10 posts tagged “victor”
It's been just over 3 months since my last post about my weight. I haven't been doing nearly as well as I had hoped because I haven't been trying as hard as I should. I was 255 then and I am now about 251. It's not great but it's a move in the right direction. I just couldn't get myself to be serious about my eating until the last few weeks.
I have been doing much better in recent weeks. I am eating less and eating better. I'm not snacking as much and I am getting more exercise. I've been walking for 30 minutes a couple of days a week at work and eating more fruit, less junk. This week I started eating a couple of eggs for breakfast in the place of a bagel with cream cheese. I scramble two eggs with a pinch of cheese and a dash of Tabasco for flavor. I like the mild Jalapeño and the Smoked Chipotle flavors of Tabasco best.
The rest of my day was pretty good food-wise also. I had a banana as a morning snack, some grapes before lunch time, and some edamame as an afternoon snack. I did have a pack of Austin Oreo like cookies as an afternoon snack. Then I had two hot dogs and some fruit for dinner with a glass of milk. Later I had a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich. Overall I think it was a good day both food and exercise wise. Today I have left over chef salad and fruit for lunch and snacks.
It also helps that I've cut out pop for the most part. I have coffee with vanilla Silk soy milk and Splenda to get my caffeine fix instead of a coke.
Yesterday after work Victor and I went down to the school and practiced passing the soccer ball around for a bit. Then we passed a football around. I got pretty winded at one point from running. I really started to get that lactic acidosis thing and had to take a break. We had some fun and I got a good 1:15 of exercise yesterday. Score!
Yes, we have finally done it, we got the living room and tree decorated for the holidays, and only a week before Christmas!
Last week I brought the tree out of the crawlspace. Then on Friday, Bonnie got the branches all fluffed out. Then, I got the tree actually assembled. Then, it stood there, naked, all weekend while we were busy doing other stuff. Finally, Monday night, we got the lights and garland up. Yesterday Bonnie worked on decorating the rest of the room and after dinner Bonnie, Victor and I put up the ornaments while we listened to Christmas music on KOSI 101.1, ate Pepperidge Farms cookies and drank hot chocolate. It was a nice little holiday moment.
Urgh! it's been a crazy year and it's nice to have this done. With Bonnie's heavy workload from taking four classes I had to do a lot of extra things around the house. It's been a week since she finished and we are still exhausted. The house is a mess and we are having friends over on Saturday. This means we will be doing a lot of cleaning in the next few days.
Oh, and we still have to wrap some presents. I think we will do this tonight. It's been hard to get into the Christmas spirit but I think we are there now with the tree and decorations.
Last weekend was a good one. Bonnie had a lot of homework to do between her Illustrator class and some things she needed to do for her internship. Saturday we hit the grocery store then she spent a good chunk of the day on her internship work.
While she was doing that I did a little housework and watched some TV. I also took Victor to the park because he wanted to play some catch. We took our baseball and gloves and a Nerf football. It was fun, but man am I out of shape. Just a little running around and I was beat.
That night we had a great dinner of appetizers with marinated shrimp, scallop stuffed mushrooms wrapped in bacon, and bruschetta while we watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I was the only one who had seen it before. Victor wasn't that interested and left early but Bonnie liked it.
Sunday Bonnie worked on her Illustrator project in the morning so we could go to my parent's house because Victor mentioned he wanted to see his grandparents. His grandmother watches him when Bonnie's in class and he's off track but he hasn't seen is grandfather in a while.
We watched the Broncos game disaster and went through some stuff dad had cleaned up in the basement. Victor latched on to some of my old board games. He picked out Risk, Hangman, Axis & Allies, and Scotland Yard. We played Scotland Yard and had some fun.
Later that night Victor and I played Risk at home and I soundly beat him in his first game. He has a lot to learn about strategy games and military strategy games like Risk in particular. He likes Stratego and Chess but hasn't played a game like Risk before. I told him he really needs to have some mastery of Risk before I will even show him Axis and Allies because it's 10x as complicated as Risk.
Not everything that needed to get done got done over the weekend, but it was a good weekend.
