18 Days To Go, pictures from NPC Southern States show

Wow, this week flew by.

I had to go back and read my ’six weeks out’ blog, just to help me remember how far I’ve come. I started out real strong, began leaning down faster than I ever have in the past…(note: you know, i just sat here for about eleven minutes trying to come up with one of my infamous analogies to put at the end of the last sentence, but could only come up with “faster than a speeding bullet”…. I’m feeling a few peanuts short of a snickers, I’m so braindead…) It’s really tough to write completely sober, on top of being hungry and low on carbs. Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his best stuff while drinking absinthe (google it if you’re not familiar). I’d like to try some of that stuff one day, but it’s not sold in the states. I’ll settle for a double 1800 margarita on the rocks, no salt, with a Gran Marnier floater on top…..in 18 days.

Anyhow, I’m tired and I’m hungry and just want to go to the beach and look at the ocean. My pants are falling off of me and I’m cold all the time from lack of bodyfat. 18 days to go. Physically, I’m ready. I feel I’ve been ready for about a week now and am just trying to maintain how I look. I’ve never been this far ahead before and not quite sure what to do with myself! I still need to get fitted for a new one-piece suit, order my Jantana, coordinate stage jewelry, figure out (no pun intended) how to pose in a way that is beneficial (that’s not the word I’m looking for, but I can’t think, dammit!…) towards the new judging criteria for the figure division….I can’t have my legs or delts appear as overpowering as they sometimes have a tendency to do.

I just re-read everything I wrote and am about to fall asleep…..how boring!  My butt is already asleep from sitting for more than twenty minutes and my brain is trying to play catsup, I mean catch up….(mmmm…french fries….).  This is downright painful. Not my derriere – that’s just numb – but the attempt at writing something amusing tonight. So, I’m just going to post some pictures from a local event that I worked this past weekend. NPC Southern States is a huge 2-day bodybuilding/fitness/figure event here in Fort Lauderdale. I got a chance to see and catch up with a lot of people whom i haven’t seen in awhile. Enjoy!

 

National NPC competitor Lauren Pearlman who is getting ready to do some damage at the USA’s, myself, & fellow IFBB Pro and GNC rep, Desha Rodriguez (one of my very best girlfriends whom I made reference to in this blog post… http://lilmisschris.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/a-life-changing-experience/)….

…me and Dexter in a gun showdown backstage..

…me and Adela, keeping out of trouble…

 

 …NPC figure gals onstage….

 …as 6 1/2 months pregnant IFBB Pro Mavis Tozzi watches and remembers

what it was like to have abs….

                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

     ….Desha and me with friend

                                                                       and future competitor, Tyler Forbes…..

…(below)…IFBB pro Kristal Richardson and me (Kristal trained the young lady who won the overall figure title this weekend)…

                        

 

  (below) …Greg, my GNC boss, saying, “Seriously, Wan – put the camera away. I’m trying to figure out how to use Desha’s pink phone here and you’re distracting me…” Yes, we work very hard at these events.

           

         

(above)…fellow A Fitness Connection blogger, Jeff “Quadzilla” Schwartzer, with some big guy on crutches …

(you can get to Jeff’s blogpage by clicking here…  http://djquad103.wordpress.com/about/ .)

 

….and finally, a Happy Birthday to

                                   Matty in Boston. 

                 

                   ~  Wan,  OUT.

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~ by lilmisschris on July 16, 2008.