Finally a challenge

Well I joined a Gym last week and have happily gone in 5 times since. The biggest problem being that I did a "health check" which included a BMI. My BMI i have been informed is 30.8 which puts me in the obese category. I have to shed a total of 23 KG's just to be within "normal weight", a figure I can't see my self attaining this lifetime.

But given I don't want to be in the "obese" category when the new channels do hip shots of all the fatties running around I'm going to try and improve my BMI to within atleast just the "overweight" category.... albeit the lower end.

So I'm going to have to hit the gym at least 4 times a week, I thought about becoming bulimic but I reclly don't enjoy spewing and anorexic is another option I can't handle because eating is a past time of mine (well thats obvious given my BMI isn't it).

So hopefully over the next 15 weeks I can get my self back into the just overweight range and from there we will see if I can ever drop 23 KGs (I doubt it)

TV is crap

Thats right, TV is it's current state is terrible, I am now reduced to reading books and doing housework.... boo!

That is all for now.

Boo, Hiss, Wa wa

WEll it seems my commitment to blogging has wained, I'm not sure why but I think it has a lot to do with the fact that it really doesn't get me anywhere and I really don't have much to talk about.

Since my last blog I haven't done to much, I have however thought through a few things which I am going to try and incorporate in ye olde life.

before I start however I should mention that I had a great weekend, the Grand Final was superb, Seans birthday was a lot of fun and D's Poppa is looking like he is going along nicely.

So back to my plans, I did some reading and I going to look at being more aggressive in my career. Having the realisation that I will forever be living in Adelaide I need to get to a level that makes a substantial amount of money. I failed in the past because I thought it was a matter of natural attrition or I was going to be able to go elsewhere for more experience (or the like)

So moving forward its time to take some risks and get out of the comfort zone and really challenge myself. I want to be able to put myself in the position that I am the first person thought of for the big jobs and the well paid ones.

I should note that it isn't all about the money.....but it sure does help.

so hopefully I can get cracking and keep the blog going.

It is that time again.

Well its another Sunday before another Monday the repetitiveness is just plain boring. Once again it has been a long time between drinks. I never seem to have anything to say any longer. I'm still trying to decide some more goals to achieve. I should make my next goal to have a goal.

Despite being repetitive the weekend still provided some interesting events. The Crows losing in the finals again, going to AAMI stadium to watch some SANFL finals and getting ready for a bodyshop party that D hosted.

I'm hoping this wek provides some interesting changes. Once this happens i will be able to reset some goals.

1 day left

Well there is the saying that all good things must come to an end, whilst I don't agree with the statement it has some relevance with tomorrow being the final day of my 2 weeks off.

Unfortunately for me I was unable to, and unlikely to, finish a number of my task due to the weather changes in Adelaide. In all it has been a good two week and has given me the chance to get away from things and get other jobs done.

On Wednesday it will be back to work and facing all the day to day tasks that work involves. Hopefully not much has changed and I can get back in with minimal fuss.

I started doing some learning of Spanish language lessons today, thought it would be interesting, I've only done the basic stuff however. I'll see how it goes and will try to do a few lessons a week and see if I can watch a few Spanish shows.... or something like that.

Luckily there are a couple of items that I can still do whilst at work, hopefully I finish them off in the short term rather than the long term.

Leave update

Well my leave has been great so far and I have done a number of things that I had hoped to do. I guess the biggest problem with leave is going through more cash than you would in a normal working week... which leaves me close to using my fortnightly cash reserves. As I hate credit card debt some of the stuff I wanted to do over the break may have to be curtailed.

So far this leave period I have:

1) Painted the wall with the cracking (poorly and I ran out of paint...but it was painted)

2) de-headed the flowers a certain someone kept reminding me

3) had a hit of golf (dropped my golf bag and broke two clubs but such is life I guess)

4) cleaned the oven (yes this was my idea)

5) Gone to find electric blankets and finally use the last of our vouchers (they didn't have any but I still did it)

6) Poisoned the weeds in the front of the garden. I think I will need more poison as they haven't all died but its a start....

7) Contacted Mutual community, its already the middle of August and no tax statement. I expect to see something soon.

8) Cleaned the inside of both cars, this was more difficult than originally anticipated but it was done.

