To win it

I'm totally in it.

Tick tock

sometimes I feel like I wanna be some awesome kid's awesome dad. There's this day care and they parade the kids through my unit and half of them really love me and the other half totally fear me! Like TOTALLY.

I think id be a good dad. After all, I like to play. Kids like to play. We both like to eat stuff. There's tv. There's nature. We could do tons of stuff.

Plus I like to bite babies. If I had my own I wouldn't need permission.

There are commercials on tv with babies and their dads. Makes my biological clock all tell tale heart.

Poop

I like how you have 2 toilets in your apartment so we can poop together...

Reminds me of the love toilet from snl

I wish you would stop laughing at all my jokes. It reinforces the fact that I think I'm funny.

I like how you really enjoy breakfast foods... cuz I like making you breakfast.

I like how you're a huge nerd. I'm kind of a nerd too.

You're really kind and considerate.

I like our downtown bike riding explorations. And our exploration of other stuff. *wink* like our feelings. Its weird cuz I'm a robot.

Ugh

She's a big nerd. Writing papers, trying to get published, generally doing good for the community. She went away for a conference and give a presentation for one of her papers...

So its been a few days since we've seen each other. I kinda miss her. So weird.

I even wanted to call her to see how the presentation went.

I thought about some stuff we could do when she gets back, if you know what I mean. *wink* I mean like a 6pack of stella, breakfast I could make for her...

I'm pretty excited about it. Its all so new.

I'm really enjoying the newness. Her mom was in town. She didn't ask if I wanted to meet her. And that's cool. If she wanted me to meet her mom then she would've asked right? I didn't wanna meet her. I liked the fact that she didn't ask cuz id seem overeager to meet the mom if I asked? I'm not a fan of moms. Or rather moms aren't a fan of me. You see, I'm a super bad boy! *shakes fist*

Anyway, the newness. Its great.

Its the future

I turned up the music in my headphones like, minutes ago because I just didn't wanna hear anything else you had to say. I'm sorry but you were killing me!

Intended for awesome

My brain cells rubbing
Growing up, where do I go?
Intent submitted

Manned up and made that decision. Wrote up my letter of intent for that mgmt program. Boss lady was like "if it were up to me, you'd already be in". Apparently there are those up in the mother ship that need to review and decide. Supposedly the competition gets creamed in my wake but protocol still needs to be followed. Ill hold my breath until I hear I guess but I have a really good feeling about it. I asked about the possibility of relocation (as indicated in my research about the prog) but boss lady is like we're not letting you go. So at least it looks as though I would stay in the denver metro area. I like it here. Don't wanna leave anytime soon.

Things have changed with my friend. We've been spending a lot more time together. Its nice. Staying in and cooking together instead of going out and getting krunk. And we're open about a lot more stuff. However this does not mean that we won't go out and get krunk but now the levels have slightly changed. For the better?

Its been so long since I've been with anyone but I feel like I can totally just be myself. I mean I always feel like myself, who else am I going to feel like? That's what's good about being artificially selective: I know me already so there's no question of who I am and what I want. Actually I don't know what I want but that's what's awesome. Doing everything and figuring it out. But I do know who I am so everything else will fall in place. And if it doesn't, it doesn't. I make my own destiny.

Its halloween. Stay safe trickortreaters!

Roomyism

That movie came out too close to section 8. I mean district 9! That was close.

Yea. Close. It was a word and a number!

Epic

It started with a typical Thursday morning. Up @ 6, as per usch (I'm hip. Its short for usual.) Ran 6 miles. Did some weight training. Went to work. Shift starts @ 2p. Did my job. Made some old people laugh. Farted. Blamed on that old guy. Ends @ 10p. the next nurse doesn't show up. Why? Maybe its cuz she wasn't supposed to be on. The other nurse on the unit is like "bye!" Leaving me holding the bag. Weak. Worked the next shift. Stayed up all night running around making sure old people didn't die. Or fall out of bed. Laughed a lot with my coworkers. Weird crew @ night. But funny as hell. Drove home at sunrise. Its been a while since I did that. Brings back memories coming home from nyc after an awesome night partying with the young and the beautiful. Sigh.

All day Friday was spent falling in and out of sleep like "what day is it!? Where am I!?" I hate doing those overnight doubles.  roommate says let's go! Get dressed. Get in the car. Where we going? Party! College masquerade party in boulder. Crazy good time. Apparently I wore a luchadore mask. Did the electric slide. Climbed on a roof. Had a powoww with some cool people up there. Went home. Passed out.

Got up Saturday. Tired. Maybe too tired. Worried I wouldn't be able to hang. Packed my bike up in the car and drove to downtown to hang with my friend. You know, the chick I've been hanging with. Like a lot. Met up. Hopped on our bikes. Cruised around downtown. Got to the zombie crawl. Ran into 2 of my coworkers. Weird. Had a late lunch on a patio on the 16th street mall. That's where the zombie crawl took place. Saw some crazy stuff. Souped up hearses with the 50 caliber guns atop the roof. Survivors with children. The children had bloody swords. Pregnant zombies with zombie babies reaching out from the womb. Drank some beers. Saw a smoker zombie that I told how ordinarily smoking is bad, but since she's already dead... Rode to see the occupydenver movement. Went back to her place to change and then for some more beers across the street at the denver beer co. Played some board games with new friends and a vince vaughn zombie lookalike. Watched the friend diffuse a situation involving a drunk dude who lost his dog. Took off my jacket just in case I needed to jump over the fence with a flying sidekick into the drunk dudes neck. But I didn't have to. Then we booked it to comedy works where I was called out as the crazy asian guy. Then the mc shortened it to crasian. It was cool. Saw a funny ass midget comic who gave our other friend a lapdance on stage.

The night ended as it usually do. Up late talking, passing out.

Sunday was lazy. Chill. Awesome.

On the scale of good to awesome, the weekend was epic.

