February 2005 Archives

Well I am on my way to getting my free Mac Mini, I am only 2 people away!!!!!!

The biggest thing I have found in talking to friends about signing up is they do not believe it is true, or they have been screwed over by some other rip off company. I found this great little video from TechTV who tested this out the free iPOD and got it as did his stage manager. So good news it is real, check it out for yourself:

TECH TV TEST

now once you believe , sign up to get your own. Just realize that the better the gift the hard you have to work for it. I have probably spent about 1-2 hours so far working for my mini, Probably will spend another hour getting the last few people to sign up. So with 3 hours invested I will have a $500 computer. Not bad. If you don;t think you have that many friends you can always try for a shuffle you only need 3 friends for that. also when you tell your friends, send them the tech tv link so they can see that it works!

Mac Mini Computer-Requires 10 referrals

iPod Shuffle -Requires 3 referrals

iPod -Requires 5 referrals

Ok, here is my deal of the day, If you sign up under me and I hit my referral limit I promise to advertise your link for referrals. now that is a deal :)

need more proof:

here is a guy who got one and he has links to other people who got theirs, anyway if you aren't convinces now you never will be.:

free iPod article

Well I am almost there. I have 7 people who have signed up to take the offer. So i need to find 3 more people to sign up. I even have 2 people I do not know that signed up on my list jsut cause i posted my link to my blog. Not a bad deal! Anyway if you want to be one of my last 3 people to help me get a Mac mini or if you want to try it for yourself, follow the link:

http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=15472671

i know, i know, call me crazy

Hey-

Check out this great site that is giving away totally FREE Mini Macs!

I've joined and I think you should as well.

It's a completely legitimate offer, and this company has already given away $4 million in FREE stuff!

All you have to do is join, complete an online offer, and refer friends to do the same. That's it!

Here is my referral link. To help me get a Mini Mac, click this exact link to join, or copy and paste it into a browser:

If you want to do the same thing you can.

http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=15472671

i know, i know, call me crazy

After my first entry, I printed it out and handed it to my wife. Since she had been upstairs she had no clue that I had been bad or had a bad day. So after she read my entry, she giggled and told me tomorrow will be another day. Shelly then asked if I wanted to go out to eat and get some chinese food. So in my state of distress and shame I was weak and said yes. We had a great time, and the rest of the evening went well.

I love my wife, she is an awesome person and for loving me even when I expose my weaknesses to her I am forever grateful. And for the chinese food suggestion? That just proves that she knows me.

for what it is worth, today has been a bad day. I would actually like to forget about it and pretend it didn't happen, but it did and for some perverse reason i WANT to remember it. Yesterday already my ankle was really sore and stiff and it was the first day since i started doing jumping jacks that i did none. I figured a day of R&R and I would be good. This morning I woke up and my ankle hurt twice as much and I felt like i was hit by a freight train. My head was numb, i was achey and tired and sick feeling, it felt like i was swimming in mud everywhere I went. I read things on my computer that made no sense and did I say my ankle hurt?

I actually laid down for a bit and thought i felt better until I got back up. Then this sales guy called in a panic over a client and needed help. Somehow that little incident raise my blood pressure a few notches in my already weary body. After that, my kids had some friends over and I drove down the road and picked up some pizza for them to eat for lunch. On the way home the pizza smelled incredible, but I wasn't planning on eating any. I was gonna stick to my healthy salad with some warm roast beef on top.

When i got home my wife had the stove top covered to lay out the pizza and I was unable to make my food. So I retreated back to my office in the basement. Where a few more stressful things happened. When I emerged upstairs later the cheese covered pizza was sitting in a box on the counter and it spoke to me. In that instance I grabbed the box and a few pieces of candy and took off to the basement and devoured it.

Even though, I thought I had solved a temporary problem, the pizza and candy did nothing for me. And now I am livid with myself for my indiscretion. I have been teetering on the edge of bingeing on more food to try to cover up my pissed off feelings over over-eating. I am not going to.

I am far form being under control right now, I still feel like crap, my ankle still hurts. I feel like a failure, but I am gonna try to put this behind me, bet back on with my life and recognize this for what it is and put it behind me.

I hope. And hopefully when these feelings and days rear their ugly faces again i can win!

Last summer at the height of my weight loss(or is that at the depth of my weight loss?, anyway). I bought an adidas t-shirt at the outlet store for $4. I actually bought 3 of them, I had decided to buy them all in XL size, but the one I liked the most was only available in Large. I tried it on and it fit fine, but I was concerned that after a few washings the cotton shirt would shrink and I do not like tight fitting clothing. By fall I had put back on a few pounds and moved my snug fitting Large shirt to the back of my closet.

Well I got it out again and tried it on, it fit. AND it fit nice enough that i wore it all day(which is a real good sign, cause if it was snug I would have taken it off). There is still a bit of weight loss to go but my favorite Large t-shirt fits again . . . nice.

BTW, adidas= all day I dream about shelly ;)

Well today I crossed the 20,000 jumping jack mark. I am 1/5 of the way to my goal. Not bad, if I do say so myself. My next goal is to push past 25,000 by next friday when I finish my fast from weighing myself. So 5,000 more jumping jacks this week. Go, TEAM!

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Been looking for various things on EBAY. I like Ebay, but the thing that always gets me is if you really want an item you need to be there when the auction closes to make sure someone doesn't over bid you at the last second. Well thanks to my sister's husband Doug I found Auction Sniper.

Auction Sniper does the dirty work for you. It allows you to bid on the item you want with only 5-10 second left in the auction. giving you the last minute advantage on others. I won a few auctions this was and am very happy. Check it out for yourself!

Auction snipe and win more items.

