"BOOZEday-TUESday"!

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(MINUS the alcohol-imbibing)

I had QUITE a STELLAR "UPPER body"-workout today!

Granted, I HAD TO--CONSTANTLY--reposition myself for MORE ARM-strength leverage & LESS BODY-weight/-stress on my SORE LEFT hip.

I've been stretching my LEFT (SERIOUSLY-INJURED, METALLIC) shoulder--DAILY, & my "UPPER body"-trainer 

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CRUD!

My mom & her LONG-TIME friend (from MINNESOTA) were SUPPOSED TO visit tonight, but my mother is "under the weather".

(… BOO for UN-healthy life!)

(… Yes, I DO "speak from EXPERIENCE".)

(… UNFORTUNATELY!)

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With NO visitors tonight,  

that "allows me more time to do what I do BEST--enlighten & AMAZE".

(--DR. Sheldon Cooper, 'The Big Bang Theory')

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Back during my COLLEGE-career/-tenure, my fraternity ('Sigma Alpha Epsilon') RECOGNIZED me as the EXTRAORDINARY "drinker"/LEADER I AM.
FELLOW-"Brothers"/-Members built a TABLE for ME … AND named it after ME.
("The A.J. Kaynatma Table for Competitive Drinking")

AFTER my graduation, my youngER "brethren" RE-named an ENTIRE room after ME:
"The A.J. Kaynatma Arena for Alcohol-Abuse".

… Evidently,
"'HEROES' get REMEMBERED, but 'LEGENDS' never 'DIE'."
(--'The Sandlot')

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ALAS, I REALLY ENJOY every-OTHER Tuesday (like TODAY), 'cuz I get to discuss any/ALL home-ISSUES/-PROBLEMS & my blog-posts with my neural-therapist/neural-psychologist.

(… I'm NOT sure of her EXACT title.  Thus, I apologize!)

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I have a "THEORY".

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Since my LEFT-hip is QUITE tired & KINDA sore, I'm gonna REST it.


http://vimeo.com/102082818

(… YES, if you just COPY the link, and PASTE it into the "Search-bar", you'll see the VIDEO.)
(… I tried it--SUCCESSFULLY.)

THUS, I decided to CANCEL/POSTPONE my LEG-workout TODAY 'til my hip's BETTER (… NEXT Monday … or, HOPEFULLY, THIS Wednesday/Friday).
'Tis BETTER/SMARTER to give my (LEFT) hip TIME … to REST & RECUPERATE, than it'd be to "PUSH the STRENGTH-/ENDURANCE-limits" of said MUSCLE.
My mother SUGGESTED that I go get my HIP "checked-out"by a "doctor".  (Again, the "" indicate my UTTER LACK OF respect for MEDICAL "doctors".)
SHE & my (MAIN-)nurse THINK that my HIP-pain MAY have something to do with my PUSH-UPS that I did a few (3)--SEPARATE--days earlIER in the week.
I beg to DIFFER.
(… My FORM/technique is/was quite CORRECT.  After 22+ YEARS of "martial arts"-training, I'm pretty DAMN-SURE that I KNOW HOW to DO a PROPER push-up!)

… My "hypothesES":
1) I TEND to OVER-"work" SOME of my muscles to COMPENSATE for SOME of my (TEMPORARILY) "DEAD" muscle-NERVES.
2) Also, SOME of my muscles are being "RE-born", because they were "DORMANT" for SO LONG.
3) Ergo--Hence--Thus--Therefore--Consequently, SAID "muscles" grew TIRED, weakER & SORE quickly.
4) This NEW fatigue quickly "morphs"/changes into PAIN.
5) I SIGNIFICANTLY DE-crease the ACTIVITY with/on/using SAID muscles for AT LEAST FOUR DAYS (= 96+ HOURS).
6) SAID "PAIN" SHOULD MOSTLY be GONE.


Conclusion (THUS FAR):
… At the END of Day-1 (TODAY), my HIP has VERY MUCH started its "PATH to IMPROVED feeling".

(… YES!)
(…BRAVO to MY EXCELLENT implementation/application/understanding of MY OWN biomedical- & physical-/kinetic-KNOWLEDGE!)


(… Granted, this is NO "Einstein's THEORY of RELATIVITY".  It's MAINLY applicable to ME.)



Video-TANGENT:
Aren't my legs (specifically: THIGHS) … GORGEOUS?!


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My mom--to ME: "What's WRONG?"

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ME: "I just wish I KNEW what I'm SUPPOSED TO do."
(--'The Matrix Reloaded')

(… Well, TECHNICALLY, I KNOW that I'm--EVENTUALLY--"SUPPOSED TO" WALK & TALK.  I'm just--STILL--determining the "HOW"!)

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"Doing the SAME thing but expecting a DIFFERENT result is the definition of 'INSANITY'."
(--Walter, 'Scorpion' … SEMI-quoting Albert Einstein)

(… Thus, by WAITING for my nerves to RE-generate, ALL the while CONTINUING to PRACTICE my "STEPS" & SPEECH, am I--REPEATEDLY--confirming my OWN "INSANITY"?!)

