Random Things...

LetsHikeToday

I told my boss yesterday about moving to Georgia. I know it's early but I couldn't hold it in to her anymore. She's a great principal and I wanted her to know right away. She actually teared up because she doesn't want to lose me. She was amazing though. I felt guilty leaving mid school year because I have 29 little kiddos who depend on me and she made me feel so much better. She never questioned anything and just kept saying I will make another school better and she will miss me so much!

I cried. It kinda hit home that we'll be gone soon. I really enjoy my school, my kids, my team, and my principal. It's going to be hard.

On another note, I wanted to say a new pet peeve I have. I went to get coffee this morning and the lady behind me said, "I need a venti white chocolate mocha and give me a piece of lemon cake." Uh, you don't NEED that. Where are people's pleases and thank yous?????

calindi

Oh man, I'm SO GLAD you have such an understanding boss!  That's a really nice environment to work in.

I bought an ice coffee today and it had ice cubes made of coffee.  Fantastic!

I went to CrossFit this morning and the lady made me feel like crap because I couldn't do this one movement (like physically couldn't make myself do it) because my stomach muscles are so weak.  She basically told me there's no way my stomach muscles could possibly be that weak and I wasn't trying hard enough, and that there are hugely fat people who join who can do that movement.  Uh, lady, I'm not joking - I can't do it right now!  Not that I can't do it ever, just not right now until I build my stomach muscles up a bit.  Why don't we scale it down to a movement I can actually do so I can improve rather than belittling me and make me feel like crap?

Oh, and in happier news - see my ticker?  One year from today I'll be marrying the best guy I've ever met!  Yippee!!!

LetsHikeToday

Yay!

So tell me about crossfit. Is this through a gym?

calindi

Yeah, CrossFit is a gym.  They call it a "box" instead of a "gym" since they don't want to be confused with "globo gyms" as they call the places where people just do repetitious workouts with the goal of looking good rather than being fit.  CrossFit is about full body functional fitness.  They don't like scales, they don't like measuring, they don't like BMI.  What they like is being able to do functional movements with strength and skill.  It mixes weight lifting, stretching, gymnastics, core strength, and agility.  Each day is a different work out, and it can be scaled down to someone like me who just can't do most of the things they expect me to do just yet.  Like yesterday they had a rope climb - instead, I did jumping pull ups.  I can't do pull ups normally, so you jump up to the bar and let yourself down slowly.  It's still really hard! 

So you show up for a class, and they have everyone do the same workout (though scaled to different levels, as I mentioned).  They start with a warm up, which is usually brief running (like a quarter mile) and some stretching stuff and agility exercises like you might do for soccer practice - high knees, butt kicking, 'toy soldiers' where you kick your feet up to touch your hands.  Then they do the workout, which is either a set amount of reps and sets (so, like today, it was 5 deadlifts, then 15 toes-to-bar, which means you hang on the bar and use your stomach and back to touch your toe to the bar - uh, not happening, so I just did knees to chest while hanging from the bar.  Repeat 5 times) and they time it so you compete if you want based on time - you mark your time and weight on the board if you want.  Or they do an "AMRAP" which means "As Many Reps As Possible" where you have a set amount of time and you count how many sets you were able to do.  So they had 3 standing rows, 3 sumo deadlift high pulls, 3 front squats, 3 push presses, and 3 back squats, then you had to either do 15 double-unders (where you jump rope and it goes under twice between each time you touch the ground) or 40 normal jump rope swings.  And you had to do as many sets as possible of that in 20 minutes.  Ouch!  I got 9 done.

LetsHikeToday

Are these places all over the country?

calindi

Yep, literally everywhere!  Google "CrossFit" and the nearest city or your zipcode, and I'd be shocked if one doesn't show up.  They aren't cheap, but man they're effective!  It's generally a really good group of people, though some of the trainers are meathead asshats at my gym.  I think that goes along with living in Miami, though, to some extent.  People here kind of suck in general.

KendallR10

Awww :] Are you going to be working when you move?

