Sleepy wife is...

My Hubby's in WLC for two weeks, so I think I'm gonna shack up with this guy. He's totally Stacked!! Oops! MT! >^..^<



OLD!!! Gym:
Biceps-
-Curls (5lb, 2/10), 10lb 4/10.
-Reverse curls, 10lb 4/10. These hurt like they shouldn't. Especially when first two sets are with barbell weights instead of dumbbells
-Cable Bicep Curl, 20lb (=5lb resist) 3/10.
-One-arm preacher curl, 10lb 4/10
39:18

4m 39:18 ow.

Still need to buy: Girly Lifting Gloves. I want tone, not callouses.



>>>>>>This was the last RUN I did before I broke my hand and was told I couldn't run for a while. It's also how I usually send my posts to my Blog (the one at Blogger, used to be a seperate blog called RunnerKitty. Now, i'm not sure how I'll work it. I like the All-Encompassingness that is the RW (omg I can't find another site that will let me be as specific as I wants with the Strength Training like I can here. I'm not Swarzenegger or anything, but hey, I'm proud of what I DO do.)

I wish I could email into RW Blogs, that's how I get to post my others! I don't have a lot of time to sit at the computer and do stuff now adays. I have school, a demanding work schedule, a husband (and now a house to take care of WEE!) Besides barely getting to DO the gym or Run anymore (I want to try to squeeze in a run tomorrow, probably not the 4miler I wanted to do, to jump back in where I left off...)

I'm amazed that I HAD run 4m, which is strange because the thing that gave me motivation to run before was running that odd 40min-4miler on the treadmill when I wasn't paying attention. Sure, 10min mi might not be hot stuff in the RunnerWorld, but it seems to keep me from killing myself (which wouldn't gain me very many miles at all!)

Ok, now I'm rambling. I haven't slept in the last few days, Hubby's in the field and it disrupts the catnaps.

WAS having suicidal thoughts about waking up and hopping into that 5k down in Fay, but, I was half way through my second beer (all i can tolerate btw :P) haven't eaten or had water since about 8p, and it was 1am when I was looking at it. I'd have had to pour the beer, pound some water, stuff a sandwich in, and think that after 2 nights of 4 hour catnaps, and 5 hours tonight, I could wake up early enough to make it to the run and then SURVIVE it? HA.

So, to bed I go, then wake to errands (someone bought that Strumstick, Yay!) Need to find something to keep me awake on tomorrow night's midnight-shift 12 hour. It's going to be murder :(

Walk to Empower - Breast Cancer Phoenix Arizona

http://walk.networkofstrength.org/weyrcat

It's that time of year again, when the streets of 13 cities turn pink as people gather and walk to raise money for support for those touched by Breast Cancer!

Last time my goal was $150 and we managed to raise $300!! Outstanding! This year my goal is $500!

Click the link above to see how we're doing, donate on the web, and find out more about the "Walk to Empower."

I ask this year for those generous to give last time, to give again. I ask for those who couldn't give, to donate this time. Every dollar helps, and you don't have to donate $25 dollars to help out! You can give $1, and still be making a diference. "In the past 17 years, the Walk to Empower has raised nearly $42 million to help ensure that no one faces breast cancer alone. In 2008, $8 million was raised. "

There are plenty of ways you can give!

You can:

Donate on the webpage with a bank/credit card.
Send money through PayPal! (ellis.jannaa@gmail.com)
Mail the money to me!

Janna A Kepley
PO Box 73440
Fort Bragg NC, 28307 USA

Please, help us to give Survivors and their families Strength.

090309 Gym

Iso-lat leg extension 1/15 3/10 B4+7.5lbE.
-Iso-lst leg curl 4/13 10lbE.
-VSquat 2/15 2/10 Base54lb+10 good ow. There.
-Lower back ext 4/10
time to stop, just not up to it today. So hot, head pounding, stopped when left lung felt like someone was grabbing it in a claw.

As I sit (and send the last entry), I feel my calves spasming (yay!) and I'm getting the shivers. With how hot it is today & in here, prob not good.

I'm sure its dehydration. At work I had my 64oz all the time, without that pattern I'm under 8-16oz. I'm sure the bod's pissed by that.

~From WeyrCat's Treo

090302 Gym

-Iso lat leg 1/10 10e 3/10 7.5e
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sheet. I didn't fill this, which left me wingin it on todays lb/reps

~From WeyrCat's Treo

Inkheart. (movie)

Omg it's Chaucer!! Well, the cute guy who played Chaucer in Heath Ledger's

Do you think I'm watching too many movies? It's Mom's fault.

