Good work in here. Anything special planned for meet prep?
George, is your deload over yet? I hope the rest jump started your motivation.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
George, is your deload over yet? I hope the rest jump started your motivation.[/quote]
It’s getting there. Today’s training was doing a hardware store run to get get 4 pieces of 3/4 inch 4x4 OBS underlayment (and oh by-the-way a $1000 snowblower). Then waiting around 2 hours for the Home Depot rental truck to take these items home. Once home, I unloaded by myself (lazy son was still asleep and I was on a time limit with the truck). Drive the truck back to HD and return home with my car. Then lazy son and I moved two large wooden file cabinets and a wood computer desk up a flight of stairs and across the house. Lazy son took off and I placed and screwed together the 4x8 pieces. Then there were sets of 20 step plate walks, 4x45’s, 3x35’s, 3x25’s and 1xbar. Disassembling and re-assenbling the rack was also an adventure. Almost bashed my noggin twice and getting the pieces to fit together again while holding the crosspieces in the air and fitting the bolts got me sweating.
The reason for all this activity. Well
- winter is coming and my old snowblower basically died last spring. And
- I’m reorganizing the house. Kicking lazy son out of the 3’rd floor master bedroom I let him have last winter. Moving him to the basement where the power rack was. Power rack moves to where the computer desk was. One small bedroom becomes an office. I move upstairs to the master bedroom and bedroom where I was gets re-created as daughter’s bedroom.
I decided that selling this house in this market was just not going to happen and got the ex to agree to me buying her out at the appraised value. My credit union is working with me to refinance and get the cash to buy out the equity. Hope the appraisal comes in high enough for all this to happen… Which also is the cause of 1. Staying up here means I need a reliable snow removal method.
This has been brewing all week and is probably the cause of my loss of motivation. I will see tomorrow about starting up again before I get into all the remaining moving that needs to be done.
Whew!
That made me tired hearing about all your activities. At least you are taking action and have priorities figured out. Best wishes getting everything settled.
^^^We do what we HAVE to so we can do what we WANT to. Unlike the younger generation, it seems, who does it the other way around.
Wow, there is sure lots goin’ on. If you are staying up in the mountains, I sure understand the new snowblower.
damn - hope this turns out for the best for you.
Well I didn’t get back to the weights today but I spent 8 hours rearranging the house and carrying stuff from the 3rd floor to the 1st floor and from the 2nd to the 3rd. Feels like I did something but it won’t help my deadlift or squat. Gotta get back to it…
ps - I, also, sure hope this fucking well works out. I’m stretched to the limit right now and if this refinance works out I’ll actually be a touch under the limit financially.
Is the buy-out price fixed by agreement? It seems like you ought to be splitting the actual value of the house–whether it has equity or whether its underwater–not splitting what the house might have been worth before the market went to shit. If the price was by agreement and its too high, there may be some room to argue mistake of fact on the agreement if the appraisal comes in lower than expected.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Is the buy-out price fixed by agreement? It seems like you ought to be splitting the actual value of the house–whether it has equity or whether its underwater–not splitting what the house might have been worth before the market went to shit. If the price was by agreement and its too high, there may be some room to argue mistake of fact on the agreement if the appraisal comes in lower than expected. [/quote]
The buyout is a split of the equity based on the sale price or in this case the appraisal. She has made a comment about not accepting the appraisal if it is “too low”. But she didn’t respond when I asked her if she would reject an appraisal from a buyer that came in “too low”. The rub is that the appraisal needs to be high enough that I can pay off the 1st and 2nd mortgages and buy her out AND keep the LTV less than 90%. A high appraisal just means I borrow more which conceivably could push the qualification window but probably not.
Thats enough going on to take the starch out of anybodys training. You’ll be back to PR’s soon enough. Good luck with the house George.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Thats enough going on to take the starch out of anybodys training. You’ll be back to PR’s soon enough. Good luck with the house George.[/quote]
x2. You have a lot going on. Good luck.
How nice that we’ll remain neighbors.
We can commisserate when we’re both snowed in.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
How nice that we’ll remain neighbors.
We can commisserate when we’re both snowed in.[/quote]
betcha I get snowed in more than you… and the invite to try out a SSB is still open.
another busted day, son woke up running a fever and had a migraine style headache. 4 hours later I started in on the same. Call me a wimp, but I can’t deadlift with a massive headache and a body that feels like it’s been run over by a Mack truck. (whine, whine, whine… I’ll stop now)
Came home at noon and now I’m trying out a product called Zicam that the group at work swears by to try and cut this shit off at the knees.
Whiskey, honey, and a sauna, for the illness. Can only offer you an ear for the other crap. Your grip’s improved a lot lately so just hang in there.
looking good dawg. footbath with water as hot as you can stand it with about a cup of mustard powder. soak while drinking first 4oz vodka with 1/4" of ground pepper on top, then a cup of hot milk with honey. after about 20 minutes, put on 2 pairs of wool socks and go to bed. its a traditional russian remedy, and it worked for me when I was in siberia a few years back…
You going to watch the DL meet on Saturday, George?
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
You going to watch the DL meet on Saturday, George?[/quote]
No - sorry, just too much shit going on right now but I hope to at least get back to lifting tomorrow. Feeling uncertain of my desire to do the December meet as well.
I’m in a lifting funk.
Anyone who has read my training/rambling over the last 2 1/2 years knows that I periodically go through times where I just don’t train. Prior to this time they have all been associated with events that precipitated or worsened my depression. This time my mood is good. Work motivation is actually increasing for the first time in a couple of years. BUT I just don’t want to train! WTF is up with that?
Any ideas?
switch it up- do something totally different and you’ll come back to it like your favorite mistress.
hell, I’ve even left the weights behind for a while to try out other sports and activites only to come back to my lifting happier than before.
just don’t bang your head on the wall.