A college friend of mine posted this on facebook with the caption, “It’s called responsibility people!”
I kind of sighed and shrugged it off until I noticed all the likes and happy comments it was getting. It’s great this soon-to-be college graduate has worked his or her way through school debt free. But many of us can use the same phrases in this “I am NOT the 99%” picture with a different end to the story.
I am one of them.
I did not get 90% of my moderately priced, in-state, public university schooling paid for by scholarships. Instead I took out loans, that I am still (very slowly) paying off. I worked at least 30 hours a week busting my @$$ to pay for my room and board and books and everything else that popped up while I was in school. In fact, for a while I worked my 30+ hours in a restaurant, worked 30+ hours of night shift at a hospital an hour away and I donated plasma for extra funds as well.
When I got out of school, I got into the aerospace industry - and was laid off. I then found employment in the travel industry - until 9/11 happened. I’ve lived well within my means, but can’t save money for the future because I have bills to pay in the now. One of those bills is from a hospital for procedures done when I could not afford individual health insurance and was not offered any coverage at my workplace.
Do I blame Wall Street and governement and expect things to be handed to me? No. Do I believe that you somehow deserve some extra cookie because you were smart enough to get a scholarship to pay your way through school? No. You can’t see that there are good people around you that are struggling in the 99%? You need some real-world education as to what is really going on in this country outside of your bubble. Whether or not you are in the 99% isn’t always your decision, contrary to your belief. Whether you are disrespectful and disdainful of those who are in the 99% is most certainly always your decision.
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Even though I’m not true to this picture’s statement, I agree. I’m kinda getting annoyed by this 99% stuff. For the most part, we are where we are based upon how we have handled our life and situations. Not Wall Street, Not the Government, Not Obama, Not Canada nor whomever you want to blame. We pay our taxes for the Government to run our Country while we work. That is the system. They don’t “Owe” us money, free healthcare, free education….whatever. We have chosen to not always push ourselves, we haven’t had the balls to break out of hard choices or circumstances in our lives. The Government doesn’t “owe” us a job. They don’t. If someone has decided to let one person in the house work and the other stay at home with the kids, that is their choice. The government doesn’t “owe” them free anything because they can’t make ends meet. If you can’t pay the $100+ a month for healthcare, cut your fucking cable service. Be an adult. Don’t sit at some Occupy thing streaming other Occupy events on your ipad. Go accomplish something.
Education and life is expensive. It sucks having to pay for medicine. It sucks having to pay for “learnin’”…Oh freaking well. Why can we not do now what our parents and grandparents have done. We have way more advances in everything and opportunities everywhere, but we bitch about what we “don’t” have.
Yes the Government has issues and generally sucks balls. We have all these things we want them to change, but we have no answers. We want change, reform, this, that,…..Wants in one hand, shit in the other and see which one fills up first.
Thor symbolized on his mjolnir!!!
The Bosu Ball Squat Curl Press
What?
Cannot. Stop. Laughing.
Ladies, if you do this……..you are an idiot
Pursuit to be He-Man!!!
Pursuit to be He-Man!!!
Asking me to do something repeatedly
jmsc:
Is almost guaranteed to make me not do what ever that it is asking me or make me do it even slower….
Same here!!!
Gym….
It’s Friday!!!!
Lifting the weights is the easy part….the ambition and will to do so is the hardest to maintain.
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Well said
Back to the Gym
So back in June I decided that it was long enough and needed to get my fat ass back into the gym. I also signed up to fight MMA in October, so this was a good kickstart. I started at about a chubby 250lbs. I hadn’t been to the gym really in a couple of years and it showed the first week. I could hardly lift much and everything was sore. It sucked.
After about 2 weeks of hard cardio and medium weights, I thought it was time to step it up and get a system going. I have always tried to mix it up about every month or so on routines. I do a 4 day gym routine every week. They are Monday thru Thursday, since I have the monkeys on the weekends. First day is Legs, second is back, third is chest, and fourth is an all around. I have currently added a 5th day, which is basically an all around pump day and some weighted stretching movements to keep flexibility up. Legs is your basic deadlifts, squats, leg press, and various machines. Back is rows, pulldowns, machine rows, and the usual. Chest is various dumbbell presses and machines. All around days are just kinda a bit of everything. I had a friend once drop a barball on his chest and cracked a lot of ribs so unless I have a person to spot that I trust, I tend to stay away from them for chest workouts. Most of my sets are heavy weight X 8-10reps and work down in weights. For instance, chest press (#110*8, 110*8, 90*8, 90*8, 80*8). I like to stretch it out until I can hardly move the weights. Then sets are done. Rest. Next movement.
So far this has gone pretty good. I went from a dumbbell bench of #65 (scary) the first week (This is for the first set of reps) and am now upto #110-#120 in about 8-10 weeks. This is also the same for the rest of the gamut.
Weight went fron #250 down to #238 the first month. This was kinda nice. I felt the difference. Since increasing the lifting weight volume, my weight is now back upto about #255-258. I have also upped my caloric intake to help with the workouts and strain.
So we will see how this goes. I try to get in 8 gym hrs and about 4 hrs doing mma workouts. It’s straining but its fun.
