HNT

Alright for this week's HNT I'm putting up a pic of my nipple ring. Its not my favorite pic, but some people asked about it so here you go. If seeing my nipple and ,desperately in need of a tan, surrounding area is not your thing...you've been forewarned.

Now on to the really important news...The Biggest Loser Challenge update. As you may remember, last week was particularly upsetting. Everyone else lost weight while I, on the other hand, gained 2 lbs!!! I was fired up and really put the focus on for this weigh-in. I did pretty good for the week, I followed my eating plan almost to the letter. On the work out, I got in 4 of the 5 that I had planned. Cut to the weigh-in, Missy was up first and lost 0. Alyssa, up next, lost 5 lbs! Then we move on to Shane, he lost 6 lbs! As I was getting ready to step on the scale, my inner monologue sounded like I was actually on the show. I was nervous that Alyssa and Shane had pulled such big numbers. After last week's gain, I was really just hoping to maintain. Now I was feeling all this pressure to pull a big number. So I step on the scale..........I lost 5 lbs!!! Not enough to make me the biggest loser of the week, but I am super happy with that number. So here's the recap....

Starting weight- 210 lbs

week 1- 201 lbs

week 2 - 201 lbs

week 3 - 203 lbs

week 4 - 198 lbs.....I fell below the 200 mark, about damn time

So over all I've lost 12 lbs or 5.71% or my starting weight. Overall challenge to date I am in second place. Shane is winning with 12 lbs lost, but since he had a lower starting weight, it is a higher percentage. Alyssa is close on my heels with 10 lbs lost, but she is only like 3 tenths of a percentage behind me. Ahh competition!!!

Not another meme!!

I was going to try to do some more regular posting on here and I was going to try to not resort to the meme, but alas, that has not been the case. What can I say? I like memes. I'm a little on the OCD side so the structured format of a meme is appealing to me. Also, you know its about me, so any chance to go on about myself...hooray! (just kidding, sorta). I swiped this meme from the always delightful Cup of Coffey. She was one of the first blogs I started reading on a regular basis and is one of my favorites to this day.
One thing about this meme, the number scheme in it really messed with my OCD tendencies. There are 6 categories, 2 of them didn't have a set number, 3 of them are 5, one was 3.... grrr, arrgh! In spite of that, however, I will try to work through it. I wouldn't want to deprive anyone from the opportunity to learn more about me (haha!)

1. Ten Years Ago
I was 21, living in a crazy resort town. I was a manager for Polo Ralph Lauren. I had a great group of friends and we were an insane group. Literally, everyday was work all day, drink all night, and often we were getting home in time to shower, change our clothes, and go back to work. Some really fond memories of that time, but I couldn't (and wouldn't want to) keep up that pace now.

2. 5 Things on Today's to do List
A. Workout - didn't get the full workout in, but I walked my entire lunch break today
B. Put Away laundry - one of my least favorite chores, but its mostly done
C. Grocery store - done
D. Catch up on my email - done
E. Make a posting on here - when I'm done with this, this one will be done

3. If I were a Billionaire
The original meme didn't have this one numbered, but I'm gonna take cup of coffey's idea and run with it. So I've made this one a 5 things also...
A. Debt Free anyone? I'd pay off all of my debts, and those of my family, and a couple of close
friends.
B. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. There'd be some going back to school.
C. Take this job and shove it. I'd quit my job. Not that I don't want to work, and not that I
don't like my job, I would just want to do some other things first (like focus on the school
thing)
D. Roam if you want to. Before I went back to school, I would love to take a year and travel.
E. Oprah's Big Give. Would love to just be able to give some money to the organizations that I
try to support. Also, would love to set up some organizations of my own. While we're at it,
the financial independence would allow me to give alot more of my time.

4. 3 Bad Habits
A. Smoking - I know, I know...enough said
B. Procrastination - Let me tell you some stories about how bad my procrastination habit is..
actually, I'll just tell you later
C. TV watching - I'm not saying tv watching is a bad habit, I'm saying the amount of tv I
watch is excessive. A light night of tv for me is a night that I only have 3 hours worth of
shows

5. 5 Places I've Lived
A. Kansas City, Missouri
B. Branson, Missouri
C. Columbia, Missouri
D. Osage Beach, Missouri
E. Jefferson City, Missouri
Alas, I've never lived out of the state

6. 5 Jobs I've Had (in no particular order)
A. Waiter, Ruby Tuesday's
B. Assistant Manger, Polo Ralph Lauren
C. Merchandising Manager, Old Navy
D. Call Order Processor, MBS textbooks
E. Sales clerk, Hallmark store

As always I'm not gonna tag anyone, but if you do this one let me know.

A meme for those sleepless nights

1. Link to the person who tagged you.

2. Post the rules on your blog.

3. Share six non important things/habits/quirks about yourself.

4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.

5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.


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1. I wasn't tagged, but I swiped this from Idle Eyes and A Dormy
2. See above.
3. Because you didn't ask and never will:
A) Of all the superheroes in all the land I love Batman most of all. I am already counting down
until the new Batman movie The Dark Knight comes out (july 18th! woot!)
B) Buffy the Vampire Slayer is quite possibly my favorite tv show of all time. I still re-watch
episodes (of which I own them all), randomly quote them (just today at work I said "that
makes me feel better about me, worse about Giles, and sort of shaky about you", it was an
appropriate response in my head, but not so much for my non-Buffy watching co-worker),
and just generally reference things from the show as if it happened in real life.
C) My favorite color is blue, but only when I want a compliment. My eyes are blue and any
time I wear something blue it really brings them out. It never fails that if I wear something
blue, someone will complement me on my eyes. So whenever I'm having a bad day (feeling
blue some might say...pun intended), I just throw on something blue.
D) You know when you're making macaroni and cheese, and you're stirring it all up at the
end? That wet, sorta sticky noise?...I call that glarpy.
E) I love, love, love to have a cigarette with my morning coffee. I know its a horrible habit, but
it is truly for me the hardest cigarette to give up.
G) I hate waking up so I have to set the alarm all the way across the room so that I have to
get out of bed to turn it off each morning. Also I have to set 3 alarms, 5 mins apart.
4. I will not tag any one, as some people hate being tagged and I don't want to offend but all are welcome to play along, so if you do this one let me know.

