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The Little Bear In My Backyard
- Osito Wins
As I type this post, I’m really kinda pissed! You see, I have this homemade 150# sandbag that I affectionately call Mi Osito (my little bear). The problem is that every time I take out the trash, he taunts and laughs at me.
Man, I just want to run over there, pick him up over my head, and slam him to the ground, but I can’t because, unfortunately, I’m not strong enough yet …
I’ve had my little bear for about a month now, and yesterday was the first time I was able to complete what I would call real bear hug squats. Three reps may not seem like much, but it’s much better than the other attempts I made previously.
You’d think that my little victory would’ve shut him up a little, but it didn’t because I made the stupid mistake of trying to do too much too fast.
OK, before going out and bear hugging my little bear, I had envisioned myself not only being able to bear hug it and pick it up, but even being able to shoulder it.
With this image in my mind, I went and approached mi osito confidently, squatted low, hugged the hell out of the bag, flexed my core as hard as I could, and pushed through my heels.
I could not believe how easily I popped up. I came up so fast that for a quick second I thought I had enough control of the bag that I would actually make my vision come true.
So, as I continued to hug away, I did a partial squat to generate the momentum to shoulder the bag, and that’s when I quickly realized something very important …
I’m still his bitch 
August 31st, 2009 at 4:39 am
DAMN!!! I honestly thought you found a bear in your back yard!! LOL. Been back on your blog after a long time. still good as ever
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Muata Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 6:39 am
LOL! What’s funny Usman is that where I live, I wouldn’t be too surprised if I saw a little bear in my backyard. There’s more than enough signs in the park about looking out for mountain lions and bears, so let’s hope that my sandbag will be the only bear I see
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August 31st, 2009 at 6:21 am
Yeah, I thought with the fires and all… you had ya a little bear, too.
Can someone help me get this hook out of my mouth?
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August 31st, 2009 at 6:38 am
Good to know that I’m learning how to come up with good titles for my posts
Thanks for leaving a comment Big D!
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August 31st, 2009 at 6:26 am
Bear Bitch that is Funny. How much do you weigh compared to your Big Poppy Bear?
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August 31st, 2009 at 6:37 am
Thanks Kirby! I weigh @ 190-95, so I’ve still got another 50 pound sandbag that I’ll add to mi osito hopefully before the year is out or by the start of 2010. But, we’ll see
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September 1st, 2009 at 11:04 am
Look out that you don’t strain yourself—-Grandpa always said if you did all your kids will be born naked!!
Keep working on The Bear, you get him whipped down one day.
A Cowboy from Texas
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September 1st, 2009 at 11:39 am
LOL! Bill, I really hope that you are writing down these sayings from your Grandpa because they are priceless
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September 1st, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Muata, glad to make you laugh, it would make my old Grandpa proud. Speaking of naked babies—-when we gonna get the real Baby Bear???
An expecting student from Texas
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September 1st, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Well, the official due date for Junior is the 1st of October, but my wife keeps telling me that he’ll be here before then. Either way, you know I’m going to blog about right away. I just hope they don’t mind me using my laptop in the delivery room …
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September 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 am
What would be really funny is if a bear actually stops by your place and mistakens Mi Osito for a real bear. Following that, what you be even funnier is that if it sees you trying to lift up Mi Osito…it might have a very interesting reaction. What do you think it might be?
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September 4th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Usman, we have a stuffed brown bear in our Science building, and he’s little compared to other species of bears. Every time I walk past this bear, I just shake my head at the size of his head and paws! So, I can confidently tell you that it a real bear was in my backyard, I would be hopping in my car and driving away. There’s no way I would wait around to see what happened;)
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September 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Might I kindly suggest that you taunt/coerce “osito” into becoming an ally? Show him some honey (the fancy one w/the cone innit works best), and wear him down. Tell him it’s time to really see who’s a bitch now. You’ll be surprised how fast he’ll become cooperative. That or put on some ripping tunes all knobs to the right!
>Love you man!> JH (JuggHead)
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September 4th, 2009 at 6:59 am
LOL! I just might give that a try JH!
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September 9th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
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September 9th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Thanks for stopping by Sandra …
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