Are we there yet Papa Smurf

Well I have just weighed myself and the final weigh in for the Vegas trip is 219lbs. I must say we started this crusade 6 months ago and I think 12lbs is a good show. Especially when you think about the shit I ate and the lack of going to the gym. But I am now on a different crusade. I use to be a thin person. Granted I never want to be that thin again, I am not even sure that is physically possible. I do want to get back to what I would consider normal for me. I see the genetics in my family and most of the males were thin till their late 20's and then bam fatass and it stays with them. I don't want that at all. Plus diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, heart disease, my family medical history is like walking through a mine field with clown shoes on. So while I am in Vegas I must hit the gym at least once if not twice.

So speaking of Vegas, I am really being impatient. I really need it to be here now. I am so ancy that I am not going to BGB tonight. Ok that's not the reason, I need to stay home finish packing and go to bed early cause we have an early ass flight. I am in such need of this I can't even say. I did some thinking over the last few weeks and realized since I started working at the school I hadn't really had not taken a lot of time off. Yes I had summers but I spent just as much time at the school doing work then not. I haven't gone a week without doing something or stepping foot on that campus for 4 years. Which might be why I haven't done a damned thing for the past 2 weeks for school. No lesson plans, picking music, score study, nothing. I am loving it. So yea Vegas I am ready to sit by a pool and have beautiful men bring me very fruity drinks with umbrellas in them.

So the next post, hopefully, will be from sunny Nevada. And as my ex said, what happens in Vegas, get posted on 3 different blogs. But not Blanche's that bitch hasn't written in ages.

Mental note

When drunk do not do certain things. Last night was another fine example of me drinking more than I should especial when having so little to eat the day of said drinking. Though kudos for me to realize last night that I shouldn't drive to get food because I was way to drunk to actually drive. However while sitting on the back patio of the Metro last night I became aware that I had only eaten a little that day and decided I needed food. We were well passed the time that Metro served food and I knew I needed to eat. There are in fact no fast food places near my place and no place that served food this late. But O'Malia's was just a few blocks away. You know the old saying "Never shop for food when you are hungry." Well that goes double for being drunk and hungry. Before we get to that I must reflect with some humor at how I stumbled down Mass Ave and I mean stumbled. I know I tripped at least three times on my way to the store. To my credit it was because the sidewalks were uneven I could have done it sober... that is my story and I am sticking to it. I can only imagine the drunken mess I was as I left the Metro. I did have enough presence of mind to retrieve my card from the bar.

Anyway so drunk shopping. Yea, all I have to say is I believe my list of items will be example enough. Humus, deli chicken, olives, pringles, Frozen pizza, Tyson's popcorn chicken, and sour cream. I am not really sure what I was going to do with all of that, and I really don't know what I did with all of that. Before you get excited and think I ate it all I didn't. Everything was untouched except the humus and the pringles. I can only surmise that I sat and ate pringles dipped in humus. The only thing I really remember about the shopping experience was that I was saying "Oooooooooooo, I love (insert item here), I think I am going to bye that." Thank god there were not that many people in the store at the time.

There you are lesson learned. Please learn from my mistakes don't make them yourself.

Still goin'

I haven't let up on the gym though today is trying me. I have been doing laundry today and the trek up and down 4 flights of stairs is making my legs tired I am waiting to work up enough energy to hit the gym today. It's odd. I know it would be ok to slack off one day and no go but, I have been doing well and feeling better about how I look. It's one of those, I don't want to stop because I may never start again feelings. I just don't want to fall into a rut of finding excuses not to go back.

So anyway speaking of things that piss me off and laundry. The reason I had to make so many treks was because some asshole had left their clothes in all the washers and hadn't taken them out. I was being nice and left them in there and went back up stairs, with 3 loads of laundry. Now there are only 2 washers yet 4 dryers and the 2 washers were full. be courteous dipshit and check on your stuff. Well I came back down a half hour later thinking this would be adequate amount of time to remove ones clothes. well they had and started another two loads. I assume it's the same person because there can't be that many of us who don't work during the day. So I went back up with 3 loads. So this time I waited 45 minutes and came back down and they were still in the washer. they were done, just sitting there. I go back up wait 30 minutes came back down and still in the washer. Well I take them out and set them in an empty basket that was sitting down there and did mine. Well when I came back down in a half hour there was a nasty note on the washer telling me I had no right to remove her things, I assume her since the hand writing was so nice. And now all four dryers were occupied two of which were done just sitting there. Being the kindly neighbor I am I took her shit out and replaced it with mine. I officially give her as [Cherry] ride would the "V"

I can just tell we are going to become best friends. Bitch!

I have lost 5% of me.

