A Baby Pool Nobody Asked For (Part 2) – Mad Chaos: February 18, 1999

Break Point at Dawn

Now it was best out of 15 and as we kept playing Keith and Shawn were trying to conspire against me so that they would slowly creep up to me and then beat me. They were getting closer and closer but then I took off in burst and finally the last game was at hand, break point. The last game was a cracker in suspense as we played the hand fast but then both Shawn and I got to our last two unturned cards. He turned one over to find it was an ace and it being my turn next I had to beat an ace, the highest card of the pack.

Only having two cards left I could only win if the next card I turned over was a 10 so I could clear the deck and automatically have another go or at least an Ace so he couldn’t beat it and would have to take the pile. To make matters worse he turned over his last card to find a 10 underneath it so automatically he would win if my card didn’t come through for me.

As I was turning it over I thought it was going to be a low card but to my surprise and to their astonished faces the card was a 10. Screaming and yelling at 6:00 a.m. in the morning, I had won the game again 15, 11, 11 and I couldn’t be happier. What a lucky guess I had made out of those two cards, the other card was a low card.

The night at ‘Subway’ started at 11:00 p.m. and ended at 6:30 a.m. we spent the whole shift of the guy working the petrol pumps. That guy also had his eye on us all the time from the distance thinking we were going to steal something. Instead, I tripped over a plastic cup of drink that spilled on the floor but who cares, there was no one there to blame us or clean it up, we were all alone in our little ‘Subway’ area.

Keith Finds Our Friendship Strange

On top of winning twice in the night I was continually dissing Keith and joking about him and his misfortunes. Shawn couldn’t keep a straight face and Keith looked as if he didn’t want to hear it but it was funny. Through the night Keith also asked me if I met up with Lyssa when I was in the City that day, Monday. Informing him that I had Keith said “Don’t you think it’s weird how Lyssa and you are still friends and hanging out.”

Announcing that a friendship after a relationship was a good thing I asked Keith what exactly he thought was weird about it but he didn’t want to get into it. Still I kept badgering but all he could say is, “I’m not the only one who thinks it’s weird.” Well, think what you want. It’s my life and I’m having great fun in it.

A Sleepless Tuesday Morning

Driving back home I didn’t get to sleep straight away, as I knew my sleeping schedule had been disrupted. For the last two or three nights I was getting up early due to me staying up all night but now, I was back to square one. After typing in my computer I thought to get to sleep, it was very early in the morning. When Tuesday arrived I woke up at 4:00 p.m. No one had called but the reason I woke up was because I heard a knock on the door.

A Mystery Gift in Blue Paper

Getting dressed and tending to the door I found my mum was already there but there was no one at the door. Walking into my room mum handed me a package, it was fairly large and in a box, wrapped up in blue wrapping paper. No prizes for guessing who this one was from as it read delivered by Angel Express written in pen. At first I was surprised and content in receiving a present and although it was a nice gesture I knew it had come from Rochelle and was beginning to get worried about her stalking ways.

The present once opened couldn’t have been more useless and as it was a ‘Baby Rigid Wall Pool’ I couldn’t believe her stupidity in sending me such a useless gift. I started to think that because she had no money or it appeared that way, she stole one of her kids presents that was probably given to her by someone else, how pathetic. Not only that but this useless gift had another more nauseating letter within saying “Hi babe how are you? Still interested I hope”. That just completely turned me off and I knew I had to call her up and set her straight.

However, I started to feel like Lyssa when she didn’t want to approach Milton about her problems but I knew I had to set an example of my own words, but when. The present I chucked into the cupboard and it’s been remaining in there until now, useless. What I also thought was funny is how she left the price tag on the wrapping paper, $2.50. To me this begged to say “Look how much money I spent on wrapping paper, just for you”, how pathetic.

