Aunt Joyce's Birthday

Today is the birthday of one of my favorite Aunts. Joyce and I grew up together and we have always been very close. Hope you have a great Birthday Aunt Joyce. Hugs

Working out

It's so tough getting up and working out on the Elliptical machine. I decided that I would do 45 minutes everyday. I did plan on doing it twice a day once in the morning nad once at night but that might be a bit much to start with. I have found that if I watch Star Trek or Firefly it makes my time go back faster. Each hour long episode runs about 45 minutes so it's perfect. It's been three days and so far so good.

New Job

Well today I started my new job. I'm the Post Production Supervisor for a new NBC reality/game show called "America's Toughest Jobs". It's currently set to air in the summer of 09' but that can always change.

The first day was fairly quiet. I spent about six hours just trying to get my computer up and running. In the end we got it up and everything seems to be in order. It's always kind of crazy at the beginning of the shows. We are still setting up edit bays and such. Hopefully in a few weeks things will be running smooth.

Getting Healthy

After a few months of wanting to get one of these I finally bit the bullet and bought one. Harry and I went to about four different stores previously and looked at a whole bunch of different Elliptical machines. Of course you could tell the difference between the low price ones ($299) and the high price ones ($1000+). I knew I wanted something fairly cheap as we are not rich but I wanted something that would work and felt smooth, as my knees aren't what they use to be.

The ProForm 500 F Elliptical machine was the second elliptical we tried. After that we kept comparing it this one. So today Harry and I went to Sports Authority to buy it. It was originally $999.99, but was marked down to $799.99 and on sale for $499.99. Of course the sales person wanted to sell us an extended warranty and after talking it over with Harry we thought it would be a good idea since we plan on using this a lot and to pay that much money for something, we got the two year extended warranty. Of course it was another $150 for that but I think in the end it's well worth it.

Now the fun part was getting it home and putting it together. The salesman said he wasn't hard just time consuming and he wasn't kidding. It took both Harry and I several hours to put this thing together. But in the end we got a really nice machine. Now I just have to force myself to work out everyday as planned.