Random Thoughts and BS.

December, Holiday season, and yet another year cruises through to its end. Wow so I've had tons of stuff on my mind lately. Looking into eco-villages and sustainable living, gardening and the like lately. Mostly due to my ever growing despise of having to drive to an office to earn money to pay for bills, mortgage, utilities, etc... There is no 'free' land any longer like in the settling days of the US. I doubt there exists land not owned by some entity in the world today.

Today's "civilized" world, and civilized is quoted because this is purely subjective, is bound to their governments by consumption of crap that the media and the Johnson's say we need. commercialism has taken over living and raising families. Somehow we've gotten to this place where we "need" the newest I PAD, or Droid touchscreen phone, X box or whatever the newest and coolest item of the year is.

Is there a medium area between industrialized life, commercialism and living more in harmony with the planet? I don't know, but honestly i'm currently not doing anything to find out at this point in time. I could spurt out various reasons, also known as excuses but the bottom line is that I know there are small things I could be doing to reduce my individual footprint.

start my own gardens.
harvest rain water for irrigation.
compost and recycle unused food waste.
build and install some sort of wind power generator
build and install some sort of solar power source.
harvest seeds from the vegetables that are grown from the garden.

etc, more to come late, or not...

Not related

well it's been over a week since I've posted anything here mostly due to being pretty busy with life in general.

Daniel has been training at a football camp all last week and this week he is working out at the highschool with the football coaches. He really seems to be enjoying working out and getting ready for football season this year.

i'm pretty busy at the moment between working out, eating 6 meals a day for the most part and trying to spend some time honing my drawing skills. Maybe if i'm pleased with a drawing i'll post up a picture of one at some point.

later for now.

Workout Week Summary

This week has been a pretty good week of working out so far. Here is a brief recap of the week as of Thursday Morning.

Monday: Chest and Tricep workout;
Dips super-set with Kettlebell snatches
pushups super-set with KB pullovers on a swiss ball
tricep extensions
feet raised pushups

Tuesday: Cardio day;
2 mile interval run, it was super hot and not the best day to run outside at 5 pm but we drank plenty of water before and after the run.

Wednesday: Leg day;
double KB squats super-set with manual resistance leg curls.
KB lunges super-set with calf raises
Short Sprints, hops, single leg bounds.

Thursday: Today is a cardio day and it is suppose to be pretty hot outside so we may just hit the elliptical machine we have and do some ab work as well.

Friday: tomorrow will be back / bicep day, not decided if we will include shoulders or do them separately on Saturday yet....

We welcome Shadow to our family

Shadow


This little black lab is the newest member of our family, we picked her up on Sunday and she is doing quite well,and I think enjoying her new surroundings and family members.

Tattoo Tuesday

Today is the day Renee goes back to the tattoo shop to hopefully get her coverup tattoo finished! She'll be heading there straight from work this evening and I may or may not meet her there to see how it's going. Either way I'll post some pictures of the finished product either tonight or tomorrow for anyone interested in seeing how it has turned out.

See this earlier post for the first session of work. http://whatsallthisreally.blogspot.com/2010/06/tattoo-envy-jealousy.html

***Updated with Pictures***

not quite done yet but here are some updated pictures of some more shading and coloring after a couple hours or work tonight...

more workout junk...

Today's workout went pretty well, 30 minutes and a multitude of different upper body focused exercizes...

Kettlebell swings
Dips
KB Snatch and presses
wide pushups
swiss ball KB flys
pullups
wide grip let downs
swiss ball KB pullovers
KB Rows, with a drop set of rows
more dips
front shoulder raises
swiss ball push ups, feet on the ball
elastic band curls
elastic band tricep extensions.
KB curls

Saturday morning sprints

Daniel and I will be leaving shortly to head for the lakeside Junior High track to do some sprinting today.
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I'll try to get some pictures while were there to post them in this post later.

It's now later, and we did an hour of good cardio / sprints... Here is the breakdown of everything we did today, unless it's noted everything done was sprinting and walking back to the starting line with no break other then walking back unless noted.

800 meter (1/2 mile) warmup jog
20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100
20, 40, 60, 80, 100

1-2 minute break
50 meter single leg bounds, walk to the 200 meter starting line
200
400 mix jog, jog backwards, crossovers, and lunge steps for about 20 meters
1-2 minute break
20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20

The total workout was an hour long 10:17 till 11:17 on the dot...

now I need to eat something...