1. This morning at Crossfit we did the strangest thing I’ve ever seen. The first time I saw someone do it I thought something was wrong with them. Then I was told they were doing a “Turkish Get Up” which apparently has all sorts of benefits for balance and overall conditioning. I actually thought it looked kind of simple at first. I continued along this absurd path of thought even after the coach told me to grab a 15 pound dumbbell. And then I tried it. And I couldn’t get up. After minutes and minutes of struggling upward, I had to get back down. Apparently I can’t handle this step and look like I’m just falling in slow motion. It’s so ridiculously hard to maintain balance while keeping your arm straight holding that weight up. The men were doing it with a full blown barbell. I can’t even fathom that.
So I’m still working out the mechanics of this to say the least.
2. My Crossfit box has also started gearing up for the Crossfit Games (I’m not really sure what these are, but I imagine some sort of gladiator/Hunger Games kettlebell battle until one person is left standing). Anyway, our coach was asking for people who were interested. Without any indication of interest on my part, he looked at me and said “probably not.” Now, I know I’ve been terribly inconsistent, skipped weeks at a time, struggled to attend even twice a week, and basically look like I’m dying the entire time. BUT, what makes him think I’m not some kind of secret Crossfit ninja warrior? I could be. I continued to be offended for about two minutes until the Crossfit Games trainees started their workout (which is different than ours as they are trying out for certain events). First up: Seven minutes of Burpees. SEVEN MINUTES. Now, let me tell you something: seven minutes doesn’t seem that long. Seven minutes of a 10 mile run is nothing. Seven minutes of Burpees? I would rather be shot. Earlier this week we had to do just five of them and I had to sit down and wheeze.
Anyway, as much as they suck, they are a great exercise you can do at home without any equipment requirements. The two most important points are to make sure your chest hits the ground and you hop in the air at the end (we have to clap our hands over our heads to make sure we get all the way up with our arms extended). Give them a shot. Then go lay on your couch in the fetal position and cry.
3. One month until Hunger Games!!!!
Important question: Am I too old to wear a Hunger Games themed shirt? Will I be that creepy person? Maybe I can find a nerd friend to dress as Chewbacca or something to deflect attention from me?
4. Adam Levine is touting “pulling out” as a foolproof birth control method. I sincerely hope he was joking because otherwise that is really embarrassing for a grown man to be so poorly educated about the human body.
5. Downton Tabby. You won’t be disappointed.
6. And no thank you to the 14 of you who sent me this link to the $80 Reese’s cake from Williams-Sonoma. Jerks.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this blog is not titled “Growing Cellulite with Reese’s.” Please don’t enable me.
7. Don’t read Anna Karenina when you are sad. It will break your heart every time. Every damn time.
8. And after all that time spent bad-mouthing Whole Foods, look what I found in there:
I am forever in your debt great broker of beans.
9. We got my student’s food stamp problem solved!! I’m so happy that buying food for herself and her siblings is one less thing she has to worry about. And everyone in my office donated money to help her get through the next two weeks (when she actually gets money again). I’m so thankful to work with people who really care about the students here. Happy times.
10. Here is Joe Manganiello posing as a sexy, muscular, greasy mechanic who writhes about on the floor for Out Magazine.
11. I have big giant huge plans to watch the finale of Downton tonight. I am so very very very very very excited. Just me, Matthew Crawley, and some expensive and stinky cheese I can’t pronounce (feel free to leave suggestions that meet this criteria).
12. Dear Viking Cruises,
If you are seeking an a very unimportant blogger to review your “Waterways of the Czars River Cruise” for free, please contact me immediately. Thank you and good day.
Every time I see their commercial on PBS I end up on their website drooling over their $4000 cruises. I need to find a wealthy older couple to adopt me and take me around the world with them. I could carry their bags, read bedtime stories, tap dance, play checkers with them, and make sure they don’t get kidnapped by the KGB (I know they still secretly exist, you can’t fool me Putin!).
13. What was the deal with Kacie B.’s hair this week?? Girlfriend, you are competing against a man-eating model on national television. Fix yo hair. I know humidity is hard, but you look like a mess. Come on girl, save that frizzy hair for down the road when you aren’t competing against three other chicks.
