It seemed like forever, but we finally got our puppy yesterday! We finally decided to call him Jasper (all of our pets come from some book!)
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There were a few expected accidents in the house, but he did pretty good for being away from home. We played with him quite a bit and took him for a walk over to the park. In between play times and going outside to potty, he slept (which is what he’s doing right now!)
We are attempting to create train him and he stayed in his crate last night. He did pretty good I thought. A little yippy from time to time, but overall pretty good. No accidents in the crate.
Just a fair warning that this blog will probably become pretty centered on Jasper for the next coming months, with a few other posts thrown in here and there (yeah don’t hold your breath on that part!)
Well another week has passed and we’ve seen some progress. Down to 233.6 which is 1.4 down from last week. The bad thing is that I was pretty lax on the diet this weekend and it took me until this morning to recover. So if your one of those people, such as myself, that is a bit lax on the weekend, it can hinder you by quite a bit.
The leg/hip is getting better with daily stretching. I’m hoping that this week the chiro will give me the okay to get back into some sort of workout routine (kettlebells mainly).
On Saturday the wife and I drove up to Estes Park. It couldn’t have been a more perfect day. Not to hot or cold. We stopped at the visitors center to use the restroom and there was a herd of elk across the stream. Three calves and a lot of cows. Bad thing is that for the first 10 photos I took or so I didn’t have a memory card. URGH. After that the wife went shopping and I went for a short hike where I found out just how out of shape I really was. Couldn’t have walked more than half a mile to three quarters of a mile and I was huffing and puffing like Puff the Dragon. And my calves…yeah they are still bothering me today!
Other than that we’ve been pretty low key here!
This is a photo from last Friday. He’s still not home, but should be in two more weeks. We’re both really excited, but a bit nervous as well.
what a first time parent is like bringing home a new born! Since we put down the down payment on the puppy I’ve been been thinking of a variety of things which got me thinking about what a new parent feels like. Wow!
Any how it’s been raining basically non-stop since Sunday. Good for the lawns and such, but at some point we may see some flooding. Hopefully not, but we’ve been told on multiple occasions that the water system has some issues that haven’t been fixed. Sooo, here’s to hoping that we don’t get any flooding.
Well we are back on the weight loss train after falling WAY off and beyond while on the cruise. Hit a new record high of 240lbs after getting off of that ship. Not proud of it, but yah got to start somewhere.
Any how after one week on the Warrior Diet I’m back to 235 which is kind of where I’ve hovered for a while. There has been no gym work or kettlebell work involved in this. Just straight up following the Warrior diet as best as I can. Once I get my back/leg fixed up I’ll be back into some sort of workout routine that I hope will get me where I want to be, which is 200lbs by the end of the year. Doable I believe.
So we have a new member of the family coming to join us on the first week of July. Here’s his photo:
He’s a fawn colored boxer that has two white feet. He’s 4 weeks old at the moment and was a bit shy when we saw him last night, but he snuggled right in with my wife and she really liked that (I’m hoping his shyness wears off because of the hell cats we have!) We haven’t decided on names yet. And is it odd that I’m REALLY nervous about bringing him home? Seriously I woke up this morning thinking of all the things that could go wrong and what needed to be prepared etc etc. I can only imagine what it might be like to bring home a baby. I’d probably have a nervous breakdown!
So that’s the latest news.
Our trip to Alaska was awesome. I’ve got photos to edit and post still (I have some on Facebook if your interested…should use my Flickr account!). I went to a chiropractor yesterday to have my lower back/hip area looked at. On the Alaska trip this caused me a ton of pain so I wanted to get it addressed. It’s basically a muscle imbalance I believe. I’ll probably get a few more adjustments and continue to do the stretching and hopefully get it better so I can start working out again (I think I’ve said that in every post I’ve posted lately!)
Well here’s to hoping and wishing I update this more!
then don’t!
On a whim yesterday we went down to the Denver Zoo. It was an absolutely beautiful day, so there were a ton of people there.
As I waited for my wife to get lunch (I was holding a table in the shade so there!) I watched people walk around. When my wife arrived at the table she told me of some lady who was wearing some spandex shorts. Not the biking shorts kind but the hoochie mama kind. The problem was, according to my wife, that the shorts were size small and the lady was size large!! We had a good laugh about it and continued through the zoo.
Same thing can be applied to guys as well! If you don’t have it then don’t show it! Seems as of late I’ve seen a lot of guys in tank tops that can’t cover their beer belly. UGH!
Any how we are counting down the days until we leave on our trip. I’m going to try and twitter every day on the trip, but I’m not sure what cell phone reception will be so we’ll see on that.
So I think everyone has a dream job. My dream job, for quite awhile now, is to be an author. Not an award winning author or a best selling author, but an author that earns their money from writing.
However lets say you get your dream job. Does that dream job then just become like any other work you’ve done? In other words it just turns into another job. So if it does become another job, how do you keep it from becoming another job and keep it as your dream job?
The weight loss battle continues. This week we are weighing in at 235.4, despite lack of workouts. It’s actually kind of encouraging. So tonight I’ll be hitting the gym again. And hopefully once this weekend.
For whatever reason last week was just a hell of a week. Well the actual reason was that I was just grinding on projects and not learning or doing anything new. There is a time and a place for doing this grinding stuff, but to do it constantly really makes one feel like a drone and really dislike their job at times. So I spent a lot of time thinking about what would make me more happy. Of course winning the lottery and retiring was at the top, but seeing that Wyoming doesn’t have a lottery that’s kind of not possible. In the end the conclusion I came to was being creative in some aspect or having an outlet. From the creative aspect I have a few ideas on what that entails. For an outlet the blog will probably play a part. More to just vent than anything.
So how’s everyone doing out there?
Wolverine – We saw this opening weekend. Both my wife and I loved X-Men so we thought this was be good. It was good, but in the end I was somewhat disappointed. Without giving to much away I will say that I felt mislead by the previews that they were pumping out there.
Star Trek – I’m not a huge Trek fan, but the previews for this one really caught my eye and I couldn’t wait to see it. It did not disappoint. Great movie and one that we might go and see again.
In other news we are really really looking forward to our cruise that’s in a few weeks. Both the wife and I are looking forward to being away from work for 10+ days (or maybe it’s just 10, but we are looking forward to it!).
The workout/weight loss stuff is coming along…slowly! I won’t hit my goal for the cruise (230), but that’s okay. Last time I weighed in, last Wednesday, I was down to 236, which was about a pound down from where I first posted on here.
Last but not least, I’m growing grass again! Not that kind of grass. The stuff that’s damn near impossible to grow in Wyoming!! I got a bunch this spring and planted it and it’s been coming up. I won’t have a golf course fairway type of lawn, but we should have more lawn than dirt this year!