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- So we had our final weigh out for the competition at work. I had to weigh out a day early due to my "requested" appearance at an arbitration hearing later today, which precluded me from going to work tonight. I weighed i 6 weeks ago at 265.6 and last night I weighed out at 233.6 for a total loss of 32.0 pounds. Since I will not be around for the celebration party (there is virtually no chance our shift lost since we are calculating all results via percentage to give smaller shifts like ours an equal chance) due to my extended leave which could happen any day now, so I gave myself a sort of victory party. I had 2/3 of a DiGorno "supreme" garlic bread pizza, half a bag of Cheetos and 2 chocolate frosted raised donuts for breakfast...and I felt incredibly disgusting after I got home, so I think that little binge session may have cured me from falling off the wagon and resorting back to my old habits. Plus I truly want to hit the 200 pound mark, that is a goal of mine.
- I'm slightly confused about Dumbledore's belief in the Deathly Hallows. I got the impression from Reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that Dumbledore firmly believed the legend and not only actively sought them out, but that he actually discovered all three and thus proved their existence. Is this conclusion incorrect? I only ask because Dumbledore writes the afterword to the Tale of the Three Brothers in the Tales of Beedle the Bard (which was quite a feat considering he was most likely dead when it was published!) and he is decisively dismissive of this story as anything but a fanciful legend and fairytale. I quote (from page 97), "Their theory (or perhaps 'desperate hope' might be a more accurate term) is supported by little actual evidence." So which is it Dumbledore?
- Over the last several weeks, I have taken to going to bed between 7:00 and 8:00PM every night before leaving for work (I set my alarm for 9:30PM). I sort of fell into this pattern and it has been incredibly difficult to break out of, because it took all but one night to essentially condition my body to feel very sleepy around 7:00 each night. That said, I'm not really trying to fight it, because this affords me the chance to sleep a few hours each night next to Jos.
I'll freely admit that when we first got married, I almost dreaded sharing the bed. Not only were both of us not accustomed to it, but we seemed to adjust even more poorly than most couples because of my work schedule. Those 2-3 nights a week where we were able to go to bed at roughly the same time for me were difficult and I rarely got any restful sleep, and lead me to take lots of naps the next day which only made sleeping at night more difficult.
All that has changed in a dramatic way, and at this point I sleep much better with her beside me. I have no idea how or when this occurred, but I now cherish the time between 7:00 and 9:30 each night. I'm now sleeping more soundly and deeply than I have since I was very young, and it is almost as if I have undone the damage(?) done to me by the program I went through as a youth to stop my bed wetting (this is perhaps better left for another entry where I can expound on it more fully). I also am saddened and feel guilty about this because while I seem to have rediscovered sleep, Jossie is having a really hard time of it recently due to the baby.
For the last, I don't know, 20+ years I had trouble falling asleep, stayed asleep for short periods of time and could be woken up without very slight and subtle changes in my immediate environment. I am now amazed at how quickly I fall asleep, how long I am able to remain so and how it takes a nuclear explosion going off next door to wake me up! I do not think I am quite back to where I was as a small child (back when my dad used to joke I could fall asleep on a tree and not fall out) but I am definitely back to near those levels.
- So we had our final weigh out for the competition at work. I had to weigh out a day early due to my "requested" appearance at an arbitration hearing later today, which precluded me from going to work tonight. I weighed i 6 weeks ago at 265.6 and last night I weighed out at 233.6 for a total loss of 32.0 pounds. Since I will not be around for the celebration party (there is virtually no chance our shift lost since we are calculating all results via percentage to give smaller shifts like ours an equal chance) due to my extended leave which could happen any day now, so I gave myself a sort of victory party. I had 2/3 of a DiGorno "supreme" garlic bread pizza, half a bag of Cheetos and 2 chocolate frosted raised donuts for breakfast...and I felt incredibly disgusting after I got home, so I think that little binge session may have cured me from falling off the wagon and resorting back to my old habits. Plus I truly want to hit the 200 pound mark, that is a goal of mine.
- I'm slightly confused about Dumbledore's belief in the Deathly Hallows. I got the impression from Reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that Dumbledore firmly believed the legend and not only actively sought them out, but that he actually discovered all three and thus proved their existence. Is this conclusion incorrect? I only ask because Dumbledore writes the afterword to the Tale of the Three Brothers in the Tales of Beedle the Bard (which was quite a feat considering he was most likely dead when it was published!) and he is decisively dismissive of this story as anything but a fanciful legend and fairytale. I quote (from page 97), "Their theory (or perhaps 'desperate hope' might be a more accurate term) is supported by little actual evidence." So which is it Dumbledore?
- Over the last several weeks, I have taken to going to bed between 7:00 and 8:00PM every night before leaving for work (I set my alarm for 9:30PM). I sort of fell into this pattern and it has been incredibly difficult to break out of, because it took all but one night to essentially condition my body to feel very sleepy around 7:00 each night. That said, I'm not really trying to fight it, because this affords me the chance to sleep a few hours each night next to Jos.
I'll freely admit that when we first got married, I almost dreaded sharing the bed. Not only were both of us not accustomed to it, but we seemed to adjust even more poorly than most couples because of my work schedule. Those 2-3 nights a week where we were able to go to bed at roughly the same time for me were difficult and I rarely got any restful sleep, and lead me to take lots of naps the next day which only made sleeping at night more difficult.
All that has changed in a dramatic way, and at this point I sleep much better with her beside me. I have no idea how or when this occurred, but I now cherish the time between 7:00 and 9:30 each night. I'm now sleeping more soundly and deeply than I have since I was very young, and it is almost as if I have undone the damage(?) done to me by the program I went through as a youth to stop my bed wetting (this is perhaps better left for another entry where I can expound on it more fully). I also am saddened and feel guilty about this because while I seem to have rediscovered sleep, Jossie is having a really hard time of it recently due to the baby.
For the last, I don't know, 20+ years I had trouble falling asleep, stayed asleep for short periods of time and could be woken up without very slight and subtle changes in my immediate environment. I am now amazed at how quickly I fall asleep, how long I am able to remain so and how it takes a nuclear explosion going off next door to wake me up! I do not think I am quite back to where I was as a small child (back when my dad used to joke I could fall asleep on a tree and not fall out) but I am definitely back to near those levels.