14. Sunday is the Oscars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited!!! I love watching really rich and malnourished women in expensive gowns!!
15. I hope you have a great weekend. Don’t change. Not one bit.
Even you John.
Off to work off to work. ajsdlfajsd;fiajwepfoajwf. I hate Friday. You know why? Because I’m still at work on Friday and it’s stressful because there is so much I have to do before I can leave. Friday is not fun. Let’s all get pumped about Saturday. Saturday Saturday sleeping late Saturdayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. I’m not on drugs I swear. Just tired and delirious as usual. And I haven’t had candy/sweets since Sunday so I think my brain is starting to malfunction.
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That picture of Joe just made my morning so special.
Isn’t Adam Levine bi-sexual? Maybe he thinks pulling out is a good idea, but he really wants to tell every one that using the back door is the safest option.
OMG Adam Levine is not the least bit gay.
I read that he’s been with dudes (and it was from an interview, not just speculation). I don’t think men just “dabble” with other penises like college girls do with drunken girl on girl make out sessions.
I remember hearing that too that he was (or is) bi-sexual.
NOT listening. NOT listening. NOT listening.
regardless, adam levine IS a creepy wacko. if you want a great story about when he took out my friend, just let me know.
Obviously I want to hear that. Duh.
HOKAY.
in my last summer as a college student, I worked in the swanky bar in a hotel on the VA Beach oceanfront… on a night when I wasn’t working (of course), Maroon 5 was staying at the hotel on the weekend of a performance. Adam Levine came in for dinner and my friend who served him was asked for her number.
they went out to some dingy restaurant where he sat across from her in a booth and was super awkward and talked about himself the whole time. except for the part where she started talking and he leaned over and ran his finger across the front row of her upper teeth, saying “you have the sexiest teeth. so sexy.”
…this girl IS cute, but she’s got a real snaggle tooth.
the story was so bizarre, and I forget the other details of the night other than the fact that he wouldn’t stop blowing up her phone with sexual texts afterwards. and apparently, he’s super tiny with a really, really whiny, high voice in person. super slick, from what I hear.
ew. I would NEVER recover from a someone running their NASTY finger across my teeth. Gloved dentists can touch my teeth. I can touch my teeth. No one else. That is seriously so nasty. And he is so tiny I agree. That is a super creeper story. So glad you shared!! Ahahahah
I think we all want to hear that.
Me three!!!!
Lmao…
I’m so not a fan of Turkish Get-ups. Don’t worry, even during my over a year of Monkey Bar Gym I couldn’t do one with anything more than the 4kg kettlebell. Something about my wrist trying to break while simultaneously not dropping metal on my head. And as for burpees, as part of my Krav Maga level 1 test we had to do them for a long-ass time that seemed like eternity so I feel your pain there.
Thanks to this post though I may rewatch Downton Abbey on this fab and dreary Friday night. At least it’s something;)
Oh man, if I lived in Texas, I would totally suggest we show up to the Hunger Games with t-shirts…. that would be SO awesome. I will probably do it by myself anyways, now that you suggested it. Much to my boyfriend’s embarrassment, I’m sure. (I am forcing him to go with me)
Oh, might I also add… Adam Levine is dating a Victoria’s Secret model. Not to be judgmental, but I kind of doubt that those girls eat enough to be fertile anyway. When you are under your normal weight range, it is much harder to conceive.
Do it do it do it do it.
Confession: I love Turkish get-ups. I started a kettlebell training program in October, and that was the first exercise my trainer made me do. I couldn’t even do one of them the first day (unless I did them completely without weights), but within a month, I was doing 24 of them with 35 lbs. You will be amazed at how much stronger they will make you and how quickly it will happen.
Oh, and burpees are the devil reincarnated, but I agree, they are a horrifically effective full body exercise.
I loathe Turkish Getups. And I definitely don’t feel any more balanced after doing them.
Have they had you do walk-outs yet? They work everything and are the second most annoying Crossfit workout next to Burpees.
You squat as low as you can and then walk your hands out on the floor until you are in the push up position. Then walk back on your hands to that squat position and stand up. Repeat. My guy had us do a workout that included 210 of those. I couldn’t get out of the car without help for 2 days.
Yes!!! We do those as part of our warm-ups sometimes or for a distance (like 100 or 200 yards). I always feel like I’m going to pass out. I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds them miserable.
