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You know, it really makes me wonder about how some people do their job. Especially when I find that the mail delivery and pickup individual has not only failed to pickup the outgoing mail, but has crammed the incoming mail on top of it.
Now, I can understand not picking up the mail if there was no mail to deliver. Perhaps they forgot to look, but when it's crammed in on top of it I really have to wonder what happened there.
Week 9 has been abysmal so far. We missed yesterday's workout and then that evening went to El Fenix for fajitas and margaritas. I would bemoan the fact more, but the last week and yesterday were just terrible days and we needed some comfort food and drink.
Besides I've begun to look at this as a more long term, continuous, program rather than just twelve weeks. We missed working out this morning too, but I'm still holding out that this evening we can sneak it in.
I've been sucked into the mire that is Friendster and I'm oh so happy that I have. So far it has only confirmed my fear that I'm not near as cool as I thought I was.
We watched Metropolis (1927) and Best in Show last night.
Metropolis was pure film geek watching pleasure. I was surprised at how long it was at 127 mins. and that with a lot of original footage missing. It was a little hard to follow sometimes, but I think that's because our mindset has changed in 75 years. Things that had signifigance then, don't as much now and someone who was used to silent films might have gotten more out of it than I probably did. The special effects were impressive, the story seemed a little hoaky, but it was impressive none-the-less. The DVD has some commentaries on it, so I'm thinking about looking into that, it may prove insightful.
Best in Show was another mockumentry by Christopher Guest. I got it because we had seen Waiting for Guffman and heard that Best in Show was even funnier. Guffman hadn't blown me away, I admit I was a little let down when it turned out not to be as funny as I had anticipated. But I felt that it was a good film with a lot going for it, and thought I'd give the genre another try. Best in Show seemed to be a level above, though it was pretty much the same formula, with a lot of the same cast. I enjoyed it thoroughly and it had me rolling on several occasions. Fred Willard in particular, as the annoying announcer at the dog show, had some really great lines.
I think the best thing about Best in Show is that I wouldn't be surprised to find that the reality far outways the mock documentary.
We watched Frailty last night and I thought it was awesome. One of the best films I've seen with potential to become an all-time favorite. I won't go into all the particulars of why I liked it, I figure you can watch it and discern your own opinions, or you could read the reviews.
That's what got me to thinking. As I read the reviews, first the member reviews on Netflix, then a few of the critcs reviews, I was struck by how completely useless reviews are...or at least I was impressed with how much we really do differ. I was completely struck by how differently some people viewed this film...at some points I was thinking "Did they watch the same movie?". I suppose that's just the way it is though...we all enjoy different stuff.
But I still thought it was an awesome movie!
I don't know what's going on, well besides students being back, but work has been crazy. We've had three hard drives go out this week...spookie!
Still going strong for me here at the end of Week 8. I'm feeling good about the program and that I'm on track for reaching my goals at the end of Week 12.
My wife, poor thing, is having trouble staying on the program and following the routines and I don't blame her. This is a lot of effort and she's having trouble seeing any results. I'm not sure what we're doing wrong or if we are in fact doing anything wrong, maybe it just takes this long? I've requested help, hopefully it'll work out.
We've made it to the end of week 6 in our Body for Life program and to be honest I thought we'd be further along. I'm really feeling down about our progress and I'm getting impatient. Unfortunately I'm not sure what to do about it. We've followed the program almost to the letter with very few slip ups, yet we still don't seem to be very far from where we began. We're using the Thermodynamix supplement twice a day, admittedly I'm starting of slow on it, but from what I've heard it really doesn't do anything. There just seems to be a real lack of encouragement.
I really felt good about everything at the beginning of the week, but that all really fell apart after yesterday. Thursday turned into a horrible day. The wife stayed up late Wednesday night finishing a school project and then didn't want to work out in the morning. That was okay, after all it was lower body weight day and we could do it in the afternoon. Then, I got stuck working on an old, decrepit piece of crap computer that blew up after I installed the critical updates from Microsoft. An original Pentium with 64M RAM and Windows NT and after the updates Explorer decided it would crash every fucking time the system booted. I troubleshot it for about five hours and nothing I did worked. Of course this messed up my schedule for the rest of the day.
I had hoped to leave early from work so we could get to the gym a little earlier, but due to my fiasco I left at the regular time. When I got home I was totally stressed, not only did we have a bible study to go to at 7:00, but I got a note from the property manager saying that I hadn't paid rent, which I had. Well, the wife and I ended up getting into fight and then we ended up not going to work out. I would have skipped the bible study, but I was leading so I couldn't. At least things got a little better, we resolved our issue, I called the property manager and realized I had brain farted and wrote the wrong amount on the check and the bible study went just fine. We had cookies, but I figured what the hell at that point.
So here we are. We did get our cardio workout in this morning and it went reasonably well. We're going to make up our lower body work out tomorrow on our Free Day, so I suppose its not all bad. We just have to keep on going!
Well, we've made it to week 6. That in and of itself is quite an accomplishment, but both the wife and I feel that we're not where we should be for being almost half way done. We've decided to try another supplement called Thermodynamix, it's supposed to increase metabolism and increase fat loss. We're going to start slow with it and see if it helps. I have felt better about the program in general. Last week was pretty rough, as far as feeling like we're not making progress, Susan had a particularly hard time with it. But we have managed to stay with it and we haven't missed a work out and outside of a few hiccups with diet we've stayed remarkably disciplined.
I've felt like there's more progress this week and that's a good feeling. I've gotten that feeling of my body changing again, which I really haven't felt since the first few weeks...maybe it's all in my head...who knows.
I've always felt that we we're going to make it through this 12-week program, for some reason, unlike so many other diets, I've never doubted that we would complete it. Having made it halfway feels good never the less.