My New Tattoo

Today I got up early and left my house around 9:30am to get to my brother's by 11am for the next Tattoo party he was having. Our friend Moose (Joesph) comes over to my brothers house and does tattoos for all those who want them. He charges $60 an hour and if you know tattoos, that's a fantastic price. Well a little over a month ago I got my Hogwarts tattoo and loved is so when I heard he was going another party I had to get my second one.

Well I got there first and waited for Moose to show up. A few other people came and finally Moose arrived. He set up and thought it's first come first serve, meaning I should go first I was a nice guy (as always) and allowed not one, not two but three ladies go in front of me. One was getting a fairly quick baseball and bat tattoo, while a daughter and mother were getting pink ribbons. So what I thought would be a 3 hour delay turned into a 5 hour delay and we didn't start my tattoo until 5:15pm. I didn't plan on being there all day but it turned into a all day thing.

So he copied the picture I wanted and placed it on my leg. Only did it twice to get it just right. He then started to tattoo and I don't know if I pushed the horrible memories of my first experience out of my head but man did it hurt. It might have been the location but everyone kept telling me that my calf wouldn't hurt as much as my arm.. boy were they wrong. I'm lucky I had a pillow that I could bury my face into as I would have screamed out in pain. 

He finished the outline and I got a quick break and then went in for coloring and once again the pain was back. This coloring wasn't as bad as doing the outline but again this coloring had some of the worse pain I've every felt.

In the end it took 2 hours to complete and I can't believed I survived it but the final product is BEAUTIFUL and a great addition to my tattoo collection.

I will say that I don't expect me to be getting any more tattoos for a while. Still have 3 more to go (Star Trek, Firefly and Lord of the Ring) but I think I'll wait a bit for the memory of the pain to leave me.. it's gonna take a while.

Snap out of it!!!

Man the past few day I have been in this kind of funk. Don't exactly know why but things around me seemed gloomy and depressing. I've had this dark cloud over my head and I couldn't shake it. I've been tired and have felt very overwhelmed at times.

Well enough is enough, it's Christmas time and my favorite time of the year. I look forward to this time all year long so it's time to snap out of it and take back control of my life. Sure not all things are going as planned, but it could be so much worse. I have a great job, yes it's a bit of a drive, but I work with some really nice people. I have family and friends who love and care for me just as much as I love and care for them. I have a fairly successful podcast with thousands of listeners who are friendly and supportive. I'm working out daily and though I might not be losing a ton of weight as hoped I'm losing the weight... slow and steady wins the race. I'm healthy and whole and still very much young at heart. I'm a geek and having some of the best times of my life... what more can I ask for.

A Healthier Me - Day 116

 Well today's workout was a struggle, I think the lack of sleep is starting to take it's toll. Was suppose to get up at 6am to do my hour of cardio but the alarm went off, which was strange as I normally get up a few minutes before the alarm, but instead of getting up I hit snooze and then laid there debating on whether I was going to get up or push my workout until after work. Well after the third snooze I decided it would be best to do my workout after work so I reset my alarm to 7am. Alarm went off again what felt like a few minutes later and I dragged my body out of bed and into the shower.

Got home around 8:30, ate dinner and finally dragged my butt out to the garage at 10pm. I was so not in the mood and debated with myself about working out on the weekend to make up for today but I knew better.. my weekends are so chuck full of everything I can't do during the week that there would be no way I'd find time to workout. So I turned on a podcast to listen too and started my cardio. About 18 minutes in I hit a wall and once again started to debate with myself If I should do just 30 minutes today.. surely I could get to 30 minutes. So I switched over to my workout music and that did the trick. I felt my energy start to build and I did a full hour with no problem. And even did some weights that I cut out of my Tues/Thurs workouts.

Today's Workout:

1 hour of cardio on the elliptical
4 sets of 10 on the free weight (110 lbs)

It's funny all the internal debate that goes on with in my head, all the deals I try and make with myself to get out of working out. Luckily my determination is stronger then all those little voices.. now only if my determination was stronger then my will to eat crappy food I'd be in good shape.

V - Season 1 Recap

Love these kinds of Recaps.. V Season 1 told in four and a half minutes. Can't wait for Season 2 on Jan 4th

Merry Trekmas by Rick Moyer

My good friend Rick Moyer produced this AWESOME CD last year of Star Trek themed Christmas songs. He does parody songs for the Treks in Sci fi Podcast, which I listen to every week and decided to do a full Christmas CD with a Trek twist. Rick continues to amaze me with his musical talents. All of these songs are downloadable for free along with the CD cover art. These are a must have for any Trek Fan out there.

Listen and download here. http://tinyurl.com/MerryTrekmas      ALL SONG ARE FREE!!!

He also produced a wonderful collections of music to watch to Star by called Stargazer. You can buy a CD at the link or download it from itunes. http://www.takehimwithyou.com/stargazer/

And recently he just released a second CD called MW-Orbit and this one is kind of like a Musical Short Story... it's very cool.  You can buy your copy by following the link http://mw-orbit.com/

Rick produced this Merry Trekmas CD all on his own with his own money, and gives it away for free. If you love it as much as I do, please consider buying one of other CD's and help support the independent artist... Thanks

A Healthier Me - Day 115

Well I had planned to workout tonight but when I woke up at 6am and couldn't go back to sleep.. figured I might as well get it done.... so I did.

Today's Workout:

30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical
4 sets of 10 on the chest fly for my chest (75 lbs)
4 sets of 10 working on my back (75 lbs)
4 sets of 10 on the curl arm for my biceps (45 lbs)
4 sets of 10 for shoulders (45 lbs)
4 sets of 10 on the front leg press (45 lbs)

All in all a nice workout.

A Healthier Me - Day 114

Another workout week begins.

Since it's Monday I weight myself this morning 204

Today's Workout:

1 hour of cardio on the elliptical


Well I'm to my lowest weight yet.. woo hoo.. now let's hope I can keep going down the next three weeks and meet my goal of getting to 200 or below by the end of the year.


I didn't workout on Friday as I wasn't feeling so hot on Friday AM and it totally slipped my mind when I got home from work as it seems like there's not enough time in the day to do everything that I need to do. And my weekends were chuck full of busy so I wasn't able to workout.. though I did do alot of Dance Central at Felicia's party and man that's one of the best cardio workouts yet.. may have to look into getting a 360 with Kinect.

Podcasting and Shopping

Today was a busy day.. didn't get home until 3 am this morning and had to be back up at 10 to prep for a special microcast that will go out in the next few days.

After that Jenni came over around 3:30 to record our next full episode of Knights of the Guild. That went really smooth  and after we recorded parts 1 & 2 we played around with my new webcam program and made a bunch of funny pixs (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=574680&id=707225374&l=695f76ea51) and video.

After that Harry and I went out for dinner and to try and get some Christmas shopping done and of course of all days it's pouring outside. We hit Target first as we wanted to get some clothes for Harry's nephews back in Austria. Our goal was to get all the stuff we would need to ship back to Austria. So that meant something for his parents, brother-in-law and nephews. We did manage to find everything we needed and also pick some stuff up for my friends and my nephew Kenobi.

Both Harry and I aren't feeling so hot so when we were done, about an hour and a half later, we opted to go home. We got everything we need for the packaged to Austria.. gotta get that in the mail soon so they get it by Xmas. Everything else can be picked up at a later date.. We still have lots of Xmas shopping to do and only 2 more weekends... scary!!!!