Fat til the Fifth !!!

Lori and I during the holidays have decided that we werent going to make our selves crazy worrying about calorie intake. We have been going to the gym relatively regularly , but have not been eating consistently well. So , Lori came up with FAT TIL CHRISTMAS !!! Woohoo , all worries are tossed out the window , anytime we considered skipping ...say ...french fries with a burger we yell Fat til Christmas , and doggone it ...order them damn fries.
Its such a liberating feeling to relieve oneself of the guilt associated with naughty food choices. Simply exclaim our Mantra , sometimes very loudly and in a high pitched voice , FAT TIL XMAS !!!! and order away , or submerge it in oil , or bathe it in butter , or smother it with sausage gravey ... woohooo Fat til hmmmm.....
We realized that it is still holiday season after xmas , after all Lori and I are off work most of new years week... fat til xmas will not work. There is still a week of holiday before the obligatory new years resolutions. Aha !!!
FAT TIL NEW YEARS !!! - heee haww !!!
And Fat til new years became the new thought of the day , the new style , the new fit (or not so fit). Fat til New Years lasted until ...about ....New Years.
Now.... Hungover , with more Vacation time til we have to get back to full work weeks ,starting on Monday , Jan 5th....We realized that another change must be implemented , one that truly fulfils our goals and expresses our deepest feelings. .
FAT TIL THE FIFTH --- Yes , thats it , we do not need to deny ourselves in the face of a FAT breakfast following a night of drinking. AFter all , how can one diet when hung over. Need to eat those queasies away. So Fat til the fifth it is.
We did consider FAT til February but felt that may be pushing it. As it is ,it is feasible that we will for all that be Fat til February despite our fortuitous attempts of
de-fat-ifying from the Fifth Forward.

Sledding after the 1st winter storm

In anticipation of this seasons first storm , I bought some sleds for Lori and I to play with when winter inevitably destroys most outdoor activities with its cold temperatures and snow fall. I figured we would maybe do some snow shoeing this year and maybe some sliding down some snowy hills would be fun and keep us active throughout the winter. I bought one sled that was more like a boogie board for like $40 and then a cheapie round sit-on jobber just in case the boogie board one wasn`t all that. Coz I`m shmart !

We went to Wickham park in East Hartford , ct , where others with similar plans , were trekking with their families to enjoy a day of sledding. Lori and I went and dragged our ass up past these families up wickham park hill , Lori with my cheapo round seat sled and me with my high-end multi-handled boogie board sled ; upon reaching the top , out of breath , and lower backs screaming ,we hopped on our respective sleds and promptly sunk into the snow.
Have you ever seen a snowboarder stranded on a flat area of a mountain ? They either must hop their way to a decline or make themselves prone and drag their way to a more favorable location.
So here we were , Beached , already prone , both hopping and dragging our way down the hill , still out of breath from the climb. Eventually we catch a patch of sufficiently packed snow at an appropriate angle that enables our fat asses to descend at a child-like speed of a mile or 2 an hour.
Encouraged by this achievement , modest though it was , we cheerily charged back up the hill a little further. This quickly ignited those aches and pains previously experienced , and again with labored breath we geared ourselves for another exhilarating ride. By this time , numerous families were dragging their children in sleds up to our very spot , no doubt realizing their error in attempting to sled at their previous lower altitudes. I`d say there were a dozen or so , little brats included , traipsing up the hill and clogging the slalom lane. I , confident in my sledding and steering abilities , took a running dive and slid down the hill ....weeeeeeeaaahhhhhh , I was going appx the same speed down the hill as the children , dragged by their fathers , were making their way up the hill... DAMN !!!! This %*&&*^ Sucks and I shouldn`t have bothered to *&%^^&(* and other profanities and complaints.

Meanwhile , Lori , fearful of hurtling thru little kids at breakneck speeds (yeah right) , opted to wait , and wait and wait , while I , flailing and cursing at the base attempted to goad her into action ....fruitlessly ... I gave up , whipped my sled thru the air towards the woods and stormed off. Lori promptly started trudging down the mountain , sled in hand , cursing my temper. She did retrieve my sled from the woods , met me at the car , and wordlessly we drove off. I drove to her sisters house , who has kids , and dropped the sleds off in her foyer.
Sledding Sucks !

The Holidays are almost here , wheres the cheer ?

For the 1st time in a number of years , I have felt like the holiday season was going to be enjoyable. I watched some xmas shows . I enjoyed the little bit of shopping I`ve done. I`ve listened to some xmas music , including some traditional orchestral , and enjoyed it.
I have always bah-humbugged every year , generally getting sort-of depressed during this time. Last year , we even had a family xmas cancellation which didn`t help.
But ... one of the things I have always looked forward to despite my skepticism of the holiday was some time off of work as we generally shut down a number of days during the holidays. NOT THIS YEAR ... I can`t get any plans together , I`m missing out on the few things that sound cool and can`t motivate myself to come up with something fun.
I must get myself together and plan something cool for the holidays to do or I will lose my mind.

Ebay is addicting !

I havent touched ebay in like a year . Its too easy to spend money , ya know. But I did end up doing some x-mas shopping on ebay this year and kinda got suckered into buying stuff for myself- Merry Xmas to ME !!
Did get some killer deals on cyber monday - got 30% money back on ebay - They give you the money into your paypal account , so you have to spend it , right !
Got a new 22in computer monitor - flat screen , finally - $140 - shipped !! Then the next thing you know I`m bidding on stuff , getting outbid , and then going Aggressive !! - I think I may not have had as good deals on the other purchases. Can`t talk about those til after x-mas -
Happy Holidays , stay away from E-Bay , Its the male version of QVC

Black Friday

A few people getting trampled has got to be good for the economy , right.

A 34-year-old male employee was pronounced dead an hour after shoppers breached the doors to the shopping center in Valley Stream, Long Island, about 5 a.m. Friday and knocked him down, police said.

Click here for photos. - (no there were no photos of the trampled so I didn`t post it. )

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," Jimmy Overby, the man's 43-year-old co-worker, told the New York Daily News. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too ... I literally had to fight people off my back."


What I get from this story , is that the state of the economy is sound. The consumer , who drives 2/3 of our economy is back and on a rampage.
In this free for all - free market , darwinian culture , one less impoverished walmart worker who collects from the state can also only improve the economy.

Wedding Photos are up

Finally have the wedding photos up - Visit the Kasual Kafe Gallery

They don`t get it

At the gym this AM , on the treadmill , watching the news -
The CEO`s of the Big Three auto co`s flew to Washington on their private jets to ask Congress for money.
They spent $20,000 to fly , had a limo waiting for them , to show up to Congress with their tin cups. Disgusting.
They just don`t get it . One would think with all the marketing , sponsorships and PR they do , they would understand that PERCEPTION is everything. Talk about entitlement culture , it has reached the TOP as well and is even more repugnant than the usual suspects.
AIG , got caught with their pants down too a few weeks back , but they were doing something that was planned for months in advance as incentive for top earners. That still was a poor choice.
Who are these multi-millionaire managers that blunder there way through the business world , who recieve ridiculous bonuses for deteriorating the companys worth. I want an interview , damn it. I`m sure I could`ve lost the shareholders money at least as rapidly as they have.
We must not enable these companies by providing them with undeserved relief. Any bailout would come at the expense of those who did nothing to cause this auto mess.