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Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?  HA!  If so, it only works with short bouts of absence here and there, which is quite unlike how I’ve been with brightside here.  No, the appropriate phrase here would be out of sight out of mind.  That’s how I hope you’re not feeling.

Hello?  Are you out there?  I’m here.  Again.  Finally.

Last Monday my doctor gave me the OK to go back to the gym.  My relief is huger than my ass has become.   Chris and friends have told me how well it seems I’ve been handling this whole no-working-out-for-four-fucking-months thing, but after a couple workouts I can tell I wasn’t.   No sir, not at all.  The workouts are the anchor of my regimen, which includes writing.  In my blog.  Yeah, buddy, notice a severe shortage in entries lately?  No?  Then you weren’t paying attention.

I’ve done so much in the last four months, but have noted very little of it here because my energy levels have been so low.  Motivation and endorphins, too, not to mention my self-esteem.  The mirror, she ain’t been so kind of late and my bad attitude certainly doesn’t help.  My jeans miss me, I can sense it.  We had a great reciprocal relationship and they’ve felt neglected and, when worn, stretched beyond their capacity.

Summing up seems like a good idea right about now, but I’m tired.  Sean, a favorite instructor of mine at the gym, switched up his class schedule in a way that works uncannily well for me, but it means I planned to just ellipticize (my made-up word) this afternoon and instead did Cardio Strike (CS).  CS is a marshal arts inspired class I used to do on Saturday mornings before Bosu Bootcamp.  Yeah, me and my doubling up.  Today it simply floored me; I am exhausted.  Not to mention on my walk home from there I could hear my stomach growling over the music in my headphones.

I even left with proof of a tough workout in the form of a huge bruise on my knee from sparring with Sean on the knee-kick repetition.  JoJo told me to wear it with pride and so I shall.  What I should do is take a picture of it.  That’ll be posted soon enough.

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