Home Gym

I've said before that I'm going to do it but then I wuss out because of my shoulder pain but I really need to do it for my shoulder pain.  I need to bring my Weider Total Body Works 5000 home gym into the patio from the back yard and start using it.

I think that if I work that muscle, the shoulder muscle that hurts and my back muscles, that I might be able to strengthen it up.

I've had this shoulder pain for almost a month now and it seems like it's moving from my shoulder to my neck and also down my left arm as well as being in my shoulder.  So I think that the only way I'm going to fix this is by exercising those muscles.

When I was going to the Chiropractors office in 2005 they would give me a massage, I would lay on a hot water bed with jets shooting at my back, they would put these electric things on my back that would shoot electricity into the muscle then the doctor would adjust my back and then they would send me over to their gym room where I would use the weight machine and do the exercises that they told me to do.  I still have the paper with all the exercises too.

They had me pull on the weight cable then hold for about 5 or 10 seconds or whatever, I forgot.  Then I would do it again, so about maybe 10 times for 5-10 seconds.  So I believe that this worked so I think I should do the same.

I'm giving myself shiatsu massages, vibrating massages, putting cold then heat on my shoulder.  I can't adjust myself but I do try to crack my back when I can.  I don't have a little twin sized water bed with heat and jets and I don't have one of those things that you put on your muscle then push the button to electronically stimulate the muscles by zapping it (as seen on Jackass the movie where they put it on their balls lol) but I do have a home gym and it's about time I use it.

I really want this pain to go away.  It's been almost a month and I haven't been on my bike in that amount of time.  I'm told to just go to the Chiropractors office but how am I going to get there?  Bus then have to walk the rest of the way?  Every step I take causes pain in my shoulder.  In 2005 I was going 3 days a week, that's $3 a week in bus fair that I just can't spare.  I would ride my bicycle but then I'd be paranoid that it's going to get stolen the whole time cause you are in there for 2-3 hours at least.

So my best alternative is to just suffer and use the options I have available to me I guess.  Maybe if I had a person to drive me then it would be easier but I don't.  We have a perfectly good SUV in the driveway that I could get there with but... don't know how to drive and even if I did, it's gonna cost me a lot more than $3 a week in gas.

Men Soliciting Sex in Parks in Bakersfield

Undercover investigation: Men soliciting sex in parks

That is an article in the BakersfieldNow website.  In the 1970's and 80's this was apparently a very typical thing, men going to the park and sitting in the cars and/or going to the bathroom and exposing themselves hoping to have sex with someone either in the bathroom, their car or going somewhere else.

I go on the bike trail and I pass 3 parks (as seen in my BikeCam videos) and I see children playing sports, people exercising and children on bikes, they don't need to see this.  What is wrong with people?  These children use those bathrooms and that's the last thing kids need is to go to the bathroom at Yokuts and Beach park and see 2 men having sex.

What really pisses me off is that these people are adding to the laundry list of why straight people hate gay people.  It's not just gay people, it's straight people who are doing it but that doesn't get put in the newspaper or on the news, they focus more on the gay people doing this.  If people want to find other people to have sex why can't they do what normal people do, go to a bar and end up going home with someone.  Do whatever you gotta do but don't go to the park and do something gross like having sex in cars and in the bathroom.

I have actually seen men and women making out in cars at 2 parks, 1 of them is by a Catholic school too which is in a neighborhood.  Plus I've seen straight people making out at the parking lot across the street from AAA on Truxton Ave.  I see these people doing this and all I can think is that they aren't married, they are probably cheating on their spouses because trust me, if you are as old as these people are and you are having to make out with someone in your car, you aren't married to them, you are cheating and most likely because your husband or wife don't have sex with you anymore so you are sneaking around.

I have seen straight people doing this several times but I have yet to see any gay people in cars.  I don't ever use the bathroom unless I am so desperate to go to the bathroom.  I'm a bit of a germaphobe so I would prefer not to sit on public toilet seats.  Peeing is one thing but if I see someone standing at a urinal I will use the stall to pee.  I don't use park bathroom stalls because they don't have doors.  So you won't see me in the park bathrooms unless I REALLY needed to go lol.

My Pez Collection Video

Recently I posted pictures of my Pez Dispenser collection but then I decided that I wanted to do a video so here it is.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmC_PeJwRQ

Clay's Restaurant

California Avenue IHOP becomes independent eatery

November 28th 2008, IHOP in Bakersfield became Clay's Restaurant.  We've been going to that IHOP since 2000 but we don't always have the money to be regulars.  We only go once in awhile.  But we actually haven't been there at all since they changed their name to Clay's.

Well this morning Chip wanted to go out for breakfast and the place that he chose was closed for some strange reason.  So he said well let's go to Denny's.  I said that's too far.  He said where do you want to go and I said "well we haven't been to Clay's yet" so that's where we went.

We get there and are seated right away.  There was a person we knew who was leaving so Chip wanted to talk to him before we sat down.  Our host had our menu's sitting open on the table waiting for us which I thought was very nice.

