I'm Baack!

As you can see in the posts below, I'm one to make guarantees and then not follow through on them - classy, I know. I didn't read the books I wanted to, I didn't finish my summer home video project, I didn't watch all the movies I wanted to, and I haven't been on point in my weight loss efforts.

But the beauty of life is that every day is a new day. Every morning is a new opportunity to redeem yourself, make the right choices and see the changes. And that has to be your mentality when tackling weight loss. Because you're not going to eat perfectly everyday, you're not going to get to the gym everyday. But if you learn from your mistakes and pick yourself back up, you'll get to where you want to be eventually.

And sure, it's easy to type this in a blog - but it's more difficult to actually believe and live out daily. I've gone through some rough stretches in the recent past due to my failed attempts at weight loss. Entire days would be lost emotionally, and those bad emotions would drive me to make poor eating choices and I wouldn't go anywhere but backwards.

But recently I've felt a renewed strength in this department. The motivation is really strong, my support system is growing and my desire to make this change is finally clicking. But I still want to prove to myself that I can stay on task for longer than two weeks. And prove to all my cheerleaders who are still waiting for me to break out of my shell.

So here's to an amazing week to get this ball rolling a bit faster! Best of luck to all of you this week who are in the same situation!

Summer Project

As if my summer wasn't already busy enough, I've decided to take up another small project to pass the extra time (which may or may not be existent). After copying over some old tapes for the future father in-law, I thought it'd be a fun idea to do the same for my parents. Not only can they have DVDs that'd last longer, I can also edit some of the memories together to make something nice.

So far I've found some dandy things on these tapes! High school band concerts, grade school musicals (where I'm bald), our family vacation to South Dakota, a recreation of Monty Python and my grade school basketball games are just a small sample of some of the treasures I've now unearthed from these ancient tapes. When I get some of these onto my computer I'll share them with you! For now, you'll just have to strain your eyes to read the labels on the tapes.

Summer Movie List

Since I've already managed to knock one of my books off my Summer Reading List (Welcoming the Stranger), I think it's time to submit a short list of movies that I want to check out over the next couple months too.

I borrowed a few movies from my buddy Mike (The Kingdom, The Host and How to Train Your Dragon) which I should probably check out and mail back to him. Karin and I also have a list we want to watch together too (Australia, Breakfast Club, Chariots of Fire and Wolverine).

How can I NOT watch this?? Matt Damon is in it!

And then there's a handful of movies I just want to see because they look interesting. Mind you, this is an abbreviated list, but these are ones I intend to watch over the next few months.

- Battle: Los Angeles
- Super 8
- Source Code
- The Adjustment Bureau
- Unknown
- 127 Hours
- True Grit
- The Fighter
- The King's Speech
- Unstoppable
- The Social Network
- The Town

I think that's a good enough list for now. These are mostly recent movies which I've wanted to watch and not had time or ones that friends/family have seen and recommended. Have you seen any of these? Any additional ones you think I should check out?