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February 21, 2006
Month of Pain
A friend and I had decided to make February the “month of pain.” Because it is the shortest month, of course. Why pick a 31-day month to be one of hard work, when there’s a 28-day one at hand? But here in the northern climes, it’s psychologically the longest month—the last stretch of true winter with high heating bills, wet shoes, iced up car windows and bulky jackets. Usually those miseries are offset by the beauty and fun of snow, but as I’ve probably complained before, we’ve had too little of that to make much use of it. Global warming and all.
The other thing about February is that it precedes by about a month our separate travels to warmer weather places where one might potentially wear a bathing suit. Vanity admitted. So the month of pain entails weight lifting without cease. Or doing it at least three out of every four days. We’ve gone back to the basketball weight workout I mentioned earlier. It’s easy to remember and breaks the days up into major muscle groups. Started off well, though I had to double up on one day and go five days in a row when scheduled days-off got bolloxed up. I’ve kind of fizzled toward the end of the month, though.
And here’s a weird thing. When doing some reps at home with dumbbells, my dog goes nuts. I have to sneak around so he can’t see me doing sets of curls, or lunges or—god forbid—situps. He whines, half cries-half barks, comes over to me and stamps his feet, and will not stop until I do. It’s quite intolerable. So there, I blame the GSP. (To say nothing of a road-closing snowstorm, global warming notwithstanding, and an AWOL lifting partner. So I'm all set for excuses....) But tonight a rigorous workout is planned, at a gym, with no dogs.
Meanwhile, I’ve been having fun and falling asleep on the couch every night being a spectator of televised winter Olympic fun. I’ll watch pretty much anything, though there’s generally more hockey and figure skating than I strictly require. More on that anon.
Here’s my next challenge. Post again before another month elapses. (I am ashamed before the 159 visitors blogspirit reports stopped by. Seems very rude and uncivilized to offer such stale stuff to visitors.)
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