I want to start out by wishing my Mom a Happy Birthday! We spent the afternoon with my family for her birthday. We went to Red Lobster for lunch. This was the first time I have ever been to Red Lobster as an adult. It was good but nothing I am rushing back to. I think the server we had really hindered my experience, she was not that great and it took us for ever to get our food and get out. We got there at 12:15 and did not leave until 2:00. That is a little long for my taste but over all the food was pretty. I had the Admirals Feast, a caesar salad and cheesy biscuits. I got my salad pretty quick so I ate that and it was pretty tasty but nothing I couldn't have gotten at any restaurant in town. It took forever to get our entries as I mentioned before so I filled up on to many of their cheesy biscuits. I will say that the cheese biscuits were very good. Finally I got my entrée, it had two pieces of fried cod, some fried baby scallops, fried clam strips and fried shrimp. I also got a side of a baked potato. The fish was cooked well and the coating was very good. The Shrimp was really good and the baby scallops were delicious. The clam strips were ok but I don't think I would get them as their own meal. Because of the biscuits I ate waiting for my meal I couldn't finish my meal so I ended up boxing up half of it. My wife didn't finish hers either so we are having left over Red Lobster for supper on Monday night. Over all the food was very good and it was the type of food that I can't really get any where else in town. Over all I would give the food a good grade but the service a close to fail. For my taste if I am going to drive to that part of town there are other restaurants I would rather eat at.
After we ate we headed back to my sisters house. Mom and Dad stooped at TCBY Yoghurt and picked up a cake on their way to my sisters. When we got there we went down stairs and played some kinect games with my nephew. Mom and Dad both played a dancing game with him and they were pretty funny to watch. Then I played Carnival Games with him. He wanted to play the Skee Ball game. The sad thing is that he beat me. In my defence it did take me a few throws to figure out how the angels worked. Then my wife played a rocket ship game with him, she beat him.
After we got done playing games we went up to the kitchen and had the cake Mom and Dad had brought. It was a peanut butter frozen yoghurt cake. It was really good but when is frozen yoghurt not good.
When we got home we played some games and did some laundry before supper. For supper I made two egg sandwiches each with one and a half eggs on them. They were really good and hit the spot on a night when I was not starving. My wife made some pop corn for her supper and I munched on that a little bit while we got caught up on the three episodes Fringe(Great show you need to watch it so they don't cancel it!) we had on the DVR.
We didn't have anything to eat before we went out with my family and eating breakfast every day is something I need to work on. We did do some cleaning before we left to get ready for our open house we were having while we were gone. So I am going to count the cleaning and the kinect game as a little exercises even if it is a stretch.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Movie Review of Crazy, Stpuid, Love
This was a great movie about all the different types of love in the world and the people who fall into them. You have first time love, unrequited love, new love and old love. What is great about this movie is how it brings them all together seamlessly and keeps the whole movie moving while doing it.
The movie starts out and mostly revolves around Steve Carell's Cal Weaver and his Wife Emily, played by Julianne Moore, ending their marriage after 25 years. Cal loses everything his wife, his house and even his best friends(His wife says they as a couple have chosen to support Emily not Cal). Cal tries to move on and meets up with the shallow womanizer Jacob, played to perfection by Ryan Gosling, at a bar. Jacob take it upon him self to help Cal. He does this by changing the way he dresses and looks and showing Cal how pick up women at the bar. Eventually Cal picks up his first woman for a one night stand, Marisa Tomei, and starts turning into a womanizer like Jacob. He eventfully realizes at parent teach conferences with his ex-wife Emily, that she is the one he really loves. I don't want to ruin any surprises so I am just going to say that things end up not going well.
That was the old love story but then they tie in a fun little new love story as well. As Cal is at parent teacher conferences having his heart broken and stomped on we see Jacob run in to a girl he hit on at the beginning of the movie again named Hannah and played perfectly by Emma Stone. All she wants is for Jacob to take her home if you know what I mean. They end up back at Jacob's place and end up spending the entire night talking falling asleep next to each other. Once again I don't want to ruin anything for you so I am not going to go on any further about this story line. I will say that Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling make a cute couple.
