Teenagers

"What's so Funny 'bout Peace, Love and Understanding ?"
Nick Lowe  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7txCdLCP9U&feature=related

In the thick of it, surrounded.  They are big, but still kids.  Funny as hell.  Someone said to me this week, it's awesome they are engaged in critical thinking.  Why should they not be; their parents are educated.  Many educated parents I was told, they just don't care.
Don't care ?  Why did you wipe their asses, pick them up, drop them off, hug them when they were screaming in the night, sing to them, read with them and now watch for the sly cue.  Teenagers are not a hassle, they are a joy.  They are the culmination of whatever you did before so if you got a problem look in the mirror.  Can't enjoy it, your loss.

Brigid turned 15 yesterday, sigh.

Tuesday, 15/15 16kg snatches, seven rep pace x 50.

Wednesday, three miles and a bunch of gtg stuff on single/twin 20kg jerks
Thursday, do this, do it now
10 front squats, twin 16's in rack
MP, 5+5 20, 4+4 24, 1+1x2 32
5+5x2 sls, 16kg bu on second fives
5+3 assisted pull-ups, 28 then 22
3x
Swings
15/15 10 32 x 5x2
alternate with 50 24kg
Friday, nothing.  Head mining and gotta get back to carpool the freshman girls to lousy ass local college basketball game.  Its fun, I'd take those kids anywhere.  I am the only adult to stay save the coach.  Local team getting killed.  Girls mildly interested.
Saturday
Marsh walk with Ian and the dog in the spitting rain.  Pull in to coffee shop to take warmth with, flat tire.  Changing in the mall parking lot, beats the hell out of having it go the night before in the pouring rain on the freeway with a car full of teenaged girls.
Brigid B ball, she sits until 2 minutes left, comes on, scores four, they win by four.  Wake up.
Later, bring it:
10 24kg goblet squats
1-5 24kg press ladders, both sides
20 16kg tactical lunges
10+10 28 kg rows
3x
20 24kg swings
1+1 tgu
x5
30 28 kg swings x 2
20 28kg swings x 2
Listening to Choctow Bingo
Sunday
Brigid's Bday  at John's.  He cooks  mean prime rib and we eat way too much red meat and drink too much red wine. 

She is 15 now.  Hold on, we are going for a ride.
Today.
Teenagers are out of school which means I can get in early.
Two miles in am, then to gtg bu practice.
Maybe it's the red meat night before, but throw up a clean 24kg bu mp left.  New and big PR.  JH working with a client nearby mutters nice after it was real close a minute earlier.  Practice 32kg bu cleans on the right, they are sticking, it is only a matter of time before 70lbs goes upside down over the head.
Fucking grind of a day.  There is no going out slow; barely time to breathe and fly out late.  Missed Pradeep class, ok, circuit sessions, go
20/20 10 pushups x 8
10 twin 16 front squats
Pullups, 5 28lb assist , 3 22lb
20 16kg tactical lunges
x3
15/15 10 rep 32kg swings
25x4 24 kg swings
15x2 32kg swings
One set 20's
Halfway through all that, Costello comes on in the gym, doing Nick Lowe's tune above.  I never plug in anymore, too dangerous.  So good music is a fluke, great is a gift.
Get home.  Upstairs to watch Buffy Season 4 with Brigid.  Barry slides in and we are curled up comfy.
I'll take it.  Yeah, they are a real pain.
Nick when he was young; feeling it.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBzL6_jagmA