You never know what childhood perceptions are going to turn into landmines until you step right in the middle of one. My first experience with this phenomenon was a few years ago when I realized why I so dearly love to drink soda. For me, the progression goes like this:Soda = Treat = HAPPY! = […]
Year: 2013
The Hobby
Many people, whether they’ll admit it or not, have hobbies. One of my biggest used to be video games. Yeah, you read that right, it’s in past tense. My interest waned completely and I haven’t played one since July. Looking back over my blog posts of the past six months or so will tell you […]
Neil Armstrong, Halfway There
Today is one of those big days for me. You know the ones I mean. This is one of those days when something monumental has happened. I’m not talking about getting a package you’ve been waiting on, or your favorite show is back on the air after a long hiatus. I’m talking about one of […]
Challenge Smashed!
Okay, here it is, all that juicy before and after info from the Six-Week Challenge! This post is a mash-up of what I put together for the end of my challenge thread on the NF forums. I know a couple of you four readers are into numbers, so you should get a kick out of this. Everybody […]
Challenge Completion
It’s cool and rainy here in town this morning. Seems like a good time for drinking coffee and working on the computers. We’re near the end of our challenge after a particularly long week, getting ready to quantify all of the hard work we’ve done over the past couple of months, and I feel pretty […]
Motivation, Will, and a Little NSV
I’m coming up on one of my milestone goals. I arbitrarily set them every 25lbs, so I’d have 10 “Milestones” on my total journey from 475 to 225. I’m getting close to 350, which is the halfway point. I guess that makes this a MILESTONE GOAL instead of a milestone goal. I’d been told, have read, and heard many […]
Posting: Challenge Update
I’m a bit late this week in posting to keep up with my six-week challenge goals. Part of that is because I’ve been busy, especially on Friday, and part of it is because I’ve had a really hard time focusing lately. Harder than usual, that is. Flighty brain is flightier. What’s got me so distracted? […]
Hair
Last Thursday I shocked my friends, my family, and myself by taking a flying leap out of my comfort zone. I finally acted on a big decision I’d been considering for a couple of years. You’re thinking I went out and bought something huge, aren’t you? Or took a new job, or decided to move […]
Useful Nostalgia
One of our friends posted a picture of Wonder Woman on Faceblech the other day. Shortly thereafter I ran across a picture of Erin Gray and Nichelle Nichols (together! squeeee!), and my Giant Nostalgia Bomb of a reaction got me to thinking about the women I admired as a kid. Here’s the short list.—My Mom—Wonder […]
Birthdays and Bicycles – Part 2
There was a little more of a gap between Part One and Part Two than I would have liked. As I mentioned in Part One, I was concerned about going into a local bike shop and being told (politely or not) that they wouldn’t be able to help me. I’m still a magnificently fat bastard, after all- […]