Cupcake Wars

Is apparently a series.

I ran almost savage today (minus three points) for the two-hour games because Sonny and Feldman didn't show up, so I was the only real handler. I played pretty well aside from a 4-point stretch in the first game where I got frustrated because I missed a few throws and cuts weren't coming, so I would put up throws I don't have (like hucks when people are trying to stop them) and

I put up a lot of big forehands with and against the wind and my pulls were around sixty yards with some good hangtime. I missed a layout D opportunity but it would have been literally the sickest ever so I don't mind that one. I horribly misread a disc that was up in the air for game point in the first game and we lost. We won our second game by two and lost our first by two.

I've played the past two days without ankle braces and boy is it nice. My ankles are a bit sore, but I am definitely faster and more agile without the braces. Only my left one is sore and that is the one I cut off of, so as long as it doesn't stay sore the next day (which it hasn't so far) I'm gonna keep it off. Plus I get to wear my new pair of Speed TD's and boy are those hot.

Pushups and excruciator were really difficult today and I ate quite a bit more than I usually do, but I played way more than I usually do so I think I get a pass. I've got a lot of work to do at the other house the rest of the week so hopefully between that and my soda boycott I'll be able to drop some pounds.

I really have no concluding thoughts. Weighday tomorrow, though.

P.S. Today is my 2nd day of double pushups.

I stopped listening to music

I was crutching pretty hard on this blag for a while so I had to take a few days off. Sorry.

I played a good amount in the 1st half today, probably 4 or 5 points out of 13, which is a lot for me, especially in competitive. I started out strong, getting a few crucial dumps off. I got open for a awesome one late in a stall count, then threw a pretty break almost completely horizontal that set up an easy toss for a point. I played pretty average in the 1st half otherwise, and during the 2nd I ghost-handed one and got completely burned on another and didn't really play again. On the other hand, my one pull was actually a good one and got pretty close to their endline with some good hangtime. Definitely one of my best ones EVAR.

We took half 8-5, got lazy and let them back in it, but pulled away after 11's to win 15-13, which puts us in 2nd place. The team is really meshing -- Zac is getting healthy and Eamonn is just turning into a complete animal. He was always on their best cutter today and played good defense and just got up for a bunch. I mean, he wasn't wearing sleeves today, but that can't be all of it. I ended up coaching Brian a bunch and he is turning into a monster. He turned a lot of heads on the last play of the game. He is just a physical specimen.

It seems like my schedule is to do work during the week and then not do work during the weekend, which is ever so close to just doing work all the time. I am not smoking nearly as much as I was even a week ago, but I can't seem to make sure I do pushups when I am on the road or when I drink. I didn't manage to stay sober for more then two days, but two days is better than nothing. I've gotten myself to where I want to be substance-wise during the semester so I want to see if I can trim down a bit because I know wherever I am now with partying I will be worse when school starts.

I didn't post my weight last week because I was embarrassed that I went back up to 201.4, but fuck that. I definitely lost weight and it was just an off day. I guess we will see on Wednesday.

My eating was getting a little iffy but my mom just bought chicken so we're back in action. I am going to ask her to teach me how to prep it so I can just make giant batches and eat BBQ chicken whenever I want, plus I'll know for next year too.

My plan at night is to drink gatorade until I am full.

I did sixty pushups today. I normally do fifty. I plan on continuing the trend.

Excruciator, bed.

If I wasn't then why would I say I am?

Moved furniture instead of league yesterday. I am sore.

I either can jump higher or figured it out more and now I can palm the ceiling on every first jump, but can't quite get it on the second jump.

I bought Men's vitamins. We'll see if there is any difference between them and the women's or old vitamins I've been taking.

Flexing in the mirror is still so much fun.

I almost drank some soda at Travers' house a few hours ago but decided to sort thousands of commons instead. You can thank me later.

US vs Ghana tomorrow at Sonny's. Thinking of buying a Four LOKO to wake me up before my mom drives me over. The perks of being old.

All I ask of you is to drink water. Every little bit counts.

Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern

Social went alright today. Dinosaured in some sketchy corner with some high schoolers and was sober by the 2nd half of the 1st game. I played a bunch of points because we did a hat tournament by ages so I was one of four people on my team with throws. I threw a few either bad or ill-advised hucks but played pretty good defense aside from biting too hard on a breakside cut and getting burned on the forceside for a point. I also played about 8 points while wearing a diaper (our team name was Rugrats)

I moved some boxes and furniture today but nothing substantial. I ended up walking the dogs around midnight and I realized a bit too late that there is a lot more wildlife out at that time of night, which made walking Boris that much more annoying.

