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A good day yesterday. I was able to get in a cheater workout in the morning (soak and steam). Then I went downtown to have lunch with Dana at our favorite pizza place: Two-fisted Mario’s. It totally reminds me of the place upstairs in The Garage at Hahvahd Sqwayah, by Newbury Comix, but I can never remember the name of it. C-something? Mass peeps, a little help?

Dana and I enjoyed our slices. Same slices we always get there. He gets two cheese, I get two with no cheese, pepperoni, and sausage. We reminisced about old times, how happy we both are that I’m out, talked about our kids and how difficult it is to be parents of teenagers at times. We talked about getting older, how it was 22 years ago that we sat on his porch in Boulder, discussing IRAs and how 10 years before that we could never have imagined doing that. We talked about travelling the world, and when that may become a possibility again. We also made plans to go on some regular bike rides once summer rolls around and his son’s hockey schedule eases up.

For those who haven’t seen him lately, Dana has become a quite the stud. He is rocking the world at about 8% body fat – totally ripped. His wife is an amateur triathlete and they do a lot of bike rides in the summer. Our regular rides will be nice little 30 mile loops, and I’ve vowed to do a century (100 mile ride) with him this summer – he tries to do one every year.

Last night I made my second real purchase that didn’t require permission from somebody, which marked a sort of milestone: I bought cycling shoes. I’ve tried spin class in my skater sneaks, but I’ve gotten so used to pedaling with my heels (proper form) that the soles of my sneaks bend and really flex my foot uncomfortably when pedaling. So I invested $100 in some real cycling shoes. My other pairs are in storage and I won’t have access to them until I move out of Mom’s and get my own place. It felt good to invest in myself. To date, my expenditures have been around fitness and self-improvement – my first unqualified purchase was the gym membership, and now the shoes. 🙂

After I bought them I went to the gym again last night. My bod is sore from Monday’s workout and I couldn’t get motivated to do anything but sit and soak. It’s become part of my routine. Even if I don’t feel like training I go sit and soak and hit the steam or sauna. I call these my “cheater” workouts because, while they don’t involve much muscle, the heat does accelerate my heart rate to the low intensity aerobic zone, so it still counts as a workout. 😉

It also seems that my going to bed early is starting to pay off as I adjust to living here full time. The meds I take seem to require me to get eight hours of sleep a night or I’m a wreck in the morning, so I’ve started going to bed at 11pm. Ugh. It seems SO early to go to bed then, but getting up early is a priority and so I do it. This morning I woke up naturally at 7am, after about 7.5 hours’ sleep. I was stoked to have woken up early, without an alarm, and scampered eagerly off to the gym. I was going to do cleans today, but the bod is still sore from Monday, so I lifted back and shoulders and grabbed a 10 minute soak. If my schedule allows it, I may go back and hit the spin bike for some cardio this afternoon. I can feel my bod adapting, adjusting to exercise again, and even though I’m pitifully weak right now, progress is being made. And I’m all about progress. 🙂

Today is about getting back up to speed in the web world. I have a client meeting this evening after group and I need to re-learn the intricacies of this client’s site that I’m building but haven’t touched in about a month. It consists of a basic WordPress site with a very convoluted third-party plug in to manage subscriptions and reviews. There is no clear documentation, so much of today will be spent futzing around with it and watching YouTube vids to learn how to make best use of it. And I’ll be doing some design work, logos and header images mostly. Off I go…