kitty vogue
does it meow in french?
Have you got a handle on the kettlebells yet? A bit of a learning curve.
[quote]timmyo wrote:
Have you got a handle on the kettlebells yet? A bit of a learning curve.[/quote]
I only have access to those kettle bells on fridays at the powerlifting gym and considering all I did was some basic bulgarian split squats last time, the handling of said kettle bells was pretty easy. Maybe this friday I’ll be able to try something a little trickier.
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[quote]nlmain wrote:
Groceries and errands and such tonight. Gym tomorrow. We are currently being hit with a nasty, windy snow storm. it took us 20 minutes to drive the 3 blocks to the grocerie store.
Supper: quickie weekday shrimp stew.
bag of thawed, raw, shelled shrimp
1/2 teaspoon of smoked paprika
pinch of garlic powder (use the real stuff if you have it)
pinch of crushed chilies
a table spoon of tomato paste
salt and pepper
large can of crushed tomato
a tea spoon of sugar
a cup of chopped kale
a teaspoon of chopped chives
1/3 cup of whole wheat couscous
a table spoon of olive oil
Heat up olive oil in a pan at medium high, add shrimp and cook for a minute. Add paprika, garlic powder, crushed pepper, salt, pepper and tomato paste. Heat for a minute. Add canned tomato and sugar, cook for a minute. Add kale, chives and couscous bring to a boil. Turn heat to low and cook for another 5 minutes or until couscous softens. supper easy and tasty.
On a crappy note my brother in law told his daughter to “Thank Uncle N”. At first I thought he was teasing them but I gathered from how far the joke went that it was more meant as an insult towards me. Well boofuckinhoo. I decided to let it go since I was with family but seriously all I wanted to say was, “I wasn’t placed on this planet just to please you idiot. Does it hurt your little ego that of all people you are the last one I care to be attractive to?”
Now back to happy land - I’m currently discovering and enjoyin a nice little portaguese wine. I love good surprises.
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Some men have weird egos. You look nothing like a man. I’m guessing he doesn’t either? Those are usually the ones that make those remarks.
He’s going though his mid-life crisis and thinks jogging will cure all. Also he thought I was incredibly beautiful when I was borderline anorexic. There’s no point in arguing with these men.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
He’s going though his mid-life crisis and thinks jogging will cure all. Also he thought I was incredibly beautiful when I was borderline anorexic. There’s no point in arguing with these men.[/quote]
Some opinions aren’t worth the air it takes to utter them…
and it’s pretty despicable to use a toddler as your foil
[quote]soldog wrote:
[quote]nlmain wrote:
He’s going though his mid-life crisis and thinks jogging will cure all. Also he thought I was incredibly beautiful when I was borderline anorexic. There’s no point in arguing with these men.[/quote]
Some opinions aren’t worth the air it takes to utter them…
and it’s pretty despicable to use a toddler as your foil[/quote]
…he just may have an “accident” now…
[quote]nlmain wrote:
LS - glad your feeling the cheer. I was feeling grumpier as the current snow storm was unprepared for and I was wearing heels with no socks. Denial anyone??? The husband brought me back to happy land by going to the liquor store and stocking up on goodies including a few bottles for my previously empty wine rack.
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ahahaha I can do you one better. Shorts and thigh high-heeled boots to work today with very thin tights. Fackin’ cold brushing off my car at 5.
For all of you girls who train for vanity, nothing wrong with that. 10 years ago all I wanted was my pre-baby body back, strength and performance be damned. I think as we get older we begin to accept how we look, flaws and perfections, and make the most with what we’ve got. When I got to that point, performance became so much more important because I felt truly content with what I saw in the mirror. If I had of picked at it more I would have ended up with some sort of disorder.
/highjack NL, sorry.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
On a crappy note my brother in law told his daughter to “Thank Uncle N”. At first I thought he was teasing them but I gathered from how far the joke went that it was more meant as an insult towards me. Well boofuckinhoo. I decided to let it go since I was with family but seriously all I wanted to say was, “I wasn’t placed on this planet just to please you idiot. Does it hurt your little ego that of all people you are the last one I care to be attractive to?”
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That’s lame - some people are so insecure that they have to try to drag everybody else down. It sucks that it is coming from family though.
I’d get similar playing dodgeball. Me and a guy are the last players on the court - guy #1 on the other team yells “throw at the guy!” Guy #2 shouts back “which one?” and laughs. Just some insecure douche that couldn’t take being out-played by a girl. That flipped my anger switch and I tried to crank him as hard as I could for the rest of the night.