Already knocked out my excruciator and pushups, so I might actually fall asleep before 4am for once.

Kind of light on the Ultimate in this post, but there is not much to say about a team full of bad hands, bad hucks, and diapers.

Weighday tomorrow.

So I pick up myself off the ground and fuckin' swam 'fore I drown.

Ended up winning 15-13 today. Was tied until we took half 8-6, and then they went on a 4 point run to make it 8-10 in their favor. We traded until thirteens, when we ended it 15-13.

Apinn had a sick layout to collect some garbage for a point, and then proceeded to sub-out just to talk to me about it. That is someone showing some passion for Ultimate.

Zac layed out (or fell I had no perspective) for a disc and some kid's foot took all of the damage. Quite scary.

Ecto introduced the sweetest cheer at half; if you want more info I don't feel like explaining it so try stalking Sonny's blag or facebook for it.

I only played like 4 points this game, but got to handle for all of them. It's a real confidence booster when everytime I'm on the field I'm picked as one of the two handles. I played alright, being very aggressive for one of the points and trying to be every-other touch on the disc. Another I played more passive and alternated primary with the Zac, and the last I played as the off handle with Darrin and let him be aggressive. I felt lost as the off-handle, as I didn't really know what to do until the other handler got it and I moved in to be the reset. Zac said I can "patch up the stack" but I don't really understand what he means and never got a chance to ask him to clarify it. I really liked being aggressive, as I have a really good first step and change of direction so I can get open much easier when attacking.

I straight turfed a forehand on one of my possessions and did nothing spectacular on the rest. My man got open and got the disc a bunch, but I made sure to not get broken and to be quick on the mark when they got it. All in all, not too bad for coming off ten-thousand minor injuries.

I am taking Apinn's friend Brian under my frisbee wing because he can run really fast and jump really high and quite frankly those are good people to know. Plus if he ends up really good I can say I had a part of that.

Got back into the groove today -- ate normal things and walked both dogs on big laps. Didn't smoke for the first night since sectionals. Didn't drink any soda at Travers.

The past two weeks have been kind of crazy between boozing most nights a week, smoking at least once a day, eating whatever I feel like, not walking my dogs everyday, and not doing my nightly pushups/excruciator. I think all of these drugs are taking more of a toll on me than I would like to admit -- it's not just how it affects my lungs or my weight. I do not think it is a coincidence that I started getting injured when Four Loko entered my life again, nor do I think I suddenly felt less motivated to crank out an excruciator before bed.

I'm taking a break from substances for a bit, one because I just really fucking want to lose weight, and two because when I go back it'll be way more fun. I think I need a drastic change in lifestyle or else I won't be able to keep up any routine. I have proven to myself that this whole moderation thing, in any area of my life, is not something I can pull off right now.

I thought a lot about the beginning of next year and I am just excited to finally execute a gameplan. I think it will be a very rewarding feeling to set something in motion and watch it work.

I missed a spot shaving and I really don't want to go back and fix it, but I know it's going to annoy me. I think I will just shave again tomorrow.

I need to get back to using more semicolons.

I can't forget to write my midterm tomorrow night for Kate McCoy round 2.

I just plan on being all business.

Except tomorrow because I am going to bake the shit out of my car before the BATTLE OF THE GENERATIONS.

P.S. Does anyone else blag anymore or is that last year's thing?

P.P.S. I turned twenty-one and despite my best efforts lived. I bet some people lost a lot of money on that one.

"Basically, it all comes down to this. In order to win you must be willing to accept the challenge and shoulder the pressure associated with the task. It is foolish to think that ignoring the climb in front of you can get you up the mountain. It is fine to break down the task into sections and approach each one separate from the last, even beneficial, but to never confront the threat ahead can only subside one’s fear for so long. You may be able to get by in any given tournament by just “winning the round you are in” but eventually you are going to cave. We are human and to ask us to ignore the mountain and stare only at the rocks at our feet is very difficult. If you never take time to confront the mountain,when you finally do, the challenge may be daunting, and you are bound to crack."

