You know those segments of file footage of obese people walking around from the neck down used by news stations? I wonder if people ever recognize themselves...don't you think that would be mortifying?

Ok, some movie reviews:

The Proposal
Our rating: B-
It was ok, with some funny moments. And you get to see Ryan Reynolds with his shirt off. The ending is thin and leaves you hanging, but overall it was mildly enjoyable.

The Ugly Truth
Our rating: D
We didn't fail this movie because the production and cinematography were passable. The plot was ridiculous (wait...was there a plot?) and the situations were extremely contrived. I hated every second of this movie and had to be drug back to the couch to finish it (I wanted to do the dishes instead).

Drag Me to Hell
My rating: F----- His rating: B
I freaking hated this movie and thought it contained some of the most disgusting scenes ever. I literally dry heaved. The only reason I watched this movie is because my adorable husband said it would be "campy". This is what is campy to me: Scooby Doo. Not disgusting demon crap.

The Taking of Pelham 123
Our rating: A
After suffering through the plot-less travesty of The Ugly Truth, we were both rapt by this film. The story was great and there were some good car crash scenes. Denzel was amazing (as per the usual). I also enjoy seeing John Travolta as a badass.

A bit of a follow-up to my facebook etiquette post.

I was tired of being reminded of people I sort of "knew" in highschool but were either mean to me or to whom I was just ambivalent. So...I deleted about 100 of my "friends" on facebook. It's liberating! I know people that have over 1200 "friends" which is just ridiculous. No one can possibly have over 1000 friends--you're kidding yourself if you think you can.

We are exhausted after a string of smoke-ourselves days. Sunday, we did 2 workouts; 1 of which was Eva, a particularly gnarly WOD. I wanted to throw my stupid dumbbell out the window. I hate high rep heavy KB swings. Anyway, over the past few days, I have been doing over 100 pull-ups a day...and my left hand looks close to hamburger. We were hoping for a rest from pull-ups today and guess what? No such luck! Only 45 reps today, though.

I have like nothing to blog about, so forgive me. Howie is still sick with some skin thing...his pills keep getting bigger so I have to keep getting creative on how to trick him into taking them.

I can't believe it's time to do Christmas shopping. Ugh! I need to get gifts for about half of my list still. Most of those people being male and super hoo-ah (gag) and neocons. Someone is definitely getting Sarah Palin's book...(!)

So, after many months of being able to deadlift well over 200 pounds, I had never successfully cleaned over 90 pounds. Oh, a clean (and jerk) is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sdIlcc_MuA (This video is from 1976, but I liked his form). So, I had a total mental block. 95lbs sounded so scary and I felt like I was going to kill myself or something (not true and remember that I have been trained in Oly lifting. Do not attempt oly lifts without a coach to give you proper technique).

ANYWAY, Loqi has been making super sweet amazing progress lately, bc she's a bad ass and all and I saw that she was cleaning away in the triple digits. Knowing that definitely pushed me to get heavier and just freaking explode and get under the bar. So yesterday, I met my German CrossFit buddy and we got to work drilling the clean and jerk for about 30 minutes and then we started our attempts at a 1rm.

Clean and Jerk 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
kd's results: 45-65(PR)-75(PR)-85(PR)-90(PR)-95(PR)-100(f, but had to try again)-100(PR)

As you can tell from the multiple PRs, it had been a long time since I had done this workout--almost a year.

Hubble got to the gym as I was going for 95 and he and my buddy said I was doing 100 way too easy and I should go heavier, but I wasn't mentally ready for that so I held off.

Sorry to torture all of you with a workout post, but it was a huge day for me.

Here's what's going on: We still have a 6 week window for deployment. That window starts in 4 weeks. I find this whole situation to be SUPER cute as I am still unable to plan for the holidays.

Howie was constipated and dehydrated this weekend which constituted us staying home with him all day Saturday and playing WiiSportsResort. He has repaid us for this favor by taking 2 dumps in the house and peeing by the front door. Hugs, little buddy.

We went to a brew pub (brauhaus) this weekend in Heidelberg. We stopped for lunch, I wanted something light, so I got the cheese platter with a small salad. This is what arrived in front of me:

We're going to Paris! Finally. We are running out of time before we're not allowed to leave the immediate area and I'm glad we (I) were able to make this happen.

