#which are all 'normal cat things' just amped up to 11

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

yoooo I remember reading varjak paw as a kid. I honestly don't remember much about it other than his like spinning(?) cat fighting technique (???)

HE SUPER DID HAVE THAT, god, slow time moving circles shadow walking has been stuck in my head literally since elementary school, the VIBES of that whole book were absolutely impeccable

i remember being scared shitless by the Gentleman's pair of black not!cats and just absolutely hit by a truck about the

"I Am Very Well Thank You Please"

'stuffed toys' reveal, the ILLUSTRATIONS just. WHOO. OKAY. i feel absolutely zero compunctions putting this one up there on the "short stories you read that alter your brain chemistry" shelf tbqh

apparently there was a second one, which i didn't know about until i tripped over it at a library book sale and you bet your ass it came home with me, i still haven't read it yet but like. [long string of eyes emojis]

[recentanimenews]

OPINION: How I Discovered Haikyu!! (And Myself), Thoughts From a First-Time Viewer

  Haikyu!!'s final season just began, and for years I have been meaning to start watching. Now seems like a great time to rectify that, so I've finally caught up and am eagerly awaiting the next arc to see how the Karasuno Crows fare.

  I decided to track my thoughts on everything that happened — something of a time capsule from before the main cast joined together all the way to them competing in Nationals.

    As a baseline, here is everything I knew about Haikyu!! before watching Episode 1:

It's a popular sports anime about volleyball

The main character is the orange-haired kid, Hinata

They're going to go to Nationals. Not sure about the details, but I know they’ll make it into the tournament

  I actually watched this with someone who has seen it before. She didn't spoil anything but occasionally gave insight I may not have otherwise realized at the moment.

  Episodes 1-6: Joining the Team

    For the first part of the show, we largely follow Hinata's perspective. As I assumed going in, he's our generally underachieving but unfailingly energetic sports boy who hadn't met anyone who loves his sport as much as him until now. Specifically, he meets Kageyama, one of the best setters in the prefecture.

  I started to notice that the storytelling’s actually pretty good when the newly assembled Crows get a practice game with the 4th ranked school in the prefecture. It gives them someone challenging so the main cast can see what they’re up against but also gives them a team close enough to their level that they have a real chance of winning and also keeps the truly powerful foes hidden for later arcs.  

I also really appreciate that during the games, the characters try out new things, but are never truly sure that anything will work. It adds some experimentation and uncertainty to every game.

  Episodes 7-10: Crows, Assemble

    The rest of the main cast joins up with the existing group, forming the core rotation of players and major characters in the show.

  One of the new characters, Asahi, showcases one of the show’s strong points for me. He's the team’s ace, but both he and Hinata grapple with performance anxiety. As my watch-along partner put it, Hinata’s anxiety comes in waves, mostly during games, while Asahi’s is more of a constant background hum.

  As someone who has struggled with anxiety most of my life, I heavily identify with Asahi’s backstory, even down to not going for the spike in the final play of his flashback game due to thinking about how pointless it was since he wouldn't get it through.

  Episodes 11-13: Crows versus Cats

    Karasuno gets its practice game against their rival school, Nekoma. Both teams have fallen from grace in recent years, so this is the Crows’ chance to prove they can crawl their way back to the top and test out their teamwork and strategies from the previous arcs.

  At this point, the mind games aspect of each match starts coming through. Both teams try to figure out how their opponents think so they can react faster, while also trying to hide their own tells to keep their opponents guessing.

  When Hinata first started closing his eyes to make his special fast attacks with Kageyama, I joked that his power-up was going to be just ... opening his eyes. It turned out I wasn’t far from the truth. It doesn’t work immediately, but all of the Crows start polishing their weaknesses to make for a more well-rounded team.

  Episodes 14-16: Preliminaries Round 1

    As the boys go into the Interhigh Tournament, people whisper about the “Flightless Crows.” They proceed to absolutely crush their first opponents.

  The show follows the girls’ volleyball team for a bit, too, amping up the emotions at the end of the first round by cutting between the girls losing while the boys breeze through their sets.

  It’s a bit unfortunate the girls are beaten so badly just to show that the boys have grown, especially since they don’t end up getting much screentime for the rest of the show outside of being in the stands or otherwise supporting the boys.

  Episodes 17-26: Daito and Aoba Jousai

    After getting through the first part of the tournament easily, Karasuno is up against two powerhouse teams. First: Daito, a school with defense so amazing it’s called “The Iron Wall of Daito.” Second, Aoba Jousai, the school that many of Kageyama’s peers, including the setter he looks up to, enrolled in.

  They manage to steal a win from Daito, but ultimately lose to Aoba Jousai.

  The ending of this arc was when I realized I was truly invested in the show. For one, my watch-along partner and I were silent during many of the plays instead of joking about anime tropes like we had been in earlier arcs. Second, during one of the final scenes of the season, the entire team went out to eat after the game and we just silently watched everyone slowly start eating and then mutually begin crying.

  Episodes 27-36: Season 2

    As we start Season 2, there is a very clear and welcome difference almost immediately — the animation and camerawork are a lot better. Neither were bad in Season 1, but now they’re on an entirely different level. As my watch-along partner put it, there is some very naturalistic movement in some of the scenes.

  Also, this is when the team got a second manager, Yachi. I seriously cannot think of a character I have more personally related to in an anime than Yachi. She is a nervous wreck that is constantly apologizing and gets spooked by every little thing, even as small as someone talking to her. She outright views herself as “Townsperson B,” from when she played that role in drama club. I turned to my watch-along partner and said, “I’m in this picture, and I don’t like it.”

  Meanwhile, in the actual plot, my watch-along partner pointed out that while the team started developing specialized skills at their summer camp, the majority of their training seems to be devoted to getting down the fundamentals of every part of the game, then practicing them constantly. Like how Nishinoya is normally the libero and is almost exclusively receiving, but after seeing an opponent’s strategy, wants to learn to toss so he can replicate something he previously lost against.

  Episodes 37-44: Prelims

    The show uses the prelims as an opportunity to shine in two new ways. First, if a player is injured, they're checked to see if it's serious, then given a proper medical exam off the court. No powering through a concussion.

  Second, since main characters are no longer guaranteed to be on the court for the entire game, the cast expands to include other members we previously haven't focused on.

  My watch-along partner mentioned Ennoshita, Daichi's relief player, a few times throughout the show, so I knew he was going to be important eventually. But to give an idea of how little he impacted things until this point, when he was called in, I exclaimed that they were putting Steve McBlandman in the game. Despite that, he really does get to shine on the court. He’s a nervous wreck at first (join the club), but he’s also most likely to take over as captain once Daichi graduates and proves himself to be a reliable teammate by the time Daichi returns.

  Episodes 45-50: Rematch

    In terms of storytelling, there’s not much to add for this game. The two teams are established factions and we know the stakes, so it’s more of a puzzle to see who can find new strategies during the game and outthink the other team, which is made harder by the rivals bringing in a totally new player referred to as "Mad Dog."

Eventually, Karasuno wins, ending Season 2 with a promise that the finals of the qualifiers for Nationals will be the start of Season 3. Due to knowing a few details ahead of time, I already know a single game will be the entirety of the season.

  Episodes 51-57: Final, Part 1

    As both teams step onto the court and warm up, we are reminded that our heroes are pretty much all nervous wrecks, with most of the team in various stages of being curled up on the ground or asking for nausea medication. And, honestly, I was too. By the time the game hits set four, I wanted to grab my inhaler.

  The Crows are up against Shiratorizawa, a team with Ushiwaka, a player so strong that early in the game, it took three blockers and a libero just to return his attack, and later on he managed to dislocate a blocker’s finger with a spike.

  Episodes 57-60: Final, Part 2

    Full Disclosure: I was so invested in this game and the following season I actually forgot to take notes, so everything from here on is a second watch!

In my opinion, everyone gets to shine by the end of the game. Nishinoya sets up a full team synchro attack with his libero toss, Tsukishima is the only person whose blocks come close to keeping up with Ushiwaka, and so on.

  Episodes 61-65: Winter Training

    The first half of the season starts with some of Karasuno’s players being invited to special training camps. Hinata, being too impatient to accept that he hadn’t been invited, infiltrates one.

  Since he wasn’t invited, he’s not allowed to play, leading to him needing to watch the players and game instead of the ball for once. As a result, he starts learning to read peoples' tells and building an intuition of how to move, rather than just relying on instinct.

  Or, as I said to my watch-along partner the first time around, Hinata has reached his ultimate powerup: thinking.

  Episodes 66-70: Downtime

    In the interstitial time between arcs, the team has a practice game against Date Tech again so the Crows can get used to playing together after being apart. We get some character moments, like all the third years going to a shrine on New Year’s, and when the team arrives in Tokyo we finally get a bit of Kiyoko’s backstory.

  It’s hard to pin down what exactly about it worked, but it felt really nice to see the third years all going to a shrine together in their final months before the end of high school.

  And with that, the Spring Tournament, a.k.a. Nationals, begins.

    After going through over 70 episodes of Haikyu!!, I can say with absolute certainty I’m sticking around until the end. I skimmed over a lot of details so every section wasn’t a page long (and even then the first draft of this was over 4,000 words), but every game is filled with strategy, mind games, and experimentation.

  Outside of the games, the show does a great job of building up the cast so the rivals are well-realized characters in their own right. Not the most complex in anime, but more than a wall for the main characters to climb over.

  All in all, the show is absolutely worth the watch. It'll take a while to get through, but it's also easy to pick back up if you need to stop partway through.

  What are some of your favorite moments in Haikyu!!? Are you watching the second half of the newest season with me? Who is best boy? Let me know in the comments!

    Kevin Matyi is a freelance features writer for Crunchyroll. He's been watching anime for as long as he can remember, and his favorite shows tend to be shonen and other action series.

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[anythingstephenking]

Tony! Toni! Toné! has done it again

Did you know that Tony! Toni! Toné! has over a million monthly listeners on Spotify? Not bad for a band that hasn’t put out an album since 1996. Can you name a Tony! Toni! Toné! song that isn’t “Feels Good”? I can’t. Can you think of another band with three exclamation points in their name? I can’t. Do you remember when Panic(!) at the Disco removed the exclamation point from their name? I do. Do you remember when Ke$ha removed the dollar sign from her name? I definitely do.

The tangent to end all tangents, but we’re back with Danny (or more matured “Dan”) Torrance and his pal Tony with Doctor Sleep! I was so excited when this novel was coming out I pre-ordered my copy when it was announced. Then never read it. Whoops.

Since I started my King journey, I haven’t let myself watch any new King adaptations of source material I haven’t read, so I got to watch the movie for the first time too! Someday I will finally get to watch The Outsider. I’m actually on a bit of a roll - 5 books in the last month or so.

I ONLY HAVE 12 BOOKS LEFT! PRAISE BE.

King said that a lot of folks would ask him at book signings “What happened to Danny Torrence”? If I was King I’d probably says “I dunno man, he’s not a real person” so I guess that’s why I have no imagination. Instead of sparking annoyance with the insatiable requests of his Constant Readers, it sparked creativity, and that’s why King is king.

Alright, lets actually talk about the book. We’re back with the Torrance family, and for an extremely traumatized family unit, they’re doing ok after Jack’s demise. I mean, the ghost lady from room 217 shows up in the bathtub every now and again, but that’s to be expected right?? The Torrances are living in Florida, stating that there’s no snow in Florida. But they know there’s like, a lot of resorts in Florida right? Presumably haunted by a lot of old biddies sending their food back to the kitchen and tipping their ghost waiters 2%.

There’s a little bit with Wendy, a young Danny and Dick, who’s still around and helping Danny manage his shine. Dick helps Danny lock away the lingering remnants of The Overlook by quite literally locking them in boxes in his mind. Ok sure, I guess?

But we’re not here to find out how Danny’s awkward middle school years were, and so we skip past the braces and straight into the alcoholism. Because of course. Like many flawed-but-heroic King characters, a grown up Dan Torrance has an alcohol problem. Given who his dad was, I can’t say I’m surprised. Dan says it’s a crutch to dim his shine. Genetics and quieting your clairvoyance - the top two causes of alcoholism in the United States.

Dan’s character isn’t any more interesting than the other alcoholics in King’s novels unfortunately. He’s fine; standard “I wanna get better” bullshit. To his credit, he does turn his life around, joining AA, getting a sponsor and settling down in one place for more than 10 minutes. He does shitty things but feels IMENSE guilt afterwards. I suppose remorse is a character strength.

Turns out Dan isn’t really the star of the show here, it’s Abra, a young gal with a very powerful shine who has never even had a sip of whiskey. We’re introduced to Abra as a baby in a terrifying passage about her abilities. As a baby, she starts crying and wakes both her parents from powerful nightmares that include the numbers 11 and 175. Her parents can’t soothe her and it gets so bad they take her to the hospital, where she wails until just shortly after 9:30am. It was September 11, 2001, and the numbers the family had nightmares about were the flight numbers of the terrorist planes. An infant, warning her parents through dreams. I mean, girl’s got it.

