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January 2, 2011, 10:53 AM…193 pounds!

my challenge today will be to plan my meals for the upcoming week and prepare my living room for my workout which i will begin today and continue every other day for 31 days. okay, now, let's git 'er done! i will weigh myself every Sunday morning and post the result on this blog! Good luck, Jad! Thanks, Jad!

Thanks to Vic Magary and all his support in this effort to get healthy!

THIS JUST IN….

Subject: Senior health care solution – Worried your pension will run short?

Senior health care solution – So you're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you – what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets.

You are allowed to shoot 2 Members of Congress and 2 illegal immigrants!

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!

New teeth – no problem. Need glasses, great. New hip, knees, kidney, lungs, heart? All covered. (And your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now). And who will be paying for all of this?

The same government that just told you that they cannot afford for you to go into a home. Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore.

IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?

how gross!

taking those photos is probably one of the best things i have done in a long time. i did not realize how obese i had become. i am surprised that babsy even would be seen with me. i have looked at some other photos taken of me over the years. i graduated from high school weighing 112 pounds. that was 1963. i now weigh about 200 pounds. that means that i have gained 88 pounds in 48 years. i have also lost an inch in height. i was 5'8″ and now i am 5'7″. i leveled off from 155 to 165 for about 15 years but all in all i have gained about 1.83 pounds each year since high school! insidious indeed! it really sneaks up doesn't it? today is the first day of the rest of my life. i gotta make it count. this is the planned first day of my behavior modification. God grant me the will to persevere! it should be interesting to see how a polar bear goes about these things!

just like i told ya!

you see before you a fat polar bear. i have a lotta bad habits that affect my health adversly. i am gonna change that! for the next 31 days i am gonna excersize, watch my diet, drink no booze and form good and healthy habits. i will take another photograph on February 2 and i will be a less fat polar bear and onward and upward on a path to good health so that i may live long enough to see my grandkids grow up. it will not be easy but i will persevere. i don't have the testosterone i used to have so the progress will be slow but it will be progress. pray for me if you will. i will need as much support as i can get. i don't really know how i allowed myself to get this way…just lazy, i reckon. i am glad to see 2010 in my rear view mirror and am looking forward to all that is ahead.

i wanna see my grandkids grow up!

in another day and another life i was a trainer for real estate sales people.  i worked for a firm that had over 3500 real estate franchisees all over the united states, canada, and australia.  my job description required me to do a five day training class each month in various cities in the south and gulf coast of the united states.  based upon several studies we determined that we could establish good habits to replace poor habits in our students if we could get them to repeat the good activities daily for thirty one consecutive days.  that holds true not only for real estate sales people but for everyone and experience with this concept convinced me that it worked.  if i wanted to establish good habits all i had to do was to practice the good activities daily for thirty one days and they would become a habit and that habit would improve my life.  the same goes for bad and destructive activities.

that being said i have decided that i need to change my diet and excercise activities so that i may live long enough to see my grandkids grow up!  i will begin this process on January 2, 2011.  i will record that here on my blog.  it should be an interesting experiment.  i will record my weight weekly and i will record my diet and excercise regimen daily.  i will post a photo of myself at the beginning and one as well at the end of 31 days.  it is just  one of those things that i know what to do but takes a lot of discipline to accomplish.  if you are interested, i invite you to tune in at your convenience.  i am sure gonna miss the booze! i would welcome as much encouragement from the folks as i can get.

what happened to the smile?

i noticed it this mornng after i showered and shaved.  i looked in the mirror and i noticed that what used to be a smile always on my face was no longer there.  the sides of my mouth were turned down and i saw not a smile but a frown…a sad face with a frown.  how could that be?  i always had a smile but now it was gone and try as i might it would not return.  all my efforts to smile resulted in a screwed up and screwed upon sadness of a frown.  why was that?  where did it go? was it a sign of unhappiness to  come or unhappiness present?  was it because i have not been able to sleep worrying about my future?  if worry is unfinished business, what business could i finish that would result in a smile to replace the sadness in my face…the sadness in my eyes?  why do i feel such an emptiness, such desolation?  could it be the effort to do good deeds going unpunished? could it be the result of my longing to know what is next in my life…what lies around the corner?  who will take advantage of me next?  who will say, "so sorry, charlie, your hard work and effort will again go unrewarded?"  how can my efforts to do things right again turn out so wrong?  why does my effort to help seem only to hurt both myself and others?  i do not know what happened to the smile.

just an update…

the jerk who was gonna sue me now has realized that he has no legal grounds to do so.  now he says he is gonna file a complaint with the kansas real estate commission.  just because he doesn't want to pay $600 to the guy he hired to do his due diligence.  he is an attorney and even an assistant district attorney or so he says.  i tried to google him to find out and was not successful.  he is just a whiner who has sour grapes because he and his broker screwed up and wants to blame it on someone else beside himself.  even his broker now has sided with him in order not to appear incompetent. whatta bunch of cry babies!  they wanna make an example out of poor little ol' me and throw me under the bus.  oil well.  get in line, jerk.  it will cost him a bunch of money to do this and i am happy to accomodate him by defending myself and my broker at the comission hearing that will surely be held in Topeka.  excuse me while i  puke!  merry christmas to all and to all a good night!