(… "That's, like, YOUR OPINION, man."
--The Dude, 'The Big Lebowski')

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"I made a PROMISE (to MYSELF).  … And, some promises caN'T be UN-made."
(--Link, 'The Matrix Reloaded')

(… I can/will NOT lie … to MYSELF!)

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"When (people) say I caN'T do something, … it BOTHERS me … MORE than I REALIZE!"
(--Walter, 'Scorpion')

'Tis NOT that I'm BAD/EVIL/INSUBORDINATE.  It's just that I ABHOR (NON-mathematical) "limits"!

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"'HIGH-risk activities' areN'T an emotional-DISTRACTION.  They are RELAXING.  … When RISK is involved, it occupies my ENTIRE brain--freeing me from OTHER thoughts.  … It's MEDITATING."
(--Walter--to Toby, a WORLD-CLASS psychologist, 'Scorpion')

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"The Architect" (of my blog)--to ME: "YOU are the EVENTUALITY of an 'ANOMALY'."
ME: "Can I get an 'AMEN!'?"
"The Architect": "'DENIAL' is the most FUNDAMENTAL & PREDICTABLE human-flaw."
(--'The Matrix Reloaded')
ME: "Since I'm NOT 'denying' my 'ANOMALY'-esque traits, are you IMPLYING that I am NOT human?!"

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P.S. "My name is ... 'NEO'!"
(--'The Matrix')



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(SIGH) MISSED Opportunities

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This afternoon I went to the movie-theater with a buddy from high school.
We saw the heralded film 'Foxcatcher'--starring Steve Carell & Channing Tatum.
(… GOOD time!)

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Alas, the "MOVING film" made me quite REGRETFUL over my "LOST chances" in CERTAIN circumstances.
(… I am NOT "BLAMING" my ACCIDENT & resulting-INJURIES for my PRESENT UN-happiness!  I'm merely stating that they "played a FACTOR in" said MISERY.)

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-- My MMA-(Mixed Martial Arts-)training toward a 'Jiujitsu'-"BLACK belt" & UFC-(Ultimate Fighting Championship-)debut "took a 'six year'-BREAK/-HIATUS … that ("Fingers CROSSED.") MIGHT BE permanent.

-- My LONGTIME (now EX-)girlfriend "lost PATIENCE" with my INFINITE, INCESSANT "steps BACK" in my "PERSONALITY-makeover".

-- My VERY PROMISING/ENCOURAGING job/career--that had me RAPIDLY "climbing the CORPORATE-ladder"--and I "parted ways".


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"Through THICK & THIN":

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True frends are those who stick by you not only during good

times, but also struggle with you through hard times. 

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During my MOST "TRYING times" (over the past 6.5+ years), 

I've really APPRECIATED those who have "stuck with me"!


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Although I prefer to do MUCH "on my OWN" … to PROVE 

my INDEPENDENCE, I UNDERSTAND that I NEED OTHERS 

for MANY of Life's NECESSITIES: nutrients, care, exercise, 

LOVE, "support".


("SURROUND yourself with GOOD, DEPENDABLE 'team'.")



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QUESTION: Which is GREATER/STRONGER: PHYSICAL strength or PSYCHOLOGICAL "power"?

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ANSWER:
It's very CIRCUMSTANTIAL.
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(WARNING:)
Today I realized that I had NOT "excreted 'FECAL-material'"/DUNG in ~107 hours--WHICH, according to my EX-G.I.-"doctor" would deem me OVERDUE for ~2.43 (DREADFUL) ENEMAS!
(… "~2.43 ENEMAS"?!  EEEWWW, seems MESSY!)

So, I PSYCHOLOGICALLY/MENTALLY "TOLD myself" EARLY this morning--BEFORE my nurse "fed me" some "bowel-stimulators"/"milk of magnesia"--to "relieve myself of SOME 'FECAL-BLOCKAGE/WASTE'".
YAY, PSYCHE!

THEN, after I was "fed"--JUST my "FOOD" & "MEDS" ~74 minutes later, I "went #2 AGAIN.
(… THIS TIME I DID have VERY MINUTE/SMALL "MEDICINAL-'HELP'".)

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During ONE of my FOUR DIFFERENT/SEPARATE toilet-"TREKS"/"WALKS" today, I took 73 "STEPS" TO my "JOHN" with ONLY TWO "walker-kicks"--with my eyes UP.
For my "RETURN-TRIP", I took 67 "STEPS"--with ZERO "walker-kicks".
(… YAY!)
((… HOWEVER, my eyes were facing DOWN toward the GROUND for 14 of my 63 STEPS (= ~22.22%).))


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"NEVER-say-DIE"-attitude!

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NEVER "give-up" on something you REALLY WANT!
It's DIFFICULT to WAIT.  (SIGH) (Tell me about it!)
But, the (EMOTIONAL) "pain" is even WORSE to REGRET.

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"GOOD things come to those who WAIT."

(… Considering how LONG tasks NOW take me, it's really "UPLIFTING" to have the OPTIMISM & PATIENCE to believe that I WILL--EVENTUALLY--walk AND talk!)