Abra grows up and does a bunch of other stuff that can mostly be considered fancy party tricks. She makes small connections with Dan’s mind here and there, but things heat up when we meet The True Knot.

So The True Knot are vampires that aren’t vampires. Because they don’t drink blood, they drink “steam” which is emitted from those that shine while they are tortured. Cool. It’s a new and refreshing take on typical vampire tropes, and they’re decent, other-worldly baddies.

Here’s where things go a little sideways for me. Abra manages to catch the interest of the True Knot’s leader Rose, and you can tell the remainder of the book will be a cat and mouse between the good guys and the bad. We learn that the True Knot has gathered much wealth and resources (as the undead tend to do with all the time in the universe) and they have footholds all throughout the US, including Jerusalem’s Lot and Sidewinder. Yes, the Sidewinder where the Overlook once stood. So how, in gods green earth, did these folks not latch onto a young Danny? His shine was powerful enough for a friggin’ building to attack him, but he somehow slipped past The True.  Someone asks this question in the book and I was not satisfied with the answer.

Plot holes aside, the relationship that Dan and Abra develop is quite charming, and because Dan’s a recovering alcoholic and Abra is 13, this is a romance free story. They team up, and the cat and mouse is amped up because we’re not just chasing The True through the streets but through their minds, with Abra and Rose popping in and out of each others brains like it’s nothing. It’s accelerated even further by the True catching measles from one of their victims. Now, I am looking at you, American Horror Story Season 5, for using this exact same plotline in Hotel two years later.

In the end, Dan gets his redemption arc, a new home, a career, 15 years of sobriety, a family. Abra gets… to live a normal life as a teen? I suppose this is the most important thing when you’re 13.

While a fun, page turning story (I think it took me 3 nights to plow through) there’s really not much to chew on here outside of the fast paced plot. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. It feels to me highly personal retelling of the recovering alcoholic, with Dan fully duking it out with his demons and coming through on the other side. I’d imagine that the parallels with King’s own demons is not all that dissimilar. At times it does feel like reading an advertisement for AA.

At the end of the day, The Shining was a story of alcohol and isolation; Doctor Sleep is a story of sobriety and companionship. One ends well; one does not.

6/10

First Line: On the second day of December in a year when a Georgia peanut farmer was doing business in the White House, one of Colorado’s great resort hotels burned to the ground.

Last Line: “Until you sleep”, he said.

Adaptations:

I feel more and more letdown with every modern King adaptation I’ve consumed recently.

The new Stand miniseries? Hated it.

1922? Hated it.

The new Pet Semetary? HATED IT.

Lisey’s Story? Currently watching and hating it.

Dark Tower? COME FREAKING ON.

I’m trying to remember the last King adaptation that didn’t make me go “meh”. I suppose IT: Chapter One? Gerald’s Game was good too I guess. I absolutely adore Castle Rock, but Hulu cancelled it because they’re stupid heads.

I actually miss the “so bad it’s good” movies of the early years - I’d rather watch Cat’s Eye 20 times than have to sit through 1922 again.

I was anxious for Doctor Sleep because I love love love Mike Flanagan movies and he did a decent job with Gerald’s Game. Oculus and Hush are two of my favorite modern horror movies, and if you ever want me to jabber on for hours on end, ask me about The Haunting Netflix series.

Unfortunately, I filed Doctor Sleep into the “meh” column. It’s a hard adaptation; remember that the Overlook exploded in the book, but was still standing at the end of the movie. Dick dies in the movie, but he’s still kicking it in the book. The list of inconsistencies go on and on.

It’s like how David Yates had to clean up the whole patronuses-are-actually-animals thing after Alfonso Cuaron’s creative decisions in Prisoner of Azkaban. If you get that reference, you win today’s nerd award (TM).

So Flanagan had his work cut out for him and he does well at marrying the two parallel universe storylines. The most infuriating plot-hole in the movie was the fact that they let The Overlook rot after the Torrance family left? I mean, Grady killed his wife, two girls and himself, and the owners decided to keep on keepin’ on, but sure, they decided to pack their money-filled suitcases and close up shop when Jack Torrance bites it by freezing to death in the hedge maze? Sure thing.

But it wasn’t bad. It was just fine. It’s ok.

Would I recommend this movie to someone? Sure?

[tradzhub]

Makeup & Beauty ( Cosmetics ) Hacks For Girls That’ll Change Your Life!

Mastering the art of applying makeup could be a process, and also the one thing we’re trying to master is eye formation. Earlier it won't be enough to swipe on a bit of kohl. As a novice, all the makeup world needs to offer can sound a small amount daunting. Making errors is an element of the training process, and even with all the good resources that are available to you, they'll be easily avoided. You don’t need to love for hours, either. When you’ve got the know-how, you’ll see just what quantity makeup your best features will accentuate and conceal others that aren’t as desirable. Here are some makeup hacks for women you’d wish you learned long, long ago! Cosmetics Store : Beauty & Makeup Products Online 

 1.Colorful eyeliner

Bored with all black eyeliner? Try something excitingly bright which will amp up your look altogether. And you don’t even need to invest altogether those expensive liners. Just grab your liquid lipstick and an angled eyeliner brush, take some product on your brush and apply your liner as was common. Flaunt those wings all you want!

2.Perfect Pout

Wish to flaunt that perfect pout? Start by applying a moisturizing lip balm to make your lips graceful. If you've got extreme dryness, do a subtle exfoliation of your lips then moisturize it. Take a lip brush; if not, you'll apply it together with your liquid lipstick applicator also. Take your favorite shade of stay to slay liquid matte lipstick and begin by drawing “X” within the middle of your upper lips. Trace your lip line and avoid overdrawing now; fill in with the lipstick as was common.

3.Tinted lashes makeup hacks

Maybe changing your eye color is often challenging but changing your mascara isn’t! Even a higher thanks to making love is by using your lovely liquid lipstick. Take some items on a clean spoolie and apply them like your typical mascara. Tones of blue and green enhance your eyes, and if you wish to travel all lady gaga, then why not try yellows and reds and neons are often the party stoppers.

4. Makeup Hacks to Perfect that wing

That furious “cat-eye” can really be a work! But these innovative makeup hacks will direct you when applying eyeliner and shadows. it'll also help you in achieving a good look in both eyes. Grab your scotch tape then apply it to your eyes, making the form of a wing. Use your precision Liquid Eyeliner and fill within the wing.

5.Monochrome makeup hacks

Playing with a colored eyeliner pen is usually fun right? Well, do this all one colored makeup, and you may just be in the middle of attraction within the next party with these eye makeup hacks. Grab your favorite liquid lipstick and draw your wings and excellent your pout, and that’s just it!

6.Melt your kohl for intensity

Creamy makeup ingredients mix together better when warmed up. So if you miss or pull your kohl eyeliner pencil on your eyelid, or take several coats for the proper payoff color, melt it slightly before you begin lining. To do so, keep the tip of your kohl liner under the flames of a lighter for a second or before it gets tacky, let it cool slightly, then watch the shift inconsistency right before your eyes.

7.Spoon shield

Nothing can be more irritating than to create your eyeshadow to look beautiful, then to swipe on mascara and ruin the whole look with smudges. The makeup hacks for women such as you in trouble? Keep a spoon so it covers your eyelid so apply your mascara as you'd usually do. after you brush the mascara wand against your lashes and spoon back, the powder covers the rear of the utensil rather than your eyes.

8. give it a twirl

You know you would like to twist your lashes, but there are some do and don’ts you wish to think about. Start without pinching yourself as close to the basis as possible, then shift up the lash and curl again. don't just curl at the basis as this may produce a pointy kink in your lashes, and it'll not look normal.

9.Nail enamel drying

The most part of the work is drying up the nail clean. you can work while sitting under the fan, but you'll be able to find yourself creating bubbles in your beautiful nail paints. Instead, dip them in an ice-cold water tub, and wait some seconds to see the magic.

10.Create nail art with tape

Why only limit the face? Our hands go through a great deal too—cosmetics hacks for you women. For a negative-space manicure, you'll be able to either add the tape to your bare finger, or for a two-tone look, put the tape on already painted nails in cool shapes, and do another coat right top with different nail polish. Let it dry for a moment, then take both ends of the tape and, for the finished look, slowly peel them back directly.

11.French manicure and rubber band

Get a rubber band, and tie it within the center. to make tension on the groove, loop one end over the thumb and position the opposite end over the highest of your nail and just below the string to form the French tip shape. Use an elastic band edge as regard to paint your nail top. Then remove the band carefully before covering it with a top coat and provides it time to dry out.

12.Wiggle for the length

Start with your lash root, move the wand back and forth, delicately.  Then walk out, gently. the load of the product won't be at the top of the strand by starting at the bottom. There’s less chance your lashes will drop. Also, because the appliance at the bottom is more massive, clumps are less likely to spread out the substance. The wiggling movement helps to create a big, complete lash with a different lash.

13. Makeup hacks for Fuller pout

If you’d wish to create the perception of full lips, the primary way is to select a liquid matte lipstick. If you continue to like better to achieve it with bullet lipstick you would like a nude pencil and line the bow and outer lip region of your cupid and within the center of your lip. Then complete with lipstick. Top up with a slight highlighter within the same places, the lip contour was added.

14. Makeup hacks to repair that broken lipstick

Nothing is more heart-wrenching than the slipping of your lipstick from your hand and breaking into two. Well, don’t be heartbroken! it's no rocket science to patch them. Nearly every lipstick uses paraffin wax as an ingredient that easily and quickly melts and solidifies quickly. Join your lipstick by melting and screwing it together by holding it for a few seconds over bare candlelight.

15.Pop your lip shade

You also need to have worked to stay the first color on your lips if you've got pigmented on the lips. The second you apply the lipstick, it seems the colour has changed magically. once you need your lipstick to seem super bright, given that you will be shot, first apply the inspiration to your lips then add the lipstick. it's getting to give her the extra pop.

16.No to smudges

Whenever you unintentionally smudged your lipstick or wish to give your lipstick a lot smoother and clean edges, after applying the lipstick, use a skinny brush and some concealer to line the surface of your lips. Mix the concealer together with your fingertips, don't only press it softly until it blends perfectly with the skin.

17. Don’t say bye to your lipstick just yet!

That perfect lip shade is on its scraping ends that you simply can not use; use a spatula to scoop out the remaining lipstick during a spoon. Mix some coconut oil and flame it over a candle. Pour it into a case of contact, and use it as a mark on the skin.

Here you have it; some top makeup hacks that save you through a lot of struggle, time, money, and make you look flawless at the same time!

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all the questions

1.What is your middle name? Grace2. Do you have any nicknames? The ones you call me lol3. Do you have any allergies? Seasonal and maybe dairy and penicillin4. What is the longest your hair has ever been? However long it is now lol5. Apple or PC? PC just because I’ve only used it6. Favorite flavor? Omfg for what though, maybe cinnamon or chocolate7. Have you ever been on a blind date? Nope8. Are you friends with any of your exes? Nope lol they were all weird assholes9. What kind of car do you drive? ‘02 ford taurus10. How grammatically correct are you when you text? Very in terms of spelling and verbs and shit but punctuation is nonexistent11. What foreign country would you most like to visit and why? England obviously lolipo12. Creamy or chunky peanut butter? Depends on my mood lol14. DC or Marvel? DC just because WW15. Disney or Nickelodeon? Disney16. Do you have any stickers on your laptop computer? Nope17. Name/author of the last book you read cover to cover. Do you recommend it? Whatever the second Magnus Chase book is lol18. Do you read any magazines? Nope19. Coffee or tea? Both but i drink coffee more20. What is your go-to Starbucks drink? Either a london fog or blonde roast21. How many things can do with your weaker hand? A lot except writing22. Last show you binge watched? Maybe merlin?23. Dogs or cats? Cats but dogs are good too24. Favorite Disney princess? Elsa/Moana25. Do you like fast food? Depends on my mood but not normally, I just get in the mood for certain things like fries26. Favorite thing to cook for yourself? maybe cookies idk27. Favorite song to sing in the shower? Whatever comes to mind lol28. Have you ever butt dialed anyone? Thank fuck no29. iPhone/iPad or Android? Ipod30. Any styles of music you do not like? fucking country music lol31. Have you ever kissed anyone of the same gender? If so, did you like it? lol what gender are we talking about here (but no never been kissed)

