On The 2nd Day of Christmas....

I'm officially down 10+ pounds in my "Post-Hazel" era. Don't get too excited... just means I'm back to my pre-Vegas/California/Management weight. Something about the extra stress of management that had me eating more candy throughout the day. Those days are gone though. So I'm back on track to get to my goal hopefully by the end of 2007. Plenty of more weight to go but it's getting easier to get up at 5:15 in the mornings to go work out.

I saw a commercial this morning on TV while at the RAC (they have no DVR there so I'm forced to watch commercials as I listen to The Peppers, Evanescence, and Justin Timberlake.... quite the mix don't ya think?). I am upset that I didn't get a call to star in the commercial as it's the story of my life. The commercial is for Men's Warehouse and has a rather tall gentleman in awkward situations in life. He stands up on the airplane and hits his head (happens to me every time), he hits his head on a TV monitor in the store (happened to me in China to the point where I fell over and the workers at the store had no idea what to do), and other situations where he is just plain too tall. Then it shows him comfortably getting fitted for a suit at Men's Warehouse. I do admit that I use them for suits for this purpose. I think I bought my Tux there as well. And some XXL gloves, a coat, some shirts.... it's good for us tall people. Not much else in Rochester for abnormal people such as me.

Speaking of chickens.... There have been some comments concerning my "stolen" Weblog Finalist jpg on the right (your other right). No, I haven't been officially nominated for any awards - I just was out looking around and stole it like a good blogger would!

But this got me thinking.... what categories would I want to be nominated for? I don't have a huge national following (although I'm still running about 50+ views a day which is awesome!! THANK YOU!!!) plus I only do this on a 20-minutes-a-day basis. Sounds like an info-mercial. Most of the nominations are full-time folks that have a full day to write. Imagine the damage I could do if I had 12 hours+ to come up with a blog every day!!

My nominated categories... if they existed:

• Blog That Hates Bush the Most!!
• Best Liberal View on Life in a Conservative Town
• Best waste of 5 minutes every morning before getting coffee
• Best Updates on the Brews Brothers (I would win this as I'm the only source of Brews Brothers news)
• Best Die-Hard Cyclone Blog Who Continues To Get Kicked When He's Down
• Best Use of Randomness
• Best Constant Dedication To Britney No Matter What Stupid Things She Does
• Most Published Criticism Towards a Certain Conductor in La Crosse

Song of the Day - I'm at my peak with Christmas Music. Granted I've had the Holiday Music Channel on the radio in the car for well over a week, but the songs are starting to repeat. I also want to note that my recent criticism to Harry Connick Jr and his crappy Christmas Albums was directed at the two specific Christmas CDs. He also recorded the soundtrack to When Harry Met Sally which is holiday-esque. There are a few Holiday songs, but otherwise it's an AWESOME CD. He should have stuck to that and not tried so hard on the other 2 since then.

Video of the Day - Another movie I watched this past weekend was Apocalypse Now Redux (which is the "Director's Cut" to the original 1979 movie. It's 3.5 hours long but it goes very quickly. I don't remember having ever seen it before, but knew basically what it was about. But nothing really prepares you for the increasing level of insanity as Martin Sheen and crew continue to go up the river into Cambodia. It's worth the time spent (unlike King Kong) and is a pretty scary depiction of war and what it can do. I'd be interested in hearing/reading thoughts from folks that served in Vietnam as to how realistic that movie is.

Webpage of the Day - Here's one that will make you laugh. An instructional video (in an Asian language that I don't understand) on potty training. Here I've been doing it wrong all of these years... I need to have confetti falling from the ceiling when I am finished using the bathroom!!!