DAY 57

Appleton, Wisconsin
June 9, 2009
Tue 11:16 PM

just realized i should probably post tonight or will never get to it... still working on the room. it's so easy to get sidetracked, especially when you find really cute stuff you wrote in second grade, or your ACT and SAT results. man, once upon a time i was smart. my little book i wrote in second grade is pretty cool, it's full of really cute pictures of tiny me. and all i wore were charlotte hornet shirts. i had about five different outfits... and i mean outifts, i had like four different t-shirts, sweatshirt, shorts, wind suit, pants... you name it, i had it. almost all of my pictures have me wearing some different purple and teal outfit. it's crazy funny. cool of my parents to let me wear what i wanted... i also rocked the huge 90's sneakers... but whenever i walk by footlocker i see those are back in style.

anyway, seeing those pictures of me made me think that i still had that charlotte hornets shirt. and i do, along with a few other favorites of mine from childhood, like my batman pajamas with the velcro cape. it's amazing to think i ever fit into that... but now i'm pissed because i don't know where my teenage mutant ninja turtle pajamas are. seriously, i'm pissed. they should be in that drawer with the other old clothes, but they're not. i know i still have them, but can't think where else they'd be. i also can't find my mlb baseball... i've officially got one foul ball in my life. i mean, finding pogs and old newspapers is fun and all, but where are the tmnt pajamas and mlb ball? things i can't find.

today was a good day, had my first fitness consultation at gold's. now i'm really excited to start my workout. the trainer was really impressed with my weight lifting form, and said i had excellent calfs. always proud of those, the result of walking on your toes as a kid. my idol arnold schwarzenegger says that the calfs are his favorite muscle because they're the hardest to develop and they really make the legs. rock on, i have a leg up there. haha, just realized that's a pun... unintended. anyway, he also made me lie on my back with my feet six inches off the ground to see how strong my core was. i held it for about five minutes. he said he'd never seen anyone do it that long... oh yeah, my core is solid. i didn't tell him that we used to do that in tae kwon do all the time, in fact i have pictures of me doing it at my black belt test. i held my legs just off the ground the entire time, the kid testing with me had to put his legs down once... i rock. in fact, i just came across those pictures to prove it. mind over matter. i always performed well under pressure. anyway, he was also impressed with my flexibility. good to know that, other than lung capacity, my body's in good shape. just with an annoying layer of fat covering up my muscle... but hopefully that'll change soon. the trainer said that there was no reason for me to start on the beginner level given my current condition and background in weight lifting (thank you powerlifting). he said i could see results quicker because of this... great, let's start now. oh wait, i still work in milwaukee... damn, i want to be permanently in appleton, i hate starting something that i can't commit to full time. with my current predicament my progress would be so stagnant, just like my workouts. anyway, still lots to look forward to.

oh, and i got water in my ear... again. damn right ear, so annoying. i went to target and bought those little kid swimmer ear plugs... you know, the bright red ones you always saw nerds wear, just kidding, not nerds, auditorily impaired, or something like that. whatever the word for "pertaining to the ear" is, impaired. i think it has to do with my incredibly small ears, i don't think my right one developed right. all i know is it traps water like a dam. they make adult sized ear plugs that aren't bright red, but those would be way too big for my ears. we'll see how this works. i also bought some audi-dri, or something like that... it's an alcohol solution that's supposed to get water out of your ears, so i tried it, put in the five drops recommended. all it did was burn my ears and make them ring... and made me hear less. great, just great. i could hear better earlier today, now i can barely hear anything out of my right ear. hopefully it fixes itself in a few days like it always does. i realized the problem, why this happens when i'm at home and not in milwaukee... in milwaukee my apartment has a fixed shower head, and at home it's unattached, and i have a way of washing my hair that shoots water right into my head... i guess i could change the way i wash my hair, but it's like muscle memory, i don't think i can do it, it's just habit. hopefully the little kid swimmer plugs do the trick.

also slept through my alarm... again. need to make sure i don't do this tomorrow, would be bad to miss second interview. anyway, it's too easy when they alway's seem to play your favorite guns n' roses song in the morning. it shouldn't be that easy to sleep through hard rock and heavy metal... but it is. i also learned an important life lesson today, don't eat an entire box of digestive biscuits if you don't want to pay for it the next day. trust me, it's not just a clever name. without getting too much into specifics, i'll just say that i should've thought before eating all of the "high fibre" snacks. novel little things, but they live up to their name. so, that was fun today.

should really get back to cleaning, my sister is coming home tomorrow, and right now her old bed is home to all my clothes, so i need to at least get my closet done tonight.

salbrent