Fifty Percent Is Only Failing In School

In life, it's failure plus job loss, unless you're in a union.  At any rate, I made it 100% on my predictions for the games today, but only 50% on what I actually wanted to see.  The Bears, once again, broke the hearts of Chicagoans world-wide.  I have the unique joy of saying that both my birth-city team and my home-town team were taken out of the fucking playoffs by the biggest rival of one of the teams.  Awesome.

At any rate, I ate a ham sandwich and low-fat chips from Jimmy Johns for lunch, and a turkey-bacon sandwich with low-fat chips from the same restaurant for dinner.  In the middle somewhere, I had a bag of Nutrisystem Soy BBQ Chips.  I also had a slice of raisin bread toast for breakfast this morning.

I finished my laundry (last load is in the dryer now) but did almost none of the other cleaning I wanted to accomplish this weekend.  Maybe I'll have better success stretching it over the week this week than I did last week.  Of course, a key part of that plan involves going to bed on time, with TV and computer off at 8pm... which hasn't happened, obviously.

I also went through the shipment of food I got this week and mostly distributed it/reorganized the Nutrisystem pantry here in the Fatness Castle.  I segregated the food that's going to be traveling with me for business next month, and next weekend/this week I need to figure out if both it and my clothes can fit together in a suitcase, or if I need to ship the food or some other alternative I haven't thought of, yet.  This reorganization was accomplished in concert with a partial cleaning of the kitchen and the Doing Of The Dishes, a foul pagan rite that must be performed at least once, sometimes twice a week in the life of a bachelor (if he's stopped buying as many paper/plastic plates as he used to).



Shit.  It just occurred to me that my towels are currently in that dryer, meaning that I need to remember to pull them out before I get in the shower tomorrow.  YES I have more towels, but I like those ones, which could have something to do with why they're the ones I use.  So I'm going to sign off now, pray that I remember that in the morning, and lament the fact that I'm not allowed to get drunk on beer to forget the crushing losses both the Bears and the Eagles suffered both because I want to lose weight AND because I need to get up for work on a manufacturing schedule tomorrow.

Later, Fatheads.

Things You See At Lunchtime

I stayed in last night, because I just didn't feel like going out in the southern cold.  As I've told some people: just because we born-of-the-north scoff at the temperature, that doesn't mean the rest of the population does. 

Weight:     299.8 lbs
Body Fat: 41.9%
Water:      44.5%

Now that I've told you that, let me tell you what I ate last night that limited my weight loss.

First of all, during the day at work I ate  only my diet food.  I had a morning snack of the awful hippie yogurt (god, why did I buy 2 weeks of it before trying it?) and a juice box.  For lunch, I had a frozen Nutrisystem Steak & Cheese Melt.  I had a bag of Nutrisystem Sour Cream & Onion Soy Chips.

I went off the wagon for dinner and on, straight up, yo.  As those of you who follow the Twitter know, I went to Five Guys for dinner last night.  I wanted to experiment.  It turns out that if you ask them to give you only the cup of fries, they will be kind and respect your wish not to eat 4 times as many fries as you should (a serving is around 112 grams, the whole cup weighed about twice that, and the scoop they use to add fries to the bag is bigger than the cup.  I ordered a single-patty cheeseburger with many vegetables and whatnot, and despite bringing home some ketchup, I only used the malt vinegar (if you don't eat malt vinegar on fries, you are a communist, and should turn yourself into the government IMMEDIATELY).


After dinner, I played much Halo: Reach, and drank around 5 martinis.  Before allowing myself the martinis, I insisted on drinking a gallon of water.  I became hungry and ordered a pizza around midnight.  I only ate a bit of it, and dumped the rest in the trash so that I would not be tempted... then dumped expired milk on it to ensure that I would not give in to really disgusting temptation... IT WAS A CLEAN GARBAGE BAG!


Brief break from the action:  I've been searching for what the hell I did with the copy of Repo Men I had from Netflix since Christmas.  I had brought it and 2 other movies with me on vacation, and returned the other two immediately after getting back home.  I had searched high and low last week, and could not find it.  I just lifted up my fucking laptop, and realized it was under it.


