life is pretty good

only current problem is these headaches i keep getting. i seriously have to come home and lay in bed for 20-30 min, lights off, no sound before they will pass - and even then they will randomly come back...its strange cuz they are one-sided, they dont usually hurt on both sides...

in other news, went on a 2.5 mile walk today across the city, from u street through adams morgan down to dupont. had some dinner there. i miss my ipod, i reallllly need to re-order the headphone part so i can use it again. this week.

also got some GRE study aids, studying starts monday (woohoo...or not?) and working out starts mon as well...

1969 - "wreck me" is an epic song.

i should have done more today, but really was just lazy most of the day, reading, tv, music.

and for the epic fail of today, well tonight: the safeway where we live had two lines open. then they only had one line open, and had twenty paying customers in the one line. keep in mind, not twenty different people, twenty individual paying cutomers - so about 25 people in general...ONE PERSON. the other one "went on break" and the third person left work early. seriously? "on break" are you KIDDING ME?

anyway, its something i have gotten accustomed to, subway being no good...if i had any other choice other than 711, i would go in a heartbeat...

anyway, headache kind of coming on = less computer = end of this entry. maybe ill do another one tomorrow afternoon, probably a slightly longer one? book it.

well its been way too long since an update...for one thing im just now getting around to watching an older episode of thebroken (from 2006 lol) - episode 4

rant
why is it such a big deal to use my ipod on the airplane when we are taking off or landing

if me using my ipod to listen to keane or ftsk and its going to cause my plane to crash, then we have some bigger problems that the economy

seriously, waking me up multiple times to tell me to turn off my ipod is simply not productive - it wakes me up, wastes your time and in the ends, its not going to effect what happens with the plane
/rant

other than that life is really good - family is good, its going amazingly with wills. was in longview this weekend and got to see luke and matthew play baseball as well as see the fam and such

random thought: i need to go back to rays hell burger. mmm

other random thought: i need a new computer, but gotta sell my inspiron 6400 (anyone interested?) - looking at getting either a used thinkpad or maybe a dell (new or used?)

blah

i need to sleep more
i need to sleep more
i need to sleep more

also, regarding webcams -- the quick cam pro 9000 is pretty sweet (parents have it) but it is also pretty expensive (about 80 IIRC) i have the logitech webcam for notebooks pro (last years version), spent half the money and it works perfectly. also question: for the best video whats the best program to use? only experience is with skype fwiw

ill post a more in depth update about life soon (this week)

lost is on tomorrow. w00t.

im ready for the weekend (and its only tue)

i write like this (a lot)

thatsaboutit.

until next time

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

255= should be asleep. but am not.

tomorrow is gonna be a long day of sightseeing and such. should be good for me though

texas on the fifth...hook 'em. will be even better when we see that THE ohio state university shouldnt have been in a BCS game. hopefully the beatdown by utah will lead to more non "majors" getting invited to the BCS, and while utah did their part to attempt to shake up the BCS texas tech sucked it up (can you say overrated? guess now we see how "good" tech was after getting rolled by OU and then getting smoked by ole miss here in texas...way to represent the big XII tech. good job). i was glad to see utah beat 'bama, showed how overrated the SEC was i hope) but then tech lost to ole miss - and as a side note would love to see an ole miss/alabama rematch.

in a perfect world we would be gearing up for a utah/va tech/texas/OU final 4 for college football, but not with the big bad BCS stilll in town.

also, why is east carolina vs kentucky and buffalo vs uconn on the sked after jan 1, what happened to the post-jan 1 bowls being the "big games". this is where we should have had the boise st/tcu or some game like that. instead we have 4 unranked teams playing. now im not gonna bash tulsa/ball state because both of them should have been conf winners and actually are decent football teams (have lost a combined 4 games all year, tulsa lost to arkansas, u of h, and eastern carolina - ball st lost in the conf. champ game to buffalo). also, would anyone take cincy/va tech/ohio state over say boise st/tcu/utah? if those 6 teams are playing h2h im taking the second group to win 2 of the 3 games. in fact, i would think that they would have a serious chance to win all 3...ugh. reformat the BCS please. its foolish that a team like THE ohio state university got in the BCS over teams like texas tech (much better team), boise st, tcu and i question if they could beat a team like oklahoma state or oregon.

anyway...bowl picks for the last few bowl games:
buffalo over uconn
texas over tOSU (not even close...pryor gets rocked and tOSU has to go back to the senior QB - bozeman? - which is who they should have had playing all year imho)
ball state over tulsa
oklahoma over florida (i dont think this will be close. i bet venables has the answer for tebow)

life has been good recently, was in texas for christmas - which was awesome. good to be back in DC, work coming up soon - monday is wayyyyyyy too soon. i miss college where we had janterms lol. still looking for more good music. waiting for it to snow in DC (and yes, its **cold**). cooking a lot - dinner tonight: baked chicken, rice, broccoli. thats about it.

happy new year.
2009 is gonna be the best year yet (in a place as far away from last year as i could possibly be - and in the best place i could be for 2009 i think. as happy as i can just about ever remember. future looking up. personal life looking up. got some resolutions, but ill post them later this week - next post maybe? we shall see.)

anyway i am excited about 2009...check out "closer to the truth and further from the sky" by butch walker - youtube and lyrics - its the most recent song i get stuck in my head every time i hear it...


until next time...

well its thanksgiving and im finally doing something i should have done a long time ago which is start putting my thoughts down on paper (well on blogger at least)

first, a review of my life: its pretty good. love my roommates, love the people i work with. work takes up a lot of time (which is a blessing and a curse) but when im not working im reading or messing around online, watching football or cooking

...i should also try to see more of the cultural side of DC - so thats one goal to have at least...

im glad its the holiday season (thanksgiving to new years is probably my fav part of the year)

ummm i love my blackberry and ipod (did the research and am quite content to not have gone with the iphone)

i am trying to get back into reading (fiction + non-fiction)

i do miss my friends and *gasp* austin college *gasp* but thats life.

i also miss model UN (and im gonna try to be on the staff for NMUN in the spring - we shall see how that goes) so im gonna at least try to get back into it

im also getting back into music, which is great because i love it, so far i like the new jason mraz a lot, the new butch walker even more and am starting to listen to the new kanye some as well (even though i have no high hopes or anything else for it because of all his stuff about being how important he is, "Bush hates black people", saying that he wants a revision of the bible because he should be in it, crashing the EMAs when he didnt win, he implied that the reason he didnt open the VMAs was because of his skin color, etc) - i havent stopped listening to someone because of their politics but im dangerously close with kanye over this stuff

overall, id say life is going quite well...for now.

this will be a little bit of everything - from what i think about political events/occurances to news topics to cool things i see/links i see to thigns open to discussion to sports to whatever else ramples across my mind.

and on that note im gonna wrap this up because im tired and theres not much more to say in this post...