Mother Nature You Bitch

              The weekend is over and here we are at work.  Why do we have to work.  Why can't I just say I need X amount of money and the money fairy could just drop it off and I would be all set. Well, now I know I am not dreaming as I sit her with a couple hundred hardware support calls calling my name.  Why do I do this...really..why.  I could pretty much do anything I want to make the money I make here.  It is because it is the people I work with I love so much....OK now I am dreaming.

                So I had weigh in day for our little fatboy competition at work.  I was sure I was going to be on the + side this week. Guess what...I lost another 1 1/2 pounds.  I was second as one of the other guys lost 3 lbs.  one Guy stayed even and other gain 3 pounds...we ridiculed him greatly and told him next week he should shave and he will be ok.

              The weather outside is, well ok. So It snowed and was cold for a few days. Now it is pretty nice. Isn't that great for the North East...Oooo Mother Nature you bitch.  Snow and I depress you...I hate this weather...then hey we are going to go from 15 degrees to 45 degrees in two days...Now this is more like it...I can deal with this....then 2 feet of snow...ok my slave now get out and deal with my wrath....I hate this weather, I am moving south...then 50 degree weather......well you get the idea...

       I think I found out what I want to be..I want to be a side kick...yes I think I can do that..how cool would that be just to be a side kick...just look good and do all the cool stuff and let someone else take the credit.

Wait a sec....thats what I freaking do now.


 Anyway...on to the next fun filled day in the life of Angus....

Wake up and smell the pissed off....

 
     All week you have to be someplace, you have to go to work to pay the bills. The weekend is supposed to be the days you do not have to be anyplace until you want to be. The weekend is a time to relax and enjoy.

Unless you have an Angus life.

     So here is how things go for Angus. I am an early bird by habit. Many times people I know say to me "Why the hell are you so upbeat this early in the morning"....well this is your answer..its mid-day to me that’s freaking why.

Some days it is not by choice.

     Its Saturday and I am up at 4:30am. I am used to being a morning person, and most times I am OK with that. But I think the way you wake up is the way your day is going to be. If you wake up on your own and roll over and yawn and stretch then get up and start your day, its going to be OK. That’s the kind of morning I crave.

     This is how today my wonderful Saturday, no work day started. I am laying in bed all nice and warm no worries in the world. I am all snuggled in as the day had not started yet. I open my eyes a second to grab hold of the covers and yank them off my feet...( again another story, of why my feet must stay uncovered may appear here if I get around to it ) and I see a flashing light outside of the Window.

     I don’t care who you are if you wake up to a flashing light you have to look out the Window. Whats going on, who is flashing lights out side my Window...Now let me preface this with this notion..i am colorblind and sometimes have a very tough time distinguishing colors..so when I see flashing lights..what ever they are I take notice as a reflex. Being 4:30am, it can be a few things.

1.) An Ambulance, we do have a few neighbors who tend to injure or come down with an illness and need to be taken to the hospital. ( FYI: Our neighborhood is a mix of people and they are all pretty great )

2.) Firetrucks and something is on fire.

3.) Cops and we have a drunk or a party that got out of hand and people are rolling around on the ground or running down the street nude ( Yes I have seen this and just shrugged and went back to bed )

4.) I have one a sweepstakes and they are setting up to surprise me ( Still am crossing my fingers on that one ) ( FYI- I am hard to surprise, for some reason I always know ahead of time )

So of course I drag myself out of bed and look out the window. I am thinking as I cross the short distance, ooo what can it be......

     Then I see the paper delivery persons Van on the side of the road..with this monster nuclear freaking blinker on...Are you freaking kidding me..who made that light..Chernobyl!!!!!!!!! Why do you have your blinker on...its 4:30am and no freaking cars come down this street unless ..well read the numbered entries above.

And now I am awake, and once I am awake that’s it..I'M up.

Thanks the gods for the coffee maker Bonny got me for Christmas...It makes being up so early worth it.

A party for Laura...


   We had a retirement party for one of the programmers who works for our company Thursday night.  It was at the Springside Inn and it was very nice. A chilly night and we had been lucky enough to be in the fireplace room.  It was nice an warm.  I got to sit with friends and talk, we all work together and see each other daily, but we don't have time to just sit and talk.  It was a great time and I enjoyed it very much.

