Friday, April 25, 2008

HNT (Half Naked Thursday) on a Friday

My how time has flown! I completely lost track of the blogging. Here's a brief rundown since last I blogged. I survived the birthday weekend...hooray! It was fun, but it wore me out. Then I came down with one of the worst colds I have had in forever. It was literally 2 weeks of going to work and then heading home straight for the couch and bed.

Anyway I'm all recovered and ready to jump back into the blog. And oh what a way to return! A group of us are doing our own version of the biggest loser. I'm hoping that it will get me motivated to get back into a more regular workout schedule. Shane and I are following an eating plan from Men's Health that is actually been working out pretty good so far. Anyway to keep me motivated and hold my self accountable I'm going to post a pic and my weight on here each week. I figured I would do it on Thursday's since several of the bloggers I read participate in HNT (Half Naked Thursday). So just a warning....if you don't want to see a shirtless picture of me each week steer clear of my Thursday posts. Okay, so here is my biggest loser results so far. My starting weight was...gulp!...210 lbs. We did the week one weigh in (which I won, thank you very much) and I was at 201 lbs. Week 2 was not nearly as successful as I again weighed in at 201. To be fair, I didn't really work out so I was happy that I maintained. Anyway, here is that current pic....try not to be too horrified.....

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Who's a birthday boy? It's me...It's me

So I'm giving T-shirt Tuesday a week off, but not to fear it will be back next week. Today, as you may have guessed by my post title, is my birthday. I'm the big 31 today. Not much planned in the way of birthday celebration today. I got up and worked out. I have to work today and then I'll be hanging out with Shane. My birthday feast will be leftover Shepherd's pie that I made for Shane's birthday since our birthday's are so close together. He's making me a chocolate/peanut butter cake for the big day (although we've barely made a dent in the mocha cake I made for his birthday). The big highlight of my day will be my tv-shows. The Idol results show and America's Next Top Model. I know they are cheesy reality shows but I like them.
The big birthday celebration will actually be taking place on Saturday. What started as a small going out seems to be growing by the day. In order to accommodate all of my booze hound friends random schedules my birthday celebration has seemed to turn into a mini-pub crawl.
5:00 Campus Bar and Grill (good drink specials)
7:00 Flatbranch (great microbrews and the Flat Branch burger is a thing of beauty)
9:00 On the Rocks (I've never been, but supposed to be a more low key sit around and chat bar)
10:30 A&C (typically I can only handle about 1 drink here but we'll see)
11:30 SoCo Club (so everyone can shake their groove thing)
That's really about 2-3 places more than I wanted to go to but hopefully I survive Drunkaroo '08. If I have time this morning I'm gonna do a 31 things about me post in honor of the day of my birth. If not I'll post it up tonight after the shows. Have a great day everyone!