I did get out of bed and on the road on time. Not bad for going to bed at 1230. Sadly I was up watching Friends of all things not realizing the wedding episode was long.

I went to the local butterfly conservatory for the Family day weekend. My niece was afraid of most of the butterflies, specifically them landing on her. I think I got some good pictures, I’ll find out in a couple of days. There weren’t as many as there usually are flying around but it was fun seeing the birds. A couple of times I thought they were going to bean me. I saw one guy there who was very serious about his pictures, super expensive stuff taking a 1000 shots all at slightly different angles, sometimes taking his girlfriends camera taking a hundred shots while she stands there. Funniest part was when he was done he gave her back her camera and than she proceeded to take a bunch more pics of the same butterfly with the same camera.

On Monday I played some dice games while mostly ignoring my nieces cries for help with her calculus. She is still at a stage where she doesn’t get the connections from one thing to another but can do most of the other stuff fine. It is worrying though that she didn’t know how to add or multiply radicals at all and that was a section of her class so far. I have to give her credit though she did do her homework while everyone else was playing. My nephew has really impressed me, I thought his studying habits were weak and would hold him back despite being bright but he is getting some impressive marks.

I built a light box for taking some pics at home, it looks a lot crappier than I was expecting and I was expecting crap. I will be testing it out tonight.

In weight news I was 245 this morning. I had a bunch of popcorn to keep me from snacking and tuna for a small din din. I’ll probably hover around this weight for a while now.

I guess the weight is still melting off a bit, I dipped under 250 on the scale this morning which seemed pretty good since I have been eating a bit more junk than I should but a lot less than I use to. I was also surprised since I had delicious tacos yesterday and over ate. I ate beyond full but less than what I use to, it wasn’t to the point of feeling sick. Hopefully I can keep it going but a bit more weight loss than my current rate.

Yesterday my niece sent some homework that she needed help with. It is about limits, the theory for calculus. I forgot the derivative is the formula for the slope at any point in the function. I can still do the work, I actually screwed up on the same point as she did. Now it is a matter of getting her to understand what is happening and why. She has the tools for the most part, just not the intuition of when to use what tool.

They are soar, I’m stingy with the glasses cleaner like I am with my washer fluid.

My first day in my new department is going well for the most part. The buyer is away which is making it difficult since I can’t get a recap of how the area works and what will be coming up in the future. I guess they made a strategy change to go high low recently but financially it doesn’t really add up, so this can be a painful year. From coming from an area that did high low before it isn’t pretty unless you get the volume to go with it, every week.

Went to a birthday party on the weekend, it was fun but antisocial me came out in a big way. I couldn’t think of stories to talk about or chit chatty stuff so I was quiet for the most part which sucks. I was even reading a Dale Carnigie book earlier, not for the party but to help my career, guess I need more help still. Trouble is I spend a lot of time working and don’t follow sports closely enough there and don’t care about politics enough to talk about it in great detail.

Sigh

I got another notch lower on my belt, hopefully it isn’t a one day fluke but some real waist loss. I can’t imagine it is loss though since I have been eating not as well as I was at the beginning of my diet.

I took a couple of days off in the middle of the week. Unlike other times that I did this it was very relaxing and enjoyable. I’m not saying it wasn’t the other times but they felt like just a couple of days. I didn’t do anything incredible by no means, shopped for some books and went to the library, had some sushi, but it all felt nice. I was planning on getting some pictures but didn’t get to that.

I have a birthday party in Toronto coming up, should be fun, I was trying to figure out an easy way to attend it and go to a delicious poutine place downtown but it is just too far out of the way. While shopping for wines seeing the variety that was available was entertaining. There was one that claimed it went well with Mexican food, I have never seen anyone at Taco Bell with it, so I don’t know how good it really is.

Dieting is difficult, there seems to be so many unexpected opportunities that creep up that add to your calorie intake. Today was pizza day at work and they had these super delicious double chocolate chip cookies. They tasted so rich like brownies really, and I am weak when the food is in front of me like that, I think I had 4 cookies and 5 slices of pizza. I haven’t loss much more weight, I guess that goes without saying, but I am still trying. I do need to get more active, I find that the most difficult thing to do.

Unfortunately I wonder how healthy they really are for me sine I over indulge in them. I very seldom eat veggies and such and have even less when meatballs are involved except for rice. Not sure how healthy rice is, I guess it is OK in moderation but I hardly do anything in moderation. I have been holding steady at my weight for a while which was annoying while I was eating better. Last couple of weeks more no no food has been getting eaten like chocolate and such but I am still holding steady. I need to recommit to lose some inches.

Oh Harper, why are you being so over the top douchey. Almost cartoony in seeing what you can get away, and all of it for just the stupidest reasons. If only he could focus on reducing beraucacy a bit, and have the gov commit on city project sooner.

meh

I have a test coming up on Wednesday, it seems like such a crap shoot as to weather I pass or not, and it doesn’t really represent what they want you to learn very much, kind of a waste.

I am still so amazed by american commercials, they are so bad, I will always be amazed by the sheer amount of cartoon spokespeople they have in commercials, I keep expecting commercials to start resembling Robocop commercials or Running Man. Actually I did confuse a real commercial for a robocop commercial when it was on a few weeks ago and a robocop commercial for a real commercial.

Got to see Running Man again yesterday, almost missed it since the info was screwed up.

I apparently let the grass go to wild, the crab grass seems to have just exploded to the point that some of the lawn is useless, scary how it can do that.

Sushi soon, yum yum yum.