Here Be Dragons

2007-10-31

Okee, things that make me too busy to post.

1.) I gave up drinking during the week, mostly for weight control, which is working. I�ve lost 4 pounds without making any other changes to my diet. I�m sleeping like a baby and at first it was many, many hours of sleep in a row. Like 10 to 12 hours! My body must have needed it as demonstrated by a blood test in which my ALT and AST liver levels EACH dropped about 30 points in 3 weeks and I drank that weekend I went to Vermont to stay with my friend, so it really worked although I have about 50 more points each to go to approach normal.

2.) Since I gave up drinking and have made it through the sleeping sickness stage where I must have been healing SOMETHING because that was a lot of sleep for a liver that regenerates easily anyhow. I figure I hadn�t had any deep REM sleep in awhile because alcohol affects sleep and that I was rebounding. Anyhow since I got over the sleeping sickness I needed things to do to fill my evening time that used to be taken up by the Moose Lodge. I found some very good TV. I love Pushing Daisy�s and Heroes but I couldn�t watch TV continuously so besides my chores I found the WII console game and bought Guitar Hero III. I�m an addict even though I can�t get past the easy stage yet. I�ve only unlocked my first gig! But I try to limit myself to an hour cumulatively a day and I find improvement everyday. I want to be able to play on the same playing field with my nephew and grandson.

3.) I also bought a DDR dance pad for the WII and am ready to give up my gym. I figure that exercise was FUN when I was young and came natural. I never ever said, �I hate this game� and continued to play it day after day like I continue to walk on the damned, boring treadmill. There has to be an alternative and DDR has a workout mode and it�s fun.

4.) Mission accomplished as far as exercise, or so I thought. I saw people hula hooping at the Mountian Jam earlier this year when Fred took me. I never really got over watching the slow motion hula hooping that can be achieved with a weighted hoop so you can rock out to the blues as well as hoop frenetically to Rock Lobster. I bought one. I also liked the dance moves. They�re tricks, but fun tricks that would also be exercise and I think the hula hoop around your waist would involve your abs, especially a two or three pound hula hoop. You can see a really inspiring hoop dance that motivated me here:

Tell me THAT doesn�t look fun! I bought a 50 dollar hoop from hoopgirl.com already and I�ve been practicing with a $3.99 one from Benny�s while I wait for it�s delivery. I can already do that thing where she hoops on a bent arm, straight arm and back to bent on her elbow. Just fifteen minutes a day and I�ll be rocking out by next spring and having fun to any type of music and LIKING it. Heck I think this is something with class/teacher potential.

I guess what I�ve been doing is letting my mind percolate over different opportunities that I might create by myself and for myself that might eventually make some money and be enjoyable to do. I�ve worked for over 30 years, doing something I really didn�t enjoy for the sake of my family�s existence and the almighty dollar.

Now, I want to play and make some cash simultaneously, if I can. I don�t think I�ll make a killing in hula hoops but allowing myself to find my playful, fun side again might let me think outside the box. If nothing pops out of it then drudgery and boredom is always waiting for me, along with some money, and I go back to doing what I was doing.

Oh yeah, and I�m reading a Koontz book. The 3rd in the Odd series, Brother Odd. It�s the FIRST book I�ve read for pleasure since last December. And I�m watching DVD�s and walking on the beach with my dog and SMILING and being HAPPY and still feeling really guilty about it .. crazy huh? People are never happy and I hope I can change that, or at least me.

OH YEAH! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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