32. Have you ever gotten a ticket while driving? nope33. Favorite emoji? don’t use emojis really34. Showers or baths? BATHS35. Is there anything you regret buying? an amp for my electric guitar lol i’ve used it like 3 times36. Are you fluent in more than one language? nope i wish37. Any movie(s) you can watch over and over again and enjoy just as much every time? moana and wonder woman and pride39. Do you have any tattoos? If so, how many and where? nope not yet40. Have you ever uttered a spoken hashtag? yeah but ironically lol41. Favorite school subject? whatever has the least hw lol42. Favorite non-chocolate candy? ???? that exists?43. Name one celebrity you dislike. Johnny depp because he’s abusive44. If you could have one superpower, which one would you most like to have? flying or shapeshifting 45. From 1-10, rate your singing ability. 846. From 1-10, rate your dancing ability. 847. From 1-10, rate your cooking ability. 848. From 1-10, rate your driving ability. 849. Are you religious? nope lol50. Do you drink soda? If so, which one is your favorite? not usually lol51. Have you ever locked your keys in your car? yes haha52. Spring or autumn? AUTUMN53. Do you play any sports? dance is a sport so yes54. Can you play any musical instruments? piano and guitar55. Are you more introverted or extroverted? both?56. How easily do you cry? i used to cry super easily but it takes a lot to make me cry now tbh57. Last musical artist you saw live? idk maybe jonas brothers58. Favorite YouTube channel? i don’t really have one tbh59. Star Wars or Star Trek? both60. How long have you known your best friend? two years in december61. Have you ever voted for a reality show? nope62. Last CD you bought? harry styles63. Have you ever ended a romantic relationship? yep lol64. Have you ever been broken up with? yep lol65. Have you ever been in the audience for the taping of a TV show? nope66. How long was your longest relationship? Are you still with that person? almost a year and thank god no67. Have you seen any Broadway plays or musicals? ayyy yes aladdin68. Have you ever acted in a play or a musical? no but i auditioned for one once69. How flexible are you? very tbh70. Have you ever sexted? ....yes lol you know that71. Do you own any clothes from garage sales or thrift stores? idk i don’t think so72. Real or fake Christmas trees? i love how real smells but fake is easier73. How many pillows do you sleep with? 1-274. How well can you write in cursive? if i try hard then relaly well75. What is your political affiliation? not conservative lol76. Do you like any boy bands? idk i don’t really know77. Have you ever broken any bones? nope lol78. Have you ever gotten any stitches? yeah when i got my wisdom teeth out79. Do you have any piercings in places other than your ears? nope lol80. What is the oldest piece of clothing you still wear and how old is it? a winter coat maybe 5 years old81. Do you like wearing hats? nope lol makes my hair frizzy82. Have you ever dyed your hair? not yet83. From 1-10, how competitive are you? maybe a 6?84. How long have you been at your current job? 3 years85. Have you ever studied abroad? nope86. Phrase you say the most? no worries87. Have you ever quit a job? nope88. Have you ever gotten fired from a job? nope89. Have you ever won a trophy? If so, what for? yep my dance team won 1st 90. Have you ever been a Boy/Girl Scout? was briefly a girl scout91. Last thing that made you laugh? a video of two hamsters92. Do you eat meat? chicken sometimes but i avoid it otherwise93. Are you more of a morning or a night person? nightttt94. Worst habit? probably talking negatively about myself tbh95. Deepest fear? losing people I love96. Do you believe in ghosts? not really97. If you could take home any animal from the zoo, what animal would you take? Idk maybe a leopard98. Do you consider rapping singing? no but it’s cool99. Favorite costume you wore for Halloween? How old were you? a slytherin hermione when i was like eight100. Favorite store to shop at? kohls lol it’s cheap101. Have you ever given anyone CPR? nope102. Favorite Pokémon? no clue lol103. Do you own any homemade clothing? yep 104. Do you drink alcohol at all? If so, what is your drink of choice? not 21 yet lol105. Have you ever skinny dipped? ...not yet106. Favorite type of cookie? chocolate chip107. Favorite flavor of ice cream? chocolate chip cookie dough108. Biggest pet peeve? shitty drivers and shitty customers109. Are you still friends with anyone from high school? sort of 110. Favorite literary character? alex fierro or nico di angelo111. Are your birth parents still together? unfortunately112. Do you wear or have your ever worn glasses? probably should tbh but no113. How many of your Facebook friends do you actually hang out with? i don’t have a fb lol114. Have you ever been the victim of a prank? yeah lol i have 3 brothers so of course115. Do you belong to a fraternity or a sorority? nope116. Have you ever taken a nude selfie? yeah lol117. Are you adopted? I wishhhh118. Favorite fandom? I’m sort of in too many for that lol119. Oldest memory? napping with my dad on the couch when i was like 2-3120. Have you ever snorted when you laughed? yeah lol121. Can you drive stick? nope122. Favorite Disney song? all of them lol maybe Shiny123. Random boy’s name. Sam124. Random girls’ name. Ellie125. How often do you eat out at a nice restaurant? maybe twice a year126. How many people are in your nuclear family? 8 but we pretend there’s 7127. What accent do you consider the most attractive? ...british128. What is your Myers-Briggs personality type? enfp129. What is your astrological sign? taurus130. Biggest regret? not being more confident131. What type of shoes do you wear the most? ankle boooots132. Do you like any soap operas? nope133. Do you listen to talk radio? nope134. What sports team(s) do you root for? nope135. Describe your sense of humor. sexual and observational and sarcastic136. Have you ever been hit on by someone of the same gender? lol what gender are we talking about here137. Favorite video game? Skyrim138. Name a moment in your life when you were pleasantly surprised. finding out my financial aid covers all my tuition139. Do you believe in serendipity? Sure?140. Have you ever left a movie theater before the movie was done? nope141. Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong period of history? nope142. Is sex before marriage wrong? lolllll yes.... it’s sooooo wrooooong....143. Have you ever gotten a song you dislike stuck in your head? god yes144. Can you handle spicy food? yes pleeeeease145. Have you ever called a non-lover a term such as darling, honey, babe, or dear? yep146. Do you like MTV? lol nope147. Where on your body are you the most ticklish? i’m not super ticklish 148. TV show or movie you quote/reference the most? i don’t really know149. Have you ever lived with a roommate you didn’t get along with? uhhh my parents150. Where do you think is the best place to meet a new lover? idk lol152. Favorite thing to do outside? go back inside153. Where did you go on your last vacation? nyc154. Do you say “y'all” at all? nooo155. Have you ever lived on a farm? noooo156. Do you believe in evolution? idk probably157. What TV channel do you watch the most? i just watch netflix158. Favorite Beatles song? lol idk159. Have you ever been on TV? nope160. Have you ever been to Disney World or Disneyland? disneyland once161. Do you like horror movies? not really162. Do you like to go fishing? no163. Have you ever been hunting? no164. Do you take medication for anything? yes165. Name one item from your bucket list. cut my hair166. From 1-10, how much do you like children? 10000167. Have you ever thought about your wedding? yessss168. Have you ever been bungee jumping or skydiving? no but i’d do it169. Favorite flower? anything bright, maybe daisies170. Do you collect anything? i just sort of collect a lot of shit that means a lot to me171. Who was the last person you told a lie to? my parents172. Have you ever been a bridesmaid or a groomsman? yep173. Have you ever had a fortune cookie fortune come true? idk i don’t think so174. What was your favorite toy to play with when you were a child? barbies i think 175. How good are you at math? basic math is pretty easy for me176. Have you ever learned anything from a how-to YouTube video? yep, how to cry because i apparently need a welding tool for a ww costume lol177. Have you ever participated in a science fair? nope178. Have you ever wished you were born the opposite gender? well there’s more genders than just two so opposite isn’t really a good word there179. Have you ever participated in a public protest? nope180. Do you have a pool at your house? nope181. Have you ever hosted a wild party? nnope182. Do you like karaoke? not really183. Have you ever written a love letter? sort of184. Have you ever ran a marathon? no185. How often do you get mad at yourself? a lot186. Any guilty pleasures? ice cream187. Fruits or vegetables? fruit188. Do you live in a house or an apartment? house189. The countryside or the suburbs? countryside190. Worst job you’ve ever had? customer service 191. Do you hang out with any of your co-workers? i used to192. Were you ever voted homecoming/prom king or queen? nope193. Were you voted a “best” or “most likely to” in high school? nope194. Have you ever gotten detention? nope195. Have you ever babysat? yep196. Have you ever taken a road trip just for the fun of it? nope197. How many drinks get you tipsy? idk lol198. Were you a part of any academic clubs in high school or college? nope199. Have you ever given a public speech, aside from your schooling? nope200. How long have you been on tumblr? since 2013 or 2014

[hellzyeahthewebwieldingavenger]

Lets talk about yet another shitty CBR article shall we?

 #15

 Ben Reilly never had Peter’s memories of Venom and in Planet of the Symbiotes he did in fact bond with the Venom symbiote.

 What’s so bad about this is the fact that CBR around the time of this article actually mentioned the latter storyline in another article.

 #13

 Yeah, Ben Reilly plans ahead. Spider-Man never did that. That’s why Spider-Man decided to drop out of college to support Black Cat, took a job working for the lab that gave him his powers in order to find out anything that might go wrong with his and MJ’s baby, and tried to get a permanent job to support Gwen when he wanted to marry her.

 Meanwhile Ben Reilly is super duper strategic with his fights unlike Peter Parker.

 I mean Peter Parker is the guy who spent time developing a device to counterpart Vulture’s magnetic harness in ASM #2 and invented an armoured costume in Web #100. Because he doesn’t plan ahead. Meanwhile Ben Reilly did this all the time like that time he presumed Molten Man was a villain and didn’t listen to Peter when he said otherwise, simply attacking the poor guy.

 #12

 Yeah Ben did tinker with his webbing but only because he had way more time on his hands to do so.

 #11

 Again, Ben never had memories of Venom. How could he?

 Venom debuted in ASm #300, Ben debuted in ASm #149.

  #10

 Ben is objectively less intelligent than Peter by virtue of Peter having a full college education and a year of grad school under his belt.

 #7

 There is a back up story showing Peter cleaning his and MJ’s apartment when MJ was not there. In a spec story MJ says she and Peter share the domestic duties.

Their apartment in ASM #397 was a mess because Peter was in the midst of a mental breakdown.

 #6

 This is such bullshit.

 Ben Reilly at best drifted from one meaningless relationship to the next before meeting Janine. They also drifted and lived as fugitives, faking their names and information. Janine died within 2 years leaving Ben bereft and depressed, but actually her death had been faked.

 After that Ben Reilly in less than 9 months dated a few different women, the most significant ones being Jessica Carradine who broke up with him when she learned he was Spider-Man i.e. the guy who killed her Dad, the same dude who killed Uncle Ben and Janine who revealed she was alive and who soon wound up in prison.

 How ‘normal’.

 #5

Why do people use USM as basis for shit to do with 616?

 #3

 Ben Reilly literally considered suicide when he first learned he was a clone. In a flashback he said he was close to the edge if not for the help his friend Seward Trainer gave him. In Spider-Man Redemption he said again Janine’s death took him to a dark place if not for Trainer helping him cope.

 Meanwhile Peter Parker/Spider-Man became grim and gritty specifically to make Ben Reilly look good and thus make him the replacement for Peter. So it was an act of sabotage.

 #2

 Ben didn’t in and of himself reinvigorate the series. His introduction and the mysteries and possibilities of the storylines surrounding those things did.

 Problems with Peter had fuck all to do with the ‘baggage’ he was carrying. The stories happened to suck because they involved idiotic robot parents is all.

 The part about rebooting series to be Scarlet Spider books is especially piss poorly researched.

 First of all it wasn’t three titles it was five. Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, Adjectivless Spider-Man and Spider-Man Unlimited all became Amazing Scarlet Spider, Spectacular Scarlet Spider, Web of Scarlet Spider, Scarlet Spider and Scarlet Spider Unlimited.

 And it had nothing to do with Ben being a great character or so much better than peter, that change was done to emulate what had happened to the X-Men comics during Age of Apocalypse. It was an editorial mandate that resulted in the worst the Clone Saga had to offer.

 And whilst those Scarlet Spider titles might’ve sold better than Spider-Man’s titles had for a long time maybe, just maybe, that had a little something to do with the fact that in the 90s and in the wake of the speculator boom all those Scarlet Spider titles got new shiny #1s on them.

  Also Marvel weren’t ‘forced’ to make Ben the new Spider-Man, that was always part of the plan.

 God, did this author do any research?

  #1

 Ben Reilly let exactly two people into his life, Seward Trainer and Janine Godbe.

 Ben was someone isolated and on the road who didn’t consider himself a real human being. As such he was desperate for family and human contact in a way Peter was not. Trainer as a scientist could also help him given his genetic condition as a clone and also helped him get out of a very dark place in his life, thus making it more believable that he’d let him in especially since unlike Peter he didn’t really have a secret identity to protect or loved ones to endanger or even a home to be vandalized.

 With Janine he let her in for similar reasons but mostly because he was in love with her and was in danger of losing her if he didn’t reassure her that he cared about her and understood what she was going through to some extent. She’d just confessed to him her father had repeatedly molsested her as a child and she’d killed him in retaliation, considering herself a monster. Ben let her in to his past to show her that it was okay and that he’d felt not dissimilarly about himself.

 Furthermore the article is so fucking poorly researched it claims Peter took forever to admit he was Spider-Man to MJ, except that never happened, MJ told him she’d always known. In fact the article even says that contradicting itself.

 Peter rarely concealed his identity for reasons which were not understandable thus he wasn’t truly endangering anyone.