Just read your post from yesterday . I am sending you positive vibes you start to feel better, not so sad. I am in a funk myself. Lots of shit hitting the fan in my life. I wake up already in a full panic attack. Exercise is key, as is crying in the shower. I keep repeating”this too shall pass” and “all will be well” trying to trick myself into believing it. Anyways…..hoping your weekend and cheese and downtown abbey cheer you up!!!
I’m sorry you are going through a tough time! Crying is the shower is perfect, no one ever knows…
Burpees are the devil. My CF place started the CF ‘open’ yesterday as well. Some guy did 148 in 7 minutes!!!!!!!!!!! whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? last night right before our class started some guy was starting his and he got to 76 and I thought he was going to pass the eff out. no. thank. you. they had to touch the target too…no cutting it short man; so jumping to hit the ring that was a certain distance from the floor was the crucial part.
My sister and I are going to The Hunger Games in costume, and we’re both adults- I think a t-shirt should be fine.
Pulling out can actually be very effective, but most people don’t do it right, which is sort of a theme with birth control. I know it sounds like a terrible idea, and it ‘s certainly riskier than a barrier method of you mess up, but it can work. I wouldn’t do it myself though, just because i would be too preoccupied worrying that the timing would be off or something.
So what kind of costume are you wearing? Share the deets. And yes, I would be too worried about timing as well.
I’m going as Katniss, and she’s thinking of dressing up as Peeta, but I’m trying to convince her to pull out all the stops and be Effie, pink hair and all. We’ll see. Katniss is easy though, braid, bow, terrible homemade mockingjay pin, because I can’t find any I like on Etsy. :)
That coach sounds like a real asshole. You should have done a Turkish get up with a burpee ninja chop on his stupid face for that ignorant comment. Way to be encouraging moron.
Yay for your student! The thought of somebody working so hard to get ahead being hungry gives me the sads.
Downton Tabby…brilliant! Enjoy the finale tonight. As for stinky cheese I suggest a danish blue cheese on a cracker with a dollop of fig jam on top.
Oh Joe…when does True Blood return? I just may think he hotter than my beloved Alexander Skarsgård. Maybe.
Enjoy the weekend Cely!
Hahahah he’s actually not an asshole at all. He’s trying to get me motivated to show up and be consistent and quit being a whiner. To “earn” my right to do do things (which I certainly haven’t). Anyway, I respond to tough love best. And that cheese combo sounds AMAZING!!!!
hahahahahahhaha, yea ok I’ll try to hang onto something just to make me feel human.
TGIAlmostSaturday!
My ex is like Mr. Fitness of the World and he was obsessed with Turkish Getup. I was able to deal with it until he found this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDQUlshxO_8
Guess what he wanted to try? Yeah.
I see what you’re saying about Kacie’s hair but I have similar problems so I can’t hate on her for it. When it rains, there is sometimes no way to save it. lol
OMG.
Wow! That is nuts! How can she stay so stiff like that?!?! And no way would I trust him not to drop me. And I have the curly fuzzy hair too, but why didn’t she wear it curly?? She is normally so adorable. I don’t know, it just seemed odd to me for some reason.
My deep thoughts on Kacie’s hair–I think she tried, but if you look closely, it was drizzling in TN and she was out there twirling her baton so I think she just gave up. Another reason she and Ben would have been horrible together…can you imagine the hair on that child???
And I have no idea how those two do the Turkish Getup like that…my ex kept trying to get me to try it and I was like, listen, I am not 98 pounds, I feel like this will end in death.
I do crossfit here in GA and we did the Games workout last night. 7 mins of burpees …yikes. I nailed 76 thinking that was decent. APPARENTLY the highest woman from JUST my box did 111. FML.
Wow. That’s incredible. For both of you. Can you even walk today?
I’m fine today, minus a head cold. Somehow throwing my self onto the ground and then getting back up didn’t register w my body as a “workout” even though I felt like death after.
The amazon who got 111 has a legit shot at making it to the ‘sectional’ phase of the Crossfit Games, though, so I’m not too broken up about losing hah
I’ll confess to almost emailing you the Williams-Sonoma Reese’s cake…but I didn’t do it because school and work have been crazy. It does look amazing though!
