A Little Bit of Crazy

I'm putting together a steampunk costume for this year. Nothing too fancy but it should be fun. I'm looking forward to getting my goggles in so I can put it all together. I'll probably finish painting my Nerf Maverick tomorrow for my gun accessory.

Ok, so I'm a few weeks off but I'm getting back on track. When classes started I couldn't go to my regular WW meeting and I fell off the wagon so to speak. I missed a week, then hit a later meeting the second week to find I had gained .2lbs. I hit my regular meeting just long enough to weigh in and leave this week and had lost 1 lbs. I'm back on track now and am starting to get a handle on doing the WW thing and working and taking classes. The combination of classes, homework, and working full time took some getting used to but I think I'm getting it down again. So far I'm doing good in my classes so that's a plus. I need to remember my old "No 8am classes" rule next semester. It helps when you are either in class or working until 10pm or later every night.

WW Week 8:
Lost: 1lbs
Total: 17lbs
Week 9 Goal: 2lbs.

A brief update this time. I'm still doing good, I'm staying on program and walking pretty regularly. School starts next week and despite the load of working and school I'm still going to stay on program and keep losing weight.

WW Week 5:
Lost: 2.2lbs
Total: 16.2lbs
Week 6 Goal: 3lbs.

Exercise
Actual: Walked 4.5 miles about 4 nights.
Week 6 Goal: Walk at least 4 nights.

Writing:
Actual: Created an outline for a comic book issue
Goal: Keep working on the comic, do some panel and dialogue work based on the outline

So, I'm pretty late but better late than never. I did good last week, lost some more, got a lot more exercise than I have been doing prior to this adventure. I also got a new suit since my old one doesn't really fit any more. I'll probably post a pic up with my next update. I've got one week left before the fall semester of college begins. With my change of majors to Management/Information Systems, I think I have made the right choice. I'm throwing myself back into my studies at full power. I'm going to try to finish as quickly as I can and do my best at it. I haven't felt this rejuvenated for a long time. Its going to be tough working full time and taking a full load of classes, but I'm ready to go.


WW Week 4:
Lost: 2.8lbs
Total: 14lbs
Week 5 Goal: 3lbs.

Exercise
Actual: Walked 4.5 miles about 4 nights.
Week 5 Goal: Walk at least 4 nights.

Writing:
Actual: None (Did let someone read my one of my stories and we still need to go over it.)
Goal: Write a couple pages

I'm a day late on my weekly post, actually two now but I'm not going to let that stop me. I've lost a total of 11.2lbs in those three weeks and I feel great. Its become noticeable that I've lost some weight and that's helped boost my desire to continue. I look and feel better already. Didn't do much on the exercise front last week, but I did start walking tonight. Walked for over an hour with a couple girls from work, going to have to measure it tomorrow but it was several miles. It was fun walking with them, kept me from quitting from boredom like I usually do. Did absolutely nothing on the writing front unfortunately. I did pick up a book of Robert E. Howard's short stories which has given me some insight that I hope to use.

WW Week 3:
Lost: 4.6lbs
Total: 11.2
Week 4 Goal: 4lbs.

Exercise
Actual: None
Week 4 Goal: Walk at least 3 nights.

Writing:
Actual: None
Goal: Write a couple pages

So I've got my LJ just sitting here hardly getting used and I've been debating on what to do with it. I've decided to use it as a tracker of sorts. Two weeks ago I joined Weight Watchers because I'm about 5'11" and weighed 261 lbs at when I joined. The first week I only lost 1.2 lbs but this second week I lost 5.4 lbs. A vast improvement and one I'm happy with. I want to get down between 190-200 lbs at the end of it. They say it helps to write things down, keep track of your accomplishments, and such so that's what I'll do here. I'm also going to back to college full time so I'll keep track of it and my writing efforts here as well. I want to have at least one story ready for submission by the end of October. So here we go...


Weight Watchers Week 2:
Lost: 5.4lbs.
Total: 6.6lbs.
Goal: At least 3.5lbs.
Secondary Goal: Exercise at least 20 minutes 3 days.

