Pneumatised!

MM,

Well, I haven’t had a chance to workout at all this week. Eek! Not even a short run.

I went to a ritual on Monday night. On Tuesday, I decided to stay home and get some work done. I spent all day and night typing up pagan chants that I know. (I’ve been meaning to do that for a while now, but the need arose for me to have it typed up, so type it up I did.)

Then, on Wednesday, I got a call from my mom saying she needed to go to the hospital to have her heart checked. As she didn’t have an appointment and it was rather urgent, we went to emergency. As is the case with emergency hospitals, we waited a while to get seen. As they needed to do blood work and the ECG, we had to wait longer for the test results and to see the doctor. My mom ended up staying the night for observation while I went home and came back early Thursday morning to pick her up. I spent six hours at the hospital and a couple of extra hours in the morning picking her up. Luckily, as it turned out there wasn’t anything wrong – nothing that showed up on the blood work anyway. I escorted my mom home – she didn’t sleep well at the hospital, of course, and she had quite a bit of blood taken out of her all day – then I went home for some rest.

I got home around 9:15 Thursday morning. I didn’t really sleep Wednesday night. There wasn’t much point. I got home around 1:30 a.m. that night and had to leave again at 6:00 a.m. Because there wasn’t much good food at the hospital (they only had snack machines, not even a cheap sandwich!), I didn’t have a good meal for six straight hours. Once I got home, I had some food and a bath, and cleaned up a little. I slept for an hour only, then got up at 6:00 a.m. to go back to the hospital. Considering the lack of food and sleep, I ended up sleeping until early Thursday evening (last night). That, of course, left out any option of going to the do jang. I woke up just when I should be leaving for class. The gym wasn’t an option either. I would not have time to eat and digest my food before going for a workout.

I ended up re-arranging my bedroom after waking up in the evening. I have to say I actually feel good about that though. I was planning on re-arranging the bedroom for a while now. I didn’t like where the bed was – right smack in the middle of the room with not much space to move around. I ended up putting the bed in the corner of the room farthest from the door. According to feng shui, this is best for a good night’s sleep. The energy of the room actually feels different. Maybe because now there is space to move around in there, and this allows qi to flow better. Anyway, as I said, I’m happy about it. I have problems sleeping sometimes, and having good energy in my sleeping environment helps much. Plus, I got rid of all the major dust bunnies. I have major allergies to dust. My entire respiratory system down to my diaphragm fills up with phlegm. I end up coughing up a lot of phlegm from my bronchi and stomach. (Ew! Did I just post that?! Gross.) I’m good at making sure I get some air though. Have to be careful with the dust bunnies. They have since hopped into the garbage bin. So yay! It feels like I have a new bedroom, even though I don’t.

Later today, I’m hoping I can get in a short run. I need it after not getting enough exercise. I just hope I have enough time before I go to a ritual tonight.

My newly arranged bedroom is calling me. Hm… sleep should be interesting today.

Official countdown: 22 days left (tic-tock, tic-tock)

BB,
Cassandrah
Brigid’s Flame

P.S. I’ve done some more work on my reiki manuals. I’m hoping to have classes scheduled for autumn/late September.

You never know what you can achieve until you set out to do it

BB,
Cassandrah
Brigid’s Flame

Monday, June 5, 2006

I went to the do jang for taekwondo class. Master Kim wasn’t teaching, so one of the higher black belts was teaching class. It was a good class though. We did some more traditional taekwondo drills – stances, blocks, hand strikes. Then we did some kicking. I’d like to have classes like that more often.

There was no half hour of crazy kicking after. 🙁 I was looking forward to it for once.

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

I decided to go for my 5k run. Actually the route I mapped out comes out to 5.2 km. Unfortunately, I didn’t do the route as planned. I should have brought my directions. Anyway, this is what I ended up doing.

First, I did a slow run up Jarvis/Mt. Pleasant for 12 minutes, 18 seconds. The confirmed distance is 1.6 km, but as I overshot my turn to go west on Roxborough St. E., I actually ran a little more than 1.6 km. I ended up running east on Roxborough Rd. for a bit, then walked through a small residential area. I figured I probably went the wrong way, so I asked some people for directions to Roxborough St. E. I found it south on Mt. Pleasant on the other side of the street. It turns out that since I ran up the east side of Mt. Pleasant, I didn’t even see the turn to go west on my intended route. But yay! I found it after heading south on the west side of Mt. Pleasant for a bit.

