2-1-7

After my last official weigh in I was down to 217 and change, which means I have lost appx. 17 pounds so far. I can't remember the last time I weighed under 220 pounds. I am looking forward to hitting the 20 pound loss mark. Which means I would be half way to my goal of 40 pounds.

I am happy with my progress so far. I have been dropping weight consitantly, and have stuck with excersising on a regular basis. I still would like to get my milage up more. I think it is more psycological at this point than physical. I just need to go our and run 3 miles non stop, so I know I can do it. Once I prove to myself that I can, it will get easier from then on.

Early Morning

I knew that I would eventually have to start waking up early and exercising, if I wanted to get a workout in during the day. Once the baby is here, there are going to be to many moving parts to get away for an hour. I have been very fortunate that Mandy hasn't given me a hard time for the time away I have spent over the last two months.

So I woke up at 5:15 this morning and went for a jog. Getting out of bed was difficult. To be totaly honest if the dog didn't need to go to the bathroom, I might have not gotten up. Once I was out of bed though, I was fine. I felt good, the crisp air was great. No bugs, mainly because it was 40 out, which has to be to cold for them. I didn't see many people though, which is something I will think I will miss. Overall though, I think I can handle waking up early a couple days a week.

Two Things

1.If when walking your dog, you are so concerned that it will eat the people passing by, that when they do, you have to walk your dog off the trail, point it into the woods, and distract it from the person passing by, you should not be walking your dog in public. Not once put twice I had to pass a couple walking a rotwiler. Once on my way out, once on my way back. Both times the woman who was holding the dog, walked him off the trail, and literally pointed at things in the woods for the dog to look at, while the man stood on guard between the dog and me. That does not make me feel safe.

2. I was just watching the daily show and they did a montage of recent speeches where President Bush used the word, awesome. He told the Pope that his speech was awesome. Now, this President and I, don't see eye to eye on many things. If he had come out and used, awesome, in more of his speeches from the begining, he might have been able to win me over a little. Just a little though.

A blow to the ego

My parents came over to visit for a bit today. While they were over the topic of pushups came up. Well, I guess I brought it up while talking about how I am trying to get into shape. While talking my dad said he could do 50 pushups. I thought it was all talk so I called him out on it. I told him there was no way he could do 50 push ups. Then he did them. 50 freakin pushups, at once. Not girl pushups real friggen pushups.

Hold on.....yeah I suck. I thought while typing this, I shouldn't say that his 50 pushups was impresive, until I knew for certain that I couldn't do 50 pushups. Well I can't. I did 20. He did 50 no problem, and he is old. Man that sucks. Good for him I guess.

At least I have some new motivation.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have seen three movies in which JGL has stared, and have have enjoyed all three. 10 Things I Hate About You, Brick, and now The Lookout.

I shy away from reviewing movies, so I am not going to do it here. If you ever want to talk movies, I will do so for days.

Getting to the point of this post though, is that another good showing by JGL lead me to IMDB him, and see what other movies I can check him out in. I stumbled across a role he has in an upcoming movie. He will be playing none other than Cobra Comander, in GI MFing Joe. I have heard rumblings here and there about a live action GI JOE movie, but until today didn't realize how far along this movie was. It is in post production already. The little kid in me is freaking out with excitment.

Anywho, rent the Lookout, it won't change your life, thats what Grave of the Fire Flies is for, but it is a decent flick.

I am a Rebel

The Green Circle Trail splits into two paths. One that says main trail, and one that says bike path. Until today I have played by the rules and stuck to the main trail. Today though I decided that I was a rebel. I ran down the bike path. (Gasps from the audience) Thats right people I RAN down the BIKE path. I did though keep my hands out in front of me though, and ran with high knees to give the apperance of a bicycle.

I also enter through exit doors (thank you Mitch Hedberg) and stand on the walk side of airport moving walkways.

On another note, tomorrow when all you suckers are working full days, I will be taking advantage of a half day. Thanks to my works pre-memorial day half day of vacation.

BUGS!!!!

I swallowed so many bugs tonight I felt like I was a contestant on Fear Factor. I took to the Green Circle Trail, and ran into swarm upon swarm of tiny bugs. It was horrible. It got to the point where I had to stop running, because breathing heavy, meant breathing in bugs. It was pretty ridiculus.

I might have to try waking up early and excersising in the morning, and hope that bugs like to sleep in.