Zombies!

Jan 052011

ZOMBIES!

I dreamt last night that I was in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, but I guess that can be expected when you finish a zombie book right before bed.

In short, nice book, not as good as the first book, and ending was a bit out there (if you can believe that in zombie fiction).

BIGGEST LOSER!

Did anyone catch last nights Biggest Loser?  I watched it, but didn’t tweet it because I had a headache and didn’t really feel like sitting in front of the computer any longer.  I gotta say though, I do think I’m experiencing of Biggest Loser burnout.  I watched it, sure, but was I excited that it was back on? No, not really.  Especially after I saw that they are going to continue to hide the identities of the new trainers, which is a really stupid idea.  Hopefully seperating the cast members for a month will help do away with some of the gameplay, but we’ll see how it goes.

V!

I was much more excited about V.  I was dissapointed with some aspects of the Season Premier (the whole Red Sky thing was rather anticlimatic, I was hoping to see the invasion start to take place), but overall I’m still excited about this season.  Again, we’ll see how it goes. :)

In other news…

I’m housesitting for my friend Michelle this weekend, which will be a nice change to pace.  I get to play with a puppy and watch a REALLY BIG tv!  She has a new elliptical machine too, so WooT for that.

I got a loan approval for a car, I would just need to get the down payment in order and I’ll be good to go.  The interest rate SUCKS, but so does my credit.  I’m still hoping to find something nice and reliable that I can pay cash for, but at least now I have a back up plan.

And I think that’s it…for now. :)

I AM the Biggest Loser!

Dec 232009

About two months ago two Biggest Loser type challenges started at my office. 

One was company wide, and called the Team Lean Challenge.   Basically you weighed in as teams, and whichever team lost the largest percentage of weight won a Nintendo Wii (for each person).

The other challenge was within my department, and was an individual challenge.  You would weigh in each week, and if you lost no weight you had to pay a dollar, and if you gained weight you had a pay a dollar for each pound gained.  At the end whoever lost the most weight would get that money.

My “Team Lean” team consisted of me and two other co-workers.  As a team, we bombed.  I don’t know what our final total was, but I know the winning team was based out of one of our Washington DC offices, and they lost 9.8% of their initial weight.  WooT to them.

As for the departmental challenge?

Yeah, I kicked ass in that one.  Of my total weight lost so far, 19 pounds of that was during the challenge, making me the winner.  The prize had gotten up to $73.00.

WooT!!!!

What’s even better is that of that $73.00, I had only contributed two dollars, and those were weeks I didn’t lose anything (in blog time, thats Week 2 and Week 4).

So far this has been an awesome week, and its Christmas week, so that makes it 200% awesomer by default.  Is everyone ready for the holiday?  I have a sh*t ton of wrapping to do, but other than that I think I’m in good shape.

Have a great day!

"Hump Day" randomness

Dec 022009

Happy Wednesday everyone.  For those of you who work Monday-Friday jobs…the week is halfway over. W o o T.

Had some random updates I wanted to post, and some housekeeping that needed to be done, so here goes….

a)  Recieved a request for a progress pic, so here goes:

You can click on the image to see the full sized version.  What you have is a pic of me at the very beginning (265 pounds), from week 5 (252 pounds), and from week 8 (245 pounds).  I don’t know what happened to make the last pic SO MUCH BRIGHTER, but overall I can see a difference.  I can also see that I am in really REALLY bad need of a haircut, which is a situation I hope to rectify soon.  At least I got rid of that hairy crap on my face.

b)  I’ve gotten really bad about posting those Team Lean letters we get sent at work as part of the Tean Lean Challenge, so I’ve compiled them all here.

That’s as far as they’ve gotten so far.  As far as the Tean Lean Challenge goes, I’m the only one in my group who has really lost any weight, so we aren’t going to win this one (asses will be kicked, I assure you, j/k).  BUT, my unit is doing that seperate Biggest Loser Challenge, and I’m pretty sure I’m in the lead for that one.  WooT!

c) The Marathon Week Challenge started today. WooHoo!  As of my writing this there are 7 challengers (including myself).  I know we can do this, and I know YOU CAN too.  You can still register and get started.

d)  To go along w/Marathon Week.  I woke up this morning early this morning and completed 3 miles on the treadmill.  Usually I say I walked/jogged/ran those 3 miles, but today I’m proud to say that I only jogged/ran them.  I completed those 3 miles in 34min and 34sec.  I had THOUGHT I completed one of my goals involving completing 30mins consecutively, but I just went back and reread it and saw that I set the goal at 5.5mph, whereas I was only going between 5.0 and 5.2mph for the most part.  D’oh!  I can’t strikethrough that one after all…yet.

e)  This isn’t so much an update or housekeeping as it is a rant, but here goes.  I love The Biggest Loser. I didn’t really start watching until Season 4, and I didn’t watch ALL of Season 6 (b/c I thought most of the contestants were scheming c*ntbags), but otherwise I’ve watched it pretty much religously.  With this season, I’m voting for Amanda to make it to the final three, and I will totally admit that I cried like a baby during the episode when Abby was eliminated…

…with that said, the product placement is getting rediculous.  What. The. F*ck.  I always thought the Subway visits were a little over the top, but with the Multi Grain cheerios thing last week, and with the Extra Gum advertisement in Bob’s motivational video to Amanda, I’ve just had enough.  I doubt any NBC execs read this blog, but if anyone is, Dude!…you are taking ALOT away from the show by turning into a two hour mother f*cking commercial, so knock it off.  We get it, product exists that help people lose weight.  Maybe, just maybe, mention them in passing, or sell them f*cking ad space during the ACTUAL COMMERCIAL BREAKS.

 

That’s all I got.  I’m in a super good mood after my run, and I’m not going to let the Biggest Loser harsh that mellow.  You all have a splendid day…and register for my challenge!  All participants get a free trip to Hawaii*!

 

*void where you live

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