My life, is there an app for that?

Wish us luck we are going to try Pull Ups with Kyra starting tomorrow morning. Hoping all goes well with them over the long weekend!

We updated Tresha's Sony Viao to Windows 7 from XP and it is running so much better. Microsoft might have finally gotten something right in the way of operating systems for a change! I hope to see if I can upgrade our other two Window machines in the house.

Thought it was time to finally blog about my diet. As many of you know three or so years ago, I lost 80 pounds. Then all the stress with work started, and then we found out Kyra was on her way and the stress got to me and I started eating again. It took several years but I finally gained back all that I lost. Not sure what finally hit me, maybe it was seeing myself in all my glory in this picture:
Or all the pain in my back, or the fact that I no longer have any clothes that fit. Well whatever it was I am finally ready to start working on my weight and my health once again. Starting with counting calories and man did I eat a hell of a lot! I am now keeping my calories under 2000 calories. Realized It would not have been out of the question for me to eat 10000 calories in one day. McDonalds for breakfast, Chipotle for lunch, and pizza for dinner. Not to mention the various calories from drinks and snacks. It is incredible how calories can stock pile up on you when you are not watching them.

Been at it for a week so far and lost my first 10 pounds. I am shooting for 90 more, trying to get down to 195 and making it an even 100 pounds to loose.

The picture above I was down to 220. Which is the thinnest I have been in the past two decades and I am hoping by Kyra's birthday on November 29th 2010 I plan on being at 195. After I loose another 20 pounds or so I plan to start running again.

Current motivations are the quick weight loss and most importantly my back pain has gone away! Not sure why I posted all this, guess to just keep me accountable.

Sure is nice being able to enjoy the weekend and not worry about finishing a paper! Went shopping for a new winter coat for Kyra. While we were there, we had some fun drawing in a coloring bookBut Kyra found a football and she had a blast running around the store like a running back. Couple times she was even holding it like a good running back would.

Came home and did some dishes and then watched one heck of a football game with UC beating Pit 45-44. Kyra and I watched it from underneath our homemade tent, while Tresha and Trei enjoyed a good time at Pat and Annette's Annual Cookie party.

I then took Trei to Cincinnati Music Hall, where he got to perform as the the pre-concert entertainment as part of the Vision for the Arts Academy Quintet. Here are a couple pictures below from my iPhone. The first one I uploaded using Color Splash on my iPhone to make Trei stick out. I hope to export the audio from my iphone and upload it to Youtube or somewhere.

After Trei's performance we ran back to the cookie party. Trei had a good time playing whatever the kids play in the basement and I had a good time hanging with the guys, talking fantasy football and watching the Texas Nebraska game. I really don't think Texas deserved to win that game and they really don't deserve to play for the BSC championship.

Got home around 12:30 finished cleaning the kitchen and hope to get our Chritmas Tree up tomorrow. Hopefully will have more pictures of that tomorrow.

Oh also posted three more day worth of Kyra 365 pictures. Below is my favorite of the 3:

Going to try and do the picture a day of Kyra thing again on Flickr. We missed way two many day the second half of our second year of attempting the 365 thing. We decided to start it on her birthday:

Third day she was having fun in her new toy bin:

Tonight she was reading a book with Tresha before going to sleep:

Hopefully we can keep up better with this project this time around!