December 7, 2014
I woke up this morning at 9:30 pain free. So after two cups of drippy Joe, I made my way down to the green room for a workout. It's been a while but I was feeling pretty good.
I did twelve sets of ten reps of each of these four exercises
Belly Crunches
Side Lift in the prone position
Front Lift in the prone position
and No Stair Stretches,
I did two hundred One Stair Steps
Then I rode the Iron Maiden for a full hour. Finishing off an episode of Sherlock.
I was pleasantly surprised at how good I felt after my workout. I'm usually a pretty quick shower but today I was in there a good ten minutes. It's weigh day today so I fearlessly stepped up to the scale, mentally prepared for the worst. Between the groin and the kidney stones I have been a Fat Lazy Bastard for too long!. Today was a good day. Everything considered I'm quite proud of myself. Now to survive Christmas.
It was just about noon and the Seahawks game was on at 1:00.
The lovely Lisa asked me what I wanted to do this afternoon. I told her I wanted to watch the Seahawks game. Then she suggested we go down to Woody's and watch the game there. Sounds good to me! There's always a few Seahawks fans at Woody's. The lovely Lisa couldn't care less. I ate an apple and an avocado to hold me over till it was time to go to Woody's.
In what can only be described as a miracle, the lovely Lisa was ready to go in fifteen minutes. Three blocks from home the lovely Lisa asked if we should swing by Mama Lee's. I said that I'd rather not. We can see her after the game on the way home.
I now see what she did. She did the old bait and switch on me. She asked about Mama Lee's knowing I would say no because I wanted to see the ball game.
That's when she said she needed to stop by the Bay to get Mama Lee's birthday present.
Mama Lee is a Clinique junkie!
I think she must drink the stuff! Maybe that's why she's turning seventy-three on Wednesday and she still has beautiful skin. The girl from the Clinique counter was on break and the girl who was covering her was actually an Estee Lauder girl. My mom loved Estee Lauder. She knew nothing about the Clinique stuff. Where it was, how it works, how much it cost, it was all a mystery to her. I was to say the least bored standing in the fragrance department is not really my cup of tea so I started looking for things to do that might amuse me.
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| My hat |
As it has since I was thirteen years old, I found the amusement in my pocket. No not that. I found the computer stick that I had downloaded the lovely Lisa's Hawaii wedding pictures onto. I could see the London drugs from The Bay. I was going to do the pictures tomorrow but since we're here. Just as we were getting ready to leave the Clinique girl got back from her break. While the lovely Lisa worked out what she wanted with the Clinique girl, I went from counter to counter checking out the samples. It never occurring to me that in twenty minutes I would be in a bar full of guys watching football and smelling like a French whore! There must be a lot of money in the Clinique racket. The lovely Lisa spent $100 on two items for her mother and the Clinique girl gave her a whole bunch of stuff and a big pink bag to put it in.
We went down to London Drugs. I went to the Photoshop plugged the stick into the machine and ordered the prints and a CD. The lovely Lisa had already lost interest and had moved off to find a cheese grater. It's a pretty slick system they have there. You don't have to even deal with any of the pimply faced employees that know nothing about anything! I'm still bitter from the last time I had prints done. The machine prints a receipt with your desired pick up time, the lovely Lisa paid for her cheese grater and we headed to Woody's.
It was about 1:45 when we got to Woody's. There was no score in the game. I ordered myself a Redeye, thats beer with tomato juice. I just feel guilty about beer and chicken wings. I need to have a vegetable. There were a good dozen or so Seahawks fans there. All yelling and cheering at the appropriate times. Woody's does small plate Sundays.
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| Tacolicious |
The plates may be small but the portions are large. We ordered fish tacos, chicken wings and fish and chips so the lovely Lisa could get french fries.
In retrospect she should have just ordered french fries. It was a lot of fish! It was a lot of fun watching the game with people who care about the game, instead of holed up in tiny TV town at home by myself. If a man cheers for his favorite team and know one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Evidently it does because that's usually when the lovely Lisa comes down and closes the door to tiny TV town.
The lovely Lisa got us a couple of NTN boxes to play poker on while she gambled on one of the government's crooked games.
One half of football was all the lovely Lisa could take. I was recording it at home so it didn't really matter to me. The lovely Lisa has a 1:30 wake up call.
We left Woody's at halftime and went up to Mama Lee's. Mama Lee has been asking the lovely Lisa to write out some Christmas cards for a few days now. We spent about forty minutes with Mama Lee filling out Christmas cards. Then we were home.
I looked up and the lovely Lisa was already in her pajamas. It was
4: 00. The lovely Lisa went to bed and I turned on the Canucks game. After taking a three/nothing lead, they lost in overtime.
I went down to London Drugs to pick up the prints that we had ordered and to the Stupor Store to pick up a couple of things for the lovely Lisa. While I was in Stupor Store I made the mistake of walking by the Christmas decorations. They have reduced the price even further. It was picked over pretty good but I did get a couple of rope lights. I think I must have caught something from
crazy Alice the Christmas elf.
That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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