Lastly the person who stole the show for me was Cal's son Robbie. He is 13 and in love with his babysitter who is 17 and a senior in high school. Needless to say she is not interested in him, she is actually interested in Cal witch leads to a whole different hilarious mess for Cal. Her unrequited love does not stop Robbie from endlessly pursing her through the entire movie. I have not seen Jonah Bobo in anything before but he did a very good job of playing a young teen in love and stuck in the middle of his parents divorce at the same time.
In the end this movie shows us that love can make us crazy and stupid and that not all love is not meant to be. But everyone does have a soul mate we just have to wait for them then make sure we work to keep them when we do find them.
I give this move 3 out of 4 Stars
The movie starts out and mostly revolves around Steve Carell's Cal Weaver and his Wife Emily, played by Julianne Moore, ending their marriage after 25 years. Cal loses everything his wife, his house and even his best friends(His wife says they as a couple have chosen to support Emily not Cal). Cal tries to move on and meets up with the shallow womanizer Jacob, played to perfection by Ryan Gosling, at a bar. Jacob take it upon him self to help Cal. He does this by changing the way he dresses and looks and showing Cal how pick up women at the bar. Eventually Cal picks up his first woman for a one night stand, Marisa Tomei, and starts turning into a womanizer like Jacob. He eventfully realizes at parent teach conferences with his ex-wife Emily, that she is the one he really loves. I don't want to ruin any surprises so I am just going to say that things end up not going well.
That was the old love story but then they tie in a fun little new love story as well. As Cal is at parent teacher conferences having his heart broken and stomped on we see Jacob run in to a girl he hit on at the beginning of the movie again named Hannah and played perfectly by Emma Stone. All she wants is for Jacob to take her home if you know what I mean. They end up back at Jacob's place and end up spending the entire night talking falling asleep next to each other. Once again I don't want to ruin anything for you so I am not going to go on any further about this story line. I will say that Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling make a cute couple.
Lastly the person who stole the show for me was Cal's son Robbie. He is 13 and in love with his babysitter who is 17 and a senior in high school. Needless to say she is not interested in him, she is actually interested in Cal witch leads to a whole different hilarious mess for Cal. Her unrequited love does not stop Robbie from endlessly pursing her through the entire movie. I have not seen Jonah Bobo in anything before but he did a very good job of playing a young teen in love and stuck in the middle of his parents divorce at the same time.
In the end this movie shows us that love can make us crazy and stupid and that not all love is not meant to be. But everyone does have a soul mate we just have to wait for them then make sure we work to keep them when we do find them.
I give this move 3 out of 4 Stars
January 29th Weigh In
I weighed my self this morning and I lost a pound! I am pretty happy about that considering I ate like junk last night. In the next week I am hoping to exercise more and eat better. I also need to make sure I eat breakfast every day even start doing it on the weekends. I think that was a big reason for my weight lose last week and a reason I only lost a pound this week. But over all I am happy that I lost weight again for the fourth straight week. Thanks for all your help interweb!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
January 28th
Today I slept in and din;t eat any breakfast. Over all it was a fun day but not the best health wise. We were suppose to have some friends over today but their daughter was sick so we postponed it until next week. So instead we spent the day being lazy, witch is always nice.
I pretty much spent from nine until 6 playing Batman: Arkham City on my Xbox. I got the main story finished for Batman and for Catwoman and beat some of the side missions. Now I have to decide if I want to continue and beat all the side missions or not. If I do I am looking at probably another twenty or thirty hours playing this game. Or I can movie on to another game. I have not made decision yet but it might be a week or two before I play video games again so I have some time to think.
I did take a brief break to eat some lunch with my wife. I had the last bowl of chicken noodle casserole while we watched an episode of Storage Wars we had on DVR.
Finally around 6 we decided we should eat some supper. Since our friends were coming over next week now we decided to save all of the food we had for tonight until next week. So we mulled over our options and decided to go out to eat. We narrowed it down to a few places but Taco Bell won out because it was cheap and we didn't have to change out of our around the house shirts and pajama pants we had one. I had 5 tacos and a cheesy gordita crunch. I t all tasted pretty good but I had also ordered a Beefy Crunchy Burrito that they for got to give us.
After we got done eating and watching an episode of 90210 we put in a movie to keep our Saturday Night Movie streak at four. We watched Crazy, Stupid Love. It was a really fun and cute movie.So I was still a little hungry after we ate so I had a larger then necessary bowl of ice cream during the movie. I know I have said it before but ice cream is like my kryptonite. I have such a problem eating it in proper portions. It is for sure something I can work for the future.