HNT

So here's another edition of HNT (Half-Naked Thursday) and my biggest loser challenge update.

Starting weight- 210

wk 1 -201

wk 2 - 201

wk 3 - 203 (gained 2 lbs...wtf?)

Yeah so I was really not happy with those results, particularly since everyone else LOST weight. So I may be dooming myself here, but my goal is to get below 200 at the next weigh-in. I'll settle for 199 (heck w/ the gain I would settle to be back at 201)...but I'm just striving to be below 200. Let me apologize in advance for my ugly competitive side that you may see making an appearance in the upcoming weeks. While I never played sports or anything growing up I definitely developed that sport mentality of competition.

No seriously though it's all just about encouraging each other to makes some changes and get healthier (as long as I win...lol)

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.....

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!

The lyric meme

The other day I did a meme where I mentioned the movie All Over the Guy. One of the things that I really liked about that movie was that they used several Maroon 5 songs. Of course, back then they were called Kara's Flowers, but I loved them just the same. Anyway, that got me thinking about how much I like Maroon 5 and also about a meme that I had done years ago. I was finally able to track it down so here goes. This one is harder than it looks and takes some time, but I'm interested to see if anyone else does it. Let me know if you give it a go.

The rules: Answer the questions using only lyrics from one band/artist.

I'm using Maroon 5

1. Are you Male or Female?
"It makes me burn to learn
You're with another man
I wonder if he's half
the lover that I am" - If I Ever See Your Face Again

2. Who are you?
"I live on raw emotion baby
I answer question never maybe
And I'm not kind if you betray me" - Wake Up Call

3. What is your outlook on life?
"Its not always rainbows and butterflies
It's compromise that moves us a long" - She Will Be Loved

4. How do other people feel about you?
"This city's made us crazy and we must get out" - Must Get Out

5. How do you live?
"But things just get so crazy living life gets hard to do" - Sunday Morning

6. How do you love?
"I'll fix these broken things
Repair your broken wings
and make sure everything's alright.
My pressure on her hips
sinking my fingertips
into every inch of you
cause I know that's what you want me to do" - This Love

7. How do you hate?
"Does it kill
does it burn?
Is it painful to learn
that its me that has all the control" - Harder to Breathe

8. Have you ever been in love?
"If I fell in love with you
would you promise to be true
and help me understand?
Cause I've been in love before
and I found that love was more
than just holding hands" - If I Fell in Love with You

9. Describe your 1st kiss.
"Sometimes you move so well
It's hard not to give in.
I'm lost, I can't tell
where you end and I begin." - If I Ever See Your Face Again

10. Describe you ex.
"I still don't have the reason
and you don't have the time
and it really makes me wonder
if I ever gave a fuck about you.
Give me something to believe in
cause I don't believe in you
Anymore, anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference to try
So this is goodbye" - Makes Me Wonder

"Oh I want so bad to pick you up
but you're still too reluctant to accept my help
What a shame, I hope you find somewhere to place the blame" - Nothing Lasts Forever

Two different exes, two very different lyrics

11. Describe your significant Other
"I never knew perfection til
I hear you speak, and now it kills me
just to hear you say the simple things.
Now waking up is hard to do
and sleeping is impossible too
everything is reminding me of you
What can I do?" - Better that We Break

12. Describe your best friend.
"I'll never leave you behind
or treat you unkind
I know you understand" - Sweetest Goodbye

13. Describe your worst enemy.
"How dare you say that my behavior's unacceptable
so condescending, unnecessarily critical
I have the tendency of getting very physical
So watch you're step cause if I do you'll need a miracle" - Harder to Breathe

14. Describe your greatest joy.
"How does it feel to know you never have to be alone
when you get home" - Sweetest Goodbye

15. Describe your greatest annoyance.
"I spend every hour waiting for a phone call
That I know will never come" - Through with You

16. What is one thing that hurts your feelings?
"I asked her to stay
but she wouldn't listen.
She left before I had the chance to say
The words that would mend
the things that were broken.
But now its far too late, she's gone away" - I Won't Go Home Without You

17. Describe your happiest moment.
"Sunday morning rain is falling
Steal some covers, share some skin
Clouds are shrouding us in moments unforgettable
You twist to fit the mold that I am in." - Sunday Morning

18. How do you feel at this very moment?
"Now every evening is a bitter fight
and I'm eating home alone on a Friday night" - Back at Your Door

19. How did you feel exactly one month ago?
"Every night you cry yourself to sleep
Thinking: Why does this happen to me?
Why does every moment have to be so hard?
Hard to believe it" - I Won't Go Home Without You

20. What are your absolute favorite lyrics from this band/artist?
"What you are doing is screwing things up inside my head
you should know better you never listened to a word I said.
Clutching your pillow and writhing in a naked sweat
hoping somebody someday will do you like i did" - Harder to Breathe

21. Leave us with some words of wisdom...
" Though we have not hit the ground
doesn't mean we're not still not falling" - Nothing Lasts Forever