havent updated in a while (seems like it at least)

have been in bed basically all weekend b/c of sinus problems (no fun)

i find myself listening to a lot of "retread" music recently - something corporate, mae, MCS (older), yellowcard (older), etc - i need to find new music i like

i watched body of lies - good movie, makes you wonder how often it is like that "over there"...

also saw the pink panther 2 this weekend, had to get out of bed and do something so i didnt feel so worthless. i dont understand why its getting such gawd aweful reviews, its not like its slumdog millionare or grand torino but its not a horrible movie either. i mean - its the pink panther - you should know what your getting yourself into

i added a lot of people on twitter today too, another way to find good links (already found cornyns transcript from Fox News Sunday about the bailout, etc) w00t.

anyway thats all for now. this was a great weather weekend, but i have a feeling its going to be COLD this week...and i am making crockpot soup this week too.

resolution number two

lose some weight/get more healthy

now this is going to be difficult to accomplish for many reasons, one of them being that i enjoy to cook quite a lot and that what i am best at cooking are things in the category of "sweets"

i would say that i have cooked a LOT more over the last few months than i ever did before, and i have recognized that it really does boil down to calories in & calories out. i am eating more healthy all things considered and i am mostly restricting myself to eating out on weekends (if then even)

also i am going to start working out at the on-complex workout facility - need to get on that - starting towards the end of the month.

i have cut out a lot of sweets (ice cream) and sodas (rarely have any). next thing to cut out is coffee - shouldnt be hard because i rarely drink it anyway and mostly just drink latte's if i have anything...but moving towards tea, specifically green tea which is more healthy and such. anyway i also drink energy drinks, but not that many and not that often - usually they are clustered together over a few days and then none for a while. i successfully did not buy a case of monsters at sams club this weekend, which is great lol but that was as much a financial decision as anything...

but yea, getting more healthy entails 1) eating more healthily slash better + losing weight 2) working out in some way, be it running or treadmill or the hundred pushup challenge and 3) cutting out as much sugar or sweets as i can, another plus of green tea is that i dont drink it with sugar.

i have been able to lose weight since i have been here in DC but thats almost entirely from easting less/smaller portions - which is something i am ok at doing already but can still get better at doing. biggest suggestion for losing weight, and an easy one, is to not keep snack foods around or keep healthy snack foods - like fruits or veggies around. i have taken the approach of allowing myself to only have snack foods around a very limited amount of the time and that has been a huge help

regarding football today, blah. i wanted the chargers to win and it to be a chargers/cardinals SB but no luck...now its eagles @ cardinals and ravens @ steelers. im going to be pulling for the cardinals and the ravens but thats as much because i dont like mcnabb and h-ward as anything else.

watched 24 tonight, and may start watching it more/full time? we shall see after tomorrow night when the second 2 hours of the 4 hour "opening" comes on.

goals for this weekend:
-make salsa
-make chicken enchiladas + rice
-make banana bread + cookies
-laundry
-go to a wizards game

so i made salsa/banana bread/cookies but didnt do chicken encheledas/rice cuz im doing it later this week. also going to a caps game on tue...

so this week's goals:
-chicken encheladas + mexican rice (will post recipe)
-"be healthy"
-sleep more
-buy more loose-leaf tea (suggestions?)

we will see how many of THESE get done...lol