A haiku

Hey there kitty cat.
Your claws have sliced me open.
Watch the blood gush out.

Decisions

Big ones to be made. What am I doing? Sounds so terrible. So many options. There are people out there with none. I'm so selfish.

Had a meeting with the big boss today. Had a discussion about stuff. Where I thought id wanna go careerwise. So weird thinking about my career. Seems like such an adult thing: my career. Was thinking of going for a masters in healthcare administration to help make an impact on the industry. Make a change for the better. The system works, but could be better. Leaner but not meaner.

She brought up a program wherein id be able to train to be a nursing home administrator. Sounds kinda lame but id be able to make a difference in the lives of the elderly and those in post acute. Sounds practical and would give me an opportunity to inspire change. I'm apprehensive about because its a lot of responsibility. Its so grown up.

Obviously I'm a perpetual 20something year old dude that's never going to grow up. I actually demanded a weekday off a week to go boarding. She's like ok! Haha

So yea. Decide time.

Settling

I just don't want to settle

What am i doing?

had a moment where I just stopped and said "what am I doing?"

Its complicated

Youre complicated.

I'm simple.

It should just be easy. We hang once a week. We have a ton of fun. We'll text but its just to make plans for the next time we meet. We talk about our things. We share our feelings about stuff. We're comfortable with each other. You farted the other day. It was gross. Then I farted. It was awesome. We've explored some of this new city together. I enjoy your company. Seems like you enjoy mine.

It should just be easy.

You've got some stuff going on. I do too.

I like hanging with you. I feel like we could be really cool. And we are. And I like that. you're a chick. i'm a dude. whats up?

Pub v priv

The thing that sucks about having a blog is that you really can't be as open as you'd like.

Sell me something... as long as you entertain me.

I watch a lot of tv. Some of my favorite moments are when there's a commercial break. Why? Cuz they're like mini shows and sometimes my attention span is kinda short. In addition to selling me something, they occassionally entertain me. I have dvr, but I won't fastforward cuz I likes me some commercials.

There's a special edition scion that's yellow. The commercial has zeus talking about how he likes awesome things. So he zaps a boring scion into an awesome yellow scion! I want one!

Then there's the all state commercial that saves a couple some money and the dude is all "thanks for the falcon!". All the other dudes walking by are all "I should've gotten a falcon!" Im going to get all state.

Old spice has some funny ones with the dude and there's all this morphing going on.

Of course dairy queen has been stepping up their game. "These aren't just subtitles... they're subtitles I can ride on".

Just saw a carls jr commercial where the god of hamburgers made an awesome burger. There are hot chicks eating the burgers. I totally want one.

I love commercials.

Speed and first visit to fort collins aka foco

I still get kinda freaked out when the speed limit says 75. Sure the fast and the furious series is at top of my favorite movie series. They drive fast and break the law and look cool all while doing it. That's just not me. I would put them in the same category as lotr and star wars and harry potter. Why? Cuz its all a fantasy world to me! I would never race someone on the streets, carry the one ring to rule them all to its destruction, or battle an evil sorcerer to the death. I'm a stay in the lane don't go over the speed limit constantly on the lookout for cops kinda driver. Where I grew up the speed limit was 65 so its been ingrained to stay there. Its fast enough! I guess I would rather get somewhere slower and safer than have to deal with "sorry officer I was speeding cuz I have to poop". I sound like a bitch.

Went to fort collins, co for the first time to visit a fellow jersey dude. Speed limit was 75. I was going 70 and still feeling kinda dangerous. Occassionally I would go up to 75 and feel like a rogue cop on my way to help my dangerous convict friend out of a jam. On the edge is where I live!

So I get to foco and its kinda like boulder, but less expensive to live there it seems. People, well, I didn't really interact with a lot of people. Just the buddy I went to visit. And beer.

I took my first archery lesson with a recurve bow shooting arrows at paper targets. I have to say I did pretty good. now if zombies were stationary id have a pretty good chance at hitting one! Snapped my left forearm a couple times. It didn't hurt but let me know I was alive. Spent 2 hours at gannett ridge hunting equipment on n college ave. The owner was a nice guy, very knowledgable: josh. He's the proprietor of the fine establishment. I got the deal for 5 lessons from livingsocial. It was a pretty sweet deal and the rental was not expensive. Plus he said something about putting my rental payments toward the purchase of a new bow. I think I want to get my skills up and a home or a place where I can shoot before I go and purchase my own bow. But the zombies can come at any time so I better think fast!

Met up with my buddy also from jersey. Chilled out had a few beers and checked out coopersmiths pub and brewery. It was a relaxing spot in downtown foco at the center of foco action. A lot of college bars but kinda subdued at this early hour in the afternoon. I'm sure it would pick up later. I had a devils backbone buffalo burger. It was excellent. I had a few of the pub chips but ate all the slaw. Its getting harder to stick with my paleo diet... considering all the beer. Also I had a huge chocolate shake from walrus ice cream it was grrrreat.

Of course work called and asked if I could work. Dude I'm chilling! So I agreed to work tonight making the next round of work 5 days in a row. I always thought that was too many days in a row. But I could use the money since I went and quit all my jobs except this one. Why? Cuz I didn't come here to kill myself working. According to my halfassed calculations, I could still complete my plan for world domination or debt reduction with this one job. Ill just have to be more frugal.

No pain = keep running

So I've lived here in the rocky mountain state for a little over 3 months, been running 30+ miles/week for the last month, hiked up/ran several moderate/difficult trails and I haven't been hurt. Last week I ran/jumped up the stairs at the red rocks ampitheater. I felt awesome. Then I dropped a deuce and felt I could take a couple more rounds up the stairs. In the first 5 steps I felt a twinge in my right calf and I knew I would be in trouble so I stopped and went home. The next day I hiked up the flatirons and felt pretty awesome. No pain.

The day after that I tried to run and *boop* pain. Ice, ibuprofen, and rest. Of course I worked 40 hours in the next 3 days so of course it wasn't really rest.

