Day 13...
In the last post, on Day 11, I mentioned I had In-N-Out for my meals. To get into more details on that, I had my first meal which was around 2:20 pm PT and I ordered two 3x3 (3 patties and 3 cheese) protein burgers, which I inhaled both burgers within a matter of minutes. Then, again around 7:50 pm, I ate my second meal which was one Double-Double burger, one Animal-style cheese burger and Animal-style fries. One meal was to celebrate the 48 nominations Fox Sports received for the Sports Emmys on Day 11 and the other was for a "Treat-Yo-Self Thursday, implemented from my DEUCE Gym message group.
Fast forward to Day 13, my already sleeping pattern I think got even worse by not being able to sleep being so full. It was harder to get out of bed this morning. It crazy how much food influences your body and the mind.
I didn't set an alarm for Day 13 but I still woke up early around 6:15 am. I got out of bed around right then because I knew if I tried to fall back asleep again, I would fail to do so.
And as almost 99.9% of each morning, I took slow steps towards the kitchen, set up my Cosori and Chemex to make coffee out of Caveman Coffee grinds. I really need to put in my order for another bag of coffee grinds.
Second thing I did was write the blog for Days 9-12, since I put my invest for time on the Thankful For DEUCE project for those days (I believe I mentioned I write my blogs the day after so I can recap the day).
After finishing and publishing my blog, I decided to go workout for the at least 12th straight day, but I think it's been more than that. I wasn't going to work out on Day 12, but what else am I going to do?
As I got ready to go do walking lunges for 20 minutes, I checked my Instagram account, which the "Thank You, DEUCE" video has gotten great feed back, and I had a message request from a person from Chicago, Illinois, who is also in the CrossFit community. She reached out to me to tell me she absolutely loved the "Thank You, DEUCE" video, was inspired by it and she was looking for guidance to do same for her gym. I felt reluctant to help her out.
The feeling is something I can't describe of how grateful I am for people appreciating something I did. There has been a few times, maybe I count them on two hands, the times I felt this way. I can see why feature producers in production companies do this. The message of giving and receiving is powerful.
After talking to Chicago, as I will reference this person as that, I went to go do my 20 minutes of walking lunges, then ate a late breakfast, which consisted of 3 eggs sunny side up, 4 pieces of bacon, 3 pieces of breakfast sausages, and half a banana.
I finished up my late breakfast and took a shower afterwards to get ready to go on a scavenger hunt that I thought of earlier in the day. The scavenger hunt was going to consist of going to look for a couple of murals of the artwork done by a member at DEUCE Gym, Ruben Rojas.
The goal was to drive around locations around Santa Monica and Venice Beach and take pictures of it. I set a limit of about 5 minutes of being in front of the mural so I'm not "outside" for too long. This gave me something to do for about 2 hours. I went to 4 locations, 3 of which I got pictures of, since the 4th one was a down a walk path to a restaurant and I didn't want to invade their space during these times.
I posted my adventure on Instagram and I tagged Ruben on those. He replied back immediately, told me to try to find them all and gave me other locations around the Los Angeles area. Thats something for next Saturday, which would be Day 20.
Before I did go on my scavenger hunt, I went to Bryan's house that he just moved into to drop off something from work. He gave me quick tour of the house and man, what a place. It make me want to invest in a house soon. I'm not getting any younger and time isn't going to slow down.
And times are also weird, especially when you work in the sports industry. Bryan, I mentioned works for Fox Sports and works on remote productions for a MLB Crew, was mentioning how when he doesn't know when Opening Day will actually be, how the Postseason will at most go into late November (possibly December even), and the London Series game, which he was supposed to work in June, already got canceled.
For me, NFL is as scheduled for now, but I also work on the Fox's golf package and I've heard from a couple of people saying the U.S. Open won't be in June, which every year it's on Father's Day weekend. I also heard it could be pushed back to October (Master maybe in November for CBS), which that will go up against MLB Postseason, Thursday Night Football and Football Sunday's, if we are talking what events will be on during the week of the U.S. Open.
It's such a crazy time.
I got back home and did another workout, which I think I mentioned in my earlier posts, extra credit. It consisted of 50 powell raises on each arm and 2:00 minutes of 90 degrees/ 90 degrees hip stretch on each side as well.
I decided to edit the photo's I took of Ruben's murals on my Canon EOS Rebel T3 camera after I worked out. When I was editing through the photo, I had a thought to where I wish I was creative and artistic.
Lacey, the coach I am assigned to from the DEUCE Gym Home programming workouts, wanted to do a Zoom video chat with the 27 members (maybe more) members of the gym she is responsible for. She suggested, if we live around the area, we go buy food from South End pizzeria in Venice Beach because their last day they are open during this pandemic is on Sunday, Day 14. I agreed to be a part of it.
Support local or small businesses if you can.
So for dinner, I had a gluten-free Kinney pizza (Crushed Roma tomatoes, burrata cheese, basil pesto and monini EVOO), Caprese Salad and 2 glasses of wine with 3 people that joined the Zoom video chat: Lacey, Neghar (another member at he gym) and myself.
About an hour after the Zoom outing, I FaceTimed Rafael and talked to him for about an hour as his wife joined in some conversations. One of the conversations was their wedding, which I attending in Ecuador back in July 2016, and how Rafael was extremely sick the day before his wedding and had to go to the hospital. Long story short, after he was in the hospital for 3 hours (12:00 am to 3:00 am), he got married hours later and looked good as new during the wedding. What a crazy time, a different crazy, that was.
Day 13 ended with laying down in bed trying to catch up on the show I started to continue yesterday and thoughts of what the next couple of weeks is going to turn out.
Day 13 is also the last day of my 20's. There are many things I am grateful for the last 29 years and I don't know where to even begin. All the life lesson of good and bad, love, break ups, wins and losses I went through hopefully help me grow to be a better person each day.
Thank you everyone for making the last 29 years awesome. As I turn 30 in a few hours, here's to another 30 years! Hopefully without a pandemic.
Let's see what Day 14 brings us.
Jun
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