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Day 1 Back

Back to the gym, that is.  As with 99% of the world I too want to get in better shape.  I currently weigh ~220 pounds.  That is 25 more than I weighed 7 months ago.  I imagine part of this has to do with the exorbitant amount of alcohol I consumed over the course of those 7 months- so I will not be drinking again until I find myself at a weight I am more happy with.  With this I will be going back to my “diet” (for snobs see: lifestyle change)  that I have been using in and out of my weight changing.  It’s called the “Abs Diet”.  Apparently the writer has released a new and updated version I might consider picking up.  If you are like me and want to get in better shape, it is a great (although male focused) diet.  I say male focused because it is written by the editor of Men’s Health and is centered around getting abs and alluding to being better in the sack when it isn’t talking about the actual diet.  But more about me.

I have never been exceptionally athletic.  I played sports (baseball mostly) up until I turned 13.  Around then sports became much more commanding of my time.  No sense in playing baseball when most of the time I spent sitting on the bench.  I had video games to be playing, damn it!  I have never been exceptionally disciplined either.  I’ll swing in and out of a fitness routines, try different athletic activities, and never find one I can constantly work at.  The most enjoyable exercise I have done so far is simply strength training.  I hate running, cycling, elliptical, especially when they are in place.  I feel like I am working my ass off and going no where like a nightmare.  This could go back to my lack of discipline- but I don’t want to force myself to do something boring.  No way I will stick to exercising then.  Wish me luck.

Question:

What are you doing to stay fit?

Fist-what?

We made a drinking game out of this show revolved around every time exposed abs were in a different shot. I almost died. Honestly it is a pretty funny show if you look at it from our perspective. Some of the things they say are so outrageous it is humorous. One episode a man calls another man a soldier because he “took the grenade” meaning he took the cockblock away even though she wasn’t hot. Crazy thing is there are a ton of people using that expression now. Either way, seeing a man say that can be pretty funny- especially trashed on ab liquor.

alyve:

I don’t know what this “Jersey Shore” thing is all about, and frankly, I never want to know.  From what I can gather from seeing a billion Facebook updates about it, I can imagine that it is some trashy MTV show (Really- what MTV show isn’t trashy?) about a bunch of douche bags that I hope I never meet.  I’m sure it is just full of Bud Light, Ed Hardy, Affliction, and spiky, gelled hair.  I feel like if I watched that show:

1. My IQ would drop by.. a lot.

2. I would throw up.

3. I would punch anyone who even mentioned anything about that show.

4. I would lose faith in all of mankind.

Why hasn’t MTV been affected by the recession?

New Years Resolution

1 picture every day.

2 better shape.

3 better sleep schedule.

4 continue to have too much fun.

Genesis

Today I start a blog.  Again.

I’ve done this before.  I have had a live journal, I have had a few facebook notes,  I started a food blog, I started a joint blog with Brooke last year.  None of which have lasted more than a month.  I wonder what it is about me and committing to writing every day- every week even.  Regardless, I am going to update you on the past few weeks as a way to get my life on paper- or internet really.

If you’re reading this, you know a little about me already.  For that reason I will leave my life story for blog posts when I have nothing to write about.  I will just scrap the surface a little for now.  I am currently an accounting major, management minor at UNO.  I say currently because I started out of High School a proud man with aspirations of being a doctor like my old man.  Turns out becoming a doctor is hard so I decided to be a finance major, hoping to be a billionaire stock broker.  Still ambitious, but foolish.  The stock market blew up and everyone lost their job in the world.  Because of this I was afraid I would never get a job ever, so I decided to become an accountant.  Accountants always have jobs, right?  Right.  You’ll note the management minor at the end of my to-be diploma.  This is because the thought of balancing books my whole like makes me want to jump off of a ladder into a pit full of sharp knife wielding, poisonous snakes with aids.  Hopefully I won’t have to do that.  I continue to have subpar semester after subpar semester.  My strapping good looks will save me from a garbage job though.  That’s what I keep telling myself.

I am currently with my 98 year old room mate, my grandfather.  We went to breakfast this morning at IHOP.  He told me stories about being younger, people he knew, normal old people stories.  I knew most of them- by heart.  I could have finished most of the stories for him.  The interesting thing is when he actually tells me something new.  It’s bizarre.  I compare it to rewatching a movie that continually un-deletes scenes every couple times you watch it.  It’s a good movie too.  He has a knack for telling stories that I will never have.  He has a charisma about him that I am jealous of.  An old man, a very old man, who can barely walk upstairs- I am jealous of.

Now that I have filled my quota of “awe”- let’s stop.  I’ll update you all later on things important to me.  Expect a lot of car, photography, and technology in this blog.  Maybe a little bit about me too.

I’m making a tumblr.  

I am making one because a lot of people I know are making one.  

Pseudo peer pressure.

Enjoy.