Aftermath

So, as I stated before, I ate my weight in shit at Tanya's house on Sunday. I was pretty upset with myself for doing it, too. I really have issues with self-control sometimes. Anyway, I wasn't happy with myself on Monday morning either. I got on the scale to discover that I was 5.1 pounds heavier than I was Sunday morning. Five point one. That wasn't pleasant to find. And then, I get in to work yesterday and Rosey had backed a couple of cakes, just because. It killed me to turn down cake. Especially Rosey's cake. She's the most amazing chef. But I did it. And I walked most of the way home from work. This morning's weigh in was much more promising. I'm only 1.6 pounds heavier than I was on Sunday. If I keep it up, I'll be back to normal by tomorrow or Thursday at the latest. But I'm still pissed off at my actions.

Well, So Much For That

I'm disgusting. I am really disappointed in myself. Today Ken and I went down to our friends Andy & Tanya's house for Game Day. We usually have a Game Night, but they just had their second child and getting to go out at night is now next to impossible for them. So they hosted and we made an afternoon of it. Lynn & Lori, our usual hosts, also joined us. And I ate. And ate. And ate. Lori brought the most amazing buffalo chicken wing dip. I could have eaten the whole plate of it. Tanya made another kind of dip that I devoured. I also had a Quarter Pounder in the car on the way down. And we brought chocolate cheesecake, of which I had two slices. I bet I ate more calories today than I did in a normal 3 day weekend. I don't know why I did it. This is going to have an adverse impact on my weight. At least I started eating after my weekly weigh in, which was back down to 198. If I see anything in the 100s again this week, it will be a fucking miracle.

I'm going to go lay down and be miserable now.

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iPod Shuffle Game

It's time to play the iPod Shuffle Game again. Here are the first 12 songs that come up for me today:

1) Lord Help The Poor & Needy - Cat Power
2) Anxiety (Get Nervous) - Pat Benatar
3) The Bug - Mary-Chapin Carpenter
4) Mood Indigo - Tony Bennett
5) I See You - Juliana Hatfield
6) Gary Gilmore's Eyes - Die Toten Hosen
7) Each And Every One (Live) - Everything But The Girl
8) I Want To Be With You Always - John Prine
9) Blake's Jerusalem - Billy Bragg
10) 14th Street - Rufus Wainwright
11) There Is A Voice - Squeeze
12) I Can See Clearly Now - Neil Finn

Mostly all appropriate for a Sunday Morning.

Doctor Who - Partners In Crime

Hot diggity damn. New Doctor Who premiered tonight in Britain. The Doctor is back! Donna is back! The premiere episode was better than the Christmas Special, but not as good as it could have been. The plot was just a little too far over the campy line. A diet pill that helps the fat just walk away. Literally. Turns the fat into aliens for the purpose of reseeding a planet. I don't know about that. The main bad guy was basically a Supernanny. Uh, no. But we got some great bits in spite of this. When Donna and the Doctor finally cross paths with each other... I laughed out loud. Loud enough to wake Ken up, who fell asleep on the couch. The Doctor is still feeling the sting of losing Martha and has proven he's still hurting over the whole Rose thing. And Donna, being Donna. She's going to be a hard character to write. You want to be true to her spirit, but she walks a very fine line between loud and boisterous free spirit and campy sit-com character.

I'm thrilled the show is back and the next three months are going to be geekster heaven for me.

And if having the Doctor back isn't geeky enough, I hit a major score today at the mall. The cd chain I used to work for recently began carrying DC Direct action figures. (They couldn't carry them while I worked there and got a discount... nooooo.) I was poking around the store this afternoon, looking at the toys only to discover a sign stating that all action figures were now 50% off. Guess who loaded up? Yup. Me. I bought the three New Frontier figures I didn't have already and a Gorilla Grodd from the Justice line. Randy, the store manager, told me that the discount might get bigger shortly. The store is moving into a new location and they're trying to get rid of as much stuff as they can before the move. I guess this means this location isn't planning on carrying them anymore, which makes me sad. Bah. But I got 4 figures for $27 before tax.

Dial "H" For Homo

As any reader of this blog will know, I'm a huge comic book geek. Love comics. Have loved them most of my life. I find no shame in my comic geekdom and I wear it proudly. My cube at work is covered in comic pictures and action figures. I have an entire room dedicated in my house to my comics and toys (well, mainly because Ken doesn't want that stuff in the rest of the house, but still...) I've spent the majority of my life participating in comics fandom in one form or another. I've been to conventions, I was a member of various apas, I've participated in message boards... Well, now I have another outlet for my geekdom. That outlet is Dial "H" For Homo. It's a new comics oriented podcast featuring me along with four other faboo homos from four other awesome podcasts. There's Michael from the QCast Connection, Taylor from Pod Is My CoPilot, Eric from Confession of a Southern Boy In Yankeeland and Wes from Live It Up! Five gays with five different perspectives on comics. Our first teaser episode is up (Issue 0) at the Dial "H" For Homo website, so go check it out. You'll also find links there for our individual podcast sites.

More Than Six

Months, that is.  Monday marked the conclusion of my six month soda fast.  I originally was going to try for a month, which turned into two months, which turned into 100 days, which turned "wait until I hit 200 pounds," which turned into 6 months.  I hit that goal at the beginning of the week, but I've extended it just one more time.  I get my teeth cleaned tomorrow and I haven't had a soda since my last cleaning.  And I've noticed the difference that has made.  My teeth are usually so stained from all the carbonated goodness that is soda that I get a lecture from my dental hygenist.  This time I'm guessing the only lecture I'm going to get is about getting my rear wisdom teeth extracted.  I get that lecture at every cleaning and I promptly put it out of my head until the next time.  

It's funny, because now that I can have soda, I don't really want any.  My cravings for it disappeared about three months ago, give or take.  During the first three months, I would get nasty cravings for it time and again.  I do miss it and I will try to befriend it again, but I'm hoping we only stay acquaintances this time, not BFFs.

(I'm trying to write this from work and email it to the blog.  Sometimes it seems to work, sometimes not.  I hope it works.)

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Oh, And Another Thing

Totally unrelated to the previous post, but something I keep meaning to mention. I went out and bought new underpants this weekend. I get laughed at when I call them underpants, but the word makes me laugh, so I use it. Anyway, I needed some new boxers and I bought 'em. All in size M. I'm down to a medium. I threw away all my 2XLs this weekend. It's amazing how differently the new ones fit. :-)

Doom & Gloom

Okay, maybe not quite that bad, but....

My goal is to post something daily here, but it doesn't always happen. Obviously. But I try. I think it's going to be a little harder for the foreseeable future. I'm having carpal tunnel issues again and I'm trying to back off of the computer as much as possible for the time being. My wrists haven't been bothering me for over a year, and then all of a sudden last week the pain returned and doesn't seem to want to go away. So I figure if I back off of computer activities a bit, this should help.

You need to understand that I spend an inordinate amount of time on the computer. A disgusting amount. And it pisses me off that I get nothing done because of it. I'm still going to try to update this as often as possible, but I can't see it happening daily.

That is all.