Loved this movie.

Meet the Spartans... wtf

Alright, this is gonna end up a footnote when I do 300 a lil later this week. (I've seen it before, and know to skip the Queen rape scene.)

This movie, isn't really a movie, it's the spoof on 300, with a bunch of other random crap thrown in there. now, I usually like the flicks mocking other flicks, but this one is just really freaking terrible.

Ugh.

Kevin Sorbo is still freaking gorgeous.
And in the end, the Xerxes messenger (big balck dude) was the only one who could sing!

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

1846, A barber returns home from his unjust exile to find the wife he left behind raped and suicided by Judge Turpin, and his daughter adopted by fiend. Barker the Barber takes on the name Sweeney Todd, and along with the Worst Pie-Maker in London, hatches a plan to take his revenge on the Judge and those who wouldn't help her as she lay there raped in plain sight at one of the judge's parties.

Dreadfully dark, Tim Burton did an AMAZING job.
How ridiculously gory too!! Helena Bonham Carter is freaking creepy awesome as always, and NEED I drool over Depp anymore than I already COULD?

LOVE it. Wonderful!

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)*Movie

Movie based on the book *unread* about Henry the VIII's "one-time mistress Mary Boleyn and her sister Anne, who (a bit of a spoiler for me) became the monarch's ill-fated second wife.

How little I realized that being invited/summoned to the court pretty much landed Anne "where the King can always find [her]", and in my modern, cynical view of things, interprets that as putting her at the Kings Bed and Call. Oops, Freudian, BECK and call. And for the Queen, with a new Lady in Waiting, a gift from her Husband, with no special talent. How would it feel to know your husband summoned to your circle, a girl he plans to put in his bed? The life of a Queen, I do not desire. I'll keep my Captaincy, where I can just kill a man if I need to.

What is WITH the Tudor style men's coats though, the King's particularly, huge gorilla shaped, ugh.

What do you do, a girl in the 1600s, newly married, when adultery is a sin, and the King wants you in his bed, and you can't say no? Being with him was OBVIOUSLY better than being with her husband, (as a nice note, the first love scene with the king was neat for me, cause the actor Eric Bana is rather built like my husband :P He's also the guy who played Hector in Troy!)

Ugh, SO could have done without the Rape scene. I hate them.

What a twisted, jacked up reign that King had. What curse had the Boleyns on them? Two whores for the crown, or simply two girls caught up in the Court bullsnit of philandering King? Though, they say he did not have extramarrital affairs terribly often, but I DO recall some limerick of Henry VIII that I can't seem to remember the lyrics to...

Course, then there's the one my Dad taught me, related, but not directly about the King..

I'm Henry the VIII I am I am, Henry the VIII I am I am,
I got married to the Widow next door, she's been married seven times before!
And each of a one was a Henry! Not a Peter or a Sam, No Sir No Sir.
I'm her eighth old man named Henry, Henry the VIII I am, Henry the VIII I am,
Henry the VIII I am!


Good movie, could do for a copy without the Rape scene (they disturb the fudge out of me...)
I'll stick it on the shelf, riiiight before Elizabeth!

Moliere (2007

True, a little too late for SCA period, but still...


From IMDB: In 1658, playwright/actor Molière, having been given a theater in the capital by the King, is back in Paris after touring the kingdom of France with his company of players. One day, a young lady asks him to follow her to the deathbed of her mother... Thirteen years earlier, Molière already runs a troupe but goes broke and is thrown to prison. Fortunately (?) his debt is covered by Monsieur Jourdain, a rich man who wants him to help him rehearse a one-act play he has written with a view to seducing a beautiful bright young widow, Célimène. As Jourdain is married to Elmire, and is the "respectable" father of two daughters his design must remain secret so Molière is introduced into the house as Tartuffe, an austere priest...

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Beware, those of you who don't like subtitles, this movie IS in French. They aren't perfect, I heard the word "Espanol" though it didn't read Spanish, eh.

GODS his writing desk is enough to die for! What beautiful carving!

I do so love the 16th-17th C French (probably from my Musketeer obsession growing up really..)

I won't mention the sets, mainly because the 16thC forward has so much detail recorded (or it seems it must be based on how often we write and make movies of it) that questioning it is simply beyond my scope. Still, the sets ARE beautiful, the clothing wonderful (still, I wouldn't want to wear the dresses, but the men's clothing? Yar!)
The humor is a bit quiet, with just the right amount of slapstick thrown in.
A reasonable amount of predictability, it has spots feeling of a Cyrano de Bergerac.

