Eighty Four Kilos In The Heat (Part 2) – Mad Chaos: December 31, 1998

A Goodbye I Had To Swallow

Once out of the pool I started making my plans to head home and once I clothed myself and packed my belongings including the movie I was just about to leave when Kiley arrived. I was hoping that I could leave before she showed up because I wasn’t thrilled about seeing her but as I was leaving I just said hello to her and that was it. Saying goodbye to Lyssa I realized how we were both acting around Kiley.

Although nothing was really different I could sense that we both wanted to kiss each other and I was just about to lean over and give her one but remembering that Kiley was over and our whole relationship is under wraps I stopped myself. It felt wrong how I had to stop myself but this is how we’ve made it. Just before Kiley arrived Lyssa told me she was keen on buying some Chinese Food and taking my order she told me she would get delivery in the next couple of hours, she was craving.

Bus Home And Hot Scales

The trip home was compromising from a hot summer’s day to a trip home on the bus from Campbelltown. Jumping off the bus at Bradbury Shops enough to return the movie I headed the rest of the way home. The time was around 2:30 p.m. when I got home and as soon as I entered the house I started eating, preparing my stock of carbohydrates for the Gym. The plan was to head to the Gym, have something to eat and then head back to Lyssa’s house arriving at 6:00 p.m. but plans were lengthened.

Before I begin upon my Gym routine let me just note a couple of points of my workout on Tuesday. Apart from being too hot and bothered working out in the humid and boiling conditions I still lifted fairly heavy. Nevertheless, my Abdominal workout was cut short because of the lack of air conditioning. At the end of the workout I weighed myself hoping to be around 82 Kilos and to my surprise the weight was begging me to have it increased more and more.

Finally the weight stopped bobbing up and down and I measured myself at a stupefying 84 Kilos. This must have been as a result of the amount of calories I had been digesting added with the protein shakes and Creatine supplement I had been taking. On top of that I didn’t have much to eat upon leaving for the Gym so that was a very accurate measurement. Here now is my workout for Tuesday…

Back Day In The Heat

Back: Starting with my two minute warm-up on the stationary bike I made my way to Neutral Grip Lat Pulldowns. Starting with only 90 pounds I performed 15 reps for another warm-up. Pushing the weight up to 140 pounds I performed 10 strict reps but lacking in control in the last rep or two. Taking down the weight to 100 pounds I performed 6 more reps to failure as part of a descending sets principle.

Moving to Close Grip Lat Pulldowns I once again performed 10 reps with 140 pounds. Lastly for my widening exercises I moved to Close Grip Lat Pulldowns and with 140 pounds performed 10 more reps. Starting a warm-up on Seated Cable Rows with 80 pounds I performed 12 reps. Moving right along I upped the weight to 140 pounds and performed a set of 10 reps. Once again I rose up to the challenge of 140 pounds and completed 10 reps.

Moving to Lat Pulldowns with 200 pounds I performed 12 reps. Machine Seated Cable Rows was next where I put the weight up to 140 pounds hoping I could complete 10 reps and being able to. Never having used this machine before I only adopted my routine to this exercise for the novelty. Lastly I moved to One Arm Dumbbell Rows and with 70 pounds I performed 12 reps per arm.

Triceps And Abs Struggle

Triceps: Warming up on Triceps Pushdowns with 35 pounds I performed 15 reps to ease the tension of the muscle group. Pausing for a while I raised the weight up to a new 70 pounds and psyched myself up to complete a heralding 12 reps. Moving to Overhead Triceps Extensions with 60 pounds I watched my face turn red gasping for air as sweat tore down my face as if it were an abundance of snow flakes. Performing 10 reps for my first set I lowered the weight to 55 pounds and finished off Triceps with another 10 rep salute.

