It says it all really.  Everyone where you turn there are more and more diet aids.  They just stand out like there is no tomorrow.  Top Diets, Super Pills, best diet pills, etc. They are in stores, commercials, TV, news papers. Wow just all over. You would think with all this there would some type of peer pressure. hehe. Oh well what can you do right.

It feels like the sun around here lately.  Just more and more.  Lately it’s been really hot here, and usually we don’t see this hot weather till mid july.  They are forecasting a high of 102 tomorrow with a heat index of 105..  Yikes..!  As I type this and its’s roughly 940pm, it’s still 92 out.!!!   Just crazy.  Why did I move here again?  LOL…

Anyone else have something they see over and over again, or more and more…?  I would like to hear about it..

So today I was at the store running around picking out some cards for my wife’s upcoming birthday and to grab some lunch and I turn the corner and hit the aisle that contains the incontinence products. I’m sure I will need them one day I will require this aisle of products but not at the moment.  So I just zipped on by while I was gathering up my goods.

Sometimes I don’t mind running around the store.  Most of the times the lines are short which I really like.  But to side track the other night it took forever which was not really appreciated, LOL…

My co-worker’s cousin, had some good news recently.

He is 14 or maybe he is 15, and has been batteling cancer for awhile now. I don’t think he has mesothelioma, but I do know just a few weeks ago the doctors came back after some tests and said it has reappeared in his blood stream and spinal fluid. Well some good news came out the other day and the Doctor said that he cannot detect any cancer in the blood stream or spinal fluid. That is AWESOME! news. At least I think so.

So I’m going to try and keep this updated on his condition.  I think he is moving in the right direction now.

About 1 year ago they announced a 24 hour fitness moving in by my work with an opening date of Fall ‘08.  Yeah I know pretty broad.  So when they finally announced a date (April ‘09).  So I was pretty excited as I decided once it opens 2-3 times per week on my lunch break I will go work out.  I feel if I can get into a routine then it should work out pretty good.

I’m not sure what I will completely do.  They do not have racquetball (bummer) but have basketball, lol – you don’t want to see me play.  I will probably do some cardio and maybe swim some laps..  If I can get into a routine and stay healthy then there will never be a need for diet pills.  Now some people swear by them and if it works for them great!!!

So next Monday or Tuesday will be the start to hopefully a new weekly work out routine and I can start losing weight and feeling great!

After 1.5 years the rest of my tooth finally broke.  Last Monday at work just a few short days ago I felt the horrible feeling of tooth and fillings coming loose.  The good news, I had a root canal done on this tooth 6-7 years ago other wise I think I would have been in some serious pain.  It broke off just above the gum line.  It left about 5% of my tooth sticking up.  I scrambled all week to find an oral surgeon and yesterday I finally found one.

So as I write this up, I have gauze in my mouth, the novocaine wearing off, and my pain pills are still at the store being processed.  Much fun I tell you.  The Doc barely gave it time to get numb before he was in there starting the procedure.  At one point I thought he was going to break my jaw.  lol.  I was done in 10 minutes.  That has to be some kind of record right?    Oh well..  I’m going to post this and go get some pain killers so this won’t be hurting so much..

It all started Friday afternoon.  I hadn’t felt good the previous few days and I just canceled going to an overnight retreat with a couple guys from our church.  I had then decide to leave work about 4:45pm and catch a high school soccer game that a player I coach is on.  Well I guess she didn’t show up, lol, so off I went at half time and headed home.  I cooked up some dinner and when Leslie got home we started talking about the phone call we got that her dad was in the ER and not feeling well.  As we gathered more information it wasn’t sounding good, so we started planning a trip to their home town.  (2.5 hour drive)  Then we get a call cause the hospital where he was at freaked out and called in a helicopter to take him to Oklahoma City.  Wow, Great.

So we started to panic pack and found a home for our dog for the night and next thing  you know, we are leaving the house on a 3.5 hour trip at 10:40pm.  We arrived at the hospital about 2:15am and then arrived to the hotel about 4:00am and the bed about 4:30am.

The next morning we were up about 8:00am and back to the hospital.

We spent most of Saturday at the hospital.  This morning as we were driving from the hotel to the hospital we learned that my father in laws sister has having heart issues and was transferred to the hospital around 3:30am, so we spent time with her today while they were diagnosing her problems.

So now it’s almost 8pm and I’m writing this from the hospital.  Looks like tomorrow we might be going home with my father in law going home on Tuesday.  My wife’s aunt however probably not for awhile.  Her heart cath showed no blockages but after the ultrasound I guess she might have leaky heart valves.  We will know for sure tomorrow after the doctor visit.

I hope you had a better weekend than we did.

I hate being sick.  And it’s really not that bad.  I usually get sinus infections about 1-2 times per year and thankfully that’s usually about it.  I cannot remember the last time I had the flu.  So the last few days my throat started being really scratchy.  Not really hurting so to speak, but just there.

So yesterday morning it hit.  I knew right away what it was. ugh!!  So yesterday at lunch time I made my way to buy more over the counter items.  Started taking them and still felt blah, but last night I seemed to have a really good nights sleep and this morning when I awoke I was feeling pretty good and thought I might have shaken it off, but as the day progresses today, not so much.  I guess if nothing changes by tomorrow morning I might have to head to the docs.

For some healthy cooking. It’s time for change that’s for sure. Better cooking and eating better. Not to mention the occasional working out at the local gym. Yes those are some of my goals next year. I do have some pretty big ones too.

The main priority is eating healthier and working out.  That is the number 1 goal for 2009.  I think eating better and healthier will go a long ways and pay off even in the short term of things.  Working out, well that’s even tougher to do since we all have busy schedules, but I really need to change some things around as this will have to be a bigger priority now then it has been in the past.  I’m sure I will talk more about the 2009 goals later this week or next but do you have any goals set out for 2009 yet?

Last weekend (Thanksgiving) we were in Oklahoma at my wife parents and Leslie and her mom stopped by this store by Norman, OK and bought me some gluten free foods.  So tonight I prepared the pizza crusts they bought me.

I was diagnosed back in January 2007 with Celiac Disease.  So over the past almost two years I have tried a few different pizza styles.  But tonight was different. Rustic Crust makes a gluten free pizza crust (Napoli Herb) and I loaded it up with some pizza sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and some Canadian bacon.  I have to say it was really good.  And I had to blog about it in case others out there cannot find a good gluten free pizza solution.

It all started Saturday I’m certain.  We had soccer practice and I was doing some throw in drills to teach them some things and I think I did about 50 or so.  OK so nothing major but about 6 hours later my back started hurting.  uh oh!  yeah that was my response.  So Sunday morning I could barely get out of bed. It hurt so bad..  I Immediately put some heat on it for most of the morning.  I hobbled to my soccer game that afternoon (it was our last one of the season) and then back home.

Monday morning I went to the doc and they advised me I had pulled a muscle and gave me some prescriptions.  So I went all day at work without anything as I couldn’t get my prescriptions till afterwards.  But once I got home I took a muscle relaxer and a pain pill and I was out.  It was starting to feel better but tonight it’s hurting again..  One of these days I will have to learn to take it easy.

Will update my progress later on.