Here's to a new year!

This is.... again, a beginning. Since I've posted last, a lot has changed... both emotional and practical, physical, locational, and the rest. I guess when I wrote last, I was living in Lansing with the parents and Zack was up in Mount Pleasant in the dorms at CMU. Right now I'm living with my girlfriend Jennifer and her roommate Jessica in Mount Pleasant. Zack is still at CMU, and I'm back at my old Kroger store after spending a year in Lansing and working at a Kroger there near my home. I've graduated from college with a BS in BS (Psychology), and I'm ready to make some changes in my life. Welcome 2009! I'm here, and I'm breathing, and I have a job, and a girlfriend, but I'm uncomfortable in my own skin. I had a great and festive holiday season, but I think I'm at a stage in my life where I can't celebrate as much as I have as far as food goes, because I'm not 'bouncing back' like I used to. Last time I checked, which was over a month ago, I'm around 180 lbs. I'm ready to get into a healthy weight range and I'm pushing myself to eat better, rest better, drink more water, and get some more exercise! I'm afraid that I won't make it... and I'm afraid that if I push myself too much, I'll quit. I'm trying not to focus on it, but to make it happen without thinking about it all the time because I know that the more that it affects and changes my life around, the more uncomfortable I will be with it and so the more likely I will be to bag it and not turn back. I have support, I have the tools, and for now I have the will. I will keep this blog up to date with my progress and we'll see how it goes! Til tomorrow...

What?! I have a blog?!

Hey Everybody... yep... it's the first of April, 2007. I seem to be the fool today, finally recognizing how long it has been since I've actually used this blog! Time to make it happen rather than just talk about it :)

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I am doing 43 things.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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I'm thinking about using one of these three pictures for my main Blogger and Facebook photo! 

Eye am using hello from picasa to automatically post photos to my blog! 

First Post

On a day like today, I like to think of where I've been. Monday I will begin class again at CMU, thus completing my summer and beginning my senior year of college. I think of all that I've done, and imagine all that I will do in the future. I remember people and places, times more simple and peaceful, joys and sorrows. I think of others around me, near and far. I watch the world and see strangers living their lives, wondering if they're happy or sad. I wonder if I could be as happy as they are. I wonder what could make them as sad as they seem. I begin to pray. I question myself, wondering who I am today. How have I made myself better, today? To some this may seem like a complete transition from the beginning of this entry, but to others, it will make perfect sense.

"We cannot dedicate; we cannot consecrate; we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced...That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
--Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address