If you were to come out to LA, or I was in Texas, I would totally wear a Hunger games shirt with you….I’m half way through book 2 (you know, when I’m supposed to be reading for my dissertation, but whatever), and I’m in love with the book!
I was all kinds of “but when did she come to NC” when I saw the picture of the Cellar 4201 wine glass because I’ve been there :) It is near mi casa. You should come and enjoy the NC wineries one day and run a race while you are here!
I went to NC a few years ago and LOVED it. So gorgeous. I can’t wait to go back!!
I do love it here although our humidity can rival yours at times. The fall is beautiful!
A couple things…1. I HATE burpees and every personal trainer I’ve had loves them. However, Jessica Alba said burpees helped her get back her pre-baby body so I guess they’re good. 2. I cannot wait for Hunger Games!!!! 3. Great job on no sweets since Sunday. I am starting day 3. We will see how long I last. My little sister (turning 9) is having a leopard themed birthday party this weekend. :)
All I have to say is that I can burpee all damn day and I will never look like Jessica Alba. Never. Never. Never. And I think it sounds like you are set up for a delicious weekend!
I want to share with you…
There is this brand new beer shop that sells AMAZING local beers that just opened at the corner of my street… What a shame… it’s like they knew to open just as I am stuck walking with crutches and not able to do anything but lying on my couch… with a beer in my hand. (Note that I’ve always been more of a wine person… until now)
Anyway… they have logos that perpetuate good life moralities and I’d like to share one with you all : Life is too short to drink cheap beer!
Have a good week end! :)
Hahaha so true!!! And I think you need a personal assistant to go and fetch you beer!
Haha that would be my boyfriend! But sometimes I’m stubborn (ok, more often than sometimes) and I go there by car with my crutches… (I can drive, I drive automatic and my right leg is fine), which is ridiculous since it’s a 5 mins walk… but well, I don’t like to depend on men ;)
Um…I will definitely be that creepy girl in a Hunger Games T-shirt. Homemade at that. I say go for it. :)
I don’t care which sex Adam Levine prefers, as long as he finds some time to fit me in. He can put it in, take it out, wherever, whenever, and in whichever manner he so chooses, as many times as he wants to. There is nothing I wouldn’t learn to love for him. NOTHING.
But he’s such a tiny little man! Like so petite!!! I feel like I would crush him!
My boyfriend weighs 77 pounds less than me and I haven’t crushed him yet :) I bet Adam would be willing to risk it for me ;) I’ll be gentle… unless he says I don’t have to be!
You had me at Delirium! YUM!
Oh my God Downton Tabby!!!! bahaha. Thank you so much for that, made my day.
That cake looks a little too rich for my taste. Makes me want to throw up a little. Show me another sausage!
My crossfit box has everyone do the “games” workout, whether you are competing or not…I was one of those crazies doing those 7 minutes of burpees at 5:30 this morning…and let’s just say that I nearly threw up and haven’t stopped coughing since. Effing ridiculous. The girl next to me did 100-in 7 minutes… if I could have talked afterwards I would have told them to kick her out for showing everyone up…instead I just curled into a ball and dry heaved. WTF Friday?
Oh my Lord! That sounds terrible!!! I would have left. I seriously almost passed out from doing 10 one time. How many did you manage?
Yeahh…I did a month of bootcamp through January and have only been doing “real” crossfit for 3 weeks-the most I had done before today was 20. I ended up with 74 and was pretty damn proud until I saw everyone else’s numbers.. oh well, GO ME!
Your week at Crossfit sounds like mine! We had to lay on the ground with a 20 lb dead ball over our head, stand up without using our hands, then lay back down without using our hands. 100 times. That was the entire workout…lol Our gym is also in “Crossfit Games training mode” and those girls are he-women. Not for me. lol
My CrossFit is doing the Open workout tomorrow AM…I’m getting nauseous just thinking about it. I’ve only been CrossFitting like 3 weeks so I wasn’t going to sign up for the open, but our trainers were all like “it doesn’t matterrrrr, it’ll be FUNNNN.” Bitches.
Also, I’m so happy everything worked out for your student! I’m a school-counselor-in-training so stories like that make me feel super sad and super helpless.
