"The Secret To Life" Master Plan Step 4 has Officially Begun!!

Sorry I haven't posted much lately.

Let's see, last week was my first week back to Bingo in a while. It was fun as always and I got caught up with some of my bingo friends that I haven't seen in a while.

I picked up my chandelier and installed that on Sunday with Morty's help. It looks great! My whiteboard was also hung back up in the kitchen and I attached the grill thing on the hallway door. Some minor stuff but its the minor stuff that makes the major stuff look that much better!

Saturday, we spent to day in San Diego. We took a bus trip down there! It was sooo much fun! In San Diego, we went to pride and then met with with Tess and Matt and took Morty for his birthday dinner. It was a very yummy Italian restaurant. Mmm-Mmm good!

I will get back to adding pics to my blog entries too!

Today, step 4 in my "I found the secret to life" master plan has officially started.

Step 4 concentrates on my body and getting it to where I want it to be. So today I trade in the coffee for hot lemon water. No more sugar, now I use Stevia Plus.

I will drink 2 glasses of unsweetened cranberry juice (with the Stevia plus added). and for lunch and dinner I will have skinless boneless chicken breasts that have no preservatives or hormones added. Oh, the lemon juice is organic too!

How long will I keep this crazy menu up? Well, full time at least 2 weeks (save Wednesday for qa salad and a chocolate martini...can't play bingo without at least one martini...).

Then, during the week, I will rotate between chicken and salad and on the weekends eat what I want.

I am also back at the gym 4 days a week. The eliptical will help. I burn between 600-700 calories in an hour on that thing!

I will also take a pic of myself today and take a pice every two weeks to help visually track my progress.

Yes, Step 4 has begun!

116 Degrees!

116 Degrees! Ugh! Do you know what that feels like?! I'll tell you, it's fucking hot.

The heat has been too much for even the most mighty air conditioner units. Stores and Restuarants are even hot.

My A/C has been running non stop since May and it is currently 82 degrees in my place.

Now for my day...

It started out very nice and just got better to spite the heat.

I met up with my friend and neighbor Elaine for our Saturday morning breakfasts (when I say "met up" I mean, she came down to my place since it was my turn to host.( We had begals and coffee outside by the pool and chatted for a bit. It was really nice.

Walter and Morty came over and we went shopping. Walter spotted a new chandelier for me. It is so cool, I had to buy it. They had to order it so I will pick it up Friday.

While in the parking lot, Morty noticed there was metal coming out of my front tires (never good) so I swung by the tire store and bought 2 new front tires.

After that we all went swimming in the pool. Some of my neighbors were in it and we all had the best time for hours just laughing.

I gotta say, I love where I live. My place, the complex, the people and the area. My neighbors are soo nice.

Anyways, we ate dinner at Senor Fred (very cool Mexican Place).

It is 9:30 and it is 105 degrees outside still. Sigh. I am going to go back in the pool!

Let there be light!

And there was! In the form of 2 nightstand lamps, and a standing lamp! And it filled my bedroom with a warm cozy glow!

Delivery on those was quick, since they came from another part of the city.

3Day Blinds came and measured my windows for my blinds and I ordered them yesterday.

All that is needed for my room now, is to have 3Day Blinds install the blinds (2" wood, bright white) then a plant for one of the corners and an lcd flat panel TV that I can hang on the wall.

I hung out with Walter last night. We went down to the Fiesta Cantina for some Margaritas and we stopped by his church. It was nice to see Roger. I haven't seen him in a while.

Afterwards we stopped in the frozen yogurt place for the ever so addicting Green Tea Yogurt with Strawberries....Mmmmmmmm

It was nice to go out and have fun. I am looking forward to doing more of that very soon once the touchups are done in the bathroom.

Too hot to move!!!!

Oh my stars and the baby jesus, its just too damn hot to do ANYTHING.

All I have been doing is just floating out in the pool.

It's been like 106 degrees here since...I dunno seems like since time began.

The hot weather has been makin' me a lil cranky but I have been making a list of things to do..3 hour boat cruise in Long Beach Harbor. It'll be a great way to meet new people. Talk, watch the sunset...that's August 12th. The last Saturday before my Birthday.

I am going to start hiking again with the group once the heatwave is over, if it will ever end...

I am thinking on a weekend camping trip Labor Day weekend over on Catalina Island. That should be fun!

My weekend in review! OhBoy

Friday night after work, I went food shopping and took my car in for a much needed car wash and oil, transmission fluid change. I went swimming afterwards.

Saturday it was just too hot to move. I went in the pool in the morning. Elaine had to be at work (the set of Desperate Housewives...lucky her!) so we didn't have our Saturday morning breakfast. Instead, I hung out with some neighbors at the pool. Morty came over and gave me his old computer desk for my spare room. It looks really good! Thanks David.

My furniture came around 7pm. It looks fabulous! The side of the China closet is split though so I have to talk to the store manager today and see when they can get me a new hutch.

My bedroom is so rad though. I put my comforter set on the bed, very cool! My bed looks so cool, I love it love it love it!

