Hey missy, get to the gym or we can't video your form. Good news is I might be moving to a cheaper place in over a month. Bad news is, I might have to change gyms. It's a bit out of my way now and moving to a place further away makes it harder since I'd have to drive a lot longer after midnight just to get home.

I actually wouldn't know if someone really did hit on me in person cause it's never really happened, that I'm aware of. So, you probably do and just don't know it.


Oh and yay! I'm glad you are better.

hee. know that thing about retaining water/getting a weight spike when you first start to lift? two thursdays ago my gp weighed me and i was 136 at the most. then two days after that i saw the physio, sorted my shoulder and started to lift like i meant it again.

i weigh 142 now, so that's six pounds in six workouts, basically. it's been more than a year since i weighed as much as 140, but i'm kind of pleased, in a back-to-front kind of way. i'm taking it more as a sign of 'you really are pushing your system again' than anything else. and that means my system's going to adapt, aka i'll be stronger once it has all shaken out.

plus, it doesn't hurt that the last time i weighed 140 i didn't look anywhere near as good. comparatively.

canadianlbs wrote: »

MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »

I feel like yelling at random women is really only something douches and psychopaths do

eddie izzard quote: "and they hang out in groups of five, because they have a fifth of a personality each."

i was actually referring to um, i guess boyfriends would be the word. you all probably know exactly the progression i'm talking about. me, if i'm honest . . . when i want a massage, then i want a massage, dammit. not a thinly-disguised groping session. idk if my neurology is atypical and don't really care if it is, but that one has always maddened me.

I agree that you cannot get a good massage from your lover. It's either way too light (because you're a delicate flower?) or way too harsh (because your muscles need murdering?) and regardless of the firmness, it is often used as foreplay. So leave it to the professionals

MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »

it is often used as foreplay.

yeah, this. i have just never got that . . . i guess they get it from all those letters-from-subscribers in porn magazines. every other encounter seems to start out with a backrub.

but it doesn't make sense. what a massage does is make you sleepy. if it's done right anyway. and i don't get why men don't get that. it's infuriating to have muscles that are howling for attention while whoever it is keeps heading for areas that never suffered from doms in their life. it's like being scratched exactly where you don't itch.

Hey ladies,
I've got a question about your macro's. How did you set them? I tend to eat low carb and higher in fat and protein, but how exactly do I calculate them? I've never really paid much attention to my macro's, but I've been scrolling around my food diary and because I'm glutenintolerant and therefor don't eat bread and such things, I tend to eat more proteins and fats to keep my full. So I'd like to adjust them, but don't really know how to calculate how much of what I should set.

Awesome! Got it! Thank you!
Does it really make a difference if you hit your macro's?

I wouldn't worry about hitting it perfectly every day but overall, you need to get enough protein for muscle repair. You also need carbs for energy to fuel your lifts so going too low carb might not be the best option for you. Carbs =/= gluten so you can certainly find other sources.

two days of 'training' just about did my head in. i haven't sat through a lot of training, but even so i've never seen presentation as unprofessional and disorganized as this guy. if he had handed out those survey cards at the end of it all i would have rated him 2.5 out of 10. and his crappy piece of half-assed software all of a possible 3. but captain scudge thinks it's the light of the world.

@crabada wanted to know so i'm telling her. my fundamental problem (right now) is that this tool doesn't do two things that are a) totally unremarkable to ask for, and b) insanely, impossibly time-consuming to do manually. if i'm storing my test cases in there i need it to:

- give me a way i can look at all the requirements for the project, placed in a grid which indicates the test cases associated with it. this is so we can all see our test 'coverage', and the team has been refusing to even review and sign off on my tests unless this information is handed to them. i need this forest-level view so i can keep track of this stuff myself without losing my mind.
- give me a second and separate way i can use it to see/tell the project manager what percentage of test cases are executed, passed, failed with associated defects, or blocked.

ever-changing and mindfucky selection of responses from trainer to these two really no-brainer needs, dispensed at random and in contradictory style throughout the whole thing:
- yes, of course it does that! *in the soothing sexist these poor little women, such twits kind of voice* i will show you later.
- no, it doesn't do that.
- explain to me yet again which two very simple and straightforward things you are asking me for.
- this isn't a test tool. it's a requirements management tool. what do you expect?
- your request is unreasonable/irrational/unfair/greedy. and i clearly don't know *kitten* about software qa, although i'm trying hard to pretend that i do.
- yes, it does that. this tool does whatever you need.
- what was it you needed again?
- you need a custom report
- of course we will build you your custom report. just explain yet again what you want and tech support will take care of it.
- tech support won't. our new version is gonna do allllll of this (what was it you needed again?)
- export your tests into tfs and do all your execution/metricsy work in there. that's the best advice that i have.
- look! individual tree-level view of the test cases! aren't you just awed??

i beat him into a corner that [should] at least let me go back to medusa and co, and tell them flatly 'the trainer confirmed this thing does not do the things i was asking him for.' should. because then, along came captain scudge late in the second day and set to work undermining and dismantling all that.

scudge: the traceability matrix does that.
me: and the new minion, and my old qa-savvy friend up in front who's also taken a passionate interest in all of this: no. it doesn't.
scudge: what do you mean? it [words words words words]
me, et al: no, it doesn't. it -
scudge: it does! taht's just ridiculous! he just showed us it does!
me: it. shows. you. a. partial. view. if -
scudge: eh?
all of us: she's right. *words words words*
scudge: well *twitch* i don't see how that's a problem.
trainer: if we could get back to -
scudge: you're just being difficult in my opinion.
me: i am not being difficult and now isn't the time.
scudge: yes you are! when this guy has just -
me: scudge. listen up. this matrix own't work with how you did things in our case, for two reasons. ready? reason 1. reason 2.
scudge: well, just do it with four or five individual and partial views. i odn't see the problem.

he wouldn't drop it. he just, absolutely - like the zombie shot full of regular bullets by all of us, he just kept on coming and coming and coming at the subject, over the hill. FINALLY it penetrated that he actually had to shut up and he subsided into grumbles and mutters and head-shakings. and so essentially, i will go back to 'work' after this and tell people what i have had confirmed, or try to. and he will leap into action immediately and say 'well, she says that, but i'm not convinced.' he's got absolutely no *kitten* skin in this game - it's stuff other people are asking from me and he should have no reason whatever to even open his mouth, but that won't stop him. and he will drown all other words and just continue to talk for however long it takes him to get it out of his system. which appears to be never.

i actually had a spontaneous waking fantasy later last night, of my brain saying to him: scudge. stop speaking. one more word out of you, and i quit.

I'm going to go completely off topic here, but I just need to rant about this somewhere.

It has been SNOWING and SUB_ZERO (celcius) over here the past 2 days. April 24th and 25th. FFS!! Merry. Effin. Christmas everybody!

No, but SRSLY?!

I have HAD it with the cold and snow. There's this problem I have with running and the cold, where it irritates the hell out of my airways just as bad as pollen does? So yeah, no running for this gal until the sunlight comes back and we get decent temperatures for the season.

I mean, snow near may is not completely unheard of. But this winter has been brutal cold-wise. Can we not just get a break? Global "warming" my *kitten*

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