Just a Few Updates

I thought I would fill you guys in on a few things that have been going on, none of which really seem to be worthy of a full post on their own. 

1- The carpet of death is officially gone! I meant to mention this before and just forgot. I think it took me three days to get rid of it because, once I got started, I just wanted it the fuck out! 

2- Beneath the carpet of death was the ugliest, and most absurd floor ever......ever. I had completely forgotten what was under there and it is absolutely ridiculous. It's wood floor painted to look like "tile" the main color being sort of a royal purple, and the "grout lines" being fire engine red. Yeah, that shit is getting painted soon. 

3- Before the floor painting, my next project is going to be attempting to fill in the pig mud with wood chips. My dad got a shit-ton of them from the guys who came through and trimmed the trees up our road. and I am just going to keep dumping them into the mud until it stops being disgusting.  

4- After my latest DVD player fiasco, I have decided that I am (at least for the time being) giving up on workout DVDs. I simply cannot handle something that crucial to my sanity breaking on me. So, I have put together my own workout, using bits and pieces from all of the various ones I have done over the years. I now have a good, solid hour of stuff that I think is really important, with no time-wasting-bullshit in between. 

5- For that matter, I am going to make a sincere attempt to depend as little as possible on anything that has the potential to suddenly stop working. We'll see how that goes. 

6- Remember my No Plan Plan? Well, I have realized that the only way I am ever going to be able to give up my absurd fantasies about the future is if I make the present more bearable. Hence pretty much everything on this list. 

Bonus Update- I just found out yesterday that one of my massage clients has been reading my blog. So, if you're reading this, I just thought I would say........

Every Damn Time

I think I have mentioned before how I tend to have exceptionally bad luck with any and all electronic devices. Well, it's starting to get really fucking ridiculous. Honestly just about every electronic device that I have grown attached to, like the ones that I absolutely use on a daily basis, has broken. Sometimes I have managed to get them working again, but lately that has not been the case.

You all know that I have been having to write this blog from my mom's house because my computer broke. Well now, my DVD player sopped working. That may not seem terribly upsetting or especially weird, but it is. 1- I use it EVERY day, not to watch movies, but for my workouts. Remember how I mention I was doing T25? Well, I had just gotten to the point where I wasn't hating it when my DVD player suddenly decides to stop working. This is a very big deal for me because I simply cannot stand to skip exercising, it completely fucks up my whole day! Also, I just got this DVD player a few months ago, there is really no excuse for it breaking this soon. You see, I was using my computer for my workouts but then, long before it broke completely, it stopped playing DVDs. I tried everything I could think of. I cleaned the disk drive, I downloaded a new player, I tried different DVDs, nothing! Now the same thing happens again with a device whose sole purpose is to do the thing it has stopped doing.

And these are far from the only times I have had this issue. I have never bought a new computer for any reason other than mine becoming entirely ruined, and I don't think I have ever had a cell phone that worked properly for more than a month after I got it, and even cars that I drive end up breaking in the most ridiculous ways.

Basically, this ^ is what happens every time I set foot near anything electronic. 

Better Than I Expected

Sorry there was no post yesterday; I was gone all day, and by the time I got back I just couldn't make myself deal with it. My mom, my sister and I went to Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. I know it sounds kind of boring, and honestly I didn't particularly want to go, but it was actually pretty great. They had some quite unusual plants there that I had never seen before, and the whole place smelled fucking amazing. The best part though, I think, was just the atmosphere of the place. There were a lot of people there (way more than I expected) but it still just had this pleasant, sort of serene vibe about it. Plus, apparently they're really into sustainability, and energy efficiency, and whatnot, which is really cool. I would actually kind of like to go back sometime and just hang out there. 

Anyway, on the way home the GPS took us some ridiculously long, complicated route that took twice as long and required us to pay four separate tolls, hence the lack of blog post.

Also, one of the rooms at Phipps had a bunch of glass sculptures that my sister and I agreed looked very much like the Slender Man. 

Why Fighters Don't Wear Makeup

Last night at class we worked on clinch, particularly different types of knees you can use. This resulted in me developing giant bruises covering my knees from practicing on the punching bag. So, there's my wound for the week.

Then, my instructor and I sparred at it for a while. Because clinch involves a lot of grabbing the other person's head and crushing it up against your body, and because my instructor was wearing a white shirt, he ended up looking like he had just come out of a coal mine. I think I'm probably the only person ever who wears that much eye makeup to martial arts class.

Interesting Development

You know what I realized yesterday? I only really hate the cold when I don't move around enough. As soon as it starts getting the least bit chilly, I am totally miserable. I feel like my whole skin is being eaten alive by the cold, and I just want to curl into a ball (which I sometimes actually do. It doesn't help much.) What I noticed though is that if I'm moving around enough, I don't even notice the cold. So what I'm thinking is, I need to find some way to stay really active all day. This ends up being a problem because a large part of my day involves sitting around, waiting until I have something to do. By the time I do have something to do, I'm freezing and don't want to do it anymore.  Whereas if I stay busy, I also stay warm and therefore motivated. I think I seriously need to find a job that requires actual physical labor, that would cover a pretty large portion of my day. And I need to do it soon because..........

Better Than Nothing

Today I started ripping up the carpet of death. By "started" I mean I took out about a two foot square right inside the doorway. I realized that, if I have to wait until I have the time and motivation to move all of the stuff out of my room and take the carpet up all at once, it was never going to happen. So I've decided that I'll just do it gradually, whenever I feel like it. I'll cut some pieces off, scoot the furniture a little, cut some more off, and then scoot it back. Sure, my room is going to look utterly absurd for a while but whatever, at least I'll eventually get rid of that fucking carpet.

No Offense

I learned something that I found rather interesting recently, and I just thought I would share it with all of you. You know the word "pussy" used to indicate that someone is weak, cowardly, whiny, etc.?Well, it turns out that, when used in this manner, this word has nothing to do with the word used to refer to a vagina. It is, in fact, a shortened version of the word pusillanimous, which actually means cowardly. I, personally, was pretty excited to find this out because I've always rather enjoyed using "pussy" to express the idea of cowardice. I always felt kind of bad using it though because I know some people are offended by the apparently sexist nature of it (perhaps I should have been too?). Now that I know it actually has nothing to do with implying anything negative about women, I feel like I am totally justified it using it

Although, I suppose it still could be considered to be offensive.......