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Ouch! This one is hard on the brain!

Tags: Brain, Color, Colour, Brain Teaser, Fun, Conflict, Left Brain, Right Brain, Reading, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Black, Green, Red, Purple

Lunar Eclipse Expected Tonight (washingtonpost.com): “In lunar eclipses, the moon passes through the shadow of the Earth, blocking the sunlight that gives moonshine its shine. The period of totality — when the moon will be completely within the Earth’s shadow — will begin at 10:23 p.m. Eastern time and end at 11:45 p.m., according to a Web site maintained by Fred Espenak of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The eclipse will reach totality about 11 p.m.”

Tags: Lunar Eclipse, Eclipse, Moon, Washington Post, Shadow, Earth, Sunlights, NASA, Fred Espenak, Goddard Space Flight Center, Totality

You know what… I just don’t want to go out tonight. I’m tired of having to run everywhere and do everything. I just rewrote my meal plan for tomorrow so that I could make use of what I got. I think I may actually relax tonight. I’ll save about 2 hours from driving to wal-mart and back including the shopping/hunting for food at a store that is unfamilliar to me. Hmm… I think I’ll check my email.

Tags: Plans, Rewrite, Meal, Meal Plan, Dieting, Diet, Weight Loss, Wal-Mart, Email, Tired

I lost another pound over the past 2 days, almost two pounds. I went in and saw a different counselor this time. She presented me with the same prices as my last counselor presented to me regarding a bulk purchase of LA Lites for the next year. I didn’t have a thousand dollars to lay down for the full term. She hit some numbers and I was getting depressed. No, I can’t afford the three hundred either. I asked if there was a plan that I could commit to the thousand dollar plan and pay monthly. The answer was no. I finally settled with paying a little over a hundred dollars for five weeks. So for the first four months on this plan, I’ll be paying two hundred dollars a month (100 for the service, 100 for the LA Lites). I remember the days in college when my rent was less. Those were the days …

Anyway - I guess that all diet plans are like this. The service is seperate from the food. They advertise that the food/supplements are optional, but they are built into all the plans. Man … I haven’t even bought into the supplements yet. A box of LA Lites costs about thirty dollars, and that will last you for a week. You can buy five boxes in bulk so that the fifth one is practically free. I’m wondering what a plan looks like without these. Would I replace them with something else? Or do I just eat less. Problem is, these things seem to have taken my hunger pains away (I think), so it seems like this is practically a necessity to avoid pain while on the plan.

Anyway, I came home and made dinner while Angel made a list of things she needed for the next two days. She handed me the list. Although it was on an index card, it was still a large list considering it was only two days. I’m almost at the point where I want to know what day and what meal she is going to eat this stuff with.

- Cherry Tomatos (are they even in season?)
- Produce Peanuts (This brand is no longer in stock)
- Milk
- Wheat Bread (We have an untouched loaf that expires today)
- Lowfat helmans mayo
- Sweat pickles
- Snackwells (with special note “anything that looks good and does not have marchmellow in it”. I’m trying to figure out what a snackwell is)
- Penutbutter rite crackers (what the heck is this?)
- Cheese crackers
- Beagles (I am definately not buying any dogs tonight)

So what looks normal to me?
- Cherry Tomatos
- Peanuts
- 2% Milk
- Lowfat helmans mayo (she is picky about brands, I have miracle whip)
- Bagels

Since I’m kinda strapped for cash until Friday, I can’t really go out and buy too much junk for her to eat over the next two days. Besides, she is trying to lose weight and should stay away from some of the junk foods. Ok, so I’m an a**h*** - I’ll admit it. Also, she tends to like a brand of food and gets upset if I don’t get the same brand again. A lot of brands have come and gone, only to leave me in hot water. Before it was something like “For You” Radishes, and now it is “Produce” Peanuts. What, oh what am I to do?

