My Audio – They love me
A discussion while driving home from school.
My Audio – Little Prayers
My 3 year old daughter praying.
My Audio – Church Time
It’s uplifting to sing along with 300 other people.
My Audio – Birds and Thunder
Yesterday and half of today where amazingly beautiful and comfortable days, so I took the kids and got out in it. Around 1:30 though, clouds set in and a slight, needed rain (as you can see by my grass) began to fall. I opened the back door going out to my deck and thought the sound there was incredibly peaceful. You don’t really get the full effect, but it’s close.
2 Months No Pop!
I’ve made it two months with no pop. My goal is 3 months and I’m to the point now that not drinking any soda isn’t really bothering me. Every now and then I get a craving for a Dr. Pepper or Pepsi, but it’s pretty rare. Usually it’s only when I see someone else drinking one. It can get a bit annoying drinking the same stuff mostly fruit juices and lemonade. However, I’ve decided to push the experiment a bit further by now drinking only water for the remaining 30 days. I’m just curious what effect if any there is to only drinking water with all meals. I’m thinking that going with strictly water is going to be harder than it was to stop drinking pop.
What does the picture have to do with this? Nothing…just me playing with a fisheye lens. If you look close you’ll see me.
6 weeks…no pop
This past Friday marks 6 weeks with no pop, soda, coke or whatever you like to call those caffinated and carbonated beverages. My goal is 90 days so I’m half way to that. I’ve taken 3 maybe 4 sips of non-caffinated Root Beer, but apart from that I haven’t had anything caffinated. I have had alot of lemonade in various forms. It seems that most restaraunts only sell lemonade apart from pop and tea. I have found a couple that sell Powerade, which is good too. I’ve also drank a number of different juice drinks. My sugar intake is probably only a little less than before.
I have noticed a marginal difference in energy and have lost a little weight. I think at 60 days I’m going to go strickly water for the last 30 days of this little experiment. I haven’t decided if I’ll go back to drinking pop after this or not. I’m sure I’ve saved a little money because I normally bought at least one 12 pack a week of either Mt. Dew or Dr. Pepper. I have bought some 12 packs of lemonade, but not as much as I used to buy of pop. Brandon read somewhere that it’s at the 2 month mark before you really notice a physical difference. We’ll see I guess.
WordPress random header images plugin
I thought I’d spruce up my blog and wanted to make the header image at the top change randomly. I started trying to do it myself and thought I’d hit Google to see if anyone else had done it. You gotta love Google, sure enough Patrick David had done this very thing and had written a nice plugin for WordPress to do just what I wanted. Using it was a piece of cake. You simply create a folder in your wp-content folder called rand_headerimg and put your header images in there. Then you download the plugin and upload it to the plugin folder. Login to the admin section and activate the plugin. That’s it, easy as drinking milk and eating a donut and costs less too! Not sure what the milk and donut picture has to do with this, but I just liked it for some strange reason.
Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo
I’m a steak man. I love steak. I like chicken. I can eat pork every now and then. But given the choice I’ll take a steak anyday. My wife and I went out for Valentines Day last night since she has to work tonight. We went to the Olive Garden. We hadn’t been there in awhile and I saw this Steak Gorgonzola and decided to give it a try. Wow! It was awesome. Here’s Olive Gardens description of it…Grilled beef medallions drizzled with balsamic glaze, served over fettuccine tossed with spinach and gorgonzola-alfredo sauce. The steak had a great taste a little bit sweet and sprinkled with a bit of Gorgonzola cheese. I’m not sure what Gorgonzola cheese is, but it was good. It reminded me of blue cheese. The pasta with alfredo sauce was great and it had spinach in with it. I’m not a spinach person. There’s no way you’d catch me eating a big portion of spinach on it’s own. But mixed in with the alfredo sauce it was actually good. Since I’m still doing the no pop thing I had their rasberry lemonade and it was awesome too! If you are taking your significant other out tonight try the Olive Garden and their Steak Gorgonzola.
Paint fumes, caffeine and rollerskating
None of the three things in the title have anything to do with each other. Then again the picture with this post doesn’t really have anything to do with them or anything else I have to say, I just thought it was a neat sunset.
I’ve spent the week painting, painting and painting. We bought some new couches and decided the living-room needed a make over in the process. So I’ve been sucking paint fumes.
I’m up to 2 weeks with no caffeine. For the past two days I’ve been craving it quite a lot. I was in line at Walmart and found myself staring longingly at a 20oz of Dr. Pepper that the person in front of me was buying. I’ve got to go at least 90 days to see just what difference it makes for a prolonged period of time.
Did you used to roller skate when you were young? I remember some metal roller skates that strapped to your shoes and then some big plastic ones that you strapped on. I was more of a BMX bicycle rider when I was young. I took my son to the rollerskating rink the other night, his school was having a PTA thing so we went. I decided not to skate this time and just sat there watching him and the other kids. It was pretty funny and the 80’s disco music was a trip too.
- Camera: NIKON D70
- Aperture: ƒ/7.1
- Focal length: 110mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/800s
One week down
Like I said before I had a bad headache for pretty much two days. There was at least one day of high tension and irritation. But, I’ve made it a week with no pop. I’ve had lemonade, water and gatorade. Today is the first day that I haven’t thought about breaking down and drinking something. We’ll see how it goes! :)