Yesterday decided to take it easy and hiked up rattlesnake gulch at eldorado. Beautiful. Got to the continental divide outlook and chilled with an old man and his old dog. Cool dudes.

Came home, watched some episodes of torchwood, and basically ate until I passed out. Yea, really smart. I had 2 apples, a pear, some pineapple, strawbraries, sauteed chicken and green beans, a veggie platter with light ranch... then my roommate comes home and is like let's get pizza. I haven't had pizza in so long so I felt I deserved a treat. Omg. Why would I deny myself?

This morning I felt pretty good (in the calf) so I wanted to get my run on. Decided to treadmill it since I probably would be dumping out a lot today. I was right. Running wasn't bad. Then I had to dump out. Then I ran some more. Guess what? Pain! Def need to rest the calf. Can't sideline myself. My body is smarter than my mind it seems.

Here's a pic from atop the flatirons.

So gay

"I would love to watch you f%$* that guy"
Why? I don't bang dudes. I'm not gay.
"Wha?"
Seriously, why would you think that?
"Cuz you work out and you're fun to talk to! And you care about how you look and you're hairless"
If that makes me gay then I'm gay. I always thought that banging other dudes would make me gay but I don't do that! Also I don't care how I look, I just look like this. All this just happens. I cut my own hair in less than 5 min. I wear clothes that fit and were on sale when I got them. If anything that makes me frugal.

I work out cuz it makes me look the way I feel... which is awesome. In turn, it makes me feel even more awesome.

Its so weird. Even back home people assumed I was the gay. I don't bang dudes! The gays are awesome and that's cool for them but its totally not for me. Sure most chicks are annoying but I still love 'em. I'm just looking for the least annoying chick.

I have feelings and I feel them. I'm open about my feelings. Sure I say some gay stuff, but its cuz you are shocked by them. I'm a shocker. 2 in the pink, 1 in the stink.

I'm not saying that being the gay is bad. There are plenty of beautiful gay relationships out there. it just ain't me.

I just don't understand it. Someone told me I portray myself as gay. I don't do gay. I just do me.

Its so weird. But whatever, ill just continue being me. I know

Love the new girl.

I love her. This zooey deschanel. She's pretty much the ultimate in chicks for me. This, of course, is based on the sum of all the characters she's ever portrayed. Elf, yes man, a bunch of other, this show I'm watching right now. Its new on fox. I haven't stopped laughing since it started. Even the dudes love dirty dancing at the end. That's awesome cuz I love dirty dancing.

So anyway, the new girl, on fox, is amazing. Watch it!

Blabbering

Its too bad we're going out tomorrow... my hair looks awesome tonight.

I never get to sit at home drinking jameson otr.

The question is beer? The answer is yes.

Got up @ 8 am. Put on my long sleeve drifit, shorts, socks, reeboks. Drove to sloans lake. Learned that it was cuz of this dude sloan who wanted to build a well and hit an underground spring. Turned his dry ass prairie into todays recreational watering hole that isn't a bar. Its a beautiful oasis in the midst of the urban sprawl of downtown denver. Or something. Did 3 laps for about 7.5 miles. It was hot.

On my way back to the car I saw a hot mom with her kid and her st bernard. The dog was huge. The kid was running around. The mom was smoking. She made it irresponsibly cool.

Met up with my friend. She's a chick. Watch how you can be friends with a chick.

Walked across the voltron bridge. It would totally form a blazing sword if only you'd let it!

So back to my chick friend. Chicks are weird I guess. Not sure if I've ever been friends with a single chick. She's cool. We hung out a ton already and I guess if any moves were gonna be made it would've been that night. But no moves were made and we were still cool.

Got to oktoberfest denver around 1p. Id like one stein of beer! No steins you say? Give me a plastic cup of beer! This continued for several more beers! Had a rattle snake brat. Tasted like alligator and chicken.

Saw joey chestnut waiting for the start of the brat eating contest. He was sweaty and looked kinda pale. Maybe he wasn't used to the elevation... and the drinking. He didn't win this time. Big sexy from aurora took it home! I like how they donated money to all the nonprofits that competed. I should totally get more involved. There was a group that encouraged physical activity for a better society. Ill check em out and see what's up.

Drank a ton more beers. Met a ton of cool peoples including a cool couple that's actually living not far from me!

Ended up with a few more steins than zero. Somehow. They're awesome. Ill use them for anything I drink! Mostly iced water.

Had an all around awesome time. My body is having trouble compensating for all the pain. Tomorrow is back to discipline. Totally worth it.

A piece of peace

This week I've run 26 miles so far. People always ask why I run. I almost always half jokingly half seriously reply that its in preparation for the zombie apocalypse. That's one of the reasons.

Other reasons I run (in no particular order):
- health
- fitness
- fresh air
- the greatness of the outdoors
- annoyances of being indoors with some people
- peace with someone I love (self, duh!)

Today I got up and since I've got work later I normally take my 5-7 mile runs around the hood. There are plenty of trails within running distance and tons more within a 5-10 min drive.

Put down an easy 5 mile jog around the hood, then the trails behind the nearby community college, then back home. Get home, stretch, then up into the apt. Make myself a high protein omelet with 3 eggs enriched with omega3, light tuna, and scallions followed by a cantaloupe half. And of course a ton of water. You'd be surprised how dry you get living at this elevation. So I sit down to catch up on tv I miss cuz of work. I'm all excited to sit, eat, relax, and take in one of my top fave shows: community.

For some reason a roommate takes this opportunity to rustle every single piece of paper, bang every dish/pot/mug, and walk in front of me at least 10 times from when I start counting. Dude wtf? I know you have nothing better to do but please have some consideration for me. You can make as much noise as you want, just try to limit it when I'm home. So annoying.

So I leave and hit up my new coffee spot and am now enjoying a venetian latte (thanks a latte!). I didn't even finish my show! Good thing I can always come back to finish it.