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Today I had a VERY PRODUCTIVE/ENCOURAGING display of my physical-PROGRESS during my LEG-workout at "NeuroFit 360"!
On FOUR SEPARATE occasions, I STOOD UP--UN-assisted & let GO of a horizontal-"SAFETY" bar for three, four, six then EIGHT seconds.

So, WAY to FANTASTICALLY apply the staff's SPECTACULAR advice/tips, A.J.!



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"You must RESPECT my AU-THOR-IH-TAY!"

…
(--Eric Cartman, 'South Park')


Even though I am "nowhere NEAR" as ATHLETIC as I once WAS, I feel that my "CREATIVITY", "DRIVE" & "DETERMINATION through SEEMINGLY IN-defatiguable 'ODDS'" have actually IMPROVED/INCREASED!


"Shut up, I KNOW what I'm DOING!"
(--Muhammad Ali)

(… I "YELLED" this comment to/at my LEGS as I STRUGGLED to readjust my positioning in my wheelchair during my "UPPER body"-workout.)

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"Ain't NOBODY talk about JOE FRAZIUH."
(--The GREATEST)
(… They're talkin' about MY FANTASTIC ARMS-display/-performance today!)


…
I am most certainly NOT BLAMING my injurIES for my "LOST respect"!
But, my INabilities to TALK & WALK have made me a bit HESITANT/QUESTIONABLE to "'STAND' MY ground".
I've LONG "VOICED MY OPINION" & expected/RECEIVED the PROPER RESPECT for/of my perspectives!


My mother asked if she could invite my sister's friend to MY house for a dinner-party this weekend.
((… APPARENTLY, (SIGH) my mother FORGOT just HOW UPSET & OFFENDED I was/am when said (POTENTIAL?) guest REPEATEDLY INSULTED MY mom!
… Well, I did NOT!))


"On a LIGHTER note", my "WALK" to my toilet to "STAND" & urinate just now GREATLY "illustrates" my INSTRUCTIONS to my caregiver: He lets me do EVERYTHING ((initiating my "STAND" beside my walker, "WALKING" my 36 "STEPS" TO my "porcelain-throne", "STANDING" to expel URINE into said "john" & "WALKING" the 34 "STEPS" BACK 'a mi cama'), while following me CLOSE ENOUGH to step-in IF something BAD were to "come 'AFOOT'" (I stumbled & OVERLY leaned-BACK upon my return.).))



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All I NEEDED was some "R & R"!

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("F.Y.I.": "R & R" = "Rest & Relaxation")

So, I took a WEEK-OFF from my (GREAT) LEG-workouts @ "NeuroFit 360".
My back was VERY/REALLY "aggravated" … due to ALOTTA unpleasant TWISTING & TURNING while sleeping the week before.
Thus, I IGNORED the UNDERSTANDABLE--but very CIRCUMSTANTIAL--instructions of STAFF that I'm NOT ALLOWED to bring-in my MOTORIZED wheelchair.
((… LITTLE did I know that THAT (STUPID) stipulation was ONLY CREATED, because staff did NOT want ME--who's VERY ADVANCED, compared to the at least FOUR OTHER patients who use ELECTRIC-chairs--to get LAZY.))

Anyway, I guess I just needed time to "PROCESS & APPLY" the staff's "TIPS & ADVICE" on how to PROPERLY WEIGHT-SHIFT & "WALK".
TODAY, I had a VERY PRODUCTIVE "WORK-OUT"!
I EVEN did some FANTASTIC AB-exercises that tested my COORDINATION & CONCENTRATION.
(… Granted, TODAY's WORKOUT was only SLIGHTLY shortened--per my nurse's request--as a PRECAUTION for my PAINFUL back.  But, it turns out … that I produce/perform BETTER during my shortER--FRIDAY--workouts, 'cuz of my ON-again/OFF-again "stamina".)

So, ALL-in-ALL, I was QUITE PLEASED with TODAY'S "output".


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NO MATTER how RIDICULOUS it may SEEM,

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you've GOTTA …
BELIEVE!


"I like to think that he gives people 'HOPE'."
(--'The Amazing Spiderman 2')


"HOPE", "FAITH". "TRUST", "INTUITION", "GUT-feeling"--
"To EACH his/her OWN".

(… Just have SUMTHIN'!)


I am--by NO MEANS--a RELIGIOUS/THEOLOGIC man, but I DO possess ALOTTA "DRIVE", DETERMINATION % "TRUST in MYSELF"!


I'm STILL … NOT doing my (usually DAILY) 40 DEEP (PRE-shower) squats, 'cuz my nurse … AND my "doctor" … recommended that I "just take it EASY" until my BACK-PAIN is GONE.


HOWEVER, I've "WALKED" to my toilet to "STAND" & URINATE … THREE different/separate TIMES!
((… I did NOT count my "STEPS", 'cuz I was too/so FOCUSED on my (PAIN-LESS/-FREE) BACK-posture.))


I KEEP seeing previews for the new (WRESTLING-)movie, 'Foxcatcher'!
(… I MUST wrestle AGAIN!)
(… I WILL.)


(… In a RELATED story, I HAFTA go see that film!)



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