New Plan

Decided that I needed to lose the wonderful, luscious (not to mention grotesque and stretch mark filled) area known as my belly once and for all. Figured it was one of the many things that's keeping me from having kids, so why not get rid of it? My first initial diet was a high-protein, low fat/carb diet that pretty much put me through hell for the 1st week (premise behind the diet was to get your body to use its own fat as energy instead of the food you eat). Of course, when you go off this plan, you gain everything back and then some because as soon as you eat "normal" food again, you binge as if you haven't eaten in a month.

So this time around, I'm trying weight watchers with my co-worker Jen (she started first and has lost about 10lbs so far). Its actually a really simple plan to follow and I'm wondering why I didn't do it before. I started technically yesterday, so I'll update every so often (even if its just me who reads this, its good to know where I started from, right)? I've even gone as far as taking "before" diet pictures of myself and needless to say, those won't be posted here!

For some reason, I still find myself taking on more and more projects as a means of keeping myself busy. Why can't I just not relax and do nothing for once? I've got school projects and wedding projects and work projects up the wazoo and I'm finding myself so distracted lately that none of it is really getting done. I think I need to set myself up on a "project" schedule so that I work on everything that needs to be worked on. I've even gone as far as rearranging my work schedule to accommodate school. Its helped, but by the time I get home, I don't want to do anything (which is honestly better than what it was on midnights because I didn't have time to do anything).

On a side note, I do have to chuckle to myself about one of my current classmates (one of those omg, slap your forehead kinda chuckles) because she was saying how she got her associates from University of Phoenix and practically had a 4.0gpa when she graduated. She goes to Baker for her bachelors and has already failed a couple classes and doesn't understand why. I'm tempted to (but don't have the heart to tell her) that University of Phoenix doesn't teach anything. You can plagiarize your entire paper and won't get in trouble for it and even use wikipedia as a credible source! You don't need to have proper writing or grammar, just have one person in your group do all the work and its an easy A!

Brian's building guitar amplifiers and is finally thinking of selling some of them. Here's a couple of his latest one (its not for sale, but built for a friend of his)
He actually built both of them, the smaller one is going to his friend