[1rban]

What a beautiful weekend we are blessed with here in Texas! The sun has been out for the most part. We did get a burst of showers on Saturday, but today looks to be bright & sunny. Hopefully, you and yours can get outside and soak in some Vitamin D. This COVID shut down has made me aware of the need to really amp up my exercise game and focus more on what I’m eating. I could certainly stand to lose a few pounds and get back in shape.

May 3 is a special day at our house because 3 of our cat crew have birthdays. Boss, Rice & Tabitha are turning four today. We know that with great accuracy since I watched them being born on our patio. T and I aren’t sure how we got to become cat parents and run our own clowder of six, but here we are. Boss, Rice, & Tabitha have a sibling, Tuxi, who lives next door to us at T’s parents. Years ago, when we first got married, T and I each had one furry feline.

  With the turning of the calendar from April to May, I got released from Facebook jail. Still no explanation other than a vague “violation of community standards.” I’m still working with the great folks at First Liberty Institute to get to the bottom of this. When Facebook threw me in their social media gulag they removed all of my previous posts from my Devotional Guy Facebook page. Yesterday morning, I noticed that my two most recent blog posts were shared on my page but none of the previous posts were restored. It seems like if you can figure out how to remove them then you can figure out how to put them back, right!?!

This week’s Sunday Prayer is primarily focused on praise. It would appear that we’ve passed the apex of the COVID curve and we see the economy is opening up. While T and I aren’t rushing out to sit in the dining room of our favorite food establishments just yet, we are glad to see things beginning to open up. Small businesses are vital to our economy and it will be hard for many of them to weather this storm even with the stimulus money they got a few weeks ago. While it is still a time of great uncertainty (which is actually not a new phenomenon), it appears we’re on track to moving forward to our new normal. There’s lots to celebrate, even if we can’t quite do that the way we’re used to doing it. T and I recognize that we have a lot to be grateful for and that’s probably true for you too. So give God a shout of praise today!

God is good all the time and all the time God is good!

Prayer:

My prayer(s) for today are the two versions of the Lord’s Prayer found in the Bible.

“‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done,     on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts,     as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation,     but deliver us from the evil one.”

Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)

“Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread. 4 Forgive us our sins,     for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.”

Luke 11:2-4 (NIV)

Reflection Questions:

During this COVID-19 crisis, what have you learned to be grateful for in your life?

What are you praising God for today?

What have you discovered during this pandemic that you are thankful for uncovering about yourself, your loved ones, or your life?

Has this experience changed how you go about your daily life?

As we face the unique challenges that COVID-19 brings to our doorstep, our country can become stronger, more united, and more greatly committed to our roots of faith and serving others. During these difficult times, it is imperative we continue to stand watch and guard our liberties, like our freedom of speech and our religious liberties. Our world needs hope and relief more than ever now and as people of faith, we can rise to the occasion.

Here are some recent posts in The COVID-19 Devotionals series that you might enjoy:

Beers, Bibles & Bullets | My Monday Morning Cup

The COVID-19 Devotionals | Facing Our Storms with Jesus

The COVID-19 Devotionals | God of New Beginnings

Sunday Prayer | A Prayer for the Unemployed

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Blessings,

The Devotional Guy™

  ABOUT: The Devotional Guy™ is a writing ministry of Rainer Bantau, a seasoned gospel preacher, church musician, and chaplain ministering to individuals in their workplaces, to the homeless, and wherever he meets them. He shares helps, hope, and insights on his blog, The Devotional Guy™.

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    I believe that in order to experience life the way God intended, you and I must receive God’s gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. Through Jesus Christ, God has made this gift available to all who ask.

“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:13

  Will you personally receive the gift of eternal life so that you can experience the total forgiveness from your sins that come through believing in the atoning death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ?

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast.”

Ephesians 2:8-9

As we face the unique challenges that COVID-19 brings to our doorstep, our country can become stronger, more united, and more greatly committed to our roots of faith and serving others. What a beautiful weekend we are blessed with here in Texas! The sun has been out for the most part.

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2018-06(JUN)-16th--Saturday--at this hellhole--.....

2018-06(JUN)-16th--Saturday--at this hellhole--.

An aboriginal adult woman comes out of fatguts aboriginal criminal household and walks very slowly along the footpath......she's got her eyes glued to the ground and keeps diverting off her wnderings and picking up things, inspecting them, and putting them in her pocket......she comes up to the corner household that now has tenants living there (Mitchell's old house)...and she ends a lot more time hanging around the no-fenced place picking up cigarette butts from around their driveway....she looks hard into the yard but decided since there's a car parked in there, to not trespass into the yard this time, which is a VERY rare thing.....

She keeps very slowly going around the footpath and picking up anything, inspecting it, then either dropping it back to the ground or putting it into her pocket.....

She rounds the corner and gets off the footpath and starts walking on the road.....

Dropped small plastic bags of illegal drugs are very common here.........usually empty, I saw one just a day or so ago......

The 'Maddies' house (next door to the old man who yells out and swears and bangs his green corrugated sheet metal fence all the time with his fist) has vehicles parked all over the front verge and on the footpath......and one black sports car has its rear end illegally poking out onto the road because it's been parked that way for many hours.......

But the aboriginal very surpisingly doesn't try to thieve out of the vehicles...this time....and she continues slowly onwards and keeps looking all over the footpath across the road that she's now walking on....and she heads closer to the Koongamia shops....

(LATER....IN ADITION, a RED SEDAN ALSO PARKS ON THE STREET VERGE THERE AND IT TOO LEAVES IT'S ENTIRE REAR END OF THE VEHICLE HANGING OVER THE KERB AND ONTO THE ROAD.........and shortly afterwards the black sports car with the Police yellow work-order sticker on its windscreen drives off ALL ALONG ON THE FOOTPATH in great haste and vanishes easterly after it passes the criminal aboriginal households close to midday noon).....dogs barking everywhere.....

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Around 10:30am an aboriginal man appears and is walking along on the footpath side of the street and avoids the jam-packed cars at the Maddies house. It would be useless to try to use the footpath in any case because of them all.

TRAVELLING WITH the man are a group of aboriginal kids, with school backpacks and dressed in school uniforms. (on a Saturday? Perhaps they are from one of the adhoc ersatz fake schools for young aboriginal criminals, the offspring of criminal aboriginals....)

The are all walking on the southern side of the street on the footpath, go past all the congested parked cars, and then just stop.

One aboriginal young girl breaks off from the group, crosses the road, and using the footpath, goes down into Fatguts criminal aboriginal household. She is unaccompanied. It is like the man is apprehensive at going down there completely but still has to 'make sure' she goes to fatguts place.

Once she is out of sight there, he turns around and takes the group of aboriginal kids with him back towards the Koongamia shops direction.......

Because I say that 'direction', do NOT ever asume they are going to any of those shops.

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At fatguts criminal aboriginal household, they have had their yellow lidded recycled bin parked out next to the kerb for days. It is not full of recylable stuff, just garbage. It is so full of crap and garbage, that the yellow lid can only be closed halfway-down as the garbage protrudes that much out of it all.

But that's 'normal for them'...it's only been going on for YEARS and YEARS amongst the crimnal aboriginal households of that street, and it's open to all the rats, and crows, and cats that roam around and spread all the diseased stuff everywhere and the diseases as well...

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Every now and again an aboriginal will arive and go into fatguts criminal household, stay for a very short time, then leave.

As I write this, one aboriginal adult on a pushbike has done just that. He of course does NOT wear a bicycle helmet because at any moment he can drop the bike and feign complete disownership of it or of riding it should any Police or authorities pull him up. That criminal tactic has been going on for MANY YEARS at this hellhole area...... - a lot of the time the bicycle is stolen in any case......

If they are ever fined for not wearing a mandatory bicycle helmet, they simply don't pay the fines....and if pressured to do so, they go demanding free legal assistance and exemption from aboriginal departments and claim 'victimisation just because they are aboriginal'....this has been going on for MANY MANY YEARS........

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The damned endangered species feral black cockatoos have been non-stop making extreme messes from attacking & feeding upon the eucalyptus gum trees........messes which I am having to continually clean up...and NOT catch/get diseased up and ill from all their crap......... (yes, it's happened before).......

THAT GOES ON EVERYDAY....SEVERAL TIMES PER DAY......ABSOLUTELY NONE OF IT CAN BE CLEANED UP AND IT STAYS CLEANED UP....

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Poor Max has again been VERY growley. He is in a lot of physical pain perhaps, but he will not let me examine him and is liable to attack me if I try. He growls ALL THE TIME. -- THIS IS A HELLHOLE......

Poor Sam whimpers and whines all the time, and this too cause them BOTH distress and get them angry as they create a rising hostile anger....and each blames ME..........when I am not in any way to blame at all. -- THIS IS A HELLHOLE......

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11:35am.......around 6 aboriginal males have been yelling and loudly calling out as they walked westwards along Clayton Street.....

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Around the same time, a bikie on a LOUD motorbike, travelled past them all...and went to the Koongamia shops area.....

10 minutes later it returned past there again at aorund 20 minutes to 12 midday noon.

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There are neighbourhood dogs barking loudly a LOT.

It upsets poor Sam and poor Max.

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NOBODY CARES ABOUT ME.

NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF POOR SAM AND POOR MAX AND POOR ME.

NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS HELLHOLE....DON'T EVER ASUME POLITICIANS DO BECAUSE THEY DO NOT, AND NEITHER DOES AUTHORITIES.....

NOBODY CARES ABOUT ALL THE WANDERING CRIMINALS AND THE SHIT....AND I DON'T MEAN THE HUGE PILES OF DISEASED RIDDEN DOG SHIT EVERYWHERE (NOT BY POOR DEAR SAM AND POOR DEAR MAX....BUT BY OTHER DOGS, PASSING ANDOR ROAMING FREE).

ALL THAT LAYS ABOUT AND CROWS AND BIRDS EAT IT AND SPREAD ALL THE DISEASE AND FILTH ABOUT TOO....

I TRY TO KEEP MY AREA CLEAN OF IT ALL BUT IT'S AN NEVER-ENDING EVERYDAY UPHILL TORTURE THAT NEVER EVER ENDS AND HAS NOT ENDED FOR MANY YEARS......AND IT GIVES ME GREAT PHYSICAL PAINS IN DOING ALL THAT DAMNED CLEANING UP......AND IN THE DAMNED RAIN......IN HELL.....NEVERENDING.....

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Oh!, and just as I was trying to type this very sentence......2 roaming young men (looking for ?) came in a big black dual cab? ute with a personalised license numberplate and banged on the front door. Of course it wasn't answered. To do so risks innocent inhabitants being attacked. (THAT happened to my dear mother.) - And then it drove away.....and ANOTHER very suspect looking man also wearing all black came out of the criminal walkway and went to a house that used to be owned by good people but now is one of the many very suspect criminal households no stranger to criminal aboriginals, and the vehicle returned and parked there on the street where the one on foot and the one from the vehicle went up to/in to, conducted their business (drug business?) for around 5 minutes, then came out and drove away and walked away with one driving and the other walking back the way he had came........

THEN...the vehicle returned there...and a small mini excavator piece of machinery was driven out and put onto a trailer the big black dual cab? ute was now towing. -- So.......you can just hire things out like that from a suspect household now can you? - I wonder where it originated from? Stolen as well like so much of everything about this hellhole now?

Poor dear Sam and poor dear Max have become EXTREMELY VERY VERY distressed.........AGAIN.......

THIS FUCKING HELLHOLE AREA......FULL OF CRIMINALS........

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Less than an hour or so after the vehicle and the trailer had gone....an aboriginal man wanders/staggers out of fatguts aboriginal criminal household and goes to the Kongamia shops area......

5 minutes after he leaves there, ANOTHER aboriginal man wanders into fatguts aboriginal criminal household.....

And around 5 minutes after that the first aboriginal man wanders back again to fatguts aboriginal criminal household carrying a plastic carry bag with a single loaf of sliced bread in it. Not staggering so much now....

Then the black sports car of the 'Maddies' house returns and parks on the street verge and 30 seconds later another vehicle from there parks on the same street verge.......

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....Non-stop comings and goings at ANY time in this hellhole criminal area......ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT....EVERYDAY.......EVERYNIGHT......

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A 'Watcher' vehicle is parked-up in one of the usual Watcher locations and has been for hours. Nobody gets out, nobody gets in.

It watches along the hellhole street full of criminals, wandering criminals, criminal households, constant comings and goings, so many vehicles coming and going too.....

It will say there until the next 'shift' takes over and possibly another vehicle takes its place and parks in the same place to keep watch.......since they never like to get out of thior vehicles to be seen.....

Hah! - Just as I was writing this part...ANOTHER vehicle pulled up and parked near it....and again nobody gets out and nobody gets in........BUT....it doesn't stay for long, less than 5 minutes....then it takes off and VERY slowly drives along the streets full of crimnal households and rounds the corner and stops by the shops area but not IN the shops carpark area....where once again it just observes and nobody gets out and nobody gets in.....in only stays there for less than 5 minutes then drives slowly away.......who is driving it you may ask yourself...but the windows are tinted dark so you can't see.........like all the watcher cars usually are.......

