Already Thursday

Man this week is moving by fast, which is a surprise considering it is supposed to be an eezy-peezy week. But it has not been activity-free on the job side hasn't it? Nothing to complain about though as this week I have focused on working my body out MUCH MORE. I had neglected my muscles and hadn't been doing resistance exercises for over a year, except for some sporadic push-ups here and there. And therefore seeing the muscle loss that I see today and seeing the loss of strength that I've experienced over the last week has been disappointing to say the least. But I CAN do something about it. Which is why you see pictures I posted of me. At the apartment gym. I remember the apartment gym we had at Lindbrook. It wasn't much, but it had a lot of free weights and that was adequate for a good workout. Same with this gym at Sawtelle, same with the FRB gym. Time to go back to working out I guess. I AM supposedly older now and losing muscle mass faster than before. And now that I am eating far less carbs and sugar and also less protein than before, I really DO need to make sure I work out to get my muscle mass back. Ahh if it ain't one thing... Fortunately, it IS Thursday and so after my slate of the usual meetings (3 of them in fact) I found my way to the Sawtelle apartment gym and started working on my chest and arms and triceps. Man... used to be I could breathe and that would be enough to work out my triceps. Today I noticed I was straining by the time I hit my 3rd set on the dumbbell reps. Sigh. But at least I did FEEL better that I can grow my muscles again.

I had some nice shrimp in adobo broth with boo chow for lunch. Sounded exotic but really it was just a bag of those miracle shiratake noodles that I find myself eating almost everyday now. I ate lunch while going through a slew of pictures that Johnnie's teacher sent out from THEIR lunch festivities today, this being the second to the last day of the school year! Here's Johnnie having a pizza. At least I know he ate a decent lunch today instead of ignoring whatever I packed for him which he had done all week long, much to my chagrin. I was all set to pick him up but 5 minutes before I was going to, Lisa calls and as is the reason she does during the middle of the afternoon, she has family in her office and wanted to know if I could just simply drop Johnnie off for dinner. Tonight, it's her Aunt Gail and cousin Anna again. It just boggles my mind that she can drop whatever she is doing to go home and hang out with them and when I come over on Wednesdays, she has to roll into her negative self and make it really difficult for us to simply have dinner. You know... just dinner? No drama, no yelling, no negative feelings. Like tonight. I took her up on her invite and actually joined them. I mean I was dropping off Johnnie and the dog anyway. Might as well stay and be social. Besides, I have always liked her Aunt Gail. Probably the sanest member of her immediate family. And of course I was voluntold to pick up dinner at House of Thai taste. That Lisa would order chicken satay, pad Thai, and veggie curry without batting an eye is yet another example of how she is choosy when it comes to creating drama for these dinners. It was like eezy-peezy and no issues whatsoever. And even though Anna herself was picky, we ate everything including Johnnie who put away 5 sticks of chicken satay all by himself. That and some rice was more than a pretty good meal for him. Anyway, it was perfect. I got to leave right before it got dark when Gail and Anna had to leave as well. I even escorted them to the 10 Freeway entrance. And I got the rest of Thursday night to finish my steps and chill to the Orville. And also a new documentary called the Deep End about spiritual teacher Teal Swan. Man, I used to follow some of her videos. But the person depicted in the documentary was very much human. And was very much flawed. And was very much consumed by her mission which was pretty egotistical I thought rather than service-centric. That is NOT the spiritual leader I would choose to follow. Kind of reminded me of the Tony Robbins days in the early 90s. Anyway it was very interesting. And that is what I was watching until I drifted to sleep.