A moment to think

I am tired. This time of the night it’s when I feel the full weight of the tiredness in me and that is the least to say; after an entire journey doing so many translations all day long, sitting in front of a computer, writing full speed, I get home, rest for 10 minutes and get ready to go to the gym.

I always try to eat well and hydrate a lot and be attentive to fruits and some extra things I can eat to increase the energy. I read somewhere that the pear is one of the fruits we must eat before the work out. The apple would be the ideal fruit for that but since I can’t have it, I replace it with the pear that is also good, it is not a straitjacket.

I haven’t eaten any fruits this week since I am kind of money-less and that makes things harder. Last week I did it to see how it might work and to tell the truth it is a great idea. This week that is halfway through I haven’t felt that my performance in the gym have diminished, all the contrary, I feel with more vigor  every time to train like it should be always: hard and with discipline.

Something really curious happens. When I am at the gym I feel recharged, full of energy and will. I do my exercices and even though I get tired a bit always, which is natural, I don’t feel the debilitation like I couldn’t do anything more once I get out of there. Despite that I do really tough and demanding exercices,  I feel strong. When I leave the gym, the change is brutal. An hour late I already feel super tired that I can’t even carry my own soul.

With that tiredness, sitting in the computer to check emails, facebook and write here is really an odyssey. Sometimes I think I am demanding too much from me and I should take things easy. The work I do, sitting there writing with no stops in front of a computer it’s really exhausting, and to make it worse when I finish I go to the gym to train. It sounds like I were training double time, wearing out the double.

I wish I found a product or food that helps me recover after all the hard work for a day. My brother says I must have the product he has, I think it is Cell Tech or something like that, I am not sure. He says that can really help me big time for the muscular recovery and the energy, which is what I need. I prefere go natural first, that’s why I am trying with fruits and things like that, even though I don’t do it every day.

I try to recall if before I ended this tired and I think not. After gym I could easily go somewhere else or do something else without feeling this exhausted, all the contrary. I have thought of doing a test and go somewhere after my work ouy to see what happens. Nothing should happen because the tiredness after training can’t be so inmobilizing, because if it were, then the people that train at 5 in the morning couldn’t handle their day jobs.

I am going to be attentive to what can happen the coming days. However, I know the current job I have for the moment is really exhausting. My back hurts, again, for all the translations I must do at the speed of light, type at the speed of light. I would like to know how many calories I burn there.

I ran out of cheese

This world gives out pleasures I barely scape from and one of those is the food. So yummy, so assorted, so nutritious, so good the food, and lucky me I can eat almost anything because I have a metabolism that could make some women envious as they struggle to keep a good shape, when I don’t have to do the greatest effort to conserve the figure.

Lately I have had some close encounters of this world with the cheese, one of the food that makes my mouth water. There are times when I crave something with lots of cheese on so I have to run to a pizza place. If the budget holds me back from it, because I have to make it clear that I don’t always have the solvency to indulge myself,  I have to be content with a little serving of regular cheese I can get in the local convenience store and accompany with something else.

I have felt like trying to discover how many types of cheese can be to my liking; after all the variety is the soul of pleasure. Some weeks ago I bought some emmental cheese. When tasting it I inmediately rejected because it is too sweet. I gave it to my mother and apparently she liked it and of course, she is alwas happy that I give something to her.

After that, some days ago in that same area of cheeses in the supermarket another one was attracted to me, but I have to be sincere here, I bought it because it had a 15% discount; when ones has a reduced wallet like mine it is imperative to take advantage of these things without having to sacrifice the crave. I bought just a little since I didn’t want to repeat the experience of the emmental cheese that I dislike so much.

I couldn’t have made a better decision. It’s the Gouda cheese, a dairy delight that deserves all the flattery. I loved it, it fascinated me, what a yummy cheese. That same day I ate just a slice to savor it and take advantage of every bit of that flavor. Next day I had it with bread, and it remained as yummy as it is alone. Then the sad day came when I ran out of it. I didn’t share any of it with anybody, it was just mine. There are pleasures that are meant to not be shared.

2 days after that, I think, I was again in the supermarket and I inevitably got to the area of the cheeses. I searched among all those in case I could find my new best friend and cha chan! I found it…with discount again. There are dreams that do come true, and I believe the smaller it is the faster it takes to materialize. My happiness was in its pinacle and it all depended on a small piece of gouda cheese. If only everything else was so easy like indulging oneself with cheese.

