korafox

I figure it's about time for a general status update that doesn't involve me griping about my various creative projects (I did finish some arts last week, though!  Yay!). 

Was notified that the other candidate got hired by first-choice police department.  Of course I'm disappointed, but the upside of that is that I am now at the top of the list and there will hopefully be another position opening there before the list has to go away.  In the meantime, another local department is hiring and I'm currently banging my head against the brick wall that is the application for them.  Their testing will probably be next month.

In the mean-meantime, I have a temp secretary job.  Productive member of society go!

Husband talked me into getting a new monitor during the pre-4th of July sale at Newegg.  I am usually pretty hesitant to spend on myself like that, but I probably did need one (and the discounts, all-told, were pretty good).  My old monitor was purchased in 2006 and the screen brightness was starting to go a little bit.  If I wasn't doing art on it, it wouldn't be as big a deal, but I really do need to be able to see the colors and things properly.  This one is widescreen and bigger, and quite shiny.  The one thing I miss about the old one is that the sound through the speaker bar was gorgeous...this one has built-in speakers and I can definitely hear the difference in quality.  But I'll get used to it, and I can always use my headphones if it comes down to it.

The return of American Ninja Warrior is inspiring me to really work harder on my upper body strength.  I know I will never have the physique of the rescue-swimmer-lady we saw competing (her shoulders!  Dear gods, I want them!), but I can at least dream of people going "damn, she's buff" when I go around sleeveless.  I'm doing chin-up reps with only 40 lbs. of assistance at this point, moving ever closer to my goal of being able to do them unassisted. 

And I think that's about it. 

1) It is clean, not stinky, and there are plenty of machines for everyone.

2) There are other women there (even a bunch in the weights section!).

3) No one has even tried to talk to me while I am exercising.

4) THEY HAVE BENCH PRESS SETUPS THAT DON'T REQUIRE A SPOTTER.  Seriously, I didn't even know that was an option.  But they have the bar on a track with ratchets, and there are stoppers that you can put on it so that the bar won't fall on you if your grip slips.  Considering that the big reason why I'd never done an honest-to-goodness bench press was that there was no way in hell I was asking a random stranger to spot me, this is like omg huge.  And after a moment of panic, I realized that I am still as strong as I was before because I forgot to add the 20 lbs. of resistance from the bar itself to the total from the weights I actually put on it (whoops).

I definitely think I'm going to get my $10/month's worth on this one.