Leigh

Sadly no, but I don't have to do their work, just have to tell people "Sorry, that person is unavailable today" and then try and come up with a polite response so that they leave happy, or as happy as you can when someone says no. Good luck with the sweet talk Thanks! accountabilibuddy is working out quite well too, she's more amped to go than I am, and since she drives, I can just pop over to work on days that she closes and she drives us there and drops me off at home. Sadly the shorts have been a slight let down, they do roll down a bit when I move, but not anywhere near as badly as others I own, so I'm still calling them a win. I've updated my first post for tracking stuff, some of it is just a guess since I spaced and forgot to get online daily to track things. I'm also likely going to be skipping the darebee stuff and just going to the gym a few days a week instead. I was overly ambitious about my free time, energy levels and my ability to put down a book and do other things. Like I did the math and I read the equivalent of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, plus the Hobbit, plus Watership down in the past 4 days,,, >_>; I fell into a rabbit hole of fanfiction and accidentally stayed up and read a 114k book on Sunday night and only got like 4 hours of sleep before a busy day #SorryNotSorry As for gym stuff for today, I had a meeting with a trainer for body comp scan which was pretty cool but also proved that while I have lost a small amount of weight since 2020, I've gained more fat and lost a bunch of lean body mass which is no bueno. You know how in nearly all people one limb is stronger/heavier than the other due to things like being left or right handed, or muscle memory stuff? Turns out my arms are perfectly balanced. I feel oddly proud of this fact, just need to get my damn legs in line with my arms and I'm golden. I also found out I apparently don't use my glutes for almost anything, so I will be doing a heck of a lot of hill climbing and modifying how I do certain movements and lifts to try and stop forcing my quads to do extra work. Although I'm pretty sure I'm going to be literally butthurt for a while while learning how not to lift badly.

My gf had similar issues when she got her CPAP, she had success with taking an ibuprofen/methocarbamol tablet. I think it would be the Purple Robax? If the Motrin doesn't help.

I went to Beal S.S. after Pearson and my bus stop could be hit with the following if it was a weird day for wind: Hops, River/Swamp smell, The Greenway plant, Burgers and Fries (there was a Harvey's a half block up), McCormack's and the old Kellogg's factory, not sure if those last two are still here. So I could get hints of Bad Camping Trip smell? (burnt sugar, stale cereal, beer, grilling meat, and poop) Wow! You kicked today's ass! Well done

Today was a good day and a bad day at the same time. The Good™ I woke up earlier than normal and felt well rested, and was going to get ready and head to the gym. But it occured to me that I 1. didn't have any clean gym appropriate shorts/leggings clean for said gym trip, and 2. that I only have one pair of gym appropriate leggings... So I got a ride from my roomie and went to get shorts. I absolutely HATE shopping for any kind of pants other than pjays because nothing hit the trifecta of functional pants. The Trifecta of Perfect Pants 1. Tight enough at the waist to stay up when walking around with a bunch of stuff in my pockets 2. High enough in the rise to avoid flashing the world my terrible lower back tattoo and/or butt 3. Lose enough at the waist to not cut me in half when I crouch or sit down OR roll over and become those terrible ultra low rise early 2000s pants that don't fit anyone with any kind of a tummy. Today I found out that Old Navy (the makers of the one perfect pair of leggings I own) had the entire store at 50% off. They also had the bike shorts version of my leggings in stock, in my size, and in multiple colours that I like. So I got three pairs of $24.99 leggins for $38.10 because I also got more off for having one of their 2024 totes. So now Leigh has gym clothes again and didn't make her bank account cry for getting them. I also very likely convinced one of my good co-workers to switch to my gym and go with me. So yay! First actual gym buddy so I will have local accountability for the first time ever That, sadly, was the end of the good part of my day. The Bad™ The Cash Manager went home sick and has called out sick for tomorrow, so I have to switch my hours to cover her shift, not a big deal but it means I'm going to sleep in like twenty minutes instead of in three hours. The full time Cosmetician is out sick, so I got paged a billion times to tell customers "No I'm sorry I can't recommend a face cream for you, I don't have the training to know what any of this stuff does and beyond telling you what I've tried and liked I can't help." and "Sorry I don't know types of perfume/cologne smell like that discontinued and/or not for sale in Canada bottle that you have." and my personal favourite "No I can't tell you what the other stores have in stock. Why you ask? Well do you know what spices the family of four three blocks south of you have in their pantry? Why would I know what store not owned by my Store Associate has in their inventory. We're a franchise, not a corporate store. I don't have access because it's not mine and none of my business, literally." My night shift Cashier is sick and might not be able to come in tomorrow night. The Cashier for tomorrow morning is also out sick, so I get to be three people until 2 pm tomorrow and my shift ends at 4 pm... My back up for the day? The idiotic Cosmetics Manager who can't remember how to print lottery tickets or update buss pass cards despite having been taught in full at least 10 times since I started working with her in January. And if the full time cosmetician is out sick again tomorrow, my shiny new gym buddy is going to have to be the Cashier, the Cosmetician and the Manager all at once 😅 The Ugly™ I got home a little while ago and attempted to do my Darebee workout for the day and just about pulled a Buzz Lightyear and had my arm fall off. Not literally, but ye gods I did NOT think The Archer would be that hard. Yikes. I got through 2 sets before I called it. If I'm going to be on cash all day doing nothing but upper body work I don't want to start dead tomorrow. I did that once back when I worked at Subway and working when you can't fully extend your arms out or lift them past T-Rex levels is a bad time.

