09.20.08
Re: Weighlifting
IT’S NOT HARD, IT HURTS.
You want to be a champ?
“Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare”
09.17.08
Dreams can come true
You have every right to dream. You have every chance to make that dream a reality. The question is, are you willing to lay it all on the line to make that dream a reality?
09.12.08
I believe…
I believe- that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
I believe- that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I believe- that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
I believe- that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I believe- that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I believe- that you can keep going long after you can’t.
I believe- that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I believe- that either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I believe- that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.
I believe- that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I believe- that money is a lousy way of keeping score.
I believe- that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
I believe- that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down, will be the ones to help you get back up.
I believe- that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.
I believe- that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.
I believe- that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.
I believe- that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I believe- that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
I believe- that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
I believe- that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other And just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do.
I believe- that you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
I believe- that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally . different.
I believe- that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don’t even know you.
I believe- that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you you will find the strength to help.
I believe- that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I believe- that the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.
(I didn’t write that but I agree with mostly all of them….)
09.09.08
Sleepy Autumn Mist
Sleepy Autumn mist settles in the valleys
caressing the form of the cars passing through
Songbirds sleep longer, the sun struggles up
As the day fights the nightime, breaking anew.
SK
Well, it is getting towards hibernation time here in the Great White North. For the first time the other day the automatic headlights in the truck stayed on all the way to work meaning that the days are significantly shorter now. The weather has been warm still however they are calling for an overnight temperature of only 2° tonight north of the city. I guess Frosty won’t be far behind!
The coaching year starts tonight, although officially it started on Saturday I only had an hour private with Lia to contend with whereas Nicole had her first 3 hour class with her comp group. My Saturday class got canned after the dismal attendance last year which in turn says my salary also got cut by just over 1/3. To compensate we are doing additional private classes on Fridays, something with which I am suddenly not particularly thrilled knowing that I am already missing working out on Tuesday and Thursday and after coaching on a Friday what are the odds I am going to go to the gym and lift weights? Ya, zero!
To football and the Newcastle debacle has finally ended the way I had assumed it would with Keegan leaving and apparently most of his staff being “let go” at the same time. If Liverpool had any sense they would scoop him and Dalglish up as assistant coaching / board consultants since there seems to be a lack of football experience further up the chain from Benitez nowadays.
Work is fine, although very busy with small annoying projects and loose end jobs to finish. I am toying with the idea of taking the CISSP boot camp and exam in an attempt to convince Australia of my worth. However the course and exam are $4000 which naturally I don’t have. I’ll see if the hospital will pony up the dough for it but I shall not be holding my breath.
The weight loss is going OK, at WW I weighed in a whopping 7.2lbs less than 2 weeks ago. If I can keep that up I will be back to at least feeling human, not bovine, in a few short weeks. The least I have been at home is 281lbs, down 10lbs from my heaviest.
Ask me in a few weeks what I feel about Rayman and the Rabbids.