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ALL thse things in this post go on all at once or overlap each other in time. Almost as if one thing happening simply triggers another, or they are all acting on schedules......

It's NEVERENDING.....

And throughout it are RARE instances of innocent occurences of innocents......innocents who are prey and victims for the criminals to hide amongst........

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Now.....even before I can post this....a small offroad quad motorbike with green rear fenders has been taken out of hiding and transported to another place, to Mitchells old place, where it WILL eventually come tearing out and all about the roads and street verges and oval and all about and Police and authorities can do NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT IT...NOTHING AT ALL......

Police sirens are all loudly sounding as Police are travelling all about on the roads........they're 'too busy'...and the criminals know this........the motorbikes and illegal shit will go on INTO THE DARKNESS AND ALL NIGHT AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING AND ON AND ON AND ON......

And Police and authorities can do nothing about ANY of it.........they've done lacklustre things in the past and NOTHING AT ALL HAS STOPPED ANY OF IT...only stalled it for brief periods.......

ALL OF THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.......

The cycles of crime and attempted wrangling to bring in law an dorder, which results in temporary peace and quiet but....it ALL RETURNS just as it ALWAYS returns AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN....and AGAIN.

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This has once again become a criminals ghetto....full of criminals......

Where young kids are brought up and trained to be criminals whilst they too are preyed upon by criminals...thus keeping it all going....and it will keep going on FOREVER........the crime, the criminals, the drugs, the drug dealings, the deaths, the utter misery to innocents in and about this hellhole.....

And NOT just to here....but to all areas around, Bellevue, Greenmount, Midland, Boya, Kalamunda, Guildford, and all small place anywhere about and within........and that includes the Perth airport areas too and closeby......

'tis the time for crime and criminals to be rampant enough to start making the feckless NEWS too obvious to ignore, but things can always be clamped down upon and kept secret until weeks or months later......you think I'm joking? I'm NOT. It's going on ALL THE TIME........

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As I type this, yet ANOTHER bikie on a motorbike has LOUDLY gone by.......AGAIN......what is that now today...the 6th time at the very least....?

Now there is a period of false calm......... it IS false....and it IS temporary......probably whereby the criminals are all too drunk or drugged-up...just waiting for it all to subside before they become rampant again.......

Western Australian Police have PLEADED with residents to supply the Police with any information......well fuck YOU! - People have done that...people do that....and NOTHING CHANGES AND IT ALL ONLY GETS WORSE AND WORSE AND WORSE and it all has been getting WORSE for so many damned YEARS AND YEARS.....

In the NEWS media is vainglorious news of this area and other around it being 'reborn'.....well THAT is all utter bullshit....I've seen THAT crowed about so MANY times before.......... SO FUCK THE LOT OF YOU YOU FUCKING LIARS AND CRIMINALS AND EXPLOITERS.....

Oh look, another 'Watcher' has positioned themselves in one of the usual places...but they've only stayed a few minutes...nobody gets out of or into the vehicle...then it slowly drives away....just fucking useless......

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THIS HELLHOLE...........

Where it will all get worse the closer it gets to darkness...the continues on into the night....and police with sirns blaring will give chases........

Oh look! That small quadbike motorbike has come out of Mitchells old place and gone tearing about all ON the roads with complete no fear of any Police or authorities because nobody gives a shit about the law about this hellhole area.......certainly not the criminals be they aboriginal criminals or other criminals......and certainly not the Police it seems.......

And it goes all along the roads and up to and around the Koongamia shops.......

ALL THIS HAS HAPPENED COUNTLESS TIMES BEFORE WITH ABORIGINALS TOO.......THIS IS A FUCKING LAWLESS PLACE.......A HELLHOLE.....

Police and authorities have no power at this hellhole......they only pounce upon the most weakest they can find and make media events out of.............

It's not even 3pm and it's not even dark yet.........

And then later will come Summer....and the 'mysterious' fires that threaten homes and lives and any and everyone innocent.....

And AGAIN the Police and authorities will plead for help and information....WELL FUCK YOU! - This is a hellhole full of criminals and criminality and crime.......and they DO NOT CONFINE THEMSELVES JUST TO THIS HELLHOLE AREA......

Remember how bad Balga used to be? - THIS is ANOTHER Balga.........WORSE than Balga.......

Whomever you are reading this....YOU HAVE NO IDEA AT ALL OF THIS HELLHOLE.......NONE AT ALL....least of all what it is to be innocent and trapped in this fucking hellhole area.........

It used to be such a lovely place.............with kind and gentle innocent people........

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I love you dear Fliss and want to be with you just as you promised us both. You have abandoned me and poor Sam and poor Max in this HELLHOLE......... - Remember when I am dead that I was ALWAYS INNOCENT AND KIND AND TRUTHFUL AND GENTLE AND HONEST AND LOVING AND CARING....and I always wanted to be with YOU.......

Oh God,....I've a VERY terrible headache that has been with me for hours since I was abruptly awoken before dawn many hours ago and not been let back to sleep.......

If I ever win LOTTO big, which I've never done and it's a vain hope, I will also certainly leave this hellhole FOREVER and NEVER EVER LOOK BACK UPON IT.

Poor dear Sam and poor dear Max also need to be rescued and be with you and I dear Fliss as I do from this damned hellhole......

Absolutely NOBODY, NOT ANYONE has any idea of this hellhole.......

It has not always been like this....when dear Fliss was here it was good and quiet and full of honest people and caring people, many of whom we helped and it was a lovely place to live in peace and quiet and safety...........But they've all left andor been driven out by crime and criminals, NOW IT IT IS A HELLHOLE AND HAS BEEN FOR SO MANY MANY YEARS SINCE JUST BEFORE DEAR FLISS LEFT........It was one of the very things which caused her to have a severe mental episode and which she crashed from.

SHOULD I EVER BE GRACED BY WINNING LOTTO (an utterly vain dream of impossible innocent hope because all my innocent hope at all is impossible) I WOULD NOT GIVE 1c TO ANY OF THEM. NOT AT ALL. NOR DO I BEQUEATH ANYTHING AT ALL TO ANY OF THEM I CATEGORICALLY STATE THIS FOR EVIDENCE. NONE OF THE CRIMINALS DESERVE ANYTHING EXCEPT YOUR UTTER CONTEMPT BECAUSE THEY TREAT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING WITH THE VERY SAME AS THEY EXPLOIT THEM AND MAKE PEOPLES LIVES HELL IN THIS HELLHOLE AND ALL AROUND THIS HELLHOLE AREA......

And the Police and authorities are utterly clueless and powerless and have NO IDEA AT ALL about anything and despite KNOWING about it all NOTHING IS DONE UNTIL VERY WORSE CASES OCCUR WHICH CANNOT BE HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC OR COVERED UP BY THEM ANDOR POLITICIANS WHO ARE TRULY TERRIBLE........only THEN do they do lacklustre feeble attempts that never last......if they DID last then it would NOT be as bad as it is....or as bad as it has been for so MANY MANY YEARS here at this hellhole.......

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John Lyons’ hand-built Buick is Loud, Fast and…Whimsical

John Lyons has courage, and he has respect for what has gone before. Call him traditional. That he makes a livelihood by joining his fabrication skills and artistic talent may have a lot to do with a philosophy that urges him to build something from scratch rather than use much of anything that was ready-made or store bought. To him, that’s underlying theme of hot rodding, the roots from which it grew. And as some of you well know he’s in a distinct minority. He lists his occupation as fabricator/artist.

Look at what he likes; not any of those Brand-X critters that draw people like sleep walkers, but instead a load as unlikely as a Buick. His Riviera, shaped like a torpedo, seemed an excellent platform to go against convention and show the neighbors just how well he could car craft. At 47, he’s not starry-eyed and anxious. He’s owned the thing for 26 years, straight from Aunt Rosalie after her husband’s passing. This was a dream deal: the Riviera had been stored clean and dry for fifteen years before John got it.

A few of the things that make this car a stand-alone hero is that its Flint motor thrives and that its transmission is bound to a clutch. The back axle isn’t a 9-inch, a 12-bolt or even a 60 Dana whopper, nah; John wanted something as weird as the rest of his project: a Winters Performance quick-change (originally developed for down and dirty racing and circle track tantrums) would fit the puzzle nicely.

Throughout the journey, John wanted to surprise folks and be surprised himself. He had no blueprint for doing this except the one he made up in his head. He built the engine, the fuel injection, oiling system, the headers and exhaust tract. He built the crossmember for the transmission. He amended the suspension with adjustable weight jacks. He built the control arms. He converted the drive shaft to a one-piece design and modified the floor and frame to accommodate. He piled it with carbon fiber panels (a big reason why John was able to eliminate 1,000 pounds of curb weight, which is now approximately 3,400 pounds), and then he had to build the wings and foils critical to its visual menace. He did the clean-up bodywork. He painted the thing. Then he reclined, had a long, cool draught and looked lovingly at his progress, knowing full well that he’d never be finished with it.

John has never had the car officially timed at doing anything. It’s much more important that he can drive it sparingly on weekends, racking maybe 1,500 miles in a year. They’ve seen the car in the Syracuse Nationals Designer’s Dozen three times. They’ve seen the Riviera as an award winner at GoodGuys. John figures he’s got four years in this stage. He paid Aunt Rosalie $2,500 for it, but when we asked how much he’d invested so far, he crinkled. “Will my wife see this?”

Tech Notes

Who: John Lyons What: 1968 Buick Riviera Where: Tillson, New York

Engine John eschewed modern notions and kept the motor “original.” He plucked the factory iron, got a 1973 455, and cleaned it up with a minimal 0.038-inch overbore to yield a displacement of 464 cubic inches. (As an aside, the thin-wall 455 weighs 150 pounds less than a comparably dressed Chevrolet 454.) The forged crankshaft, H-beam connecting rods, and JE flat-top pistons contribute to produce a snappy-throttle 13.0:1 compression ratio. He sent the block and rotating assembly to Turco’s Machine Shop in Rosendale, New York. The cats up there internally balanced the parts and executed a slew of oiling modifications, including drilling the oil galleys and feeding oil from the front and the rear of the block, as well as preparation for the custom delivery system John built. It features a dry sump pan and a Dailey Engineering pump. For a majority of the hard parts, he turned to Buick-builder mainstay T/A Performance. John completed the short-block with a Stage II solid roller camshaft (he wouldn’t tell us the specs) and installed it with a double-row Tru-Roller chain. Meanwhile, the T/A cylinder heads were CNC-ported by Heads Up Machine in High Falls, New York. John equipped them with stainless steel valves, 1.6:1 roller rocker arms, T/A retainers and valvesprings and crafted a girdle for the crankshaft. While he could have adapted a forced-air system of some sort, that would have been too easy. No, he’d rather build a one-off electronic fuel injection for it instead. He based it on a T/A SP1 intake manifold, FiTech 1,200 HP throttle body and a Bosch wide-band oxygen sensor. He sourced fuel from an Aeromotive Eliminator in-tank sender and AN -10 feed and return lines and pinned the fuel regulator at 58psi. A FiTech controller commands the EFI system. Spark jumps from MSD Pro Billet distributor and a Blaster coil. The Big Brain is an MSD CDI Digital ignition box equipped with a rev limiter. John handled waste management with long-tube headers. He built equal-length 2¼-inch primaries and merged them with 3½-inch collectors, exhaust cut-outs, and a 3½-inch system interrupted by rowdy Flowmaster 40 “silencers”. Though not known for especially fierce summers, upstate New York does swelter in August. John countered the environment with a T/A water pump, an aluminum core, and dual electronically-controlled Derale fans. He attached Poston rocker covers and a K&N element. He made all the brackets to support the accessory drive and stuck a 160-amp, 1-wire alternator in there, too. He put the bullet on the Landesman Performance dynamometer in Kingston, New York, where it shredded his expectations and rang out a chilling normally-aspirated 788hp at 6,800 rpm and 728 lb-ft of twist at 5,200 rpm. These values were enabled by straight Sunoco 110 octane. Ahhoogah!

Transmission/Drivetrain The last stick-shift Buick we can remember was schoolmate Bill Peery’s ’56 Special that would lay 100 feet of scorched cords if you just thought about it. A normal, sensible person would likely gravitate to a self-shifting transmission, too, but abnormal John couldn’t abide it. Unless he hadda a pedal for his left foot he wouldn’t be able to sleep right, so he got a Tremec TKO-600 five-speed, made a custom crossmember to hold it up and converted the center-bearing driveshaft to an aluminum one-piece construction. He swapped in a T/A aluminum flywheel and covered it with a McLeod dual disc clutch assembly abetted by a McLeod hydraulic clutch release. The drive axle is a revelation: a Winters Performance quick-change sports a 3.64:1 ratio, a limited-slip differential and full-floating axle ends.

