I hope all you minions are enjoying your Christmas. The highlight of my day has been my brand new digital camera.
Yes, you read that right. I won't be limited to my tiny cell phone camera when I want to show you something.
To show you what it can do, check out this action shot of my cat (click for gigantic):
As you may have noticed, the picture is too big to upload directly to the blog. I'll have to work on that.
From his latest Random Thoughts column:
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
Simple, yet profound.
In other totally unrelated news, I found an apartment, and I'm moving in at the beginning of January. Hooray.
I know this is probably getting kind of annoying, but I just got home, which means I have access to a scale for the first time since the beginning of November. Therefore, let's update the before and after:
- My weight in May of 2007: 235 pounds
- My weight at this moment: 160 pounds
Again, I'm somewhere between 5'5" and 5'7" (UPDATE: It's apparently 5'6", which makes the previous statement 100% true). According to most BMI calculators, this means that I only have to lose another 5 or 10 pounds before I'm no longer overweight.
Holy shit. I mean...holy shit, people. This is huge.
Think about it. I've been various degrees of overweight, ranging from "pudgy" to "dangerously obese," for about 15 years. And now, I'm a couple months of diet and exercise away from being perfectly normal.
Holy. Shit.
I guess I should probably resist the urge to celebrate by gorging myself over the holidays...
Hey, I know people are still reading, so this is just to let you know that I have not, in fact, disappeared. I'm just kind of in the middle of trying to rent a room in Weehawken before I go back to Pittsburgh for the holidays this weekend. I'll have more info on that once I know what's going on.
Yeah.
I discovered a fun recipe today that everyone should try. Check it out:
What you need
- 1 chewy chocolate chip granola bar
- 1 microwave
Directions
Unwrap the granola bar, place it on a paper plate or a napkin, and put it in the microwave. Heat on high for about 10 seconds. Remove and enjoy. Use a fork if necessary.
Seriously, it almost tastes like a fresh chocolate chip cookie.
In other news, I actually managed to get in touch with someone on Craigslist, and I'm going to check out a potential apartment on Monday. Wooooooo.
Okay...I seem to be recovering from the past two weeks of utter disaster and despair, so I may actually be able to accomplish something in the next few days. I might post a new Name That iTune later, since reader participation has dropped a bit.
In the meantime, I thought I'd take another opportunity to visually extol the virtues of diet and exercise.
This is a picture of me playing my guitar in late January of 2007, when I weighed over 230. Note the spherical head and sausage fingers:
Now, compare that to a picture I just took a few minutes ago. It's worth mentioning that the shirt I'm wearing is actually a smaller size than the one in the first picture:
I haven't had access to a scale in almost a month, so I don't know exactly how much I weigh now, but man...what a fucking difference. If only I could also do something about the fact that I still look 16 rather than 23...
As long as I'm writing a post vaguely related to guitar, I should mention that I'm working on music to go along with the "Savior" lyrics I posted a couple weeks ago. More on that once I come up with the rest of it.
So...
My brother and his girlfriend got to meet Mike Lange at the Pens game last weekend.
Meanwhile, I actually spoke out loud today in order to tell the cashier at Pathmark that I don't have a platinum card.
Woooo.
*headdesk*