-Conley Woods, http://strategy.channelfireball.com/featured-articles/breaking-through-mental-stability/

I'm way too up to back down

2-0 in Social on Tuesday. Played a pretty good first game -- cannot remember too many details but I don't recall an abundance of turns and threw a sick forehand huck to some girl. I played most of my points in bunches and the game was pretty uninteresting. We established an early lead (6-1 at half, ish) and coasted to an 11-6 (ish) victory.

2nd game was pretty mixed for me. I took some harder assignments on defense and tried to pull the layout trigger whenever I could. I had two lay-out D attempts and another attempting to clean up some garbage on a huck. I didn't get one but I saw my man get looked off significantly more after I showed the willingness to leave my feet. I took a bit too much instant-jack-formula and threw to a lot of out-cuts that were mostly incomplete, but I did throw a nice 50 (ish) yard backhand huck to Sonny.

I was definitely going to play tomorrow, but I sprained to strained or pinched a nerve or something with my left shoulder (hurts whenever I rotate my wrist and whenever I pull it back), plus I'm dinged up everywhere else (rolled left ankle, cleated left shin, left wrist) so I am taking league off tomorrow unfortunately. I plan to go in a show of support, but we'll see what happens.

I must be laying out wrong because the left side of my body is really beat up and the right side of me is in pretty good shape. Perhaps I am just getting a poor luck of the draw and just getting layouts to that side but I think that is unlikely. I might just be too big to be hitting the ground this much but if that's all it is I'll just take a day off every two weeks to get over it.

Starting Monday I'm not drinking soda anymore because I had a mediocre exercise week and I didn't lose any weight, so if I'm not going to do work I shouldn't be allowed any exceptions.

My backhand is really close to leveling up. I can almost get that magic 45 yarder off with a mark so we'll see what goes down in the coming weeks.

Excruciator, bed.

200.6

Quit worrying about what they do and do fuckin shady

I'm not going to take time off for my wrist so I have decided to pretend that it is not injured. I got to sixty pushups tonight after that little break.

Weekends are going to be (and have been) the toughest.

Played like someone who had a Four Loko the night before at league today. Went up and got a D, got scared of Squeege and didn't make a play for another, should have laid out to get another D, and should have laid out to get a mediocre pass to me. I still refuse to attack the field laterally when I have the disc. I ended up turfing one that I should have swung to a wide open handler who I looked off.

But I did throw a really far bad backhand to some fast kid. Before I point I told him to go be fast, I got trapped on the line and saw him clear deep and just put it up. We should do that more. I cleared out well and handled a lot again.

We won 15-13 in a hard fought game. They looked to beat us on paper and we were forced to throw out a bunch of shady lines but we gritted it out. This team has me really excited as everyone on the team is touching the disc a lot, getting to play a lot of points, and contributing.

I just need to make sure I stay on this grind.

P.S. My quads are toast and I don't know why.

Relapse

I've been a bitch the past few days and I'm drinking diet pepsi as we speak.

I hate to be so results oriented, but

200.6

So close.

Starting over tonight -- dog walking and double excruciator to make up for my lack of pushups.

Desperately trying to stimulate what it was that was alright 3 quarters of an hour ago

Had a good time at competitive on Monday. Didn't do much, got a garbage d, layed out for one I dropped (but caught in the end), and threw a shady pass or two. I got a bunch of time in at handler and didn't get open much, but played passable defense.

Went 1-1 at social today, just didn't get amped up enough to take the first one back and lost very suddenly. I misread a huck and dropped it again but this time I kept running so I grossly overshot it. Baby steps. I pulled again and it went OB like 45 yards down. For some reason I just cannot pull a backhand. Had a few throwing turns but what else is new. Played much better game two and layed out for a few.

I realized that whenever I think about my throw I mess it up. When I just think about the spot I want to hit and don't think about the throw itself I am much more accurate. I also need to remember to not get lazy -- keep my grip tight and powerful and to use my body on all my throws.

Walked the dogs two miles, ran one today. I am very sore. I am not sure if I am running tomorrow because I might have made a wager on a shuttle-run-race against Paul Travers. Terms of the agreement are still in negotiation but I'm pretty sure it will go down. Preliminary terms are that if he wins I will drive him and 3 guests to Denny's and will pay for my own meal to eat there, but when if I win I get the power to command him to stop talking for 5 consecutive seconds, as many times as I want, for a year. Pretty solid EV on that one.

