Two of my dearest friends got married on July 30, 2010. It was a beautiful ceremony and there were many wonderful pictures posted here. Unfortunately the pictures of me weren't so wonderful. I looked bloated and puffy and just plain fat. When I saw the pictures I got on the scale and gasped when I saw what I weighed. I would like to say that I said at that moment that enough was enough. But I didn't. I just kept on eating and drinking and treating myself like crap. Then on Monday September 6th, something happened that literally got me off my ass. I sat down on my couch and I heard it croak. Then the frame broke under me!! Let me say that again "THE F*@%ING FRAME BROKE UNDER ME!!" The couch is a little over a year old and the frame broke under me!! I didn't tell a lot of people about this. I did tell my friend ML what had happened along with some other things that had been happening. He told me that it reminded him of the scene in Tommy Boy when he sat on the bench, after finding out that he had failed and his family had deserted him, and it collapsed to which Tommy says"I could have done without that." Well I could have done that without that too. So I made a couple changes that day. On September 6th I weighed 324 lbs. Today is September 24th and I weigh 304 lbs. Now I know that is not earth shattering, but it is a good start.
Now dropping this weight has made me feel better and lighter, like dropping a bag of bricks. I would like to give some credit to my friend ML for his witty and timely comment. I have been blessed with some funny and bright friends. They have created a podcast where they share their observations and experiences. You can take a listen to it by using this link, What The Thread did with its Summer Vacation...http://threadcast.podomatic.com/. They have been working really hard on this and I hope you will give them a listen.
I don't have a job right now... so I find myself with a ridiculous amount of spare time, While scouring the internet for a job and typing and sending out resumes, I usually leave the radio or the TV on in the background. Here are some random thoughts on what has been on or advertised on TV the past week:
Pats vs Jets on 9/12: The Slouch burns Darelle Rivas for a spectacular TD catch only to be outdone later in the game by Braylon Edwards TD catch and subsequent taunting penalty. The Pats lost the game but somehow I still feel better about the team led by Belichick, TFB, White Wes and Crazy Ass Randy than I would about Sexy Rex and his team of fun loving, skirt chasing, sexually harassing, drunk driving, trash talking J-E-T-S SUCK SUCK SUCK second tier New York B-team. This team make Kenny Powers seem level headed and reasonable!!!
(Side Note: Is it karma that Edwards was arrested for a DUI at 5 am later in the week? I think so.)
Can anyone explain to me how Teen Mom, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Jersey Shore, Survivor, Dancing with the Stars and American Idol are "reality shows"? The funny thing is that the same people who watch this slick, prepackaged trash claim that pro wrestling is fake! The fact that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino could make close to five million dollars this year is outrageous, disgusting and insulting to every fiber of my being!!!
So this is premier week for 2010 fall season and it seems like it could be a good one. That being said it should be noted before I have even seen an episode of either Outlaw or The Event that NBC seems intent on trying to recycle the cast of LA LAW. Outlaw seems intent on destroying the career of one of the finest dramatic actors television has seen in a long time by giving him the dumbest possible premice... A supreme court justice thinks he can do more in private practice? Are these people retarded? The Event looks like a bizarre Jericho, Lost, 24 knockoff without the intelligence or Jack Bauer!!! Has anyone else noticed that when a show uses a black actor to play the President an unspeakable disaster looms on the horizon?!?!?!? And what the hell is Skeet Ulrich doing on Law and Order LA?!?! I thought he was friggin dead!! And finally... wait for it... Smallville season 6 years longer than it should have run appears to FINALLY be ready to let Clark Kent become SUPERMAN!!! Not bad for the show that swore he'd never fly but had no problem taking the coolest superhero ever and turned him into a self-doubting pussbag who can't ever seem to get out of his own way and lacks any type of ability to see the signs that a trap is closing in on him!!! Quentin Tarantino's description of Superman in Kill Bill Volume 2 would be a welcome change!!! One can only hope!!
If you are still reading this then you must have as much free time as I do and if that's case then you have my sympathies.
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