I also went to the 3 Day Blinds store, they are coming either today or tomorrow to measure my bedroom window and my kitchen window. I'll post a pic once the blinds are installed!

Sunday, I went shopping for lamps for my bedroom. I have 2 nightstand lamps and one companion stand up lamp on order, they should be here by the end of the week.

My place looks very nice now. A nice warm home. :)

The Special K Pinch...

Remember the old 70s commercials from Special K cereal saying that if you can pinch more than an inch you need to lose weight?

Where did those standards go? Why can so many Americans now pinch a foot instead of an inch.

I've got a theory and would like to turn my independent study into a scientific one. Is anyone capable of assisting?

People say that the reason people are fat now is because people just sit around. Kids don't go out and run around and play in the dirt with their Matchbox cars anymore, they sit in front of the TV and play video games and eat.

At first, I even thought that was the case until I really put some thinking into the subject...

People also say "Oh, don't eat carbs, especially white rice, they are bad for you and will make you gain serious weight."

Well, look at the world around you people. I know plenty of asians who eat white rice all the time and they are ultra skinny people. And they sit around and play games too...

So by now you are asking "Oh Eric, just what is your theory then?"

Well, I am happy to tell you.

Hormones.

Ta-Da, that's it. We inject our cows and chickens with hormones to make them bigger and fatter so we can carve more meat off of them. Then, we eat the same meat that has been infused with all of those fat hormones.

Again, it comes back to our asian friends. Most of the asians that I know eat so much more seafood than beef. To my knowledge I haven't heard of the Gordon's fisherman parading around the oceans giving fat hormones to the fish...

It makes sense if you think about it.

I would like to start a free range diet where the meat has no hormones in it and see what happens...

Quests!

As the work in my fabulopus Sherman Oaks suite winds down, it is time to ramp up my build a better body program! I will slowly come off all sugar this week and start eating better and next week it's nothing but good food. I am also back to the gym today! Yay!

The return of a social life! More Bingo nights! Going out and socializing at coffee shops, Fuel and The Abbey. Me and my shoes are ready! :)

On the 7th day, I rested!

The carpet is in and it looks soooo nice! I moved evrything back and now I can just relax.

It is half time during the World Cup final and after this, I will spend some time in the pool.

I saw The Devil Wears Prada last night with a friend. Very funny movie...lots of good one liners!

My neighbors really rock though. While I was waiting outside for the carpte people to finish, my neighbor Elaine, made me coffee and we had bagels and chatted. We are going to take turns makign eachotehr breakfast every Saturday morning and eat it by the pool.

Hopefully a few othe rneighbors will join in. That is what makes the place in which you live. If you have good neighbors, it can overcome some other problems.

Welp, back to the game!!

Packin' up

Welp, I have moved everything in my living room and dining room into the kitchen, except my new large sofa, it's too big. I'll have to move it outside for a few hours tomorrow morning.

While moving my TV into the kitchen I bashed it up against my newly painted wall and smashed some plaster off. Sigh. I spackled it and when it is dry I'll repaint. It wouldn't have happened, I suppose, if I had friends that would have offered to help me move my stuff. Kind of sucks that no one said "Wow, that's a lot to do for one person, I'll help." But then again, I've come not to expect anything from anyone really.

My bedroom is all packed up too, just have to take apart the bed and move it all in the main bathroom. Then I just have the guest bedroom to do. It's actually going along a bit quicker than I thought which is good. It'll give me time to vacuum one last time. Not much I can do in the way of hanging out because the TV and satelite are disconnected. o0o I could always swim.

Anyways, this will be my last post until Monday or so probably because my PC will be all disconnected. Unless I can get this laptop connected to my sireless which shouldn't be that big o deal.

Yay, new carpet tomorrow! :)

July 4th...the Worldcup, painting nightmare, Firework and the Titanic

Welp, a quick recap...July3rd, Tess and Matt came over and stayed the night.
I woke up on the 4th and put a second paint on my bathroom wall. It looks okay but I am sure when I am through with it, it'll be fabulous. :)

We went down to the Queen Mary for Fireworks. (I love those smiley face fireworks...how cool!)

We took the Russian Submarine tour, which was really cool. I'll have to upload some pics!

They also had a Titanic exibit which was the best exhibition I have ever seen! They just didn't display the artifacts (which they had 300), the had cool mood lighting (wave lights from the ceiling projected on the floor etc.) It started out telling the story and showing some artifacts in mint condition, dishes that looked all shiny and new but as the show went on, the artifacts deteriorated. During the last segment, they showed chandeliers that were all twisted and they had a large sheet of real ice (that looked like a gigantic iceberg) that you touched. The card said that the temperature of the water was actually colder than the block of ice. Things like that really put everything into perspective. Oh, that had a huge tank under the floor filled with water that had a huge engine propellor in it too.

Anyways, it was a great show and a great 4th.

Germany however was knocked out of the World Cup in the final 2 minutes of the second overtime. Sigh.

Tonight is the night I finish my touchups and clear out my place, for tomorrow I get my carpet!!!!