The only other advice I have is to not drink Four Loko. Just don't.

P.S. I apparently messed up my left wrist so I cannot do pushups tonight. Just an excruciator I guess.

P.P.S. I had the sickest cube draft today. Plenty of fake Court Hussars, Dragons, and removal. At one point I had Gideon, Good Jace, and Bad Ajani in play. 4-1 in games against Travers and Katt. Easily the best deck I have drafted in a 4-man.

Lay out blueprint plans on you

Woke up at 4pm today. Not too bad. Went and spent two hours picking up a grill and getting food to grill. I tried grilling some peppers and, while they were better than normal peppers, I was not impressed.

I ended up only walking one big and one small lap. Natasha did not enjoy her run so she only ran one and I ran two. I plan on figuring out how far I actually run at some point, but rest assured there are plenty of annoying hills.

Did push ups when I got back. Just did two more sets to bring it to 150 for today, and I'm about to do my 2nd excruciator.

Gotta do work ahead of time for when I am irresponsible this weekend.

I definitely just drank too much water and boy does my tummy hurt.

I'm just, tryin to stay above water, y'know

Lost to Yellow 15-12, the game was back and forth until they pulled away at 11's ish. Neither team played particularly well. Our points came on hucks, a few big gainers, or an early D. Theirs came from lateral movement of the disc and a few hucks. I don't think they got too many D's that they converted (well, they obviously got at least 3).

I played alright -- still not used to cutting. I botched a deep cut, but someone pointed out that when the disc goes up I slow down and read it instead of running full speed and its causing me to undershoot it.

I looked someone off and then threw a dump pass and cleared out a bunch. I played pretty bad defense and conceded position on a disc in the air. Not the worst.

Apinn got handblocked on a huck I told him to put up and then handblocked someone else later. And he repped the GUNX gear.

The team looks pretty sweet -- we have a bunch of tall people and a bunch of people that can huck. Most people on the team can throw and catch which is super nice. I'm going to have to step up as a cutter because we just don't have the firepower from the middle of the stack like we did last year. The team doesn't feel unfair like last year's, but we are a little beat up at the moment so we'll see how we look come midseason. Definitely seems like more fun this year though, so it's worth the trade.

Haven't done much dog walking the past two days (2 small laps, 1 big lap) so tomorrow is going to be two big laps and two big running laps. Similarly, I didn't do an excruciator last night so I'm doing double pushups and excruciators tonight.

I can't quite get my eating under wraps so I am just going to have to run more. At least I haven't been drinking.

I need to throw more -- both my hucks just aren't there right now. Perhaps I'll start tackling the backyard again.

I relapsed a bit with diet pepsi tonight, but it was only like half a liter and I have been Mr. Water lately so I think I'll be safe.

That's all.

P.S. Flex in the mirror it is so much fun.

Name keep poppin' up, Face keep poppin' up

Won our first social league game by something close to 13-3. The powerful handling trio of myself, Sonny, and Jeff Feldman will prove troublesome for other teams in the coming weeks. I played pretty average, but I sat out most of the second half because I felt like it. My throws were a bit off, but I have never been a strong wind-thrower so perhaps they were what they are. I did notice that I wasn't tired as easily, and I was the first one down on most pulls. I couldn't tell how well I was cutting because I had either really old people or really fat people covering me. I threw two pulls -- one I turfed about twenty yards out, the other went out of bound about ten yards outside the endzone.

I went to home depot today and moved a bunch of tile and paint.

Did my homework. Poorly.

Took Boris on the medium lap and he was pretty tired. I think at least one more day of that before going to the big lap again.

Tomorrow starts the "running when there is no league". Natasha will enjoy that.

I am getting bored of the constant one-liners but really, what else do you look for in a blag post.

I only got to 48 pushups tonight. Perhaps I am getting sore.

Early bedtime tonight. This 1pm wake up call is killing me.

If the record's two mill I'm just trying move three

Did a bunch of yardwork and moving today, but nothing crazy.

Took Boris on the big loop but boy was he tired. Gonna take him on the medium one tomorrow.

Hopefully I can get some new headphones tomorrow so I can start running.

Social league starts tomorrow.

Apparently there is a lot to do tomorrow.

Goodnight.