The New Leaf....

Ok, so if you've been coming here anxiously seeking update on my exercising progress, lately you've been met with back sliding, inconsistent, non-new-years-resolution-up-holding behavior.

For this behavior all I can say is: I'm Sorry.

It was not my intention to give out false hope, and let you my faithful blog readers down...

I promise to do better this week. I am off tomorrow morning! And supposedly I'll be off on Monday mornings from now on. again.

This will do wonders for my attitude. For those of you who know me well, you know that working on Monday mornings gives me a bad attitude the rest of the week...

I will exercise tomorrow! And they day after that as well...

It sticks!

Well its day two back on the horse.... I ran a mile today!

Back to it!!

Well after taking a WEEK off running... I'm back at it.... Yesterday I ran a mile... let's see if it sticks... I think as long as I don't fall out of my truck again I'll be fine..

More set backs...

Yesterday (Monday) I suffered another blow to my jogging schedule... I fell out of my truck... That's right.. I slipped getting out of my truck and fell right on my butt. It hurt... It still hurts today... No, I didn't break my tailbone... but I do expect this to set me back on jogging this week...

Note to self....

If you plan to exercise on Saturday, do it in the morning... Don't think that you'll be able to do it in the evening, after a playoff game, a beer, some chips, some salsa, and some cheese dip...

Resolution revision....

ok, so today I'm working a16 hour day... so no excercise.... but.... here is my blogpost and I'm not going to eat fast food because my wonderful wife is picking up dinner!

One more mile...

well, before my daily exercise today(I jogged 1 mile in 12 minutes), I decided to just go ahead and get an arm band iPod holder... So I saved my money for the next big thing to come down from the guys at apple... I'm hoping that they come out with some sort of touch screen flash based iPod... Basically the iPhone with out the phone or the internet...

Only one mile today....

The two miles yesterday took alot out of me... but that didn't stop me from exercising altogether... Also, let me get you opinion on something... My iPod (4G) occasionally skips when I get up to a certain speed jogging. I've already cracked open my old mp3 player once to replace the hard drive in it... I keep waiting for my dream iPod... and sure enough they announced my dream iPod a few days ago... however, I'm a verizon customer, and will be my verizon until summer 2008. So the earliest I'll be getting an iPhone will be summer 2008. What do I do between now and then? I'm thinking of getting a Nano.... what do you think?

2 miles!

I did it! I ran two miles in 26:30 today!

"Mile" stone

For my exercise session today I passed a personal "mile" stone.. I jogged continuosly for one mile in under 13 mins. Tomorrow I'm going to try for two...
Here was today's playlist on the iPod during the jog:
"Eye" by: Smashing Pumpkins from: The "Lost Highway" soundtrack
"One Big Love" by: Patty Griffin from: Flaming Red
"Lonely Nation" by: Switchfoot from: Nothing Is Sound
Tomorrow's playlist will be the same as today's with the addition of
"You Never Let Go" by: Passion from: Everything Glorious
"So What'cha Want" by: Beastie Boys from: Check Your Head
"Redemption" by: Switchfoot from: The Beautiful Letdown
"Oh! Gravity." by Switchfoot from: Oh! Gravity.

Day Six...

Exercise.... Check
No Fast Food.... Check
Blogging Everyday.... Check
Reading More... Check
it's the end of week one of new years resolutions...
How are yours coming?

Day Five

Ran a half mile today in the rain... would've went the full mile had I had something more waterproof on....

My Laptop is back up....

I love my mac.... If you're a mac user you might want to familiarize yourself with resetting the PRAM and PMU, This is first time I've had to do this in two years of being a mac user... I think the cause of the crash was a combination of only having 2 gigs free on my hard drive and doing alot of flickr browsing for pictures for our church program... I think that Firefox cached all of the imagines and it ran me out of free space...

Day Four

Ok, so now is when the real test is starting... Today was a little harder keeping my resolutions.
1. I didn't have time to g sit down and eat somewhere, and by the time I had could leave the office, it was already 1:30 so I was very hungry... But I tuck to my plan... No Fast Food.
2. Exercise... I did have the presence of mind to take extra clothes with me this morning... so I did get in a sort 20min jog/walk at the greenway...
3. this blog... even though I was already in bed I got back up to tell you guys(my loyal readers) that I have completed my resolutions for the day... but even this blog entry wasn't as easy as getting up and opening my laptop... my laptop crashed on me! I'm typing this on my desktop... and now I will go and figure out why my laptop won't restart... I'll keep you updated...

Music you should have...

This Christmas I received several iTunes gift cards. This along with the Starbucks gift card are rapidly becoming the best gifts to give and receive... So if you received a few iTunes gift cards for Christmas and you are wondering what to buy, here are a suggestions...

Switchfoot
Oh! Gravity.
I HIGHLY recommend this whole album but if you'd rather buy by the song get:
Oh! Gravity.
Awakening
Amateur Lovers
Burn Out Bright
American Dream
Dirty Second Hands
Circles














Augustana
All The Stars And Boulevards
my picks on this one would be:
Hotel Roosevelt
Boston
Mayfield
Bullets
Stars and Boulevards
Feel Free
Lonely People
California's Burning

Other notables are:
Brandon Heath: Don't Get Comfortable
Eastmountainsouth (self titled)
Bebo Norman: Between the Dreaming & Coming True

Day Three

Well, another day ends and my resolutions still stand...
I jogged a WHOLE MILE and walked another 1/4 mile!!

New Look

I decided to go with a new look for the new year... what do you think?

Day Two

Well here we are, Day two of the new year... How did you do with your resolutions? I did good... I didn't eat fast food (I had Pei Wei for lunch) I did exercise (jogged/walked one mile) and here is my blog entry for the day...

I did have an excellent day... It was the first day back at work and all, but I really do love what I do... All of the many jobs...

Hello 2007

I'm not making any promises, but.....
This year I plan to:
1. Have at least one blog entry per day.
2. Exercise everyday except Sundays.
3. Read/Listen to more books.
4. Stop eating fast food.
I better stop this list before it gets out of hand...
Anyways, wish me luck and check back for updates..
if you check back tomorrow and there isn't a new entry, you'll know that it's not going well...