On Tuesday I took a day off from work to take Victor and Bonnie to Boondocks Fun Center in Northglenn. I've been wanting to go there for a few years because they have go carts. Yes, I said GO CARTS!!! Woohoo!!! I love go carts. I know I sound like a kid, and well, I never got to drive a go cart until I was 33 and I loved it. Now two years later I got to do it again and it was a blast.
We decided to go on a Tuesday because they have a special deal on Tuesdays that we wanted to take advantage of. We got up there at 10:30am, shortly after opening. We left just after 9pm. Yes it was that fun. We played three rounds of mini golf, rode the bumper boats and go carts, and we played laser tag and video games. It was all fun.
We also took advantage of their all-day, all-you-can-eat buffet. We had lunch, grabbed a drink or a bread stick here or there, then had dinner. It was a lot of pizza and pop. The pizza was pretty good for an entertainment center.
My wife Bonnie wants to take our son Victor to see Ratatouille Friday morning at the Kerasotes 20 Mile Village 10 theater down the street. It's only $4 for shows before noon on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So She looks up the show times and finds that the first showing of Ratatouille is 12:10.
What the hell?!? You offer a cheap morning show and don't offer the kids movie that parents would take their kids to see until after the cut off? That's like a restaurant saying kids eat free after 10pm!
I haven't been to the 20 Mile Village 10 since it was a Colorado Cinema but I remember we saw several kids movies that were 11:00am to 12:00pm showings.
Boo! Kerasotes, not a good way to attract customers.
Well, I haven't posted in a week. It's been a busy week. Here are some updates from that last week.
- Picture-A-Day has been discontinued. It's been difficult to find things worth taking a picture of day to day. My daily commute doesn't really provide many opportunities for interesting pictures or provide much of a chance to take these pictures. Also, I've had trouble getting them posted in a timely manner. So, it's done.
- We are looking at refinancing our house. We can roll our ARM mortgage and home equity loan into a new fixed-rate mortgage before our rates can go up again. We will probably even be able to lower our payment.
- This week the P route started and well, people still aren't happy. They don't appear to be getting their fancy over-the-road-coach style bus, just a regular bus. Also, the earliest route has been dropped leaving some without a bus. As for me, my bus has been moved up two minutes in the morning. This makes it easier to catch the E train and make my connections.
- Bonnie is doing well on her classes. She hasn't gotten less than an A on any assignment yet. She is getting pretty good at the Adobe and Macromedia applications she is learning. We went and ordered the full version of the Adobe Web Bundle with most of the applications she's using. She also ordered Lightwave so she can learn to do some 3D work later in the semester.
- Victor continues to do well in school. He had a field trip to the Symphony on Tuesday. He enjoyed the music.
That's it for now.
February 22, 2007 - Here's Victor hanging out in his chair waiting for dinner.
February 6, 2007 - Victor finally got the cold Bonnie and I have been fighting for a week or so. He spent all day in front of the TV vegging out. He normally doesn't watch that much TV so this is cool for him.
February 7, 2007 - Today Victor spent the day playing Lego Star Wars II on the PS2 and watching TV. He watched some Gran Prix racing on the Speed Channel. Then this afternoon we got him a treat, a new Nintendo DS. He's got an old GameBoy Color and but mostly uses our GameBoy Advances. Now, he can play his Advance games on his own DS and we got him Mario Kart DS to break it in. Needless to say, Victor was psyched.
January 26,2007 - Yes, another train. This is a westbound engine I happened to see on the way to my car after work Friday. The train tracks are on the other side of the fence on the north side of our parking lot.
January 27,2007 - Bonnie made this delicious tub of chocolate dipped pretzels. She melted down some Ghiaradelli semi-sweet chocolate chips. They were very well received at the Bunko party we took them to Saturday night.
January 28,2007 - Victor went sledding today. He spent an hour in the morning and about an hour in the afternoon. In the morning he was sledding in our neighbor's front yard because they have a bit of a bobsled track built into the snow. In the afternoon I took him to the retention pond by Main St and Motsenbacher where there is a lot of great sledding. Victor had a great time and got soaked in the snow.
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