Two, and three.

Life passes so slowly it seems. You want to be XYZ and it takes ages just to get there. This is my biggest fundamental problem with RPG's. They set an idea for how long it takes to get to your XYZ that is completely unrealistic. And yes I realize how stupid it sounds to complain that a game's goals are unrealistically quick to achieve when compared with life goals. Bear with me. I'm thinking out loud here. It just seems wrong to expect goal-attaining so quickly. In the short period of life where I've been trying to seriously improve myself(say in the last 4 years), nothing ever comes quickly and when it does arrive it seems such a small goal in retrospect. What is it about mountains that makes them seem so much smaller once you have reached their tops? Running a mile seemed...so huge. Running two? Crazy. Passing a PT test? There was no way. Going to Basic and AIT. Looking back if I knew then what I know now....I would have had so much fun. It really really ...

Friday morning was an hour of FM 21-20(I think thats the right FM). We took a long time explaining to everyone what exactly CD 1, CD 2 and the warm up/cool down consist of. Friday afternoon I did 80 push ups and was prepared to do more when Wulfa decided it was pizza and ice cream night. Saturday(this) Morning I went swimming for 45 min. 10 laps on what I believe is a 25m pool. 2 laps with just me. 4 laps with a foam board just kicking with my legs. 4 laps with a foam float under my legs using my arms to move. Swimming is still weird. I still get out of a the pool completely exhausted but not quite feeling like I got a good workout.

I am what is classified as a "weak" swimmer. I can just barely... with patience... do that frog like swim from one end to the other of a 25 meter pool. Then I have to rest before I try to go back. In ACU's(the army camo uniform) I get to change it from the frog like swim to the dog paddle... and I have to stop every so often to control my breathing. So today after our training I stayed a bit extra to put in 20 min doing laps. This consisted of a grand total of ... get ready... 4 laps. I did 2 laps(100m) with a floaty thing holding up my chest/arms and using my legs only. Then I did 2 more with a floaty thingy holding up my legs and just using my arms. Then I got out.... and tried not to throw up. Then I walked around campus and ate breakfast with Wulfa and explained loudly and repeatedly that I was very tired now and wanted to go sleepy. My buddy, who is an experienced medic and working on his nursing degree, which I don't suppose you really needed to know bu...

Wednesday Jan 19th Evening Didn't work out. The xbox died and I spent the evening getting a new one for Wulfa to watch netflix on. Three red lights in a pretty little ring. Had to wakeup early or would have done a very late run. Thursday Jan 20th Morning Doing water training/swimming today with ROTC. Yay for swimming in ACU's.

Tuesday Jan 18th Evening Half mile walk. Resting for PT test next morning. Wednesday Jan 19th Morning PT Test. 48 pushups 49 situps 16:30? 2mile run. Haven't verified time yet.

This morning the Miniwolf undid his poopy diaper and sat down on me. That is all.

20 min. Walking at a 3.0-4.0 pace with five pound weights while doing arm exercises on an 8-10% incline.

A 20 min run at 6.0 speed. Slow but happy.

So starting this semester we debated... like we do every semester about how to make this school thing -faster-, -easier-, -cheeper-. One of the things I really failed at last semester was improving on my PT score(started at 206...ended at 213....but that was actually a fluke kinda compared with a pt test I took -right- before the semester started). Basically I didn't get better. /end story/ So now I am going to. We worked out that 90% of our gymn workouts were just a treadmill. So this year instead of spending 33$ a month each on the gymn we bought a treadmill. Which should save us money. And I'm going to be using it in addition to my regular PT with ROTC and in conjunction with my own pushup/situp routine. 210 = 70% = C grade. I want to improve to a B grade. 240-270 = B = 80%....... we're pretending this has nothing to do with all the people who have poked, prodded, or patted my belly over the break. Or the woman who has puffed her face up and waved her hand out ...