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Valentines games

Ok bmo you are going to laugh/cry: On Valentines I was useless! There was a blizzard... :(welcome back snow:(... and so school was cancelled. Good news! I could get stuff done! but did I? HA! There is this drug... I mean game... called World of Warcraft. I was so mad at my b/f for always playing this game. So to shut me up he bought me a copy and I tried it. Crap... I am addicted. Yesterday I played from 12 in the afternoon to the wee hours of the morning (4am)!!! Needless to say I am a zombie today at work:eek: It is terrible. Food was great yesterday though so no worries. Has slowed down my posting a bit. I am going home for a nap and then more gaming. Sigh. I am at least feeling better and should be 100% by next week:) So good news:)
Thanks for the posts and Nia- Happy belated valentines:). Not a lot of valentine stuff yesterday. Just holed up and played. at one point my little one was doing it too (dinosaur game... not wow) and we were all in my room cozy around our individual screens (b/f is a website designer so he is laden with computers:)... btw if anyone needs a website tell me. He is reasonably priced and good!) lol anyway it was cute and fun:)
Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's day!!!
 
hehe world of warcraft :) i know the game, my ex is hooked on it lol. i like to play those kind of games but since i haven't got the time to play too much i don't get too addicted hehe. but i do have addictive tendencies...i play morrowind whenever i can lol
have a wonderful day :) Lena
 
Something my mom said to me once always motivates me to look on the bright side:
"It's alot harder to be miserable about your body than it is to do the work and change what you want to."

If you think about it a bit, you can see it's absolutely true. It's very hard on your self esteem to be thinking negative thoughts about yourself for a long time. But once you start getting into a routine, you will notice (I'm sure you've experienced this) that you FEEL better about yourself, and in turn you are happier... This makes it easier to keep going.
Paying more attention to how my body FEELS than the scale has worked for me. If I have overeaten the night before, I notice I feel sluggish. So I concentrate on not over eating, and getting a nice satisfying(and FUN!) amount of cardio into my day. I know some people who have thrown their scale out. I like to weigh myself once a week, so putting the focus on how I feel rather than the numbers has helped me to not do it every day~ :) You can do this, just focus! :)
 
LOL & World of Warcrack addition. I don't play because I have addictive tendencies towards games as well. I still roleplay - but old school tabletop style with dice. You can only get your friends together for a game every so often - so it helps keep me from going over the edge.

When I was in high school I became addicted to a text based online RPG. Once I sat at my computer 18 hours - waiting for something to show up in a room. Just sitting there, staring at the screen. it was really unhealthy. Thank goodness it started charging by the hour and I had no money.
 
I have a funny story about WoW...My best friend met her bf on it! She lives in CA and he lives in Michigan. She just got back from visiting him. It's really a funny story. Who needs Match.com??! lol. Apparently he was selling something on her server, she was a dwarf or something, and the next day she paid like 25 bucks to switch to his server and the rest is history. I have never had a chance to play the game, but I can imagine how addicting it is...I do like the south park episode about it!
 
WoW break! ;) and weigh in

LMAO Ashley! World of Warcrack!! he he he. I have been a bit bitter towards my game because my little group left me. I felt so dissed;) so I am taking a break! Today was a weigh day and it was good news: 178! I am very excited. Still struggling with exercise. I took a field trip with my students today which involved a lot of walking and so I am not doing to bad today but fitting regular exercise into my schedule is just soooo hard!! When I am home I want to be with my boyfriend and my son and leaving to go walk is hard. I know I should take one or both of them with me... *guilt* I just like to walk alone when I walk... or walk with people that can keep up... my poor little one wears out fast. sigh I hate excuses and as I hear myself making them I get frusturated. I am happy that I am losing weight but since my ultimate goal is changing my lifestyle so I don't gain it all back (80lbs lost to date:D) I want to focus on bad habits and excuses is one of them. I get frusturated with myself. I am going to have surgery in 5 weeks and I want to be at 170 when I go in for that because I know I will have to take it easy after that. 8lbs doesn't sound so hard after what I have lost but it is going so much slower now. So far this month only 3 lbs lost.
However, I will quit griping for now...
Llama- I didn't repost to you about the school so here it goes: It is a charter school that focuses on job skills and college prep. The school day goes from 7:30 to 5:15 and is a block schedule with 2 hour classes. Fridays are off which will be nice. I am actually going to have a prep first period so I will not need to be at school until 10am so that will relieve a bit of the long day.
The school caters to anyone, it is not specifically for dropouts or struggling students. The first year they are hoping to have 125 and eventually they will cater to 300. Class sizes would be 5 in the beginning and then could go as high as 15-19 which is low to what I have now (30-40). It would be a great opporutunity and I would be teaching (potentially): art, painting, photograpy, ceramics, jewelry, and art history. Sounds like a crazy schedule and it will be but that is one thing: I know a little about a lot of stuff and have taught several subjects before so this will be some work but how fun to have 5 student classes. the students also focus on internships and mentorships and I have already made contacts in the art community that would set those up for me:) I am excited! I know it will be hard to leave my school as I have been there 7 years but this is such a good opportunity and I can take a year leave and be guarenteed my job back if this one doesn't work out. So I will accept it. I won't do it officially for a few weeks to make sure but I am pretty sure now;)
Britta- lol that is funny! Yeah people flirt which freaks me out because though my charecter has blonde hair it isn't me! It's a fantesy land and it wierds me out when people use it as real life. It is cute though they got together that way. Screw bars for meeting people! ;) I haven't seen the south park episode but everyone tells me about it:D Also I am working on the feeling thing- I am actually happy to say I have a healthy view of myself. I like myself and I think I am pretty. I recognize my faults and if I can I work on them. Right now my main focus is to focus on my habits and change them- especially eating when I am hungry and controlling my portions! That has been really hard! I am getting better but underestimating what I eat and cleaning my plate are things that are hard for me to get past. When I go to resturant I feel I need to eat what is served to me and because most resturants are so high calorie it is death to eat the whole plate. I have been ordering from the low cal menus and trying to stop when I am full but it is hard.

