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... the first time I did my body test, I was one weight. By the time I did another one about an hour later, I was a pound less.

Yay!

The bad news: Mom came in from a wake, saw me exercising, and put a batch of brownies in the oven. :O SABOTAGE. I already told her I'm having a brownie. Just one. And a tall glass of milk. Besides, dinner's pretty much nonexistent tonight.

I just need to get into some kind of daily fitness routine again, even if it's just an hour of Wii Fit activity. Also, I hate the treadmill. I think I've always disliked using it, but today I got on it and got off at about 15 minutes. I would so rather have a bike or something. Maybe an elliptical, but I haven't tried one of those yet, so I have no idea how it feels to work out on one. Treadmill = BLAH.

Current Mood: cheerful

I went to the doctor this morning, basically to get antibiotics to kill this evil sinus infection. I didn't ask for them, but that's why I went. Dr. Okoh (who I had to see because I couldn't see Dr. Toyloy--whose last name may have changed to Brenson as she may have gotten married--until next Thursday) gave me something called Levaquin and some Astelin nasal spray. I go back to work on Monday, so after therapy, I'm meeting Mom in the city somewhere and we'll head up to PA.

I haven't exercised at all today, unless you count the walking I did outside. Part of me wants to boot up the Wii and do a little something anyway. I don't skip weekdays, so I'm feeling a little guilty. ^^; I felt like crap this morning and couldn't stop coughing, then had to go to the doctor, then came home and ate something and fell asleep for a few hours.

At least three people aren't going to be in today. Haven't heard from the boss yet, so I assume he's on his way. (Drat.) I had to come in today anyway to buzz in the people coming here for RUTA training, but I swear I wish I hadn't stayed home last week. ^^; Oh well. I'm taking the train up, anyway, and I can't get that until 4:50. There's a 4:09 or something like that, but at that rate, it makes sense to just finish out the day.

Today needs to fly by. I mean like WHOOSH. Need to get to the house. Craig beat Twin Snakes again and got the GOOD ending (AKA Otacon's--invisibility FTW! And Otacon's ending amuses me anyway because he's such a klutz) and called me yesterday while he was sneaking up on guards and snapping their necks. And he accidentally found out about Meryl doing sit-ups in her underwear. XD He spent almost an hour on the phone with me killing everything in his path. Of course, he felt like a doofus when I pointed this out to him:

Me: You know what? You could go through the whole game, sneak past everyone while you're invisible, not kill anyone, and get the highest ranking ever.
Him: ... oh, damn! You're right! Damnit! Oh well, I'm not saving anyway...
Me: How many people have you killed so far?
Him: Everyone.
Me: How many necks have you snapped?
Him: ... Enough.

XD; I told him to copy the file to another memory card and have one for killing everything and another for going through the game kill-free. He's going through it anyway since he keeps forgetting to save at Psycho Mantis. He LOVES Psycho Mantis. And apparently Mantis told him he likes to play Super Mario Sunshine, when that game has never ever been in that house. Neither of us have ever played it. That's what he said, though. He could be lying. ^^;

ANYWAY. Yesterday I hit the 10-hour mark on Wii Fit. My bank is now sparkly orange. I imagine it's supposed to be a form of bronze or something. Also, I now kick ass at Triangle and I can actually do the Chair pose without my legs shaking TOO much. But I practice it at work, so that helps.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: work

I will do ANYTHING in Wii Fit without having to take a rest afterwards... except lunges. Egads, lunges kill me. It's slowly getting better, but eeek. The 100s I've gotten the past few times I've done them makes it worth it, though. Perfect scores earn a big fat yes from me.

That was fifteen minutes anyway, so I really should be taking a break. XD

Current Mood: busy

Guess what time I'M leaving today. 4pm, baby. I haven't technically changed my hours yet (and don't even know if I'll be able to), but I stayed late every day last week. Got to work at eight every day. Did today too. I will not stay until 4:45. I'll ask to change my hours tomorrow.

So, today, I shall draw. I haven't been drawing works of genius, but I've actually felt inspired lately. I need to work on drawing my usual characters, too. I still owe Corey a pic. ^^; I'm determined to draw it.