9) Cooked a roast with the Webber. This was freaking awesome and I still have some left over lamb for lunch tomorrow. There is something unique about charcoal cooked meat (sorry to any vegan reading this but your missing out except perhaps the charcoal cooked pumpkin which was also quite nice)

10)How could I forget the ironing.... my gosh! it took my about 6 hrs to finish all the ironing that we had, I admit it was my idea, I just kept mentioning that "I'll do the ironing on my leave break" so lets be honest why do it now when you can do it later. Argh

So that doesn't seem like much for 6 days off but I have also seen people driven Diana around the city and also relaxed which is the whole point of leave in the first place. The sad thing is that I have a number of things to do before leave finishes... these things will obviously be now subject to finance.

1) Fix the leaking toilet. Being 6 billion years old I'm not sure how to do this as I've already replaced the "replaceable parts" and I refuse to get a whole new cistern.

2) fix and paint the gate/fence - once again, no idea what I'm doing here but it seems like a great idea.

3) carpet clean the house - this one, is something I want to do, but we shall see.

4) XXXX X XXX XXX - I'm currently in the process of doing this but I won't mention what it is in case the Russians are reading.

5) go fishing - that's right Sean, I don't forget.

So that's probably the longest post I'll ever write that no one will ever read. But we shall see one day I might be considered some sort of important person and these writing will be used as a guide for everyday life. In the year 3050 everyone will have nice fences and clean carpets!

Leave is on

Well I'm taking 2 weeks off work to get a whole heap of things done.

I've got more things to do than I've realised I'm going to put a list up that I want to do. Yesterday I spent 6 hr ironing, luckily I have a DVD of the Family Guy and American Dad to get me through.

I'm now off to go shop!

such a long time between posts

Well I haven't forgotten about the blog, I just haven't really had anything to say.

I'm due for 2 weeks leave and I have a massive list of things to do. I look forward to writing them here and seeing if I manage to get them all done.

I've also managed to get myself feeling ill for a weekend, I really hate that kind of thing.Weekends are meant to be for enjoying yourself not feeling unwell.

Why do things take so bloody long

I can never work out why so many things happen so quickly but the things you really want always take along time to occur.

Anyway its been a long time since I blogged I haven't set any goals and I haven't achieved any goals. I wouldn't say I have wasted the time however as I have had some cracker weekends, weekdays have been uniformally terrible but I guess that's why we have to wait for all the good thing to happen.

Hopefully something more exciting than the weekends will happen soon.

Yay I cooked something

Well I finally managed to get the oven to cook something without either severely burning it or leaving it raw in the middle. Whilst it was a packet cake and lacked flavour it at least was edible.

I also bought 2 books today one fiction and one non fiction. The non fiction book being "a Clockwork Orange" which so far is quite difficult to read so hopefully the non-fiction book Black Swan is a bit easier.

I haven't blogged for a while either not because I haven't had much to say it's just that I've been doing things which require recovery time including excellent weekends having the opportunity to remain in the same city for multiple weekends has been a blessing (I do enjoy go back to the Riverland however so don't get me wrong).

I suppose I should also mention that we lost the 2nd test in a very very average display of cricket. I can't even hide the loss with the Crows because they managed to lose as well.

The best part of this blog is knowing I am 9 working days away from taking 2 weeks leave!

Cricket

Whilst i am a massive fan of cricket, watching the current test team reminds me of watching the Redbacks since 1994. Glimpses of talent followed my hours of mediocre cricket.

I'm struggling to work out some short term goals at the moment. I still haven't done the wine course I wanted to, learning a language is probably still out of the question (i'm now thinking mandarin).

The most urgent short term goal is getting a new job, one that provides a real challenge and the ability to learn and develop instead of doing tasks and having to deal with selfishness.

Opportunities but at what cost

Life is a series of opportunities, some minor and some major. Whilst some people tend to dwell on missed opportunities as opportunities lost, should we just see them as an opportunity not taken because another was more important or the cost was too high for it to be taken?

When faced with the opportunity of a life time, some people take it some people don't. The results can be varied life; long regrets or other opportunities taken. A once in a life time opportunity doesn't always yield positive results, whilst in 10 years time we will dismiss our experience as just that... experience, was it one that had to happen? When looked at in daylight wrong decisions are wrong decisions regardless of the experienced gain especially if by all other measures is a wrong move.

The most difficult part of calling a wrong decision a wrong decision before it has been made is the realisation that it is a once in a life time opportunity never again will it occur or come close to occurring, luckily there will be other opportunities and looking back you can see that there is nothing to regret because the right decision was made regardless of the opportunity that presented it self. People often forget the expensive costs involved which would be utilised on things which are much more important than a whim or a chance opportunity and I'm not just talking money.