Fsai- It's funny you say a computer driven life because between fitday and here and myspace my life was pretty computer driven before wow;)

Lena- yeah the thing is I am only addicted when I am actually playing. If I can keep away from the computer I am good. And thank you, my day was really great!! Hope you had a good one too:)

Thank you all for commenting! It so helps to know you guys are interested in sharing my "measley" life;) lol j/k but not about the fact I am flattered that you take time to read my posts! so have a wonderful weekend and I will try to get to as many of you as I can!!
btw if anyone wants to add me on Yahoo messenger my email is: acanthusbloom@yahoo.com :)
 
OMG! i havent read your diary since your last post... so i will comment on WoW. WTF!?! lol. My boyfriend is on it right now. Its driving me crazy. I heard they were adding video-game addiction to the book of psychological addictions. I'm really worried about him. Dont end up like that. lol. I understand those things being a hobby. But Dan can't even go 1 day w/o playing. And if he does...he thinks i owe him the world b/c its such a hard thing to do. I need to find a way to get back at him. I will start doing things all the time w/o him. I feel like i dont get to spend time with him. To be blunt...and you can tell me if you dont want this on your journal and i'll delete it but....his life is going to school(college..not doing his homework)going to work, sex, and a everyother minute is WoW. He only works 2 -3 shifts per week at the restaurant. Saturday/sunday. And he is on WoW before and after. It disgusts me!I want to do something mean to him about it. Like delete it from his computer or something. He talks to more people on that then he does to me. I'm pissed. He just doesnt get it. He wont ever give it up. ever! sorry for venting in your diary..


congrats on your weight loss. i'm so happy for you! And i'm glad you know when its bad that your on video games so long. It really is a bad thing.
 
Wow Mish busy busy as usual,take some time and smell the cold
air lol!:p Have a nice weekend..(I am so jealous 170's) congrats ;)
Tammy
 
Late Night (or early morning post)

Yes Wow strikes again- 4 am :D. Bmo- It drove me nuts when my b/f started playing too. I was so mad and it caused several fights. I enjoy gaming so he bought me a copy and that shut me up. It's actually fun that we get to play together:) "family time for the new age"... or something like that. If trying it is out of the question use the time for something you enjoy!
So I wanted to post earlier today because I am EXCITED!!! Scale told me 176!! wooo hooo! I was good today and went for a walk/run. I decided to go to the field behind my mom's house. It is beautiful there! It is open space which means it can't be touched by developers and there are coyotes (not that I have seen but I used to hear them at night), quails, cranes, geese, and all manner of animals. lol It is so nice to walk/run there! So I go today because we are having really nice weather and I know my dog needs a good walk. My mom tells me as I am heading out the door "It may be muddy but I have seen people on the ditch so it might be ok". It snowed just a few days ago and because of the wonderful warm weather all that snow is melting. So I venture out and there is some mud in the beginning but not that bad... or so I thought. So as my shoes are getting caked with mud I am losing traction and can't walk... I want to turn back but it's far, muddy and uphill. So I push on and at several points am "ice-skating" or "mud-skating" because I keep sliding. I will tell you mud-skating will wear you out! I finally after 20 minutes of this get to pavement so I can run like a normal person! lol It was a bit of an adventure but my shoes are so messy now! ;) So it was a good day. Calories seem to be no problem as long as I keep up with putting them into the computer. I haven't missed a day in 3 months now!! It's crazy. As long as I enter them I can keep track but I know I won't be able to have my computer around always and have been working on keeping track in my head as well. If I don't have a computer I write everything down for entering later. It seems to work well and it keeps me in my calorie range 1200-1300. So I am happy today. One thing I have noticed is that because i haven't been working out I am flabby and hangy from the weight I have lost. It looks so wierd but I am hoping that after time it will firm up. There's a balance between how I look in the mirror and how I am on the scale. Right now the scale numbers mean more to me...
Tammy- thank you!:) I am very excited! It is hard to be stuck so long and feel like your not moving! And thank god!! the cold air is taking a break! It has been nice out the last two days:D I will try to blow some of it your way!! ;)
Hope you all are doing well!!
 
mishi said:
I guess today in that post was really yesterday:p
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LOL!!! Congrats on a good scale read I hope to have that
again soon, I miss the scale going down.Me and my hubby
and kids are hooked on the drug I mean game called Netendo
Wii Bowling my daighter bowled a 214 and I still can't beat her,
also wario moves is a interesting hard to explain fun game atleast
your arms get a good work out lol! Well girl hope you have a good
Sunday,Tammy:)
 
You all might be interested in a book I read recently called 'Everything Bad Is Good For You" by Steven Johnson.