   The meal I had picked was a Stuffed Peppers (Vegan style). I was worried it would not be enough for me and almost changed my mind.  The pepper came out and it was a good size stuffed with rice and all kinds of vegetables.  It was one of the best meals I have had in a long time.  I would go back and have it again if I was in the area.

   So I noticed I had to take the belt in another notch....man that's a good feeling.  I am starting to feel that this is going to be the year I am going to get down to a point I feel like myself again...I am not sure if that is a good thing ...but look out world here I come.

    Very glad the weekend is here, about dang time. I have so much to do I just do not have enough time to do it.  This weekend I vow to make a list and start actively doing the things that will need to be done.  I just get comfy and say, bah I will get to it next week...that has to stop.

O'Cell Phone why do you punish me so......

The Droid X2 is the Bain of existence.....

     So I have this cell phone. I have been told by my family and friends ( Or people who pretend they are my friends, even the ones I pay for tell me this also ) that they have no idea why I need a cell phone as I never answer it. I don't respond to a text in a timely manner either per the census group.  That is true most of the time. The reason is I can't find it most of the time and I turn the ringer way down so it does not bother other people.  Yes, I let it buzz and vibrate ( kind of fun sometimes...but that's another story).

                                                       Hello Earth its me your phone


  ANY whoooooooooooo I was told that if I download this program called light flow that my phone will blink until I pay attention to it.  It even can or will allow you to give different alerts and or colors for different notices ( calls, text, emails and the such )   I figured what a great idea...that's cool. Even when the users ( that would be me ) is color blind it was  going to help me not miss calls.  SO I load it and set it all up and now the dang thing talks to me.  I have tried to no avail to turn the voice off.  I can't figure it out to save

 my life. SO now I just turn it up and bug the piss out of everyone around me...Hey that's not to bad...Muahahahaha

Wednesday ..they call it hump day...what are we dogs.



     So hump day, yeah so why is it humpday..yeah because we are climbing over the middle of the week over a hump. Or is it like a dog, you crab hold of someone's Legg and just go until its over.  I think it should be called that day that you really don't want to be where you are and someplace else should be better day.

      So I am tracking my level of enthusiasm when it comes to the working out thing.  I have come to the realization that I am not really one to do a structured work out.  Its hard enough for me to have people tell me what I have to do all day and then have some crazy leotard pain giver " Instruct " me on what to do to be less fat.  Newsflash, I already know that.

1 ) Get off your ass and do something.
2.) don't eat the 3600 calories you had been eating a day.
3.) Cake is not your friend as it give you Man-Boobs
4.) Eat often but in smaller servings.
5.) One craft beer is enough and you don't need 3 to go with it.

      I have been doing this and it is working for me. I am down over 10 pounds in three weeks. My goal is to get to around 250 by April 1st....235 by July 1st...lets see what happens. 

Motivational Saying for today

Tuesday and why it sucks...

Tuesday and why it sucks...


  Tuesday is the day that I dread the most. Why , I really do not know maybe its some Freudian thing that my mother or father or what ever that quackbag is known for....yeah that guy is full of crap anyway.    Maybe it is that I am just still asleep all day Monday and wake up on Tuesday and think to myself " Shit it wasn't a dream, I still have to be at work ".  So I sit at my desk and struggled to make it to 5pm.  Ok who's freaking idea was it to have a normal work day go to 5pm. I want to build a time machine and go back and change that.  My work week would be tues-wed-thurs 10-2pm that's it..if you don't like it move to another place.  I would name my country Angustropolis..yeah that's it..Angustropolis..that's it.

   Well now back to reality, So I have been trying to do this little work out thing with no success...I guess if they had named it Funtime Jiggle your ass off it would be more fun.  But it is not and I hate it.  I have come to the conclusion that I just leave the sound off and move like I am doing something and if I sweat a bit I must be doing something that works..I did drop ten pounds in the last 3 weeks..so I am all good with that.

Monday...OOOOOO Monday

     Monday is the day that I like the most of all the days in the week.  Some people will call me crazy, well yeah, but not about this. Yes we have to go back to work.  Well we don't have to, but I like my money and the stuff I get with it.  I also have a wife that will slap me if I stay home for no reason at all.  We work at the same place so I can't even play Hooke with out her knowing.   In the near future I will take a Jeff day as it is needed when you are in the business I am.  ( Computer Technical Phone Support, if you are wondering ).