Finally unlocked Free Step on the NY Wii this morning. The game made me play Advanced Step three times instead of the two I played it through in PA over the weekend. I didn't work out much this morning, just did a body test (lost two pounds over the weekend!) and then did Advanced Step the third time and unlocked Free Step. When I get home I'm going to do Free Step for half an hour while I watch some TV, and rhythm box, and then do some yoga poses, because I didn't do any yesterday. I kick ass at Warrior. I've gotten to the point where I know exactly how to stand so the bar goes straight to the middle of the blue box. I stand with perfect balance every time. I've made lots of progress on that pose since the first time I did it, when I started sweating almost immediately and couldn't keep myself from shaking. I hope to eventually be able to do the Dance pose... but that'll take a while. My body just doesn't move like that yet. The one on the far right at the bottom (I forget the name) is another one I'm not sure I can do right now. I attempted Dance and aborted. XD;

I'm tempted to NOT use the third Wii Fit (which I need to bug Gamestop about today) for profit. I might give it to Gail. Going to call Dad later to ask him what he thinks. That would be better, though. I know she wants one, but as a grandmother taking care of two kids and probably not taking in a whole lot of money, that $90 might be a bit much to just throw out there, and not knowing when the thing will be in stock just complicates things.

Talking to Dad--he just found another snake in our basement. XD

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: work

... I actually got so worried about the Dad/Craig situation that I started crying and kept crying. Like, I'd stop, then start up again. Did that at least five times. -_- I also had a miserable time sleeping last night, and while I've been dealing with that all week for varying reasons, I think worrying about Dad and Craig was the cause this time. Spoke to Valdi about it and she think so, too. (She also agrees that Dad is being a jackass and needs to watch what he says around his impressionable teenage son.)

I'm really supposed to be at therapy right now, but this is the first week I'm skipping due to wanting to see Jean ever other week, now that I generally feel better about things. I was really waiting for this to happen. I was waiting for something to upset me RIGHT before my usual session so I'd have to call Jean and ask if we could meet anyway. The pessimist isn't totally gone.

Anyway, the boss isn't in yet, so I'm drawing. Another unknown character, a young boy. Looks like a street kid to me. Thought earlier about giving him a twin.

Strong urge to play MGS2. Really wish I hadn't left all my games at the house. I have a few PS2 games here, and I think I have Super Paper Mario in its case because I'd been toying around with selling it. (To be fair, I haven't really given myself a chance to get into it, which is why I still have it.) I'll have to use Wii Fit first though, since I was once again too tired to use it this morning. I did my body test since I always do it in the morning, but that's it.

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: work

Wow. Just wow. And that's all I'm sayin'.

(Apparently this story's been floating around for a while, and AP is just getting around to putting it out there. This is really news from April, according to someone in the comments on the article.)

Anyway, I've been here about an hour and there's no one around yet. XD; I'm tired. Started on Wii Fit this morning but did not have the energy to keep at it, so I'll do my 30 minutes when I get home. I was absolutely exhausted when I woke up and I'm not feeling much better. I kept waking up last night, though, so that might be why. I have to find a good spot to stand in during rhythm boxing, also. Sometimes my left punches don't register and I end up missing points because of it. I still end the game with a Calorie Incinerator rank, but I hate missing punches. ^^; EGM's full of crap, I love that game. I love it so much that I totally forgot to bring the case with the other Wii games home! I could've sworn I did, but it wasn't right by the Wii where I always put it, and a quick call to the house confirmed that it's sitting up there. Sob.

Thunderstorm last night was awesome. There were some beautiful lightning bolts out there. I stood at Craig's window and watched for about twenty minutes. Not long after it started, Manhattan and the Williamsburg Bridge and downtown Brooklyn were GONE. Very cool. I was annoyed at not being able to see the recent ones we've had (because they'd started up after I'd already gone to sleep), but I'm content now.

I honestly think that's my most childish aspect. At least, it feels childish. When I know a good storm is coming, I will park myself in front of a window and watch it and marvel at it. It feels a little silly sometimes to be in my mid-20s and still so fascinated with lightning.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: work

And now I go to bed. Sleepy CJ.

The boss said he was thinking of going to Albany tomorrow, but thinks he might not. Maureen and I are REALLY hoping he didn't mean that. In any case, hopefully there are so few people around, he has me cancel his hour-long borefest.

I had a hard time sleeping last night. I was tired enough, but the heat sucked. I had both windows open and the ceiling fan on full-blast, and just a sheet, no blanket. (I always sleep with the blanket on. Not that I'm cold, but I like having a blanket on me. I keep the fan on medium or low or leave a window open to keep from getting too hot.) I kept waking up because I couldn't get comfortable.