whaddaya think?

it is about the "f" word.  i was told that i was not a good editor because an academic type found two…count 'em two…errors in my book.  one was a typo and the other was something about the university of new mexico and new mexico state u…niversity being in las cruces.  valid obsevations and my mistake.  when i asked my best friend in the world about it, she said, "that is nice, but who gives a f***!  oil well.  dat's life.  not perfect for sure and if he woulda really looked he would have found other errors, i am sure.  end of that story!

i got a phone call today from some guy who backed out on an exchange deal i had working and now wants me to pay $600 to the guy who did his due diligence which resulted in cratering the deal or he was gonna sue me.   i, being the professional that i am was very nice to him but told him that if he wanted to sue me to bring it on and any further conversations on the matter would be between him and my attorney.  i called some of my collegues and explained the matter to them and one of them who i really respect said, "tell him to go f*** himself!"  the others said basically the same thing but used a less offensive choice of words.

so anyway…i guess we will see what happens but it does make me feel good that my professional collegues agree with me and have come to my defense.  sorry if the "f" word offends you but right now, i feel like telling them all to do what my friends told me.  i won't do that but doggone it, i sure would like to!  God bless all my buddies!  God Bless America and the New Orleans Saints

Christmas Spirit….Bah Humbug!!

dang!  i just don't seem to have the ol' Christmas spirit!  must be the financial crisis!  no  presents this year.  just cards to family and a few toys for my grand kids.  Seems that Christmas has been a rough time of year for me for the past few years.  maybe that will change.  hope so.  gotta do things different.  i reckon.

maybe i need some egg nog w/plenty o' rum!

O holy night, the stars are brightly shining it is the night of our dear savior's birth…Silent night, Holy night.  all is calm all is bright round 'yon virgin mother and child, holy infant so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace…O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant o come ye o come ye to Bethlehem…

now that is better, i guess.  more eggnog!

Joy to the world.  the  Lord has come!  Let earth receive it's King! Let every heart prepare in bloom!  let heaven and nature sing.  let heaven and nature sing.  let heaven and nature sing!

oh boy…getting better!

almost two months!

Geez!  it has been almost two months since i posted to my blog.  i still don't have any money to buy books to sell to friends who want a signed copy.  maybe in a month or two!    a friend of mine told me he gave the book to an academic type in Arizona.  he said he liked the book but that i was not a very good editor.  he found two mistakes.  the first was a sentence that had a typo.  i guess it was either "they" and should have been "them" and it changed the meaning of the sentence and the other was that the University of New Mexico was not in Las Cruces.  I looked it up and he was right.  New Mexico State University is in Las Cruces.  I told my friend barbara about it and she said, "that is nice, but who really gives a f*** about that?"  i guess she is right as i have no excuse for the mistakes.  i couldn't afford to hire an editor so i did it myself.  only two mistakes in 204 pages?  not bad.  if my friend Cheri ever reads it she will find a gazillion mistakes.  i am sure of that.  she likes to find mistakes in stuff…especially my stuff.  i don't guess she will ever read it though.  i offered to send her a signed copy but she moved and declined to give me her new mailing address so i guess she will just have to buy it on the 'net now if she wants to read it.  I still plan to buy a motorhome and call it, " The Polar Bear Express" and head out to parts unknown for a couple of months and do book signings and readings and hook up with a bunch of my fb friends and real life friends.  just you wait!  you haven't seen nothn' yet!

it has been a while!

i haven't posted anything for a while but since i am still alive and have this blog, i thought i would share a few thoughts with myself since i seem to be the only one who reads this stuff. lol!  i had planned to go to liturgy this morning but my buddy Gino called yesterday and needed some help at the soccer game and i didn't get home until late and went to bed even later so i am gonna stay home and just do my morning prayers.  JESUS CHRIST, OH SON OF GOD, HAVE MERCY ON ME A SINNER!

lotsa stuff has happened since my last posting…both personally, nationally and internationally.  you  probably know all the national and international stuff so now you will get the personal stuff and my take on the national and international stuff.

The personal:

i have had to postpone my book signing trip because of lack of funds and a corresponding lack of interest both on the part of the public and my private would be investors.  now i have decided to work as hard as i can at both my real estate marketing and continue to buy my three lottery tickets each week to insure sufficient funds to complete my projects.

project #1…provide for my son's upcoming wedding in july.

project #2…plan and execute my nationwide booksigning tour which would include the writer's conference in corte madera, California after my son's wedding in July.

project #3…pay off and remodel my house and barn.

project #4…purchase motorhome, tractor, and motorcycle.

project #5…establish an icon factory in my barn to the glory of God and all his saints!

 

don't guess that is too tall an order if i can receive God's blessing. 

Nationally…

lotta mudslinging political races.  i don't care for it much but will be voting for real change…a straight conservative ticket for me!

Internationally…

prayers for the miners in chile.  prayers for leadership in our country and a change of our foreign policy that will re-establish this country as a world leader.  dump the UN!  reward the nations we export to and punish the ones like China we import from but do not export.  Control our borders to international criminals and terrorists.  Do something to iran so that do not get the A-bomb and a delivery system.

i guess i am done for today.  not much, i know.  i will attempt to do better.  next posting will be from Las Vegas!

later…