    So I have discovered that eating better and just being a little more active has its perks.  I feel much better and have been able to sleep almost 6 hours ( which is unusual for me ).  I have lost almost 11 pounds in the last two weeks with just better eating habits and a little bit of exercise. I also have no had as many cramps in my legs, that's the kicker, It hurts so bad when that happens in the middle of the night.

  So things for a Monday are not going bad at all.  Monday goes quick as all the things you need to do come at you and you are in focus mode to get them done.  We also always have someone call out on Monday so it gives us a ton more work to do.  We only had one out today, but 2 others leave at lunch time, so off we go for a fun filled afternoon.

Weekend Update

   

                                                        Lazy Day's Weekend Update

Weekend Is Over and what did I do?

     Ahh the weekend is over and back to what we all enjoy....freaking work.  So I pretty much did nothing all weekend.  I did dishes, I did some laundry, I did some cooking, I did some gameplaying.  I did one fun thing this weekend. I went to breakfast with my pal Drew.  He and I like to just sit and talk and we work together so its hard to do that when we are taking care of support calls with clients. So we had a good breakfast and a bitch session and then off we went. 

     We have a plan to play disk golf so he can show me his "leet" skills. We played last year and I think I trudged through the woods and fell in the mud more times then when I was in the boy scouts.  Drew and I laughed on many shots as when we had to play woods "Marco-Polo" to make sure one or the other had not fallen off the face of the earth.

  I planed on doing many things this weekend.  It just didn't end up being much.  I think I want to take a nap as the weekend was so lazy-day I am tired.

     Its Friday and I am ready for the weekend. This week kind of ..well how can I say this...Bit the big one.  Everything I attempted todo didn't go the way I planned.  Work, home, virtual and other all kind of crazy and I am looking forward to sleeping in ( Sleeping in for me is like 7am ). Lets hope the next week is a little better.

     Had a sit down meal with the neighbors from across the road. I will just call them Mr. and Mrs. B. It was nice to have a conversation with folks and a meal.  We went to the Auburn Ale House and ran into them and decided to dine together.  Was not our plan as we just didn't feel like cooking and I think I ran out of dishes to cook with anyway ( Note to self, if you run the dishwasher when it is ready you would not have that problem...Dumb Ass ) Any who...It was very nice and I enjoyed it very much.

    My meal choices had been vast and I treated myself a bit and had a pasta sausage cheese dish ( yeah that will help my fat ass lose weight ), and it was great. I considered that I had not eaten much on Thursday so a 1200 calorie meal would be fine.  I also rationalize it as we walk to the place from our house ( the wife and I ) and I tell her that hey we are working calories off before and after we eat.  She tends to remind me its only 2 blocks each way...hey its more then I do most times.

                                                              bradfitzpatrick.com


    So I still came in under or about where I wanted to for the day.  Hurray for me as It looks as if I will survive another week.  

Funny Joke About Football

Old Fart  Football 

An old  married couple no sooner hit the pillows when the old man passes gas and says,  'Seven Points.' 

His wife rolls over and says, 'What in the world was that?'
The old man replied, 'its fart football.' 

A few minutes later his wife lets one go and says,'Touchdown , tie score....'

After about five minutes the old man lets another one go and says,
'Aha. I'm  ahead 14 to 7.'

Not to  be outdone the wife rips out another one and says,
'Touchdown, tie score.'

Five seconds go by and she lets out a little squeaker and says,
'Field goal, I lead 17 to 14.' Now the pressure is on the old man.

He refuses to get beaten by a woman, so he strains real hard.
Since defeat is totally unacceptable, he gives it everything he's got, and  accidentally shits in the bed.

The wife says, 'What the hell was  that?'

The old man says, 'Half time, switch sides

 

If you  don't laugh At this one, then you've got a terrible sense of humor  !!!!!!!!

Progress..slow but sure

    So I was able to do 20 minutes of the work out video...I am very glad that the floor is soft in the upstairs room I do the work out.   When I collapsed and drooled on myself it wasn't that bad.

