AM:
45 min elliptical machine
PM:
40 min elliptical machine
Another week has passed. The fund raising for Michelle is going slowly but it is coming along. We have close to 2,000 in donations. Our goal is 9,000. She has stage 4 pancreatic cancer so time is against us.
http://www.gofundme.com/kzt1fk
AM:
leg press
180-15
270-15
360-15
450-15
540-15
450-15,15,15,15
DB overhead press
35lb-10,10,10,10,10
DB dead lifts
50-10
60-10
70-6
80-5
EZ Bar curls
60-10
70-10,10,10,10
Body weight squats
10,10,10,10
PM:
none I got a haircut
Today was a tiring day. I woke up at 1am to go to the bathroom and could not fall back asleep. I was stressing over the fundraising to try and get Michelle and Michael to the super bowl. It looks like we missed our window, but there is an ever so slight possibility the kindness of strangers could still make it happen. Plan B is being explored now.
AM:
12:51 1 mile jog
hack squat
180-12,12
270-12,12,12
180-12,12
Bench press
135-15
185-8
205-4,4,3
185-5
135-12
PM:
50 min elliptical machine
Sad news about a friend. She is battling Pancreatic cancer and she had a setback. She was in a new drug research group and was steady with here cancer. Her last exam revealed the tumors are growing again. She is now out of the study and back to regular chemo and radiation treatments. Her husband who serves in the Army wished he and his wife could go to the super bowl since is is close to there house. Myself and another of her friends is trying to make that happen. We have raised 1420.00 so far but they still need about 7,000 more to be able to buy tickets. We are scrambling like mad to help them out with this.
AM:
45 min elliptical machine
PM:
24 min bike
I have had it easy the last few days, my wife had been cooking dinners. Yesterday it was back to me to cook and I screwed it all up. I cooked salmon in the pan on the stove, spinach on the stove and tortellini on the stove. See a theme here? All things cooked right in front of me? Well I burned the spinach and burned the pan (now that takes some skills!) and forgot to season the fish. It was like I was the new guy on the first day of work and I forgot to read the manual on how to do the work. Today I redeemed myself. I made meatloaf with bison meat and loaded with spinach, carrots, onions and pepper, oven roasted some red potatoes with garlic and dill seasoning and my wife steamed some broccoli. It was all good like it should be. Funny stuff, much like the storm that didn’t storm.
AM:
12:40 mile
Hack squat
180-12,12
270-12,12
squat with 25lb plate
10,10
overhead press with 60lb ez bar
10,10,10
ez-bar curls
60-10,10,10
PM:
45 min elliptical machine
So it is starting to snow. There is no telling what tomorrow morning will look like, but the snow is now sticking that the temps dropped. We are doomed! doomed I say!
AM:
1 hour hike along the Potomac River in Alexandria, VA
We settled in and played some more Diablo 3 and then I took a nap. Sounds like a big storm is coming for the people up north. I hope they do OK up there. We are going to get rain with maybe an inch of snow.
AM:
49 min elliptical machine
PM:
69 min 3 mile walk
Today was a good day. I cashed a gift from my Aunt (she was crazy for sending me a check but threatened to send cash if I did not cash it) and promptly put the money into my truck fund. My wife and I were bummed from the rain but was able to get in a nice walk in the afternoon. After that we played Diablo III on PS3 for a few hours. Life is good!
AM:
12:40 1 mile jog
leg press
270-15
360-15
450-15
540-15
630-15
Incline bench press
135-10
155-8
175-4
155-8
135-10
PM:
48 min elliptical machine
Another day of work. I was contacted by Centenary about Mars candies in Hackettstown looking for some graduates. I don’t think I could swing that commute every day. I thanked the college rep. It was a mass email sent out to all that just graduated. I am sure someone will luck out with a decent position there. We are getting some freezing rain tonight and things are going to be interesting in the AM.
AM:
15 min stair climber
30 min elliptical machine
PM:
49 min elliptical machine
Today I was solo at work. My coworker needed to take care of some stuff around the house. Atleast I did not over do it working. We have another chance at some story weather coming in, but my bet is that we are going to be disappointed again.
AM:
hack squats
90-12
180-12
270-12
360-12,12,12,12,12,12,12
270-12
180-12
EZ-bar overhead press
80-10
90-8
100-5
80-10
Bench press
135-12
185-7,7
Dead lifts
135-10
185-5,5
135-10
Today was another winter weather scare that turned into nothing! I would not mind 6 inches of snow and some time off, but this 1-2 inches is ridiculous for all the hype the news puts into it.
