I did it!

[daedala]

I mentioned that evil bodyweight matrix. The first time I tried it, I bombed, but this time, I finished it! The jumps at the end were pretty pathetic, but whatever -- I got all the way through, twice.

Then I staggered up the stairs to get some protein. Luckily the cats stayed out of my way, even the one who usually likes to help my workouts. Today she helped by walking back and forth under my face while I was doing the plank, since my arms were not free to pet her and that was clearly what I was supposed to be doing...

Be warned that Stage 3 of NROL4W takes a long time for each workout. If I am on the ball and do them every other day, I can finish Stage 3 before Wiscon, which would be kind of awesome.

Er, so maybe I should stop spamming the comm...

Futon frame

[azurelunatic]

According to the internet, the futon frame from my old and very broken bed is about 80 pounds. The thing is bulky and unwieldy and inconvenient, and just about at the limit of what I can pick up one-handed with a straight arm when deeply annoyed, but I can, and I did, and I hauled that sucker out of my apartment by my own self (I'd planned for it to be removed by the fellows delivering the new bed, but I learned quite belatedly that they don't take away futon frames unless they've been taken apart) and laid it gently atop the freakin' dumpster.

I stopped and rested several times, and alternated hands -- I possibly could have done it all in one go, but I wanted to be kind to my body -- and I was successful, and I did it.

I'm not yet quite in the headspace where the triumph over doing it myself is overriding the annoyance of my confounded expectations, but it's starting to get there.