As they say, when one door closes another opens. It may not be the once in a lifetime opportunity but it may be one that gives much more than a once in a lifetime opportunity could ever offer.

Good Food and Good learnings

Well for starters the way to end a day is clearly with a good meal, so getting home to some homemade pie (queue south park reference) from D's extraordinary cooking ability it rounds the day out perfectly!!

Another good thing about a day is achieving a goal that you didn't realise you had, today I had one of those realisations which make your future clearer and gives you a better understanding of yourself, they don't happen often but when they do its a great moment which stops you becoming the next William Foster (thats right...google it).

In other events I went to see Transformers, 150 minutes destruction (with a few bizzare attempts at a romance story) whilst these movies are never as good as the original they do give you a massive out of reality, I wish my car turned into a 5 metre robot.

Exciting Weekends

Weekend are funny things they are not only a chance to get away from depressive places like work but a chance to catch up with people and do all the things you should have done whilst working (a haircut is high on the list of priorities at the moment).

my weekend was extremely diverse from 70+ yr olds punching it up over cards, going to a nightclub seeing the people dancing to "old School music" which was 90's music making me feel extremely old to attending a 40th Birthday party which made me feel the exact opposite!

All these things make up a great relaxing weekend, even cleaning the house on a Sunday morning doesn't detract from the fact that I'm not at work.

I'm hoping to enjoy the rest of the day and the clock counts down to another 5 day slog.

Hello Mum Dad and Ainsley!!

Well my Mum, Dad and sister came home from a UK and American trip the lucky buggers.

The best part being that they brought milk duds home. Milk duds are in my opinion the greatest candy to ever be made.

nothing much else happened today of any significance...... I'm going to look at a wine appreciation course so my blog may start having a wine influence soon.

Onto my goals, I've set a medium term goal, become a Business Banker and win the top achievers award which gets me a D a trip overseas. This one is going to be difficult but hopefully achievable.

Another Day

Well another day has passed, I took the opportunity not to make any goals for myself today. Luckily some good still did come from the day with the world of negativity I work in getting slightly less negative!

Another thing for the day is that I bought new shoes, this is not normally something I would talk about but since they decided to take the skin of my heal I guess its news worthy,. I am sure that D will be happy to re read this without the complaints.

With hump day coming up I feel the need for a new goal... I can't quite think what it is. I achieved the first two of my three goals and I am on the way to getting used to the blogger site so i'm in need of a new one. I think my goal is to see if I can be positive two days in a row and add to this a confidence goal. After thinking about it its now what you know its how you say it. Instead of second gussing myself for two days I'm going to say what I think and say it in a way to influence those listening .

If it doesn't work... bugger'em.

Also i'm not $90m richer, what a shame.

Well it worked

Well today I achieved my 2 goals of the day, to be positive and not to drink any coke product.
The being positive part was quite difficult as there is so much negativity at my work place that remaining positive can prove extremely difficult. No coke was also a challenge, It is my only source of caffeine and when your trying to be positive all day in a negative environment... well you get the picture.

My work on my blog hasn't started yet, I have too much to do tonight (yes D I do) so this will be a job for later in the week.

I also have a few other goals I am going to set, but I want to work out a way to record them.

Day one

Well for day one i'm going to set a few goals up, there will be a couple of quick ones and a couple of longers ones just tokeep things interesting.

Firstly for day 1 i'm going to make the goal of being positive all day, no more negative crap and also not to drink any coke of any variety.

My week goal is going to be getting used to Blogger.com, make my site look a bit better than some blue and orange page.

Thirdly, I'll have a medium term goal is to do a wine appreciation course, i've been talking about it for a long time so I hope to get one done soon.

My first post

Well my wife started up a blog, so I joined in order to follow that blog. I've decidedthat to make it all worth t i'm going to write something, with only 1 person likely to follow its not like i'm going to have a problem with angry followers.

So for starters I am going to dedicate my blog to finding a goal in life. After watching the movie Role Models I realised that I have gone my 28 years with a goal in life.... well I had a goal that was to get rich, but never a plan to get that goal.

Whilst getting rich is a great goal I am hopefully going to find a goal that not only gets me rich but also gets me having fun!

Hopefully I can work out some things to write!