Thomas

William "Bill" Thomas Compton...

Can't shake him.

Especially when we're here in Louisiana now.

He's everywhere... I hear him inside my mind... telling me to keep going, never stop, trust in myself and in what I believe is the truth.

Another day with the Baileys

Last night was a weird combo of dreams and coughing (kiddo handled the latter).

As a matter of fact I found out that the people in my dreams are starting to talk to each other. Some of them knew me already 'cause they had been talking to their neighbors. I met this old sea captain who lived in the forest near a swamp that I have to cross now and then. He knew of me already 'cause I had been helping out at his neighbor's house some weeks earlier. That neighbor showed up and the dream got a bit spooky. I was bicycling around with kiddo and when the old guy from the other house showed up the ground froze and it seemed like there was something more to the swamp than just a "place I have to cross sometimes"... the men were really nice to us but the weather got wild. Winter attacked the little valley in seconds and I ran into a car with kiddo. We drove like crazy to the main highways and calmed down.
Winter was everywhere... all the roads were icy and the sky was white. We saw an airport and jumbo jets were taking off one after the other. It wasn't a normal airport. They were using the new sling shot method to help the planes take off with less effort. It was much more like a seesaw. The whole runway would tilt up when the plane was taking off. (It was only used for the big planes.) It made the plane kind of jump into the air. It didn't look safe...

Some of the highways were weird too. Everything was white and beautiful but they were more like the tracks we build with our kids where you have loops and take-off ramps. I passed an old pick up truck that nearly fell off his intersection because it had problems making the jump.

Later on I went shopping for organic eggs. For some reason the hens weren't fed enough nutrients and their eggs kept cracking in my hands before I got to the check out. I saw Rob there. He was buying an old couch. An ugly fxcking couch. I followed him to his warehouse where he said he'll strip the surface and fillings and just use the lumber.
"Lumber... in a couch." I thought.
Dana, Ragz and half their farm was there running around.
There was plenty of wood inside that old couch. I was amazed. The whole dream seemed to vortex around that old couch and what was found inside it.    
Most of the time I just listened to how the people around me spoke and how they kept the discussion flowing and interesting... it's some kind of brain candy for me to listen to people talk and interact. ;)

There was also an incident with Robs pants but I won't go into detail. :D

Gosh. I woke up happy and laughing :D

Never been better

The first week of squatting at a real gym was great. 

The first day I was supposed to keep my weights down to 70kg but I fxcked up the math and did my second warm up set with 100kg x6.

It was clear I was feeling good so I did 8*8 with 80kg.

I used the same weights on my second day and forgot to do more sets and less reps... or was it the other way around? Ähh, what ever my plan was, I forgot it... so on the third day, Friday, I ended up doing 3 sets of 8 reps with 80kg and 3 sets of 6-8 reps with 90kg.

Monday was also a shoulder day, on Wednesday I added chest moves to my workout and on Friday I did arms with the hard&slow squatting  :)

Everything feels so good here.

I never wanna fxcking leave! :0

And I finally weighed myself : just over 61 kg after breakfast. So I'm around 136 lbs. 

Good enough. At least I have been eating right?  ;)

When the squatting commences

I think I'll try something like this:

https://www.jackedfactory.com/smolov-jr/



I think I'll just have to cut out one of the days... maybe Monday. I can only do 10 days with my early bird pass... I could work harder and buy 2 extra days but then it will be very hard on the rest of my life during that 3,5 weeks that honey is here. I don't know if it's worth it.
It might be.
I'll think about it.



From the web page:
I'm sorry it's all messed up.
I don't have the time to fix it right now...

WEEK 1

Day	Sets	Reps
Monday	6	6	70%
Wednesday	7	5	75%
Friday	8	4	80%
Saturday	10	3	85%

WEEK 2

Note:(When you add the 10-20 pounds onto your percentage, it’s just the same weight you used last week plus 10-20 pounds.)

Day	Sets	Reps
Monday	6	6	70%+10-20 lbs
Wednesday	7	5	75%+10-20 lbs
Friday	8	4	80%+10-20 lbs
Saturday	10	3	85%+10-20 lbs

WEEK 3

Note:(Do not add 15-25 pounds onto your lift in addition to the 10-20 from week 2. Instead add on extra weight to get a total of 15-25 pounds.)

Day	Sets	Reps
Monday	6	6	70%+15-25 lbs
Wednesday	7	5	75%+15-25 lbs
Friday	8	4	80%+15-25 lbs
Saturday	10	3	85%+15-25 lbs

After 2,5 weeks in America

...what do I look like?

Am I fatter...
(My hair is flat and boring but my skin is loving this place!)

Well... maybe not fatter but definitely a bit softer.
I'm not worried about it. Come what may...

I was hoping to put on a few pounds when I'm here. Maybe by Easter it will be that way :)
We'll see. In a week I can buy my gym card to Riley center and hit the big weights. Squats, squats and more squats ❤

Oohhh... 10 workouts in 3,5 weeks. It will be Brutal because I said so!!! :D

Important (final edit)

www.livefreelaughhardfitness.com

http://www.nalamag.com/Natural-Awakenings-Southern-Louisiana/January-2016/Iina-Antikainen-Putting-the-Personal-Back-in-Training/

I wish I had monkey feet

I wish I had monkey feet so that I could hang on to your ankles when we sleep. I would then know you are there, close to me.