I get so annoyed in that apt. Hopefully things will change soon so I don't have to deal it. I feel like I'm pretty consideration to others but its just like duh?

So yea, I run for a little piece of peace before I have to go to work. I deal with plenty of crap at work and I feel I shouldn't have to deal with it at home.

Here's a pic from a run where I found a hidden reservoir around the hood. It was nice.

You think?

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people you meet think they already know everything about you and make comments and/or assumptions.  Dude, you don't know jack about me so let's keep it that way.

Someone asked why I moved here. Why did I leave my parents? Why this and why that? Listen you immigrant, I'm a grown up now and I'm pretty sure in america you can do anything... as long as you ain't  killing anyone. Or something. I don't understand why someone clearly not born in america would question my reasons for why I moved to a different part of the country. You moved to a different part of the world! Duh. Then you don't offer any of your own reasons. I got two words for you: come on!

Then there are those who assume there's only one reason for me to hang with a chick. Can't I be friends with someone with a vagina without wanting to be all up in it? Apparently not.

Golden gate canyon yesterday. 8 mile trail run. Moderate difficulty. Went all the way up to 9K feet. There were points where I thought I was gonna die but obviously I didn't. I made it all the way! Started at bridge creek and took the burro trail. There was a lot of brush in which animals could hide and whatnot. I carry a knife with me just in case. I always think of 127 hours when I'm out trail running even though these trails are hardly the same, its just good to be prepared.
Took a detour to climb up to windy peak. Beautiful. Befriended a chick with 3 dogs. Here's a pic of the view up there. I'm satisfied with my acclimation to the elevation. I'm going to try and hit up a 14er before years end. Should be awesome.

Got this book called run the rockies: classic trail runs. I'm going to try and hit as many spots before the snow comes and severely limits my choices.

People are still amazed that I do all this running without a specific race to be training for... its called life you lazy bunghole. As in its my life. You can do whatever you want with yours... including sitting on your butt watching my life pass you by.

Benefits of natural selection

Woke up to the smell of cigarettes. 7am. There's gotta be something better to do @ 7am besides smoke a cig... like run? Seems like my nose is a better at waking me up than my ears. Also I didn't set my alarm and I wanted to wake up naturally. Which would've been around the same time anyway but the smell of smoke is super annoying when breathing fresh air is a huge part of sleeping.

so I get up and dress in my long sleeve dry fit (which I can wear solo cuz I'm not so fat now) shorts, socks and my awesome reebok realflex with all those living dudes on the bottoms who work together to make sure I do the best I can when I wear 'em. They're awesome. My nike loving friend is pretty upset they're not nikes but I just cant put myself in a box and limit myself like that. I need choice and the freedom of choice is a basic tenet of being an american! AMERICA!

Put in 6.6 miles this morning. I feel pretty awesome. Sometimes people are all "why do you run so much?" My response: when the zombies come, you're getting eaten first.  of course they follow up with "but zombies don't run" have ya seen 28 days later? Or 28 weeks later? 28 days is a movie starring sandra bullock that has no zombies however that is debatable.  Those zombies don't just run, they run fast as shit! Also I am legend, those are kinda zombies and they run. Oh, and what is the first rule of zombieland? Cardio. That's right. Cardio. So run my friends. Start with just walking if you like. That's what I did. Now I'm running 30+ miles a week and I feel grrrrrreat!

Whenever I need new runners I go to roadrunnersports. They have really knowledgable and friendly staff and they have shoe dog! Its a self aware machine that analyzes your running and measures pressure spots and directs you to the right type of shoe for your running style. Or walking style. Ladies, shoes don't have to be uncomfortable. Seriously. That's where I went for my new balance minimus trail, which I wear when I run the trails. Also I went there to get my reebok realflex. My feet have never felt so awesome.

Check out the link to the right. You get discounts cuz you know me! I get discounts cuz I know me! 10% is no joke my peoples. Or if you wanna go to the store you can give 'em my digits (phone number) and still get the discount. however clicking on that link helps me AND helps you. *wink*

Safe running peoples. And remember, the zombie apocalypse can happen at ANY time so be prepared.

Here's a pic from my run today .

Bad idea

Yesterday my cheat day and rest day coincided. The worst thing about that was that they coincided. I didn't run but I did drink beer and I did eat deep fried foods. Sure it was fun at the time but I felt super sluggish this morning. In turn my morning run was just terrible. So it was less of a run and more of a walk/crawl. But I did push through for 6.5 miles.

Also I took a drag of a cig last night. Totally proved my point that smoking sucks and tastes terrible. Occassionally I just have to remind myself. As long as I don't start again the world will be a better place.

Last night I called a friend of mine for some midweek funtimes. We went to a bar near 8th and colorado where they had team trivia for fun prizes like appetizers and money off the tab. We were terrible and came in near last but it was still fun. They just better watch out for next time.

So this friend of mine, she's cool. She's smart. She's pretty. We have fun. I don't know if we're just going to remain friends of what. I sort of tried bringing it up last night but it just fell off the table real quick. its not a big deal. Whatever happens right? People always try to label things. Why can't things just be? And if the relationship evolves... sweet! If not then sweet!

Here's the daily pic from my terrible effort this morning. For some reason it makes me think of having to catheterize a female

Eldorado canyon

8.1 mile trail run from easy to OMG!

nice things / the worst girlfriend ever

I'm a terrible owner. I'm running my body into the ground by running hard daily. Yesterday was supposed to be an easy day but it turned into an easy 7.1 miler. Then I went to work. If you keep pushing yourself your body won't recover, and then your performance, your sanity will suffer. So I'm taking a much needed rest day. I wanted to sleep in but that was thwarted by lawn maintenance and a deaf or inconsiderate laundry doer. There's not much you can do about the lawn guys but you don't have slam the washer door.every.time. so I left the house tempted to run my frustrations off but thought better of it.

