Although I'm pretty busy these days and doing all of these things and fitting P90 X into my crazy schedule, I'm still very much unemployed. That's partly the reason why my schedule is so hectic at times. My roommate has just recently been laid off from the same game company I used to work at, but his priorites are a lot more lax. I've been unemployed now over a year and clearly I'm trying to do everything I can to try to get back in the saddle before unemployment work out whereas he's just sitting back and enjoying his new found freedom.
I can't say I've ever had that in my time out of work but perhaps I have when I take into account my working to get fit. Going out and doing bike rides every day gave me what I needed to unplug from the worry. All that worry about where I was going to live, what I was going to do, where my next meal was coming from. All that shit was adding stress. All that stress was pounds. It's definitely one of the reasons why I probably shot up at least another 40-50 pounds in the first place. Either way, I've always felt to frantic about needing to secure myself before I could do anything like play games and just unplug for a day. In fact, I don't think I've really taken a "day off" in that sense. My roommate doesn't have that problem.
So yesterday, Borderlands 2 released early for those who pre-ordered on Steam. Everybody's all super psyched about playing it. I really wanted to play it but clearly not as bad as everyone else apparently. We get started and we play some last night. Today, I think everyone here got up thinking that we were all jumping back in and just rocking Borderlands 2 all day or something...
Not me.
I'm now stuck doing weird audio "odd jobs" for random people here and there. It's definitely not as glamorous as I was hoping I could maybe carve out as an audio contractor. I'm basically being stuck helping out "friends" or "friends of friends" with audio work for like 1/5th to 1/10th what I could concievably make doing that work in a professional setting. It's awesome. I'm pretty sure I've made more working in call centers or customer service. More consistent too, but I digress... I had my work cut out for me today. Super long recording session with a lot of really tough edits and cleanups to follow. I get back and everybody's like "GET YOUR ASS IN THE BORDERLANDS!!"
"OKAY OKAY!" I say, but really I'm getting kinda bummed because I know if we start now (at 3:30pm) We're probably not going to stop until like 1:00-2:00am... So I'm sitting there in the game menu waiting to start it up with everybody and I think to myself... I'm going to miss my P90X...
I'm going to miss my P90X...
I'm going to miss my P90X?! FUCK THAT SHIT!!
Since we were waiting for someone to get off work I told them that they could go ahead and I'd just join when the friend got off work. Then I went to go do my Plyometrics.
A year ago, I'd never thought I'd see the day where if I wasn't able to do my workout that I'd get upset. So upset, that I'd would almost move mountains just to be able to do it. It's been happening to me for the last several months. I could never understand those types of people until now. I've become a different person. I feel like it's made me a little more of a responsible person. A little bit anyway :-P
Plyometrics is getting awesome. More and more, I'm getting to be like the guys on screen. I still get worn the hell out at some specific parts, but man, I'm able to do just about every exercise now. I paused half as much as last time. It's great. It's something I look forward to. Biking is easier. I guess if you ride like I do, it's pretty hardcore, but it's easy to look forward to doing something like that. The fact that I'm looking forward to doing this crazy insane workout routine on a daily basis... I never would've thought. Not the current me, and certainly not the me from a year ago.
So... It's really all about priorites. I've made my health and well-being a priority. I tried making serving and working for people who take advantage a priority and it got me nowhere. Hell, it almost got me killed if you think about it. But if I focus on myself and get my stuff right, then I'll be that much stronger to help people who actually need and deserve my help. The ones not simply out to just take advantage.
Anyway for this morning's juice, I went for the O.G. Mean Green
1 Cucumber
2 Granny Smith Apples
4 Stalks of Celery
6-7 Leaves of Kale
1/2 Lemon (I do whole)
1/2" piece of ginger
Michael Jones, you are are freaking awesome. I feel like I can't say that enough. :)
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