One year ago this week I celebrated losing my first 100 pounds. It was a great feeling. I am very pleased to announce that I still have that 100 pounds off so I have maintained my 100+ pound weight loss for over a year. The second hundred pounds is another story, I have fluctuated in my weight in the last 6 months. However, I am gonna continue working at my weight, and who knows, perhaps I will have a second 100 pounds to celebrate someday.

Today also marked another anniversary it was the anniversary of my mother's birth, so we had a small party for her at our house. My wife made her one of our & her favorite meals, Obie's Pork Chops. Pork breaded and fried and then slow cooked in an sweet onion gravy, served with mashed potatoes. Very yummy. By the way, I had a salad.

The kids decorated a chair with streamers for her and made her cards. We also tromped out to the store and bought her a foil heart balloon and a cherry pie(which she requested). We visited for several hours and sent her on her way.

I must admit when I think about my mom, I realize that much of the time I take her for granted. Perhaps, that is because she has become a familiar fixture in my life and I know her quite well, so she
doesn't always come to mind as the special person that she truely is. She, as a mother should be, has been a big part of my and my families life. She is one of top people in our lives. My kids fight over who gets to spend the night at grandma's next. They cheer when any van pulls in our driveway, 'Grandma's here, Grandma's here'(sometimes even when it isn't her). We have come to enjoy and look forward to the Vacation time we can spend with her every year. She has bailed me out of various trouble and problems throughout my life(thanks). And if she could, she would gladly be more involved with us(physically) than she can be right now. I must admit i do find her to be annoying sometimes. She doesn't always listen to the doctors when they tell her things(does anyone?). She also has this knack of winning board & card games even when she is just learning them(grrrr). But, for what it is worth, if I could, I wouldn't choose another to be my mother.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Well I am all out of kim chee. SO I went to the store and found a small jar for $4 in the produce section of fake, mass-produced Kim Chee. I was desperate so I gave t a try. Doesn't even hold a candle to the good stuff. BUt I will use it till it is all. For those that need more info on Kim Chee and are too lazy to Google. A little picture of the lactic acid fermented spicy cabbage:

I Suppose I will need to drive to Phili. soon to find some.

Wait perhaps it is a Urban Legend or semi-Legend! check this out Too Young to Dye.

However i also found this post when searching the internet for Black Sock Dye Poison:

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 4 2003, 02:19 AM
i don't understand why they wear white socks when they're playing in muddy fields.
back in middle school i heard that with certain types of socks (black, gray, or some other color), the dye is toxic and therefore if you somehow inflict an open wound during athletic activity onto any part of ur foot, the dye can seep into ur bloodstream and poison you....so in gym class white socks were mandatory.........dunno if nowadays black or colored socks are safer...damn i feel like I'm talking about institutional oppression in my sociology class again.

So there ya go! Even as the facts roll in I am still wearing my black socks.

Bought some more black socks today. They are supposed to wick water away form my feet when i exercise so my feet don't get all sweaty. However, my wife says she heard or read something that says black socks have some sort of die in them that it bad for you and you should not wear them to exercise. Come on, really? You got to be kidding me! Why would they make black socks that poison you? Then again why do they produce cigarettes? It is a cruel world.

Well my jar of Kim Chee is getting low, I have had it for over a month and it will soon be gone. I need to find more soon! I have gotten into the habit of eating it almost everyday. My favorite dish currently is my special 'house salad'. I use about 2 cups of spring mix, 2 cups of spinach, 1/3 cup of Kim Chee, a sprinkling of crushed Pecans, and less than a tablespoon of ranch dressing. I top it off with a few ounces of grilled meat. Sometimes Chicken, sometimes Roast Beef or Fish. I find this salad to be satisfying and it fills me up. I can easily eat it twice a day.

My wife finds it to be odd that I can just eat the same thing all the time, but that is how I am programmed, if I like it, I can eat it everyday. I once did my own home grown diet. I would not eat breakfast or lunch but for an early supper every night I would eat a can of tuna fish with a plate of baked french fries. (DO NOT ASK WHY OR WHAT I WAS THINKING CAUSE I DUNNO). Anyway, I ate this combo everyday for over 6 months. Then one day I made my meal, I sat down to eat it and i got nauseous. After that I couldn't eat tuna for a few years. So perhaps Kim Chee will have it's day too.

Tonight we went on a family walk. We drove down to the Avon playground and hiked around their ball fields. I am hoping that this becomes part of our family's schedule. We all need some good exercise and I need to counter balance all the unhealthy habits I have already taught my kids. Hope this catches on.

Well I must be dropping weight again. My skin has gotten wrinklier around my stomach and thighs. This is a good sign, for now seeing it makes me happy. However, it will not be long till I am wishing that I wouldn't have such baggy flabby skin hanging on me. For now, I will relish the moment.

Shelly and I got a cool two player game for Christmas called Odin's Ravnes. We have been playing the game now for a few weeks and it is a good mix between luck and skill. (35% luck, 65% skill) I would recommend it for you if you need a 2 player game that is easy to learn, has a bit of luck and doesn't take all night to play.

thanks lyle!

Three weeks ago I was feeling bummed cause conditions got too cold outside for me to continue running. So I decided to stay inside and exercise. I started by doing some jumping jacks. As I was jumping I realized how hard doing a bunch of jumping jacks is if you are not conditioned for it (go ahead try, see how many you can do before you want to fall over). So in that small amount i time I made for myself what seems like a very realistic and unrealistic goal at the same time. I decided that before the years end I will do 100,000 jumping jacks.

Now if I pace myself and do about 300 a day I should be good. But 300 a day doesn't allow for me to be sick or hurt and means i need to be consistent every day. So will I do it? I dunno, but it is my new goal.

With that said I will reveal that I crossed over 10,000 total jumping jacks today so I am 10% of the way there. Will it last? We shall see.

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