The summary from Amazon:
Everything Bad Is Good for You takes on one of the most widely held preconceptions of the postmodern world--the belief that video games, television shows, and other forms of popular entertainment are detrimental to Americans' cognitive and moral development. Everything Good builds a case to the contrary that is engaging, thorough, and ultimately convincing.

The heart of Johnson's argument is something called the Sleeper Curve--a universe of popular entertainment that trends, intellectually speaking, ever upward, so that today's pop-culture consumer has to do more "cognitive work"--making snap decisions and coming up with long-term strategies in role-playing video games, for example, or mastering new virtual environments on the Internet-- than ever before. Johnson makes a compelling case that even today's least nutritional TV junk food–the Joe Millionaires and Survivors so commonly derided as evidence of America's cultural decline--is more complex and stimulating, in terms of plot complexity and the amount of external information viewers need to understand them, than the Love Boats and I Love Lucys that preceded it. When it comes to television, even (perhaps especially) crappy television, Johnson argues, "the content is less interesting than the cognitive work the show elicits from your mind."


I really enjoyed the read and it seemed relevant to our WOW discussion.

On the boyfriends playing video games discussion, I thought you all might enjoy this video:
 
Sounds like alot of fun! I love taking my dog out hiking in the rain, or hell, in the sun too! It's so much fun to just let go any enjoy yourself. Congrats on the weight lost, and the three months of not missing a day! You must feel so awesome!

My bf and his friends are obsesssed with the wii too. I made up some good jokes about it like you 'guys are such wiinerds' (say it out loud) or..everytime they would win a match in tennis, they would touch the controllers together like it was a duel or something and i would say 'stop touching your wii's together'
may not be the best thing to say in front of kids, but i thought it was funny enough to share.
 
Britta Bear said:
Sounds like alot of fun! I love taking my dog out hiking in the rain, or hell, in the sun too! It's so much fun to just let go any enjoy yourself. Congrats on the weight lost, and the three months of not missing a day! You must feel so awesome!

My bf and his friends are obsesssed with the wii too. I made up some good jokes about it like you 'guys are such wiinerds' (say it out loud) or..everytime they would win a match in tennis, they would touch the controllers together like it was a duel or something and i would say 'stop touching your wii's together'
may not be the best thing to say in front of kids, but i thought it was funny enough to share.
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LMAOOO AT THE WII JOKES THOSE ARE GOOD ONES.

Mish I hope your doing ok hun! Keep up the hard work and awesome attitude,Tammy
 
I'm back:)... but not sure how long...

Hi guys! I feel like I have been gone forever!! There is so much to do these days. Spring semester is crazy and this one is even more so. The big news: I was offered a different position at a Charter school that my favorite principal is starting and yesterday I accepted that position. I am very excited but now there is so much to do. I am head of the Art Department at my school and I am in charge of scheduling so I will need to make sure the transition to a new teacher is smooth and that the teachers that are here get a cut of my position so they can be full time. I need to pack up my classroom, which I have been in for 7 years and move most of it over to the new school, I need to recruit some students that I would like to take with me to the new school and somehow inform the community what I am doing. It will be crazy. Also I need to set up school next year for my little one and also maybe look at moving so I will be closer to the new job. It is crazy here!!!
This last weekend was my bf's and my one year anniversary. So Friday was a cheat day... however I didn't do so great on Saturday or Sunday either. I say that but Saturday was ok at 1500 cals and I did work out but Sunday I lived on imitation crab and white chocolate which actually made me sick and my cals were up near 1900. So I am on track for the week and eating a bit less for a few days to make up for the weekend. My weight didn't go up too much: 179 and down to 178 this morning and I have been bouncing from 176-179 which is the norm. I usually post the lower weight :p
I am not going to meet my goal of working out 3 times a week for February. I am a bit dissapointed with myself because it was such a reasonable goal and I just was lazy. So I am going to try again in March.
I am going today to the doctor to schedule my surgery. The surgery will be March 26th and I am so nervous but I want to get all my healing done by February.
So life is crazy here and my eating is ok but getting workouts into my schedule is challenging...
I hope you all are doing well. I don't have a lot of time to go to diaries but I will get done what I can. thank you all for comments I am feeling crazy out of my mind with stress, excitement, nervousness, and busy-ness and it is nice to come here and see the words of support:) I will talk to you all soon.
 
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