Writing Work:
Goal: Write at least once a day, attempt to get one page per day.

So, Schick is giving out free samples of their new electric Quattro Titanium Trimmer. All you have to do is create a video and save it. Then sign up for the free razor. I did it for the razor but I couldn't help putting Dr. Rockso's face in the video. XD

Your Native American Name Is...

Nukpana Howahkah Your name means: Evil One of the Mysterious Voice

I'm thinking about buying a scooter. One of the Honda or Yamaha scooters for driving around on short trips and to work. I'd have to change up the way I drive to work but getting about 90mpg would certainly be worth looking into. I'm about to go look at them now actually. If nothing else it'll be worth a laugh.

I decided to fill up my car last night at 3/4 a tank instead of when the light came on. I figured it'd be a bit cheaper and it would help me check my mpg after a longer trip than I've been on in a while. I recently switched from using Chevron/Exxon to buying gas at WalMart due to the significant price difference. The Renesis motor in the RX-8 calls for premium so I have to buy the expensive stuff so that has helped cut down my fuel expenses a little. However last night WalMart had made a mistake and was selling premium for the same price as regular. So while most places in town were charging ~$4.10, I payed $3.77. Not a massive difference but a welcome one. XD

I realized the other day I haven't posted since January. Every time I decide to get regular with my posting I end up not posting for months. -_-'

So my life's been good lately for the most part. Gas prices and bills keep me low on spare cash, but I just got another raise so that should help. My girlfriend and I are still together, its been a happy 6 months for the most part and we've worked through the few rough parts. I love her and hope & pray that we'll be together for a very long time. Car's running good, just about to take it in for an oil change. Work isn't that much fun any more, teenagers are a pain to work with for the most part, especially this time of year. Everyone wants time off and whines when someone else has either a better reason or asked first. Too bad, so sad. -_^

Now that college is out for the summer I've started writing again. I'm trying to rewrite and expand a short story I was working on earlier this year. I'm going to try submitting it for publication once I finish up.

So how about you guys?

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In June I gave mondracon a kidney (1000 points). In September I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). In July moonlight_site and I robbed a bank (-50 points). Last month I signed my organ donor card (28 points). Last Wednesday I broke rhinox_dx's X-Box (-12 points). Overall, I've been nice (890 points). For Christmas I deserve an XBox 360! Sincerely, metal_soldier

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Howdy folks. How is everyone? I'm doing good myself, still working, getting along well with my girlfriend, and generally enjoying life more than I have in quite a while.

Got a new myspace page, feel free to hit me up if you are interested. http://www.myspace.com/captaingarlock

Also, ganked from Bimma...

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Its been cloudy and raining the last few days so I couldn't really take any pictures, but now here they are.




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I've got a job interview at 12:45 today. I've been looking for a new job for a while and this is the first interview I've gotten. Its for a copier/office equipment repair tech job. I don't know too much about copiers and all but they can't be too much different from computers with just more moving parts. I hope this goes well, I'm really tired of my job.

( Thursday 2/22 )

I just went for a jog at 12:30am. I was sitting here bored and not tired at all, so I decided to go out. Its about 60 degrees outside with a nice breeze, so it was almost perfect other than clouds blocking out the starlight. I think I'm going to get up in the morning and do it again. I've been contemplating using this journal as a record keeper for exercise and other things so I think I'm going to start now.

Daily exercise: 2 Laps (Up & Down my street)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Have a great day.

( my xmas stocking )

After a rather crappy night at work I woke to find my computer in its death throws. The 3rd harddrive is on its way to a premature death. So far my Dell, may Satan swallow them whole, has gone through hdd's about ever 1.5 years. So I've finally had enough so I will be building a new desktop. I don't have the funds to buy all the parts I need or want right away, but I started with the case, since NewEgg had one on sale and it came with a power supply. I'll be buying the rest as I can. Hopefully I'll have a fully functional system by the end of the year.