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sophiapThe training sessions are now going well, and C and I are working on futher refinements to my form on the hang cleans. My routine will be changing up later this week, and I really hope we'll be doing further work on the foundations of the Olympic lifts.
One thing that has been interesting about this training program is that I'm doing a weigh-in/body-comp check-in every few months. Over the last three months, I've put on five pounds, but my waist and abdomen measures have gone down. Per the caliper measures, that five pounds is all muscle. Five pounds of muscle. In three months. Damn...
With Supernatural, in the wake of the last episode, I'm going to go spoiler-free for a while. I just kind of want to think on the last episode and all its character moments and revelations for a while. Maybe it's just me, but I found the episode to be immensely satisfying, and as of right now it's my favorite episode of the season.
Oh, Bobby... It not only breaks my heart that the character may well be gone, but the fact that Karen died with so much between them unresolved was absolutely gutting. It also has me wanting to re-watch "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" with that history in mind. No wonder Bobby was so unwilling to let her go a second time.
I also loved him realizing that he could be and was a good father. The whole thing felt immensely satisfying not just in terms of the episode arc, but in terms of Bobby's whole character arc and the Winchester family arc as well. I am more convinced than ever that Bobby's falling out with John had something to do with the boys and Bobby's stepping into a parental role one too many times for John's tastes (well, I could see it starting there and then rapidly turning into the kind of conversation that ends with a shotgun being pulled).
Also, Sam... Poor Sam. Seeing him sitting there in the hospital, I could imagine him thinking back to the events of IMToD, when he nearly lost Dean and did lose John.
I don't mean to leave out Dean, but aside from the fact that JA did a brilliant job acting, most of what we saw from him in this ep struck me as foundation-building for what'll come later. The sense of dread for what's going to happen with him character-wise continues to build. And build. And build.
In other SPN news, I posted my reversebang fic this morning. This was a tricky story to build (there's a part of the creative process that for me feels more like architecture than writing), but in the end I'm very satisfied with how it turned out. It was based on this picture byserenada_art, and it ended up being an episode tag for 7.01, going into what happened to Castiel after the end of the episode: Last Rites.
Also, how did it get to be less than three weeks until Christmas? I'm starting to have visions of me staying up super-late on Christmas eve knitting furiously away on my mom's socks. I'm also dragging my feet on getting lists to family, and getting their lists in return. Eee-yeek.
One thing that has been interesting about this training program is that I'm doing a weigh-in/body-comp check-in every few months. Over the last three months, I've put on five pounds, but my waist and abdomen measures have gone down. Per the caliper measures, that five pounds is all muscle. Five pounds of muscle. In three months. Damn...
With Supernatural, in the wake of the last episode, I'm going to go spoiler-free for a while. I just kind of want to think on the last episode and all its character moments and revelations for a while. Maybe it's just me, but I found the episode to be immensely satisfying, and as of right now it's my favorite episode of the season.
Oh, Bobby... It not only breaks my heart that the character may well be gone, but the fact that Karen died with so much between them unresolved was absolutely gutting. It also has me wanting to re-watch "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" with that history in mind. No wonder Bobby was so unwilling to let her go a second time.
I also loved him realizing that he could be and was a good father. The whole thing felt immensely satisfying not just in terms of the episode arc, but in terms of Bobby's whole character arc and the Winchester family arc as well. I am more convinced than ever that Bobby's falling out with John had something to do with the boys and Bobby's stepping into a parental role one too many times for John's tastes (well, I could see it starting there and then rapidly turning into the kind of conversation that ends with a shotgun being pulled).
Also, Sam... Poor Sam. Seeing him sitting there in the hospital, I could imagine him thinking back to the events of IMToD, when he nearly lost Dean and did lose John.
I don't mean to leave out Dean, but aside from the fact that JA did a brilliant job acting, most of what we saw from him in this ep struck me as foundation-building for what'll come later. The sense of dread for what's going to happen with him character-wise continues to build. And build. And build.
In other SPN news, I posted my reversebang fic this morning. This was a tricky story to build (there's a part of the creative process that for me feels more like architecture than writing), but in the end I'm very satisfied with how it turned out. It was based on this picture by
serenada_art, and it ended up being an episode tag for 7.01, going into what happened to Castiel after the end of the episode: Last Rites. Also, how did it get to be less than three weeks until Christmas? I'm starting to have visions of me staying up super-late on Christmas eve knitting furiously away on my mom's socks. I'm also dragging my feet on getting lists to family, and getting their lists in return. Eee-yeek.
