July 2011
“He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.”
—
Bertolt Brecht (via quote-book)
stand up for yourself and what you believe in.
June 2011
SHREDSAUCE.: just so we're clear; →
shredsauce.tumblr.com
Today’s burpee count: two.
Maybe tomorrow will be three!
To be fair, I also busted out a 45 min/465 cal workout (fuck you, Lexie Sarge, for now raising the bar to over 500), two sets of ten push-ups, three sets of fifty jumping jacks, and two sets of “ten” v-sits for the first time ever and LET…
this is great! very proud of you. (not for the running at midnight because… did you forget you in live in WORCESTER you fool) but for pushing yourself and achieving something. also - we will both beat over 500 on sunday and we will reward ourselves for it. and, teach me burpees. because i have no idea what that is and all i can think of is some sort of gaseous excretion. if that is it i do not want to do it. ;)
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
—Princess Diana (via quote-book)
It’s all right, man.
I’m only bleeding, man.
Stay hungry, stay free,
And do the best you can.
- We’re getting a divorce, you keep the diner, Gaslight Anthem
red at night
I was born in a town where the rivers flow free
On a January night when the cold winds freeze
I got an Irish name and an injury
Blessing and a curse cast down on me
Ain’t nobody got the blues like me
Ain’t nobody got the blues like me
Was a blood red sky on the morning tide
Was a cold wind blowing when I left that night
And the morning bells rang, alright, alright
Shoulda stayed home with you that night
Ain’t nobody played the fool like I
Ain’t nobody played the fool like I
Things got bad and things got worse
Half like blessing, half like curse
It’s these blessings so hard to see sometimes
Gotta little clearer about dusk last night
Ain’t nobody got a blessing like mine
Ain’t nobody got a blessing like mine
It’s a red sky night and I’m doing alright
It’s a red sky night and I’m doing just fine
- Red at night, Gaslight Anthem
“Though apparently today, my band thinks I can’t read. Because this is what happened, every night we have a setlist and it’s on the floor and I always skip songs; I can’t see them. So my doctor says ‘you should wear glasses’ and I say ‘no way, dude. I’m not wearing glasses.’ I’ll save that for the forties. When I’m in my forties, I’ll do a piano record: ‘Gaslight Anthem at the bar, piano’ and then I’ll wear glasses and it’ll be cool. Because I’m too young to get away with that right now. I wouldn’t look smart, I’d look silly. So what they did in their ever concern for poor little me … See, I’m a disaster. I can’t wake up, I can’t find anything, they practically wheelchair me on the stage. So, they made a huge setlist, it’s like right here. But it’s two, it’s two parts. Like everybody else has one and I have two and they’re really big, like I got glaucoma or something. I’m an old man in a young man’s body.”
—Brian Fallon (via acasualsigh)
“It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
—Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
—C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
books as centerpieces
more book inspired wedding images; images in this post via
im almost a little embarrassed to post this stuff now that paul looks at my tumblr. but oh well. hey babe your girlfriend is nuts. too late to back out now.
i fucking love these books as centerpieces idea. lovelovelove it
week 2 day 1
beat my personal record of 400 calories today. i burned 541 in a little over an hour.
also saw moms client corey there! did not say hello, because he was being a boy and lifting weights and i was disgusting and sweaty. but it was cool to see someone i recognized.
tomorrow will be another visit to the gym where i am looking to at least match today or beat it. 550 maybe? we will see.
i love how even last monday the numbers i was kicking out today were not even close to going to happen. and how quickly a person can top their best by just fucking TRYING to do it.
it proves my point that losing weight is (for the most part) easy. with effort. hard work. and resilience. (this applies to me only as each person is different of course) my chubby over sized belly is due to pure laziness only.
and i plan on kicking the shit out of it and waving goodbye forever. because i will not be lazy again when it comes to my health. you only have one body, if you dont take care of it where will you live?
or something like that ;)
week 1
so it has officially been 7 days since i joined the gym and started my best life diet
i feel amazing! i honestly think ive already lost some body fat. because my belly looks smoother.
im pretty proud of myself for going to the gym by myself on Friday. i went 4 days this week. thats a great start. i managed to work off 3-400 calories each visit.
and i dont even feel bad for pigging out a little at the cookout last night. because i pigged out on guacamole (that i made fresh and with cilantro from my garden and organic tortilla chips)
i drank only water. (a few tiny sips of alcohol and one pudding shot that julie made)
im tempted to weigh myself but i will hold out another 3 weeks.
this was a good first week. lets see how week 2 goes!
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
—Nicholas Sparks (via alla-n)
“Bookaholics are the ones who start to feel uncomfortable and uneasy in another person’s house, and suddenly realize there are no bookshelves or magazines lying around. People who only own a telephone book and their high school yearbooks scare us.”
—Robert Lee Hadden (via bookoasis)
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