Heading to the Gym

Soon after waking up I had myself a shower, something to eat and then prepared for the Gym. There were heaps of people I had seen at the Gym for Tuesday and at one point I didn’t think I was going to go because the time was getting on and I only had $10 to my name for the fortnight because of my expensive clothing buy. Despite that I noticed Jett with Maddox down there who chatted to me and where Maddox also spotted me on Bench Press for two sets.

Shawn was also there with his big self and Pepsi who said hello and also spotted me on a set of Dumbbell Decline Presses. Redd was also down there and he told me that Marley’s boyfriend (Marley who was the school captain) who plays for the Wests was tested positive for taking steroids and in facing a two year ban from the sport, bad boy. Redd really has broken up with Nadia for the past three or so weeks as Keith told me but he also heard that they might be getting back together, It’s only a rumor. Anyway, I might as well include my Gym workout now…

Chest Day With Borrowed Spotters

Chest: Starting with my two minute warm-up I made my way to Peck Deck and just done some warming up there before moving on to two other warm-up sets. Finding Maddox and Jett I had Maddox help me with a set of Bench Press. The weight was stacked up to 160 pounds and without his help I completed 8 reps on my own. Using him for another set I completed around 6 reps by myself then loading the weight up to 200 pounds I done 2 descending reps where I only exerted pressure to hold the weight on the way down.

Moving now to Peck Deck Fly’s with 170 pounds I managed to squeeze out 12 reps. Dips was next and with this I was glad to perform 11 reps. From here I moved to Decline Dumbbell Press and with 70 pounders I performed 4 reps then dropped the weight to 60 pounds where I performed 4 more reps with the help of Pepsi.

Moving to Seated Machine Bench Press I loaded the weight up to 180 pounds but only could afford 5 reps. Taking the weight down to 160 pounds I could complete another 7 reps. Next was Cable Crossovers and with 50 pounds I completed 12 reps. Taking the weight up to 60 pounds and bending over I completed another grueling 12 reps.

Biceps: Starting with a warm-up I moved to Preacher Cable Curls and with 60 pounds created 8 reps. Moving now to Dumbbell Preacher Curls I performed 10 reps per hand with 35 pounds. Thirdly I moved to Standing Cable Curls and with 70 pounds performed 10 reps. Next I performed a set of Concentration Curls with 30 pounds alternating between each hand every so often but completing 15 reps. Lastly I completed a set of Reverse Cable Curls with 50 pounds for 10 reps.

Abdominals: Starting with 40 pounds on Machine Ab Crunches I completed a set of 30 reps. Taking the weight up to 50 pounds I completed another set of 30 reps. Now for 10 reps I moved to Low Ab Crunches, just for a breather. Lastly I completed 30 more reps on Machine Ab Crunches with 40 pounds. For abs I was a bit more higher in the weights and reps so it was good.

Calls and a Plan for Nintendo

Now I’ve just been called by Lyssa and the time is now 5:40 p.m. so I’m not sure how she got home so early. Lyssa called me and then got call waiting immediately and because she took so long to get back to me I let her go. Still, it’s been two or so minutes now and Lyssa still hasn’t called back so she must be talking to someone important or something like that.

Anyway, I have to now get to my workout for today where I can talk to Jett there about the Nintendo that was also stolen from Simon’s house. Since Lyssa and I want to have a Nintendo night in the coming weeks I can probably buy this one off the both of them or just get it for free if I talk to Jett, my true friend.

I’ve already talked to Shawn and his greedy little hands want to sell it but I told him he should give it to me for a cheap price. If I do end up buying it I’ll give it to Lyssa as I’ll have no real use for it and it would be too dangerous to keep it at my house.

Lyssa will appreciate what I might be doing for her but it’s best that I don’t say anything to Lyssa yet as the two of them might not sell it to me or give it to me but I doubt it. So I’m going to have to leave it up to Tuesday afternoon where I get back from the gym but there’s not much to write about now apart from today’s actions. Let me now be off and I will off another day here…