Wow, just like that 10 years.

On friday night I went to my annual business meeting where they talk about the company focus for the year and present 20 years of employment awards. This January I have been with my company for 10 years and its hard to believe. 10 years, since I'm 30 is 1/3 of my life that has been spent with this company. Its seemed so quick yet it has been so long. Not sure what the future holds but I'm proud that for the past ten years I have been a very hard working dedicated employee of this company.

Next steps?

I'm doing really well in my training for my Sprint Triathlon but what will I do when I'm done? I want to keep up the exercise but I'm not sure I will. Right now I'm training and after April I will be exercising instead of training. Mentally I think I will need to set a new goal for myself, or I will stop the exercise. So does anybody have anything going on after April that I can train for?

Do I dare??? http://www.trifind.com/re_10623/TempeInternationalTriathlon.html

Alpha cat?

My neighborhood is being attacked by 3 cats. These cats must be male because they have been feeling the need to mark there territory all over my yards. I'm starting to lose my patients and don't know what to do. I'm looking for a good way to stop these pests from pooping and pissing in my yard. I need to become the alpha cat in my neighborhood and don't know how to do this. I would like to keep it civil but all I can come up with is to get out the BB gun and start making them scared to walk my fence or step in my yard. I would like to just mark my territory and they will stay away but I don't think it is that easy. Any suggestions?

Mental Endurance.

I have been training for my sprint triathlon for about a month now and have had my ups and downs. I have discovered that if I'm not mentally ready for my workout it is not a good one. If I'm ready to go and very motivated I usually have one of my best workouts ever. This has lead me to understand how important mental endurance plays a role in my daily workouts. Without the proper mind set I will not accomplish the goals I set. I hadn't realized before now, that my mental endurance is just as important as my physical endurance.

No more moles.

The moles have been removed from my body and I'm starting to recover. The procedure went well. The only problem was the fact that to numb the mole on my neck the stuck I needle in it. I think the mental part of that was the worst but the pain was not bad. I'm mole free now.

Having 2 moles removed

Tomorrow I'm having 2 moles removed and I'm a little nervous and excited. I have had a mole in the middle of my back and on the side of my neck for as long as I can remember. The one on my neck always get hit be the clippers when I get a hair cut and the one on my back always gets caught on my shirts. It will be so nice to have these removed but I have heard that they are painful for days after the removal. I will be posting how much pain I'm in tomorrow and what I thought of the removal.

Public and Private posts

I have been very quite lately on my website. A lot of things are going on in my life and its just not public material. I have many good things coming up soon but for now I'm just pushing through the days. No worries thou, many people are going through hard times right now and somethings are better left not said to the world.

No, even I can't believe I just said that.

Snow packed weekend.

On Friday I called the wife from work about noon and said lets go to Prescott today. It was forecasted to snow on Friday night and my girls have been wanting to go to the snow for years. I got off at around 2pm and we headed out of town. It started to snow heavily as soon as we pulled up to my cousins house and it snow on and off all night long. On Saturday we ran around town getting some gloves and food. Then to the snow we went. We had a great time and I got to check playing in the snow off the dad list.

The hard questions.

There are lots of things in life that you don't want to talk about or ask questions about. These are usually the topics that make people uncomfortable, or might upset them. These topics usually get left untouched. The answers to the unasked questions end up coming out later if you should of asked. Do you ask the hard questions or take the chances?

I'm not sure were I'm going with this as much as I know lots of people have hard question in the back of your mind that they have never asked. Have you not asked because your not that worried about it or because your scared of the answer?

YAY for running!!!

This week I ran 12.8 miles and next week I will be adding biking to me daily routine. I'm hoping to find out were I will be doing the swimming part training of the triathlon by next week so I can add it to my weekly routine.

I have always thought running was stupid and was a ridiculous idea. After a 2 weeks of doing it I'm shocked to say that I really enjoy it. I feel better all day long and really feel like have accomplished something. I can't believe I ran almost 13 miles this week and I'm thinking about trying to get at least 16 in next week.

Me? A Triathlon man?

So this week I think I have been convinced to run a Sprint Triathlon at the end of March. A Sprint Triathlon is really just a 1/2 of an Olympic, and 1/4 of an Ironman Triathlon. It will consist of swimming 400 yards, bike riding 12 miles, and running 3.1 miles. I haven't committed yet by signing up, but for the next month I will be training like I'm going to enter and then make my final decision. I'm very excited at the idea of an end result to my fitness goals. Not that living a long health life isn't a reward but the Idea of being in a Triathlon is really exciting. It will require me to work really hard in the next 3 months. I will keep you all updated on my status and how my progress is coming. I woke up at 4am Monday - Thursday this week and ran 2 miles everyday. That is were I am now. Come Monday I will be starting a 3.2 mile run and biking in the afternoon.

The only part of this I'm having a hard time with is finding a pool to train in. If you know of one please let me know. If your interested in the Triathlon I'm planing to be in, here is the link http://www.trifind.com/re_11301/SprintTriathlonAtVistancia.html

Back to the healthy side

I ate what ever and as much of it as I wanted over the past month and 1/2. I went back over the 200lbs mark and wanted to get back down under it. I have set a goal of being back under 200 in 2 weeks and under 190 in 2 months. Summer is just around the corner and I want to have a mean lean body for pool party's.

When I grow up.

This has been a very odd year for us and I'm ready to look forward. It has taken me over 30 years to decide what I want to be when I grow up. For the first time I have some direction and goals in my life. I'm not sure when or where the path will end, but I know what direction I'm headed. Life is full of unexpected twists and turns but as long as you know the direction your headed you can always get back on path. Here's to a messed up year that let me put life in perspective and understand the important things in it. The top looks pretty good from the bottom and it's time to get climbing out of this hole.

Amazed for generations

For Christmas I received a blue-ray player. I didn't receive any movies with it so went to Walmart to find an inexpensive family movie. When looking through the blue-ray movies I found "the Wizard of Oz." I remember as a child my mother was a babysitter and me and the kids she watch loved this movie. We watched it everyday for an entire summer. I wasn't sure if I would like it as much as I did or if my daughters would like it at all, but I purchased it anyway just wondering if it was still as good as I remembered. Not only did it have unbelievable picture quality it is still one of my favourite movies of all time. My daughters said they loved it and want to watch it again tomorrow. I couldn't be more excited to watch it with them again tomorrow.

Christmas future will be better than Thanksgiving

The greatest holiday is thanksgiving. I hate the crowds, expectations and pressure of Christmas. Thanksgiving has no pressure or expectations to give anything but love. I love just getting together with family laughing, eating, and enjoying each others company. I think the gifts at Christmas just set people up with financial burdens and disappointment. I think this is the last year I will purchase gifts for anybody but my children. Starting next year all of our gifts will be made from the heart not purchased off a store shelf. We will no longer give away heartless gifts made in India. Everything we give away will be made in our home and come from the heart no matter what our financial situation is.
Thank you horrible economy for making me understand my messed up vision of Christmas and making me see what is really important this time of year.