So here we are one week out from Vegas. I just need to get away for awhile. Yes I went to Ireland this year but that doesn't count since I was working the entire time or I was sick. And yes once again traveling with the Mean Girls. You would think I had learned my lesson the last few times I have traveled with them. But I think it will work out well. Think being the operative word and the word that will most likely be the downfall.

Anyway the excitement behind all of this is that FN decided that we along with a few others from our circle of friends would do a biggest loser ala Mean Girls. Well it started off fine but kind of dwindled toward the end. Except me who decided to sprint to the finish line. I am happy to report that I started at a whopping 231. As of yesterdays weighing I am at 220. Is this cause for celebration? Yes, with the move making me work a lot and already saw a lose of a lb or two I decided to just keep going with the labor intensiveness of my life. I have been to the gym 9 out of the last 10 days. I plan to go to the gym while I am in Vegas because we are going to Market Days in Chicago right before I go back to school and I want to be down a few more lbs by then. In the words of Margret Cho upon losing a lot of weight she said when she got to that size she had to fuck as many people as she could cause this body ain't going to last. I am not really going to fuck as many people as I can. But I would like as many people as possible wanting to. :) Is that evil of me? It won't happen like that but it's fun to think that it might.

So yes one week to go and 30 lbs to my goal weight. It's funny when I started college 14 years ago I was 80 lbs lighter than I am now. I just can't imagine how I got to this size. Oooooo ice cream!!!!

Things we do for our mothers

So I was on the phone the other day with my mother (my real one not the friend we call mom). She was saying how she needed to mow the lawn and didn't know when she was going to get to it. I offered to come up today and do it for her. She wasn't going to be home and I actually didn't get to see her at all but the yard was mowed anyway. Now here is the thing. It didn't hit me until I was there that my brother the Idiot who lives right next door and who is also a teacher with the summer off didn't offer to do it for her. The son who lives an hour away drove up to do it. I must say I am moving further and further up the best son ever category. It was also good because it gave me an excuse to even out the burn I got two weeks ago at Pride. I actually didn't burn I did well and put of some sunblock so I didn't burn but I did get some color. I am hoping to get some kind of base so that when we are in Vegas I won't do my impersonation of a blood blister.

So now on to things that pissed me off today. Ok for the record I am not always pissed off but it's funnier to be irritated than just observant.

1. My idiot brother who while I was doing something for our mother he could have easily done himself had the gall to ask me to help him. I did but I made it clear that I was actually there to be nice to just one member of the family and it wasn't him. Fuctard!

2. While at the gym I was on the elliptical trainer and two men came in and jumped on the bikes. This wasn't the problem the problem was that they started talking so loudly that I could hear them over my ipod. I wouldn't say talking so much as shouting over each other sentences. I am not sure one could call that a conversation so much as just being a dick. Seriously he was a foot away. A deaf man could hear you.

3. Same fuckwits from the bikes migrated to the weight room and put their gym bags on the partition of an office cubicle and on top of the office shelves. Seriously asswipe that's so someones work place not your dumping ground. Sometimes I just really hate stupid people.

4. When I work out I sweat... a lot. I am fat and out of shape a combination that just screams for sweatiness. Anyway most people I know sweat while working out so why in the middle of your "workout", Yelling at one another, or throwing your shit anywhere you want would you go into a sauna. I mean really that's all I want to be is hotter, sweatier, and more dehydrated. Oh and if you couldn't have guessed it was the same two twats from 2 and 3 that were hanging out in the sauna and yes I could hear them conversing through the wall and the Ipod. That is what drew my attention to them.

9 Days

To Vegas baby. Yes the Mean Girls are going to Vegas. It will be my first trip there. I am looking forward to it, I don't gamble so this will be interesting. I know there is more to do in Vegas than gamble I am just not sure what. It's Gay Days in Vegas as well so that could be interesting. The cool thing is that because it is gay days they have thing set up to do and the one thing that sounded really interesting was the rafting down the Colorado River. I think Mom and I may do that I am not sure if the others would be up for that but maybe they will be.

I will be continuing the move of my old posts. Damn that is a project. Ok well right now I am off to the gym and then the store for food.

6 days

That may be all I get in this week so much for getting to the gym everyday this week. With our plans for the day and the schedule of the gym I won't have time to get to the gym. Which is ok I guess I really wanted to make an effort to do every day before vegas. not that at this point it was going to make difference but it was a goal for me and I would like to stick to said goal. Ah well.

So I decided to consolidate all my blog entries into one place. I was in two other places before coming to Blogspot. It was interesting to see those posts again since I hadn't been to them in a very long time. The first one was in October of 2004!!!! who knew. And I had to go back and edit some of those names. It made for a good saturday afternoon project. Of course I haven't moved them all yet. So yet more project time.