Too bad you can’t throw dodgeballs at your brother-in-law! lol! It’s theraputic.
I train for performance primarily, but I did anticipate and for the most part am happy with my changing physical appearance. If it turned out that I performed better in a super heavy weight class I’m not sure that I’d be willing to do that. It might depend on how much better. I don’t consider myself an athlete since I can’t even do the full lifts yet (lol) and am a way away from doing a competition. I do consider myself to ‘train’ rather than ‘work-out’, though. I’d kinda like to swing a club close to people who are stuffing around on equipment I’d really like to use. Perhaps that is why the gym doesn’t have clubs…
I don’t like the ‘figure athletes’ pics on the main site (if I’m following the conversation correctly). I don’t have a problem with figure competing - but are they actually figure competitors, or are they soft core porn models? What kind of training do they do? Why aren’t the pics of them doing their competition thing, rather than pics of them doing modeling posing? Why aren’t there pics of comparable guys (e.g., meterosexual guys with softer muscles?) I do think that it seems to condone a double standard between women (youth, superficial beauty, training irrelevant, only value is in sex appeal to men) and men (mental and physical toughness that comes from training hard). I would have thought this site in particular would have been keen to oppose that, but whatever. It disappoints me. The articles (for the most part) are different. But I do think that the pictures are off-putting to people who might well love it here if they hung around long enough to view the articles. Bit of a rant - sorry.
Damn I’m hungry after reading your log.
I admire your decision to pursue strength rather than aesthetics. Inner beauty… I’m hoping to become more at peace with myself as I age. Gracefully, hopefully.
N – if you ever have kids, they have to call your brother in law “Aunt.” You’re hot, he’s an asshole, and someone should cut off his testicles and feed them to him in that shrimp stew, which by the way sounds delicious.
Can I train for … both?
If I were just going for hot, I’d be training differently. I do want to lift heavier. I’d be proud of myself if I were strong and able to do things that made other people whimper. I like the objectivity of just striving to put more weight on the bar. That’s the Serious Business aspect; and in daylight hours I’m all about the Serious Business. On the other hand, yeah, I’m vain and I’m horny and I’m evil and lifting makes me more so and I love it.
I’d agree with that, Beast. I don’t have kids but I teach them - when I’m getting my girls to warm up for PE I do the running, star jumps and stretches with them. Keeps me warm and they’re less likely to stop if I’m still going.
Nice kids, Frenchie.
DCA & Soldog - that was unpleasant of him but as this was a birthday party for a 5yr old neice, I decided to be the bigger person and let it go.
Diana - you totally trumped me!! shorts in a snow storm is crazy! With all our current technology you’d think someone would have come up with a way to self-brush/melt the snow from the car or worse, shovel it out of a snow bank. they have cars that park themselves now… And not be sorry for hijacking when your sharing wisdom.
LS - dodgeballs…sounds very interesting. Maybe a can plan a little family picnic this summer…lolz or maybe not, I can just imagine my nieces weirded out by auntie trying to beat the hell out of their poor dad.
Alex- I hear you about the models but truth is our little hub of smarties is the minority reader around here. The average tnation reader is 18-25 male who doesn’t care what they are referred to as long as he gets to look at them.
Alisa - love the way you think! vain, horny and evil sounds just about perfect to me 
Cal - plus nothing teaches kids more than example. They see you do it, they will follow. I like the way you say “my girls”. You are now part of what shapes them and that is tremendous.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
The average tnation reader is 18-25.
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Thank you for the lovely compliment Mainy.
Nothing to add, but those Aquarian traits are dead on!
[quote]print wrote:
[quote]nlmain wrote:
The average tnation reader is 18-25.
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Thank you for the lovely compliment Mainy.[/quote]
Guess I’m not average either.
Always an interesting read here. Stimulating topics, great photos. You’ve got it all, girl!
^NO! You certainly are not Snap.
Referencing the brother-in-law, I have no patience for spiteful foolishness. Especially when children are used the way he used them. I won’t say that I’d have reacted violently, but he would leave my place with a very healthy fear of my attention after something like that.
As for the images on the front page, very rarely do they put actual figure models or athletes on there. I miss the days when they posted ACTUAL figure athlets, and then they had the Powerful Images on there as well. It would’ve been nice had they used folks actually doing something powerful as opposed to posing, though.