Good lord, I wish I could take screens of my WMPlayer.. at 50 minutes in, the Lady Jourdain looks up at her ceiling, and the wood slats are painted so beautifully, so delicately! I'd love to know what homes they pulled the detail from. Also, as she lies in bed, some lovely embroidery on her pillows! I love how everything in the upperclass home is Wood and Stone, just covered in gold and damask!

The end, so sad, and so wonderful. I adored it!!
ON THE SHELF WITH YOU!!

Beowulf & Grendel (2005)

What the heck, I did the crappy 07 Beowulf, and while digging found this Gerard butler (droool) Beowulf telling, So, here we go.

While the Wiki calls this "loosely based" on Beowulf, it sports a name claiming it IS the Beowulf tale, at least, the first two-thirds of it. They do not go on to the dragon tale. The movie starts with a prologue: A hatred Born, where in 500 AD the Danes (lead by who turns out to be Hrothgar) hunt down and kill a giant of a man (a troll): Grendel's father. The child Grendel takes up a sword and hacks his father's head off to take it with him. This, is a revenge tale.
Whence Grendel is Dead, they go on to the "Hag", Grendel's Mother, a relatively short battle in the scheme of things. Her finds her, tussels and cuts her head off. She's built rather as the trolls are (Grendel and his father), so may really be just a female troll.. but living in a cave? Eh, with a 2500 year old story, one theory is as good as the next (unless you read Norse.)

If you can understand the language, the quips are quite hilarious.

"Christ never sleeps.." "Oh that's all we need, a god gone mad from lack of sleep!"

"Geats don't wield words where swords speak truer."

As a note, the man who plays Hrothgar, King of the Danes, (Stellan Skarsgård) also plays Bootstrap Bill Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean 2/3.

The farking Christian Priest looks like he's dying of a bleeding heart attack lol.

Of their clothing, they do look more as I would have expected for period clothing. Wide turnpin brooches, heavy bordered cloaks for warmth in the cold lands, furs, brass, still pretty open dresses for the "widows", showing a lil sternum and cleavage.

Armor is chain mail, boiled and studded leathers, many tiered spaulders, some leather scale mail. The obligatory awesome looking Norse battle helm (did I ever show you the neat Leather one sold by Ren Rose of Phx?) Here or Here


I did like the spin on Grendel's son. :)
And the TaleTeller's insertion of the Cain (which is in the original telling.)

All in all, I liked it. Dunno how often again I'd watch it, but I think they did a good job with it.

Beowulf (2007)

Read Beowulf

While the tale of Beowulf isn't exactly mangled, the details of just about everything are changed. The story is definitely identifyable, even not that bad to watch, but terribly not awesome either. I did find the digital look ditracting, and wonder if it could really be cheaper than the sets required to film. Eh.
Not going on The Shelf, but eh, wasn't a waste of time either.



Follows, the songs Queen Wealthow sings, not-period (pity) but I found them wonderful. She plays them to a harp.

lips ripe as he berries in june
red the rose, red the rose
skin pale as the light of the moon
gently as she goes.
eyes blue as the see and the sky
water flows x2
heart burning like fire in the night
gently as she goes
la la la....
gently as she goes

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Out of the mist of history he'll come again
Sailing on ships across the sea to a wounded nation
Signs of a savior and fire on the water
It's what we prayed for, one of our own

Just wait though wide he may roam
Always a hero comes home
He goes where no one has gone
But always a hero comes home

Deep in the heart of darkness sparks a dream of light
Surrounded by hopelessness he finds the will to fight
There's no surrender, always remember
It doesn't end here, we're not alone

Just wait though wide he may roam
Always a hero comes home
He goes where no one has gone
But always a hero comes home

And he will come back on a crimson tide
Dead or alive
And even though we know the bridge has burned
He will return... He will return!

Just wait though wide he may roam
Always a hero comes home
He knows of places unknown
But always a hero comes home

Someday he may carve his stone
The hero comes home

He goes and comes back alone
But always a hero comes home
Just wait though wide he may roam
Always a hero come home!

Casanova (2005)

Let me start with my bias, for I may play SCA period, which is 500-1599, but my love has always gone to the 1700s.. The Musketeers I loved first, The pirates my fantasies; what kind of girl has a crush on Captain Hook?

