Jun 02
2008
Tony| Category: General, In the Reflecting Pool |
I have 74 days until I go back to official school for the institutionalizing of teachers on August 15th. It’s my goal to make the most of each day, in my own way. I don’t know where it will take me, but I want to be able to say that I enjoyed each and every one of my summer days. This may get boring and inane to you, gentle readers, but it’s my part of the Internet, so suck it. 
Today, on my first “official” day of summer, I went to my youngest sister’s bean bag tournament at her school. (Note to self: do this next year!) I wasn’t paired with her and my partner was not what we could called motivated to win. Still, after losing the first game of our double elimination tourney, we won four before losing to the teacher who set it up (and, incidentally, threw four in the hole in a row… tough to play against that…)
After that, I hit the Home Depot to pick up supplies for The Deflowering of the Kitchen. (sounds dirty… and it will be!). Tomorrow will start the process of trying to remove the wallpaper. I’m not in a hurry… I will be taking my time with it. I’m very Zen about it right now. We’ll see how I am in August!
Came back for lunch, a quick 30 minute nap, and then I did a short (35 min) cardio workout. Hit the library, then tutored for 90 min. Then I had a catch with Rich and played a little frisbee to run around just a bit more. Checked on my flowers and tomato plants, watered some stuff so that it would rain tonight, and taught a trombone lesson. Finally, I grilled some chicken and enjoyed a beer on the patio. It was a busy-ish day, but a good day. We’ll see what tomorrow brings!
Jun 02
2008
Tony| Category: General, All about me, In Which We Get Less Fat |
Just a slight setback, dear Internets. In the last two weeks, I’ve only managed to lose about a pound. Well, less than a pound. I was down further, but between Memorial Day and the Cubs (glug) Game on Sunday, let’s just say I wasn’t at my most vigilant when it came to eating. The great news is that I’m on summer “vacation” (which is funny, because I looked at my Google Calendar for the summer, and I have about two weeks interspersed where I don’t have anything going on. More on this in a different column in just a bit.
Total weight lost: 12.6 pounds. It will be about 14 next week, I hope! Goal: By the end of the summer, I’d like to be down 30 total. That gives me about 9 weeks to lose 16 pounds. That’s probably a little optimistic, but I think I’m training for a 5K on the 4th of July, and it’s time to get the bike out more regularly (I’m biking to work the next two weeks I have to go– the 9th and the 16th.) Also, I’m ready to work out everyday, if possible. (See my next post — Making the Most of Each Day– Day 1)
Summer is here. Time to enjoy it!
May 18
2008
Tony| Category: General, All about me, In Which We Get Less Fat |
Did you think I was giving up, dear Internets? Did you think I was too scared to report my results (only partially true…) Did you think I was trying really hard not to make myself accountable to you? No!
I would never forget you, sweet Internet fan base. All six of you are wonderful people. And this way, you don’t have to listen to me blather on when we’re in person. It’s a beautiful thing.
The last three weeks have been Crazy (Right Now) busy. I will now catch you up in less than fifty words:
Derby was fun, wet on Friday, beautiful on Saturday. Lost money, but went to Woodford Reserve Distillery. Following week spent working off pounds gained from Derby weekend.
(Answer: Way OVER) This week: Sick, so working out didn’t really happen, except I ran a mile Thursday and biked to work today. (50)
Currently, I’m still trying to catch up from super-busy school week. This week should allow me to get my groove back in terms of exercise. The best thing that I’ve noticed over the last few weeks is that I actually MISS exercising. That hasn’t happened in awhile, and makes me feel like I’m turning a corner, health-wise. Now I just need to be more consistent with health and exercise– I’m looking at you, 12 oz. ribeye steak for Darci’s graduation last night (In my defense, I only had a bagel to eat before that yesterday.)
Tepid drum roll, please!
