I love each and every one of you like you were a well-worn song on my MP3 player.  On repeat.

Once Reviewed

Didn’t like it that much.

I liked the music, but the movie took a LONG time to get to it, and I didn’t like that first song he sang on the street that got her attention.  I think I’ll go check out the guys music.  I really liked the girl’s accent - can’t get enough of that.  More than just plain sexy, it’s… fetching.  It draws me in and makes me listen to every portion of every word, because I don’t want to miss a syllable.  And the storyline seemed to be real and not all hollywooded up.  The guy did a good acting job too.  It didn’t fall into a typical romantic struggle camp.  I felt like this could have been an actual story.  I got chills when they started singing together for the first time in the music store, and that’s common for me with musicals.  I’m the biggest hetero fan of musicals in the entire world.

Ok, maybe I did like it and just didn’t know it.

Exercise and weight management

For me, this isn’t just a New Year’s Resolution. While I don’t currently have a “medical monkey” on my back, I won’t live forever and I should pay better attention to this temporary vessel I like to call “my body.”  Unless, of course, scientists figure out how to extend my life before mine is used up, thereby buying more time until scientists can extend it further. 

In other words, (and I will summarize by using Led Zeppelin song names)

In my time of dying, I want to be over the hills and far away with my friends, thank you.  That’s the way I am, and it’s nobody’s fault but mine.  Your time is gonna come, too, so don’t let yourself get sick again and ramble on wearing and tearing for your life.  To help us both, I’m gonna crawl in the evening, listen to rock and roll, and eat some custard pie with the living loving maid in the light down by the seaside.

I’ve decided to become serious about getting in shape. For the most part, it means doing actual exercise, instead of my usual of jumping to conclusions, running my mouth and sweating about taxes. Fortunately, our exercise equipment was recently moved a lot closer, so I can more conveniently abuse it.  I’m currently about 20 lbs lighter than my heaviest weight during 2007 (and my entire life) and hope to keep it up.  Wait, I mean down.

If you’ve done a weight management program or discipline, what worked? Was it keeping a log or journal? Was it publishing the log and success? Was it diet and exercise?  Personal Training?  Keeping a plain old fashioned scale in the bathroom?

Best of the LOLcats

There were a few chuckles this last week or two. One thing I’ve gotten into the habit of is when friends come over who haven’t been exposed to LOLcats, I just go my lolcats blog tag on my blackberry or my Wii at home, since I’ve already filtered out the not-so-funny ones. So far, it hasn’t backfired on me like that time I kept showing everyone [insert favorite cult fascination that too many people sell you on, like Amway, Jesus, Nickelback].