Interview with greengirlnj

1. Your 30-something year old self has to write a letter to the 16-year-old self. What are some of the things the letter would say?

Oh geeze. I’m afraid it would be a horribly brutal letter. I don’t like the person I was when I was 16, to tell the truth. I made many of the women in my life uncomfortable by being way too preoccupied with sex, I didn’t take care of myself physically, I didn’t pay attention in school, I was a complete and total shit to my Mother. Yeah. 16 year old Mike was, in my humble opinion, a pretty repugnant individual. I’m sure some people saw good in me then (if not, I wouldn’t still be friends with good_eeevening), but a letter from me to him would be a pretty biting one.

2. What’s your first name? See I AM new to your journal, I have no clue!

Michael!

3. Have you lived in Florida all your life? If so, where do you want to visit? Do you see yourself in Florida all of your life?

Pretty much. Moved here when I was 3, and other than brief excursions out of state have lived here ever since. I’d be comfortable being here for the rest of my life. I used to hate Florida, but as I’ve grown older I’ve realized it’s actually a pretty cool place (and as I’ve gotten older it got cooler too).

4. Favorite food [dietary restrictions aside]?

Hrm…Let’s put it this way – There is a place here in Tampa called Crazy Buffet. It’s an Asian-Fusion restaurant with a huge sushi bar and all kinds of other buffet evil. I’d eat there every day if I could!

5. Best day of your life? [so far!]

The day my son told me he was proud of me (because of the work I did in the theater).

Notice!

Hey gang…Just a heads up. I try to put a lot of thought into the interview questions I ask when this meme goes around, and as such it takes me a while to do them (not to mention the fact that I’m working while doing so). I’ve done a few today, and its getting harder to think of original questions, so I’m going to set this down for now and get back to them tomorrow.

Questions Meme

Because the minion of the Mord commanded it!

001. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”

002. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.

003. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.

004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.

005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

My Questions and answers.

w00t

I know some of you out there have envied my Cuisinart Grind and Brew coffee maker in the past. Well, today is your chance to get one of your own. Woot.com is offering a refurbished brushed steel version of this machine for $69.99 today (about what I paid for mine, also refurbished). For those of you who aren’t familiar with woot, they offer one product a day and only sell it while quantities last. So if you’re interested in this wonderful machine, buy it now!!

Oh, and one other thing – This is even better than mine. It has a thermal carafe.

Twitch…

Man oh man, I was NOT in the mood to do my workout today. Much less take a physical challenge.

Did it anyway.

Glad I did, and I feel pretty good now…but boy, that was rough. Pictures this week after weigh-in. Krys is convinced I’m going to be happy with the results, and I hope she’s right. This needs to start paying off! I have missed a total of two days working out since January 27th. When I first started, it was just walking, but I moved up to Yourself Fitness at the beginning of February and haven’t stopped since. I know there have been improvements, but with the scale refusing to play nice It’s hard sometimes to keep going.

I mean, for Fuck’s sake, I still haven’t dropped all the weight I put on during Goth Cruise.

Blah, blah, bitchycakes.

This week won’t be as hectic as last week, but it’s still going to be a pretty fun filled one. We’ve got house guests coming into town next weekend, so we’ve gotta get the place cleaned up and ready for them. I don’t have as many rehearsals this week, but I’ve got to devote some of that time to memorizing my lines. Molten Core on Monday and Wednesday night. Gotta take Advanced Drivers Instruction class at some point this week (as I have to have the certificate turned in on Friday). Yeah…gonna be a fun one!

Oh, hey..speaking of our house guests – For those of you who play WoW with us, it’s Banick and Tawa (March). They’ll be here Saturday night or Sunday afternoon, and will be staying until the following weekend. Tawa is heading down to Key West for a few days, leaving Banick here to chill with us. We’re going to head out to The Castle on Friday night, and I believe that Elizium, Chaverta and Zharajenu are going to be out as well. If you have ANY idea what I’m talking about, you might wanna show.

Hell, you might wanna show anyway. Not like we make it out to The Castle all that often anymore.

Off to skin the flesh off a chicken, then I’m gonna chill out for the rest of the night!

Weight Tracking Summary

Your current weight | 282.4 lbs
Weight change since your last recorded weight | +1.6 lbs
Total weight change to date | -136.8 lbs

Grrrrrr

This is getting really frustrating. I had a bad day on Easter. I fully own that. But I’m still getting my workouts in. I still tracked everything I ate every other day this week. I’m still drinking my water…and I’m still putting on weight.