Chassis / Suspension Before the chassis rehab began, John set the engine rearward nearly a foot. Displacing mass would enhance weight distribution for a much more neutral handling attitude. This was not possible unless John put a up new firewall. A good start to be sure, but he marched on with ideas of his own. He built the suspension from Grand National stock car spindle pins, hand-made aluminum control arms, Jeg’s double-adjustable coilovers with 1,000 lb-in springs, an Addco 1¼-inch anti-sway bar, and a big bag of Heim joints. To accommodate the Flaming River power steering rack, John modified the big crossmember. Currently, alignment settings are -2-deg. camber, 9-deg. caster and -1/16- to +1/16-inch toe. The back half of the big Bu’ is held up by Jeg’s adjustable coilovers with a 450 lb-in springs. An Addco 1-inch diameter bar attends. John didn’t quit the job until he’d posted a pinion-mounted Panhard bar. These particular changes have pulled the Buick five inches closer to Mother Earth.

Body Since the car had been stored high and dry for centuries, beyond an odd door ding or two, its body was pristine. John assumed responsibility. He shaved the door handles, brushed the trim, and built a carbon fiber hood, deck lid and front bumper along with those craaazy splitters/struts and rear spoiler. Well, somebody had to paint it. John looked around, flicked his eyes left and right and said there’s only me here now. He liked the Kirker Automotive Finishes Carbon Fiber Gray and applied it as base/clear that he color sanded and buffed out. This just in: the irrepressible John sent images, “I’m currently working on carbon fenders and quarter panels to fit my new 19×13.5 wheels and 355/30 tires.” You gotta love this guy.

Interior Yeah, it’s not pretty but it’s a little dirty and a lot functional. Seats don’t match? Who needs two expensive Sparco buckets when the original leather-covered passenger chair will do? The mood is subdued; color is banished for the reluctant sheen of metal. John built an aluminum gauge panel and underscored it with a lower car-wide stripe. He arranged custom Arctic White Auto Meter gauges. He slicked out the console, made a notch for the Tremec shifter. He didn’t include air conditioning or a sound system (“couldn’t hear it anyway”). He’s captured by Sparco 5-point harness; he centers on the NRG carbon fiber steering wheel and does that lovely dance on pedals that he built from stainless steel.

Brakes / Wheels / Tires Big ol’ nasty beast Buick needs big ol’ nasty beast wheels. John found LB 288 hoops at L&B Forged. They’re three-piece giants that spread 20×11 (6.5-inch backspacing, front; 6.0-inch backspacing, rear) and carry Bridgestone 295/30 RE 71R treads. Energy burners are modest: John applied drilled Wilwood 12-3/8-inch rotors and Grand National Stock Car six-piston calipers to the front and followed them up with Wilwood four-piston, 12-inch discs. They are attended by a Wilwood master cylinder and proportioning valve.

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[cosmosogler]

hi guys. it is 10:50 again. i’m doing a good job of starting at 10 when my alarm to start writing goes off.

still sick. i actually got to see the doctor two hours after waking up and groggily calling them. so i had to hustle through my shower and over to campus. she said i just have a cold. she suggested i take sudafed, which clashes with one of my medications. i asked her if that would happen and she said probably, so i should take the smallest dose. 

when i got up to the pharmacy they said sudafed would interfere with that same medication and i was like “yes.” so i took one when i got to the office. it didn’t particularly hurt, but it also didn’t help much. i finished designing rubrics for my labs for the semester and filled out both my teacher evaluations. then i caught the bus over to my therapist’s office and we worked out some things to try to handle mom better.

i should... try new strategies, start boundary enforcement with a positive comment, and play dumb when she gets mad. like when mom says “you aren’t paying attention” i should say something like “wow, i am so glad that you are so in tune with me! i didn’t know i looked like that! thanks for letting me know, it’s so great that you can tell how i feel.”

think less passive aggressive and more... offputtingly positive.

or when i don’t want her to invade my space, saying something like “ok i am so glad we got to visit, i am going to be at the library for five hours, see you later!” over the phone or text at very short notice.

it seems kind of, deceitful i guess. shrewd? facetious, when it gets bad?

right up my alley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

after my appointment i sat out on the clinic’s front porch and petted the outdoor cat, angelo. he is a devout follower of the “if i fits, i sits” mentality. i crouched down to greet him when he ran over and then he just jumped right up on my legs while i was squatted. i had to move him over to the porch so i could sit properly. he got burrs all over me but he was very, very happy to have someone scratch his ears. when i had to get up to catch the bus, i was trying to ease him off my lap, but even when i was about 80% of the way to standing straight up he just didn’t want to get off my lap. 

eventually i got him to slide off and he immediately started lounging on the ground instead. i scratched him behind the ear one last time to let him know i wasn’t mad or anything and then i left. he seemed fairly young.

after that, harrison, jennica, and i went to thai food for dinner. i had a good time but jennica seemed to be under the impression that her meal lacked any flavor. harrison tried it and he said it tasted fine so i don’t know what was going on there.

driving back home was a little rough for me. i was so drowsy. i was also exhausted from trying to talk to jennica for such an extended period of time. she has a very different humor to me and harrison. like, he and i would be going back and forth about something dumb and she’d interrupt us to say we were wrong and then tell us exactly what the point of our jokes had been.

we got on the topic of dogs and i was talking about greyhounds (because eve is halffffff-greyhound?) and she kept interrupting me to tell me i was wrong. i said “greyhounds are a bunch of couch potatoes” and she said “no” and i said “yes” and we went back and forth for a while before she finally said “no because otherwise they wouldn’t be called greyhound buses.” 

harrison and i kind of looked at each other before he told her they are only fast in races and are generally low energy. 

i was getting super tilted though because, like, eve is a greyhound mix? i know about greyhounds?? does she think i’m dumb or something??? 

why wouldn’t i research the breed of dog i have adopted????

she also argued that purebreeds only have as many medical problems as every other dog as they get older. i was gonna explode. i said “i have a lot of feelings” but i probably should have clarified that i have a lot of angry feelings about pedigree breeding.

i also got kinda... let down by suzanne today. i am having so much trouble focusing, when i was semi-complaining about it to harrison later i wasn’t even that coherent or able to hold together a chronological narrative. basically last night i asked if i could talk to her a bit today because i’ve been feeling REALLY bad at night. she said yeah, and then today she let me know when she’d be available after i brought it up again. so i started talking about it a little bit (over text, she has left town) and i got no response for hours. when i had to leave for therapy i said i would be unavailable for several hours and suzanne said “no worries” while i was traveling. i saw the message later. she said to let her know when i wanted to talk.

so on the way back while riding the bus i tried again and got no response. i still haven’t gotten a response. 

when i was telling harrison i said “this is why i have trust issues” but it did really sting. as i get older i have less and less patience for flaking. and i had about 0 patience for flaking at around the time i realized glenn had lied to me and was not actually going to ever call me back when i was five years old.

glenn is my biological father. i figured, much later, that it was probably really awkward to call the kid of your ex girlfriend. but like, grandma pearl and grandpa al managed it.

the point is that people i rely on have been leaving me for over 20 years now and i don’t like it when it keeps happening.

it’s not that she was busy. she specifically said when she was available and then when i felt hurt about being ignored she acted like i was apologizing to her.

it hurts more than it did earlier. maybe it’s too late at night to be dwelling on painful things. it’s so easy to get upset when i should be going to bed. then i have to choose between trying to talk to someone and keeping us both awake too long, or trying to go to bed while i still feel awful. which is why i wanted to talk to someone in the first place!! and suzanne OFFERED!!!!!!!

ughhhhhhhhhhhh mom and my brother are coming in tomorrow. i’m probably really stressed about that. it might be what’s making everything else so much harder than normal. it’s easy to blame mom for not being able to do my homework though. it’s the easy thing to do. is it the right thing to do?

something positive... i was able to see the doctor right away and i don’t have anything serious. she said it looks like it’s just a persistent cold. she said if i still feel bad in two weeks to come back in. i said if i still feel bad in two weeks i’m not going to be in very good shape for finals. she said not to think like that. i don’t know how else to think about it.

and i got more exercise today finally. i biked a little bit extra since i had to get to the therapist’s office. and i went up to 7th gear on the way home! i’ve been sticking to 6 or below since getting the bike. i hop up into the third grouping sometimes but it’s a little different from going to 7th. i’m not sure how but it does feel different. the bike complains a lot more i guess haha.

i don’t feel more tired though. the drowsiness from dinner has worn off mostly. i want to sleep but my brain is amped up and super agitated. mood swings... good times. yes. definitely good times.

i didn’t get any homework done today, but i did two things that needed to be done. the course evaluations and the grading rubrics. homework maybe tomorrow, not sure. i didn’t bring any home. i knew i wasn’t going to get any done and i didn’t have the strength to bring extra weight up the hill with me this evening. 

(but you had the strength to get up to seventh gear.)

i successfully spoke with mother over the phone this evening and didn’t get my jimmies rustled when she brought up dad. i just ended the conversation within one sentence of her bringing him up haha. i’m a little proud of myself for that. and i did actually go do the thing i had excused myself for so it wasn’t a total lie. 

AND i took out the trash and did the god dang dishes and threw out my pasta salad that i didn’t eat this week. it wasn’t that good... and i haven’t been eating much.

i wish i got a real break. thanksgiving is “manage mom” time. i am trying to wrench it away from her and back toward “homework catch-up adventure” but i know that the stress and worry on the backburner are going to severely cut my ability to knock out assignments at the rate that i need to.

it’s 11:25 so i gotta hurry up now. i want to make note of my dream even though i don’t have enough time to talk about it and i might not remember it enough to talk about it in detail ever. it prominently featured my sister and a broken building that was basically impossible to navigate. my sister was also a snake. but like one of those puffy snake toys. it’s called a magic twisty worm i guess? she had googly eyes and everything. but she was the length of my arm, and also we were in this horrible post-industrial tower of unfinished elevators and broken staircases that went nowhere and ramps that led to flat concrete walls and twisted metal and half-decayed sharp edges. we needed to get to the top but when we got there there was nothing there.

[ruthellisneda]

13 Fun Ways to Work Out on the Beach

When you’re at the beach, all you usually want to do is soak up the sun. We get that. But getting in a workout on the sand is not only fun, it also challenges your body in ways you can’t in the gym — and it’ll make you feel great.

“Your body craves daily movement someway, somehow. And it doesn’t have to be all-out, balls-to-the-wall,” says certified functional strength coach Samantha Ciaccia, who leads beach workouts for Ketanga Fitness Retreats. “Whether you do a hard workout or simple bodyweight or mobility exercises, your brain releases the feel-good chemical serotonin, which makes you feel more awake and alive to fully enjoy your vacation.”

Since most Americans only take half their vacation days, we should maximize those days! So grab a water bottle, slather on the sunscreen and try some of these fun ways to get in a workout on the beach.

1. COMBINE LOUNGING WITH TONING

If you are the type who just wants to relax, try Ciaccia’s tip to get an added workout while lounging. “At some point, you have to change position. Every time you shift or get up, do a set of 10–12 pushups or situps, alternating between the two,” she suggests. By the end of the day, you will have some color and a good number of exercises under your belt.

2. GET MOBILE

Another low-intensity option is to do some mobility work on your towel, opening your joints and loosening your muscles. Ciaccia suggests making sure to hit your ankles, hips, thoracic spine, shoulders and lumbar to cervical spine. Here is one suggested move for each of these:

Ankles: Lunge one foot forward and place back knee on the ground. Place hands on both sides of front foot and lean into your front ankle. Switch sides and repeat.

Hips: Drop into a low squat with feet wide and butt close to the ground. Bring palms together in front of chest and place elbows inside thighs, pushing them open. Then, begin to draw figure eights with knees and focus on opening your hips.

Thoracic spine: Lie on your side with your bottom leg straight and top knee bent at 90 degrees in line with your hip. Extend arms out in front of you, palms touching. On an exhale, slide your top hand past your bottom, opening your upper back. Return to start on an inhale. Take 3 breaths on each side.

Shoulders: From the same position as above, flip your top hand to palm up. On an exhale, keeping your top arm straight, drag your fingertips above your head and behind you, drawing a rainbow. Only go until your bent knee begins to come off the ground. Return to start on an inhale. Perform 3 breaths on each side.

Lumbar to cervical spine: Perform slow, intentional cat-cow movements.

Samsung and Under Armour have collaborated to offer an authentic fitness and nutrition experience by combining Samsung’s revolutionary wearable device with Under Armour’s Connected Fitness suite of apps. Whether you’re tracking your nutrition, daily workouts or running routes, this best-in-class partnership makes it easier to reach your personal goals and achieve things you never thought possible.

3. DO A MINI BOOTCAMP WITH A PARTNER

Workouts are more fun when you do them with someone, so grab a friend and do this workout from Christianne Phillips, director of mind and movement at 1 Hotel South Beach. You will alternate moves: Person A runs into the water and, once it’s deep enough to swim, swims 20 strokes out. Then, they turn around and swim 20 strokes back toward the sand and run out of the water.

While they do this, Person B is on the shore doing one bodyweight exercise the entire time. Once Person A is back to shore, you’ll switch and Person B swims while Person A does the bodyweight move.

The bodyweight movements can include the following exercises, ending with burpees as the last round: plank with shoulder taps, air squats, situps with your head toward (but never in!) the water, reverse lunges and burpees.

