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| Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | | 3:10 pm |
Bicycling FTW!
I haven't filled up on gas since Feb 27th, and I still have over half-tank left! Keep in mind my tank is only 4.6 gallons too. Seeing as how I've been riding my bicycle to work every day except Thursday, and the only place I have to ride my motorcycle is to class on Tuesday night (weekly total of about 30 miles), hopefully I can last a whole month between fill-ups. That would be AWESOME. I'd have to catch a ride with my sister and bro-in-law over to my parent's house every week though. Shouldn't be a problem, hopefully. Current Mood:  happy | | Thursday, March 5th, 2009 | | 9:48 am |
Body for Life Day 4 of 84
So far, so good! I've stuck with the dieting program, done all my exercises, and things are looking up! Sweet merciful DAVIES am I sore or what though!! I did lower body weights yesterday, which were no big deal (running has been good to them), but the upper body lifting I did on Monday? Good guts, I'm still hurting like crazy from it. I suppose this is what happens when I go from zero activity to full-out lifting, eh? Also kinda cool. I was bored the other day, so I took some time and calculated my daily caloric expenditure. Bicycling back and forth to work (which I do), and running for 25 minutes (I walk back home), I burn about 4100 calories. HA! That's without my dance classes too. Wheeeee, now I just hope I'm eating ENOUGH calories... That one-month weigh-in period can't possibly come fast enough! :-D Current Mood:  enthralled | | Monday, March 2nd, 2009 | | 8:48 am |
Body for Life Day 1 of 84
So today is the first day of my second Body-for-Life session (Day 1 of 84). Last time was a SCREAMING success, so here's to hoping this one will be too. It looks like I've gained a bit of weight in the past few months, since I'm up to 215 (according to my parent's scale). My goal for these 12 weeks is 190 (2 pound loss a week average). I haven't measured my waist, chest, legs, or arms yet though. I'll do that tonight when I get home. Having less weight to carry around will definitely help my running too, which is always nice. Anyway, part of the plan for me is biking back-and-forth to work (6.8 miles each way). It's strange though. Back when I started biking before, I was in pretty good shape, but it always seemed pretty tough. This morning, it felt as easy as walking! Who knows, maybe my legs will get worn out over time or something. So May 24th will be the last day of the program. I'll do monthly updates (weighing and measurements), but no more often than that. Sure I'll do daily reports, but not on results. ;-) When I give in to temptation and micro-manage something, it's REALLY easy for me to get discouraged. Y'alls probably the same way, right? I'm excited!! :-) -Ben Current Mood:  determined | | Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | | 10:15 am |
Recent observation
The world is full of beautiful women. I want to date them. All. :-) Current Mood: happy | | Monday, February 16th, 2009 | | 1:35 pm |
Having Trouble Holding Back
Earlier this year, when I was just getting back into running after my injury, I formed a conservative year-long running plan, including weekly increases, and cutback weeks. It was a good plan, and I've tried my hardest to stick to it so far. The problem? I can't stick to it! The whole point of making such a conservative plan in the first place was to prevent me from injuring myself again, but I can't seem to hold myself back. Last night I went out and ran 1.95 miles (I wanted to go further, but finally made my body stop). That's not a far distance by most people's standards, but I'm not supposed to hit 1.95 miles until the week starting April 19th. I've only been on this plan for 6 weeks now, and I'm already 2 months ahead of schedule!!! On one hand, it makes me really happy that I can do that distance without injury, but on the other hand, it doesn't say much for my ability to learn from previous mistakes. I want to start riding my bicycle to/from work again though, so maybe I'll use that as an excuse to cut back my weekly mileage for a while. I want to maintain fitness, but I don't want to push too hard! Geeeeeeez, having self-restraint is HARD. :-( Current Mood:  annoyed | | Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | | 4:00 pm |
Valentine's Day is coming up!
