Saturday, January 05, 2008

My New Year's Resolution and a Vacation Goal

01/05/2008

Let’s get the Resolution out of the way right away…I will lose twenty-five pounds.  There I’ve said it!!!  It’s now cast in stone and I cannot back out of it until later today when the hunger pangs reach near critical.  Actually, now that I am in this for the third day, I am committed.  This past Wednesday morning at 7AM The Nancy and I mounted the scale, but not at the same time, to see just how badly we have abused formerly trim bodies.  On my turn the scale creaked and moaned and it looked as if the indicator wheel went around a couple of times before it settled on 240.  Just to give you an idea of how much The Nancy has caused me to gain, I weighed about 190 when we first began to see one another.  So, with that said I have set a minimum goal of 215 and a super, ultimate goal of 205.  The 205 is what one of my former doctors suggested was a healthy weight for me; 205 being ten pounds over what I weighed when I got out of Air Force Basic Training in November of 1963 and was supposedly in the best physical condition I could be.  I’ll keep you posted on my success, but know at this very moment I am extremely hungry.  Also know I ate my lunch about an hour ago and am sitting here wondering what’s so wrong with being fat.

The Goal: I have been off since December 22nd.  Monday I GET to go back to work.  Finally with this time off I have begun to finish some of the list of home projects I wrote down about a year or more ago.  I began with painting the basement walls and floors.  Both had been painted in the past and really needed attention.  I started this painting project on Home To Do list last winter, but being the quintessential procrastinator that I am, I was able to quit a quarter of the way and felt no guilt about quitting.  Well, it finally got to me and I knew I had to git-er-done, so I purposefully took the past two weeks off with that one goal in mind, paint the damn basement.  The basement of this house is about 3000 square feet, in case you are wondering why it took two weeks, and throw into the mix that I am an incredibly inept painter.  I get more on me than on the walls.  Right now the project is about 98% complete, so I think I can safely say it will be completed in 2008.  I do know I need to get back to work so I can get some rest.  By the way, I hate to paint.

There are a number of projects on my Home To Do list I want to complete before I lose all my hair or become incapacitated.  At my present rate of accomplishment I may have it completed by 2034.  Wish me luck?

And that is all I have to say about that…