Week 1474

I’m feeling back for Jack (my dietitian with the Bodybuilding Dietitians). I’ve been mass dropping videos of me lifting to him because I don’t want to record them on my phone and instead record them on my Osmo Pocket 3. 

Sorry, Jack! 

Outside of me avoiding writing last week’s reflections, it was a good week! 

Monday was fun as I left work a bit early to play with and walk the dogs along with going to the gym. 

We went to my favorite place to get Ramen, Sukiya Ramen, for dinner and I got the Tsukemen ramen. This is the most flavorful and tasty ramen there. We also got gyoza and chicken buns for Syd’s parents to try and they were pleasantly surprised. 

One of my favorite experiences was watching their apprehension as the food came out and then hearing their satisfied grunts after they tasted the food. 

That and everybody giving shit to Syd’s mom for getting the shoyu ramen which… lacks in flavor… relative to what the rest of us got.

We also got dessert from the place next door, Yonutz, which was a bit sweet for all of us but I enjoyed my Reese’s milk shake. 

The workweek flew by and I ate dinner too late after the gym so I weighed in heavy most of the week but averaged over 8 hours of sleep every night. 

At some point during the week, I came home to Syd watching videos of Robot Vacuums and learned that she is really tired of mopping. Later in the week, she sent me an $1,100 vacuum/mop combo and I started laughing to myself at how far I’ve come in life to be able to even consider getting an $1100 robo vacuum to supplement the cleaning of our $1300 vacuum. 

I could barely spend a hundred dollars on a vacuum five years ago and it struck me as hilariously privileged to be able to humor this. 

It was even more humorous when she followed this up by sending me a $2500 cat that we need. 

Side note—I had a meeting this week where I found out the one of the heads of our company has like 16 cats and 10 dogs (if this is an exaggeration, it’s barely one) and felt a lot better about having 2 dogs and 2 cats. 

Good times, good times. 

I’ve been procrastinating taking my clothes to the dry cleaner and to get them re-tailored from fat-Dakota to lean-Dakota. Why? Because I don’t want to spend money on it…. I also need to get some leather shoes stretched so I can wear my nice clothes/shoes to work again. 

Saturday was a busy day as I went to the gym, played frisbee with the dogs, and took the dogs both with me to disc golf. 

I let Ellie chase Tru for the first time when playing disc golf and she absolutely knocked the living shit out of him. It was hilarious and unexpected since he has 30 lbs on her. 

Disc golfing went surprisingly well with the two of them minus me throwing my TSA Crux with a sick panda stamp into the lake on the first hole and my Mako 3 in on the last. It’s fine, I’m fine. 

Just an excuse to buy more discs, right? 

I don’t need to replace the Mako but Crux is one of my go-to discs so that is a must. 

At some point while I was driving this week, I was thinking about how I need to buy things based on pain points that I experience. 

For instance, when we get a house, I would love to either have an extra garage or a warehouse/shed that we can make really nice and have a reliable space to store all of our workout equipment. It would be great to have a dedicated space so my stuff isn’t always being moved from convenient locations. (I leave things out otherwise they are out of site, out of mind—Syd isn’t a fan of this habit). 

The other big pain point I have been thinking about is my car. I drive a Subaru Outback. It was one of the only cars in my price range at the time that I actually fit in and now that it is paid off, I’m not really seeking to proactively replace it. I have, however, been wondering what I will replace it with when the time comes. I like the Volvo XC90, the Audi Q8, or the BMW X7. I’m also a sucker for wagons. But then I watch the dogs and I in my car and it is a clown-show with all of us being too big. So, I am considering something more like a Raptor, Tundra, Tahoe, or Escalade. 

We are years out from the purchase but I will want to get something that everybody fits in comfortably with more room for storage. 

This is especially top of mind as we are driving out to Alabama next month and I have no idea how we will all fit for an 18 hour drive. 

Saturday night, I hung out with some friends that I haven’t hung out with in years and it was nice to catch up. They were watching the US get smoked by Europe. I had no idea what was going on. 

Sunday has been a lazy day of the dogs, Olli, and me sitting in bed doing a whole lot of nothing and watching some Dragon Ball Z (17 episodes in and not quite sure how I feel about it yet). 

Syd and I will be moving some furniture out of a listing that sold in a month tonight. I’m hoping that will take us no more than two hours. 

The above ended up being… sub-ideal…  as we didn’t have all of the tools we needed to take everything apart. Syd left and came back with tools but not all of them so we could only get 90% of the stuff. 

We’ll see if lessons learned the hard way stick? 

Having recently done a Dexa scan and receiving an A- on overall health—coming in high on visceral fat but 12% body fat overall—I am going to do another test in about 6 months (when I go back into a cut followed by when after the cut). 

I will also be doing a blood test and want to make those more routine so I can see the impacts that training is having on my body. 

One thing I have been enjoying a lot recently is cranking up the music in my car and feeling like I have a soundtrack to my life going. It makes me flash back to car chase scene in the Lexus in The Black Panther. 

This and listening to music during my lifts has been enjoyable. I don’t do it for the full duration of my lifts as I get tired of listening to music but occasionally at the start or end of a work out in place of a podcast or audiobook. 

Sometimes I giggle too much mid lift when people make outta pocket jokes. 

Shows: Disenchantment (household favorite that we periodically watch together), Dragon Ball Z (watching in Japanese with English subtitles as language immersion and to see what I think), Demon Slayer (rewatched a bit of it Sunday—just a good show)

Music: Rich Girls in Destin (Swang)

Spotify discover still isn’t great. It’ll randomly hit for a week and miss for like three months—I persist anyway.

Pain Points/Solutions: Syd doesn’t like me leaving the scale out and I occasionally forget to get it out to weigh myself before I start eating/drinking. It’d be nice to have a scale like they have at the vet in my floor aesthetically where the weight shows in the mirror so I can weigh myself easily in the morning without having to get the scale out. 

I don’t have the money for the above solution, yet. 

There is constant tension and desire for me to try new exercise disciplines and to explore. Part of me wants to act on the desire and the logical part of my brain knows that I will try it and let it fall by the wayside. I just like to try things to know how much I like them and fomo gets the best of me at times. 

PS - I love and hate having longer ropes for rope flow as they now hit the ceiling sometimes and I don’t want to publicly practice rope flow in front of my house.