I pretty much spent from nine until 6 playing Batman: Arkham City on my Xbox. I got the main story finished for Batman and for Catwoman and beat some of the side missions. Now I have to decide if I want to continue and beat all the side missions or not. If I do I am looking at probably another twenty or thirty hours playing this game. Or I can movie on to another game. I have not made decision yet but it might be a week or two before I play video games again so I have some time to think.
I did take a brief break to eat some lunch with my wife. I had the last bowl of chicken noodle casserole while we watched an episode of Storage Wars we had on DVR.
Finally around 6 we decided we should eat some supper. Since our friends were coming over next week now we decided to save all of the food we had for tonight until next week. So we mulled over our options and decided to go out to eat. We narrowed it down to a few places but Taco Bell won out because it was cheap and we didn't have to change out of our around the house shirts and pajama pants we had one. I had 5 tacos and a cheesy gordita crunch. I t all tasted pretty good but I had also ordered a Beefy Crunchy Burrito that they for got to give us.
After we got done eating and watching an episode of 90210 we put in a movie to keep our Saturday Night Movie streak at four. We watched Crazy, Stupid Love. It was a really fun and cute movie.So I was still a little hungry after we ate so I had a larger then necessary bowl of ice cream during the movie. I know I have said it before but ice cream is like my kryptonite. I have such a problem eating it in proper portions. It is for sure something I can work for the future.
Friday, January 27, 2012
January 27th
Today I worked 9-6 today so my routine was a little off this morning and I missed breakfast. I did get my cup of coffee I though.
For lunch I had to run some errands so I grabbed some food on my way back to work. A few co-workers had been talking about Chinese food and I was really craving it. So another coworker pointed out that there was a Chinese place in a little strip mall by where I was heading. I had seen the place before and it seemed a little sketchy but she said she knew some people who had eaten there and it wasn't to bad. As I headed out to lunch I still wasn't sure where I was going to eat but in the end the pull of the chines won and I went there. It was called The Magic Wok and the magic is that I didn't die. There were just two old Chinese dudes in there and no customers. On of then was surfing the internet on a computer in the corner of the dining room. I almost left but though i would give it a chance. I ordered their Sesame Chicken dinner, I didn't even know what that included but i was fairly sure it was $6.95. I was wrong it was only $5.95 so right off the bat I was thinking that if this place was good I would be coming back. So i got the food and headed back to work. The meal included sesame chicken that was pretty good. Fried rice that was very good and a crab ragoon that didn't have much in it but was ok. Then I sat back and waited to see if I died of food poisoning. Since I didn't die of food poising and the food was pretty good and cheap I will be going back I think.
I didn't get off work until 6 witch really sucked but my wife had run up to her parents that afternoon for a appointment so she wouldn't be home until later. So I headed home and got a few things done I needed to do. I got all my mileage copied down to paper from my phone and scanned it and sent it in to my case worker for my school grant so I can get reimbursed for the mileage. While I did that I was fielding text messages from our friend that was suppose to be coming over tomorrow about his sick daughter. I also took a long call from my in-laws because they broke their TV and couldn't get it to work. Finally I got my mileage in and my wife got home. She had eaten supper with her parents but I had not yet. So we settled in to watch the series finally of Chuck we had been DVRing and I had two left over bowls of the chicken noodle casserole from last night. I was pretty proud of my self because that was all I had the rest of the night.
So Over all I didn't over eat to much, the Chinese probably wasn't the healthiest meal but hey it didn't kill me. LOL I did not end up getting any exercise in but I am hoping for a really good exercise week next week.
For lunch I had to run some errands so I grabbed some food on my way back to work. A few co-workers had been talking about Chinese food and I was really craving it. So another coworker pointed out that there was a Chinese place in a little strip mall by where I was heading. I had seen the place before and it seemed a little sketchy but she said she knew some people who had eaten there and it wasn't to bad. As I headed out to lunch I still wasn't sure where I was going to eat but in the end the pull of the chines won and I went there. It was called The Magic Wok and the magic is that I didn't die. There were just two old Chinese dudes in there and no customers. On of then was surfing the internet on a computer in the corner of the dining room. I almost left but though i would give it a chance. I ordered their Sesame Chicken dinner, I didn't even know what that included but i was fairly sure it was $6.95. I was wrong it was only $5.95 so right off the bat I was thinking that if this place was good I would be coming back. So i got the food and headed back to work. The meal included sesame chicken that was pretty good. Fried rice that was very good and a crab ragoon that didn't have much in it but was ok. Then I sat back and waited to see if I died of food poisoning. Since I didn't die of food poising and the food was pretty good and cheap I will be going back I think.