What are you guys doing for it? I'm not going to sit around and be mopey!! I'm not going to feel sorry for myself, and wish I had someone with me. In fact, I'm doing the exact opposite. I'm going to do everything that my previous girlfriends have ever kept me from doing, or made me feel guilty about doing. That includes going golfing, riding my motorcycle on twisty roads at super-legal speeds (after an oil change), playing video games, listening to loud music, watching scary movies, eating pizza and hot wings while watching cartoons, walking around in my underwear, playing with my rats, and running. I'm sure there's more. People call it Singles Awareness Day, to be funny, but I'm really celebrating that! I'm single, and dang it, I'm going to enjoy it!! There will come a day when I don't have full decision control over what I do with my free-time. I should live it up while I can! Who's with me!? :-D Current Mood: cheerful | | Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | | 4:41 pm |
Just thought I'd share
I have a new favorite word. Callipygian. Not only does it sound awesome (callipygian, callipygian, it just kinda rolls off the tongue), but it has a very useful meaning as well. If someone possesses callipygian traits, then they... "have well-defined buttocks." HAHAHA!!! Tell me that's not awesome, I dare you. -Ben Current Mood:  energetic | | Monday, February 2nd, 2009 | | 1:24 pm |
Tax return quandary
It's not as much as I was hoping for, but hey, it's better than having to pay, right? I'm not sure what I should do with the money. Should I use it to pay off my insurance for the rest of the year, completely pay off my old Suzuki account, or reduce the principal on my credit card?? I suppose paying off my insurance would have the biggest effect on my debt/income ratio, but paying off the Suzuki account would certainly be nice too. Also, with the overpayments I've been doing, the Suzuki account takes just as much of my monthly money as my insurance. Hmmmm, maybe I'll do that then. It's really tempting to buy a Netbook though... | | Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | | 10:44 am |
Theory on relationships (X-posted to FB and Terapad)
So I've recently come up with a theory for what attracts one person to another, and not to yet someone else. I think that throughout our lives growing up, we're shown examples of different relationships. Bad ones, good ones, imperfect ones, "perfect" ones, etc. As we get older, we get smarter and smarter, and are better able to separate the good-seeming ones from the bad-seeming ones. We eventually start to form an idea in our head of what our perfect relationship would be. We start to realize whether we like subdued women, or strong women, reserved women, or bubbly outgoing women, etc. Ladies can flip that around to men if they so choose. I'm a guy, so I'm writing in dude-mode. Anyway, over time we start to solidify that list. Then our first relationship comes along. Something about that person attracts us. The longer we're with that person, the better we can see exactly how they fit with our "perfect" criteria. But wait, she doesn't have a college career. Oooh I don't like that. She ALSO is afraid to open up to me. Hmmmm, that's not good either. Yet even through all of that, we still remain attracted to this person. If you're like 99.9% of all people though, that first relationship won't work out. Eventually something happens that finally causes someone to cut the cord. After a period of mourning, you get back out there and get a new relationship. But hey, this person is nothing like my last SO was! What's the deal!? Well, going back to that "perfect" list, I bet if you go over it in your head, you'll find that the person you're with now is a better match than your last SO was. Maybe not in the same areas, but still a better fit overall. DISCLAIMER: No one is perfect. You will never find a perfect person. If you're holding out for perfection, you'll die single! I'm willing to bet if you look over all your relationships in the past, you'll find the general trend is of progressing towards that perfect person you've been looking for your whole life. Over time, your list will evolve and change. You'll remove certain criteria, add certain others, etc. You will have absolute requirements, and deal-breakers, but the core should stay the same. The universal requirement for a perfect relationship is that we feel 100% comfortable being ourselves with the other person. That of course means you have to be comfortable with yourself before you even ENTER the relationship, which can be tricky... Anywho, back to my theory. Since we grow up with this image of perfection in our mind, we're looking for that perfect person our entire life. Eventually through trial and error (it seems), we find the person who matches most closely. Eventually we find the person whose flaws we can put up with, someone who matches so closely that we can overlook where they don't. Of course, you have to match their criteria too, which is why there's a thing called heartbreak. Someone might be your "perfect" person, but you might not be theirs. Hey, life isn't fair! Keep looking. Also, you have to spend some time even figuring out what your criteria are! Don't expect to know them all right away. I'm 24, and still don't know exactly what I'm looking for. :-) Your perfect person is out there. Maybe you already found them! Maybe you're still looking. All I can say is KEEP LOOKING. Don't give your heart away to everyone, don't hold grudges, and don't put up with crap. While you're looking, learn to be comfortable with single-life. It's not so bad, really!! :-) -Ben Current Mood:  calm | | Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | | 9:26 am |
