Hello from RiboNuff on July 23, 2010

Hi to my reader (myself). We are getting K1 off to camp, which may mean some shopping. She hasn't been very good about getting prepared for camp. She has a rough idea that she has everything she needs, but hasn't started separating clothes into stacks and ticking off her inventory list, and the like. She is a C.I.T. this year (counselor in training). It's not a paid position. Next year if she has the option to return, she would be a J.C. (junior counselor) and receive a small stipend, but it is a more serious undertaking. She'd have to be available for at least a month, or possibly all summer if she chose, and it's a real job with a contract, yet one is still considered a camper. The following year, she'd be a counselor, with all its full responsibility, privileges, and pay (peanuts, but the experience is priceless).

I went to the Southwest YMCA today, after giving myself a day off yesterday. I didn't want to be too physically wasted before a long day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Previously I had been trying to make every day to "the Y" [as it's officially known, July 2010] for the remainder of July after the northern California trip, since I'm trying to grow my game in the weights department. I just keep having to tell myself to back off sometimes, or at least not increase so fast. Today I did nearly YZ,000 Cybex pounds, and other resistance. That is a lot more than the XY,000 pounds I was doing 10 days ago. I am really feeling the weight of my new load, but it's not bad; I'm just more tired. Sometimes I let myself let up on the hour of cardio - like one or two days a week! I must have a bit of an exercise addiction now. Well, I like the positive reinforcers, and there are not many negative reinforcers (other than some occasional temporary muscle pain). And hey, I haven't gotten any new injuries since February - that's a nice long spell injury-free! I also think significant helps disperse my negative mental energy or anxieties during and after the bout. And since I've always recently worked out these days, I am always at least somewhat under the influence of the exercise endorphins.