Thus, the second part of my run started at Roxborough St. E. at Mt. Pleasant. Heading west, I ran to the end of Roxborough St. E. at Yonge, then across Roxborough St. W. to Avenue Rd. Then, I ran down Avenue Rd. to Davenport, down Davenport to Yonge, and continued down Church St. to Isabella and home. The total distance starting from Roxborough St. E. at Mt. Pleasant ending at home was 3.5 km. (Though, I goofed on this part of the route too. I was supposed to run up Avenue Rd. a bit to get to Dupont, run west on Dupont to Davenport, then run down Davenport.) The time for this part of my run was 25 minutes. The total time was 37 minutes 18 seconds for a confirmed distance of 5.1 km, not including the short detour I had at Roxborough Rd. Overall, I did a good run. I ran a solid 3.5 km after doing a good 1.6 km. After the run, I wasn’t totally exhausted. I felt like I could run a bit more after a short break. I will try the 5 km route another time. After that, as long as I keep up with the running regularly, I should be able to complete the 10 km run in decent time.

Saturday, June 10, 2006

I went to the do jang for the two-hour test preparation class. There was much to cover, and we had some time to work on what we plan on doing for the demo.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

I went to the do jang again for the test preparation class. We didn’t have a full hour of training as we had a black belt meeting first. After the do jang, I went to the gym for some conditioning training.

Leg lifts
Pull-ups (aka chin-ups, military and parallel)
Dips
Leg press
Hamstring flexor (called seated leg curls)
Hip adductors
Hip abductors
Seated row
Bar pulls (I think this is called the lateral pull-downs; it works the muscles next to the scapulae on the back)
Seated chest press
Shoulder fly
Shoulder lift (this is called the shoulder press)
Pectoral fly

Free weights:
Situps (on a incline bench; worked out the obliques as well by doing double punches during the situp)
Bicep curls
Weighted squats
Shoulder strengthening
Wrist strengthening
Push-ups

I did 15 minutes on the bicycle. According to the machine, I covered 5.41 miles (about 8.7 km).

When I got home, I decided to go for a short run. I went for a slow run of 1.5 miles (2.4 km). My time was 13 minutes 21 seconds, which is fairly decent considering I ran after about two hours of exercise.

Today’s official countdown: 26 days left (time is a-ticking)

BB,
Cassandrah
Brigid’s Flame

MM,

Re-did the Myers-Briggs test found on my previous blog entry. My results this time were INTJ – 44% introverted, 50% intuitive, 1% thinking, and 44% judging. My previous results were – 33% introverted, 30% intuitive, 12% thinking, and 33% judging. Hm… strange how things can change.

A different test gave me INTJ – 9% introverted, 21% intuitive, 71% thinking, and 31% judging. Huh? I wonder why the big difference in the two tests…

BB,
Cassandrah
Brigid’s Flame

MM,

What a heat wave last week! I ended up taking a few days off of training last week. I think I needed to let my body rest a bit, and the heat wave was not conducive to strenuous exercise. So, I started off the month of June with 2.6 km run (just a little more than a mile and a half).

June 1, 2006

I ran 2.6 km (a little more than a mile and a half) in 14 minutes 9 seconds.

June 4, 2006

I went to taekwondo for the test training. It was a good class. We worked on the requirements for the test. After the do jang, I meet up with Nathan at the gym. I was starting to miss the weight training. It’s funny, but after some time to rest, my muscles really miss the workout. Always feel so strong after weight training. 😀

Leg lifts
Pull-ups (aka chin-ups, military and parallel)
Dips
Leg press
Hamstring flexor (called seated leg curls)
Hip adductors
Hip abductors
Seated row
Bar pulls (I think this is called the lateral pull-downs; it works the muscles next to the scapulae on the back)
Seated chest press
Shoulder fly
Shoulder lift (this is called the shoulder press)

Free weights:
Situps (on a incline bench; worked out the obliques as well by doing double punches during the situp)
Bicep curls
Pectoral fly
Shoulder strengthening
Push-ups

Well, after having a nice little break, I think I’m ready for another busy week. Tonight is a do jang night and tomorrow I’m going to try a 5 km route (actually works out to 5.2 km/3.25 miles, but will be good for me to go the extra distance as this is a little more than half the 10 k run).

Today’s official countdown: 4 weeks, 5 days left.

BB,
Cassandrah
Brigid’s Flame

MM,

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