A Lost Ring And Fruit Loops (Part 1) – Mad Chaos: December 2, 1998

First Day Of Summer

Once again I have opted for longer borders so I can free more pages up as I type. This last month of the year I will try and lessen the amount of pages I consume in this Diary but I don’t give much promises. The first day of summer it was and now but an hour or two from the first day I will speak of that day.

Because of my long night last night where I didn’t sleep until 6:30 a.m. I didn’t awake right until 3:30 p.m. Slumping out of my bed and looking outside I noticed a warm day but when I walked outside to wake myself up with a sneeze I also noticed that the wind had picked up considerably. The day was sunny but I wasn’t missing out on any chance of a tan for the day.

Fruit Loops Before The Gym

Walking back inside after my sneeze for the new month I made my way back to my room where I claimed once again the golden ‘T’. Placing that chain once again around my neck I ate myself some ‘Fruit Loops’ for breakfast remembering that any drinking soon after drinking milk would result in a stomach upset.

I usually don’t have milky products but I thought it would be a great pick me up for the morning, it didn’t work any wonders. In one hour I was gearing up to head for the Gym so I had myself a shower and that’s when I started to write in my Diary as I recited a line or two of the poem I had written.

In my head I had an idea to write a poem out and that’s why I turned on my Diary. One hour later and after having a brief conversation with Lyssa who had come home from College I finished off the poem that had no real purpose, only role play.

Informing Lyssa that I would give her a call back when I came back from the Gym I continued for a couple of minutes with my poem to finish it off and then doing up my hair I made my way to the Gym. Even though I felt weak but loose despite only having eaten ‘Fruit Loops’ I had a commanding workout, here it is…

Back Day At The Gym

Back: Starting with 2 minutes on the exercise bike I moved on to Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns but instead of the conventional machine in the middle of the room I moved to the machine that everyone else uses near the stairs. The weight rack was deceivingly larger length wise but they supposedly weighed the same. Starting with 50 pounds I performed 15 very easy warming up reps.

Moving to the conventional Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns machine I loaded it up to 90 pounds and with that performed 10 reps with relative control. Making my way to the other Lat Pulldown machine I loaded the weight up to 130 pounds and to my surprise I punched out 12 moderate reps. This surprised me to a degree but now I’m not sure which apparatus I should use henceforth.

Close Grip Lat Pulldowns was next and with 130 pounds I performed 10 reps then completed 3 extra reps after a pause. Moving to Seated Cable Rows I began with 60 pounds warming up with 15 reps. Punching up the weight to 130 pounds I performed 10 hard reps and after a long pause placed the weight to 120 pounds for 10 more hard reps.

Machine Lat Pushdowns was the next apparatus on the list and notching up 220 pounds I performed 10 reps on my knees, pushing the weight down with the opposite motion of doing Dips. Lastly I grabbed a 70 pound dumbbell and with all my might produced 10 reps pre hand with One Arm Dumbbell Rows. Lowering the weight to 60 pounds I performed 10 more reps.

Triceps: Triceps Pushdowns began with 35 pounds for a warm-up of 15 reps. Increasing the weight to 60 pounds I performed 12 more moderate reps. Overhead Dumbbell Triceps Extensions was next and starting with 55 pounds I performed 10 reps. Once again with 50 pounds I completed 10 more stressing reps.

Abdominals: Waiting for the Ab Crunches machine to clear up I performed three sets on the Back Hyperextension Machine. Altogether there were three sets of around 15 reps from 40 pounds to 80 pounds. When I actually began with the Machine Ab Crunches I performed three sets. The first was with 30 pounds assistance and that prolonged for 30 reps.

Once again I performed a set for 30 reps with 30 pounds assistance before placing the weight up to 60 pounds. Reaching 20 reps I had to pause for a couple of seconds before I finished 10 more reps completing 90 whole reps for the abdominal area and finishing up my 50 minute workout.

Stretch Marks Appear

Upon coming home I had a very large meal and frankly I’m surprised that I gulped it all down. There was a whole bowl of Broccoli, a whole bowl of mashed potatoes and a can of Minestrone soup. Luckily I used the soup for flavor in the mashed potatoes and dipped the broccoli also in the soup. Also as soon as I came back home and changed from my workout clothes I noticed the stretch marks on the back of my Calves but now had noticed that there were now stretch marks working their way up the back of my left leg.

