The girl and the Mine.

Well it is Saturday just any other Saturday nothing really exciting going on except for oh yeah I got my girlfriend utterly hooked on Minecraft.  She always complained about my obsession.  She never understood how I could play it all the time and how I could play it so much and how I could enjoy watching people play the game.  Well today she told me she wanted to try playing it with me on the xbox.  I haven't played that version in forever pretty much just been playing on the PC, anyway she decided she wanted to try it and after about three hours I had to get up and move on to something else but she just kept on playing it was pretty freaking hilarious actually.  At least now she understands the obsession.  Well actually it isn't as much of an obsession to me any more than it use to be but still.

So over the last few days I have been complaining about my hands getting cold and how I needed to still be able to use all my fingers and what not so I needed some nice fingerless gloves well today I got some nice new Jack Skellington ones.  I just wanted straight black but these are pretty darn nice.  

On the diet front I am doing a very good job.  I have been pretty successful when it comes to trying to eat Vegan I discovered that the cheese I am eating still has milk protein in it but for a start I think it is pretty impressive.  Also I have found that I get full a lot faster and stay full longer which is freaking great.   Well I am going to sit down and watch some more Primeval  until the GF is done with work.  It seems I cant get through a single day without watching some.

BB

M

Sriracha and Chickpea Burger

So for lunch today I tried some Sriracha.  I have been wanting to pick some up for a very long time and finally got around to buying some.  So for lunch I had a Chickpea burger with some vegan pepper-jack "cheese" with no bun and some sriracha to dip it in and I do have to say I was impressed.  I was expecting something much hotter than what it was.  It is definitely going to be a staple of my diet from now on.  This is how I roll I am always looking for a new hot sauce to put on everything.  It seems I just cant get enough of hot sauce.  Now while the hot sauce was great and the vegan cheese was good as always the chickpea burger patty was good but has an odd aftertaste that I am not really sure about yet.

So last night I had planned on playing some Mass Effect 3 but ended up going out to buy an awesome new hat.  By the time I got home it was time for Archer to come on and that is my Thursday to not miss show.  I really wish I had more to say right now but I think I am going to try to do a week in review blog tonight.  This is probably a cake, but hey we can try.

My New Hat :)

<3

M

What't My Style?

So I have been doing a lot of thinking about what is my style, fashion wise.  I mean I have been very limited in style because of my weight.  I pretty much always had like two pairs of shorts to wear and a handful of 3XL Dickies shirts.  Since I am losing weight I think it is time to start thinking about what my style is.  I mean I am a big fan of vests.  I don't really know why but I just really love vests.  I also really love button down shirts of the short sleeve variety. I love my Doc's but my weight caused my feet to fatten up a little so I cant really wear those yet.  Then you got stuff like accessories.  I love pocket watches and different types of hats.  I think that I really need to dive into this and figure out what I can do.  Also facial hair will need to be figured out I have been wearing a beard for awhile mostly because it covers up the fatness of my face, but if I am going to be losing weight I might be able to start shaving again.  These are the things I have been pondering as of lately.

One thing I did settle on is that I am growing my hair out.  All my life I have had buzz cuts, mohawks or just plain bald shaved heads.  I want something new so I am going to grow it out as long as I can.  I have been told that the probiotics will actually help out with this.  I am also going to try not to dye my hair though there is a downside of the fact that I have quite a bit of grey showing up.

On to a little more serious note I am not really sure what to make of North Korea and all their blustering.  I am just trying to figure out what makes them think that if they lash out at South Korea that there isn't a very good chance that all the other countries of the world, I mean even their "allies" are backing away from them, aren't just going to sweep in their.  It doesn't make any sense to me.  I tend to think that they are just kind of like the little drunk man on the corner who is pissed off at the rest of the world and decides to just scream at the people passing by.  Just to be heard.  Well that is the extent of my real world issues for the week.

So it was supposed to snow around here and as usual people rush out to the store to buy everything just thinking that they are going to be snowed in. I live in the city.  Even if it dumps like three feet of snow we are usually dug out in like a day or two.  I can survive off my own fat stores for that long.  I don't understand why people around here think they need to rush out to get like a months worth of groceries.  I grew up in the middle of nowhere now in that kind of situation it might be for the best to do that because if we would get snowed in it could be like a week or so.  I don't get it here in the city.   OK and there ends the rant section of this rambling mess of a blog.

Blessed Be
M

Delicate Grip On Reality.

OK so I think I am starting to lose grip on reality again.  It happens from time to time.  It seems to happen mostly when I either find a great series of books to read and the series is over or I find a great TV series to watch and the same thing happens where it is over.   I tend to overly lose myself in the world that the writers of the books or shows create and it becomes more real to me than the physical world that I can touch.  The last time it really happened badly was when I got hooked on the Special Agent Pendergast books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.  Now I currently think it is because of the Primeval situation that has pretty much taken up ever free part of my mine that isn't devoted to breathing and eating.  Though I do think it might have taken over some of the eating parts.  Which is not a bad thing.

So I decided that I do what to go Vegan there is one down side.  I currently have a good chunk of food that is not vegan but is vegetarian and in todays economy people cant afford to throw away food so I am going to have to wait until these couple of cans of tomato soup are gone and these cheese ramen instant lunches that I have floating around.

I know there are probably people out there saying "No if you really want to go Vegan you need to get rid of all that stuff now."  Well I have to support my family and this food cost money while yes it didn't cost a lot of money, the ramen was on 39 cents a thing, it still cost money that I don't have a lot of. Plus I am not doing this for a moral reason.  I am a big supporter of people eating meat though I don't agree with how a lot of meat is processed and the animals are treated.  I do think that eating meat is just fine.

Well I guess I should pretend to work.

