I'm fully mad...

at half and half. Yes, the milk product. I'm over it and its big bag of bullshit.

Let's look at a timeline, shall we?

Sat, 12/8 - purchase a pint of half and half (Lucerne brand for those of you in the know) at the SafeGay, around 2pm PST. The sell-by date is 12/20/07 (NEXT Thursday).
Fri, 12/14 - open said pint to cream up my first morning cup of coffee. This is the initial opening/use.

I ask you, I say to you, "hey..." - should I be receiving tiny bits of curdled cream floating atop my coffee from an unopened, seemingly unexpired milk product? I don't think so... BUT I DID.

This happens routinely with half and half in my life. Why? I never did anything to the milk industry. I'm a faithful small-time consumer of things creamy and delicious. Why the curdling conspiracy.

I go for fat-free or low-fat food items when I can (and where there is no huge trade off on extra sugar to replace the missing fat). But half and half in my coffee is one place where I do not. Perhaps full-fat half and half just has a really poor shelf life and I need to accept that those dates are bunk on the carton. Can't be trusted. Because fat-free half and half seems to have a half-life akin to Uranium or something. That shit never seems to turn. But I look at regular and it chunks up before my eyes.

Or is there a dirty secret about Lucerne of which I am sadly unaware?

-Creamless in San Fran

ALC7, BITCHES!

Start your "Support Gina" piggy bank now, bitches... is all I'm sayin'.

because now THIS is happening:

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Gandhi

tasty!

BACK IN BIDNESS

Well - I successfully if not a bit slowly made it through softball practice yesterday. I did well, noticed I'm shaving some of the unnecessary height/arc out of my throws, and also started learning how to pitch!

It was a ton of fun. My teammates are all really nice and I look foward to starting to play real games.

My leg is still bruised, but overall much better. I stretched A LOT before practice and some after and some more today. Tomorrow I try going back to the gym at my insane 5am routine. Wish me luck!

blood and gore

So my doctor looked at my leg yesterday. He says I broke a blood vessel and estimates up to a pint of blood is just sort of swimming around in my tissue in my thigh and knee. That also explains the swelling as in addition to the "loose" blood with no where to go, there is additional swelling due to normal body reaction to trauma and additional blood cells to speed recovery in the area.

He estimates 2, possibly 3 weeks before all is back to normal.

HATES IT.

240 feet, give or take

that's the reported distance from home plate, through 1st, 2nd and 3rd bases all the way to home plate again. that's not very far right? you'd think, meh. that's not that far. even if I'm going to run it, I don't really need to stretch beforehand. i do cardio 4x/week.

here is reason you shouldn't run without first stretching, unless perhaps you are an experienced runner.




yes, that's my leg. my left thigh to be exact. my first softball injury. i was putting the petal to the medal from 3rd to home and no, I did not fall. I was not beaten with a bat. i merely heard a POP and felt a SNAP, and then could barely walk. and two days later, I get these lovely parting gifts.

WOOT WOOT!

yeah, not happy

this is my gym @ 5:10 am. So you can imagine since I bothered to wake up @ 4:30, that I'm a little pissed that the dude who opens the gym can't get up in time to open at 5am as they are supposed to.

32 percent!

Thanks to those of you who have already been so generous and donated in my name to AIDS/LifeCycle 2007.


As of this moment, here's what it looks like:

Most of this poured in yesterday. I was completely overwhelmed and crying at my desk. Nice, huh? =0)


But seriously, $5 helps. Please consider giving. (<-- link)

i need balls

PLUS

may equal:

this could get quite interesting before it's all said and done....

resolution

back in late November, maybe early december, I posted lyrics to the Nick Lachey super-sappy but to me, poignant, Resolution. and now, just a few days after ringing in the new year, I've actually thought about and decided upon some things I want to do this year. I won't call them resolutions. I'll call them goals.

in case you're curious, here's what I plan to do this year:

Volunteer: i have several ideas on this topic... Habitat for Humanity, Open Hand, AIDS LifeCycle (SF->LA2007) are on the top of the list.

Physical Fitness: 2006 saw me off to a good start. I lost 40 lbs during the last 4 months of 2006. I hope to lose another 25-30 in the first 4 of 2007 - just in time for my birthday. I also want to get to the gym more often than not. But on the topic of fitness, I'm also looking to learn a bit more about hiking and also cycling. I'm actually meant to be going on my first hike (albeit a city hike, not a wilderness hike) on a date this Sunday. Hopefully the city views will be as breathtaking as the boy is cute that is taking me on the hike! =0)

Sports: I wanna try my hand at a team sport. I'm going to try softball, possibly rugby. I've got a while to decide, so we shall see.

Maintenance: I will strive to continue to be nicotine (just celebrated 3 months y'all) and illegal drug/substance-free (5 yrs in Feb y'all!) in 2007 and all the remaining years of my life.

It's a pretty ambitious list. But I think I'll do well.

Here's wishing everyone strength, courage and conviction to stick to your guns and accomplish your dreams and goals in 2007 and beyond.

GBoogie

PS - I may be taking a hiatus. If I do, I might have a guest writer step in for me. I've still got some thinking to do on this subject, but I thought I'd tee it up.