Today was the sad farewell, the last good bye, the last slice resting in the fridge waiting to join me. I savored it with such  exquisiteness with such delight as if was a case of do or die, the last gouda cheese ever on earth. It’s not the end of the world but a pause to the shopping; my wallet went to reserve mode which means no more cravings…for now.

I feel so pleased when I indulge myself with these simple cravings that don’t require much. I can’t do it all the time, but  I can do it once in a while, and that is enough for me, at least for now until I become a millionaire and can have all the cheese I want, whenever I want and wherever I am, no matter if it doesn’t have a discount.

Looking pretty everywhere

When I go to the gym, I am not wearing any type of accesory; no rings, no earings, no watch, no nothing. I think there is a time and place for all those things. I feel more comfortable wearing only the basic stuff, a t-shirt, spandex pants, socks and shoes. Under wear first that all that, of course.

Many times I see girls wearing big earings when they are working out. It attracs my attention because I have a feeling that is all part of the eagerness to look and feel pretty everywhere every time, and the gym couldn’ be the exception being this  a place where the worshipping to a well formed body with right muscular proportions perfectly distributed creates an environment that demands much more beauty, from certain point of view.

Once upon a time, long long ago, I think 4 or 5 years ago, while I was training in a different gym, one of the boys whom I talked to once in a while noticed that little detail. He approached me, touched my ear very nicely and sweetly with one of his hand while smiling and saying: “Why don’t you wear earings? To not look pretty?” I replied: ” I come here to train not to look pretty”. And I smiled back.

Not wearing earings is also a preventive measure. There are girls that wear them too long or too round or too flamboyant and I don’t see any need of that. One goes to a gym to do some excercises, to move, to sweat, even to get a little messy hair, especially us women that have to be putting the hair away from the face constantly. The body needs to be unleash as much as possible and in total disposition to the excercises, putting aside things that are not required for that.

The other thing is the make up. There is one girl that reminds me so much of this rag dolls, for the way she does her hair and her make up to go working out. I know what I am talking about and realized that is total fresh make up, she doesn’t get there from work nor school neither something like that, it shows that she grooms for the gym. What’s the point of wearing make up for the gym? I don’t know whether I am being too severe or what but that is the last straw, in my humble opinion.

Off the hook clubbing time mixed with work out

Yesterday was a fantastic day, one of the most spectacular afternoons I have had in years, and I am not exagerating because really, it’s been years I don’t know what having fun is like, I don’t know what it is going on but well, I am glad that life presents these opportunities out of the blue.

I went working out,  as I do it every day, same time, same channel. I liked it that the gym was not that crowded, that way is better, I feel free to use the machines and weights without having someone waiting for them or using them. We were like 5 people in there or something like that, which is perfect.

The thing just turned out better when Paolo arrived, one of the few friends I have made in the gym. In the music world he is best known as DJ Morfo. He inmediately played his music to give it a little some atmosphere to the gym and make the exercises routine more pleasant. The electronic music get it all started. I was just beginning my routine so that was a plus to work out with more energy.

The bliss to see the gym with few people didn’t last that long because some more clients came over half an hour after that. That is something I have to accept, I am not paying to have the gym just for me. The trainer says we have to share in case the machines are taken, and that is not problem for me, I have done that before, I had to, because there are some days that the place is really full so there is no other way.

Paolo, or DJ Morfo, was working out really hard so he just let the music play. When he finished his routine, or actually I don’t know if he did finish, I think he didn’t, he started mixing music live. He brought his laptop and of course, his DJ software. I didn’t realize of it earlier but when the music seemed to have some changes that a CD can’t possibly hold. Fortunately Paolo has pretty good music taste so I was in total ecstasy listening.

I don’t know whether it was the music , the mix or what, but I was not tired at all, instead I was super excited doing my exercises, that are heavy and it hurst and everything, but I was happy. DJ Morfo was mixing in a flawless way and that is such a luxury for a local gym.

I have no idea what the others were thinking of if they liked it or what, but I felt like I was clubbing. The music was great, I even got to Paolo to request for a song with a vote of trust. The full music repertoire was awesome and I couldn’t have asked for something better than that, a DJ mixing live. Such a shame I couldn’t take any photos.

During a break off my work out, I entered the “cubicle” (that is for sure the little tiny reception of the gym) to take a look on the mixing thing. Yes, I saw some lists, some bars like to turn down and up the volume, some more things in the screem of the laptop but I didn’t understand a thing neither I asked, I didn’t want to distract the DJ that was so charming in providing us this great entertainment.

Wonderful friday, it’s the only thing I can say. At the end I was more energized than when I got there in the first place.

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