READING RAINBOWS

My wife should appreciate this post….
We were driving down the road when we came across a new Jeep Wrangler driven by a baseball hat and tank top clad surfer looking dude. Par for the course in Fairfax?
Not quite, dude had a medley of rainbow items throughout the interior and exterior of Jeep. He had everything from rainbow bumper stickers to a rainbow licenses plate holder to rainbow air fresheners.
Something tells me he wanted people to know he was GAY and PROUD!
The excessive display of rainbows prompted me to turned to my wife and ask , “What if you just like rainbows?”
What if someone just really grows up loving rainbows? I don’t think kids are taught the pop culture representation of rainbows in grade school. What if you go “back to school shopping” before you first day in high school and you buy a rainbow shirt or hat because you love rainbows so much….. Good luck on your first day in high school my friend.

Sedentary Sunday Swag

You know, I really wouldn’t mind working Sundays if my job didn’t involve sitting on my ass for countless hours. I’m not a sedentary person by nature. I would so love a job that involved some type of movement. We took a family trip to the national zoo and all I could think about is how cool it would be to make the $ I make and work there.
Since I live in the “real world” the best I could do was ask my boss to request a “standing desk” from facilities (my fingers are crossed).

UPDATE: I changed the pictures because my brother-in-law told me I looked pshyc0.
Can you see the smile on my face

Been a while!

It’s been awhile since my last blog, partially because my week was pretty busy, mostly because I was without my camera charger. My lack of picture taking left me un-blog-inspired.
In my last post I talked about my quest to spend 30 days eating nothing but whole foods. I thought it best to update the blog with one caveat to that plan; I do use the very unnatural pink sweetener. Since I refuse to use sugar, I have to settle for what I see as the best of the artificial sweeteners. I don’t say sweet and low is the best because of its taste, rather “MY” research indicates it is the lease harmful to ingest.
After one week on the whole food plan, I have regained my pre New York feeling of good health. I hope to improve on this feeling with healthy eating and daily exercise , even if that exercise consist of taking the bloke on an evening stroll.

Sidenote: I know all about Stevia and the other Natural sugar substitutes, but I have yet to find a good producer of these alternatives.

Healthy Choices

I have always prided myself on my strength of will and self-discipline. These are characteristics I developed in adult-hood and continually try to improve on.
I spent last week in New York and took in all the NY delicacies that I miss living in Virginia. By day two I felt very unhealthy, but the voices in my head told me to continue to satiate my taste buds. Those damn VOICES!!!! To make matters worst, I went the entire week without exercise for the first time in about a year. I came back from New York feeling atrocious. As a result, I have presented myself a challenge. Over the next 30 days I will harness my will-power to eat a totally “whole food” healthy diet. This is not a diet to loose weight; this is more of a cleansing, an exfoliation of the body and soul.
I am interested to see how a diet of completely whole foods will affect me. I hope to see improvement in overall health, mental focus and energy. I am typically a healthy eater, but like most Americans my diet contains a good sum of processed foods. I hope the elimination of these processed foods will yield a conspicuous result.
BTW- by “whole foods” I do not mean the store.
Main Entry:
whole food
Function:
noun
Date:
1970
: a natural food and especially an unprocessed one (as a vegetable or fruit)

Good movie characters are hard to find!

Toby Jones plays Ollie Weeks in "THE MIST". After watching the movie last night Ollie has become one of my favorite all time movie characters.

Some of Ollie's great lines;

"[after David tries unsuccessfully to convince Brent of the danger outside] Leave it alone, David. You can't convince some people there's a fire even when their hair is burning. Denial is a powerful thing. "

"As a species, we're fundamentally insane. Put two of us in a room, we pick sides, and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. "

[Mrs. Carmody is preaching to her 'cult' and they're repeating expiation] "Welcome to Sesame Street, kids. Today's word is 'expiation'. "

"Those of you who aren't local should know that Mrs. Carmody is known in town for being unstable. "

WHAT THE CLAN IS UP TO NOW

do I really even need to comment on this?

Stoop Stare

Trips back home allow you to see your children in the environment you were raised in. I good portion of my life was spent on Colgate Ave in the south Bronx. Great Grandma still lives there and we went to visit her yesterday. The bloke climbed the stoop and tugged on Grandma’s gate as if he was familiar with the house. It was fun to watch the bloke run around and great to see all the family that we rarely get to visit.