I wish I had monkey feet so that I could give you a foot massage (under the table) while we eat breakfast. 

The words beneath my wings

"It is possible."
Say it.
"It is possible."
Don't be afraid. It's your life. You deserve it.
"All you are is You. Chase your dreams. Be greater. It is possible."

Love,
me

I'm coming to get you

Bill waited for me last night. 
Leaning against the fence like a lazy milkman and smiling his heart off... In the morning sun.
It was burning him already but he let it hurt him. His dead, white skin was sizzling and turning to black ash.

I didn't know what to do.

I slowed down. Kept my eye on him and walked past...
"Good morning, it's going to be a lovely day." He said.
"Yes. It's a great day." I answered.
I was too scared to look back. He was in flames already.
I cried.

I'm still not ok with his true death  :(

Kiddo speaks

He's been using real words again... "Ei, ota, mama, maito, pöytä, lelu, auto, valo..." a lot of words.
Some days he just mumbles and on others he seems like a real person ;)

Some days he's more Russian than Finnish. It's all in the sizzling S's and Da's :D

A perfect day

We get up around 4am... well, actually kiddo gets up, asks for stuff like: he wants to go downstairs, he wants the light on, he wants milk... so I check my watch: 03:57.
It's weird how this keeps happening every day :)
03:57... it must be important. ;)

We go wash up, teeth are important  (kiddo washes mine) and he gets a fresh diaper.
Down stairs I put the light on in the playroom and make coffee. Kiddo gets a small milk and I watch the news on TV.

By 6am it's breakfast time and I've downed two coffees. (Aaaahhhh... that feeling)
I get a lot of work done in the morning :)

Usually we walk around the block and enjoy the morning at 8am.
Unusually kiddo steps into poop and I get it on my hands as I try to help him get up...

We have another breakfast around 9am and I get a short but exhausting workout done around 10am-11am when kiddo sleeps an hour or two.

Shower and lunch later we're ready to go out again so we go for a longer walk and take pictures or check places we're interested in. We always get back before 4pm and eat dinner around 5pm.
Kiddo says nighty-nigh by 6pm and I have another window of "peace" to work. :)

Like I said: a perfect day.

(I actually watched Jepardy! for a brief moment tonight. It was like sitting on a movie set :D ...so stupid.)

At home workouts in NOLA

Nothing but rubber bands and sneakers... 

The Riley Center is not far, a 25 min walk. It's a big university gym (Tulane).

 We checked it out and YES I am going next month when I get more help with kiddo and my other stuff :) It's 60 dollars/10 times but you have to be in by 1pm. Easy :)

Meanwhile it's home gym and long walks. It's amazing what a person can do at home WHEN SHE HAS NO OTHER CHOICE :D
I just use slow and long movements to feel the muscles and to both stretch and squeeze them. I'm not looking for a specific rep range but a BURN and the failure in the end.

I was a bit worried about the pistol squat at first but it's actually quite good. Just stretch your calves people!

Some easy moves:

squats

sumo squat with bands (lean back hard)

one legged squats

pistol squats

step ups

side squats

donkey kicks (+ with bands)

"that dog move" :)

lunges & half lunges (stay low and pump it)

I've also worked on my back and shoulders and arms and abs and what ever... Low rows, high rows, one arm moves, push ups, dips etc.

The bands can come from the top or the bottom of the door so I can really work on my biceps and forearms, I can do the same lying on my back, I can keep my back to the door and hit the triceps with a long range of motion or even do some twists for my core (start the lawnmower)...

Don't give up if you're "stuck at home". Make it work <3

I'm sure the food here is hot and super good but so far I'm just keeping up to my old habits.

I did try a pizza one day but I got it from SUBWAY. Hah! Subway sells pizza :D That's so not healthy...

Time stamp

I changed my blog (finally) to Finnish time.
I had it on some kind of a Pacific clock earlier... what ever...

but it's useless to have in Helsinki time now that we're leaving.

So I'll change it to NOLA time before I go.

Maybe I'll never remember (or care) to change it back. Who knows.
We'll fly back after Easter.

If everything goes Right ...or if everything goes to plan I'll be more relaxed and real than ever before :)
And a bit fatter. ;D

Snow and pizza

It's the last morning... tonight we go.


5 hours and it's bye bye time.

Good bye Finland, hello world :)

I'm doing this for me.
It's all about Me.
It's not selfish, it's not weird.
It's just Me.

This blog might be quiet until I find the next wifi on the other side of that great ocean.
I'll find it.
It takes us about 40h to get there. It will be around 7pm for them and 3 am for us :D
It might hurt a bit :)

And I'll focus on writing about anything and everything.
Hopefully I'll have time for sports too :)

I ate all the pizza and ice-cream I could before we leave.
It won't be like that where we live.

We played in the snow before we left. ...it won't be here when we come back.

Bill

"It's been a while..."
"Yes."
"Have you been good to yourself?"
"..."

***

I saw him last night.
He startled me.
I had no idea he's still around.
He looked good.
A bit too good for a dead guy...

❤