Today I had an “ah ha – that was a badass moment” as an after-thought.

I was on the phone with Nate this morning – catching up and chatting about his flight schedule, our future, my disdain for babies, etc. And because I like to multi-task, I decided to go into the garage and tackle the recycling that has been accumulating in mini-mountains all over the place in there.

By clearing up a path in the garage by removing all the scattered trash and recycling – I rediscovered our nifty little water softener. The one that requires salt pellets every so often. I opened the lid and peaked inside – it was at an alarmingly low level.

To the left of the water softener sat three 40# sacks of salt pellets. With the phone nestled in-between my ear and shoulder, I hoisted a bag up, ripped the top off and poured the pellets into the barrel. I did this for 2 of the bags.

Then I clapped the dust off my hands and went inside to make breakfast — eggs with bacon chunks. Still chatting with Nate and calculating the math to see if we were at the half-way point in the deployment.

It occurred to me later – I lifted those 40# salt bags like it was nothin’. A couple of years ago that would have been a huge pain in the ass. I probably would have had to take cups and scoop the salt pellets out of the bag one at a time.

The same thing happened the other day when I bought a 56# bag of dogfood at Costco. Like the Grace challenge, I clean and jerked that shit up into my cart without even thinking about it.

It’s so nice to be strong – without realizing it – just being better at normal life. Pretty badass, I’d say.

So! I digress. As I’m making breakfast – my doorbell rings. Of course, I’m barely strong enough to hold Phizz back as I answered the door. An older gentleman was there and said, “Hi, miss. I was mowing your neighbor’s lawn and she suggested I come over here and offer to mow your lawn.”

I looked over his shoulder to my front yard – a beautiful sea of green knee-high wisps of weeds and dog shit.

My response: “Hell yeah you can mow my lawn!”

I was stoked about that. Now, I know in a previous post I DID say that I would not play the “poor me, do it for me” card… but he CAME TO ME – thanks to an annoyed neighbor!

Picture taken from inside my air-conditioned house

For the workout today we worked on benchmarks for intermediate athletes.
Back Squat: Goal – 1x bodyweight. TStorm = 135#
Bench Press: Goal – 1x bodyweight. TStorm = 103#
Max Pullups: Goal – 20. TStorm = 23
V sit-ups: Goal – 30. TStorm = 5 (opened up my butt sore from last time I did sit-ups)
400 Meter Run: Goal – 1:35. Tstorm = 1:31