spoiled chinese girl

July 01 – Walked around Brampton
July 02 – Nothing
July 03 – Walked around Toronto
July 04 – Nothing
July 05 – Nothing
July 06 – Body Combat
July 07 – Walk around Toronto (few hours… but with stops)
July 08 – Nothing
July 09 – Nothing
July 10 – Nothing
July 11 – Nothing
July 12 – 20 + 20 + 20 modified push ups
July 13 – Body Combat
July 14 – Walk around Toronto (9+ km in total)
July 15 – Swimming at Willow Beach (60 minutes)

June 15 – Body Combat
June 16 – Nothing
June 17 – Walk around Toronto (30 minutes?)
June 18 – Nothing
June 19 – Nothing
June 20 – 20 full body push ups (to see if I still could)
June 21 – 25 + 25 + 25 modified push ups
June 22 – 30 + 30 modified push ups
June 23 – Nothing (massage)
June 24 – Nothing
June 25 – Nothing
June 26 – Walk around Sudbury (drunk)
June 27 – Walk around Sudbury
June 28 – Nothing
June 29 – Nothing
June 30 – Nothing

So two things happened on Tuesday.

1. I bought new shoes.  After the Bodycombat class I decided that I couldn’t continue in the shoes I was wearing. Lesson learned. Don’t buy shoes a size too big just because the store doesn’t currently have them in your size. It’s Walmart, they’ll have your size next week.  I ended up buying from Winners, Airwalks all black with red accent which perfectly match the red/black/white skull laces I bought last December.

The laces were too short though with the standard criss-cross pattern. Football boy (aka He who got hit by a car)… actually I want to rename him Sporty Spice. I wonder if he’d mind. Hmm… I digress. He recommended a straight lace, but I don’t like those. Got me thinking, and found a “bow tie” lace pattern that gives more length. And it’s pretty awesome, since these are really wide/flat laces anyways.

Shoes that fit instead of being too big… awesome. Driving feels a bit weird though because these shoes are super new. Hopefully I’m not revving too much or burning my clutch because I can’t feel the pedals yet!

2. I bought flip flops. Also after the BodyCombat class, I went to shower, barefoot, like I have been for years and years, and coming back to my locket I stepped on something, and was bleeding. Not a lot, but enough of a concern to actually consider (and purchase) footwear for the gym shower room.  Old Navy’s always been known for cheap flip flops. They had a MASSIVE array of patterns (not just solid colours like I imagined, I guess “tis the season”) in the women’s section, but none would fit me.  Off to the men’s section, not nearly the quantity or selection available.  I ended up with a brown camo pair, and a gray/white skulls pair.

Blarg though, got them home, tried to get used to them… apparently the in-between-my-toes where the thong bit hits… is sensitive, because these things hurt. Granted I’ve not worn flip flops in YEARS. But yeah, these hurt. I can see now why these only cost $3.00 per pair (if bought in two’s, $6.00 per pair if bought as singles?!?) while the nicer looking ones with cotton thong parts were more like $15.00 per pair.

Why am I blogging about my shopping exploits? And… SHOES for pete’s sake? I’ve gotten… really boring it seems.

Oh, and my camera stuff came in the mail too.
Each 4gb memory card is listed as 1.1k jpegs in my Nikon D70s.  That’s a lot of snapping!
The UV filter fit which is awesometastic.
And the little cloth pouch thing is super cute. And useful, I wiped off my lens and the filter before putting it on so I wouldn’t have trapped dust/particles.

June 01 – 25 + 25 + 25 modified pushups
June 02 – 35 + 30 modified pushups
June 03 – Nothing
June 04 – Nothing
June 05 – 3+ hours dancing @ club
June 06 – Nothing
June 07 – 30 + 25 modified pushups
June 08 – Body Combat class
June 09 – Nothing (Massage)
June 10 – Nothing
June 11 – Softball practice + Unicycling
June 12 – 25 + 25 + 25 modified pushups
June 13 – 25 + 25 + 25 modified pushups
June 14 – Nothing
June 15 – Body Combat class

The “nothing”’s are dwindling slightly.

I’m happy that I’ve started going back to the classes, that’s for sure.  It’s exciting to do something that at least pushes me a little bit, whereas I’m pretty lazy when I’m on my own.  I think this is going to work well.  Not to be defeatest, but I doubt I’ll be able to change my body much without more “professional” help (i.e. personal trainer) but I’ll see how well I get along on my own first.

Goals for the balance of the month include:

• 2+ cardio classes per week (Tuesday + Friday, maybe Saturday)
• 100 (modified) push ups every push up evening
• Swimming once a week (Mondays probably)
• Yoga once a week. (Saturday or Sunday)

Yay! Two posts in one day! Got back from the softball game a little while ago and had an awesome time taking photos.  The team I’m shooting (Dirty Ballers) didn’t have a problem with it, and were even excited at the idea of a team photographer, and the opposing team… didn’t yell at me for taking their photos.  So I say that’s a win all around.  I had my shutter speed set up correctly, on shutter priority so the aperture ended up being calculated for me by the camera.  Unfortunately I forgot to check my ISO settings, and I should have lowered it.  So these photos seem grainy-er than I would have liked.

Afterward we ended up at Caffé Demetre for dessert. Nom.

Here’s a few select photos that I picked out. After the practice post I’ve decided no more than 9 photos go up at a time in gallery mode. It otherwise looks awkward.

All of the photos that I actually like can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilfunky1/sets/72157624143599659/

I will keep updating that as I will probably end up shooting a few more games. It’s fun