4. PRACTICE HEADSTANDS

Calling all yogis: If you are scared to practice inversions on a hard floor or away from a wall, try doing so on the forgiving soft sand. If you fall, it won’t hurt nearly as much — if at all. Put down a towel and pat down a space that’s as level as possible to put your head and hands or forearms on, recommends Phillips, who learned headstands by practicing on the beach. Then follow our step-by-step guide to master headstands!

5. PLAY PADDLEBALL

Although this game will never win the title of ultimate calorie burner, it does get you moving. The more you have to reach for the ball, the better. “Paddleball, football, Frisbee — all of those games are better than sitting there, for sure,” Phillips says. She likes to throw a football in the water with her sons. “It’s refreshing and it’s fun to dive for the ball and end up in the water,” she says. “We purposely throw it to the side so we can jump for it and throw ourselves in the water.”

6. PLAY VOLLEYBALL

If you want a sport that will burn more calories, get your Kerri Walsh Jennings on! Volleyball helps improve your agility, speed and hand-eye coordination, plus it counts as both metabolic training and strength training, Ciaccia says. This all keeps your brain sharp, boosts heart health, builds muscle from head to toe and helps you strengthen your neuromuscular response. This can help you to catch yourself from falling if you trip on that pesky living room rug.

7. GO FOR A RUN

When you combine bare feet and unstable sand, you quickly find running on the beach is hard! “Your shoes provide a cushion, and when you take that away, ligaments and muscles that aren’t typically used are being activated,” Ciaccia explains.

Beach running helps stabilize your foot and ankle joints and strengthen different leg muscles than a run on a treadmill or pavement does. However, both Ciaccia and Phillips caution that you will probably be able to run for less time and shorter distances on the beach than you normally do on other surfaces. Listen to your body because if you push it too hard, you could end up injured.

8. CHALLENGE SOMEONE TO SUICIDE SPRINTS

To amp up your run, grab some friends and pick a few landmarks to do suicide sprints with. You might run to the lifeguard stand and back, then to a rock and back and then to someone’s towel and back. Either way, you’ll be sweaty and breathless at the end.

9. TAKE A WALK

Meandering along the water’s edge can be more than just a stroll. Pick up the pace a bit or, if you are with a friend, have them jump on your back and take turns piggybacking each other, Ciaccia suggests. You can also alternate: One of you does 10 walking lunges while the other walks, then you switch. Try lateral lunges to work your body in more planes of motion.

10. DO A WATER WORKOUT

Water aerobics aren’t just for the seniors in your gym’s pool. Phillips recommends trying squats, lateral lunges, skaters and the bottom part of a jumping jack in the ocean. Be sure the water comes up to at least your waist so you get the added resistance of the water, which will make you work your inner and outer thighs more. To do water “crunches,” perform high knees while standing or, while treading water, pull your knees up to your chest like a hanging leg raise.

11. TRY STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDING

There are two big benefits of SUP. The first is balance. “While you are standing on the board, your brain muscles are in overdrive trying to not let you fall. This translates into helping you prevent falls in everyday life,” Ciaccia says.

The second benefit is strength. “Your muscles are contracting as you grip your feet on the board, squeeze your glutes and activate your core. You’re increasing isometric strength all around,” she adds.

12. GO KAYAKING

If you’ve never been in a kayak, you know that it’s a LOT of work. “It’s a perfect upper-body and core workout,” Phillips says. You’ll work your back, chest, shoulders, arms and even your legs some, as they help you balance. Plus, it’s great cardio.

13. DIY A BODYWEIGHT WORKOUT

To get your strength training on, create your own total-body beach circuit. Simply pick one upper body, one lower body, one core and one dynamic exercise (such as skaters or burpees). Do each exercise for 7–10 reps. Repeat that circuit twice.

Then, pick four new exercises and repeat that circuit twice. “Within half an hour, you will be done, but you won’t be dying,” Ciaccia says. “That’s key because you don’t want to be exhausted the rest of day — you want to feel refreshed and alive.”

Written by Brittany Risher, a writer, editor and digital strategist specializing in health and lifestyle content. To stay sane from working too hard, she turns to yoga, strength training, meditation and scotch. Connect with her on Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.

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13 Fun Ways to Work Out on the Beach

When you’re at the beach, all you usually want to do is soak up the sun. We get that. But getting in a workout on the sand is not only fun, it also challenges your body in ways you can’t in the gym — and it’ll make you feel great.

“Your body craves daily movement someway, somehow. And it doesn’t have to be all-out, balls-to-the-wall,” says certified functional strength coach Samantha Ciaccia, who leads beach workouts for Ketanga Fitness Retreats. “Whether you do a hard workout or simple bodyweight or mobility exercises, your brain releases the feel-good chemical serotonin, which makes you feel more awake and alive to fully enjoy your vacation.”

Since most Americans only take half their vacation days, we should maximize those days! So grab a water bottle, slather on the sunscreen and try some of these fun ways to get in a workout on the beach.

1. COMBINE LOUNGING WITH TONING

If you are the type who just wants to relax, try Ciaccia’s tip to get an added workout while lounging. “At some point, you have to change position. Every time you shift or get up, do a set of 10–12 pushups or situps, alternating between the two,” she suggests. By the end of the day, you will have some color and a good number of exercises under your belt.

2. GET MOBILE

Another low-intensity option is to do some mobility work on your towel, opening your joints and loosening your muscles. Ciaccia suggests making sure to hit your ankles, hips, thoracic spine, shoulders and lumbar to cervical spine. Here is one suggested move for each of these:

Ankles: Lunge one foot forward and place back knee on the ground. Place hands on both sides of front foot and lean into your front ankle. Switch sides and repeat.

Hips: Drop into a low squat with feet wide and butt close to the ground. Bring palms together in front of chest and place elbows inside thighs, pushing them open. Then, begin to draw figure eights with knees and focus on opening your hips.

Thoracic spine: Lie on your side with your bottom leg straight and top knee bent at 90 degrees in line with your hip. Extend arms out in front of you, palms touching. On an exhale, slide your top hand past your bottom, opening your upper back. Return to start on an inhale. Take 3 breaths on each side.

Shoulders: From the same position as above, flip your top hand to palm up. On an exhale, keeping your top arm straight, drag your fingertips above your head and behind you, drawing a rainbow. Only go until your bent knee begins to come off the ground. Return to start on an inhale. Perform 3 breaths on each side.

Lumbar to cervical spine: Perform slow, intentional cat-cow movements.

Samsung and Under Armour have collaborated to offer an authentic fitness and nutrition experience by combining Samsung’s revolutionary wearable device with Under Armour’s Connected Fitness suite of apps. Whether you’re tracking your nutrition, daily workouts or running routes, this best-in-class partnership makes it easier to reach your personal goals and achieve things you never thought possible.

3. DO A MINI BOOTCAMP WITH A PARTNER

Workouts are more fun when you do them with someone, so grab a friend and do this workout from Christianne Phillips, director of mind and movement at 1 Hotel South Beach. You will alternate moves: Person A runs into the water and, once it’s deep enough to swim, swims 20 strokes out. Then, they turn around and swim 20 strokes back toward the sand and run out of the water.

While they do this, Person B is on the shore doing one bodyweight exercise the entire time. Once Person A is back to shore, you’ll switch and Person B swims while Person A does the bodyweight move.

The bodyweight movements can include the following exercises, ending with burpees as the last round: plank with shoulder taps, air squats, situps with your head toward (but never in!) the water, reverse lunges and burpees.

4. PRACTICE HEADSTANDS

Calling all yogis: If you are scared to practice inversions on a hard floor or away from a wall, try doing so on the forgiving soft sand. If you fall, it won’t hurt nearly as much — if at all. Put down a towel and pat down a space that’s as level as possible to put your head and hands or forearms on, recommends Phillips, who learned headstands by practicing on the beach. Then follow our step-by-step guide to master headstands!

5. PLAY PADDLEBALL

Although this game will never win the title of ultimate calorie burner, it does get you moving. The more you have to reach for the ball, the better. “Paddleball, football, Frisbee — all of those games are better than sitting there, for sure,” Phillips says. She likes to throw a football in the water with her sons. “It’s refreshing and it’s fun to dive for the ball and end up in the water,” she says. “We purposely throw it to the side so we can jump for it and throw ourselves in the water.”

6. PLAY VOLLEYBALL

If you want a sport that will burn more calories, get your Kerri Walsh Jennings on! Volleyball helps improve your agility, speed and hand-eye coordination, plus it counts as both metabolic training and strength training, Ciaccia says. This all keeps your brain sharp, boosts heart health, builds muscle from head to toe and helps you strengthen your neuromuscular response. This can help you to catch yourself from falling if you trip on that pesky living room rug.

7. GO FOR A RUN

When you combine bare feet and unstable sand, you quickly find running on the beach is hard! “Your shoes provide a cushion, and when you take that away, ligaments and muscles that aren’t typically used are being activated,” Ciaccia explains.

Beach running helps stabilize your foot and ankle joints and strengthen different leg muscles than a run on a treadmill or pavement does. However, both Ciaccia and Phillips caution that you will probably be able to run for less time and shorter distances on the beach than you normally do on other surfaces. Listen to your body because if you push it too hard, you could end up injured.

8. CHALLENGE SOMEONE TO SUICIDE SPRINTS

To amp up your run, grab some friends and pick a few landmarks to do suicide sprints with. You might run to the lifeguard stand and back, then to a rock and back and then to someone’s towel and back. Either way, you’ll be sweaty and breathless at the end.

9. TAKE A WALK

Meandering along the water’s edge can be more than just a stroll. Pick up the pace a bit or, if you are with a friend, have them jump on your back and take turns piggybacking each other, Ciaccia suggests. You can also alternate: One of you does 10 walking lunges while the other walks, then you switch. Try lateral lunges to work your body in more planes of motion.

10. DO A WATER WORKOUT

Water aerobics aren’t just for the seniors in your gym’s pool. Phillips recommends trying squats, lateral lunges, skaters and the bottom part of a jumping jack in the ocean. Be sure the water comes up to at least your waist so you get the added resistance of the water, which will make you work your inner and outer thighs more. To do water “crunches,” perform high knees while standing or, while treading water, pull your knees up to your chest like a hanging leg raise.

11. TRY STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDING

There are two big benefits of SUP. The first is balance. “While you are standing on the board, your brain muscles are in overdrive trying to not let you fall. This translates into helping you prevent falls in everyday life,” Ciaccia says.

The second benefit is strength. “Your muscles are contracting as you grip your feet on the board, squeeze your glutes and activate your core. You’re increasing isometric strength all around,” she adds.

12. GO KAYAKING

If you’ve never been in a kayak, you know that it’s a LOT of work. “It’s a perfect upper-body and core workout,” Phillips says. You’ll work your back, chest, shoulders, arms and even your legs some, as they help you balance. Plus, it’s great cardio.

13. DIY A BODYWEIGHT WORKOUT

To get your strength training on, create your own total-body beach circuit. Simply pick one upper body, one lower body, one core and one dynamic exercise (such as skaters or burpees). Do each exercise for 7–10 reps. Repeat that circuit twice.

Then, pick four new exercises and repeat that circuit twice. “Within half an hour, you will be done, but you won’t be dying,” Ciaccia says. “That’s key because you don’t want to be exhausted the rest of day — you want to feel refreshed and alive.”

Written by Brittany Risher, a writer, editor and digital strategist specializing in health and lifestyle content. To stay sane from working too hard, she turns to yoga, strength training, meditation and scotch. Connect with her on Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.

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[johnclapperne]

13 Fun Ways to Work Out on the Beach

When you’re at the beach, all you usually want to do is soak up the sun. We get that. But getting in a workout on the sand is not only fun, it also challenges your body in ways you can’t in the gym — and it’ll make you feel great.

“Your body craves daily movement someway, somehow. And it doesn’t have to be all-out, balls-to-the-wall,” says certified functional strength coach Samantha Ciaccia, who leads beach workouts for Ketanga Fitness Retreats. “Whether you do a hard workout or simple bodyweight or mobility exercises, your brain releases the feel-good chemical serotonin, which makes you feel more awake and alive to fully enjoy your vacation.”

Since most Americans only take half their vacation days, we should maximize those days! So grab a water bottle, slather on the sunscreen and try some of these fun ways to get in a workout on the beach.

1. COMBINE LOUNGING WITH TONING

If you are the type who just wants to relax, try Ciaccia’s tip to get an added workout while lounging. “At some point, you have to change position. Every time you shift or get up, do a set of 10–12 pushups or situps, alternating between the two,” she suggests. By the end of the day, you will have some color and a good number of exercises under your belt.

2. GET MOBILE

Another low-intensity option is to do some mobility work on your towel, opening your joints and loosening your muscles. Ciaccia suggests making sure to hit your ankles, hips, thoracic spine, shoulders and lumbar to cervical spine. Here is one suggested move for each of these:

Ankles: Lunge one foot forward and place back knee on the ground. Place hands on both sides of front foot and lean into your front ankle. Switch sides and repeat.

