Life As Nick Starr

Most days in the past, I would get dressed in my same outfit as I do every day, thus eliminating precious time in the morning spent on trying to decide what to wear. If I had to work at Blockbuster that night, I would throw a pair of khakis and my Blockbuster shirt in my car, and be off for the day.

Now when I say, “off for the day” I literally meant that. I would leave the house by no later then 7:30am and head to work by 8am. My day job is M-F 8a-5p with an hour lunch. If I work at Blockbuster that night, I drive the 10-15 minutes down the road to Blockbuster, and work from 5:30pm-11:30pm (or 12:30pm on Fri/Sat). The drive home from there is around 30 minutes (no traffic that time of night), and I am home by Midnight or later, to wake up the next morning at 6:55am and do it all over again the next day.

Doesn’t leave much if any time to myself, but I am also still in a rebuilding phase and need the extra money where I can get it.

Now that I have started going to the gym, and I went last night to the Petaluma branch, which that place is huge and worked out for over an hour. I am quite sore from the day prior, let alone last night. I am now going to try to hit up the gym near my work (15 minute trip there and back) during my hour lunch and do a 1/2 hour workout at circuit training facility.

This makes my getting ready for the day a bit more complex…I now have to get my regular outfit, my work clothes for Blockbuster, and now gym clothes. BTW, I haven’t ever really been to the gym much, and with most of my clothes and personal belongings stolen, I don’t have much in terms of gym clothes either. I do still have 2 black mock turtleneck short sleeve shirts for the gym, and one pair of “workout” pants I guess you would call them.

It just seems like chaos…I started wearing the same thing every day to simplify my morning routine and make life less complicated, now I have to prepare 3 sets of clothes in the morning and find time in the day for myself as well.

Oh well, I don’t really know what the point of this post was, other then just to rant some…I don’t have a ton of people I can talk to out here and just chill out with, so I guess writing on here helps me let out what I’m thinking sometimes…

Oh well, till next time, buh bye.

Yes, yes I know I have been majorly slacking in terms of blogging, and NickStarr.com has turned into more of my personal updates from my trip across country, and adventures since then. I have also been twittering like mad and thus haven’t had much time to blog here, but I hope to change that, you know being a new year and all.

Today I joined 24 Hour Fitness….now when I was in Florida I was a member of the YMCA, but I almost never went to work out. I’ve really been feeling the need to get into shape so I’ve started dieting and thought that adding a regular workout would help aid the process.

There is a 30 minute circuit branch of 24 Hour Fitness branch very close to my work, and I decided I would go check it out a few weeks ago. There was this amazing sale for $29 down, $0 processing fee, and $29/month…Compared to their $45-$55 a month this sounded too good to be true. I went and liked the facility, but when I got back to work the offer was gone…

24 Hour Fitness has a sale every Monday from 9am-1pm PST, and I got back and finished my order around 1:05pm….sucks. A few weeks later and they now have the same sale, this time for 48 hours (so get your order in by tomorrow before it is gone again). I signed up, paid my $89 total out the “door” charge online….BTW there is something ultimately wrong about signing up online for a gym.

During lunch today, I drove down to the gym and met one of the guys who runs the place. He showed me each piece of equipment and had me do a minute on each. That is how this circuit thing works…5 minute warm-up on the elliptical, then 1 minute on each of the 25 machines.

Let me tell you what, I was counting the machines, and by number 7 I had already broken a sweat and it didn’t get any easier from there. I think I worked muscles that I didn’t even know existed. The worst is at the very end, there is this giant ball you have to put between your legs (which are killing you already at this point) and lie on your back and bring your legs up and then down to the floor. I didn’t make the full minute on that one.

I was planning on going every day during lunch, but after today’s “experience” I might cut it down to a more manageable 3 times per week. I want to check out the main facility which is closer to where I live to see all of the other equipment they have. I also think I will stick to mainly cardio type things there, as this circuit training facility seems to do a good job at kicking my ass as it is.

Ultimately, the goal is to get in shape, but also to feel good about how I look. I haven’t really liked what I see in the mirror for years now, and now that I am getting older (yes I am less then 3 years from 30) I would like to try to get prepared for the years where the metabolism doesn’t work as well as it does now (which if you have seen me isn’t very well). Here is a recent picture of Kara Murphy and myself at Matt Mullenweg’s (of Wordpress) 24th birthday day party.

All of that being said, look for more personal updates about life and things that are going on in the future on this blog, and you can always add the feed to your favorite RSS reader here: http//LifeAs.NickStarr.com/feed/

Until next time….buh bye.