It’s been a while since I tried my hand at C25k. A few days it was raining, a few days it was snowing, a few days it was too late, a few days I just didn’t feel like it. On the bright side it doesn’t really feel like I have fluid in my lungs but I think I actually ran less than last time.

I am pretty sure for most of the run cycles I was able to do the whole 60 seconds but this time I was only able to do half of them, on top of that they were slower and with less intensity. And now my shoes are covered in mud. I am pretty sure I will have to repeat week one which feels like a defeat in itself. I am surprised that reading other people’s progressive is actually motivating me a little bit, only a little.

Now I feel a little liquididy in my lungs but that could be because of he incense Katty lit.

Rdio is out for Chromecast now, still can’t play songs from my computer/iTunes but at least I can play some music on my surround sound. It doesn’t seem to have all the bugs worked out of it as it intermittently stopped and started again, at least it plays better than Songza which really sucked and had less control over the music that can be played. Plex seems to be pretty good as a movie player. It still has some issues of its own. I was playing Canada’s Worst Handyman and for some reason it would just go to the next episode from the middle of the current one, it so far has only occured with that show, not sure if it is because of the way it was encoded or if it had an error.

I need to shave my moustache.

Oh yeah, WTH, I was in the washroom at work and some guy flushed the urinal 7 times, I am fairly sure that he didn’t fill it up 6 separate times

I feel horrible. I have always had difficulty breathing in cold weather and my insides feel so liquidity. I am so out of shape as well, I hope it is just the cold weather but from how slowly I jogged during the run periods I just suck. I am surprised how much I gasped for breath during the first run interval. I really hope that I don’t have to repeat week 1, that would just be sad.
I am starting at 270 lbs, my initial route is 2.7 kms and google says it is 33 minutes as a walk, I spent about 28 minutes there.

Work is going ok, I am now in Food Prep and Cookware which is a bit bigger than storage which is nice. The amount of SKUs is mind boggling, especially with figuring out what needs to stay and go.

My RRSP from work transferred in, now the hard part is what to invest it in since the markets seem to be overpriced currently and nothing seems like a safe bet. Luckily Chris pointed mo towars a safer stock that won’t necessarily go all in and will hold cash.

I hope I can finish the c25k, I wanted to start later but no time like now.

Everything they need to do seems like an expensive stake to my heart. $25 for a tire rotation for example.  I can do that. Just a pain since I don’t have the jacks myself. At least I am saving on the filters. They are a snap to replace and are over 60% in savings if I buy and install it myself.

Than again this place is a palace of excess with a conveytor belt with cats being hand scrubbed inside with teams of people.  It seems so unreal that there are this many people who spend this much to get their car vacuumed and cleaned when they could do it themselves in about the same amount of time with a dust Buster and a garden hose. Hell it rains enough that they don’t really need to wash the outside of the car.

The carwash is apparently between $30 and 40 depending if you use the nice oil with your oil change. I think they have some retaking service that is around 150.  Those season passes for car washes seemed weird enough to me as well. I can’t fathom why someone would want to get a car wash weekly or even more often. Not that I ever had a nice car but people are doing it with and old card.  I need to figure out how to do oil changes myself to get away from the craziness.

Everything they need to do seems like an expensive stake to my heart. $25 for a tire rotation for example.  I can do that. Just a pain since I don’t have the jacks myself. At least I am saving on the filters. They are a snap to replace and are over 60% in savings if I buy and install it myself.

Than again this place is a palace of excess with a conveytor belt with cats being hand scrubbed inside with teams of people.  It seems so unreal that there are this many people who spend this much to get their car vacuumed and cleaned when they could do it themselves in about the same amount of time with a dust Buster and a garden hose. Hell it rains enough that they don’t really need to wash the outside of the car.

The carwash is apparently between $30 and 40 depending if you use the nice oil with your oil change. I think they have some retaking service that is around 150.  Those season passes for car washes seemed weird enough to me as well. I can’t fathom why someone would want to get a car wash weekly or even more often. Not that I ever had a nice car but people are doing it with and old card.  I need to figure out how to do oil changes myself to get away from the craziness.

So yay, Katty landed a job and it seems like it is at a pretty good place too.  They seem to be interested actually developing her and getting her to shadow people to make sure she likes the job for down the road.  They did that for their high school co-op student who is apparently going into accounting now.

It was katty’s birthday yesterday and we went to the gator tail mostly based on the fresh chicken they use for their chicken fingers. I felt so full from the fish and chips, they had good chicken fingers too.