You should write a letter to your class after you move. I think it would mean a lot to them

My pet peeve is my butt right now. I fell a few weeks back off of a bench and my butt still hurts. and not like an ow it hurts. Its sometime so bad I want to cry

calindi

Kendall, sounds like you may have chipped or broken a bone in your tailbone area.  I did that ages ago when I fell skiing - did a double flip and landed butt-down on a wooden pole!  Ouch!  Anyway, there's not a whole lot you can do except ice it.  Get one of those cushions with the hole in the middle?  Brookstone sells one that's a lot more subtle than the traditional inflatable donuts - it's a memory foam square with the bit cut out where your tailbone goes.  I use it still when I fly long distances since even years later it hurts sometimes.

KendallR10

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[QUOTE]Kendall, sounds like you may have chipped or broken a bone in your tailbone area.  I did that ages ago when I fell skiing - did a double flip and landed butt-down on a wooden pole!  Ouch!  Anyway, there's not a whole lot you can do except ice it.  Get one of those cushions with the hole in the middle?  Brookstone sells one that's a lot more subtle than the traditional inflatable donuts - it's a memory foam square with the bit cut out where your tailbone goes.  I use it still when I fly long distances since even years later it hurts sometimes.
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</div><div>Thats the thing.. I don't have a tail bone. They removed it when I was 6 after I fell and broke it just right that they told my mom if they we're to leave it and I was to give birth it could hurt the baby. I'm wondering if it was a bone spur that I broke this time. </div><div>
</div><div>It doesn't hurt so much sitting its sleeping and walking around

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LuluP82

C, your crossfit gym sounds so much...less welcoming than my old one.

At my old one, you had to do a month of Foundations with all other beginners. THis was to learn movements and meet the coaches, etc. After that, you could join the group classes, but everyone was SO NICE and understanding (i.e. after I fell during a WOD, I became TERRIFIED of box jumps over 12"; I was never pressured to do them. I was also afraid of the climbing rope (not sure why) and couldn't do double unders very well or handstands....) I think if I had your gym, I'd have quit by now! THey need to truly SCALE to YOU, not to what other people have been able to do in the past.

calindi

Kendall, that's so strange!  Definitely not your tailbone then!  If it still hurts in a week or so, maybe get an X-Ray to make sure you didn't do something else?  Talk to a doctor, maybe you'd even need an MRI to make sure you didn't pinch a nerve or something.  Good luck and feel better!

Lulu - I'm really fed up with the morning trainers being asshats.  FI goes with me in the morning, and I'm really grateful for him, but even he doesn't quite understand how much I need to scale down some of these workouts!  I like the trainer who did our 101 class (one week, in the evenings) but he only works in the evenings and I'd rather get it out of the way in the morning.  The evening classes usually have 50-60 people, so it's super crowded and you always end up with the 'gunners' (to use a law school term) who throw their weights around and do jump rope in the middle of the damned box where it smacks everyone in the face.  Yeah...

I think it's a Miami thing, to be honest.  People here suck in general.  I just chalk it up to one more reason I want to get the heII out of this city ASAP!

KendallR10

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[QUOTE]Kendall, that's so strange!  Definitely not your tailbone then!  If it still hurts in a week or so, maybe get an X-Ray to make sure you didn't do something else?  Talk to a doctor, maybe you'd even need an MRI to make sure you didn't pinch a nerve or something.  Good luck and feel better! Lulu - I'm really fed up with the morning trainers being asshats.  FI goes with me in the morning, and I'm really grateful for him, but even he doesn't quite understand how much I need to scale down some of these workouts!  I like the trainer who did our 101 class (one week, in the evenings) but he only works in the evenings and I'd rather get it out of the way in the morning.  The evening classes usually have 50-60 people, so it's super crowded and you always end up with the 'gunners' (to use a law school term) who throw their weights around and do jump rope in the middle of the damned box where it smacks everyone in the face.  Yeah... I think it's a Miami thing, to be honest.  People here suck in general.  I just chalk it up to one more reason I want to get the heII out of this city ASAP!
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firsttimersluck

Kendall- I've done that before.. .I doubt anything is BROKEN, but you probaby bruised a bone.. Which sucks because it will last for a few WEEKS (ugh) but bruised is better than broken.

Hike- Oh yay! Well... boo that you have to leave your work that you love so much.. BUt that's so great that she was so okay with it. I know that schools are a touchy thing to leave and you can really upset other teachers/principal by doing that.. That's so great that she is  supportive.

