AB: After Bunnings
I cleared the new West Wing to get my living wall arrange properly.
There was so much clutter there before. Ivo would say no good! My plants got some decent starter growth while I was gone for two months, despite being the dead of winter. Now I need to situate and train them into my wall and ceiling lattice.
My usual four hour gym swim routine is pure pain, but my ritual makes it fun, and i i love it. Today in Sydney, it is about 12C degrees, skies are damp and grey, punctuated with bright magenta and pink XYZs, orange roses, and fuscia bougainvillea in my garden, lots of greenery, faded prayer flags, and a 2m pink Aussie nautical flag blowing off my terrace. Before i turned on music, i could hear waves crashing on the beach. I can see there's no cricket or rugby today on the oval, just nippers soccer, so it's unusually quiet except for the rough seas. But now I am listening to Duran Duran on the jambox, getting high on coffee, running through my program in my head and visualizing how i am going to perform. "I need to get a PB in rowing today", I think to myself. This is a good pace to get me ready for putting on my shoes, taking a pee, then Chaka Khan will start belting it out, the playlist with start rotating and I'll get sucked into the trancey pipeline for a few hours.
The more serious part of my gym trip today will be to finally clear my lungs of all of the crap and inflammation they endured in six weeks of travel. I've been on antibiotics for four days now, so imy lungs are not infected, they just need to give up on that old trauma and get used to the trauma i'm gioing to give them today.
I almost never break out of my trance with headphones on, to noticed other people, with only a few exceptions. I've worked out next to Sam Stouser a few times here. She and I have very similar bodies. I don't think that strength is helping her as a lady tennis player. i saw Serena Williams play Ivanovic last year in my annual pilgrammage to Aussie Open in Melbourne. They are exactly evenly matched players, but Ivanovic has the body of a stick bug, where as Williams is more of a beetle, a lady bug, if you like. Sam and I also have a very similar workout. I do triple sets in sequences of three, three sequences for upper body, one for lower, as prescribed by my physio, and Sam seemed to be doing something similar. I always do a sprint triathlon- in gym- for a half hour, warm up cycle, treadmill intervals including sidesteps, elliptical without holding on with arms for core, spin bike intervals, backward and forward, then i gauge my fitness with a rowing ERG for 5 minutes. Then weights, core, yoga or tai chi, and rolling, then a warm down swim at the beach if it's nice.
Can someone invent tangle free iPhone headphones please? Enough of these apps. Sure, it's a good tactile puzzle but I don't need this crap now
The other time I got distracted was when a totally hot tradee was fixing the warm up bike next to me. I wasnt really in my trance yet, and my speech therapist Gaye taught me how to converse with people effectively: ask them relevant questions, even if you don't think you'll care about the answer. People usually surprise you. So I was thinking of anything I could say to him, and said, "I really like your bag. Where did you get it?". I did really like it and wanted one like it, and nice dark blue and black. How cute, he had his name "IRWIN" monogrammed on the side in yellow.
He beemed in tradee Australian "Yeeah, I goet it at Bunnings. I love it."
"Thanks, Irwin."
Later that day, at Bunnings I bought the bag, really a super masucline purse for macho things, and all of them had "IRWIN" monogrammed on the side in yellow. Oh, oops, that's the manufacturer.
BUT- amidst all of this fun, I never forget that I owe everything to Buddha, who showed me how to come back from dead, bled out on the pavement with a broken neck, and how to live a smart life to honor his teachings. Thank you, Buddha.
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