Took 'da lil cracka' (my little white car) for some much needed maintenance. Here is where I tell you what you should already know: take your car in for regular maintenance. I'm just the worst car owner. Just ask my buddy seth back in the jerz. We spent probably 2 days trying to fix some spark plug issue that could have been avoided had I been taking DLC in for regular maintenance. So I live in fear of that call where they find more problems and this that and the other thing needs to get fixed. I know! I suck. So I hate my ride until I get it fixed. Then it gets fixed and then I'm in love again. Ranking as The worst girlfriend I've ever had.

Here's a pic of a lonely tree. Its a metaphor... my car is a metawhore.

Daily run pics

After yesterday's treacherous trail run at eldorado canyon, I decided to take it easy and run around the hood. Ended up being an easy 7.1 mile run. Took some new routes around the hood and found some really nice spots. Behind the community college there's a intersection of trails and some pond-esque thinking/make out spots.

Some pics from the run: One of them I figure would be raiden's (the lightning guy from mortal kombat for those that should know but don't) tramp stamp.

achieve this

went to eldorado canyon state park today to conclude my week. up until today i ran a total of 24 miles according to imapmyrun and, starting saturday, mytracks by google. i think i like the latter better. it's not causing my phone to crash midrun so far. we'll see.

was kinda of a crazy day. wanted to sleep in but got up at 8. decided against trying to go back to sleep cuz i never can anyway. got up and got my new balance minimus trail shoes on grabbed my bottles of water, my fanny pack (yea, i wear a fanny pack when i run. it's awesome), and a almond cranberry bar by glennys. its supposed to gluten free, all natural goodness sweetened with honey and apple juice. crazy right? so i'm trying to go gluten free so i bought a box to try ok? theyre pretty good but theyre frikkin tiny as hell! i'm a man in case you didnt notice. i have to eat all 5 to feel anything. so against my better judgment i was drawn to the mcdonalds drive thru where i battled with myself and got a mcskillet burrito. i was worried how my body would handle it after the week of eating "right". but no adverse reactions. so i know i can eat at least that.

so i get to the place and i'm all like, "where am i?" i put the same name in the gps but it brought me to the opposite side of the park. of course i'm like "sweet!" cuz thats where parking is for the walker ranch trail loop.

so i'm out and mytracks on. i'm running and see a few peeps coming the opposite direction and i'm like hey! and theyre like hey! so that was cool.

anyway, for the first mile and a half its all downhill. i know i'm in trouble cuz it's pretty steep. then it keeps going. long story short, the uphill parts of this trail are not meant for pussies. my app says it's almost a 12% incline at points. i thought i was gonna die. i didnt. i made it all 8.1 miles. i'm awesome. next time i wont be a bitch about the hills.

From boulder reservoir

Not sure what it is about the shoreline but I've always felt some kind of connection with images like this. Duh! Its pretty! I mean its awesome. Tough guys like me don't say the word pretty unless its in the form of "that chick is pretty hot" or "I feel pretty. Oh so pretty!" No wait. West side story is a pretty awesome movie though.

i think my biggest hindrance to really putting up some real mileage is that i feel the need to stop and take pictures of everything. duh. just run dude. that stuff will still be there when you come back. oh, will it? what if the world just up and disappears? what then smart guy?

some dude suggested i get some fancy shmancy camera and take with me on runs. um. i'll probably break it. thats why i bring my droid2. it's kinda gangsta. i guess i could bring an awesome digital slr. someone could do the research and find me an awesome running camera bag with easy access. *wink*

Loyalty

My buddy has two beautiful akitas. This was taken the morning before his wedding overlooking the hudson.

Chuggin coffee

I don't know when I started drinking coffee. I remember being young and seeing my parents drinking the stuff. I always thought it smelled good but I remember it tasted terrible the first time. I just  realized I've been a coffee drinker for years! Drinking the stuff as if my life depended on it. Maybe it does? Who knows?

Maybe it was during college to help me with all those late nights of partying... studying... study parties!! Yea, that's the ticket. Was it a necessity for college survival? Or was it cuz I wanted to belong? Or a combination of the two? I think I drank coffee cuz I needed a late night study spot so it was dunkin donuts for coffee and "studying" with chicks. After college it was DD then starbucks. First it was coffee then a shot or two of espresso within. Oh and tons of sugar and cream.

Now I'm just a straight up medium sized coffee. Black. Like I like my men. Ha!

So I found this coffee spot voted "best" by a tv channel. Its near my house. Feels less corporate than starbucks. I guess its the fireplace. Whatever, I like it. Its called forza coffee. I think its italian for awesome.

Today I ran some errands and came in for a cup. So there's a couple sitting in the leathery seat area and I'm like hey dudes mind if I sit here? They're all like sure! So I'm sitting here and they don't exactly start making out but they give each other quick pecks on the lips with a really annoying smacking sound. A lot. Like once every 45 sec. So gross. Maybe they're doing that cuz they need it. Or maybe cuz the dude is super gay and he doesn't know it yet and maybe she doesn't want him to know! But he's totally gay! I know cuz when our eyes met I knew. Haha I don't know. They're lucky my coffee is good cuz otherwise I would spill it on their crotches.

public displays of affection are ok... if its between good looking people. And if its after lunchtime. Don't do it and take breaks to eat your oatmeal.

Crazy sky features

I don't know if its cuz I never really paid attention before, or if the sky back home is just boring, but when I look up its like so nuts! The clouds have all this character and the sky just seems SO F'N HUGE! Is it cuz I'm high? I mean the elevation is something like 5300 ft.

So these clouds are all over the place. If you wanna come by here and sit with me sometime we could just sit and stare at the sky, man. One time we were riding in a cab and in the clouds I saw a dinosaur parade like with floats and real dinosaurs. So I described it to my peeps.  They were like "Ill have what he's having".

So check out this pic I took while driving somewhere. It was following me.