1. Thank you for that photo of Joe. He is so foxy.
2. HUNGER GAMES!!! I am freaking out.
3. Yay! You found Delirium!
4. Yay! You fixed the student’s problems!! That makes me so happy and I don’t even know the girl. You’re a good boss.
I didn’t single-handedly solve the problem or anything. Several people helped us along with a very nice lady at the social welfare office.
OK, I don’t generally read over comments before I leave one myself, but you all are nuts. All that Crossfit? Lord have mercy but that sounds difficult. I tried ONE measley little class and had such bad pain the next day, I wanted to dry heave. And HOW MANY burpees? What sort of insanity is that?
So my CrossFit is doing the games too! I watched a girl do 107 burpees in 7 minutes and simultaneously felt sick and envious of her. Burpees are evil and they must die! I can hardly manage 10 without feeling like I’m about to hurl. I will be sitting in a theater all day Saturday watching the last 5 nominated films for Beat Picture. I freaking love the Oscars. Oh and if you want to come to Dallas and watch The Hunger Games we are renting out a theater March 24th. Yeah we are that cool. And … there’s a bar. Have a good weekend!
My brother designed a pretty sweet “Haymitch is my Homeboy” shirt that we’re all wearing to the premiere. No shame here.
That is awesome and I want to buy one.
welp, if you’re that creep, as am I. I plan to wear “team peeta,” and I purchased my tickets on wednesday. win!
also. I said exactly the same thing about kacie b. cuh-razy.
p.s. turkish getups are one of my FAAVES. they get easier. promise.
There is no shame in a Hunger Games shirt! I plan on going to the midnight showing and am only slightly worried about what the average age of attendees will be.
As for Kacie B., that hair was so fugly! I don’t know what that girl was thinking?! Maybe her hair is so big because it’s full of secrets…
Burpees are evil. I do this workout at home sometimes and it’s 15 burpees, 1 air squat, 14 burpees, 2 air squats… until you get to 1 burpee, 15 airsquats. It takes FOREVER for me to complete. I can’t imagine doing more than 15 at 1 time. My LORD!
Also, what do you mean by stinky cheeses? Like is Parmesan a stinky cheese? My favorite cheese are: Chevre, Pecorino, Gruyere, double creme Gouda, Port Salut, Neufchatel. Hmmm. Cheese, bread and wine. I could subsist on that everyday.
Your crossfit workouts scare me! I just google imaged turkish getup (because my work blocked youtube videos) and it made me want to cry just looking at it.
TGU’s are hard, but a full body workout. I learned them by balancing a shoe on my fist (the tread part on the fist) for balance. The worst part for me is lifting my hip up enough to sweep my leg under to get to the kneeling position. So rough. So many bruises.
Somehow I managed to write a comment about cruises in WTF Wednesday’s comment section which is surely confusing…BUT you need to check out Holland America’s Jewels of the Baltic cruise. I need to take it immediately.
Um, I’m 31 years old and own MULTIPLE Hunger Games t-shirts. I am definitely a dork and okay with it. I draw the line at cosplay.
I think we should be friends. An I totally agree on costumes. I would be mortified if a coworker saw me.
LOVED the downton tabby!
Enjoy the finale tonight of downton abbey this is the Christmas episode that all us here in the USA was freaking out that it might not have airred. I can’t wait for season 3, although I am not sure how I feel about Shirley MacLaine joining the cast.
hahaha that reeses cake does look mighty good! It makes me want to go run an ultra.
Have a great weekend!
Hunger Games is out on my 30th birthday. I am sure this is some kind of sign. Not sure what about though!
I love Downton Abbey! Branson is my favorite.
Wow. That picture of Joe. Amazing.
I loved all those catty book titles in Downton Tabby. Lol.
1. LOVE Downton Tabby!
2. yay for the finale!!!! I SO wish I was there to watch w/you friend…i’m finishing up episode 6 of season 2 now…
3. Hell yeah on the hair….that looked awful and i was wondering if anyone else noticed….
OMG! Downton Tabby? I laughed so hard.
I may or may not have licked my screen when I saw that cake. May or may not. You guess which one.