Abdominals: Because I was feeling exhausted and strained as a result of the humid weather I rated poorly on my Abdominal exercises. Starting with Machine Ab Crunches and 30 pounds I performed my only set of 30 reps. Jumping back on with 30 pounds resistance I managed only to perform 20 reps before conking out. This was just about finished for me but I seemed to get a second wind after measuring my weight and coming back I completed one last set of 20 reps with the same weight.

A Dead Phone Mystery

Once my workout was complete I plodded wearily home with a trail of sweat being left behind every step I took. Once home I helped myself to some carbohydrates and then after 45 minutes I took myself the protein shake to replenish my muscles. After finishing most of my food I found that the time was already 5:30 p.m. and I still had to write the facts in my Diary so I decided upon giving Lyssa a call to tell her I would be late.

Dialing her number I found that I was placed on call waiting and something told me in my mind that Lyssa wasn’t on the phone. As the phone kept ringing and no one bothered to answer it I gathered that it might have just been Kiley on the phone talking to Dax and being a bitch about incoming calls. In twenty minutes I called back hoping for a better response and weird the response did come. The call was answered but no one said hello on the phone.

Instead the person that was on the phone started talking to Lyssa as if she wasn’t talking to anyone on the phone. Listening in on the conversation I could only hear the person swearing in Lebanese and gathered that it was Penelope’s mum over her house once again to ring up some far distant land. Still with no answer after a minute I decided to hang up the phone wondering how stupid Penelope’s mother was.

Penelope's Mum Strikes Again

Lyssa ended up calling me ten minutes after I gave her a call and when she did I asked “Did Penelope’s mum go home.” Lyssa asked how I knew and then I basically told her the story. Lyssa insisted that there was no time while Penelope’s mum was over that it seemed like she was talking to someone else apart from who she was supposed to be talking to.

In other words Penelope’s mum probably done that on purpose and didn’t talk to me hoping that I would hang up like I did. Occupying Lyssa by talking to her was a good decoy and then pressing a button afterwards to get her back to her original coy, what a deceptive plan. Penelope’s mum was ringing America and once again I told Lyssa of the dangers if the bill did actually come up.

Lyssa’s phone doesn’t register overseas calls for some great reason but that shouldn’t be a reason for someone to take advantage of her like that, I never did. In our telephone conversation Lyssa informed me of the Chinese Food she ordered and how it would be at her house within the hour. Lyssa had to spend a minimum of $25 on food and as much as she didn’t really want to do that she really wanted Chinese Food. Therefor, I say you do…

Chinese Food Rescue

Some time after our telephone conversation I got myself ready and I think I asked my dad for another lift, actually I’m certain of it. Reaching Lyssa’s house for that Tuesday night and the second night in a row that I have slept over Lyssa’s house I made my way to the kitchen. Once there Lyssa showed to me the Chinese Food that was ordered and into my Fried Rice with King Prawns I started digging in.

Because I saved a bit of my hunger for Lyssa’s house I ate the whole thing and some extra spring rolls that Lyssa bought because she had to make up the extra money. Once our food was devoured Lyssa and I lay on the lounge and started to watch television but before the time reached 8:30 p.m. where ‘Party Of Five’ would start for Lyssa I asked for the both of us to have our long awaited bath. Lyssa was eager for that idea so to the bathroom we walked to prepare.

A Proper Bath Together

Turning on the bath taps and mixing the hot and cold waters we watched the levels rise as our clothes were lowered. Chucking in the fizzy ball that would ease the mood in the bathtub we jumped in both wary that we were naked and not very worried. Only once or twice before have I done this with Lyssa, both of us being together and relaxing in a bath.

I think that something like having a relaxing bath together is such a movie scenario kind of thing and for that and a whole lot of other reasons I hold these moments memorable. The fact that Lyssa was open enough to lay down in a bath with me and relax with me is a great feeling.

It’s not the same as having a shower where the purpose is to hurry to get everything done. Time isn’t spent on admiring the composure of the moment and even sex does not have the same qualities. Lyssa decided to shave her legs while we were in there as I just lay back relaxing, our legs entwined within each other’s legs as the bathtub was rather small.