Asslesschaps

Before I moved I participated in a scavenger hunt arranged by some cool dudes I call my friends. It was in nyc. It was super clever. I had a great time. I should've planned my ensemble a little better. I got sweaty. We were team #2 and we had to come up with a name. They made me do it. I'm mature and came up with the pirate poopers. Cuz pirates are awesome. #2. Poop. We wore brown. And pirate gear. I had 2 hooks at one point. On the subway. That was fun.

At the start I saw a dog. It was wearing pink assless chaps. Rich people are crazy. You don't need to be rich to be crazy though. There are plenty of poor crazy people as well as middle class crazy people.

Is it bad to dye your dog awesome colors? Like autumn sunrise...

"Damn baby! What you do to yo hair?"
"You like it? Its autumn sunrise..."
*funny faces*
*ejects spirit*
"Don't you ever do that to me again!"

Its from a movie. Called ghost. Patrick swayze. Demi moore. Whoopi.

The dmv and getting naked

Dude.

Finally got myself to the dmv to get my new license. its been x# of days since I came here so I figured its time to do that. Its just that every time I tried to go the line was around the block... just to get in! Then you have to get a number. Yes, like at the deli at the supermarket. Then you wait. You wait for a while. Its terrible. Thank goodness for my freakonomics podcasts. Super funny.

In any event the stuff I brought wasn't sufficient. Why? Cuz they wanted to know what my middle initial stood for. None of my stuff said it. Just the letter. My passport said it. And I thought it was in the car... where it was. Until about a week ago. So I had to leave and come back. That was yesterday, after my run at the boulder reservoir. This morning I came back. And got it done. Only 2.5 hours spent. Back home I remember spending like 30min? Anyway, now I gotta wait for them to send it to me in the mail.

My mail is all screwed up. "Why haven't I been getting mail?" Its been like x# of days already. I did all this stuff @ usps.com. and I chased down the mailman and TOLD HIM I live here. So maybe now ill start getting mail. So I can get my license.

I ruined my reeboks yesterday... at least until my next mud run. As a reward for getting my dmv experience done with I went and got the new balance minimus trail. They feel super sexy. If I were tougher id actually run barefoot. But since I'm not, these babies are the next best thing. I ran today and felt awesome. Now if only they could make clothes that made me feel naked.

My poor runners

I try to seek out adventure whenever possible. Boulder reservoir has this 5+ mile loop around so runners like me can go and do the running thing. The trail is mostly paved and gravel. There is, however, a section about 75% through where the water level is down and you can run on the beach. So I went down to the shore line and started running and running. Then all of a sudden it was just knee deep muck. It didn't smell bad and looked like it was going to be over soon so I trudged on through. It finally ended but started again. Like it really mattered I was already dirty! I guess it'll prep me for my first mud run.

It ain't adventure if you ain't gettin dirty

Runner shot

Since I turned into a runner, I tend to run in places that are awesome. Standley lake is one such awesome place not 20 minutes from whence I live. Its man made. You can fish there. Its beautiful. I run there sometimes. So I run and take pictures. Here's one:

A pic of a guy fishing. Or pissing.

Raritan

Before I moved I took my car to M&R auto for a "check up". Actually I took really poor care of my car. I'm a bad car owner. Actually I'm a bad owner of anything. So I try not to have nice things.

So anyway, after I dropped my car off I went for a walk down by the raritan river. Or bay. I'm bad with topographics or geographics or whatever they call these features. I should learn stuff so I don't sound stupid. Its a pic of a fire hydrant. Check it out

Vicki

The night before sheckys wedding we took the dogs out for a walk around jersey city.

A pic from my smartphone

I take tons of pics with my droid2. I have this awesome app and I set it up so it does different stuff. I think the results are amazing!!

Here is a pic taken of a cake that my bff kait made. For her wedding. For her man. She's a baker. She makes cakes. And other stuff that taste terrible. Terribly awesome! I don't have to tell you what it is. Cuz if you don't know... you should punch yourself in the nads. Cuz girls have nads too.

Anyway this cake tasted awesome. It made my day... even more so than the whole wedding thing! Jk! Jk!

Cut me some slack

Its easy to be lazy when you have nothing to do. When you have 3 jobs and run 15 miles a week, you don't have time to be lazy. However its obviously a course for total destruction or at least exhaustion. I decided to quit one of these jobs for several reasons. One reason was that because the job required me to get up  at 6a drive to downtown, work til 12. Come home and get ready for my regular evening job. That was 3 days a week. It was super exhausting cuz id sit in front of a computer and review digital notes for 5 hours. Another reason I wanted to leave was because it was unfulfilling ie BORING! The last reason is not something that generally would cause me to want to leave but - my boss was kind of annoying. Well, actually super annoying. She would complain the entire time I was there about how stupid people are and this that and the other thing. I'm sure if I stuck around id eventually just tell her to shut the front door. Financially it was ok but wasn't an efficient use of my time.

Anyway, I'm done with that now and my regular full time job has changed my schedule to be pretty random through the week. I now have more free time to do things during the week cuz with a M-F schedule, I had to cram all my fun on sat and sun. Sure now id have to work the occassional weekend, but whatev. I really don't have anything else to do except work, run, work out, eat... and of course go out and dance my pants off.

So now my 3rd job is doing home nursing care where just 1 shift would cover those 3 days at the job I quit. Plus it's 1on1 nursing care so overall I'm coming out on top. And of course that's where I love coming: out on top. Duh.

Are you that interesting?

Met up with a cougar last night. We drank a ton of beers. Beers are on the list of foods/beverages that should be avoided on my paleo diet. Good thing I'm supposed to start tomorrow.

We sat and we talked and we drank and we laughed. Then we drank and we walked and we had ice cream. We went on a slide. Then we walked and we talked and we drank some more. We laughed a lot.

When I left I realized that the only thing I ate was ice cream and beers. We were together for 8+ hours. That's a long time. That's longer than I usually spend with someone not at work.

I hadn't had so much real conversation with someone in so long. It was actually kinda nice.

