July 15th, 2008
I saw an interesting site today: one hundred push ups. It presents a simple fitness plan that purportedly enables a person to do 100 consecutive push ups by the end of six weeks. From the site:
Think there’s no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achieve this goal!
Boy, I would love the ability to do 100 good-form push ups at a time! Push ups have long been an arch-nemesis of mine. Even on a good day, I can’t do that many. Now that I have a chronic shoulder problem, I’m basically back to square one.
So take a look at the plan. What do you think? Does it make sense, or is it nuts? (The site seems a little odd, in that this plan is its only component.) Is it worth giving it a try?
July 12th, 2008
I knew Jeff (my older brother) worked at Sony Playstation, but I didn’t know his title was Director of Marketing until recently. (I asked him which titles he was working on, and he said, “All of them.” Bad sister!) And I knew he just got a new job at Atari, but I didn’t know he would be the frickin’ VP of Marketing there. But search on “Jeff Reese Atari” and there’s page after page about the news:
Atari Inc. Appoints Jeff Reese as Vice President of Marketing
To say that I’m bursting at the seams with pride would be an understatement. Even though the new job means Jeff and his family will be moving to the east coast, I’m beyond happy for him and all the opportunities ahead.
Dude! My brother works for Atari!!! How cool is that?
June 30th, 2008
This post was going to be about kung fu, and how it completely kicked my ass tonight. My face turned so red that one of the sifus made me sit out some of the kicks. I wasn’t going to sit out — I was going to keep going even if it meant passing out or throwing up or otherwise making a fool of myself. But he had more respect for my body than I did, and I had just enough wisdom to listen to him, and I didn’t pass out or throw up. Lesson? Sometimes you need to push through barriers, and sometimes you need to respect them.
But that’s not what this post is about.
No, this post is about the peanut butter and jelly sandwich I made for dinner after class and how, for the first time in my entire life, I added banana slices to the sweet perfection and found transcendence.
How have I lived so many years and never had banana with my pb&j? How?!?
In addition to adding a whole new level of flavor, adding banana transforms the meal into something healthy. (Okay, so not really. But in my head it does! And really, what’s more important than that?)
Peanut butter and jelly… with banana.
Oh, yes. That’s what this post is about. Sweet, sweet transcendence.
June 29th, 2008
No one will care about this except me, but the Kings traded Lubomir Visnovsky to Edmonton. I really liked Lubo! He was one of my favorite players on the team. Waaaah!
Now that I’ve been following hockey for two seasons, I see how easy it is to get attached to not just the team, but the individual players as well. I’ve never followed a team sport this closely before — to the point where I’m checking news websites daily, even off-season. I feel like I’m just learning things that other sports fans have known their whole lives, like how to deal with various shades of disappointment. :)
It’s strange, coming into a sports obsession so late in life, but I’m grateful for it. I feel like I can finally understand a huge part of the human population that had previously been incomprehensible to me. And that can only be a good thing.
But for now? *sniff* Bye-bye, Lubo!
June 29th, 2008
Jade Tiger is now available on Fictionwise!
I believe this is my first piece of fiction available in that format. My favorite part is all the reviews quoted in the listing — some of which I hadn’t seen before. (I was late in getting on the Google Alerts bandwagon.)
Speaking of ebooks, I’ve been rethinking my book-buying habits lately. I live in a tiny condo, and my book shelves are overflowing. (As are the roughly eight boxes of books I’ve been storing in one of my only two closets.) I cull books from the herd regularly, but the survivors multiply quickly. My book-buying habits have got to change soon, or I’ll be found dead under growing pile of trade paperbacks.
Has anyone made the switch to ebooks for the majority of their library? Is that even possible?
And where the heck is Apple’s slick solution to yet another one of my lifestyle problems?
