excess baggage

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Why is it that Wal-Mart trains its cashiers to push their plastic bags like they’re going out of style??? I mean, I purchase three or four tiny items and end up coming home with two or three dozen bags! Is their warehouse so overstocked that they’re doing everything that they can to unload the things, or are these things that weak that any more than one item would break through the bottom like a wet paper bag?

I’d like to know, really, because it otherwise just seems like a waste to me…but maybe I’m the crazy one!

To Jersey and back…

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I finally went and saw Kevin Smith’s latest flick (Jersey Girl) last night and despite all of the critical musings, I must say that I actually liked it. It certainly wasn’t the kind of movie that you would expect from Mr. Smith, and I didn’t think that that was necessarily such a bad thing…it had a new, emotional quality that we really haven’t seen from him since Chasing Amy…without all of the dick and fart jokes, of course! Nonetheless, it was one of those films that you couldn’t help but get a little teary-eyed for at least one scene of, but it also featured Liv Tyler in a very prominent role and as we all know, Liv Tyler is simply gorgeous, so that more than made up for it…

In other news, week #1 of the great diet battle has passed and I’m proud to report that .8 pounds have been successfully terminated from my flabby carcass! I know, it’s a slow start, but honestly it’s been bouncing between 210 and 215 all week, so I think my body’s still just getting used to the new lifestyle at this point. The food isn’t as bad as it started out to be because, well, although pizza and chocolate cake are pretty much out of the question, there’s still something to be said for an actual cooked meal with meat and vegetables and so forth! The exercise, on the other hand, is another story entirely, but with $50 at stake, I’ll just have to push myself a little harder to spend 10 or 15 minutes every morning doing sit-ups – I may still lose, but I’m not going down without a fight!

Last update for the night…

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Small addition to the personal website, and a rather insightful one at that, I might add! More to come later – my goal is to get at least one site less than a month behind this next week…

Hopes, dreams, and other things I’d like to do in the future…

Also, I was looking at my extremely old online resume and, just out of curiosity, I dialed up the voicemail box from my old job to see who they’d re-assigned it to…and apparently it’s still under my name! Sadly, no new messages or anything, but I guess that just goes to show you how out of touch that company was. 😛

Trample off, eh!

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Heed my words – if you don’t own the Brother Bear DVD, then you need to stop whatever you’re doing and go get yourself a copy right now!!!

Done?!

I watched this movie twice this weekend, and not just because it was a great animated film, mind you! The story was touching and the graphics were superb, but the real gold here is in the audio commentary, and I can already tell what you’re thinking because I thought the exact same thing. I own well over a hundred DVDs and I’ve actually listened to the commentaries on maybe four of them because, really, who cares about how difficult the lighting conditions were to shoot under or what Demi Moore’s like before she’s had her coffee? Nonetheless, this commentary is a little different…

How so, you ask? Well, this particular commentary was actually done Mystery Science Theater 3000-style by the two hilarious moose from the story, Rutt and Tuke (although you might remember them a bit better as Bob and Doug McKenzie of Strange Brew). They basically spend the entire length of the movie making comments (hence commentary), poking fun at each other, and generally screwing around – I think I can honestly say that I had more fun watching this than I did watching the actually movie…and I did like the movie, too.

It’s been twenty-some years since the world has gotten to experience those fellas from The Great White North, and it was sure a hoot to see hear them back on screen again. Buy it now – it’ll be the best twenty bucks you’ve spent in a while…no pun intended…

It’s on, baby!

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Well, it’s now official – as of 5:00 PM, the Battle of the Bulge has begun and this time, I’m not taking no for an answer…

After four months two years of making absolutely ziltch for progress in the game of weight loss, I had the bright idea to kick things up a notch and make it all a little more interesting. You see, Kurt has been wanting to lose the poundage for a while now, too, so we’ve opted to make a bit of a competition out of it. The goal – lose 30 lbs. before the other guy. The prize – more or less, an all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World. Sweet, eh?

I can tell already that I’m going to have to do some shopping this weekend and restock my kitchen with some healthier foods, but it should all be worth it in the end. Even if I don’t win (which I will), if this is the motivation that it takes to whittle this gut back down into something that doesn’t scare the kids at the beach, then so be it! I’ll be sure to make regular reports as the pounds melt away, so wish me luck!

And not a moment too soon!

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I just finished my taxes…finally.

I feel a little better about my federal return, though, as I managed to whittle it down to the point where I only had to write a check for $51 and honestly, I’m just absolutely tickled pink by that! Of course, the entire return ended up being NINE PAGES LONG and it took me roughly three months to fill out, but at least it’ll be a little easier for next year, right?

That having been said, the State of Michigan can kiss my ass!!! The money I made up there wasn’t even comparable to what I get down here, and yet those greedy fucks managed to get a chunk of it anyways. Sure, it looks like they’re dividing things up equally when you’re filling the forms out, but all I know is that I wrote a similar check to the State that was only $10 shy of my federal return, which is absolutely ridiculous. Well, enjoy it while you can, guys, because that was the last year that you’ll be getting a dime from me…

Thank God it’s finally over for another year!

Peter Cottontail and such…

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[Late weekend post … deal with it.]

What an interesting Easter holiday, I’ll tell ya! Kurt and Nikki were kind enough to invite me over to their family gathering because the commute would’ve been a bit much for me, and it’s certainly nice to see that my family isn’t the only dysfunctional one on the block! Not so much fighting, per se, but they’ve definitely got their “less-favorite family members” just like we do…but nonetheless, it was a fun afternoon – definitely nice to get out of the house. We hid eggs for the kids, played a little darts, and ate lots of food – and I made my famous deviled eggs, which went over fabulously!

Easter never was that big of a holiday for us, but after seeing the other perspective by watching the kids, I can see the appeal – not just yet, though…