Tomorrow I have a baby shower to go to. I’m not sure what to expect since I haven’t gone to one before. Katty described one she went to before and some of the games were very disturbing such as identifying the chocolate bar that is mushed into a diaper.

I’m looking forward to entering some pictures into some fairs later this year.  I need to get some pictures of nature, I’m thinking of the waterfalls in Hamilton.  Actually with katty  working and with school she won’t really have any time to take off so I guess I can use my vacation days to go to Hamilton and find something interesting to shoot such as the condos they are building near the smelters.

I was able to get out and take some photos. First time in quite a while and it was fun. I’m trying to learn how to use my flash better and light the subject better and in a more interesting manner than I have before in the past. I still have a long way to go and my latest subject was Hudson and well a baby is pretty easy to capture and have look good as long as they are not moving around a lot. I was babysitting with Kathy while Chris and Lana were tearing up the rugs at their new place. I was expecting a lot more comments when I uploaded the pictures of Kathy holding the baby and when it was her time but that didn’t happen this time.

I was thinking of going out and taking some pictures during the blackout during the mini freezing rain event but I didn’t want to take my camera out during that. Also it was cold and kind of sucked. I did take some pictures in a hall that seemed to be fairly OK. I got my eye fi card to work with my phone which was fun and good. I hope that I can get it to work with Chris’s playbook. I saw a nexus 7 on sale and started thinking hmmmm but so far no sale.

I feel like a bum who fails at saving. I see the money I waste going out to eat but I can’t seem to change my habits, worse yet they have gotten worse through wanting to go out more and eating shittier  food. My weight and waist has increased over the past few months and I still can’t get into any sort of exercise, I just don’t find it rewarding or fun, it is just tedious to me.

Work has been better recently, I have moved to a less prominent department whose goals are much more realistic, it’s amazing how having achievable goals ads to the quality of my work life.  I do however feel like a failure regardless since I wasnt able to do an adequate job before in there eyes. I do feel regret that I was moved now, I originally asked to be moved because the buyer I worked with had no real plans and it was difficult to work with. The new buyer seems very organized and actually looks at the return for new products and best of all doesn’t blindly commit because the product is pretty.

I still am working later than I would prefer but it would have probably been worse if I started

I didn’t know that after 10pm they sometimes lock the building and turn on the alarm. That would have been interesting. All week I have been staying longer to try and catch up on all the work that needs doing so I can take Friday off. I have been coming into work earlier than normal as well. I think this week I worked an extra 10 hours so I can take my vacation day, it’s not even lieu time. I think I got screwed over this week. Work has been interesting, unfortunately there are way more tasks that need my attention than I have time to handle. Of course that doesn’t matter since everything needs to be done or is being watched by someone higher up so I can’t really not do it. I still have a bunch of reporting that I need to put together and review but I never seem to have time.

More infuriating is a lot of emergencies come up because things get sprung on me, like new purchases that my merchant partner wants to make. For some of them she has been talking with the vendors about them for months and than I am told its coming and I need numbers. I shake my head sometimes because there isn’t a lot of space in the stores so what space we do have has to be managed and programs need time to be exited.

Some of it just seems to be the area as well, it seems to have an absurd amount going on that is never ending with expectations that seem to be somewhat higher than reality at least in terms of inventory productivity.

I just got back from portugal about a week and a half ago. It was pretty relaxing, did a whole lot of nothing. Spent more time doing nothing, wish I went hiking more or spent more time swimming in the ocean. I lost my wedding ring within the first 5 minutes. It slipped right off my finger and I knew it was gone before it even touched bottom since the water was neck deep. I miss it, I am still use to the feeling of it on my finger, it still feels empty. I am not thrilled at the prospect of spending $400 on a new one, maybe I can find something nice in the US. I got white gold originally partially because Kathy liked silver jewelry better and partly because it looked more subtle than the standard gold ones. I considered tugsten but was worried since if my fingers got fat they have to cut it off, maybe that was nickel. Þhe ring not my finger.
The time I spent on Sao Miguel was fun, I got to do a more extensive tour of the island than I was able to do previously. Kathy really enjoyed the tea factory that smelled like tea, my shirt smelled like it afterwards as well. I enjoyed the gardens at Terra Nostra, I didn’t realize that there was so much to see there and that the hot spring pool was so empty otherwise I would have taken a dip.

