Back to the Gym- Finally!

I have finally gotten a new gym membership. Having been mostly non-exercising or only doing very light exercises since December of 2009, I am really out of shape. I was in the best shape of my life in October/early November of 2009. I had just competed in a figure competition (the Monster Mash in the Cincinnati area). I didn't place well, in part due to being nervous and not posing well and in part because there were some awesome, buff competitors in my class. Still, I was psyched about trying another competition in early 2010.

Those dreams went out the window when I was rear-ended in a seemingly mild car wreck. The following day I was nauseated, sore, had a migraine, and had low back pain. I was so dizzy that I didn't want to move. Maybe this was karma getting back at me for thinking that whiplash was something people claimed to have in hopes of getting pain and suffering money. Now I know that anyone who has whiplash deserves pain and suffering. It caused me to have daily headaches for about 4-5 months, and in addition I had a migraine roughly ever week to every other week.

Even packing groceries to the house from the car caused pain to radiate from my neck down to my upper arms. My low back pain causes sitting for extended periods of time to be painful to this day. Doing lunges and squats causes a tight, mildly painful sensation in my low back and butt. Fortunately they don't appear to cause post-workout pain or problems though.

I am on the track to getting back in shape, and I am very excited about it. I hope to lose thirty pounds, which will put me about 5 pounds heavier than I was the day I got in the car wreck. I know it will take time, but I am excited to get back in shape!

No Love on Yahoo. lol

I recently had an article published on Yahoo's OMG site (for those of you who don't know, or who are too self-respecting to read such things, it's a celebrity gossip site). I just looked at it to see the comments.

Evidently, according to several comments, I don't know how to write. Or, according to the more charitable comments, maybe I'm a teenager or new to writing.

Another writer might give me the benefit of the doubt and think, "Hey, I bet she doesn't do her absolute best writing all of the time, especially for articles she's making minimum wage for." But that would be really charitable. : )

I got slammed the most for not including Gia, which I did watch, but I didn't write about. Naughty me.

I always try to be positive about criticism of my work, but there wasn't much constructive criticism to take away from this one. : )

I do admit that it isn't my finest work; to give myself some slack, I admit I don't/can't give 100% to all of my writing assignments. If I did I'd probably make about $100 a month, due to the time it would take to contribute to fully outline, write, revise, and so forth on every assignment. Plus, I might not ever turn in things if I analyze them for too long. I have a bit of a melodramatic artist in me (Alas, this still isn't good enough! Woe is me!).

Ah well. : ) If nothing else I did get a few chuckles from some of the comments.

Good Song by Roger Taylor