A few random thoughts...

This will be my last post until after I get back from vacation. Also, the end of the year is growing near, which means my goal of blogging it up for one year will be completed. I Have yet to decided if I would like to continue or not afterwards. I know that there are only a handful of people who read this anyway, but it is for me more so than anything else.

My belt doesn't work anymore. I now have to set my belt into the last possible hole, and it is still too large. Also, I think my head is shrinking or something. I seem to have lost some of the fat from my head during this experiment.

I think it may be a challenge to eat healthy and exercise while on vacation. I ride the monorail when I am in Las Vegas, so that inherently includes a lot of walking. I probably average a few miles a day while I am there, at least. Eating may be more of a challenge. We tend to stay up really late each night, and grab a pizza slice or two from New York New York around 2am, before turning in. Also, the biggest issue will be the alcohol scene. I am going to drink shitloads of free alcohol while I am there. The upside to this experiment is that I start feeling a buzz after 2 drinks, and I can get rather drunk on less than a dozen, whereas before, I could chug Jack and Cokes all night long, having 25 or so, and still be able to maintain an even keel. Staying up late usually means no breakfast, so that is less calories going in, followed by a lot of walking all day. So I figure if I can grab something half way healthy for lunch, I will probably be just fine. I found a 24 hour Subway last time I was there, so I have the option of eating a turkey sandwich 24/7, and it is only half a block from the MGM Grand.

Also on the unhealthy trend will be the 5 packs of cigarettes I will smoke there. I guess technically, I will only smoke half of that amount, whereas my best gal and I will split them. I do not normally smoke. When I get together with friends that smoke, and have drinks and hang out, I will smoke some a few cigarettes, but normal day to day operations do not include any smoking. This is hard for a lot of people to achieve, but I seems to have mastered it. I look at it sort of like alcohol. I can smoke any time I like, but if I do it all the time, that's no good. Why not make it something special, that way you can enjoy it more. This being the case, I always smoke on every vacation no matter what. After all, a vacation is intended to take you away from the norm for a while, so you don't flip out and kill a bunch of people.

Last week I ran a little over 34 miles on the elliptical. 34 FUCKING MILES! That is a long way. It seems unrealistic that I ran that far, but I did.

Anyway, good times abound. If you don't hear from me for 6 months, I probably won a million bucks in Vegas, or my plane crashed, or both.