I run and I'm still a fatty (and I'm in a bad mood)!

I ran 4 miles Tuesday. I weighed in Wednesday morning and registered (fully clothed) 177 lbs. I ran 4.3 miles after that. I weighed (fully clothed) 173.2 after that. What?!? Unpossible!

Not sure what's going on with my weight. I'm pretty stressed at work. I'm tired. I'm not in a good mood these days.

87.3% | 174.78 lbs. (175.8 lbs.) | 16% (8 of 50) | 68.49% (250 of 365) | 102/55 lbs.

Kelsey's Big News and Dinner With the In-Laws

Got some great news from Kels today. She got the cartoonist job for the paper (kind of)! They currently have two "mediocre" cartoonists (their words, not hers) so they want her to create weekly three-panel strips to be published online. I believe I heard her correctly when she told me that the plan was to allow her to build up her stable of strips and then, more or less, "squeeze" the current cartoonist(s) out of their job. Sounds so exciting! I can't say enough that I am so proud of her!!!

Later I met up with the in-laws at Corner Cafe. I'll be honest. I don't like Corner Cafe. But the company, as always, was great. And the food actually was good. I ordered the Gyro with the pasta salad. Not bad at all. In fact, I ate the entire thing!

Probably won't be good for me tomorrow for my weigh-in...

87.3% | 174.78 lbs. (174.6 lbs.) | 16% (8 of 50) | 68.22% (249 of 365) | 102/55 lbs.

Lazy Labor Day (Yeah, right!)

Woke up to a very lazy Labor Day.

No, wait! Why am I waking up at 7:20am? Oh yeah, gotta take Will to St. X to get ready for his 10am game. Oh well. After a little cook-out over at the 'rent's after the game I'll have the rest of the day to myself.

Hold on! Why is my boss calling me as I pull up to the game? Oh noes! Problems? Issues? Dogs and cats living together? MASS HYSTERIA! "Eddie, give me the game and I'll cancel my cook-out plans." He agrees.

The game was COLD! L'ville has dropped 40 degrees in the last 48 hours. I needed pants and sleeves. I think that chilly weather took a lot out of me. Saint X won, 31-13.

Came back home. Logged on. Stress, stress, stress. After nearly four hours the problem is resolved and everyone has been notified. Log off.

Okay, now it's time to relax.

Or is it? Jooj is not feeling well. I'm still frazzled from the earlier part of the day. Try to nap. I think I squeezed in two or three 60 second power naps. Jooj literally push me out of the bed. Run to drug store. Time to make some dinner.

Except Will doesn't want dinner. He's trying to unlock the latest Easter Egg in Call of Duty. He wants me to sit and watch him. More stress! He's such a jerk to his friends on Xbox Live, by the way. Try as they may, they fail. Dinner! Chili dogs with cheese and mustard.

Unload dishwasher. Load dishwasher. Check on budget.

It's 8:51pm. I think I can finally start to relax now :)

87.3% | 174.78 lbs. (174.0 lbs.) | 16% (8 of 50) | 67.95% (248 of 365) | 102/55 lbs.

Video Game Overdose!!!

Do you know how I know that I played too many video games today? Because I can't remember a damn thing that I did besides play. I mean, I know I went to the grocery. I vacuumed. I took care of the animals. Swept the basement. Made chili. But I really had to think hard to remember those things. The bulk of the day is obscured by video game haze.

Reminds of the bachelor days a bit. I remember on Saturdays, when my cousin was living with me and would work a full 8 hours on Saturday, when I would epitomize the term "zone out". He would leave in the morning for work. I would fire up Galactic Civilizations 2 and start a Huge Galaxy map. He would come home and I would *still* be playing that same map. Epic stuff*!

* "Epic stuff" to some - "supremely geeky, anti-social introversion" to others (Holy Sh!t, "introversion" is a word?!?)

87.3% | 174.78 lbs. (174.4 lbs.) | 16% (8 of 50) | 67.67% (247 of 365) | 102/55 lbs.

Dinner with Kelsey!

Kelsey is in town and we met her up at the Stonybrook Tumbleweed for dinner. She looks great! Her smile was huge, she was glowing, and she hasn't put on a bit of that Freshman Fifteen (yet!). We filled up on chips, queso, TexMex cuisine, and finished it off with Margarita sundaes.

We talked for a long time. She's happy (and that's really all that matters - well, and good grades). She's dealing well with some roommate drama. She seems to have a good handle on her classes. She will find out next week whether or not she gets the job as political cartoonist for the Murray State newspaper. She's going to submit an application to become an RA even! That grrrl is rocking and/or rolling. So proud of her.

I ran her over to Sam's after dinner. She picked up 36 Mountain Dews and a combo pack of cookies and crackers. We came home and I assumed she would head out. SHE DIDN'T! She just chilled out, hung out in her room, read, and messed around on her laptop. It was nice to have her home. Kind of reminded me of the olden days :)

87.3% | 174.78 lbs. (174.2 lbs.) | 16% (8 of 50) | 67.4% (246 of 365) | 102/55 lbs.

(Virtual) Circles of Friends

Just a quick note. This post is a little nerdy (Jooj, you can stop reading now). XD

You know how you have certain circles of friends in life? Like, maybe growing up, you would have your school friends, your neighborhood friends, your church friends, and your family friends. You are a member of each of those circles of friends. Sometimes, but not normally, those circles will commix. Maybe at a big birfday members from certain circles will come together. Sometimes it's weird seeing members of different circles mingle.

The same holds true as an adult. Two of these circles of mine mingled last night - the members of Red Team from the Twilight Avengers Super Group on City of Heroes and Thundarrr, an old buddy I used to run with from my old Super Group on City of Heroes, The International Ice Cream Truck Drivers and Firefighters. I have to admit - it was odd. Sure, these circles are more or less virtual circles, but the mingling was no different than seeing church friends and school friends or any other mixing of circles.

Thundarrr has admitted that not many of our older friends play much and he's been lonely. I may encourage him to apply to become a member of Twilight Avengers. I'd love to have him on Red Team with us. I do miss him. TA takes so much time that I just don't have time to split between my two virtual circles.

87.3% | 174.79 lbs. (174.0 lbs.) | 16% (8 of 50) | 67.12% (245 of 365) | 102/55 lbs.

New Year Resolution... let's be honest

Do you remember my #1 New Year Resolution? I do. And now you will too...

1. Pay off the Chase Visa this year.

Way back on April 15th that resolution was completed (First New Year Resolution Complete). Well, over the summer we realized that we were not going to be able to handle the costs of our Isle of Palms vacation, mortgage, and first payment of college tuition all in one month. Faced with a decision, we put the entire vacation on the Chase Visa with plans to pay it off in its entirety the following month.

Unfortunately, due to a number of reasons, that isn't going to happen. I am going to adjust the once-proud "100%" below in the footer to reflect the situation we are currently facing. I am doing this partly for motivational reasons but mostly for my own historic record. Lastly, it's going to be nice to have that sucker paid off... AGAIN! :)

87.3% | 174.79 lbs. (174.8 lbs.) | 16% (8 of 50) | 66.85% (244 of 365) | 102/55 lbs.