Smarter Cockroaches And Heavy Rows (Part 3) – Mad Chaos: January 12, 1999

Ralf Fresh From Brisbane

Now getting back to Chronology I haven’t cared the explain the whole of Sunday night. Getting back to that all I really have to explain of that night was the conversation I had with Ralf after getting back from Lyssa’s house at 9:30 p.m. Basically he chatted to me for over an hour and a half about his trip to Brisbane with Shawn. They slept at Shawn’s cousin’s house and while there they went to several nightclubs. Ralf told me of a 20 year old blonde girl he met up there who had blue eyes, the best body he had ever seen with a muscled up midsection.

The way he was explaining to her made her sound like one of the girls I would find to be gorgeous but the picture in my mind was much more glamorous than anything I had ever seen. Ralf told me how all the girls down here failed to compare with the beauty Brisbane and the Gold Coast offers. The nightclub scene up there isn’t really up to scratch as Ralf pointed out but the pub scene was live and kicking.

Left Out Again

After an hour of Ralf explaining how he and the blonde girl were getting along great, how he kissed her and how people up in Brisbane are very friendly I got him off that topic. We started talking about this weekend and my birthday. Ralf told me that his brother’s birthday is also on when the weekend arrives and along with Noah’s farewell it should be big. Ralf informed me that since Noah has been here Keith’s day would always involve Noah so you can understand why I haven’t been getting called recently.

Keith dogged me on new years eve because him and Noah were going to a dress up party and since he has come down I hardly hear from Keith. I take that when Noah is gone my days will pick up once again from this subliminal boredom but by then I will be looking for work. Ralf told me how they went out on Saturday night which was the night I thought they were going to Chevy’s so I didn’t bother. Instead they just drove to Binh’s house who is now back and from there they all drove to the movies but didn’t watch anything.

The usual hangout is at Fun n Games now for Keith as he plays his favorite pinball game. Ralf told me that they were headed home and Keith not wanting to miss out on any action followed Ralf. Thinking that Keith’s pathetic actions was funny he drove around for half an hour leading Keith on and trying to lose him to draw more interest. Finally he stopped and when Ralf and Noah both jumped out they both laughed at Keith’s desperate antics. Keith doesn’t like missing out on things, just look at his exploits with Phoenix and you will understand.

Lyssa Wakes Me Up

Sunday night I’m pretty sure that I got to sleep around 5:00 a.m. but I woke up firstly around 1:00 p.m. as Lyssa decided to give me a call. Thinking she was at work Lyssa informed me that she had taken a day off College and was at home because she slept in.

College, that surprised me but Lyssa is there until the end of February to finish up her course. Lyssa asked if I wanted to meet her in Campbelltown so she could get her photo’s developed but I told her I had to workout and I had to sleep, she was alright with that.

Getting back to sleep I told Lyssa I would give her a ring back later.

Waking myself up at 2:30 p.m. I had my usual shower and something to eat and around 3:30 p.m. I decided to give Lyssa a call before heading off to the Gym. To my surprise Lyssa wasn’t home and later on in the night I found out that Lyssa had traveled to Campbelltown with her brother to develop the photos.

Back Day At The Gym

Now I guess I should record my entry at the Gym because in a couple of hours I have to do it all over again. I might take this time to add that I forgot to do my bodies measurements yesterday as I do them every second week now. Instead I am going to wait until tomorrow night well after my workout to do that measuring.

Back: Starting with a two minute warm-up on the bike I made my way to the Neutral Grip Pulldowns. Warming up firstly with 90 pounds I placed the weight up to 150 pounds and completed 12 reps. Moving to Close Grip Pulldowns with 150 pounds I performed 12 reps but somewhat harder. Taking the weight down to 130 pounds I performed another set of 12 reps.

Moving now to Reverse Grip Lat Pulldowns with 150 pounds I also managed 12 reps upon that. Moving to Lat Pushdowns with 220 pounds I performed 12 reps. Moving now to Seated Cable Rows I had myself a warm-up then placing the weight upon 150 pounds I performed 12 reps. Taking the weight down to 130 pounds I performed another set of 12 reps.

The strain on my back was getting to my erectors so I done a set of Machine Back Extensions with 60 pounds and 25 reps. That situation didn’t ease as much as I would have liked for One Arm Dumbbell Rows but it would have to do. Taking upon me 80 pounds in one hand I performed 12 reps per side, exhausting but counterproductive as it was too heavy to have good form.

My last set was with 70 pounds performing 10 reps.

Triceps And Abs To Finish

Triceps: Glad to be in the second phase of my workout and past my back which is now reaping rewards I began with a warm-up on Machine Lying Triceps Extension. Taking the weight up to 65 pounds I performed a set of 12 reps. Moving to Triceps Pushdowns with 75 pounds stacked up I performed a set of 12 reps, fairly hectic. Moving now to Triceps Kickbacks I found it once again difficult to perform 12 good reps with 15 pounds an arm so I’m going to drop it next Triceps workout. Lastly I performed 12 reps with Overhead Dumbbell Extensions, it weighed 60 pounds.

Abdominals: Starting with a warm-up on Cable Crunches I moved to Low Ab Crunches anticipating the freeing of the Machine Ab Crunches. I performed 30 reps of Low Ab Crunches giving me a great burn and once that was done I jumped on my usual machine. Pumped up in the midsection I placed the weight on 40 pounds and for the next two sets performed 30 reps each.

Cockroach Cold War

Either I’ve killed all the vermin in my bathroom and they are now extinct until the little babies hatch and grow or I’ve created a smarter break of cockroach. It’s been a couple of days since I’ve seen one and I’m beginning to ask myself how smart a cockroach can really be. All this abstinence from bug killing is giving me an itchy trigger finger and an urge to kill, he he he. Speaking of dirty little critters my room isn’t in much of a cleanly state.

Rather, I tend to sleep on the ground more often than not these nights as the waterbed tends to be harder to move around upon and hotter. On the bed I would have to pick myself up and virtually wake myself up to do so because it’s such a small area but on the ground I have no such problem. Also, on the ground I rarely get pins and needles and on top of that I don’t get those weird lines on my body associated with the sheet curling up on my skin for hours on end.

Since the start of this year I’ve had a couple of spills to the carpet, dust everywhere, books lying around of poetry, disks, leftover cups, hair elastics, clothes, sheets, paper, socks, you name it, it’s on the floor. Mind you it’s not as dirty as you are probably imagining as I do have an area on the ground to work with and it’s not that much of an eyesore. But, this ground hasn’t been vacuumed for at least a month and in that time so much ants have crawled upon my carpet and died near the corners leaving a mess of ants within my carpet.

She Says I Miss You

Upon coming back from the Gym it was 6:00 p.m. and soon after Lyssa gave me another call informing me where she had been. Lyssa decided to wait an hour or so in calling me as she knew I would be a the Gym working out to make myself more athletic and muscular. To the exact conversation I can’t remember of what we were having but I believe I was watching Tennis and we were commenting about that.

There is a point in our conversation I do remember and that was when Lyssa started missing me. Lyssa informed me that she wanted to sleep over my house for the night and also head off to College from my house the next morning but it was too late for her to come over. “I miss you” Lyssa said to me and almost instantly I said it back to her not really missing her as I had seen her the day before and I was speaking to her on the phone but saying it for her anyway.

My hunch I think was right about Lyssa wanting to get back together with me or at the least get closer to me because she’s telling me out of the blue that she misses me and she wants to stay over more often.