Tags: Weight Loss, Dieting, LA Lites, Depression, Rent, College, Diet, Supplements, Food, Hunger, Pain, Hunger Pain, Angel, Dinner, Cherry Tomatos, Peanuts, Bread, Mayo, Helmans, Pickles, Snackwells, Peanutbutter, Bagels, Crackers, Milk, Cash, Friday, Broke, Junk Food, Shopping, Hot Water, Radishes

I just posted a lot of my tarot decks to another blog that I have. My wife and sister in-law got in on it too and let me take pictures of there tarot decks. I like my sister in-laws Zerner/Fraber deck. It suits her perfectly. However, I couldn’t see myself using such a deck.

After I took some pictures and posted them to the blog, all three of us went out for a walk around the neighborhood. I needed some excercise and agreed to come along. A couple of guys on a porch made some cat calls towards the girls. Angel seemed to enjoy it and my sister in-law suggested that they were directed towards me - ha ha.

Halfway into our walk, a friend of theirs drove towards us and stopped to talk to my sister in-law. He then turned around and trailed behind us for the rest of the way home. This was between 11:30 - 12:00 at night, so it was really wierd. His headlights would cast shadows behind us and our shadows were really tall. We made some jokes about him getting a kick out of watching the girls behinds.

A half a mile later we were home. I took pictures of a few more tarot decks and posted them as well. I’m getting ready to prepare lunch for tomarrow and then I’ll be off to bed. I’m running behind scedule since I procrastinated with making lunch.

Tags: Tarot, Deck, Cards, Tarot Deck, Blog, Wife, Sister, Zerner, Fraber, Neighborhood, Excercise, Cat Calls, Angel, Headlights, Shadows, Lunch, Preparation, Food, Procrastination

A lot of stuff is going on at work lately - and it isn’t just the code or the database. I’m actually ok with everything and have a good handle on what is going on. My manager pulled me in to his office a few times to go over a few things and wanted to make sure that I’m ok with everything that has been happening. I would say more … but I would bore myself to tears.

Anyway, today was a good day. I am feeling a little more energy, a little more alert. Actually, I also felt a little more at peace, or … comfortable. My co-worker says that the extra energy is because of the new diet that I’m on. My two closest co-workers are behind me on this diet (LA Weight Loss), so that makes me feel more confident in it.

Engin was still recovering from being sick yesterday, so we didn’t go for our daily walk. I suggested that she should go home early, but she stuck it out. I usually stick it out too when I am sick. The mentality I have is that if I’m already at work, then what more of a difference is it going to make. I can be productive and sick at the same time. Sometimes I go the other way and head on to home. But hey - this is me. I’m not speaking for Engin.

Tags: Work, Code, Database, Manager, Energy, Alert, Peace, Comfortable, LA Weight Loss, Dieting, Diet, Weight Loss, Confident, Walk

Colorful Dinner,
originally uploaded by lewismoten.

I started on the LA Weight Loss program 3 days ago. I completed the detox phase and now I’m on the Red Plan. This is the first dinner that I’ve made on this plan.

I made chicken, radishes, celery, saltine crackers, and a glass of water. Mmm… yum.

I was having hunger pains a lot less today, but as it got later in the day at work (after my mid-afternoon snack), I was beginning to feel the pains. I was happy to get home and make food.

Tags: LA Weight Loss, Diet, Dieting, Dinner, Detox, Red Plan, Chicken, Radishes, Celery, Crackers, Water, Work, Snack, Pain, Hunger, Food

While I was at wal-mart, they closed the store. I had found everything pretty easily except radishes. I guess that they do not seel them. I forgot the Morton Lite Salt as well. I picked up a few extra things for the girls to live off of for the next two days including milk, hot dogs, hot dog buns, and paper plates.

When I got home, I went over some of the food with Angel letting her know how much she needed to leave for me when eating my stuff. She loves a lot of the things I got because she’s always munched on them before. I got things like baby carrots, seedless grapes and pineapples. She had her eyes on my kiwi’s, but I asked her to leave them for me.

Cooking for tomorrow was easy. I hard boiled an egg. Angel threw in 8 additional eggs so that they could make egg salad tomarrow. I wrote “H” on both ends of there eggs and put them back into the egg carton. The only other thing that I need to cook is the chicken, but I’ll wait until I get home from work before I start cooking that.