Hips: Drop into a low squat with feet wide and butt close to the ground. Bring palms together in front of chest and place elbows inside thighs, pushing them open. Then, begin to draw figure eights with knees and focus on opening your hips.

Thoracic spine: Lie on your side with your bottom leg straight and top knee bent at 90 degrees in line with your hip. Extend arms out in front of you, palms touching. On an exhale, slide your top hand past your bottom, opening your upper back. Return to start on an inhale. Take 3 breaths on each side.

Shoulders: From the same position as above, flip your top hand to palm up. On an exhale, keeping your top arm straight, drag your fingertips above your head and behind you, drawing a rainbow. Only go until your bent knee begins to come off the ground. Return to start on an inhale. Perform 3 breaths on each side.

Lumbar to cervical spine: Perform slow, intentional cat-cow movements.

Samsung and Under Armour have collaborated to offer an authentic fitness and nutrition experience by combining Samsung’s revolutionary wearable device with Under Armour’s Connected Fitness suite of apps. Whether you’re tracking your nutrition, daily workouts or running routes, this best-in-class partnership makes it easier to reach your personal goals and achieve things you never thought possible.

3. DO A MINI BOOTCAMP WITH A PARTNER

Workouts are more fun when you do them with someone, so grab a friend and do this workout from Christianne Phillips, director of mind and movement at 1 Hotel South Beach. You will alternate moves: Person A runs into the water and, once it’s deep enough to swim, swims 20 strokes out. Then, they turn around and swim 20 strokes back toward the sand and run out of the water.

While they do this, Person B is on the shore doing one bodyweight exercise the entire time. Once Person A is back to shore, you’ll switch and Person B swims while Person A does the bodyweight move.

The bodyweight movements can include the following exercises, ending with burpees as the last round: plank with shoulder taps, air squats, situps with your head toward (but never in!) the water, reverse lunges and burpees.

4. PRACTICE HEADSTANDS

Calling all yogis: If you are scared to practice inversions on a hard floor or away from a wall, try doing so on the forgiving soft sand. If you fall, it won’t hurt nearly as much — if at all. Put down a towel and pat down a space that’s as level as possible to put your head and hands or forearms on, recommends Phillips, who learned headstands by practicing on the beach. Then follow our step-by-step guide to master headstands!

5. PLAY PADDLEBALL

Although this game will never win the title of ultimate calorie burner, it does get you moving. The more you have to reach for the ball, the better. “Paddleball, football, Frisbee — all of those games are better than sitting there, for sure,” Phillips says. She likes to throw a football in the water with her sons. “It’s refreshing and it’s fun to dive for the ball and end up in the water,” she says. “We purposely throw it to the side so we can jump for it and throw ourselves in the water.”

6. PLAY VOLLEYBALL

If you want a sport that will burn more calories, get your Kerri Walsh Jennings on! Volleyball helps improve your agility, speed and hand-eye coordination, plus it counts as both metabolic training and strength training, Ciaccia says. This all keeps your brain sharp, boosts heart health, builds muscle from head to toe and helps you strengthen your neuromuscular response. This can help you to catch yourself from falling if you trip on that pesky living room rug.

7. GO FOR A RUN

When you combine bare feet and unstable sand, you quickly find running on the beach is hard! “Your shoes provide a cushion, and when you take that away, ligaments and muscles that aren’t typically used are being activated,” Ciaccia explains.

Beach running helps stabilize your foot and ankle joints and strengthen different leg muscles than a run on a treadmill or pavement does. However, both Ciaccia and Phillips caution that you will probably be able to run for less time and shorter distances on the beach than you normally do on other surfaces. Listen to your body because if you push it too hard, you could end up injured.

8. CHALLENGE SOMEONE TO SUICIDE SPRINTS

To amp up your run, grab some friends and pick a few landmarks to do suicide sprints with. You might run to the lifeguard stand and back, then to a rock and back and then to someone’s towel and back. Either way, you’ll be sweaty and breathless at the end.

9. TAKE A WALK

Meandering along the water’s edge can be more than just a stroll. Pick up the pace a bit or, if you are with a friend, have them jump on your back and take turns piggybacking each other, Ciaccia suggests. You can also alternate: One of you does 10 walking lunges while the other walks, then you switch. Try lateral lunges to work your body in more planes of motion.

10. DO A WATER WORKOUT

Water aerobics aren’t just for the seniors in your gym’s pool. Phillips recommends trying squats, lateral lunges, skaters and the bottom part of a jumping jack in the ocean. Be sure the water comes up to at least your waist so you get the added resistance of the water, which will make you work your inner and outer thighs more. To do water “crunches,” perform high knees while standing or, while treading water, pull your knees up to your chest like a hanging leg raise.

11. TRY STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDING

There are two big benefits of SUP. The first is balance. “While you are standing on the board, your brain muscles are in overdrive trying to not let you fall. This translates into helping you prevent falls in everyday life,” Ciaccia says.

The second benefit is strength. “Your muscles are contracting as you grip your feet on the board, squeeze your glutes and activate your core. You’re increasing isometric strength all around,” she adds.

12. GO KAYAKING

If you’ve never been in a kayak, you know that it’s a LOT of work. “It’s a perfect upper-body and core workout,” Phillips says. You’ll work your back, chest, shoulders, arms and even your legs some, as they help you balance. Plus, it’s great cardio.

13. DIY A BODYWEIGHT WORKOUT

To get your strength training on, create your own total-body beach circuit. Simply pick one upper body, one lower body, one core and one dynamic exercise (such as skaters or burpees). Do each exercise for 7–10 reps. Repeat that circuit twice.

Then, pick four new exercises and repeat that circuit twice. “Within half an hour, you will be done, but you won’t be dying,” Ciaccia says. “That’s key because you don’t want to be exhausted the rest of day — you want to feel refreshed and alive.”

Written by Brittany Risher, a writer, editor and digital strategist specializing in health and lifestyle content. To stay sane from working too hard, she turns to yoga, strength training, meditation and scotch. Connect with her on Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.

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13 Fun Ways to Work Out on the Beach

When you’re at the beach, all you usually want to do is soak up the sun. We get that. But getting in a workout on the sand is not only fun, it also challenges your body in ways you can’t in the gym — and it’ll make you feel great.

“Your body craves daily movement someway, somehow. And it doesn’t have to be all-out, balls-to-the-wall,” says certified functional strength coach Samantha Ciaccia, who leads beach workouts for Ketanga Fitness Retreats. “Whether you do a hard workout or simple bodyweight or mobility exercises, your brain releases the feel-good chemical serotonin, which makes you feel more awake and alive to fully enjoy your vacation.”

Since most Americans only take half their vacation days, we should maximize those days! So grab a water bottle, slather on the sunscreen and try some of these fun ways to get in a workout on the beach.

1. COMBINE LOUNGING WITH TONING

If you are the type who just wants to relax, try Ciaccia’s tip to get an added workout while lounging. “At some point, you have to change position. Every time you shift or get up, do a set of 10–12 pushups or situps, alternating between the two,” she suggests. By the end of the day, you will have some color and a good number of exercises under your belt.

2. GET MOBILE

Another low-intensity option is to do some mobility work on your towel, opening your joints and loosening your muscles. Ciaccia suggests making sure to hit your ankles, hips, thoracic spine, shoulders and lumbar to cervical spine. Here is one suggested move for each of these:

Ankles: Lunge one foot forward and place back knee on the ground. Place hands on both sides of front foot and lean into your front ankle. Switch sides and repeat.

Hips: Drop into a low squat with feet wide and butt close to the ground. Bring palms together in front of chest and place elbows inside thighs, pushing them open. Then, begin to draw figure eights with knees and focus on opening your hips.

Thoracic spine: Lie on your side with your bottom leg straight and top knee bent at 90 degrees in line with your hip. Extend arms out in front of you, palms touching. On an exhale, slide your top hand past your bottom, opening your upper back. Return to start on an inhale. Take 3 breaths on each side.

Shoulders: From the same position as above, flip your top hand to palm up. On an exhale, keeping your top arm straight, drag your fingertips above your head and behind you, drawing a rainbow. Only go until your bent knee begins to come off the ground. Return to start on an inhale. Perform 3 breaths on each side.

Lumbar to cervical spine: Perform slow, intentional cat-cow movements.

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3. DO A MINI BOOTCAMP WITH A PARTNER

Workouts are more fun when you do them with someone, so grab a friend and do this workout from Christianne Phillips, director of mind and movement at 1 Hotel South Beach. You will alternate moves: Person A runs into the water and, once it’s deep enough to swim, swims 20 strokes out. Then, they turn around and swim 20 strokes back toward the sand and run out of the water.

While they do this, Person B is on the shore doing one bodyweight exercise the entire time. Once Person A is back to shore, you’ll switch and Person B swims while Person A does the bodyweight move.

The bodyweight movements can include the following exercises, ending with burpees as the last round: plank with shoulder taps, air squats, situps with your head toward (but never in!) the water, reverse lunges and burpees.

4. PRACTICE HEADSTANDS

Calling all yogis: If you are scared to practice inversions on a hard floor or away from a wall, try doing so on the forgiving soft sand. If you fall, it won’t hurt nearly as much — if at all. Put down a towel and pat down a space that’s as level as possible to put your head and hands or forearms on, recommends Phillips, who learned headstands by practicing on the beach. Then follow our step-by-step guide to master headstands!

5. PLAY PADDLEBALL

Although this game will never win the title of ultimate calorie burner, it does get you moving. The more you have to reach for the ball, the better. “Paddleball, football, Frisbee — all of those games are better than sitting there, for sure,” Phillips says. She likes to throw a football in the water with her sons. “It’s refreshing and it’s fun to dive for the ball and end up in the water,” she says. “We purposely throw it to the side so we can jump for it and throw ourselves in the water.”

6. PLAY VOLLEYBALL

If you want a sport that will burn more calories, get your Kerri Walsh Jennings on! Volleyball helps improve your agility, speed and hand-eye coordination, plus it counts as both metabolic training and strength training, Ciaccia says. This all keeps your brain sharp, boosts heart health, builds muscle from head to toe and helps you strengthen your neuromuscular response. This can help you to catch yourself from falling if you trip on that pesky living room rug.

7. GO FOR A RUN

When you combine bare feet and unstable sand, you quickly find running on the beach is hard! “Your shoes provide a cushion, and when you take that away, ligaments and muscles that aren’t typically used are being activated,” Ciaccia explains.

Beach running helps stabilize your foot and ankle joints and strengthen different leg muscles than a run on a treadmill or pavement does. However, both Ciaccia and Phillips caution that you will probably be able to run for less time and shorter distances on the beach than you normally do on other surfaces. Listen to your body because if you push it too hard, you could end up injured.

8. CHALLENGE SOMEONE TO SUICIDE SPRINTS

To amp up your run, grab some friends and pick a few landmarks to do suicide sprints with. You might run to the lifeguard stand and back, then to a rock and back and then to someone’s towel and back. Either way, you’ll be sweaty and breathless at the end.

9. TAKE A WALK

Meandering along the water’s edge can be more than just a stroll. Pick up the pace a bit or, if you are with a friend, have them jump on your back and take turns piggybacking each other, Ciaccia suggests. You can also alternate: One of you does 10 walking lunges while the other walks, then you switch. Try lateral lunges to work your body in more planes of motion.

10. DO A WATER WORKOUT

Water aerobics aren’t just for the seniors in your gym’s pool. Phillips recommends trying squats, lateral lunges, skaters and the bottom part of a jumping jack in the ocean. Be sure the water comes up to at least your waist so you get the added resistance of the water, which will make you work your inner and outer thighs more. To do water “crunches,” perform high knees while standing or, while treading water, pull your knees up to your chest like a hanging leg raise.

11. TRY STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDING

There are two big benefits of SUP. The first is balance. “While you are standing on the board, your brain muscles are in overdrive trying to not let you fall. This translates into helping you prevent falls in everyday life,” Ciaccia says.

The second benefit is strength. “Your muscles are contracting as you grip your feet on the board, squeeze your glutes and activate your core. You’re increasing isometric strength all around,” she adds.

12. GO KAYAKING

If you’ve never been in a kayak, you know that it’s a LOT of work. “It’s a perfect upper-body and core workout,” Phillips says. You’ll work your back, chest, shoulders, arms and even your legs some, as they help you balance. Plus, it’s great cardio.

13. DIY A BODYWEIGHT WORKOUT

To get your strength training on, create your own total-body beach circuit. Simply pick one upper body, one lower body, one core and one dynamic exercise (such as skaters or burpees). Do each exercise for 7–10 reps. Repeat that circuit twice.

Then, pick four new exercises and repeat that circuit twice. “Within half an hour, you will be done, but you won’t be dying,” Ciaccia says. “That’s key because you don’t want to be exhausted the rest of day — you want to feel refreshed and alive.”

Written by Brittany Risher, a writer, editor and digital strategist specializing in health and lifestyle content. To stay sane from working too hard, she turns to yoga, strength training, meditation and scotch. Connect with her on Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.

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