{"id":76,"date":"2003-08-23T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-23T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbw.webfactional.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2003-08-23T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-23T09:27:00","slug":"76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/76\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a dinner party at my friend Carol&#8217;s apartment last night, way up on the West side.  It was really fun, at least I think it was, because most of it is fuzzy.  I slept at Ian and Tessa&#8217;s to avoid a party in my building, but before I crashed I apparently wrote a very angry and caustic blog for Ian.  I&#8217;ll hold to it, though, since although the words were harsh the sentiment was true.  <\/p>\n<p>If I had my druthers, I&#8217;d go back to bed right now and sleep off this hangover and start fresh tomorrow.  I&#8217;m ready to finally have a good day.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I made a grand return to the gym.  I haven&#8217;t actually worked out in months, or really in a year, preferring yoga and cycling.  But I haven&#8217;t been able to motivate myself to get to yoga class, so I dragged myself back to the Bally&#8217;s on 6th Ave.  I had a reasonably good workout, as my sore muscles today are telling me, but I know I am a far cry from getting back into shape.  To that end, I wandered over to the Personal Trainer area in the basement of my gym and talked to a guy there for about fifteen minutes.  He seemed to completely understand my plight- I&#8217;m in great shape, with a really healthy heart and really strong muscles but I&#8217;ve got a lovely layer of flub that won&#8217;t go away- and he told me what he&#8217;d do to help me tone.  I have a meeting with him on Tuesday, but unless I can come up with a grillion dollars between now and then, I won&#8217;t be able to see him again.  My trainer in Los Angeles cost me $20 a session.  Here in New York, make it $65, most of it up front.  If I want to work with this guy, I have to fork over $1582 over the next three months.  For that money, I would get 24 sessions with him, meeting two or three times a week.  I know that $65 is not that much cash for a meeting with a PT in New York, but really, how does anyone afford it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m almost ready to give my two weeks at work, regardless if I have another job lined up.  As my brother Kent always says, I&#8217;m going to do it wrong differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a dinner party at my friend Carol&#8217;s apartment last night, way up on the West side. It was really fun, at least I think it was, because most of it is fuzzy. I slept at Ian and Tessa&#8217;s to avoid a party in my building, but before I crashed I apparently wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}