Don't quote me.......

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." ~Ellen Degeneres~

Mel Gibson is insane

I've mentioned this to a couple of you, but I finally got a pic to share.

Apocaylpto is an "action/adventure" movie about the decline of the Mayan empire, written and directed by Mel Gibson. Crazy Mel Gibson. How crazy?

That crazy.

Mel thought it would be cool to put an Easter Egg of himself into his own movie trailer, about 3/4 of the way through it. It's almost impossible to see at full speed, but if you go frame by frame you can see it pretty clearly.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty funny, and definitely worth sharing.

Fork in the Road........

(This is a purely hypothetical situation mind you, but I do appreciate your opinions should a similar situation ever present itself. It should be also noted that some opinions have been made quite clear, and repeatedly, but feel free to give them again. Finally, you're not choosing someone to die like you might have in gc's blog the other day, so no pressure.)

Multiple Choice:

1)Say you had a small amount of money set aside that you really wanted to do something "fun" with. Would you rather:

A) Buy an upcoming PS3, because it's going to be awesome

B) Spend that money continuing a project that's been sitting in your driveway for 4 months now

C) Sell said project in your driveway, but keeping with the auto theme, do something to your everyday car that you've always wanted to do

D) Buy a motorcycle

E) Take a vacation sometime

F) Stop being selfish, you're too old for fun, and there are other things you could use the money on

Parallel Universe

What my life would be like, if I was born as a polar bear:

Snakes on a Plane!!!

Snakes + Plane = Snakes on a Plane

Here's a quick plot summary, in cartoon form:

And some gear to wear when you go see it:

or

So there you go kids---Snakes on a Plane, tell your friends.

So it ends......

So it's over---I ate meat today.

Exactly 6 months after I began, I am no longer a vagitarian. I had a grilled chicken sandwich for lunch today, which was delicious by the way, thereby ending my vegetable exodus.

"Verily, he went unto the meat and yea, it was good".

Before I get questions, complaints, cries of outrage or protest let me explain---this whole thing for me was to accomplish a specific purpose. I was trying to get my self to eat better, pure and simple. Eating better means feeling better, and I was feeling like crap after every meal.

Now I'm the kind of person that turns things like this into a slippery slope, however, and so knew that if I was ever gonna accomplish what I wanted I would have to go whole hog, so to speak. No meat, period.

Which worked, for a while. But here we are, 6 months later and ~25 lbs lighter, and I feel like I've accomplished what I set out to do. I feel much better, and I certainly eat better (most of the time, not so much over the holidays though, way too much sugar).

The problem I was running into was protein wasting---I just can't get enough without the meat. I know some of the weight I lost was muscle mass, which I had planned on. But lately my muscles have been pretty sore after doing stuff, and I've been way too grumpy for no apparent reason, both serious signs of protein deficiency. It was literally to the point where I was actually checking out supplements, and I thought to myself "This is retarded, why am I going to go out and spend that kind of money when the answer lies right in front of me?"

So I am from here on out adding chicken to my list of acceptable foods, and possibly turkey. No red meat and no pork though, although I suspect eventually pork may cross the line into acceptable. I'm not sure anyone really cares, except maybe Mrs. PB, who will probably be ecstatic both that I mentioned her and that I'm eating chicken again.

So that's it, just a little note to anyone bored enough to read this. I'm happy with my decision, and still feel like I'm accomplishing what I set out to do.