Although I've kept trying about once/twice a week since my "injury", this past Saturday was the first time I felt ok doing a workout. Last night, I felt pretty damn good, even though I'm nowhere near where I was a month ago. At least I feel that I can get back into things and start ramping them up again. Hopefully, within a couple weeks I'll be back where I was, as relates to strength.
I also got my farmer's walk handles modified to a longer length - the bars I had originally were about 1.5 ft. too short, and when I tried to walk quickly with them, my calves would hit the plates. They're now each at 5 ft. long, which give me plenty of room for both Olympic plates, and the standard weights with which I started. Within the next couple weeks, I'm going to see how much I can lift with these bars - the standard competition weight (per hand) for the weight class in which I'd aim to compete is #240 per hand. So far, the best I've done at home with these new bars are #157.5 ea.
There's not much else going on - I've visited a few profiles on the dating site, but haven't had the nerve/energy to write anyone yet. Work has been hectic, and it's been really draining me. 50-60 hrs a week, had to work until 1am one night, then also come in on a Sunday the next week. It's entirely the company's fault too, which just frustrates me to no end. My coworker & I have more than doubled the capacity of our lab in the last year, but the company knew they were bringing in probably 2-3 times more work this year than last, and they didn't bother to hire anyone last year so we could have them trained up by now, so we're stuck dealing with this overload shit. And every day, somebody does something stupid that makes us do duplicate work, or they add more for us. We can do approximately two work orders per day on average - a few days ago, we were more than two weeks late on several jobs, with a total of 23 jobs due within 7 business days. As if that wasn't enough... in the last two days, we've gotten requests for 25 more jobs (not to mention the random other requests)! We now have somewhere around 50 jobs, all due within the next 13 business days. In talking (ok, arguing loudly) with one of the directors recently we tried to show him the problem; as of that day we had a total of 330 hrs of work that needed to be done, and if both of us worked 24hrs a day, 7 days a week until the due dates, we could only work 316 hrs. And it's only gotten worse in the last several days. I'm overwhelmed, I'm frustrated as fuck, and it's all I can do to keep my head straight. I'm fortunate that when I get home, I'm pretty well able to let it go. but I'm still burnt out. I can't wait to get past this wave of projects so I can mellow out & maybe feel like contacting some of these online profiles. (Ha! You'd forgotten that's what this paragraph started out about, didn't you!? Me too...)
Also, I came home to a note on my door tonight form the next-door neighbor lady, asking if I could help her hook up a new tv she was buying. She's 70 & has a bad back, so I said sure. She's also moving to a new apartment this weekend, and had boxed up tons of books/dvds she was going to have to get rid of, so she offered me my choice of anything I'd like. I picked up a few fantasy books, some poetry books, and a couple of dvds in lieu of payment for helping out. I offered to help her out, if needed, with any of the big/heavy items if her friends couldn't handle them. Picking up heavy things is about all I'm good for! ;-)
9:57 p.m. - 2013-07-23
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