Activity is important

So today I had tickets to the Armed Forces Bowl game.  I was unable to use these tickets, but not for lack of trying.  It took us two hours from the time we left the house until the we finally found a parking space.  Only about 30 minutes of that was getting from the house to Ft Worth but that's beside the point.

So we finally got a parking space and we got about 500 feet from said parking space when we had to turn around and go back to the car and then head home.  Why you ask?  Well, it's because we parked about a mile from the stadium and my mother couldn't make the walk.  At barely 500 feet from the car, she was huffing and puffing and needing to stop and take a break.

Now, I'm sure you're sitting there wondering why it is I'm bringing this up and I will tell you.  My mom claims that she is in the condition she's in because she has arthritis and everything hurts and it's hard for her to walk. But the thing is, my dad also has arthritis.  The same kind of arthritis to be exact.  And he can walk miles without having any problems.  You know why that is?  Because he goes to play golf every morning.  He works at the ballpark every summer.  He actually exercises.

Ever since my mom retired several years ago, all she does is sit at home and watch TV or nap all day long.  I have been telling her repeatedly that she needs to get out and exercise.  Even just walking around the block once a day would help.  But no, she insists that sitting on her ass doing nothing all day has NOTHING to do with the fact that she can't even stand up long enough to do the dishes anymore.  It's because everything hurts.

Now, what do EVERY SINGLE arthritis commercial in existence tell you?  That keeping active is important.  Yes, they want you to take their drug to help ease the pain, but ALL of them say that you need to stay active to be able to continue to be active.  If even the drug companies are saying it, you know that it's bound to be at least a little bit true.

My mom has type 2 diabetes.  This could have been prevented with a bit of exercise and some weight loss, but she doesn't care.  She can't even walk from one side of the house to the other without being winded, which could be solved with a little bit of exercise but she doesn't care.  She just keeps sitting on her ass and expecting the problem to go away on its own, but it never will because she refuses to exercise.  And now she's gotten to the point that she can't because of the fact that when she could, she wouldn't.

This is one of the reasons that I am taking Taekwondo.  The only exercise I was getting before I started Taekwondo was at work.  Going up and down stairs, walking from my car to the apartments.  And I swear I  probably walk about 4 miles a day just going back and forth across the store.  But even I know that that isn't enough.  And eventually I might actually get to the point that I am allowed to retire and will need something to keep me active and moving.  I do NOT want to end up like my mom.  I refuse to have similar medical records.  I am going to be healthy as long as I can because I do not have the luxury of going to the doctor.  I have no health insurance and can't afford to be put on umpteen million prescriptions for problems that could be solved with diet and exercise.

So here is my challenge to you.  Stay active.  Even if it means just walking around the block once.  Or even just playing Just Dance on the Wii for half an hour a day.  Or like my dad does, go to play golf every morning.  Find something that you like to do and do it to keep yourself active.  Because if you refuse to be active while you're able, eventually you won't be able anymore.

@officialkat and @2BrokeGirls_CBS

Alright, so I feel the need to stop objectifying all the gorgeous men in Hollywood for just one minute and tell you about one of the amazingly awesome women that Cally and I love and who inspire us as well.  See?  This isn't all about great looking guys, there are some women in the world that we'd really like to be like too.

The first that I am going to mention is the amazing Kat Dennings.  Now, I first fell in love with Kat Dennings when I saw Nick and Nora's Infinite Play List.  I liked her even more when I watched Charlie Bartlett.  I mean, come on, she got to be Robert Downey Jr's daughter.  How awesome is that?!  And then, my love affair with her was complete with her role as Darcy in Thor.  And it has only deepened with her role as Max Black on CBS's 2 Broke Girls.  She says so many things that I wish I could get away with saying in my job as a delivery driver.

Kat Dennings has played a variety of characters ever since she was 12 years old. I truly believe that she's a wonderful actress.  Though she specializes in sarcastic, razor wit characters, she can do anything she wants to do.  She's just that amazing.

And I am secure enough in my sexuality to say that she has an amazing body.  One of the things that I love about her is that she's not this skinny little tooth pick that wears clothes I couldn't even dream about fitting into.  Granted, I'm sure I couldn't fit into the clothes she wears, but I can actually see myself eventually getting there if I tried hard enough.  That's all I'm saying.  And let's not forget that she has a great rack.  But that's very obviously not her best feature.  Though I'm sure most guys think it is.  She has beautiful eyes and an amazing smile and she can actually rock mustard yellow.  Not many people can.

If you haven't watched 2 Broke Girls then you are totally missing out.  If you want to have a great bit of entertainment for a while, go here http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0993507/ pick a movie and watch it.  I trust you, even the cheesy made for TV movies that she did as a kid are worth a watch.

So here's to you, awesome Kat Dennings.  You have at least two women who greatly admire you.

  

@geoffstults and the fact that I've been lazy

I know I haven't made a post lately.  There's really no excuse for it other than when I am not at work, I'm kind of lazy when it comes to posting.  And then there's the fact that I have been watching The Bourne Legacy over and over and over and over and over....you get the point.

I realized today that I haven't made a hot guy post in a while because the guys that I drew from the post aren't men that I consider to be particularly hot.  I put them on the list because my mom suggested them, I looked up their pictures and agreed at that moment.  But when it comes down to it, I really don't think they're that pretty.

And work is kind of killing my spirit.  I spend all day around pizza and wings and pasta and it makes me want to eat some of it.  The pasta isn't that bad.  I usually make it up with some chicken and mushrooms and a little bit of cheese and it's really good.  But every day I smell the bacon cooking on the pizzas.  Or the chocolate dunkers coming through the oven.  Or the cinnamon sticks.  I see the traditional wings cooking in the fryer and I just keep thinking WANT IT ALL NOW!   It's really hard to work around all this food that I used to eat all the time and resist it.  It's REALLY hard.  But so far I have managed to do exactly that.

I have been making a lot of cookies lately, using whole wheat flour and agave nectar so they are actually healthy.  I also got an agave nectar cook book, but I haven't tried any of them yet.  One of the recipes is a Margarita pie that uses actual tequila and doesn't spend enough time in the oven to cook off the alcohol, so that's pretty awesome.  Kind of want to try that.  We'll see.

So I drew two new names from the Jar of Hotness and got two guys that I think really are pretty hot.  The first guy is Geoff Stults.  Now, he's not really hot in the most traditional of ways, but I think I found him most hot as Walter Sherman on The Finder.  While I really wish that show had gotten a second season, with the death of Michael Clarke Duncan I'm glad it didn't because they would have had to do something about Leo being gone and the show wouldn't have been as good.

This is one of the times that I found him hot.  He doesn't have a six pack but he's got a nice body and Walter had this goofy, I'm crazy but in a good way kind of charm that made me want to just hug him.  

The other guy's name that I drew was Cary Grant.  Who honestly doesn't think that Cary Grant is sexy?  I think my favorite of his roles was in The Philadelphia Story.  That was a really funny movie.  The whole cast was awesome and Grant was amazing.  That's really the only one of his movies that I've seen all the way through, to be honest.  

I showed this picture to my 13 year old daughter and her response was "Oooooh wow.  Wouldn't mind seeing him shirtless."  Which amused me greatly.  

So that's my post for the week.  Two hot guys, one of which is dead, the other is on a new TV show that I don't watch.  A lot of baking and a lot of dealing with my ridiculous parents and a whole hell of a lot of hating my job.  

On the plus side, my jean jacket fits me again and I am currently wearing a juniors medium t-shirt that fits me the way an extra large used to and makes my books look HUGE!