I didn't get off work until 6 witch really sucked but my wife had run up to her parents that afternoon for a appointment so she wouldn't be home until later. So I headed home and got a few things done I needed to do. I got all my mileage copied down to paper from my phone and scanned it and sent it in to my case worker for my school grant so I can get reimbursed for the mileage. While I did that I was fielding text messages from our friend that was suppose to be coming over tomorrow about his sick daughter. I also took a long call from my in-laws because they broke their TV and couldn't get it to work. Finally I got my mileage in and my wife got home. She had eaten supper with her parents but I had not yet. So we settled in to watch the series finally of Chuck we had been DVRing and I had two left over bowls of the chicken noodle casserole from last night. I was pretty proud of my self because that was all I had the rest of the night.
So Over all I didn't over eat to much, the Chinese probably wasn't the healthiest meal but hey it didn't kill me. LOL I did not end up getting any exercise in but I am hoping for a really good exercise week next week.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
January 26th
Today was pretty good for food and exercise. I haven;t said that since I started blogging again so I am happy!
The one disappointment of the day was the morning. I had to get a few things done around the house before I left this morning so I ran out of time to eat breakfast. So I just took my pills with some water and had a coffee on the way to work. Then at about 11 I was starving so I went down and got some Pop Tarts out of the vending machine and ate those. Probably not the best morning of eating but still not bad.
Since I had had Pop Tarts at eleven thirty I was not overly hungry at lunch. I had my frozen dinner, Santa Fe Rice and Beans, with some Doritos.
When I got to school I went on a 25 minuet walk around the school halls. I really got my heart rate going walking at a brisk pace. I also went up and down a few flights of steps. Over all it was a pretty good exercise experience and I felt better, and a little warmer, when I was done.
Then I hit the computer lab and finished up my horse race program that was do tonight. I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. I wish I would have had a little more knowledge when I started it because I would have done things a little different but by the time I thought of a better way to do thinks I was already waist deep in the program so I just made it work.
After class I came home and my wife had made us chicken and noodle casserole for supper. It was really good and I had was really hungry so I had two bowls of it. But on the bright side I didn't have anything else the rest of the night while we watched TV.
The one disappointment of the day was the morning. I had to get a few things done around the house before I left this morning so I ran out of time to eat breakfast. So I just took my pills with some water and had a coffee on the way to work. Then at about 11 I was starving so I went down and got some Pop Tarts out of the vending machine and ate those. Probably not the best morning of eating but still not bad.
Since I had had Pop Tarts at eleven thirty I was not overly hungry at lunch. I had my frozen dinner, Santa Fe Rice and Beans, with some Doritos.
When I got to school I went on a 25 minuet walk around the school halls. I really got my heart rate going walking at a brisk pace. I also went up and down a few flights of steps. Over all it was a pretty good exercise experience and I felt better, and a little warmer, when I was done.
Then I hit the computer lab and finished up my horse race program that was do tonight. I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. I wish I would have had a little more knowledge when I started it because I would have done things a little different but by the time I thought of a better way to do thinks I was already waist deep in the program so I just made it work.
After class I came home and my wife had made us chicken and noodle casserole for supper. It was really good and I had was really hungry so I had two bowls of it. But on the bright side I didn't have anything else the rest of the night while we watched TV.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
January 25th
Good day for food and I am going to count my running around stores after work as exercise.
Got up and had my coffee, juice and oatmeal per my new routine this morning.
For lunch I had a can of potatoes ham chowder, a yoghurt and a granola bar. I have come to realize that these cans of soup are very filling. I think I am going to start splitting them into two containers and having a can last for two days.
