Jay’s Realm

Seriously, how hard is it to find a clipboard in this city? I hit up all of Southgate mall and couldn’t find one at all. Then took a wander to London Drugs and again…. nothing! I’m thinking I’ll have to head to Staples.

A year ago that I thought to myself ‘My god you’ve gotten fat.’ Since then I’ve dropped 50lbs and am now back down to a much more comfortable weight though I could still use a little work. Keeping with that, I have two new goals for the next year.

1) Be able to run 10 km on demand, and run at least 10km every week.
2) Learn Japanese.

After everyone left my body decided it was time to deal. And deal it did. Violently. Painfully. Repeatedly. Morning came too quickly and found me curled into a ball shaking like a kitten. Water tasted like ash and my body yearned to reject even that most benign of substances. Every creak and groan of the building thundered through my body, rattling my desiccated brain.

With great care and sheer fortitude of will I managed to drag my undead corpse to the shower. A vain attempt to wash away the rank musk of suffering and despair. It failed, but only mostly. I crawled back into bed to nurse my water for a few more hours.

Solid food came around noon. Not much. Mostly grease. I still fear the thought of meat or *shudder* vegetables. Water is coming in quicker now. The pain is easing. The vertigo fading. The thunder no longer slashes through my body like a pick up truck in a glass factory.

From this torment I found a silver lining. I lost six pounds over the last twenty four hours. Go me?

I went and joined a gym last week and yesterday I had a ‘fitness evaluation’. Turns out I’m over fat and under strong. Big shock there. But I’m not as fat as I thought I was, which is a plus.

Stats:
Body fat: 25%(ish)
Lean mass: 170lbs(ish)
Fat: 50lbs(ish)

I’m destined to always be overweight according to the height/weight ratio thing. For me not to be ‘overweight’, I’d need to be under 180lbs. I don’t think that’ll be happening. Le sigh. Now I’ll always have to have ‘a few extra pounds’ on my dating profile.

Anyways, I was asked about goals and apparently ‘lifting heavy shit’ isn’t a good goal. Neither is ‘lifting heavier shit than I did before’. So I had to write down that I’d lose 3lbs of body fat in the next month, and 15lbs in the next six. Seems easy and more than reasonable. I don’t know how well it’ll work if I intend to also pile on some muscle.

Reminds me…. I should set up my exercise bike and get started back on that every morning. I took a break for Matts bachelor party in the woods, and since then I’ve been in pain from the gym. I’m feeling better so time to get back into it.

I’ve decided I have way too much stuff, and too much of my stuff is junk. Following that decision I’ve decided to throw out / give away / ebay at least half of everything I own. On that list is all my VHS movies, all my stuff for my Nintendo and Super Nintendo, my bed, a tonne of books, and the contents of my tool box. If you(Scott)’re interested in any of the above, let me know before I junk it.

Today I’m sorting through all my random boxes of crap that I’ve moved at least twice without opening. I’m finding all sorts of neat things: my badge from Telus, pay stubs from Lister, my magic balls, a Hercules graphics card… I even have cuff links! Hopefully I can get the first phase done before Erik and Kate get home… the living room is a disaster.

.. because she wants something to read in the morning. Anyways, I poofed my profile on plenty of fish and changed the ‘first date’ section. Here is my ideal first date:

Step 1) Start off with a quick and easy meeting at a well populated coffee shop. This is to make sure I don’t get the “This girl will taser me in a dark alley and take my kidney” kind of vibe. I know I’m not a player and that I am a kind hearted romantic fool who is the man of your dreams. This step is just for my safety. Can never be too careful. Lots of crazy people.

Step 2) Head off to Chapters and sit in the kids section and read Dr. Seuss books to each other. I’m not a normal guy. It’s important to notice this right away. I’m looking for someone whose heart is filled with child like wonder and excitement. Being able to read at a grade one level is also a plus, but not a requirement.

Step 3) By this point it should be clear if there’s any connection, chemistry, or taser burns. A good time to plan for the next outing and part ways. If you’ve fallen hopelessly for me we can go for a walk along the river valley and watch the sun set talking the whole night through. But no kissing. I’m just not that easy.

My mom sent me an email today and included a picture from where I grew up. I’m slightly bitter and jaded because of the isolation, but it really is a beautiful and magical place. For those who didn’t know, fifty percent of my english final was based on an essay about a place. I wrote about here and I lost only a single mark that I’m sure is from spelling or the like.

I got 90% on my English final!

I found my old website that I did back in my first year of University. Man I was horrible. This wasn’t even my first website. It was my third attempt at a website and ugly as sin.

My previous attempts were worse. At least I had stopped using frames by then. And no animated GIF’s or marquee or blink tags.

We had a ghostbusters themed party at our place yesterday which went off fairly well. Lots was drunk and much green food coloring was used. We watched both ghostbusters movies, saw Ron Jeremy , and ate too much sugar. Annnyways, I made a cake!