Today - right this minute actually - I am missing pilates for the first time because of sore legs. I don't think my quadriceps have ever been this sore. That's right, VERY ANGRY QUADRICEPS. GRRRARRR!!!! They are even sore to touch. I guess bodyweight workout followed by hours of dance followed by a new bodyweight workout followed by intervals on the stepper was not a good workout combination over four consecutive days. I kind of forgot about the rest day. To be honest, I think it was the new bodyweight stuff that killed me; I especially blame trying to do modified pistol squats. Should have taken it easier the day after. Good Lord, and those weren't even real pistol squats!
After a super busy day at work and having to walk on sausages of pain instead of regular thighs, I decided to reward myself with bad food (I sense a pattern: angry body parts call for naughty food). So many of my Filipino Facebook relatives keep posting Magnum ice cream pics! I finally picked my first one up on the way home from work. I got the Mini Magnum bars (less than 200 calories per bar). It was the almond kind with milk chocolate. And my very first bite was goooood. I know, I know, I am a bad North American for only having it now.
And now I am (for the first time in a while) just going to relax and not move too much. I'm reading the Hobbit (I didn't realize it was more of a kids' book - no complaints here though). I just finished Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed (based on a recommendation from a fellow 'independent lifestyle' girlfriend) and it was a fascinating read on how society has shaped marriage. Historically women have always gotten the short end of the stick in the marriage deal. It's only now that things are starting to even out. It's only too true to me. If you think about it, I am the in the first generation in both my maternal and paternal lines to do 'whatever I want' as a female. If I'm with someone, it's because I feel like it - there is no pressure - and I will never have to get financial support from someone else just to survive. Marriage has become something you just 'want to do' as opposed to 'have to do' or 'should do.' Like if you enjoy someone so much that you want to lick his brain. And then save on taxes. My girlfriends married men for personality. No one married for money.
Before Committed I finally read Marquez Garcia's Love in the Time of Cholera. And boy did women ever get the short end of the stick in those times. Ouch :(
Mind Farts
-the Kobo passed the sunlight test! my iPhone didn't though. hmm.. interesting. it was so easy to read my Kobo by the pool at my hotel (40 degree weather baby!). my iPhone was not easy to read AT ALL.. i wonder if iPads have the same problem
-i still love lemongrass salmon
-ahahah i just got a flashback of Vegas despite my little spiel on independent women. sugar daddy central. independence fail! shopping win though
-Game of Thrones with the Joffrey birthday gift scene. WTF. awkward and awful and NOT IN THE BOOK ANYWAY SO WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THAT?!?!
-it's official.. i like lack of beer bloat more than beer now :( sorry beer. it's been fun.. but i have to have less of you and maybe more of wine or gin or rum
-oh ketchup seasoned movie popcorn ... my other naughty food. i will sit through almost any movie for the ketchup popcorn alone. this weekend i took my sis to see the Hunger Games (her 1st time, my 2nd - yay!) and when i had to get a second bag of ketchup popcorn during the movie, the guy at the counter made fun of me like i was some type of crackhead or something. i kind of am though
-this time Vegas had the most Canadians i've ever seen. EVER. and they were mostly Albertans. i tell you, Albertan women are funding a great part of Chippendales right now. go oil money!
-like father, like daughter. my name now matches up with at least one name on the US Customs "watch list" - but at least airport staff are nice about it
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