I pushed Snooze three times before I got up somewhere between the second and third alarms. I'm supposed to be using Wii Fit for 30 minutes in the morning and 30 when I get home, so I MADE myself get up so I'd have enough time. Finished by 7am (with exactly 30 minutes) and was out the door by a little after 7:30. I got here at 8:10. I'm extremely tempted to leave early today because of that. Technically I should be able to. Of course, no one left messages or e-mails saying they weren't coming in, so I didn't have to send anything out, which means I have no proof I got here when I did. Nancy may have heard me. That's it. And the boss isn't here and likely won't be for another hour, knowing him.

I do well with lunges. I unlocked 15 reps a week ago, and I've gotten 100 on them each time I've done them. Just unlocked 20 reps this morning, so we'll see how I do. XD; Also have four new yoga poses I haven't done yet. I didn't feel like experimenting early in the morning. I'll do them later today. My new goal is to hit 700 points on the 6-minute rhythm boxing game. I got 660 this morning.

I'm so tired this morning. -_- It's Monday. Mondays are crap. I hope today goes by quickly.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: work

Dad and I went out after he got back from church to Best Buy since we knew they were getting some in, but they'd already handed out vouchers for them. Went to Target, they'd been out since a week ago. Went to Kmart (for some odd reason), and their game section is horrid. Almost went to Toys 'R Us, but Mom sent Dad a text saying they didn't have any. Then she called him and said the one in Wilkes-Barre DID have them. Dad decided to go see if we could get one since we'd already gone that far. It was going to take about half an hour to get there.

There was hardly anyone in that parking lot, but there were a few people picking them up. One woman was pulling out with a huge smile on her face, another family was walking away from the game section with one, and when Dad and I were walking to the store, there were another five people walking with us, and they were moving kind of fast. I was about to tell Dad "I'll meet you there" and run. Those people looked like they were on a mission. XDD

Not only did that TRUs have it, but they had THREE left before I bought one. They even had Wiis. The economy sucks and Wilkes-Barre hasn't been doing so well lately, so that's probably why. I didn't expect them to have Wiis. Dad just asked them out of thin air, and the guy was like, "Yep, we have them."

I copied the save data to an SD card so I wouldn't have to unlock everything all over again. I brought my Mii over too, in a Wiimote. The other Miis that were on the file aren't on this Wii and got replaced by guests, but their data is still there, so if I bring the file back to the PA Wii, I'm wondering if the Miis will be restored. I'm just glad the file could be copied in the first place. It makes sense since you'd want to bring your fitness data with you, but every time I've tried to copy save data, I've been told I couldn't. It's part of the reason I still haven't beaten Super Mario Galaxy. I'm much farther ahead on the PA Wii, and I tried to copy that file and couldn't. I need to play it here to catch up. I don't play there anymore because we're always on Brawl or Mario Kart or the 360.

ANYWAY. I'm happy. I get to use it during the week. Should help me do better on some of those yoga poses, and now Mom can use it if she gets interested. My room's a little small for it, though, so I might actually move the Wii out to the living room. If it weren't for Craig's bed, I'd move it to his room. ^^;

Now, I need food. And there's a thunderstorm coming, I think, so I might have to linger by the window for a bit, see if it starts pouring. I sort of hope so. Neither Mom nor I has to go anywhere for hours.

Current Mood: pleased

Hula Hoop is the best thing ever. I unlocked something called Super Hula Hoop that I'm scared to touch right now, haha. I did a couple of yoga poses (which I originally said I'd try out tomorrow, as I'm tired right now), and I can tell they're going to absolutely kick my butt in the beginning. I did the deep breathing exercise and the Half Moon pose. Focusing on stretching AND deep breathing at the same time is not something I'm used to. I'll be better for it though.

When I go back to Gamestop next week (or whenever) to get the NY copy, I have to tell the guy there that it's fun. He wasn't too sure about it. Seriously, it's so much fun. I need to work on my balance. I knew I didn't have perfect balance, but I never realized it was so bad. XD; One of the games has you walking on a tightrope between two buildings (with an animated bear trap on the rope that you have to "jump" over!), and I have so many balance issues, I kept threatening to fall off the rope. And the first time I didn't jump the trap. The second time I did, but my center of balance was so far off once I jumped, I ended up jumping right off the rope. XDDD

Dad set himself up on it, too. Since this copy is staying here in PA, he might use it. According to the game, I'm overweight (and not far from obese, which I guess for my size is about 180 lbs... even though I don't look it at all--I love my body type) and Dad's obese (he doesn't look that, either). Our BMIs need work, hee. I set my goal to drop the max amount of weight the game would allow, which is 22 lbs. That would put my BMI at around 25. It's about 29 right now.

Anyway, 'tis awesome, I'm greatly pleased. Mom will be amused by it. She might even try it out.

Now, I'm going to bed. ^___^;