I don't really have a lot right now to talk about. I mean, work is going well (just got my first commission check and it made me question my testimony on tithing), baseball season is in full swing (let's not talk about the horrible start my White Sox have made), and my TV shows are all closing out their seasons. There's really only two things worth bringing up.
The first is that this is my first post on my Mac laptop. My previous laptop was getting too finicky. When you have to restart every time you try to access a document, your computer has serious issues. I figured I would have to spend something like $150-200 to take it into Best Buy and have them tell me that 1) it's old, 2) it's running Windows Vista, 3) they would have to completely re-install the OS just to fix it. So, I decided to look around and see if I could get a used Mac laptop for a comparable amount.
About a year after I bought my previous laptop I decided that there was no way I was ever going to buy another PC again. It's not that I don't like them. I actually have no problem with them. It's just that I feel the Mac product is better all the way around, save the price. I knew I couldn't afford a new one as they start at $1000, but I figured if I was willing to take a model that was a couple year old, I should find something in my budget. Spent a couple weeks, and after a couple failed attempts, landed one on ebay for just under $250 with an extra battery and a fancy carrying bag. Well, the bag came with it. I wouldn't have paid extra for it, but since they were sending it that way anyway, I'll guess I find a use for it. I do really like it. I like that it works the way it is supposed to work. I like how the OS is just as simple as I remembered it being. And, I like the aesthetics of a titanium cased laptop. For those interested, it's a PowerBook G4. I read the specs, and knew that it can't get snow leopard because of it's Intel processor, but the way it is now is more than good enough for me.
The other thing is that a week from now, I'll be back in Florida and getting ready to board a cruise to the Bahamas. Pretty stoked about it. 5 day, 4 nights, leaving out of Port Canaveral, which is about 20 minutes away from my parents' house. There's a dozen of us going. We all fly in Saturday and stay at my parents' house until Monday afternoon. When we were setting this up, Mike asked me if it would be Ok to have that many people stay at the house. I said it should be fine, but I asked my mom anyway. She said "Only 12?". I told Mike I wasn't going to get worried about space until we hit 20 people. Then I might worry. Sure, some people will have to sleep on a couch, but the vast majority will be in a bed. Most will be sharing a bed, as they are all Queen sized or larger. I, however, will not be sharing my bed. Sorry guys, I draw the line with my hospitality at sharing my bed with another guy. If we hit 20, I might think about it. But if everyone is positioned, and we still have couches available, I'm sleeping solo, thank you very much.
The cruise should be a lot of fun. We're planning on a lot of snorkeling, a lot of beach sitting, and a lot of eating. Maybe some other stuff, but that's all I'm sure of. However, afterward, I'm going to start watching what I eat a titch. Got on the scale the other day. Last January, 2010, I came back from med school and weighed in at 150. Granted, that was a bit low, given that I hadn't figured out what to eat in that foreign land, and hadn't settled into a study-eat-sleep schedule, but nevertheless, I was at 150 pounds. Jumped on the scale the other day: 180. Not even kidding. Most I've ever weighed. I realized this isn't anywhere near a problem. But, I figure if I don't take it off now, I might not ever. So after the cruise, the goal is to get back down to 160 by the end of 2011. It'll be about 8 months, so 2.5 pounds month.
Here's where I turn to the handful of people that read this. Is this a reasonable goal? I've never cared about my weight, so I've never set a goal to gain or lose it. The only time I've seen people do it is on "The Biggest Loser". I've seen people throw off nearly 20 lbs in a week. Sure, they originally tipped the scales at 450+, so I understand that for me to lose 20 in a week could only be explained by amputation. But is 2.5 lbs a month for 8 months reasonable? I feel that it is, but I'm not sure.
Don't ask me how I'm going to do it, because I'm not sure. I figure I'll start with going to the gym more often than once a month. (Side note: went 8 times in the past two weeks. Impressed myself with that run.) Then, once that plateaus, I'll have to examine what and how much I eat. Right now, I have this problem where every night, I become starved at like 9:30. Like, painfully hungry. Was on a date with a girl and we were driving back around 10 pm, and I was absolutely starving, but we had just eating dinner at like 7. I asked if she was hungry, and she said no, so I figured I would just bide my time until I could eat some food. Drove the rest of the way to her place trying not to wince as I passed by Krispy Kreme, McDonalds, Wendy's, and even the gas station, which I knew had delicious peach rings inside. After I took her home, I went straight back to McDonalds, had a spicy chicken sandwich and double stack from the drive through, and ate them both before I pulled into the driveway.
Every night, I feel like this, and if I don't eat then, I get painfully hungry around 10 am the next morning. The other day I tried riding through the night, and then eating a breakfast to see if that did the trick. Not really. Just pushed back the morning jonesing until 11 am. Longest hour of my life between that and when I take my lunch at noon. I have no explanation for any of this, I just know that it's true, and that I don't particularly like it.
And, man, are my White Sox looking grim these days. Just when I thought it was safe to pull my Gordon Beckham jersey out of the back of the closet...
Word.