I mixed up my tuna with some fat free miracle whip mayonaise. At first, I measured out one teaspoon. Angel commented that it didn’t look appropriate for the amount of tuna I was preparing. I spent a few minutes looking at the card for mayonaise. I finally found it under “Fats” and saw that she was rite. I get 1 table spoon rather then 1 tea spoon. The tuna was hard to break up, but I finally got it mixed up fine.

It’s quarter ’till midnight and I’m actually tired. I feel like I didn’t get much done after work today on account of the diet. Tomorrow should be much easier since I already did my shopping and I do not have to meet with my diet counselor. Also, I don’t need to buy gas either, so I’ll buy time there as well.

Tags: Cooking, Wal-Mart, Shopping, Radish, Salt, Girls, Milk, Hot Dogs, Hot Dog Buns, Paper Plates, Angel, Food, Baby Carrots, Seedless Grapes, Grapes, Pineapple, Kiwi, Cook, Eggs, Chicken, Miracle Whip, Mayonaise, Tuna, Diet, Dieting, Weight Loss

I’ve made it through the first two days of my weight loss plan. It turns out that I had lost 2 pounds. Something is better then nothing. That is usually how much I lose between my normal doctors visits of 3 months. Anyway, I’m still sticking to the plan.

Tonight, I dropped by for my second appointment with my counselor. I notice that a lot of clients were in the waiting room this time. I’m really realizing that they are all women. I’m beginning to realize how out of place I feel with the stereotypical thoughts going through my head. I usually associate women with going to weight loss programs.

I sat with my counselor and she went over a few more materials. I had scanned a copy of my dietary supplement “Emergen-c” with its nutritional table on the back when I was at work and brought it to her to find out if I could still use it or not. She stated that she would have to check with the dietrician. It is nice to hear that I didn’t get a flat out “No” for something that wasn’t on there plan. I trust that she is actually going to ask.

Towards the end, I spend a lot of time trying to plan out my meals for the next two days. I’m starting out on the red plan. Looking through what is available, it was hard to identify anything that was familliar when it came to a few of the categories. Protein, for example, had a lot of different types of fish. I hadn’t even heard of most of them. Also, deli’s are usually closed by time I get home from work - so my shot at getting custom orders of fish are usually slim to none.

The good news is that a lot of the stuff that I read off were things that I didn’t have to prepare much. Hard boiled egg and chicken were the only things that I really needed to cook for the next two days. When it comes to the tuna, it isn’t that hard to mix mayo with it. I was also able to throw in a celery rib as a vegetable.

Preparing the meals just seemed azonizingly slow. Hopefully I’ll get better at it. I think later tonight I’ll make a seperate list of things that I recognize so that it will be much easier on wednesday night to plan out my menu.

The counselor handed me a scale and a few nutritional bars for me to try out with my meals the next couple of days. After I got home, I looked over my meal plan and compiled a list of what I needed to buy tonight. I’m going to take off in a moment for the walmart in fredericksburgh. I’m out of money, but my recently acquired wal-mart credit card is going to help me out tonight. After that, its cooking time for my hard boiled egg and chicken for tommarrows meals.

Tags: Weight Loss, Dieting, Emergen-c, Diet, Supplement, Fish, Protein, Red Plan, Tuna, Hard Boiled Egg, Chicken, Celery, Vegetable, Food, Wal-Mart, Credit Card

My wife and sister in-law got this movie from a friend of theres a few months back. Maybe it was last year. Any how, the movie was so great, that they would just play it over and over again. Just about every line in the The Boondock Saints is catchy in a cool sort of way that is also funny. What it is about … Two guys start taking on the bad guys in Boston - mainly, the Mafia.

I’m not going into details or I would just spoil it for you. Check out the website for more details. The site is great if you have Flash. If you haven’t seen it already, go buy/rent the movie now.

They have been advertising that a part 2 is going to be shot - All Saints Day. The website says that production hasn’t started yet.

http://www.theboondocksaints.com/

Tags: Movie, Boondock Saints, Wife, Sister In-Law, Sister, In-Law, Mafia, Flash, All Saints Day, Website, Review