Of course when I got home the question was "did you bang her?" Of course I didn't bang her. Sure the thought had crossed my mind but I had no idea how to start. Are there signals I'm supposed to be giving or getting? Should I just swoop in for the kill? Am I showing her that's not all I'm after but actually something meaningful? Am I trapsing into the friend zone? How does all this crap work?

Was that even a date? It was fun. I had a great time. I would like to see her again. I guess it was a date. I'm so out of the loop I don't know. We'll see?

I watch enough tv and movies to know... but its all theory!!

Ok, eros.

Went on this online dating site as I occassionally do, and saw a chick whose profile was simple and honest and vague, but specific enough to think we might get along. She wasn't super hot but she def wasn't ugly. I'm normally super picky when it comes to the ladies but I probably use that as a crutch so I don't have to take the chance in getting shot down if I try to talk to 'em.

Its like all of a sudden I don't know any cool things to say or even be mycoolself. Maybe I'm not actually that cool? Whatev, my mom thinks I'm cool. At least that's what she tells me via txtmsg.

Anyway, there's this slightly above average looking chick with a vague online dating profile. I send her a msg. I talk about how i cook when I'm hungry. How I'm kind of extreme. How I like giant geological features like mountains. How I'm taking french in my car when I drive around. How someone once called me creepy. That's just they way I talk. I'm me. Not some super slick internet dater. I may not be danny zuko, but I am pretty awesome. You should take a chance on me.

Sure there's a risk ill ruin your life, but I may just rock your world.

Hey mon!

Back in the late 90s there was a sketch comedy show called in living color. A lot of todays famous actors/actresses/j.lo got their starts here. It was super funny and I'm pretty sure my parents didn't want me watching it because it was pretty much a bad influence on us kids. We watched it anyway cuz it was super funny and had a lot of physical comedic antics.

One show in particular featured a stereotypical jamaican family whose members each had upwards of 5 jobs. So in this one family of 5+, they monopolized something like >25 jobs.

Dad "Whatever happened to that nice korean boy with 100 jobs?"
Daughter "he died!"
Dad "oh no! You know that means? 100 openings!"
All "hey mon!"

I moved to colorado from the jers for a slower pace to enjoy myself in the great outdoors and whatnot. Got a full time job caring fot the elderly. Then I saw an opp to give flu shots whenever I wanted so I applied for and got that job. Then I saw another opp to review charts for compliance part time. So I applied for an got that. This week I had an interview and got hired for a job visiting people in their homes providing in home nursing care for spinal cord injured and other homebound people. Id be doing that 1-2 days a week.

*counts fingers*

hey mon!

What about all these americans who don't have even 1 job? Let me just say: stop being lazy and get a job doing whatever to support yourself and/or your family!

But seriously. I'm not working all these jobs to kill myself. Its all a means to an end. In my former life, I was financially generous and irresponsible so you can imagine the debt id incurred. its pretty scary. Like omg I wish I could die scary.

My "problem" is that I didn't think about the consequences. Another "problem" I have is that I just want to work at what I'm doing until the next thing comes along.

My solution: currently on a plan to utilize my current income and eliminate my debt in less than 1 year from now (Instead of paying with my soul)!!  Of course my student loans will still be looming but at least rhe payments are lower and the interest can be deducted.

My plan: once current debt is cleared, I'm going to massage therapy school. After that I'm going back to further my nursing career. Or maybe something else. Who knows?!

Its not like all I do is work, trust me. There is still plenty of time in the day to do whatever I want. Just have to maximize your time managment skills, stay motivated, and not get lazy!

"Why can't you just be happy doing one thing?"

My response "how can you?"

Diet like a caveman

Its weird. When I tell people I need to change my diet the response is usually "but why? You don't need to lose anymore weight", but those are fatties who don't understand the difference between 'going on a diet' and 'changing your diet'. And a lot of these people are medical professionals! First of all, the reason it seems like I'm losing weight is cuz I ain't no slacker and I workout much more than I used to. Since I quit the smoking, I run 10-15 miles a week, I incorporate weight training 4-5 times a week with low weights and high reps, and high intensity intervals 2-3 times a week. My diet hasn't changed much and although I've made some progress, id like to see more. I'm weighing in under 160 for the first time in what seems like ever (but closer to 7 years) and I feel great. I could feel greater... which is why I want to change my diet. What sucks right now is my work schedule but its only temporary and is a means to an end.

'Going on a diet' means you want to cut calories cuz you think you're fat (you look fat or you actually are fat) and you want to look good in that bikini or speedo. Good luck! So people consume less calories or they eat more frequent, smaller meals. Some just starve themselves.  Sounds good in theory with the exception of the latter... Food choices tend to be healthier but usually this only lasts for a short time (until they achieve desired results) and then they go back to whatever they were doing before and it starts all over again.

'Changing your diet' is a whole different ballgame. It's more like  changing your lifestyle. It's making more conscious choices for the betterment of your health: physical and mental. Some of the research of looked at and listened to are quite persuasive against carbs in general and wheat in specific.

As an amateur armchair anthropologist, wheat is a very young food added to our diets arriving around 10K years ago when agriculture first came on the scene. However, our bodies evolved eating meats, fruits, fish, and essentially nonstarchy veggies and nuts for millions of years. If you look at the diets of our closest relatives you'll see what I'm talking about. Sure there are bugs in some of their diets but that contributes to the protein requirement. There is even evidence of some apes eating meat they hunted. there's a lot of veggie, fruit, and nut eating. I'm sure if there were chimp MDs, we wouldn't be hearing about a lot of chimp diabetes, chimp celiac disease, chimp rheumatoid arthritis, etc. With the exception of the smoking apes, they are generally healthier than we... but I will admit they don't smell as good... as some humans. Or if you want, take a look at som

But I digress. I've been listening to the paleodiet podcast and reading the paleodiet book and I'm going to give it a whirl. I want to get healthy and I want to get sexy. Sexier.

