It's Saturday night

So I finished up week one of Insanity. I've spent a lot of the week sore but it's getting better every day. 

My memorial day weekend started out a little insane. I'm going on 37 hours awake with a 1 1/2 hour nap somewhere in the middle there.

It started yesterday at 8 am when I got up, did my work out, went to work, and then was gone for the evening until around 4:30a when I took my nap. I was up again at 5:45a to shower and get back to work, did my insanity work out for the day (which, btw, doing that shit on no sleep is truly insane. I'm surprised my heart didn't give out), showered and hung out with friends. Drove somewhere else to hang out with another friend..

And finally, after coming back home and watching the Season 3 finale to Breaking Bad, I am finding myself snuggled up in my oh, so cozy bed...

To be young.

Screw that.. young or not, I'm exhausted and this sucks. Sweet sleep, here I come.

Insane? Probably

By now everyone knows about the P90X workout.. if you haven't heard, the latest and greatest is the Insanity workout. Same results but in two months. Well, I've decided to take the "Insanity challenge" and, yes, I plan on fully committing to it. Yes, I'm on day 2 and the workout made me want to die. 

But this kind of brute force work out is the kind that I enjoy. Not to downplay yoga, pilates, and other workouts of that nature, but I don't have the patience. I've tried it. It's boring and I feel like I'm not accomplishing anything. But doing crazy fast running and jumping, sweating through my workout clothes, and smelling like a football player kinda gets me off.  I think it will be a good two months.

I did take a "before" picture but you will only get to see it if I stick with this and have an "after" picture to show for it. Wish me luck.

Rapture this

I'm going to keep this fairly brief...  

So everyone seems to be freaking out over the rapture in one way or another whether they believe it or not. Here is my argument against both sides. The date for this particular rapture was decided by this man, Harold Camping. He is a Christian radio broadcaster, aka some random guy who believes strongly enough in his faith to "spread the word". 

"In 1992, Camping published a book titled 1994?, in which he proclaimed that Christ's return might be on September 6, 1994. In that publication, he also mentioned that 2011 could be the end of the world." (This is from the wiki article, feel free to read up on his theories more.)

Here's my point: No, I don't think the rapture is going to happen tomorrow. For those of you that are religious, know your bible better. "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." Mathew 24:36 Clearly this means that some random dude is not going to have the answers.

For those of you that aren't religious, please stop ragging on Christianity as a whole. There is a small percentage of people who actually believe this crap and, although I am not religious myself, the entire faith doesn't deserve to take the fall for a few stupid people.

Nuff said.

Practice, practice, practice

My roommates and I all enjoy leaving our front door open on nice days. It lets the breeze in and our apartment gets somewhat poor light, so it basically doubles the amount of light coming in from that side of the room.

Unlike my roommates, I don’t work a M-F, 9-5 job so I spent a lot of afternoons hanging out on my laptop in the living room doing whatever.

And unlike my roommates, I have discovered the one fatal flaw to this otherwise very pleasant activity: I can’t avoid anyone!

I am forced to interact with every shmuck who comes by with a religion or trade to sell. It’s really hard to convince someone that you’re not home when they can clearly see you through the open doorway sitting on the sofa. So I have to be somewhat pleasant, get off my lazy ass, and go speak with whomever and try to politely turn them away in the shortest amount of time possible without being a jerk and slamming the door in their face.

The only bright side is that I’m starting to get really good at it. Practice makes perfect.

HBwhoa

You think I would have learned by now not to leave HBO running on the TV late at night without paying attention. One moment I'm enjoying Sherlock Holmes practically muted in the background while I surf the Internet and the next moment I look up to see..

Bikini Frankenstein
"She's alive...and looking for luscious lovers! Dr. Frankenstein's infamous science experiment takes a sexy turn when he rouses a dead exotic dancer with a penchant for passion in this salacious film."

(everyone knows you watch it for the plot)

Thank you Skinemax.

2 hours of delusion

I have once again made the trek from LA to SD. It was a super long weekend and I am done for. To put how tired I am in perspective, when I was packing my car up for the drive I thought I saw a stag standing in our car port. Yea, there wasn't..

So I'm going to share some of the random thoughts that were thought on this delirious ride home (at least, what I can remember).

1. Relationships are like running. Whether short or long, they will all run their course. Most of us hope to find that partner that you just keep running with until you (or they) finally drops dead of a heart attack.

2. There is a Neon Tree's song called In the Next Room. The chorus goes like this:

Ooh, I lose control
When I hear your body move
Through the walls
In the next room

Essentially, they are talking about some creeper listening to his neighbor having sex all the time and it turns him on. There is also:

I won't take
No no no no no no no no
Oh, I lose controlSo he's going to rape her, eventually. For the win.

3. That's all I've got. I was trying to think really hard about everything that went through my head in the past two hours but my brain has pretty much ceased functioning at this point. I'm a little disheartened by this because I feel like I had more stuff to say...


2 fun facts that I just learned while finishing up this post:

A. Apparently I only type with my first finger on my right hand (and all the fingers on my left hand). I never noticed but now that it's been pointed out to me, I totally do.

B. The QWERTY layout of keyboards was invited way back in the day to actually slow down typists. The machines couldn't keep up with the typing and so they jumbled the letters to mess people up. Chew on that food for thought.

Life, death, and everything inbetween

It's been quite some time since I've written! I got caught up in a somewhat mundane time of my life and didn't feel like there was much worth writing about. Today turned out to be interesting however.

My work is located at the major intersection of Laurel Canyon and Ventura. While at work today, we started hearing a ton of police sirens go by. Next thing we know, Laurel Canyon is shut down and there's police everywhere. Apparently there was a murder suspect who was spotted at a nearby elementary school. It was pretty crazy to sort of be able to witness it so close by. That being said, you can do a quick read up on the conclusion to this semi-epic saga here.

If you didn't get it, that was the "death" part of the title. Here's the life and everything else part summed up in two stories.

Firstly, I stepped on a screw today. Not a tack, a pin, or a nail, but a screw. Here's what I learned about that... stepping on a screw is much worse because of the ridges. They dig in a little more. Honestly, it hardly went into my foot but it was enough that the ridges caught and I had to pull it out. It hurt a lot, I think more so than a smooth object because, I imagine, it tore up the skin more upon exit. Moral of the story: if you are going to step on something, anything but a screw. I'll be double checking later to make sure I am up to date with my tetanus shot (btw, who knew tetanus was spelled tet-anus? I realize my mind works like a 12 yr old boy sometimes).

Second, I went in to renew my drivers license the other day. I had to actually go into the DMV and go through all the trouble of a new photos, eye test, and.. a written test! My god. Everything went smoothly until then. You answer 15 questions and have to get at least 12 correct. I am pretty confident in my driving but that's different than answering questions about it.

So I get the test in front of me and start going through the questions. About 4-5 in I am reading and there's a few that cause me to think "What the fuck?! I have no idea!". So I stress over the next 10 questions and then get in line to get checked. Both of the people in front of me FAIL and have to, not only retake the test, but pay AGAIN and start the whole process over. By the time I got up to have my test checked, I am all but hyperventilating thinking that I am going to get four wrong and have to do this whole shit all over again.

Well, I did pass thank god. But it was an incredibly stressful 5 minutes of my life. I'm pretty sure I had to do all that since it was my first license since being 21 but I hope I don't have to do that again for awhile.

That's kinda it unfortunately.. hopefully something terribly exciting will happen soon that will be cause for a more interesting post.