I started writing this on Saturday so in my mind it still counts as a Snippet Saturday post. To those of you that will criticize this (PTE Rick), I'll give my standard reply. "Bite Me!"
Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Benton County Jail is starving their inmates by supplying them with a meager 3,000 calories a day. At least, that's what Broderick Laswell is claiming. He has lost more than 100 pounds since being incarcerated and is all the way down to 308 pounds. He claims that it's starvation and insists that he isn't exercising to lose weight. He has filed a lawsuit.
He'd hate life on the outside. I average 2,700 calories a day and exercise for a couple hours every day. I'd probably gain weight if I ate 3,000 calories a day and didn't exercise but who would want to do that?
Broderick Laswell would.
Thanks to PTE Rick for sending me the link for this article.
Trey and I had a nap. At least I had a nap. Trey might have or he might have faked it until I fell asleep. Either way, he was up before me. All of you that have or have had an adventurous 4 year old boy know this almost always leads to a good story.
Before the nap, he asked what time it would be over. I picked 3:00 just because I figured we'd be up by then. He was. I wasn't but he came in and said, "Dad, it's 3 o'clock. Time to get up." I looked at the clock and it was 3 on the dot.
I blearily went to the bathroom for the morning pee or post-sleep pee, whatever you want to call it. When I came back out, I got my first real look at Trey.
He had used the assortment of permanent markers from my desk to paint his hands, feet, face, and hair. I just stood there and stared, trying to figure out what to do.
"I'm sorry dad," he said.
He was cute. I just stood there. I think he was worried that I was mad because I wasn't saying anything. I was actually trying to figure out how I was going to keep us *both* out of trouble when his mom got home.
It turns out that permanent marker does wash off skin with soap and a fair amount of scrubbing. I did a pre-soak with him like I would with dishes after lasagna. I put him in a tub full of hot water and added soap right to the water and let him play for a while before coming in for the scrubbing. It worked and neither of us got into trouble.
I'm quadrupling the time I'm going to be spending teaching karate this summer. I am also opening up my classes for new students. I haven't picked up new students in a long time because I was focusing on teaching my black belt students what they needed to know. I've run into a problem though and so I have decided to let new people into the class.
"Hello. My name is Success Warrior and I'm an exercise addict."
And as all exercise addicts know, that means that I am also an equipment addict. Daddy needs a new pair of shoes. Two pair of shoes really. I need new karate shoes because my current karate shoes are starting to fall apart. I need some cross trainers too because I don't have any and I do a lot of cross training. I tried to do Kenpo X the other day in my walking shoes. Bad, bad, bad. I'm better off barefoot than risking rolling my ankle.
And SelectTech dumbbells.
Must. Have. SelectTechs.
Must. With the stand.
This means that I need money. Not just any old money but new money. Tia is cool with me buying any exercise equipment that I feel I *need* to feed my addiction with one little catch. It can't come out of our current income.
That means that I need to bring in new money and so I am allowing new students into my class and adding fitness training to the regimen.
This addiction of mine is bad enough that I'm not above asking perfect strangers for help. As such, I have created a chip-in for the SelectTechs and put it at the top of the right side bar. Don't bother lecturing me or suggesting a 12-step program to help me quit exercising. I'm not at that point in my life yet.
When I have raised the money needed in whatever manner necessary, I'll post pictures of me with each new piece of equipment that I buy.
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