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| xanga, i'm not that crazy about it
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| so, i've decided to keep track of my weight loss on here as a way to motivate myself and also as a way to keep track of my progress. so far i have kept track of weight on the notes section of my iphone:
- Sept 10 - 244 lbs
- Sept 18 - 234 lbs
- Sept 20 - 230 lbs
- Oct 8 - 227 lbs
- Oct 10 - 225 lbs
now, it's october 11 and i'm more like 228 lbs again. what happened was the result of a conversation that i had with myself inside my head. it went a little something like this: "you're doing really good losing weight. you can start to 'incorporate' other foods back into your life without doing any exercise to compensate." so i started to eat power bars here and there and now i've gained around 3 lbs back.
the entire reason for losing this weight is to get back into the army. for my age/height i need to get down to 208 lbs or a 24% body fat. my goal is to meet one/both of these cut offs by my 28th birthday, which is on nov 20. so i have 40 days to lose another 20 lbs. my goal is to start running tomorrow and get back to a strict atkins diet.
if anyone wants to donate money to fixing my car/paying my bills i can provide my address.
NOTE: watching cable television is not an option in the "currently" spot...i am watching a bad ass episode of cops.
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| i woke up this morning and my car was not working, again. the soonest that it can be looked at is tuesday, so i am stranded. this does not come at a good time.
i borrowed my dad's car to go to work. i knocked on ten doors, spoke to 8 people and 5 of them told me about the guy two weeks ago doing the same thing. it's nice that we get call lists that we're supposed to put notes on, so people will be removed as they're contacted. i appreciate the person before me not doing this so i could waste my time.
the about are the reasons why i continue to not make any money today.
i've been getting better at playing the guitar. my fingers have lost their toughness though, so i am not able to play for extended periods of time. maybe when the toughness comes back i can play in the city over the holidays. anything i make would be more than what i'm making now. plus it would be tax free.
i'm sure there are also a plethora of places where soda cans can be found for the deposit. i'm thinking it might not be cost effective though. 5 cents a can, 20 cans per dollar, 200 cans an hour to make $10. that's the level of productivity you would really need to make it worth while. be able to find and return 200 cans an hour. that's 3.333 cans a minute, or .05 cans a second -- more easily seen as approximately 1 can every 18 seconds. subtracting the amount the commute would be i think it would be more efficient to beg/perform.
i'd like to see comments from people. i think it would be fun to see people's thoughts.
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| this is a new xanga for me. i had an old one, but can't remember the password.
i am a veteran. a pissed off, on the brink of homelessness veteran.
the difference between me and the crazy guy on the street...a support system.
i hate my country. i miss being in it's military.
wall street disgusts me. corporate greed, fat cats lining their pockets, golden parachutes. fannie may, freddie mac, the dow jones below 9,000. i read about it, but it doesn't really matter. i live paycheck to paycheck and most bills get paid late, so i don't have a mortgage and can't afford to invest in the stock market. these problems are peripheral to me.
i realize things like if i had bought fannie may stock when it first bottomed out at 25 cents a share and sold it three days later when it peaked at $2 i would have octupled my money.
octupled = times by 8; 1000 becomes 8000, 10000 becomes 80000. i couldn't have afforded to risk $100.
someone who was already rich, got richer. someone else lost their house. it pisses me off that i don't have the money to make more, or at the very least a house to lose as a consolation. i'm below the guy that couldn't pay his mortgage...i never even had a chance to get one.
retirement? i'm 27 and i don't have the slightest hope of ever being able to do it. this is something that went the way of the traveling salesman.
i'm not very happy with the world.
i saw bill gates on television the other night being interview by a finance guy. they were talking about how bill has pledged to give approximately $50 Billion to charity. bill then talked about how the economy is going to rebound and americans shouldn't worry. i think if i had that much money i would realize that i was out of touch.
sarah palin is a hockey mom. whatever the fuck that means. i, personally, don't like being referred to as "joe six-pack."
i had plans to register to vote today and then my car broke down. thankfully i live in an obama state, so my vote not being there should only decrease his margin of his victory.
i served 5 years in the military and graduated from the #22 ranked public college in america.
i barely make over minimum wage.
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