Wow.
Ever think that sharks really aren’t the fierce creatures of the deep that Hollywood has lead us to believe? Check out this footage from the Seattle Aquarium as an octopus makes short work of a five foot long shark…
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/media_players_blue/shark_hi.html
Damn.
I don’t remember where exactly I found this, but good stuff nonetheless – straight from the Dalai Lama himself…
Instructions for Life:
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Tonight I set a new record for myself – 641 calories in 55 minutes on the eliptical … I feel very good, but very tired! 😛
Weekend To-Dos:
P.S. Why I need to remember not to buy DVDs from people on eBay:
http://ssevener.textamerica.com/?r=3035490
http://ssevener.textamerica.com/?r=3035510
Sure, the disc is “in perfect condition, only watched once,” and yet the case gets smashed via shipping and I’m stuck because I didn’t pay for the insurance. Of course, we won’t even mention the fact that had the manufacturer used real cases instead of those cheaper, crap cardboard ones, I’d have been able to just replace the case.
Six bucks as opposed to twelve from BestBuy.com, but at least Best Buy knows how to ship their products… 🙁
Current Position on the Beaten Path:
8/6 – 215 pounds!!!
6/19 – 219
6/15 – 222
5/21 – 225
5/14 – 228
begin – 235
The good news – I’m almost halfway there!
The bad news – This is technically where I started trying to lose weight almost a year and a half ago!
The truth – I do honestly feel a difference, though, even if it does feel like now the fatty areas are more prominent than ever…which is weird, seeing as now I’m a good 20 pounds less of the stuff than before! Who knows … maybe it was more compacted and thus less jiggly or something … I don’t know.
We’re getting there, though! I do miss some foods that I used to indulge in – desserts especially. I can’t even remember the last time I went out to eat downtown, which is probably a good thing on more than one front because I need every dime to throw at paying off Bank of America now. It’s just different, but I guess some change is ok…
Goodbye, love handles! 😉
I know exactly where I’m going the next time I make enough progress with my diet / exercise to treat myself!
Can somebody please tell me why on God’s green Earth they’re making a sequel to Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo???
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
“You should never let the sun set on tomorrow before the sun rises today…”
Thank you for your time – I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog…
Ever have one of those days when you wish you hadn’t even gotten out of bed in the morning?
…
Why can’t I stop having them?