Today I continued with day 2 of week 1 of the Hundred Push Ups challenge. I met the days goals easily and might put in another round after level 5, just for the extra challenge. I can feel my muscles warm and my blood flowing.

My routine has started to gel. I come home after work and rest for an hour or two. Then I spend about ten minutes stretching before I start on the push ups. Today I did my 9, 8, 6, 5 and then I did 13 for level 5. 13! I'm pretty proud of hat.

Weeks 5 and 6 scare me reading ahead, but I am hoping they won't scare me when I get up to them.

1) Look at the list and bold those we have read.
2) Italicize those we intend to read.
3) Underline the books we LOVE
4) Reprint this list in our own blogs

Average adult has read 6...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (Danny is obsessed with Dune. I should probably read it soon.)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've decided to start the 100 Push Up Challenge, after seanmoon wrote about it.

I am unsure if my form is perfect, so I am expanding the number of reps I do in order to compensate for imperfect push ups. I took the test before week 1 a few days ago and measured at 7 push ups. Those were pretty good. They were also on a day off and I had eaten about an hour prior.

Today was my first day of the program. I stretched for about 20 minutes about an hour and a half ago, and then did two sets of ten sit ups to get my blood flowing. Then I did 3 sets of 7, with minute breaks in between each. These were shallower than my test push ups, which is why I did three sets, instead of two. My body is always straight in these, though, and neither my back or my knees bend.

Then I did two sets of 5, and two sets of 2. I can feel the workout in my upper arms and shoulders and in my abs. I am amazed at how worked out my abs get. A coworker explained to me that it's because they need to keep my body straight.

Next set Tuesday morning.

Tea makes you pee a lot. 6 cups of tea makes you pee a whole lot.

I have a pretty busy schedule. But seeing a different friend every day is great. I missed Rori and I missed indian food.

Snaps for Alexis and Carly - though we were the girls singing the Legally Blonde musical on the subway.

I'm kind of not looking forward to pride. No one wants to go with me and i'm always single or dating an asshole for it. When I was with aubrie, she always went off with her friends who hated me to go dancing or whatever and left me to sulk. And all my gay boys want to go dancing in men-mostly events that I wouldnt fit in at. Last year was really fun but nothing came of it. It seems that i'm either too aggressive or not aggressive enough. I think I'm kinda bad at being a lesbian. I mean, I'm good at the sex with women part, but I don't have a lot of lesbian friends and I don't really feel part of the community. I need a little push sometimes, but i've never gotten it.

Sarah, we keep missing each other on Skype. Sending me facebook messages is fruitless, I am bad at checking it.

http://www.facebook.com/srch.php?nm=Olga%20Kogan - AHH, who are all these bimbos?!

Number 28:

Watching the full footage of auditions on Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods.

and enjoying them. I like Emma and Autumn.

there's something about this site i like

though I'm not sure what.