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[spacebug]

Practice was hard, and really fun. Went by really quickly.
Did lots of push ups again. I still suck at push ups. I visualized hexagonalcarbon laughing his bony little ass off at me as I did my weenie little push ups. One day, I'll do real ones. Still await my new skates and hope they will make me zoom zoom zoom. Breifly thought falling down on her really hurt my teammate, but turns out she's just bruised and doin' fine. Phew. Pretty sure I bruised my bottom some. Wasn't queen of the rink, but did okay. Got slammed pretty good and stayed up, yay! Still haven't found that magical formula for taking someone else out and not having it make me fall down right along with them, though.


star5 and dangerdhotrod came over last night and found my kitchen table. Super nice of them. It was right there the whole time, in the kitchen underneath a bunch of stuff, right where I left it.

While the reclamation of Kitchen Table was a huge victory for Team Spacebug, Fruit Flies still have a stronghold at Kitchen Sink. Lieutenant S4 launched a valiant strike at PeanutButterJar at around 2200 hours, managing to destroy a goodly portion of the enemy's munitions. The modified battle plan is to starve them out before launching another attack, again employing the trusted aid of Dish Soap. For his valiant efforts, S4 was awarded Spacebug's coveted Leftover Fried Rice, and a nice vodka cocktail.

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[magicmarmot.livejournal.com]

For the fruit flies: get some household bleach and pour it down the sink; leave it sit overnight.

[nibblesonwords.livejournal.com]

we'll be so tough soon, we're going to get too big for our little ruffle bloomers.... ;) hehe!

[harlequinskiss.livejournal.com]

This post gets my stamp of approval. *stamp!!*

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[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Excellent.

[hexagonalcarbon.livejournal.com]

I was already smiling before I saw my name. : D I would probably laugh. Not at you but because of how fantastically wonderful it is to see skinny girl arms doing push ups!

Make a trap

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

take a kitchen funnel or make a cone of suitably sturdy material. invert it into the mouth of a jar, tape it in place. put a few ounces of cider vinegar in the bottom of the jar, not so it's touching the tip of the cone.

ascii-type drawing
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(a good drawing would show you the liquid in the jar with ~~ and so on, but this is html)


Set it out. Watch flies crawl in and become trapped. Lots and lots of flies. Place jar in fridge. Flies go dormant and/or drop dead (the ones that drop into the vinegar will die). Fruit flies love cider vinegar.

Remove jar to exterior and dump into grass... like over a fence onto a nearby highway right of way for example (thinking of your location)

My scientist friend whose thesis depended on several years of studying fruit fly genetics taught us that one.

[dangerdhotrod.livejournal.com]

for the pushups this is what you should do -

start with "2's":

do 2 normal pushups
then do 2 knee-pushups
then do 2 'yoga' pushups (the kind where you just straighten your arms but let your body arch up.

then do 1 normal pushup
then one knee pushup
then 1 yoga pushup.

you are done!

do this every night for awhile. it is not too much but builds up the strength.

if you can do "2's" then move up to "3's"

in which you do three of each kind then 2 of each kind then 1 of each kind. move up to 4's and then 5's.

if you can do 5's you are strong!

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Cool. I think the yoga posture you're describing is an up dog (http://www.savasayoga.com/YOGA_UPDOG.html).
The conditioning drill we did last night had us doing situps and pushups alternately. By the end we'd done 80 of each.

[dangerdhotrod.livejournal.com]

ya the up dog is it!

one thing about doing the "2's" type thing that is good is that you do them slowly and try to keep the form of the motion good. a lot of time when people make you do 10 pushups is that 10 pushups with good form is hard to do especially when someone rushes you through it like drill-seargent style in which case the beginning pushups are the ones that are really helping to build the arm-pec strength and after that it is more of a worm-y body motion that is probably more about building back/stomach muscles. also with the variety of positions with the knee-pushups and the up dogs is that different muscles are being used. sometime also i want to hang out with you and show you this amazing butt muscle thing that i learned that is so cool your ass will look so fine. mmmm....

oh yeah also i think that if someone is counting the pushups that you are doing they should be doing them too. because if they can't do them as fast as they are counting them, then they suck. i get so pissed when someone's like '12345....' instead of '1-2-3-4-5' if they are counting too fast but not actually doing them i'm just like "yo - get your ASS DOWN HERE AND DO THIS SHIT that you are counting too fast!"

man i wish i was a rollergirl.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

For our drill, no one was counting for us, but it was still done in the spirit of a race, so almost all my pushups were done fast, on my knees and with really crappy form.

You could be a ref! Do you have skates? Tryouts are tomorrow! Either that, or I totally think you need to put together your all-boy cheerleading squad. That would be *so* awesome.

[yaaren.livejournal.com]

your writing is awesome. :)

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Thanks! so much more fun than saying "we have a lot of fruit flies in our kitchen..."

[yaaren.livejournal.com]

definitely. :)