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Moved up to two 12-lb weights today! Didn't feel that much different except for presses. I noticed the extra 4 pounds (2 pounds each weight) when doing overhead presses. Also noticed that push ups seemed easier after exercising with the heavier weights. Everything will even out as we continue to do the trainings. I started with 5-lb and 8-lb weights back last year. Went to the 10-lb weights earlier this year. Now, onward to the 12-lb weights! Next step will be to 15-lb dumb bells, but not soon. Doing the class today felt good.

Dreamed last night that I was in a Survivor TV episode. We were trying to sort out who was going to support whom. We had ended up with two guys separating themselves from the main group, and two women who did the same. The rest of us were aligned and agreed to support each other. It was a strategic move, done early in the game (before the merge), and which I thought would give us an advantage once we hit the merge.

I also dreamed of being in a room where my neurologist was working with some patients. I was talking with him about my dosages. He was preoccupied with the patients that were coming and going. He mentioned that perhaps I should reduce my medication levels--that I might do even better with less medication. I agreed with him but we never came to a final solution on exactly what dosages I should be taking.

Watched the Kung-Fu movie of all times tonight: Chocolate. It's a Thai film about an autistic young girl who watches people doing martial arts and learns how to do the moves. She becomes an adept and ends up using her skills to get people to pay their debts to her mother (who is in a hospital needing medical care). The story is really fanciful. The action, however, is amazing. The actress who plays the lead studied martial arts and gymnastics intensely for two years and than spent two years making the film. Most of the action was really done, without the aid of equipment and harnesses. Their is an amazing amount of battle scenes where this little, seemingly fragile, girl takes on the whole crime syndicate. In the Special Features section there is some documentary footage about the making of the film. It shows some of the actual battle wounds that took place as the film was made. Chocolate is very tasty!