Logically, I suspect I know what’s happening. Maya has been working me really hard recently. I even increased my workout time a few days this week to 45 minutes. I can FEEL the muscles in my chest getting larger and tighter. Krystalle is constantly commenting on how, physically, I’m changing for the better.

But the scale isn’t showing it, and as much as I know I shouldn’t be, I’m still beholden to those numbers. I want to see them go DOWN, not fucking UP.

I need to buy a measuring tape. I need to see some kind of concrete progress, or I’m going to derail myself again.

Sigh.

Oh well. Off to squeeze in a workout before rehearsal.

419.2 / 282.4 / 225

Yeah, yeah.

Wheee…

Day one in the first of three hellish days schedule wise is about half way done. I’ve got about an hour to go here before I head over towards the downtown area to grab a bite to eat and go to rehearsal. Should be relatively light on me this evening, as we are blocking Act I and I’m only in the last few minutes of the act.

In those glorious few minutes, however, I shall achieve another pinnacle in my Jobsite career.

I shall have my spit-take.

I’ve died. Multiple times. I’ve said “fuck.” I’ve killed someone. I was in my skivvies (with a robe on, but still). I’ve been in (several) dream ballets. To this date, however, I have not had a spit-take. Until now.

I’m so very excited.

While it feels good to be ramping up another show, psychologically I’m still not fully prepared for the work load of the next few months. It doesn’t help that this week, the first real week of rehearsals, coincides with three consecutive days of training here at work. Just an hour and a half today, but tomorrow and Thursday are full days. Oy. Training just saps the life out of me.

In honor of the very long few days I’m looking at, I actually went to bed at a decent hour last night. For me, anyway. Got back there around 10, but probably didn’t fall asleep until 10:30 or 11. Got up promptly at 5 AM this morning and got 45 minutes in with Maya on Yourself Fitness. Speaking of which, my abs and chest are so very sore right now. I just recently pushed my workout to 45 minutes, and my recent improvements in the core body strength areas have caused Maya to “kick it up a notch” Emeril style on me. So what was getting easy is now painful again.

No pain, no gain, right?

Have a new laptop at work, which is one of the reasons why I’m being such a posty fool at the moment. I’m downloading fresh copies of all our web sites, which takes forever. It’s a pretty sweet laptop, but one thing about it is already bugging me. The docking station doesn’t work with the monitor risers that I use. Not such a big deal here, as I have plenty of desk space, but home is going to be a different story entirely. I may end up having to put the docking station under the desk where the two desktops are.

We’ll see.

Gahh…I think I just screwed up the FTP by messing with my settings.

oops

netgoth stumbled across something on her friends list and posted about it yesterday, and I figured I’d take a moment to point you all in that direction. She even made a rare public post about it. Seems that during the recent Convergence (yearly goth convention) in New Orleans one of the attendees was attacked by another, and the attacker is currently on the run from the law. You can check out the links for yourself and see the proof if you want (Krys even called the New Orleans Police Department and got a case number to verify that it was legit). Fair warning if you go, though. The picture of her face after the attack is pretty graphic. In any case, if you have a moment pop on over and take a look. See if you know the guy in question, and if you have any information about his whereabouts contact the proper authorities. I’m not going to make any broad, sweeping statements about him or the situation – but he does have a warrant out for his arrest. The rest is up to the courts to decide.

Umm…I think that’s all I’ve got for now.

OMG I'm tired

So last night, a planned run to Upper Blackrock Spire (World of Warcraft talk here) got completely hosed. We started much later than we had originally planned, and were doing fine up until the Rend event. Somehow we pulled the balcony during that fight, though, and it wiped the party. We tried to make it back in time to clear the balcony and keep the event going, but it didn’t happen. It was about midnight at this point, and six of us decided to go into Lower Blackrock. We managed to clear to Voone before I finally said I had to get some sleep.

Translation for non-gamers beings

I stayed up way later than I should have last night playing a stupid video game.

End Translation

So, here I am, around four hours worth of sleep later. Alex spent the night here last night, and he has a baseball game this morning. That’s why I’m up. I have to have him there in a half an hour. The game runs until 10:30. I have to be in Tampa for rehearsal at 3. We have people coming over to play D&D tonight at 7.

Friggin’ whee.

Thus it begins. As of today, my life goes back into roller coaster mode…and will be that way until June 18th.

At least I don’t have to be up early tomorrow.

To emphasize the seriousness of waking me up tomorrow, I paraphrase Orin Ishi – “The price for calling my house on Sunday morning is – I take your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. So if any one of you sons of bitches…got anything to say…NOW’S THE FUCKING TIME TO DO IT.”

Ahhh…that’s funny in my head….