Casanova ends up a chick flick with an unrealistic Happy Ending (as always) but is delightful, witty, and juuuust barely swashbuckling enough. It definitely makes it on My Shelf. I pretty much cared not about doc'ing authenticity with this movie. Hell its the 1700's, easily document'able (insert grain of salt here."

Jeremy Irons as the Bishop Pucci, that man is terribly awesome. Always drawn back to him as Aramis in "Man in the Iron Mask."

Ugh, time for bed and I know I won't finish :(

090303 Fencing

"As I am 2000 miles from my Barony, on a wicked work schedule that prevents me from attending Sunday practice in Attillium, // Atlantia, I have signed up for a Fencing Class (through All American Fencing). This allows me to peck a bit, and learn some skills that can only improve my Rapier!"

This is being uploaded late, as currently our net seems to shut off every night around 10pm.

I finally attended my first fencing class at AA Fencing tonight. I'd been rather avoiding it (though seemingly not a purpose..) Maybe as I'm so terrible at Rapier with my left that if I'm armed I'll tend to just take the death. I went, and as I slowly regain feeling in my thumb (from the pistol grip) I am so happy I went. They wanted to bump me up to the Intermediate seeing as I already know basic footwork (most of the beginner class) but I got up to do some with the three gentlemen comprising today's beginner class, and we all progressed about the same speed, picking it all up in stride (ahyuk). Gerhart (sp?) says he's willing to throw Intermediate stuff at us next week just because we're snagging the basics so easily. I suppose it helps that on average we were all at least 8-12 years older than the udual Beginners. Myself (SCAdian Rapier..), a Soldier (his bag had NOS (workout supplement) and ACUs in it, so that makes it at least 2pts less you average Army waste of space, and a skinny kid about 18 with his chunky monkey gf watching. My quads (specifically my right leg (back foot)) and left arm got a great workout. I'm pretty sure the pocket of my left shoulder is bruised (yay!!). I ended up across from Gerhart most of the session, which I like. Being the one receiving the knee tap with the sword when your leg is canted instead of straight lets me know to ffix it, a tiiiiny bit of personal instruction. (What is it with me seeking the White Scarves as teachers / sparring partners?)

All in all, great night. Will practice, and remember breastplate next time (eeeep so close to the mammary glands! I was scared to cry out like a.. well like a girl, if he were to hit it!)

OK. Time for bed.

En Guarde: shoulder width, feet perpendicular, forward toe straight. WATCH sword canting!!
Extend: DON'T ROTATE!! You do not need that extra half inch (unlearning what I was taught for Rapier). Do not lean in!
Advance: Toe step, back foot forward, watch spacing.
Lunge: Bell towards outside of body, sword bending upward. Dont roll back foot! Knee over foot, straight ahead.
Recover: sword back, then toe up and push self backwards with heel of forefoot into En Guard.
Retreat: Heel up, back step, forefoot follows.
Recover immediately! Dont wait for their "turn". Make sure the tip is leading you! Can be difference between a point when both opponents feet move at same time!!

Now, absorb, practice, remember, translate to right hand when it can hold a sword again.

"Outlander" Norse meets Spaceman!!

Neat notes:

Clothing:
Freya wears a fitted dress with what looks like sleeves attached by ties (detachable?) and a close apron without the classic pair of brooches, braided straps. Wish I could get a good look at the pattern on the front, looks like embroidery.
Also, midriff leather top with one arm bare of sleeve) while fighting sword and board.
Sleeveless tank, possible metallically embroidered with diamond shapes.
Tattoo on bare left shoulder.

Lookin at small-ringed-maile shirts and fur boots on the men. Leather several-tiered spaulders, metal rivets. Saw several painted round shield. Leather "dragonscale" breastplate.
Male tattoos (saw a bear-claw with Celtic looking knots inside). Also what looks like Ogham (most likely not though.) Cross in center of circle (+) Some facial tats on another Tribesman.

Have a Christian dude, but proclaim to Odin.

I see a Dreki headed throne for the clan leader.
Whole body goat as a mead-skin.
Leather shaped stirrups. HUGE drinking horn, glazed ceramic mugs.

Wagered gold, did vikings use Gold? (Checks, yep apparently.)

This other tribesman was killing women? Its ok, Freya killed him back. Guy Dual wielding hammers, (hammer had spirals in the head. Neat!)


All in all it looks pretty period, though I'm no expert in Norse. Enjoyed the movie, though rather predictable.