Uh yeah.. I worked at Starbucks for 4 years. Rarely did I get a please OR thank you.. Never did I get both. :P 

My pet peeve right is people that refuse to type in the numbers on a credit card because the swiping isn't working.
I was getting froyo and the chick seriously swiped my USAA card about 20 times before she was like
 " Um..it's not working. Do you have another card? "
(this already irritate me because that sucker has a 20g limit that we are FAR from hitting)
me: The card is valid, the strip is just finicky. Type in the numbers manually.
Her: *sigh* well.. okay.. I guess I can try that.. It just takes so much time...

(really.. ? more time than trying to swipe it 20 times and then ask me for a new card and then waiting for me to search for a new card? I think not)
The card works. DUH.
I take my card back and she huffs and says as I am leaving
"That just took so much extra time... "
Like I inconvenienced her?!!? are you effing KIDDING ME?!?!?!!
Anyone that has ever worked retail has had those finicky cards that don't like swiping so ya just type in the 16 numbers. it's not that difficult. It happens all the time. Wtf was this chicks problem?! omgosh... It angers me just to recant the story lol.

KendallR10

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[QUOTE]Kendall- <strong>I've done that before.. .I doubt anything is BROKEN, but you probaby bruised a bone.. Which sucks because it will last for a few WEEKS (ugh) but bruised is better than broken</strong>. Hike- Oh yay! Well... boo that you have to leave your work that you love so much.. BUt that's so great that she was so okay with it. I know that schools are a touchy thing to leave and you can really upset other teachers/principal by doing that.. That's so great that she is  supportive. :) Uh yeah..<strong> I worked at Starbucks for 4 years. Rarely did I get a please OR thank you.. Never did I get both. :</strong>P  My pet peeve right is people that refuse to type in the numbers on a credit card because the swiping isn't working. I was getting froyo and the chick seriously swiped my USAA card about 20 times before she was like  " Um..it's not working. Do you have another card? " (this already irritate me because that sucker has a 20g limit that we are FAR from hitting) me: The card is valid, the strip is just finicky. Type in the numbers manually. Her: *sigh* well.. okay.. I guess I can try that.. It just takes so much time... (really.. ? more time than trying to swipe it 20 times and then ask me for a new card and then waiting for me to search for a new card? I think not) The card works. DUH. I take my card back and she huffs and says as I am leaving "That just took so much extra time... " Like I inconvenienced her?!!? are you effing KIDDING ME?!?!?!! Anyone that has ever worked retail has had those finicky cards that don't like swiping so ya just type in the 16 numbers. it's not that difficult. It happens all the time. Wtf was this chicks problem?! omgosh... It angers me just to recant the story lol.
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</div><div>I always say please and thank you to them :] I think its rude not too. </div><div>
</div><div>I hope nothing is broken. Its just painful to sleep

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LuluP82

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[QUOTE]Kendall, that's so strange!  Definitely not your tailbone then!  If it still hurts in a week or so, maybe get an X-Ray to make sure you didn't do something else?  Talk to a doctor, maybe you'd even need an MRI to make sure you didn't pinch a nerve or something.  Good luck and feel better! Lulu - I'm really fed up with the morning trainers being asshats.  FI goes with me in the morning, and I'm really grateful for him, but even he doesn't quite understand how much I need to scale down some of these workouts!  I like the trainer who did our 101 class (one week, in the evenings) but he only works in the evenings and I'd rather get it out of the way in the morning.  The evening classes usually have 50-60 people, so it's super crowded and you always end up with the 'gunners' (to use a law school term) who throw their weights around and do jump rope in the middle of the damned box where it smacks everyone in the face.  Yeah... I think it's a Miami thing, to be honest.  People here suck in general.  I just chalk it up to one more reason I want to get the heII out of this city ASAP!
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C, that's so funny, I actually like Miami! It's one of the only 3 cities in the US I'd consider actually making "home". But, I have only lived there for a few months at a time, so maybe that's why? I travel there quite a bit though...maybe I've been lucky!

Those people do sound obnoxious. I think I was just super lucky with my first box, when we moved to DC I also never found one I loved...and they don't even have one nearby now.