Hey everyone…I’m getting ready to study so I just want to do a quick little post.

This week wasn’t too bad…it was pretty busy though.  I won’t bore you with all the details though, since most of it was pretty blah. 

My workouts got sidelined this week when I hurt myself lifting weights.  I have been lifting off and on (mostly off the last few years) since I was 14 and I have never got hurt lifting.  Ok, I have twice before…once I had a dumbbell fall on my head and another time I got hit with a bar, but this is the first non-head injury.  I was doing bench press with 245 pounds and felt a sharp stabbing pain in my chest buy my arm pit.  I think that I strained my pec or had a micro-muscle tear.  It hurt most of Tuesday but hasn’t hurt since then.  I think that this coming Tuesday I will jingerly work my chest and see how it feels.  It really makes me sad, since I had been having such a good time lifting. 

Also to make things even better I have been sick with a cold.  That means that the cardio that I could do wasn’t as effective as it could be since I felt like crap and was hella conjested.  Thankfully the cold is slowly going away and all that I have to deal with now is conjestion. 

Amanda and I had been doing such a freakin’ awesome job eating in and this week that went all to hell.  We ate out every single day.  Hopefully we get back on track this coming week. 

Keeping up with the random themes of this post…

I also need to get some new music.  It seems like I haven’t added any new music to my iPod/iPhone in a month or two.  It’s about time to get something new, but it seems like it is kind of a lull in new music being released. 

I’m also in the middle of a drill weekend…that means that I’m going 12 days working straight.  Thankfully after next week I have 4 days in Phoenix at a conference and then I’ll be back on Friday to work.  Then Friday, Amanda and I leave for vacation.  I’m so excited…we need a vacation more than we have ever needed one.

Ok, that’s it, I really need to do a little bit of studying tonight.

Finally, sign up for Twitter people! 

Hello everyone, I am actually updating for the first time in well over a month.  I know that I have been MIA, but I have been darn busy lately.  I still have some blog presence but it is all on my twitter account.  Twitter has really came to the forefront for me because it’s so quick and easy.  Just 140 characters is all that you get and it only takes a few seconds to give an update.  It really is quite neat…but be warned the twitter world is still dominated by ad/marketing types but as it continues to go more mainstream there are more “regular” people out there. 

While, I haven’t been posting, I have been keeping up with everyone.  Sadly though, when I say keeping up it doesn’t mean that I have actively been participating with everyone.  I will read all my subscriptions every few days but I very rarely left a comment.  I guess there isn’t any good reason why I disappeared…but anyways, I should try to make a concerted effort to get back on here.  I don’t know how many times a day I think to myself “Man, I have to post that”…but unfortunately I don’t do anything with it.

Ok, so now the questions you have been wondering…where have I been?

Starting January 12th (curiously the first Monday after my last “real” post) I started going to the gym at 5:15am.  On January 10-11, I had drill and I decided that I needed to majorly get into shape.  I recruited DD and we started going every morning.  We lift weights three times a week and do cardio the other three times.  We have been pretty faithful to our routine with only one skip during this five week stretch, and that skip was due to 12″ of snow.  One other time we lifted in the evening instead of the morning.  It’s been nice to begin to see some results and slowly starting to get back into shape after letting myself go for pretty much the last year and a half.  I’m really looking forward to the next few months to see what happens.

As a result of the early morning workouts I have also started to go to bed earlier.  After the first week I have managed to get used to the early mornings and actually look forward to them on most days.  Every once inawhle I will wake up and have a hard time, but most days it’s no big deal.

I also started school a few weeks ago.  It was a week later than planned do to the big snow storm, but it has started.  It’s considered full-time but it is only one night a week.  So far, so good.  The first class hasn’t been that intense but I am making a concerted effort to stay ahead of the game and not get into trouble.  The entire course is about two years long, so my Wednesday nights will be a little occupied for the forseeable future!

I’m also now doing Big Brothers and Big Sisters.  I have a “little” that is 8 years old.  We started meeting about once a week after the first of the year.  We have done some fun things like going to a Pacers game, bowling, playing video games, and going to the movies.  Hopefully he is enjoying himself as well. 

So with that, you basically get what I have been up to in a nutshell.  Granted I have missed a lot of stuff but that should do for now…

In other news yesterday was Valentine’s Day.  We didn’t do anything special though.  We just kind of hung out throughout the day and in the evening we went to the casino.  It was crazily packed and we didn’t stay as late as we could have.  We ended up making it back home before midnight.  Thankfully she isn’t one of those girls that make a big deal out of V-Day.

Today is Amanda’s birthday.  We normally would go to a fancy restaurant, but she would rather eat a normal restaurant and use the difference to buy makeup.  She is funny like that…