I got a text that someone wanted to look at our house after lunch so after work I headed home instead of doing some errands I had planned on doing on the way home. I tided the house up a little bit and loaded the kitty up in her carrier. I dropped the kitty off in my sister basement bathroom and headed out to run my errands. Since we had to be out of the house for awhile my wife and I decided I would run my errands and then we would meet at Wal-Mart and get groceries for next week.
First I went to Menards to return a water filter for our fridge. I had bought the wrong one when we had been at Menards a few weeks before. After I did the return a ran to the back of the store and grabbed the correct filter then checked out and headed to my next destination.
Next I went to Bed Bath and Beyond. I had bought a coffee filter there before Christmas and it did not fit the coffee maker I had, plus I had gotten a new coffee maker since then as well. The took it back with no hassle and I hoped in the car to go to my next stop.
Next I stopped at Sam's Club to pick up some baby aspirin and regular aspirin that my wife and I take for medication. I also grabbed another box of granola bars because we were almost out. After checking out there I headed to my final destination.
My last stop was Wal-Mart to meet my wife and get groceries. I was a little early so I went to look at some ting in the electronics. I had a Wal-Mart gift card that I had been hoping to use to buy an Amazon gift card but I found out after walking around the electronics for awhile that they no longer carried Amazon gift cards. I then spent some time looking through the games and eventually decided I would wait and use the gift card to buy the new Muppets movie when it cam out in march. About that time my wife called and let me know that she was at the store. We meet u pin the pet food area and then headed out to collect all the groceries we needed for the next week. When we had everything and we were ready to check out I left to go pick the cat up while she checked out and headed home. It timed out perfectly. I got home and took the cat in and then she got home right after me.
While I unloaded the groceries my wife started making supper for us. She made us turkey bacon and eggs and I also had four slices of toast with cinnamon butter. It was a very good meal.
After supper and a shower I had a bowl of ice cream while we watched some TV. I need to work on my portion control here. I had way to much ice cream.
In closing I am going to count all my running around in all the stores I went to tonight as exercise because I did a lot of walking even if it was not continues it is still better then nothing.
Got up and had my coffee, juice and oatmeal per my new routine this morning.
For lunch I had a can of potatoes ham chowder, a yoghurt and a granola bar. I have come to realize that these cans of soup are very filling. I think I am going to start splitting them into two containers and having a can last for two days.
I got a text that someone wanted to look at our house after lunch so after work I headed home instead of doing some errands I had planned on doing on the way home. I tided the house up a little bit and loaded the kitty up in her carrier. I dropped the kitty off in my sister basement bathroom and headed out to run my errands. Since we had to be out of the house for awhile my wife and I decided I would run my errands and then we would meet at Wal-Mart and get groceries for next week.
First I went to Menards to return a water filter for our fridge. I had bought the wrong one when we had been at Menards a few weeks before. After I did the return a ran to the back of the store and grabbed the correct filter then checked out and headed to my next destination.
Next I went to Bed Bath and Beyond. I had bought a coffee filter there before Christmas and it did not fit the coffee maker I had, plus I had gotten a new coffee maker since then as well. The took it back with no hassle and I hoped in the car to go to my next stop.
Next I stopped at Sam's Club to pick up some baby aspirin and regular aspirin that my wife and I take for medication. I also grabbed another box of granola bars because we were almost out. After checking out there I headed to my final destination.
My last stop was Wal-Mart to meet my wife and get groceries. I was a little early so I went to look at some ting in the electronics. I had a Wal-Mart gift card that I had been hoping to use to buy an Amazon gift card but I found out after walking around the electronics for awhile that they no longer carried Amazon gift cards. I then spent some time looking through the games and eventually decided I would wait and use the gift card to buy the new Muppets movie when it cam out in march. About that time my wife called and let me know that she was at the store. We meet u pin the pet food area and then headed out to collect all the groceries we needed for the next week. When we had everything and we were ready to check out I left to go pick the cat up while she checked out and headed home. It timed out perfectly. I got home and took the cat in and then she got home right after me.
While I unloaded the groceries my wife started making supper for us. She made us turkey bacon and eggs and I also had four slices of toast with cinnamon butter. It was a very good meal.
After supper and a shower I had a bowl of ice cream while we watched some TV. I need to work on my portion control here. I had way to much ice cream.
In closing I am going to count all my running around in all the stores I went to tonight as exercise because I did a lot of walking even if it was not continues it is still better then nothing.
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