Potato is yum

I have been focusing less on these creative projects and more on my health as of late. This has yielded some very nice results. Obviously, yielded results at the cost of delayed chapters and less attention to this website. I think it’s a good change for me though. And this is my website so I can do whatever the hell I want with it. In fact, this originally wasn’t going to be a blog but I kind of just ended up turning it into a blog.

So why do I care so much about health? So sixth months ago I was told I had cancer. Shocker right? Anyway, that was a wakeup call for me to get my life in order and start to do things. Life is short you know? It was a pretty real reminder that this whole living thing could end at any moment. Being a teenager, I really didn’t have this sense of time. Since, as a teenager I had my entire life to do cool stuff. Right? Well, entire life if you keep living. So that’s when I figured out that if I want to do cool things, I need to live long enough to have the time to do the cool things.

I started this website because I found myself bored and unable to put my thoughts anywhere else. My journal would be a great place but in the end that would get locked up on a hard drive and never seen by anyone else. It would kind of be pointless to write. I still write a journal but not for thoughtful stuff like this where I simply word vomit everything I think about. Instead my journal is about plans for what I want to do, my dreams, my aspirations. My journal has mostly become a way for me to talk to myself and process the things in my head every day for plans and other things I wish to do. However, when talking about like how I live, how the world works, and other important philosophical problems I often found myself unable to figure out where to put all that.

So, I recently got restaged and found that my stage 4 cancer was in remission. This is great news. I have learned. I have learned just how important health and longevity is. I read all those webcomics of people going crazy for long life. Read all those Chinese stories about people injecting mercury into themselves to live longer. I get it now. After seeing what potential death could be like, I saw it. I see why I should take care of myself. I see why I must sleep a full eight hours a day. I see all of it. It’s so important. After all, if you’re dead how can you do cool things, read cool things, watch cool things, make cool things, be a cool thing?

From that, I decided I was going to start working out every day. Turn these 130 lbs of stick into something sizable. Something that could eat another illness and stand up to continue doing. And I think I’ve found the best workout buddy for me. Two water jugs.

Yup. Two gallon water jugs (for non Americans, 3.785 KG water jugs). These things are awesome, they are highly adjustable because it’s water meaning I can change the weight by just walking to my sink. They are easy to store and conspicuous to have anywhere since it’s literally just a plastic water jug. And they also are great for when you’re done working out because you got water right there to drink.

I’ve been working on a lot of very focused lifts with these water jugs and am seeing some pretty good gains. Obviously my diet of protein, protein, and more protein is very helpful but I think the water jug tech is quite incredible. Maybe try it out if you can’t get a home gym setup. It’s cheap and effective. And if it doesn’t work? It’s just water.