Another big day in Adventures in paradise

It's past 3am and I haven't been home long. That's what happens when I finish at 1am and go to gym afterwards. Sleeping-guy was there, yet again, although I noticed the cleaner came in later on and set off the distress alarm in one of the bathrooms. At first I thought someone was actually in trouble, so stopped mid-set to go and make sure, but no-one was in there. The alarm stopped shortly after. It's just as well because I'm pretty sure central monitoring rings up the gym after a while and I'm sure people knock it sometimes. It's a good idea having them in the bathrooms incase someone is there alone, I guess, but I'm not sure how a ringing phone will help if the person can't get to it because they've slipped over in the bathroom or something. I guess if there's no answer, they probably send the ambulance around? I dunno, I haven't been there long enough. So I have a feeling that the cleaner probably deliberately set off the alarm to wake up the guy on the couch, because when I went to do my last exercise in that area, he had cleared out haha. I was thinking I should just wake him up one night and ask him why he's always there. I'm a little bit curious.

Man it was COLD walking home tonight. Faaark, I'd like to know what temperature it was, and I'm sure I could find an app, but walking home around 2:30am is fucking freezing compared to what I'm used to. I'm quite glad to be home and under my covers. I'm watching Wimbledon as Hewitt is playing, but I'm pretty tired, so I'll probably pass out before the match ends. Will see how I go. The thing about being back gymming is although I feel great, I feel so damn tired, but they do say if you want to get fit, that diet and good-sleep are two of the best things you can do. I have a habit of waking up around 10am or 11am, and then I'll think it's way too early, so I'll roll over and wake up again around 1pm haha. Then sometimes, I'll even do it again and not get out of bed til 3pm haha! It's probably not good for me and the whole day is pretty much gone. Walking home from work is eery enough when I leave, as I feel like I am the only person on the planet walking the streets at the hour I do. Some guy was sitting on the benches outside 7/11 tonight (as I went there to grab some milk as I'm out) and I looked at him, he looked at me, then he said 'hello', I replied, 'How ya going?' He said 'good thanks' haha, and even though it was only that conversation, I wondered to myself why he was sitting outside on a bench in the cold. Maybe he was the guy from the gym! Haha. He looked like some hobo though and the guy from the gym I was pretty sure was an Asian guy, but I can't really tell with the hoodie over his face and all.

Tomorrow (or today I should say), I'm doing another 5:30pm til 2am shift, which I don't mind. It just means I'll see more customers, but it means I'll prbably be getting home even LATER than I did tonight. At least tomorrow is leg day, and I'm generally not at gym as long on those days. Tonight I was there for a bit over an hour, and included two extra exercises more than I usually do. I'm kind of inspired because one of my workmates reckons when I first started there, my arms were huge. I didn't realise my arms were that big back then,m but clearly they aren't now. He followed it up with, "They still look good now, but back then you were 'peaking'" Haha, 'peaking' hey. I do remember back when I started back there, I think I was still at the Woolloongabba gym and doing a lot of curls with each arm. At least I was when I was working at the servo, so it's interesting how my body reacts to different workouts and scenarios.
I'm still unsure if my course enhanced or hindered my progress. There was a fuckload of cardio involved in the Cert 3 course, and I'd always tried to avoid cardio, as I did not want to lose any weight. I've maintained my weight pretty well over the last few years and last night when I checked, I was 87.1kg, which is only 800grams off my my highest ever, which was back in November last year. I know this because I keep a record of it in my room to look at. It also means that I have put on 2.2kg over the last nine days. I'm looking at it as a positive. With my height, I need to be a pretty hefty weight, and the high 80's have always been an ultimate goal for me, ever since I was stuck at 70kg when I was aged in my early 20's. I don't think I look too bad either. I look at myself in the mirror naked and I'm nothing to be disgusted about. Of course I have insecurities and wish I was a little bigger here and more toned there, but I kind of like when I'm scruffing up my hair with product and I surprise myself with how my biceps are coming along. I'm only really a week back into proper gym, so it's a nice feeling to notice the small things.

I mean there's nothing I can do about aging haha, but I get told I look a lot younger than I am, which is nice to hear, but I know that won't happen forever. I figure it'll catch up to me in no time. But hey it's a part of life. And gym makes me feel better in the long run and I'm absolutely loving having it as a hobby again.

My workmate asked me (again) tonight if I was going to go back and do my cert 4. I did look into it, and was shocked to see the price has increased by around 300%. I shit you not. I looks like the TAFE I was enrolled in has been bought out by some other company, because the website had changed and everything, and they've shot-up the prices in the process. It's a real shame to see. Surely the governments policy to deregulate education fees hasn't kicked in *this *fast! My workmate thinks that "Chopper" put me right off it. "Chopper" was that personal trainer we had come in to give us a speech, and he was the biggest tosser I've ever seen in my life. He had his own DVD and theme music (think "WWE wrestling') and he was an arrogant ex-cop and his son was in the DVD with him - the son who doesn't get fed unless he completes a workout each day with his father. I tell my workmate all about what this guy was like, and he laughs about it all the time, especially when I recall to him about all the girls in my class coming up to me after he was done and saying, "What a wanker!" I wouldn't say just "Chopper" put me off. There's a lot of people like him in the industry, and I'd like to go back and complete the course one day just to say I've done it, but I'll certainly be looking around for a cheaper option because there's no way I'd pay what the new guys are asking, and I'm loving how things are now for me anyway.

I'm going to stop writing as it's 4am now. And today's another big day :)