Hey, it's me!

I didn't really mean to be away this long, but c'est la vie.  This will be short, so I can get to the good stuff.

-  School's done, obviously!  Got an A in Psych, and while I haven't gotten my final grade for A&P, I would have had to have seriously screwed up the final exam - which I didn't, thankyouverymuch - to have NOT gotten an A.  So, well done, me.  Heh.

- One good thing about school - coming out of exams like that, I had plenty of momentum to do the holiday stuff.  Shopped and decorated Saturday, did family stuff Sunday, shopped Monday and yesterday, and wrapped today.  Tomorrow, I bake (chocolate peanut butter cup cake and cookies).

- Workouts have all been going well.  I reread parts of the RDR book recently (I always seem to be pawing through the source material when I'm following a program) and realized something pretty cool.  I have pretty much always done programs that set you up with a given slate of exercises that you do for a certain period of time, anywhere from 3 to 12 weeks; usually, of late, 3 - 4 weeks (the 12 is definitely an outlier).  And this program generally periodizes the REP scheme in three week segments, so in my mind, I just figured I'd do a certain set of exercises for each of those segments.  Well, I don't HAVE to do that.  In fact, he encourages you to change up what you do often, even every workout, so long as you follow the basic template.  Which I think is pretty cool, and certainly allows me a lot of freedom especially for those days when I do weights at home & don't have access to pulleys & a proper cage.  So, yay!

-  My birthday was last week, and I got a TRX!  It is a very cool toy to have in the arsenal; adds a nice dimension of difficulty to things and a different dimension to training in general.  I'm planning to take it to the gym on Friday to get a better feel for it.  At home, I've been hanging it from my pull up bar and from the door, which limits my space somewhat, so it should be fun to test drive it in a more spacious area.

- It has been a great week to be a Philadelphia sports fan.  'S'all I'm gonna say.

It seems I can't do anything around here without tons of feline assistance.  The holidays are no exception.  I give you decorating and wrapping, chez moi:

Tree in a bocks?

This thing NEEDS somfin'...

I know, ME!

You can has empty bag - I have stocking suffers!

He's looking at me...

Bugger!

And now this little brat is bothering me!

RAWR!

A kitteh's work isn't done until he's messed up the wrapping supplies...