Last night was kind of perfect. I didn’t have time to work out during they day, so I hit the gym after work putting me home a little later than usual, but that ended up working out nicely. I parked my car at the curb in front of my house, and the second I stepped out I was hit with the smell of charcoal burning away. That’s a great smell.
Inside the roommates were preparing peppers and onions, and met me simply with a “sausage and peppers?” I grabbed my book, a glass of wine, and sat my ass on the back porch with the two of them for the rest of the night. The three of us were so engrossed in our books, me the second Hunger Games book, Adrienne the first, and Dani with the Anthony Kiedis autobiography. It was so quiet that you could hear the peppers sizzling in their tin foil.
We stayed out there until the mosquitoes staged an attack and it was too dark to see the words on the pages of our books. Everyone relocated to the living room where we all continued to read until separating to our various bedrooms to sleep. I finished the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy last night, and am officially addicted. I started on the third while laying in bed, and will probably finish it soon. I’m very excited to see how these movies end up.
Yesterday’s workout was 33 minutes on the elliptical followed by chest and triceps, and ouch I am feeling it today.
Chest Press | Incline dumbbell Chest Press with Twist | Tricep Kickbacks | Dips (assisted pull up machine) | Tricep Pushdowns |
10 x 40lb | 12 x 10lb | 12 x 10lb | 8 x 100lb | 12 x 17.5lb |
10 x 40lb | 12 x 10lb | 12 x 10lb | 8 x 90lb | 12 x 17.5lb |
10 x 40lb | 12 x 10lb | 12 x 10lb | 8 x 90lb | 12 x 17.5lb |
For the incline dumbbell chest press, they have you twist your arms together at the top so that your pinkies are touching. It’s not easy. Also, I almost fell off the dip machine because my arms were shaking so much, that would have been embarrassing.
Today is like my Thursday, which is excellent, because I’m so excited to see Darren. I’m on a 5:30 flight out of DC on Thursday, but I kind of want to see if I can get on an earlier one. Originally I thought I would have to come in to work that day, but now that I don’t I want to get to Chicago sooner rather than later. I know United has a policy where you can check into an earlier flight on the same day for $75, and I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth it. I guess we’ll see on Thursday.
Happy Flag Day!
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