Hahaha hahahaha... I'm from London. Also that first photo of your dogs makes them look like a fuzzy Oreo cookie. 😁 I took dance at L.B. Pearson as part of school and oddly enough my highschool did Grease my first year. Weirdly I really miss the smell of London, beer and river. Good luck with your show!

Okay so first of all, Pink Floyd is epic, and I am here for this. I'm not sure what your skill level is on the piano, but in the spirit of the thread theme I offer you this. No clue if it is accurate or even playable, since it was the first hit on Google, but it made me giggle that it exists at all. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here piano sheet music.

So today in "Things Leigh has forgotten" Ginger is spicy... it burns us precious and it makes lunch 1000x better. Although I will need to invest in a box of tissues if I want to keep eating it at work haha. I was having a decent day until I got to work. The other assistant manager was out sick, the night time cosmetician was out sick and my cashier, who I had to stand less than 3 feet away from half the night is at work, you guessed it. SICK. 🤬😡 But she double masked and kept as far away as she could as often as she could. But bleh, seriously none of my co-workers has any kind of immune system and I've got a bad feeling they're all going to drop like dominoes from the virus someone started infecting the first few with. Weaklings, all of them. I also had the great joy of stopping a thief just as I was locking the front doors so that threw off my closing routine and I wound up stuck at work for an extra 27 minutes which I didn't want to do. 😒 I have such conflicting feelings about thieves. One the one hand I could tell he was likely homeless or living in extreme poverty just by his appearance, and I will turn and look the other way if I see someone who looks like that snatching food. And he had a huge bottle of juice and some chocolate bars, which I would have normally said "take it and GTFO, don't come back" about but he just had to get his grubby little hands on a $300+ electric shaver. Like bro... you don't need that, you're stealing this to try and hock somewhere when it is absolutely COVERED in security devices that tag it to my store. No pawn shop will buy this, anyone foolish enough to buy this from you will get nailed for buying stolen goods and the stupid thing literally has a GPS tracking device in it that will alert the police to your location within like five minutes. Do not steal this. Just... just don't. Jail isn't a nice place and nobody wants to land there this time of year because like 90% of the population is sick and they're always overcrowded. Just take the damn snacks and go... So I broke all kinds of rules and procedures and ripped the damn thing out of his hands. But the worst part of it was, he saw me walk past him to go turn off the automatic doors and tried to sneak past me with those screaming alarm towers going off and the item right in his hands. Like man, don't. Don't try and give me some on the spot sob story about how your wife is sick. Stealing a razor won't make her well. Take her to the damn hospital, which is legit walking distance from my workplace and get her some help. The ER will absolutely dispense medication to people who are too poor to afford it if all they need are OTCs, and there are so many forms of assistance you can get if you need it. Stop fucking stealing! end rant.

I have questions! 1. Rehearsal? I'm guessing you're part of a dance troupe, are you guys competitive or just doing it for the love of it? I took dance for five years in school and learned a heck of a lot, but never took it further. What kinds of dance do you do? 2. I see you live in Ontario, I'm up in Ottawa, where do you hail from? 3. Can we see pictures of your dogs?

Dude! I need to read that dissertation like yesterday. I fucking love literary analysis and how it shows how absolutely messed up reality is and how reality affects our perception of what is right and wrong (not morally but like in a 'that is/isn't how we do things here' sort of way) Can... Can I read it? *Insert giant Battle Angel Alita eyes here*

You got this! Recovery sucks, especially when it's a lot of painful things in different places all when you just don't have time for this sort of nonsense. As for working with what sounds like a frankly dangerous arm for what your job entails... *hugs*

Two things! 1. Is anyone else mildly disturbed buy the number of fingers and ratio of fingers to each hand the first few AI pictures have? It actually ended up featuring slightly in my strange ass dream last night... I love how creepy stuff like that sticks around unexpectedly. Makes scary dreams a little extra spicy. 2. What is Liam's dissertation on? I'm always curious about what anyone can spend potentially years of time working on in academia. bonus thing: Am I the only one who's gym has all plates listed in lbs and kg? I thought that was the norm to be honest. Might just be a Canadian thing. We measure things in strange ways...

Google maps is officially a slow walker, like Escort Quest level of slow, I would be a ball of rage if I was stuck behind them on a narrow path and I would very rapidly become the most impolite version of myself if I was forced to maintain that pace. I took it easy on my walk since I don't have good hill walking shoes on and I still managed a pace of 11 min/km. I think my top walking speed is about 8 min/km but that usually ends up with me sweating like mad and with shin splints or CECS or some sort of painful bullshit that murders my legs for an hour after. I will have to revise my walk around my block plan for off days because I forgot, there are no sidewalks and a lot of traffic on the roads so that doesn't feel safe... I might just wing it on Thursday and wander in a different direction for X minutes then turn back. I will also likely need to pick up a new water bottle, I don't like halting in place to drink water but the mouth of my current bottle is too wide to be able to drink and walk without dumping half of it down my front, which I did, twice... I'll see what work has in stock for ones with built in straws. But yeah, 2.2 km ish in 24 minutes.

Following for Pop Reduction Solidarity! Although now I really want a Dr. Pepper since it has been about a year since I last had any... I would also very much like to see how you made the warning and pass/fail stuff in that spreadsheet. I am an absolute beginner with them but that seems to be fabulous and I'm guessing highly adaptable for tracking health goals.

Thanks! I figured as much but considering I actually walked there and back again last year just looking at my Fitbit data I wanted to be sure. 😄

Question! When it says distance traveled before 2024 sign-up, does that mean how much I've walked this year before I signed up? or how far I got in the last challenge, which for me is zero, since I've never done this before?