Burpees are HELLISH. I can’t stand them. First, I hate that they’re called burpees because just the name alone makes me want to vomit. And then I do 5 and think “shizz, I’m gonna vomit!” I don’t vomit, but it’s rough. And the jump part is just the icing on the cake. And when I don’t do the jump, I get yelled at to do the jump. I don’t wanna! But I do it.
Yes!! They make me think of babies spitting up!
So glad you found Delirium! I love that stuff. :)
At our box we have to do the crossfit games workout once during the week, even if we aren’t competing. 7 minutes EFFING sucks sweaty balls. Hate. My. Life.
Long time lurker, first time commenter. Just wanted to tell you how much I love your blog! I recently cut most of my (formerly beloved) healthy living blogs out of my life for having too much baby talk, too much fakeness, and/or too many pictures of oatmeal. Thank god you don’t fall victim to any of those sins. You seem so real and I regularly pee my pants laughing while reading your posts. Keep on keepin’ on, girl!
Thank you Kat! I feel like a very special snowflake!
OMG DOWNTON TABBY.
Please don’t ever change. Your blog is so entertaining.
A. Ben was probably more interested in Kacie B’s sister, which is why he dropped her and;
B. I need that massive $80 cake in my life immediately.
Downton Abbey Question!!! I JUST finished watching the finale and I’m really confused as to how much time has passed. It starts with the Titanic so we know it’s 1912 and then at the New Years Eve party, Violet says something about it being 1920 and who knows what the next years will bring. Am I to buy that all these young people have aged 8 years in these two seasons?? That’s a tough one to buy. And the actress who plays Lady Mary said in an interview in 2011 that Lady Mary is 27. Maybe I’m just missing something. Haha – no way has Daisy grown up 8 years.
My sisters and I were watching the Bachelor together and they couldn’t stop talking about Kacie B’s hair. We had to rewind half the date to hear what they were talking about, hahaha!
Yeah time flies like crazy. I got so confused when one day it is 1912 and the next we are in WWI. But yeah, apparently Sybil was like 14 when it started? They age reallllly well. And yeah, Daisy still looks 12. This website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Downton_Abbey_episodes kind of helps you figure out the years.
Thank you!! I consider you my Downton Abbey expert. Especially since this is the first historical type show I’ve ever watched. Even movies, I never thought I would like. Books, too. Yes, I’m hanging my head in shame. I love reading and I read a lot and I’ve never read a historical book. I feel like I have this whole untapped area !!!
What does your hunger games tshirt look like?? Post a picture please, I likely need it! So yes you should wear it! And Kacie B also needed a new shirt. I wasn’t sure what was going on with that, it was like she was painting her apartment! Yes for the weekend!
Well I haven’t purchased it yet. But I’m thinking of this one:http://www.etsy.com/listing/89420092/district-12-hob-trading-post-t-shirt or this one: http://www.etsy.com/listing/85682914/mockingjay-womens-small?ref=sr_gallery_39&sref=&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=hunger+games&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_ship_to=US&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_page=5&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade%2Fclothing.
YOU NEED ONE OF THOSE! I love the MJ tee, I think I need that.
Holy hell, I’ve now watched that “turkish get up” video like a million times and I still don’t really understand
1. No. No way. Not happening.
4. Adam can’t be that dumb. Seriously.
6. That cake looks so yummy, but $80?! I can pass.
15 pound Turkish Get up?!!!! That is cray cray…!!!! I can barely do it with a 2 lb weight….and I really have to ‘think’ about it, not to use my loose arm to help myself up…and 7 minutes of Burpees is just insane…they must die.
And AMEN about AdamskankfestLevine….ick…
And thanks for the Anna Karenina ‘heads up’ that was next on my pile….bottom o’ the pile it goes!!!
I love your blog. It’s wildly entertaining. I couldn’t help but comment because of your attack on Adam Levine for endorsing the pull-out method. Before you knock it and think it’s bogus check out this article. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/health/21cond.html
Now you can have your cake and not get preggers too! or something like that…that is if you both are clean and stuff. YAY!!
I realize it does have a success rate. But frankly, a failure rate of 17% percent for “typical use” is way too high for me to feel comfortable with. Plus, I don’t want to have to rely on the man to withdrawal in time. Since it’s my body that would be pregnant, I feel like the pull out method is way too risky. I’ll stay with taking my birth control every day at the same time.