still seem to be evading me, I’ll get them eventually, I just got to build my strength up more.  Push-ups are getting easier though!

kcal: 499
Weight: 262.0 lbs.
Heart Rate: 101 / 130 / 157 – bpm (min/avg/max)
Duration: 00:46:45 (HH:MM:SS)

After the weights, I blew the dust off the ol’ bike and went for a ride.  I started out riding around the neighborhood and passed by a golf course that as best as I can tell is abandoned.  The buildings are rotting apart and the grass is knee high.  Most of the golf trails are cracked and broken up; nature is reclaiming them.  Most of the trails I tried to go down ended in swamp. Had I taken my Palm Pre with me, I would have snapped some photos.  This is the first time I’ve been off the road on my mountain bike since I don’t know how long.  I’d been using it mostly for commuting and riding on roads, so I swapped out the old knobby tires for high psi road slicks which didn’t work too well on broken trails with deep sand.

After it started getting too dark to feel comfortable riding the unknown trails in a presumably abandoned and swampy golf  course, I got back on the road and kept riding.  I took a route that took me up and down as many hills as I could.  The only way to get good on hills is to ride em!  The hills in my neighborhood however aren’t much to talk about, but since I’d not ridden since last year, my legs are a bit out of shape and these hills will do for now until they get easy.

Distance: 5.60 mi.
kcal: 705
Weight: 262.0 lbs.
Heart Rate: 119 / 156 / 169 – bpm (min/avg/max)
Pace: 56:37 / 07:49 / 02:19 (min/avg/max)
Speed: 56 / 7.65 / 25.74 mi/hr (min/avg/max)
Duration: 00:43:55 (HH:MM:SS)

All said, it was a pretty good day, workout wise.

Tonight, I went over to Red Dragon MMA and participated in class.  It had been way too long and I feel like I’m starting all over again.  It was a great stretching and cardio workout though!  Still nursing my shoulder a bit, but I am building up my shoulder strength and am able to push out some real push-ups.  It’s feeling pretty good.

After I got home tonight, I got under my weights and did workout A of Stronglifts 5×5.  Today is day 6:  Squat @ 75 lbs, Bench Press @ 60 lbs, reverse curls, push-ups (in addition to what I did in Hapkido) and reverse crunches.  Overall, it felt pretty good!

I haven’t mentioned much about the last few days, just haven’t felt like writing.  I’m not a blogger by trade so trying to be in the habit of writing out everything I do is very different for me, so let me catch up a bit.

The other night I went with my wife for a nice walk.  We took our dogs with us.  Wysiwyg, our Border Collie did pretty good.  The old girl is a bit out of shape but I want to start walking with her more.  Odin, our out of shape, overweight mix breed mutt didn’t do as well.  He tired out fast and kept the pace fairly slow.  Poor guy.  We’ll be getting out with him more often, but I had to give him some recovery time.  By the time we got home, he went to lay on the floor, but couldn’t lay very gracefully.  He just let his legs out to the side and dropped.  He stayed there the rest of the night.  I think he’s had enough recovery time and tomorrow I think we’ll take him out again.  I’d love to get his weight back under control.

Oh, look.  No surprise, it’s from China.

Spam type:  Knock off sun glasses.

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I appreciate the fact that people actually look at my blog posts.  It’s pretty interesting to me that someone may find what I have to say interesting enough to actually look at my website.  I’ve owned this domain now for just shy of 8 years and it’s gone through several overhauls while I tried to figure out what to do with it.

What I don’t appreciate are the spammers out there who think that blogs and emails are there for them to pollute our data streams with.  Spammers are one of the lowest forms of life forms found on the Internet, the only thing lower than a spammer is anyone involved in child porn.  Give me 5 minutes with a spammer, and I’ll make sure he or she will never be able to type with their fingers again.

Now, if your visiting my website and you think that the comment fields are a great place to leave a link back to your Chinese discount shoe site, or whatever scam your trying to push on the Internet, it ain’t going to work.   First off, I use spam filtering so any comment first must pass through a spam filter looking for spam messages.  If your message gets past the filtering without being flagged as spam, it then goes into a hold queue where I must first approve the message before it gets posted.

So there you have it, it’s a total waste of time to try to post spam on my blog.  If you’re a spammer and would like it, I have a nice recipe for Rat Poison Tea to share with you.

I’ve completed day 4 of the Stronglifts program.  Today was squats, bench presses, reverse curls, push ups and reverse crunches again.  After that I tried running on the treadmill, but ran into problems with it again.  Let me tell you, it’s no fun when your running at 6 mph and the belt seizes on you.  Once again, I found myself flying against the console of the treadmill.  My run lasted all of 13 minutes.

Later on, I went on a walk with my wife. We walked 3.25 miles and kept an average speed of 3 mph.  Not bad.  I did end up getting a fricken blister on the bottom of my foot though.  During the walk we watched a mini van get pulled over by three police cars.  The police got out of their cars guns raised and the driver and occupant surrendered.  It sucks seeing this kind of stuff happen so close to home.