This was surprising knowing they weren’t there a couple of days ago and also considering I haven’t worked out my legs at all I’m not sure how they got there. They will never disappear and I’m not that upset that I have stretch marks on the back of my leg but if they keep appearing so easy I will start to develop a problem. Lyssa informed me on the weekend that I can buy Vitamin E cream and it will diminish the redness in my stretch marks, maybe I will look into it when I start getting self-conscious.

Lyssa Sounds Rough

Arriving home at 6:30 p.m. I sought to give Lyssa a call as soon as I finished eating but she wasn’t home. I started eating and upon finishing received a call by Lyssa around 7:30 p.m. Lyssa Informed me that she had just been out to see Milton at Hospital because he had Glandular Fever. Coughing in the background I knew that Lyssa’s cold at my house had escalated. Harsh was Lyssa’s voice as she tried to speak with eloquence.

Since staying over until the afternoon on Monday Lyssa had been to see the doctor with her mum as her condition got worse. Why do I always get myself into these predicaments. When Lyssa was getting her cold on Monday I had some doubts as to how sick she was but despite believing her all that day my doubts held me back from expression and made me hold in some grudges.

The Missing Moon Ring

Asking Lyssa why she didn’t give me back the moon ring or the box for the Diamond Piano Lyssa informed me that she had lost the moon ring somewhere and she couldn’t find it. That alone is a tragedy but as Lyssa told me that her mum was going to keep the Diamond Piano before she decided to give it back, that also hurt.

When Lyssa came home that day a week ago she placed the bag on the kitchen table and her mum somehow opened it up. Lyssa’s mum knew the present was once mine but she asked if she could have it because she thought it was cute. So Lyssa’s mum took the Piano for a little while and in the process she must have thrown away the box, that’s the conclusion Lyssa came up with anyway.

Now I definitely know that I would not favor getting back with Lyssa because of everything getting blown out of proportion. Lyssa and I being together every weekend is just sending her friends and my friends guessing about what we mean to each other and on top of that Lyssa’s mum and brother are also getting wrong impressions. It’s as if we are still together, people still dislike me or act as if I’m not good enough to speak to.

Shawn And Tatton Arrive

Rather, Lyssa’s friends probably just put on an act to talk to me and when they see me on the street and I see them they probably think “Oh god, well, now that he’s seen me I might as well walk up and talk to him otherwise he will see me walk past.” My conversation with Lyssa ended when Lyssa’s dinner was ready so I let her go as she would call me back later.

Until 9:30 p.m. I kept watching television and got hooked on ‘Party Of Five’ for the first time mainly because Jennifer Love Hewitt is a star on the show. Nevertheless, the show speaks for itself and I got hooked for all the right reasons and will definitely hook in next week for some more viewing pleasure. It had been at least an hour since Lyssa decided to give me a call and it was now that Shawn and Tatton came over, knocking on my window.

Weird it was that I didn’t hear a car pull up but I soon found out that they arrived by the kindness of Shawn’s mum. Lyssa did give me a call half an hour into their visit but as she heard voices in the background Lyssa agreed that it would be best for me to call her tomorrow, so that’s what I’ll do.

Remember This Night Tatton

After ‘Part Of Five’ finished which we were all glued to watching we started once again to play ‘Black Bitch’ and proudly after two or three games I made my way up to the top position and kept myself there for 5 or so rounds. The game started to get interrupted when Star Trek came onto television and when that started Tatton dropped the game to start watching television. Shawn and I also started watching it as we once again teased Tatton for his 80’s knowledge.

“You’re going to remember this night” I explained to Tatton, “When we ask you about this day in ten years you will remember it saying something like “I remember that night because Star Trek was on television and I was wearing my red Hawaii shirt. There was a three of diamonds card on top of the pile of cards and your mouse was made by Artec” and that’s the truth.” Shawn and I then made Tatton learn things off by heart in the room so when we are in the year 2000 and beyond Tatton can start remembering the 90’s.