So we order and our food comes, I ordered the #6 2 eggs, 3 bacon, 3 sausage, hash browns and pancakes.  Chip ordered chicken fried steak with gravy, eggs, hash browns and toast.

I can't speak for him but he didn't complain about his food.  My food was pretty good.  The sausage was different though, it wasn't over cooked and wrinkly, it was a nice light shade of brown and it was smooth.  The bacon was also very flat and smooth and it tasted good.  The pancakes were smaller but I guess they can't sell pancakes that look exactly like IHOP's so they just made them smaller.  The hash browns weren't crispy which is IHOP's signature hash browns but that was fine.  It was still good.  Normally scrambled eggs are 1 solid color but mine weren't mixed completely so you could see the yellow and white.  That's not a bad thing, the eggs were good but it was just different.

Our waitress was Donna and she was a very nice woman.  We asked her if the business has suffered since they changed their name to Clay's and she said that there aren't as many customers as when they were IHOP but the customers are coming back.  I can say that I would definitely come back because the food was very good.

Clay's Restaurant is located at 1530 California Ave. in Bakesfield, CA.  There are also other Clay's, I just know about this one and the one over by Valley Plaza on Ming.  I would recommend Clay's and I give them 5 stars.

Jesse Evicted Again!

I skipped watching Big Brother this summer because it's toooooooo dramatic lol.  I watched the last 2 though and it was enough drama for 1 lifetime.

I actually started watching BB9 in the middle and I did enjoy it and so when BB10 was on I watched it from the very first episode all the way to the end.  Jesse was the biggest hoser on that show and he totally deserved to get evicted.  This season I'm sure he was a huge hoser again, I'm sure he was because, he's in the Jury house now.  Boy would I hate to be the next person evicted especially if I voted him out and you know he's going to ask you who you voted for lol.

How I happened to find out is I decided to take a sneak peek into the show by turning Showtime 2 on and seeing who all was still in the house and Jesse was nowhere to be seen.  You know if he was still in the house he would be all over the place and he would be on camera.  But he wasn't so I went to the CBS/Big Brother page and found out that he was evicted.

So I went back to the TV on Primetime on Demand and watched the last episode.  I was surprised because he wasn't even up for eviction and just before voting started, Jeff, the guy who won the Coup D'etat, took both people off the block and put Natalie and Jesse on the block.  He got voted out with 3 votes.

I'm not surprised at all I have to say.  During that episode I got to get a glimpse of what has happened during the week, or at least since the prior episode which is probably only a couple of days and see Jesse fighting with the guy who was on the block to be evicted, the guy who was fighting with the HOH who put him up there.

Ok, I am NOT going to get into it lol.  I really don't want to watch this show because it takes a lot out of a person mentally, you know?  I mean, you get so wrapped up in watching all the drama and you start turning into these people that you are watching and all of a sudden you have attitude towards people and they are like dude, what's wrong with you lol.

Anyway, I think it's funny that he's gone again lol.  On one hand I really do feel sorry for him but on the other hand he probably deserved it because he was probably a total douche hose to everyone just like last time.

He thinks he is all that because he works out and he's got a cute face and a fuckin' hot body but looks can only get you so far.  People can look past your looks when they get to know your personality.  Once you start showing people who you really are then they don't even see the pretty face and the pumped up chest and 6 pack abs anymore.  It actually makes people make snap judgments about people who do work out, when you see someone acting the way he acts then you think maybe all the other guys who work out are as arrogant as Jesse is.  So then you try to keep your distance from other muscle guys.  I know I wouldn't want to be friends with a guy like that knowing he might start drama every time he sees you.

Ok, I'm done with Big Brother lol.

Better Than Me?

In the season finale of Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List, she was getting a star on the Palm Springs walk of er... fame?  She was visiting Suzanne Summers and they were walking through her "organic" garden and Suzanne was basically beating up Kathy for drinking diet sodas.

I know it seems that in all of my posts I'm talking trash but I'm not telling anyone that I'm better than they are because I have TONS of faults.  I'm not perfect, nobody is.  And people who eat healthy certainly are not better yet they act like they are better than everyone else.  Vegetarians too.  They act so superior because they don't eat meat and you are such a horrible person for eating a hamburger.

It's arrogant for anyone who eats organic or vegetarian to think that they are better than everyone else and to me it just shouts douchebag alert.  When I saw Suzanne basically making Kathy feel bad for sneaking in diet soda at her party it made me cringe because she has no right to tell anyone what they can and cannot drink.  It's like the arrogance of Christians for telling gay people they cannot get married.

Wow, how did I sneak that in there?  LOL

Edit: I have to make a correction in this post.  Ok 1st, it was wrong for me to say douchebag alert.  And 2nd, a person does have the right to say that you cannot sneak something into their house because it is "their" house after all and if they don't want something in then you shouldn't bring it in.  Talk about arrogant.  I was being arrogant in both cases.  I truly am sorry.