Blessed Be
M

Veggie or Vegan with Alice and a Breaking Dawn.

So I have been looking at ways to make me feel better about myself as well as just feeling better in general.  So I am going down the road of Vegetarian again.  There was a time when I went two years without eating meat and I honestly felt so good both emotionally and physically and it was only because my daughters mother that I gave up on it and started eating meat again.  Oh and on a side note finally my divorce has been finalized.  Well I felt so good when I wasn't eating meat it made me wonder why I am not doing that again.  I would like to eventually go full on Vegan but honestly I don't know if I can give up cheese.  It might be a good thing for me to do because it does seem that dairy products tend to not agree with me from time to time.  So that is my goal also the probiotics seem to still be working pretty well.  I know that it is only been three days but as a person that spends much time with stomach pain the last couple of days free of it has been great.

So last night I was able to sit down and watch the Alice mini series with Andrew-Lee Potts and it was pretty darn good.  I am a big fan of different twists on classic stories and I really felt that it was a pretty interesting story.  It did get corny in a lot of spots but in all honesty the best kind of scifi stories are chock full of corny.  I love it.

I also sat down and watched the last Twilight movie and well lets start with what was really bad the special effects were horrible but the acting was probably the best in the series.  Though it was carried by Michael Sheen as Aro.  That man can just straight up act no matter how bad the lines are he can some how make it seem worth it.  He does such a great job of carrying the role of being totally power drunk but yet also giddy in a childlike manor.  He was definitely the highlight of the movie for me.  I have read all the bucks and I did have to suffer through them mostly because with these books usually the first half of each of the books would be so slow but then like the last ten chapters would be just utterly fast paced and would somewhat make up for it.  I was lucky to have forgotten about most of the end of the book so I was able to be surprised a little bit.  For fans of the romantic vampire stuff that has been so popular now it is well worth the watch well those people don't really need my recommendation because they will have already seen it.

I am trying to decide what movie I want to watch this evening but most likely I am just going to watch the latest Bones on Hulu and then start watching Primeval starting with Series 1 Episode 1 yet again.  Either way I wont be complaining.  Though I probably should play some more Mass Effect 3 this evening.

Blessed Be,
M

Probiotics and Primeval

OK so to start this off I am giving Probiotics another try.  I am prone to stomach issues and I had tried to take probiotics a year ago and it so happened to have coincided with me getting a horrible bought of sour stomach.  I don't know exactly what the sour stomach is but that is what I call it.  What happens is I get massive stomach pain and then when I burp honestly it smells like raw sewage.  Well my mind instantly associated the probiotics with the stomach issue.  Well over the last year I have gotten the issue one other time and there was no probiotics involved so I was finally able to get myself away from thinking that was the problem.   Well even just after two days I was able to start to feel a difference in the way my stomach was feeling so I am going to stick with it.  I take the probiotics twice a day so I will see how it goes.  I also learned that it can help make your hair grow which is cool cause I want to grow my hair long.

On to the second part of my post today.  OK so I have a habit of finding great TV shows after they have been cancelled and last week I discovered Primeval a show than ran for 5 series (in the UK for some reason they call season series)  I fell in love with this show after just one episode and over the last week watched all 5 series.  Bare in mind they are the usual BBC length where the series is actually like between 7 and 9 episodes a piece but I was hooked.   I loved it so much I am actually starting over again .  Honestly the best television I have found to watch is Doctor Who, Sherlock (which kills me with its incredible amount of time between series) and Primeval (sadly no longer making new episodes)  All these shows are BBC shows. That cannot be a coincidence.

Well I am done for right now going to try to write another blog tonight about my new diet regime.

Multi For Him and Vitamin C

Well it has been a little while since I have blogged so I felt that it was time to kinda do a little check up.  So after weeks of fending off the various colds and other bugs that are floating around this time of year I finally succumb to something as pedestrian as a sinus cold.  It was a pain but luckily the fact that I have maintain a healthy course of a Multi-Vitamin and a Vitamin C a day I was able to limit the amount of days that it really affected me to one.  Also I know that the fact that I have been a year and three months without a smoke plays a large roll in the fact that the illness did not stick around as much as it would of in the past.  I am still trying to find out where I want this blog to go I know that it tends to be all over the place ranging from movies, to gaming to diet and what not.  Maybe some day I will settle down a simple subject or to or as a good friend of mine does with her blog she has days of the week where she writes about different things. I am contemplating that route but haven't figured out where to start so for now this is going to just be a weekend kind of wrap up.

This weekend was a very horrible kind of weekend.  Nothing profound or life altering happened but I did manage to have a horrible migraine from Saturday night all the way into Monday morning so that was a horrible experience.  I am laying the blame on the massive amount of caffeine that I consumed on Friday in the form of way to much tea, coffee and diet sodas on Saturday.  I haven't had a really horrible headache in years so this one really wiped me out.  My daughters were over this weekend so Saturday I just pushed the pain away and did the best I could to spend some time with them though once Sunday morning rolled around and their mother came to pick them up I hooked the little guy up with a Ninjago DVD and curled up on the couch to keep myself from tearing my head open.  On several occasion the little guy would come out and be like "You can sleep more I am just watching more Ninjago."  Eventually I woke up and it was 1 in the afternoon and the headache was still there.  It stuck around for the rest of the day finally starting to subside Monday morning just in time for work.

I just traveled in time.  Started this on Tuesday and bam now it is Wednesday.  I am not really feeling the whole working thing today.  Or blogging thing right now but I just wanted to get this thing up and posted since I need to get something up.

Oh and on a side note I am doing this Caffeine Free Week thing where you give up caffeine for the week and yeah that is a thing and it is rough.  I will post some more about that as the week goes on I hope. 

Much Love
M