It's too late for a full breakfast, but too early for a full lunch, so I grabbed a juice box and a slice of raisin bread to tide me over until lunch... for which I've ordered Jimmy Johns...  which I also ordered for dinner.  I'm taking it easy today, I need to clean and do laundry, and the NFC Championship is on today, GO BEARS!

Before that's on, I'll probably actually fold the clean laundry that's sort of been rotating through my basket for about 2 weeks and divide up the pile on the floor into loads while I watch Repo Men.  It can't be as good as Repo! The Genetic Opera, but I'll try not to judge it by that standard.



Maybe not the best from the film, but it's what came to mind.  Root for the Bears or die, Fatheads.

Quick Weigh-In

I kind of let myself oversleep this morning, because I still feel rather unwell, so I'm doing a barebones blog.

Last night, I got a medium The Works Papa John's Pizza for dinner, and ate half of it.  The remaining half is in the fridge, and I'm going to have some for a quick breakfast, and use one piece as the entree for my dinner I'm taking to work.

Weight:     308.4 lbs
Body Fat: 43.9%
Water:      43.0%

 There we are, time to hit the showers.

Later, Fatheads.

Lunch and Excitement

For those of you following the twitter updates, you know I got the new camera today.  I have unbox porn for you here.

For those of you only here for food porn, rejoice in fancy new camera pictures of lunch.

For lunch, I had the Cheesy Mashed Potatoes, because they are delicious.

I didn't really feel like having anything else with lunch, and I felt full afterwards.

I disabled the datestamp after I dumped my initial pictures onto the computer, so that won't have to happen ever again.  In other exciting news, I finally managed a bit of a crap after lunch.  The candy must have payed off.  Now I'm going to go read more of the manual, because my knowledge of aperture settings and exposure time has little to do with anything but viewing photography.

Taxes, Halo, Snack, Delivery and Weigh In

IN REVERSE ORDER!

332.2 lbs

Down is always good. In other news, apparently a Schwan driver delivered my 2nd week of frozen food today. Normally, they're staggered by about 2 weeks, but I'm not complaining. It was difficult to fit it all into the freezer, but we managed. We have a smaller freezer that we bought for the old house that we haven't had to use yet, so overflow wouldn't have been a problem. As things stand, we're cooking a turkey (the smell of which is slowly driving me mad).

For afternoon snack, I had some BBQ Soy Chips, which, as always, were delicious. Unfortunately, I slept quite late today, as last night was supposed to be a bit of a momentous occasion.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=25612

Yes dear friends, by the grace of whatever unholy gods rule the internet, Halo 2 and other original Xbox titles appear to still be working via Live. As of this writing, there are around 2,300 unique players on the service, and I doubt it will top 5k tonight, unlike last night where it came close to 12k. I hopped on for one match in Team Training to confirm and got my ass handed to me, so I don't know if I'll play any more. I've got some Netflix running for background noise, so if you hop on this evening, feel free to shoot me a message and maybe I'll hop on.

Taxes aren't fun, and it's that day again so it's obligatory to talk about them. I took care of mine over the weekend, but I would have had them done much sooner if I'd not had to wait on a reprint of a form from my former state's unemployment office. Fortunately, I'd realized the form was missing in time to get the new one, and all was finished and e-filed for my 3 states well before the deadline.

I realize that some of you, including some members of this household, still need to finish them, and I only have one thing to say about that: SUCKS TO BE YOU! Keep on rocking in the free world.

Frozen Food Delivery!

This is extremely exciting news, people! My frozen food from Schwan's came via UPS today, and the unpacking was quite fun.

It came in this rather large styrofoam ice chest full of dried ice to keep it frozen.

Apparently, as I was told when I called Nutrisystem this morning, my order shipped on Monday, do I had some concern that things would have thawed slightly, but everything appeared to be still frozen solid. The smaller package contains 7 ice cream sandwiches, that constitute a week's worth of snacks.

As you can see, there was actually frost on one side of the large box that was revealed when it was removed from the crate.

First out of the box were 7 days worth of breakfasts.


Immediately below them were 7 desserts and 1 of the dinners.

Below that tray were the rest of the dinners and all of the lunches. As I've mentioned previously, these are by far the best meals that you can eat on Nutrisystem, and I needed to have one for lunch.