Yesterday we CrossFitted our little hearts out and did 2 WODs:

Pull-up ladder:
With a continuously running clock, do 1 pull-up the first minute, 2 pull-ups the second until you cannot complete the amount of reps with in the minute.

My results: 13 min + 9 pull-ups

As many rounds as possible in 20 min of:
Power snatch, 12 reps (65/45)
10 push-ups

My results: (did this 20 min after the pull-ups) 8 rounds + 6 snatches

Today we get to choose between running 5k (booo), the filthy fifty or Cindy...hmmm

I've been quiet lately. We did the Halloween thing. We chatted around the fire with the people in the neighborhood sipping wine for a little bit and then we skipped out on the post-high sugar crash of the 10-and-under crowd and went downtown for dinner. We were just having a peaceful meal of tortellini when we heard what sounded like 1000 garbage cans filled with 1,000,000 forks being shaken like crazy. What we then saw was:

At first it was terrifying, but then we got a little more used to it. i felt sorry for the people dining outside as they were constantly harrassed by these things. And then one came inside the restaurant and snuck up behind a poor, unsuspecting diner and scared the daylights out of her. I didn't snap a picture because I didn't want them to come touch me!!

Aside from that, there weren't many signs of Halloween in town. They did have special Halloween shopping hours (until 10pm...oooooh) for the shops, but that's about it.

Yesterday we picked up a new soldier at the airport and got him and his wife set up here.

Just found out that Hubble has a 3-day this weekend. Kind of too late to plan anything far away, so we're going to look around for a fun brauhaus nearby.

Yeah, I'm going there.

1. Updating your status more than twice a day. Really, you think we all want to know the play-by-play of your banal little life? The occasional 3 times in one day update is passable. However, if you post--every day--that you woke up, then ate lunch, then came home from work and then are getting ready for bed, you are obviously deluded to the point where you think we are all sitting on pins and needles wondering if you ever got to the break room to heat up your Lean Cuisine.

2. The cryptic status update. As in "ohh--things cannot get any worse. waiting..." Uh, what? You are just begging for the not-yet-jaded fbook user to saunter by your status and say "oh no!! What's wrong?" You may give a little and say "It has to do with 'x'" or you may just say, "still waiting..." We all know you want a reaction; just tell us what it is. And if you don't want to air your dirty emotional laundry on fbook--don't. Just don't post it.

3. The Debby Downer. I have actually used the 'hide' feature to hide all the Debby Downers that appear in my newsfeed so as not to be burdened about how horrible Mondays are or how awful driving home from work is. Debby D usually only posts how horrible his/her life is and how it cannot possibly get any worse (until tomorrow at least). If you dare to offer a solution or words of consolation, Debby will probably just tell you why the solution won't work or why he/she can't be consoled. Give me a break.

4. The massive photo album owner. This person posts like 300+ pictures in every album, regardless of the image's quality. I can only wonder what this person's hard copy albums look like...

5. The chronic application inviter. UGH. I don't want to play FarmMania or whatever it is. Quit inviting me! And no, I will not play "Sorority Life" with you. There is a reason I didn't join a sorority in college, why would I want to play a game about it on a social networking site?

6. The grammar troll. This may be limited to only me, because I am a grammar freak. However, I hate reading grossly misspelled updates ("I'm preggnent again!") or those with the extended ellipses ("Happy Birthday........" --are you really happy or suspicious?) or my all time pet peeve, the misplaced apostrophe ("2 of my dog's got out of the yard!")

What do you guys think? Am I the only one that feels this way? Do you have anymore fbook pet peeves?

The Pentagon Channel puts on a fitness show called "Fit for Du*ty" in which they put on a group exercise show. Most of the time, they use a step or a Bosu ball (adding to the masses of people that do retarded crap on a Bosu ball) and they do basic step aerobics and crunches, lunges, chest fly stuff, etc.

They claim it is a hard core workout guaranteed to get you in the best shape ever. Frankly, I beg to differ and I think it's a great starting point for someone who is really sedentary and inactive.

There are a few instructors...one of them is a woman with one of the most annoying voices ever. For the record, person with the most annoying voice ever is a 3-way-tie between Gilbert Godfriend, Bobcat Goldthwaite and this woman that is at our current post who sounds like Alvin the chipmunk.

I am home sick today and pissed about it. I really wanted to get in the gym, but I can't stop my nose from running and leaving a trail of snot behind me is not really good gym manners...