I stepped on the scale this morning (before my hour-long bike ride, thank you) and the results were… 12 lbs. down exactly. So thanks the inability to eat a full meal this week until Saturday, I’m caught up and past where I was. My current goal is to be down 20 lbs. by the Fourth of July, where I’m thinking of signing up to do a 5K. Anyone want to join me? You can come over for the July 3rd Warrenville Extravanganza Parade, spend the night (or go home) and then come on out to run early the next morning. Then you can grill and eat tubular meats to your heart’s content! (or about 600 calories’ worth, which is about how much you burn in running 3 miles.)
Thanks for all the snack ideas for the Derby trip– we had trail mix, water, and beef jerky. They will be staples on any other road trips I do this summer!
Have a great week, y’all.
Apr 29
2008
Tony| Category: General |
Thanks for the great suggestions in the comments section of yesterday’s post. Keep ‘em coming! Also, in the spirit of the weekend and its propensity for gambling, I put an over/under in the new poll. Feel free to vote! (All votes are anonymous…)
Jerky, almonds, and grapes, here I come.
~TK~
Apr 28
2008
Tony| Category: General, All about me, In Which We Get Less Fat |
Good Morning, Tubes.
Success this week! I worked out every day last week, including two sessions with the personal trainer, and two extended cardio sessions. The results?
Down 2.4 more pounds. Total weight lost: 9.4 lbs.
And now is where it gets hard. Monday, I’ve got a personal training session, same with Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday I can only workout before school (which means only 35 min of cardio…)
And then, I’m going on vacation. Thursday night, I’m leaving for Louisville and the Kentucky Derby. It’s going to be a hard weekend of me fighting the urge to gorge myself on delicious KFC, or whatever it is they eat in the Bluegrass State. And the mint juleps and other assorted beverages one may imbibe on such a trip. And the driving food. Suffice to say, I’m hoping for a lot of grilled chicken and far-away parking so I can do some walking. Any suggestions of how to live through this minefield of a weekend would be welcome. I know I shouldn’t set myself up for failure, but I expect to be up in weight this time next week. We shall see!
Have a great week!
Apr 21
2008
Tony| Category: General, In Which We Get Less Fat |
Good Monday Morning, Campers!
Some numbers to throw at you:
It’s going to be 70 degrees today. I’m sure it will be 12 by Friday.
Our trivia team scored 90 points last night, out of a possible 210. We are in the cumulative last place among the competitive teams. We do not rock.
My student council figured out that if one or two students recycle their water bottles (per classroom) every day at school, we are now recycling nearly 200 bottles per week that were getting put into landfills before we started the program. (Happy Earth Week!)
Oh yeah, the weight thing. This past week, I worked out twice on Tuesday, cardio Wednesday, cardio and personal training session Thursday, personal training Friday, short cardio Saturday, and cardio and weights on Sunday. Grand total of workout minutes for the week: approximately 310.
Weight loss for the week: .8 lbs. Sigh. I can tell I’m falling down on the weekends, and I’m slowly trying to curtail the habits. This weekend was better than last weekend, so I will try to make the upcoming weekend even better. I know I should feel good that weight is still coming off, but I want it to go faster!
Total weight loss in three weeks: 7 lbs.
On the good news front, I think I may be starting to feel like I’m in better shape. I’ll let you know later if it is just from lack of sleep. Until then, happy number crunching, Internets!
Apr 18
2008
Tony| Category: General, Random, WTF? |
Just to join the flow of what I’m sure will be inane posts about “OMG, I totally felt that earthquake this morning!” I did, in fact, feel that earthquake this morning. I must have caught the tail end of it, because it wasn’t more than five seconds of my sleep-deprived brain trying to figure out what was before it was done. I slowly put my baseball bat down, shrugged, and went back to sleep. For twenty minutes, because then the alarm clock started going off. I turn on the tv, and lo and behold, us Chicagoans done felt us an earthquake. I turned the tv back off in 30 seconds because I didn’t want to hear the SAME story over and over again from people calling into the local news. (”I thought it was a rodent in the walls…” I tried to wake up my husband, but he said I was dreaming…” “My bed shook…” “I thought it might have been a ghost…”) And on. Do we really need to call these reports in? (Then again, do I really need to report them to you? How meta…)
Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the rumbling bed.
Maybe I realize what’s next: Zombies.
