{"id":369,"date":"2008-12-23T19:55:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2008-12-23T19:55:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T19:55:58","slug":"5-random-things-pre-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/5-random-things-pre-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Random Things + Pre-resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Well, I was going to post on New Years Resolutions today, but it appears that I have more thinking to do.\u00a0 When I read over a resolution and don’t know exactly what I’m trying to say myself, I do believe I need to make some revisions.\u00a0 Goals don’t work so well when you don’t have a specific course of action to take to achieve them – like in 2006, when I said I wanted to lose weight, it totally didn’t happen.\u00a0 In 2007 when I decided I was going to count calories and work out at least 3 days a week to hopefully “de-porkify” (my own words from 2 years ago, good to know I had a sense of humor about it then too!!!), it totally did.\u00a0 So back to the drawing board with those, and I’ll post some Tuesday randomness instead.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 You ever just have one of those workout days where your body just feels like it “leveled up”?\u00a0 Like all of a sudden, what you were doing before is too easy and you have to go harder?\u00a0 I had that yesterday.\u00a0 All last week I’d actually had trouble completing my intervals so I took it a little easier, and weights just seemed heavy.\u00a0 I had a full rest day Sunday, I barely left the couch!\u00a0 Yesterday, I actually upped the recovery speed and went back to the same all-out speeds I was pushing myself to do the week before and didn’t feel like I was going to die.\u00a0 Then, I upped about half of my weights\/reps during strength.\u00a0 It felt really good!<\/p>\n

\"\"2.\u00a0 I seem to be slightly stuck around 163-164 the last two weeks.\u00a0 It might have something to do with cookies and candy replaced my breakfast foods half the mornings.\u00a0 I know its my fault for eating them, and I’ve definitely been moderating (I threw half the delicious cookie away today), but still – homemade goods are my weakness.\u00a0 And anyway – why does every holiday have to revolve around sweets or fattening food?\u00a0 First we have Valentines Day (chocolate and Guilt), then Easter (marshmallow and Lamb Cakes), then Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day (fatty meat and mayonnaise-y salads, plus BEERBEERBEER), then the End of the Year Trifecta which is Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.\u00a0 Then, of course, there’s NYE and St Patties, which are binge drinking days (I mean, what holiday isn’t, but these especially).\u00a0 I propose squeezing a few holidays in there we celebrate by gathering around a plate of veggies and lo-fat dip.\u00a0 Like, official “eat-like-a-rabbit” day.\u00a0 How about one where we eat grilled fish, brown rice, and veggies and go running?\u00a0 Who’s with me?<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 It’s a little sad to see a lot of people so frantic around the holidays (to the point where they drive and act rude) – but it makes me so happy we keep it low key.\u00a0 It’s just my parents, Zliten and I having stouffers lasagna, playing games, and drinking some wine.\u00a0 Though it looks like a different sort of fun, I’m glad we’ve never had huge family Christmases.\u00a0 Helps that half the family is Jewish!<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Even after the great Grinching of 08 at work where they took away our Holiday break, I’ve accumulated enough time off I had to use by the end of the year, so I’m here until they shoo us away tomorrow, have Christmas off, have to come in a half day on the 26th, and then I’m off until Jan 2 (where I come in for one day and head out for the weekend).\u00a0 I still have a pretty nice long break (even if I should have been off starting the 19th!!!).\u00a0 Besides continuing the workouts and trying to not feed the inner cookie monster, I plan to scan some old photos, lose at least 1 day playing some sort of video game, organize my underwear and \"\"sock drawer, bag up all the clothes that are too big and donate them (and by donating them, I get 20% off so I HAVE to shop, hehe), have a good absinthe night, go rock climbing, go roller skating, figure out my new years resolutions, blog at least once or twice, and spend some quality time with Zliten, but that goes without saying.\u00a0 I am so exciting, I know…but sounds like fun to me.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 I dunno if I’ve pimped this yet on the blog, but if I haven’t it’s so worth it.\u00a0 Pandora<\/a> is a fantastic free streaming music service that will get you into music you never thought you’d like.\u00a0 You start a station with an artist you like, and thumbs up\/thumbs down music as it comes along.\u00a0 You can add artists or songs as well, and the station evolves over time, and with care and attention, 90% of the stuff that comes up will kick ass.\u00a0 It not only pays attention to artist and genre, but stuff like whether it has major\/minor\/augmented chords.\u00a0 Apparently, I like chick singers, upbeat music, lots of guitar, and augmented chords across quite a few genres.\u00a0 The best thing – no audio ads.\u00a0 Just banner ads which don’t interrupt the music.\u00a0 Go check it out!<\/p>\n

So, I’m not taking an “official” vacation over Christmas\/New Years from the interwebs, but I don’t expect posts to be as frequent until 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 So let me take this opportunity to wish everyone a joyous Christma-Hauni-Kwanza-Festivus-Whateverus, and a Nappy Who Beer!<\/p>\n

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