One thing is missing.

today. was. fabulous.

Like. on the 1-10 scale it was a solid 9.5. Today's workout can be found at the corner of awesome and bombdiggity. The only deduction is for the dang push ups and iron cross things we did at the end. I for once in my life, don't really have that many complaints, and the ones I do have really aren't all that significant/anything Darin can control.

We started out today, well let me say this. I was pulling in the parking lot at like 3:50 because I needed to change, and this truck flys down the hill before me and takes one of the only parking spots and then all 4 doors open and this little girl gets out and basically takes her sweet ass time telling what I can only assume to be her grandparents goodbye. I'm sorry, unless they're going to be euthanized, you're most likely going to see them again. So get out of my way. I have things to do today. I realize that's extremely rude but being late isn't something I deal well with. I wasn't late per se, but I felt like I was going to be and yes, I have road rage. Parking lot rage would be most accurate. Anyways, Everything today was slower and slower is my jam. We were going to start out on 2 different arm/shoulder/above the waist/ circuits, but the gym was like on and poppin today, so things would have gotten confusing as Travis had his client in the middle of the red sea (that's what I call the red mats in the middle of the gym) and Jennifer and I would have been on opposite sides. Strategic move on Darin's part to separate us? perhaps. But better luck next time haha. No, I don't think it was. Jennifer and I work well together I think. Even though sometimes she takes things a little far for me haha. Anyways, the first merry go round was incline presses, flys, the hulks and dang push ups. Seriously. Had there been no push ups I would have been happy to do that for the rest of forever. Not forever, but the rest of the 45 minutes. We did that twice though, then stretched. Darin kicked me a red ball, and I kicked it back. That went on for a minute, then he said we were stretching and I was happy to keep it. I wasn't all that interested in doing much else with those. I'm a peach to deal with, I know. Moving on, then we did a lat pulldowns, close grip pull, standing row and 3 point row. No complaints here, except the weight on the standing row got increased....but truth be told, it didn't bother me all that much. I hit myself in the chin with the lat pulldowns bar twice. Good thing no one saw that. I'm hoping they didn't haha. 2 rounds of that. And the close grip pulldown handle feels like a cheese grater on my delicate hands. That's one of my only complaints but whatever. After we did that, we moved to the mats and did only one merry go round of these other shoulder exercises. These things that are now going to be (thanks to Jennifer) referred to as "the lotus" I'm really not sure of the spelling or how to explain it. But we did those, then fronts and sides, then those dang iron crosses and this kinda weird row(?) that I felt kinda like a turkey doing. I don't know why I felt like a turkey but you bend down and then basically flap your wings with 5lb weights in your hand. Flap makes it sound uncontrolled, but I was out of control at this point. Crazy train by the Oz came on (very appropriate song...which I can play on expert in Guitar Hero! which I may go do) and I sang along for a minute. Then I was like, I just want to go home. haha. I don't know what's gotten in to me the past few days.

Also. While I'm talking and being in a good mood. I'm somewhat impressed with myself. Usually this is the part I talk about how bad I'm doing and how I hate my life and get all emo Elmo and threaten to quit. This is absolutely the longest I've ever stuck with anything like this and while it's really hard, I'm seeing a little bit of results. Like the clothes I lounge around in at home that are generally really unacceptable and should have been tossed in the trash years ago, are looser than they've ever been. Also, generally I would complain (about everything, per my usual) about how the new bridge across biltmore avenue for people like myself who have only been at the hospital 4 years and have to park on biltmore 1&2, have to use, how it has friggen 3 sets of stairs to climb with no elevator option. I mean, it's not my jam, nor do I sprint up them but I'm not winded at the end. My clothes are getting entirely too big (I really need to do something about that) and I find myself weighing my food a lot....and Jennifer is right, when the nutrition labels say "about 16 chips or X ounces" the 16 chips is ripping you off. You get a lot more by the ounce haha. I also was looking back through this insane blog and a)I've worked out like 54 times. who knew. and b) the things that I thought were ridiculous back in June and July aren't so ridiculous anymore. It's nice to feel somewhat accomplished even though I do have a long way to go. I saw this thing on pinterest (I say that about 8502 times a day) that was a quote that said, well actually I have a few to share for those of you who don't follow me on pinterest (and if you don't, you really should my "things I find way more amusing than I should" and "fitness will be witnessed" are the best ever).

"you will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment you will ever make" - Gordon B. Hinkley

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take you to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway, we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use"- Earl Nightingale

I'm really bad to be like dang I've almost lost 50 pounds but I still have a long way to go. Well, good news is, it's 50 less pounds a)I have to carry around and b)that I have to lose. I'm 23 years old, I have a bangin' job and no children. What better time is there than now?

so, now that I'm off my inspirational/workout high, I need to get my happy ass in the shower. Here's to hoping tomorrow is a repeat of today, and I say this a lot but I really do mean it. I couldn't have found a better trainer, or gym. Now back to your regular programming of my bitching and snark.

I still didn't get my damn poptart. That's the only thing that's missing. I really, really don't need one. But I want one. #princessproblems. Enough. Guitar hero then a shower. I'm out!