     The problem with working out after a full day of my awesome -super-duper job ( Yes, I am being sarcastic ) Is I am already ready to just fall asleep and dream of Chocolate cake and cream puffs.  I am a morning person and should be doing this in the morning but just cant get into the mood for it before work.
    I hurt in places that have not been used in a very longtime.  No-one told me fat roles could be sore also.  One thing I do have to say is that I want to drive to the place they make the video and punch that crazy chick in the mouth.  When are they going to make a series of videos with fat people like myself in it.  So I could feel like I accomplished something... " Hey look I can do what that other 300 pounder can do, I just PAWNED that guy and I am LEET " ( gamer/geek helper reference PAWNED = Beat and LEET = Elite..better then the guy I just beat in the game ).

                           SO today I feel I have made a step forward in my progress to less Jeffness.. 

Best intentions

  I had the best intension's to do another session of this work out video last night.  I had the best intentions of cranking up the music and just doing it.  I ended up laying down and reading a book and falling asleep at 8pm.  I woke up at 7:15 today, not like myself..so I guess I needed some sleep.  Any who...lets see what we can do with tonight....

                                         ( Is the book series I am reading, and it is awesome )


   So I think what I need to do is to get the audio version of  the next book in the series and do a little walk and listen so I can log some calorie burner time.  We will see how it goes.

Foods and the Stain Stick Ninja

So in our house we only eat certain foods.  Well thats not entirely true, I eat anything that walks, grows, swims, or shuffles.  But the Queen eats just a few things, yes the Queen would be my wife
and I figured the women who washes my clothes  ( all of my clothes ) deserves the title of Queeen as I am a slob and she somehow makes the things look new.

                ( she can do amazing things with a Tide togo stain stick, she is a stain stick Ninja ).

 I have no issues with the food she wants to eat, but I do get bored with the selection so I jazz it up sometimes and she eats it, as I do almost all the cooking in the house( She does make a mean taosted cheeze and soup much better then I do.) she never complains...I fill that roll in the relationship,and thank goodness she is pretty easy going.
        I discovered at Wegmans they have individual fish dishes ( say that three times fast ) and they are awsome. You purchase it, take the plastic cover off and cook it for the amount of time it tells you to.  It is awsome and tasty and something different. So now I can have my food and she can have hers.
It is also pretty low in calories...which I need to keep an eye on.  I was injesting around 3800 per day..and I wonder why I can't do squat thrust anymore...the horror..8)

So I went to lunch today and a fight broke out 8(

   Yes, My mind told me to eat soup and salad, but the stomach won out and I had a teriyaki bento box at Inchibons...I need to give my Debt card to the wife so I am regulated...the horror...

FYI - It was freaking good......

   I guess I can just do another 3 minutes with that crazy chick in the workout video...maybe I can reach 10 minutes..bahhhh....stupid work out stuff..but I will carry on

  I am the FridgeNinja...yes I am..suka..who..ahhhhhhhhhhh

How cool this one is from cheesburger.com...how fitting.

Ok so I tried this work out thing...and

   When you are younger and can eat and drink anything and not gain a pound...how cool is life.  I can recall a time when my cousin Earl and I would go to watch football, eat about 5 dozen chicken Wings...MMMMMMMMM

 and drink beer and not gain a pound.

...well at least I didn't, he is a big dude anyway and he just stayed the same.

   So I enjoy good beer ( not that Coors, Budwieser, and the such crap..if thats your thing, not that there is anything wrong with it ) craft beer and good food.

   Now if they would have told me the evolution of man when he discovers beer I would have been a bit more careful.

(Great picture from woahmyspace.com)

This work out thing is going to suck.  I did my best to follow the video I have for this thing the Cheese guy is doing ( see earlier post and click on his blogs link ) If I was 22 and could still move like that I wouldn't need your dang  video in the first place..slow the hell down.

I made it a grand total of eight minutes....and was huffing and puffing...I was told to slow your roll and it will all come together...mmmm Rollllllllsss..nuff said.

The snow and how it effects lunch

  SO Pizza and Salad is not real high in calories....if you limit yourself to one or two pieces...ok well I use Spark People to track what I eat. It helps me stay on track.  I find it a good source of all kinds of stuff. check it out.http://www.sparkpeople.com/.

So it begins

   Things just happen, thats all it is..they just happen.  One example is that I have run into a co-worker or eight that have taken on the task of getting healthy this year.  That can include, working out, eating better, and all kinds of stuff in between.  So I have decided to try this work out program a friend has and in the next few weeks will report the results.

See: Cheese is a Life Style for his fun filled blog
http://cheeseisalifestyle.blogspot.com/