Casita Klatsch

A Goal Achieved

With today's workout at the gym, I have now exceeded 1,000,000 lbs of total weight lifted since I began tracking my workout progress at Bodybuilding.com.  I started logging in my workouts in April of this year, although I've been going to the gym for much longer.  Anyway, I doubt the 1 million mark means all that much in the grand scheme of things, but it was fun to see it in my workout data.

The Incredibly Wonderful, Sexy Shrinking Man

I just have to do it, especially because he hit a weight-loss milestone a couple of days ago.

Ladies and Gents, I present to you my beautiful hubby.  I am so proud of him.

Last year

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Last week

Tucson, cont'd

I'm grumpy.  Fucking grumpy.  It's this humidity.  I'm so tired of sweating and oozing I could scream.  In fact,  I did scream a little when I got home from the gym just now.  Wonder if Homer heard.

[End of rant]

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On a happier note, I'm feeling pretty damn good about my gym progress.  I slacked off a little after the 4th of July, and I ate too much crap during the holiday.  But now I'm back on that horse and going regularly. 

Bodyspace has a great feature that lets you track your progress online.  You enter workout details each time, and it gives you graphs and other data that let you see how you're doing over time.  One of the things it does is calculate your 1-repetition maximum (1RM), based on the weight you lift and the number of repetitions/sets.  That provides a very quick way to chart one's progress.  It's exciting to see the 1RM go up. 

Call it vanity if you want.  I call it fun...and good health.  And it keeps me off the streets.  Like there's a danger of that.

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After the gym, knowing the buses run very infrequently on a Saturday, I took a stroll around Presidio Park in downtown Tucson.  More camera fun.

Things I've Missed, Pt 1

I have been having some minor epiphanies. It is swell to rediscover things I have lived without for a few years now.

Blueberry Pop-Tarts! And look, my $10 toaster from Target even has a pre-set for them!

It's nice to know I'm getting my vitamins and minerals...and more sugar than the recommended daily allowance for a family of 6.  [sidebar:  What's up with the disturbing figure popping out of the "O"? And what's s/he holding?]

 

Red tomatoes from the supermarket! (See, my beloved Aussies, red tomatoes. Not green. Not pink. RED.)  Herdez salsa casera.  Trader Joe's.

Movies by mail! 

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I signed up for a two-month membership at a downtown gym. It's nice and close, so I don't have to deal with an interminable busride. I miss my neighborhood gym in Surry Hills, but I am very glad to be back in the routine. I'm not sure how this gym remains in business. It always seems empty when I go. Maybe it's a drug-front for illegal steroids. Nothing like prolonging those urban stereotypes.

After my workout, I had about a half-hour to kill while waiting for the bus, so I walked around the Tucson CBD for a while. 

Saguaro in bloom

Closer view

Public art

The Wells Fargo Building

Closer view

More public art

Tucson's newest public parking garage, a textbook example of tragic postmodernesque urban architecture

The Ronstadt* Transit Center, providing daily refuge to hundreds of vagrants and panhandlers

* The Ronstadt family have been an integral part of the Old Pueblo since the late 19th century.  Linda herself hails from Tucson.  The city has gotten a lot of mileage out of that. 

Hydra, one of my favorite "alternative" shops in Tucson, and where I got all my piercings done a few years ago.

Even more public art