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March and April have been decidedly strange months of my life. There have been many positive things as well as negative things going on, new opportunities arising and old commitments ending. A lot of change in such a short amount of time is a lot to endure, but I’ve been doing the best I can with it. However, there are certain things I need to put to rest as best as I can. Some will be easier than others, without question. Mouse It’s been a little over a month since I’ve had to put my best friend to sleep and not having him around is still hard to cope with. I do have a little memorial set up with his box of ashes, his paw print in plaster, one of his favorite toys, and a rolled up ball of his hair on a desk shelf, but it’s not the same as having him around to snuggle with me and spend lots of time with me. That said, Barclay is really stepping up to the plate. Not only does he resemble Mouse more than a bit, he’s starting to chatter like him and he’s becoming a lot more receptive to me picking him up and cradling him like I did Mouse. Also, Bootsie’s interacted with him now and she doesn’t like Barclay either – just like she didn’t like Mouse. Barclay’s a great cat, I love his energy, and he’s definitely filling the void that Mouse left behind. Still, I’ll always miss my old buddy a little bit, as he was with me from the ages of 11 to 30. In relation to that, I hope Barclay makes it until I’m at least 45. That’s crazy to think about, but it’ll be here before I know it. Then again, 15 seems like it was an eon ago. While I’ve enjoyed blogging about Mouse over the past month and sharing pictures, movies, and stories about him, I’ll be glad to get past the picture blogs. They’re time-consuming to put together, but I’m glad I did the work as they’ll definitely be good to look back on once I’ve had some more time to heal. Personal Training Monday was my last personal training session and this will be one of the easier things to give up, as it’s become rather unnecessary since I’m so close to my goal. I did personal training from May 2006 to January 2009 and from July 2009 to April 2010, so I’m pretty sure I know how to work out. I’ve gone from 305 to 195 and my leftover gut should be gone by the end of spring or early summer by sticking to my workout plan and not straying from my diet. I also notice that I get better results when I work by myself, so why pay money to get lesser results? My most recent trainer tried pretty hard to get me to come back, since he had a lot of fun working with me, though I wasn’t quite as fulfilled on the fun side of things. They were good workouts, but more than once I had lingering injuries after them. Not to mention that I shouldn’t be paying him for him to have fun. Doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it? His last effort to do so was last night while I was on the fifth part of my [endurance routine], telling me that there was a promotion that was a six-week competition wherein if I won, I would get the fee for the sessions back. In order to win, I would have to gain 15 pounds of muscle in six weeks. It’s certainly doable with abundant amounts of time and supplements, but I don’t have the former (obviously) and I don’t want to keep spending lots of money on something I don’t really need. I’m not training for competition or for a sport – I’m doing it because I enjoy working out and I need to get the weight off. He was also telling me that lifting weight would tighten up the loose skin I have, which goes in direct opposition to what Ting told me when I was training with him. Ting told me that cardio (specifically treadmill/running) would be the key to tightening up the skin. I know having extra muscle will help things burn faster, which is why I’m upping the amount of lifting I’m doing, but I’ve also noticed that the loose skin tightens up after doing my endurance workouts. I dropped 3.2 pounds from yesterday, so I must have done something right. There are too many incompatibilities to keep going with personal training, so I’m not. In more gym-related movement, I’m leaving my gym in June 2011 as the office is moving to a new building close to Chinatown that month. It’s interesting how that has worked out as that’s the month that my gym contract ends. It’s quite a hike from the new building from my gym (which is a time issue), so it’d be more feasible to go home and train there. Most of what I do can be done at home with dumbbells and my striking bag, so I could work out at home (and run around the neighborhood for cardio), saving time and money. Music As you likely know, I’ve got a ton of musical projects. However, outside of mixing a disc for Cyanidic Rapture that I finished last year, Philistine on the Sidewalk is likely the only project I’m going to work on this year. There’s a possibility for an Amaranthine Skies disc at the end of the year, but that all depends if time allows. There’s also the matter of trimming the fat. I have a lot of projects that are active that I can see going one more disc and then they’re done. Cyanidic Rapture fits that description, as does Skies of Cyanide. Concrete Mutant might fall under that category as well. I don’t think Voices of Epic Fail will even get that one disc, as VG grindcore with bad VG voice samples is better in concept than in execution. On the flipside of that, Amaranthine Skies isn’t going anywhere, though the output will be more ambient rock in its focus (save for possibly the next album). Mystic Nova will stick around, as it’s my only chiptune project and I still have a lot in that realm I’d like to explore. I also have one that might be launching next year that melds a lot of my heavier projects together, but I’m still figuring out the sound for that one. Last but not least, Philistine on the Sidewalk is going to be my main project for the foreseeable future (obviously), as there are a lot of different styles that I can cover and blend together with that project. I still want to be as prolific as I’ve been in the past, and considering the total of songs recorded so far this year is 11 for Philistine on the Sidewalk with nine in the works and one for Mystic Nova, I think I’m doing alright on the prolificity scale. Yes, I know that’s not a word. Everything Else As far as I can tell, I can stay the course with everything else and be doing well. I’d like to get a little more gaming in, since I’ve only done a little bit lately relating to [Nintendo-A-GoGo]. I haven’t touched my 360 in over three weeks and that’s definitely something I’d like to change this weekend. I need to spend a little more time working on websites as well, but that’s getting scheduled in for the non-blog days of the week and a little bit of the weekend. With a little more schedule organization and time, I can stop thinking about moving on and get back to moving forward. Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on April 28th, 2010. |
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