So I'm cutting out wheat products. If I have a craving, ill have it. We'll see how my body reacts. Its been 2 days and my gas production has gone way down. I already can't recognize myself! If I'm not farting who am I?

Found a wheat free gluten free pizza place. Def going to check it out tomorrow. Gotta avoid beer. Whisky it is!

you aint 32

This online dating thing seems to be the wave of the future. I think its kinda dumb.

Maybe I'm not representing myself properly on these websites. I see a chick who might be fun so I send a message and I get no response. I'm just like 'hey I think we'd have some fun. Hit me back' its short to the point and shows how hip I am cuz I said hit me back. I think I'm cool and funny. Why wouldn't these chicks wanna hit me back? Are my pix too extreme? I don't have any pix where you could say I'm smiiling. I'm a scowler. An angry facer. A shocked and awed-er. My bad! I guess this shows chicks how not serious I am. Why can't they see how atypical I am? I'm a man-child. Deal with it! We'd have so much fun as long as you ain't dumb. Or if you are dumb, try to limit the dumb things you say. That would help. I say a lot of dumb things. But they make me laugh. If the dumb things you say make me laugh then we're cool.

Some of these chicks are totally misrepresenting themselves. You post a pic of a 39 year old but you say you're 32. Either you ain't healthy or you are lying. Either way I ain't interested.

I also assume these chicks hate honesty cuz I'm totally honest about how I laugh a lot and I work a lot and how extreme I am. Ok maybe I'm not really extreme. Maybe honesty is boring. Probably. Maybe I'm not mysterious enough. Maybe I'm too good to be spending time on my profile cuz internet dating is stupid. What happened to picking up chicks at the mall? At the farmers market? at home depot in the power tools section? At the strip club? I never did any of those. Well maybe at the mall.

I honestly think I'm too cool for most chicks. Seriously? Yea. Seriously. And I'm too shy for the others... its a problem. gotta work on it. I'm open to suggestions. People think I'm so open and whatnot but its easy to talk to ugly chicks. I didn't mean that, I meant chicks I wouldn't bang with your dick. Am I supposed to treat all chicks that way? *ding* another issue is with aggressive women. They scare me. Assertive, confident: yes. Aggressive: no! We should just be able to get along. It shouldn't have to be work. It should just work.

Is that too much to aks?

quitters

They say quitters never win and winners never quit. I quit smoking (cigarettes) almost 6 weeks ago. It was the hardest and yet most simple thing to do. My parents thought I smoked way before I actually started smoking. I wasn't a bad kid but I did hang with smokers and went to places that allowed smoking so I almost always smelled like smoke. These smoker friends would smoke outside the car and occassionally the smoke would blow in. My manager would ask me to buy him a pack of marlboro lights when id go on my breaks and stupid me would forget the matches in the car where momdukes would find 'em. So in my senior year of high school, the parents sai "we don't care if you smoke, just don't do it in front of us or your brothers and sisters". Ok! Free reign to be cool and smoke cigarettes! Cuz seriously, in high school all the cool kids smoked. In high school I was a slacker in the AP classes, played violin in the orchestra, had a girlfriend who was always in trouble with her mom, and played sports. I wasn't a smoker... yet.

When I got to college, it was a whole new ball game. It was like all this power was bestowed upon me but no uncle ben to give me the "with great power comes responsibility" speech. So I went nuts. Stayed up all night, macked on chicks, hung out and got drunk. Barely went to class. Barely passed those first years. Had a lot of fun! Unfortunately I did start smoking (cigarettes).

That first cig was out of this world. Newports. I doubt there was a more gangster cig made back then. I took my first drag and if it weren't for that wall, I would've passed out and face planted on the hard walkway outside my dorm. It was with my buddy swatty and this chick I'm friends with on facebook.

After that I was the coolest guy on campus smoking cigarettes, flicking them on the ground when I was done, spitting. Oh baby. So sexy.

A smoke in the morning. A smoke after breakfast. A smoke on the way to class. A smoke after. A smoke here and then another smoke there. It was ok cuz smoking was cool. Sure I got sick a lot and had bronchitis a few times. One time I got pneumonia. I lost 40 pounds. Worst diet ever.

I smoked a lot. Cigarettes cost $1.50/pack when I started. This was new gunswick, nj in 1996. I left nj in 2011 and packs cost around $7-8/pack. In nyc on a Friday or Saturday night you'd be lucky to get a pack for less than $12!

This is the year I quit. I'm 33 now. I started when I was 18. A pack a day smoker. You do the math on the financial and physical damage done.

My quit date is july 19, 2011. Since I quit I saved about $160 and who knows how many days of suffering in my old age. I'm a nurse and should've known better. But I was too cool. Now I'm even cooler cuz I'm not one of those ex-smokers that tries to get smokers to quit. It has to be done at their own time when they are ready.

How'd I do it? I made a deal with myself. I didn't tell anyone. I picked a tuesday. And bought the patch. Put it on and kaboom no more smoking. Actually I used the patch for 3 days and on the 4th day I forgot it. I realized that I didn't have it on and didn't use another one.

Id have a cig before or after everything I did: waking, eating, pooping, working, working out, drinking, movies, dates, driving. Ok so I don't really go on dates but that's cuz I have yet to find a chick that's good enough for me... which ill save for another time.

The hardest part was retraining yourself to not have a smoke whenever you think you should. For me the toughest times are after a huge meal. But the craving goes away. And I'm better off for it.

So now I'm almost 6 weeks smoke free.

My sense of smell is better which is bad because there are a lot of bad odors in my line of work and are totally enhanced now. Which sucks. But now I don't take a bunch of smoke breaks which should increase productivity. Should.

And I run now. I want to get in at least 20 miles a week but cuz my schedule is totally whack I usually see around 10. Hopefully the running will help reverse some of that damage. *fingers crossed*

there were a lot of sluts out tonight

It was whore-iffic!

"It has magic! And accents!"

That's why I love harry potter.