2. While walking through the campus hospital out to my bus, I spotted Son Tae Jin, again (Olympic Taewondo gold medalist). The school's hospital was hosting a Christmas party for it’s patients and so they had set up a table for him to meet all the patients and sign autographs. When I arrived they were ending his signing session and so I pulled out my camera to take a picture of him. Instantly he spotted me and called out to me, “Professor, come here please!” He took my camera, handed it to some random bystander and posed with me for a picture. I felt so flattered. I’m sure he meets tons of people because of his instant celebrity status with having won a gold medal in the Olympics. I had only but shook his hand and said a few words to him the other week in my office and so I didn’t think he’d remember me, but he did.
3. Many of you have either commented on my homepage or emailed me regarding my diet tips, food plan and what not and so I thought I’d direct you over to the book I have started to write. It’s nothing crazy intense, it’s still in the draft stages but I thought I’d share it with you. Please note that I’m not a certified trainer but instead am but a girl who has tried basically every diet gimmick and trick under the sun. This is what I found has worked for me and so I want to share that. Click on the following link and if you like what you read, or don’t like what you read, please tell me. ANY and ALL feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks. (Note, if you click on "iPaper" on the top left of the pop-up screen, it'll give you options like how you want to view it and whatnot).
WARNING: Potent Curves Ahead
4. Paid the price for yesterday’s dangerously delicious coffee cake today at training… and for a good chunk of the afternoon actually... and not just with my incredibly terrible weigh-in. Yesterday my mouth was screaming “yes, yes… eat it!”, my mind was saying “nooooo”, but it was my tummy (and my bum… hehehe) that were saying no. I had the biggest tummy ache today in the afternoon and was desperately wanting “poop pills”, as I call them, so that I could poop the problem out. No such luck. My body just didn’t seem to be working today. It’s on strike or something, revolting against me for the sugar abuse I gave it yesterday.
Day 1: 55.15kgs = 121.33lbs
Day 2: 54.62kgs = 120.16lbs
Day 3: 54.28kgs = 119.42lbs
Day 4: 54.40kgs = 119.68lbs
Day 5: 54.00kgs = 118.80lbs
Day 6: 53.82kgs = 118.40lbs
Day 7: no weigh-in, gym closed
Day 8: 53.83kgs = 118.43lbs
Day 9: 53.12kgs = 116.86lbs
Day 10: 53.80kgs = 118.36lbs
Weight lost so far: 1.35kgs = 2.97lbs
5. And if that wasn’t brutal enough for my system, tonight I celebrated Q’s birthday. I had no intentions of indulging in the ice cream cake or Portuguese wine I had bought him but…. Peer pressure. I gave in. And with every single spoonful of ice cream I ate, I knew full well that I’d have consequences to deal with because of it …but it tasted so good!!!
6. What was initially thought as a most romantic gesture with me lining my apartment floor with mini tea light candles turned hazardous when Mi Nam decided he was going to sniff one.
7. I had cut up an egg carton and placed candles in it so that the hot metal rim of the candles wouldn’t damage my hardwood floor but then Mi Nam came along. When he sniffed it, he sneezed, causing the wax to splatter on the floor, which in turn caused the lit wick to touch the carton’s side, and the carton to go up in flames. Smart one Amy…. Dang!
8. Then there was the fact with so many candles on it made my house seem like an inferno… AND… Q showed up late and so the beautiful candles on the ice cream cake were now miserable sagging looking things and the cake was starting to melt. Mi Nam thought he’d help out by eating the part of the cake that had melted… great. So there I was, sitting surrounded by candles in an inferno apartment with a loop-sided, partially eaten ice cream cake, ready to cry because my huge romantic gesture totally kicked my Polish butt.
9. Q flooded my ears with sweet words of gratitude but I felt disappointed. I haven’t seen him in almost a week and had high expectations and hope for tonight’s reunion. I really wanted tonight to be a memorable birthday for him.
10. Despite the rocky start to the birthday festivities, Q loved it. He loved everything about his surprise birthday party for three (he, me and Mi Nam that is). I had bought him some presents but I also wrote a book for him... he loved that, too.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What was the best birthday gift you ever received?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
-- Chili Davis
6 comments:
Amy, thanks so much for including me in your book ;) You made my heart melt!!!!!! Very sweet of you ;)
The link is not working for me
I sense a lot of controversy up ahead. I have to admit, candles are a bit much for a "friend". I havent seen any of my friends in months.
I think you should take this event as a metaphor, a sign. You waiting there for someone who waits and waits and finally comes, but only when everything is melted.
Idk, it just sounds like something id listen to.
Ill check out your book.
Luv, Bman
<3
Um... yeah. He did everything right this time and you still felt disappointed? Do you ever READ your own writing???
Hey Jennifer,
Hehehe... no, thank YOU! Thanks for being the inspiration of my book!!!
Hi Anonymous (1st one),
The link should be working now. I think you clicked on it when I was editing it yesterday.
Yo B-Man,
We're not "friends" anymore... it's past that, again. In his defense, I will say that he came late because he fell asleep. The poor lad's been working like a dog for the past week. I wasn't upset about that... I was upset that my candle idea backfired and whatnot. You know when you anticipate things TOO much?!
Hi Anonymous (2nd one),
... yes, I do read my own writing. I take it that YOU DON'T or you can't read English. RE-read my friend. It had NOTHING to do with him, I thought that was obvious in the entry. I guess not.
Amy, your gesture was so sweet and I am sure Q loved it! It's the thought that counts right?
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