End of days. Do you have your water supply ready?
Happy Friday!
~TK, who’s only 75% kidding about the zombies
Apr 14
2008
Tony| Category: General, All about me, In Which We Get Less Fat |
Happy Monday Morning!
(Just a second, need to clean up the my self-loathing for that bit of cheerfulness when it’s still dark out and I’m on my way to school…)
This week, I did not work out as much, but I also paid a little more attention to my diet. Cardio workouts on Monday, and Wed-Su. kept me honest, and an upper-body workout Thursday and lower-body workout on Friday kept me sore.
Results:
3.2 lbs. lost this week, 6.2 lbs. total.
Woot!
(Short post because I have to get to work.)
In theory, there will be some longer posts coming soon… titles include, but are not limited to:
Flights of Fancy and Fears Conquered
How Come You Haven’t Told Any Stories From this Year of Teaching?
The Direct Proportion of My Self-Esteem and How Well My Fantasy Baseball Team is Doing
Stage Fright
Your TiVo Misses You
But for now, all you get are those teasers. Later.
Apr 08
2008
Tony| Category: General, EAT, All about me, In Which We Get Less Fat |
After one week of fairly intensive workout (2 x 30 minutes, Mon-Sat., woo Spring Break!) and a week of mediocre eating (during the week I was fine, Fri. and Sat. I fell down a bit) the results of the Great Lose Weight Campaign of ‘08:
3 lbs.
I suppose I should be celebrating, but I felt like I worked out a lot more than 3 lbs.’ worth. There was a point (Friday/Saturday? morning) where I was down 6 lbs. (it was right after a workout and my morning business session, which I’m SURE you wanted to know…) and I tried to be fairly healthy. So this week, I’ll continue to workout (Monday, check. Wednesday, Thursday (with trainer), Friday (with trainer), Saturday and Sunday.) and try to be healthy. And that’s all I’ve got to say about that.
Thanks for all the support!
Apr 03
2008
Tony| Category: General, Sports and Wine, Entertainment Tonight, Random |
Tip of the hat to MarK for this lovely nugget sent in today. It’s good to know that all was right in the world back in the nineties, instead of getting a Final Four where I can’t root for any underdogs. (Or my impotent Illini)
There’s a great collection of “song charts” in a pool on flickr here.
Happy Thursday!
Apr 01
2008
Tony| Category: General, All about me, In Which We Get Less Fat |
If you notice along the top of the page, you’ll see other pages for this site. Today I took a BIG step and added one about weight loss. Feel free to skip over there and keep track of how I’m doing. Just be kind.
Mar 22
2008
Tony| Category: General, All about me |
In honor of spring, I’d like to announce the following…
My head has sprouted its first gray hair. (That I’ve found) Ever.
It’s a great welcome to the beginning of my fourth decade.
That is all.
Aug 14
2007
Tony| Category: General, Entertainment Tonight |
GameSpot Video: Rock Band Stage Demo
OH MY GOD. From the people that brought you Guitar Hero (and you know how I feel about that) so many more instruments. Going to be pricey, and I’m going to need a PS3/Xbox 360. Start saving money now– it’s going to be so worth it!
Aug 05
2007
Tony| Category: General, I'm a travellin' man... |
Posting from Greece– Just wanted to let you know that the pictures from the first two days in Athens, uncategorized, untagged, are waiting for you at my Flickr account.
Spent 9.5 hours on a boat today around Milos. Many pictures of that, and Sifnos, to come, probably sometime Tuesday (my night, most of y’alls day)
Woot! Greece! Woot!
~T~
Jul 25
2007
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Jul 21
2007
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I’m sure this has been out for a while, but, seriously, it’s funny. And I’m a complete nerd. It’s cool.
Jun 25
2007
Tony| Category: General, Chomping on Books |
The Generation’s Best Books - Scathing Reviews for People
Had to post this the old-fashioned way because del.icio.us is acting out of sorts
Yes, there is a real post coming, in fact, I hope a whole slew of them. Just need to suck it up and deliver for YOU!
Jun 18
2007
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2007
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2007
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