Point Well Taken

Ok well, I can see by all your adoring comments that you loved my musical selection... Alright, alright, I will not post recommendations about music anymore. :)

Other than that, I am off to Hawaii tomorrow for my friends wedding and a needed vacation so I will post again when I get back. Aloha everybody!!!


"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

I have been listening to Pandora a lot lately and I came across this new band. It was the name that popped out to me and I had to check it out. I liked their music and figured I would share :)

As some of you know my taste in music can vary quite a bit. The song is called "Me + Yr Daughter." Enjoy...

Who Knew?

I learned something new last night about losing weight... I have to eat more food in order to make sure I lose weight in a safe manner. Here I thought that all I had to do was eat less, but healthy food and I would lose weight.

After staying around 200o calories a day for the past week or so I was informed that my body would go into starvation mode, and subsequently start consuming my muscles in search of protien. Ok so maybe that is the worst thing that would happen...

So after looking things up and reading a little, I found out I should be eating about a 1000 more calories a day than I have been. So basically today I learned I have to eat more in order to lose weight. So, like I said... Who Knew :)

"The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out."

The Bet

So I wasnt going to mention this but my coworker and I made a bet last week and today he sent an email to the whole company telling everyone what it was.  I figured I couldn't have my company know about the bet and not my friends.  So here it is:

We are both hefty individuals and so the bet was for each of us to lose 40 lbs in 6 months.  The wager: $500.  As an added rule if both of us make it to 40 lbs and keep going then the person who loses the most weight wins.  

So that is it and I figured you all should know.  I have been talking about losing weight and getting in shape for a while now and I think this is just the thing to jump start the process :)

So good luck to me and for those of you getting married...  I will be a lot sexier for your weddings :) haha

"Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death."

The Christmas Slacker

Ok guys, I have a good one for you.  In all my years of impromptu and all around awesome gift giving I have always sucked at gifts for Christmas.  If a gift should be given on a specific date then I just can't do it.

This years example:  I collected addresses and even bought Christmas Cards early but did not send them out...  Pretty much classic Dan.

So if you want a card let me know but it will be late and I might even wait until summer to send it out. They are pretty awesome  :) haha

"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."

Thanksgiving Amusement

So as I sit here looking at the traffic outside I have decided to write a blog entry.

An interesting thing happened this past weekend when I went to visit my family for Thanksgiving. I was made aware of some family drama that I had caused with no wrongdoing on my part. I stayed at my sister's house instead on my Grandma's house!!!

Now that you have calmed down I will give you a little background. My sister recently got married and she and her husband bought a house. My sister called me at the start of November and asked me to come down for Thanksgiving (which occurs at my Grandma's house) and so I changed my plans and agreed. Originally I said that I would be staying at my Grandma's house because for my entire life, until now, I have always stayed at my Grandma's house when I went down to Fresno.

About a week later I was speaking to my Mom and she informed me that my sister wanted me to stay at her house but she didn't want to have to ask me. So now we have reached the first source of amusement to me... I was supposed to know my sister wanted me to stay at her house even though she hadn't said anything about it. So to be the good brother I am, I called my sister and asked to stay at her house, a request she nonchalantly accepted.

I then informed my Grandma that I would be joining the family for Thanksgiving and I would be staying at my sister's house. She was happy because she always likes to see me. Or at least I thought she was happy...

Here is the next bit of amusement... My Grandma called my sister to "talk about pies" and randomly slipped in "you know Dan is always welcome to stay here..." and then quickly finished the conversation. I know of this conversation because my sister made sure to bring it up a few times that weekend.

The holiday went off just fine (except for the part where the family ate more of the pie my sister made than the pie my Grandma made, which I fixed by going back the next day to eat a piece of each of my Grandma's pies :) and I made it home safe and full... I spoke to my Mom a couple days later and she said that my sister was very happy from my stay for the weekend, "practically glowing". My Grandma put on the happy front and will take all this out on my sister later. My Grandma is a great woman but is old fashioned and cannot find any fault in the men in her life and so must make comments to the women... :)

So now I find myself amused by the situation I am in: my sister and my grandma both want me to stay with them anytime I come down to visit and I have to make the decision as to who is let down...

"Forever on Thanksgiving Day; The heart will find the pathway home."

Reflection...

So this has been one crazy week...

We have a new President who won by a "landslide" and so now we all get to sit back and see what the future has in store for us. Hopefully it will go well and we won't have any major problems.

The economy is not doing well and that is all we hear about. Not much has changed in my life or many others I know. The frustrating thing is that all the politicians are blaming the other party when it is obvious that they all screwed it up together. We then hear that things are bad because of low consumer confidence in the markets... Wait, that isn't possible! Everything is so cheerful and optimistic on TV and the news... Why the hell would consumer confidence be low????

So the problem was caused and no one will take the blame and do anything to fix it. I suppose we can just keep making money and throwing it at the problem to fix it. We will be back to normal in no time...

Well here's to progress and "change" for the betterment of our nation. Obama has put himself in a tough position and I can only hope that he follows through on his speeches to put aside party lines and work together to solve the problems. Just do me a favor and put aside the past and focus on the future... it doesn't matter whose fault it was that we are here... just that we are here...