Now I think our next trip will be to Las Vegas since we haven’t been together. Sadly I don’t think we’ll be going back to Flores, it is somewhat pricier and there isn’t much different to do each visit. My mom was asking if we wanted to leave some stuff behind for the next time we visit the island. She was really hoping we would come back next year. Kathy ended up staying for an extra 10 days since we took seperate flights. Our flights were sepererate because we each took the last seat on our respective planes which were heavily discounted.
I wonder how bad it is that one of my highlights was that I was able to read a dozen novels. I read the Hobbit, I was amazed at how much I liked that book and the story telling in it. It really made me want to play D&D. Now hopefully I can get around to reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

I had a dizzy spell a few days after I came back, it really pissed me off since the rocks in my ear (assuming that is what is causing it) had enough time to fully dissolve. This either means I have some other problem which isn’t good or I got new ear rocks floating around which means this will be a life long condition which is pretty depressing. The one day to overcome it I did the Eply maneuver a few times and than tried to sleep in a chair sitting straight up. Thankfully it hasn’t come back although I was feeling light headed before bed earlier in the week.

Dieting is hard, I have been craving and eating crap that I should be staying away from such as fudgeos, I am using them as an escape since I don’t have much time to do anything fun so I am using it as a shortcut to stress relief. I just finished eating at Burger King and I feel disgusted with myself, I was short on time but still feel fat. I have wanted to go biking lately but I just don’t have the time after work to do anything and the weekend. I just want to veg since it is my only me time, at least when I don’t have work that I took home.
I have been trying to get into a habit of walking my sister’s dogs while she was away but it was difficult since she lived across town and I came home so bloody late. The local gym has an offer of $10 monthly gym membership for life, I am interested in it but afraid that the time constraints that I have will screw me even though it is open 24 hours a day. After all this time and following my diet fairly well I am at the same weight after I stopped drinking pop, nothing else has made any measurable impact.

There is a tinfoil hat wearer asking questtion, more ranting. I thhink he has said 4 paragraphs. Some points are fair such as the loss of jobs to china, some are a bit more out there like the banks should just forgive debt.

Sigh. Work is still busy busy, the buyer I worked with isn’t around anymore, I think she understood it was her and there was a 2 hour drive each way for her. Unfortunately it means a lot more work for me, especially since marketing needs to get redone, ie wasn’t done and a lot of sales planning for spring needs to be done, in the end I get home at 8 or later, closer to 9 usually. On the bright side I reduced a purchase from 5k units to 1800.

9am and there is piss on the floor and the guy leaving the stall with tissue paper in hand doesn’t seem to have much regret or shame as he dumps the tissue into the garbage bin. Even with cleaning he still leaves piss on the end of the toilet removing all doubt that it was indeed him who in some sort of toilet seat phobia had his piss end up all over the floor soaking the tiles and darkening the grout.

He is definitely worse, much worse than the guy who is bracing himself against the wall while peeing in the urinal moaning/grunting the entire time and flushing the urinal 3 times. Not sure if he needs the water sound to help him pee or if it is to mask the groans coming from him.

I had a relaxing weekend for a change, well I guess most weekends are relaxing really, so I guess it was more of a don’t leave the house weekend. The only time I left was for a brief walk with Kathy through a local trail and to Mohawk raceway for fireworks. I was planning on seeing fireworks at Waterloo and New Dundee as well however at the last moment I realized the fireworks in Waterloo was really in Conestoga at a park that had almost no parking and on Monday I just didn’t want to put a shirt on. Mohawk was interesting though, everyone was parked on the side of the road so we did as well, I thought it was because the parking lot and the stadium was full but apparently not, most people just parked there for a quick getaway, oh well. The show was nice, and it was neat to see some of the fireworks, a couple of them came out as smiley faces.

This weekend with the warm weather we got some steaks for BBQ. I believe it is the first time we bought actual steaks, most of the time we just get the thinner fast fry steaks to make up on a pan. We also tried experimenting with a rarer cook than usual. One of the steaks came off the grill and onto the plate still bloody to the point where I let it bleed out and got another plate. They were quite thick though, the last one made was really delicious, the other two were OK but weren’t super or anything. At least the BBQ got a bit of a workout and didn’t catch fire. The hardest part was figuring out what sides to have with them, I like potatoes and that would normally be my go to side but it has starch which is apparently my enemy, leaving not much else. I could have rice, I had a small amount of noodles the one day. Kathy had asparagus which I wouldn’t touch, sigh.