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Fitness: I was down to 196.6 yesterday, but I’m back up to 197.8 today. I did do a rather brutal weightlifting routine last night with pyramid sets (12, 10, 8, 10, 12) and my muscles are pretty exhausted this morning, so that’d be my guess as to why I’ve got the extra weight. I’ll do my best to be good with my diet this weekend, so I can get back to 195. As a side note, I should mention that I haven’t been this sore from a workout in a long time. Who needs personal training when I can get these kind of results on my own? On to righting things! |
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As you may have guessed, having to put my cat Mouse to sleep after having him for 18 and a half years was a major blow to me, as not having him in my life any more left a lingering sense of pointlessness on all of my actions. There were things that I wanted to do these last two weekends that I couldn’t cope with doing the weekend he was put to sleep, and that I didn’t give a crap about doing last weekend. Time does heal wounds and I snapped out of my funk earlier this week. I’m finally ready to get back to work, and I sure do have a lot of work to do! Making Lists I’ve always been an advocate for making lists, but after two weekends of not doing much of anything, I have to look at the list of things I want to do this weekend and laugh. There are over 20 things on the list, and while a few of them aren’t especially time-consuming, they’re all things that need to be done. Most of the important stuff is finance-related, especially since I still haven’t done my taxes. I usually do them in March, but with Mouse falling ill and having to be put to sleep last month, that didn’t happen. Luckily, they’re not going to be too complex and I should be able to get them proofed and done in under an hour (fingers crossed). I’ve also got a ton of music stuff to do this weekend, as well as some around the house stuff and I really need to remember to take a shower this weekend. I totally blanked on it the last two weekends, but as I said earlier, my head wasn’t on straight. Doing What You Enjoy For about a week after Mouse’s passing, I couldn’t work on music. I had no interest in picking up an instrument or sequencing sounds or composing anything. It took me until last Thursday to start working on a new Philistine on the Sidewalk track and it’s almost complete now. It’s a tribute to Mouse and features recordings of him playing my DX7 keyboard, purring like a motorboat, and will have more samples of him added once I record them onto my computer from my hand-held tape recorder. Of course, it’s got all the usual elements too – drum loops, thick bass, and reverse reverb guitar. I might add a little more to it before all’s said and done. I’ve also been digging more into the financial side of things now that I’ve started my dividend investment plan and I’ve been doing a lot of research into the field. My stock picks definitely don’t fall in line with most folks’ choices, but there are things that I like about the companies that I’ve chosen to invest in and I see continued prosperity for them into the future. I may end up starting a site talking about stock picks in the future, but it won’t be until I’ve filled out my portfolio more and get more comfortable in the waters of Wall Street. I need to sneak some gaming in too, as I need to work on the Nintendo-A-GoGo site and there are some more old VG songs I want to cover, so it would help to immerse myself in the games that contain them. It’s all for research purposes, I assure you – none of that “having fun with games” for me, no sir. Commemorating a Fallen Friend I’ve heard the best way to commemorate losing a loved pet is to get a new one, because it’s a sign that the old pet was a treasured companion and that it will be worth the time it takes to develop a new relationship with another one. I know that a new cat won’t be the same as Mouse and will have his own quirks, but as long as he is affectionate and is open to sleeping on my bed (Bootsie won’t because it’s hard for her to jump up there), I’m good and will be more than happy to reciprocate as much affection as he can stand. It is going to have to be a male cat, because Bootsie does not get along with other female cats. She kind of tolerated Mouse, but she got into a knockdown dragout with City Kitty one time that she snuck into our house. City Kitty sliced open one of the pads on the bottom of Bootsie’s foot and she left a little blood trail around the house. That put the kibosh on letting City Kitty back in rather quickly. I do have a few cats at a local shelter in mind that I’d like to check out, thanks to seeing their pictures and reading about their personalities on Petfinder. The place that has them is a no-kill shelter that my mom has contributed money to and she worked with a woman that volunteers there, so I’m sure it’s a reputable place. Of course, if I do get a new cat this weekend, that’s what Monday’s blog is going to be about. I should change the name of the blog to “For the Love of Cats” and be done with it. The Future I’m sure the future’s going to be littered with potholes that throw me off track, but as long as I can right myself and get back to business, life will go on as well as it does. Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on April 9th, 2010. |
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