General Life Mutterings
So lately, life has been rather bland. Not that that's really a terrible thing though. Life can't always be exciting! The problem is that I'm only 24, and have more free time than I care to admit. I should be doing things I love, and spending my time on passionate pursuits! Instead, I read a few pages of a book, watch a movie in the background while cleaning, neglect a load of laundry, and then possibly play Nazi Zombies with my roommate before going running and then retiring for the night. Sure, it's a weeknight, so I can't go on any fantastic adventures or anything, but still! Why does everything seem like it's just filling and passing my time, instead of time draining away while I do something I love!?? I think the problem I have is that I'm not really passionate about anything. I like reading, movies, running, music, playing piano, singing, practicing musical saw, bicycling, video games, etc. But I don't LOVE any of those things. I might be passionate about running if I could only DO IT without getting shin splints! >:-( I might be passionate about motorcycling if I had anyone else to ride with, or the money to go on trips. Anyway, so lately I've been trying to do new things and find my passion. I've started playing the musical saw, which is really pretty and a lot of fun, but I need a bow to be able to play it right. I'm going to learn how to program Ruby, which has always been exciting to me, so we'll see how that goes. I'm trying to do things I know I need to do, as opposed to being lazy. I'm wondering if maybe I just can't seem to enjoy fun things when I know there are all sorts of neglected things I know need doing first. Sitting down and reading would probably be more fun if I knew I didn't have a load of laundry waiting, a room that needs vacuuming and dusting, a bathroom that needs cleaning, and a rat cage that needs changing. Oh well, such is life. Keep pushing forward, right? Current Mood: Zen | | Friday, January 16th, 2009 | | 11:25 am |
Internal urgings
Feeling like you should is a good indicator. Current Mood: happy | | Monday, January 12th, 2009 | | 11:00 am |
Custom ringtones
Anybody on here have difficulty getting custom MP3 ringtones on your phone? I do! Verizon is absolutely RETARDED about custom ringtones. I just recently got the LG Dare, and even though it's an awesome music player, it won't let me use my songs as ringtones! Anyone else have this problem? The solution?? MOBILE17.COM! It's awesome. You can upload any MP3 file you want, and tell it where in the song you want the ringtone to start, and how long it should go for (20 seconds is typical ringtone length), and it'll send it to you in a picture message. The service is completely free, not loaded with spam or spyware or anything, and it works wonderfully! The only thing is that it makes you wait before it sends you the files (depending on how busy the site is). Can't complain for it being free though! So far, I've made ringtones out of: Paul Oakenfold - If You're Gonna Jump The Dickies - Killer Clowns from Outer Space The Muppets - Mahna Mahna Tenacious D - Tribute (vocal solo part) Crystal Method - Name of the Game Also, anyone have any requests for what song their ringtone is? :-) It'll just be default unless you request something else. Current Mood: happy | | Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | | 10:41 am |
| | Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | | 2:40 pm |
| | Monday, December 1st, 2008 | | 1:16 pm |
Frustration rising!
I'm not perfect. I know certain flaws I have, and I'm working hard on them. I know these flaws keep me from having a healthy relationship, as well as keeping girls from even noticing me sometimes. The problem is that even though I know I'm not in a place to have a good relationship right now, I want to be in one SOOOO bad! Maybe it's just cosmic evil forces trying to prevent me from bettering myself or something. I dunno. It bugs me though. I bet you anything what'll happen is I'll finally get used to the idea of me not dating, and I'll become truly happy in my single life, and THEN a girl will come along. Just in time to change things up, and then when I'm getting into the relationship mode, she leaves, and I'm stuck with another 3 months of adjusting back to single life. Repeat ad nauseum. Hehe, that's my luck anyway. Women are a disturbing force! The universes problems are all their fault. But I still can't live without them. :-) Current Mood:  tired | | Monday, November 24th, 2008 | | 10:18 am |
Birthday gifts, WUT WUT!
YAY I got my Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS watch today! Now I'll be able to train in style! :-) I can't wait to be able to use it! :-D I have to wait until tomorrow night though... Speaking of birthday, HEART ATTACK GRILL TONIGHT! Yum yum yum. Current Mood:  crazy | | Friday, November 21st, 2008 | | 9:59 am |
| | Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | | 10:05 am |
Veteran's Day
Happy Veteran's Day, everyone! Hopefully you exercised the hard-earned right to vote this past month, and hopefully you appreciate all the lives given to earn us that right. If you know a war Veteran, please make sure you thank them for their service! Current Mood: happy | | Monday, November 10th, 2008 | | 4:02 pm |
Annoyances, Vol. 86,723
People that use ringtones for text messages bug the CRAP outta me!!! >:-( Current Mood: annoyed | | Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | | 10:29 am |
Awesomeness
Oh and also, I picked up Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD (brand new) from Fry's yesterday for $7.22 EPIC WIN!! Current Mood: happy |
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