Stuff to live without

So at our church we really do not do lent. I thought it would be fun to try and give some stuff up for a while anyway, why not. I decided I eat way to much sugar and candy and drink a pop almost everyday. So no more candy, no more pop, and no more dessert type stuff. Candy will be the most difficult. Lindz and I are both doing it for fun I guess kind of just to see if we can. I think I will feel better when working out if I am eating healthier stuff so that will be a positive, I just lost 8 lbs and am down to 148 a low for like 2 years, but am lifting and doing a lot of core work along with getting back into running biking swimming mode more intensely we will see what happens. This post sucks sorry.

Lance laying the smack down at ToC

Awesome!

Pictures: Tim De Waele

Sledding

Lindz and I and Kona decided to go sledding on Saturday after all the snow on Friday night. We went and put all our ski clothes on and took the dog. I ran and dove onto the sled and hit the snow and just rolled and plopped down haha. We needed some ice or something, maybe a more high tech sled would have done it but the little kids were flying down the high next to us. Oh well it was fun and Kona loved the snow and chasing the sled down the high and chasing us back up...she then slept the rest of the day.

Healthcare (new twist)

Alright so my last post on the subject got all kinds of attention. That is great I like to hear what people have to say. This time though let take it right now for what it is. Yes it is expensive, making it very hard to afford for many people (reason for the problem), no one will probably argue that. Why is it so expensive though? Obesity is a HUGE problem right now in the US. The number one reason why healthcare costs are so high (number 2 is smokers). Basically if you are fit and healthy, you pay the same as you overweight couch potatoe co-worker that is on 8 different medications and gets sick easily due to a crappy immune system. Ok that was harsh but true. Many people on a lot of these medications for type two diabetes and high blood pressure and other things, all it would take is a few weeks of a drastic change of lifestyle and they could stop taking them all together. As long as they keep it up they could be totally off them. I don't get it. Not only are they driving our healthcare costs up but they are killing themselves. Maybe instead of focusing on making healthcare affordable by having the government step in, we should start focusing on the root of the problem....OBESITY. That is all for now, feel free to comment away.

Keeping work separate

I try and keep my two lives separate, I do not like to blend the two. I do not mixed the two or blend the two or at least try not to. When I leave work, I LEAVE it at work, unless of course I have to bring it home with me. I think this is very important to be able to turn it on and turn it off. I could never be good friends with work people cause when I leave work I don't want to talk about work I want to live my life. I defiantly work to live not live to work. To add to this if you are good friends with people you work with and you have to work out a work problem and someone is at fault then something gets said and someone takes it personally because there is a friendship involved everything gets stirred up. But to contradict myself I think it can be good sometimes to be friends with the people you work with especially if you can leave whats at the office at the office, some people can do this and it works out, I don't really know where I am at with this yet.

The other thing I do not like to mix is business with family or close friends. This is something thats hard to understand. It has its exceptions but overall it makes for awkward situations when it mixes. Say someone sells you something and something goes wrong with it, then you feel like it is there fault or they feel like it is their fault or you both feel bad in some way, it is almost guaranteed to happen. Or you find a better deal elsewhere after you paid a lot more because you bought it from someone you know and the gave you a "good" deal. You can't go back to them and be like I found it this much cheaper somewhere else like you could if you bought it from someone you didn't know...then you could go make a scene get the difference back or at least try without feeling bad about it.

Mixing business and friends family just feels like a bad idea sometimes, it causes a lot of problems. At the same time it causes problems when you do not mix it....so it is just a sensitive topic and you have to be careful when and how you do it.

Wow this post is a little of the wall, doesn't make a lot of since.....sorry.

Healthcare

I was just reading a post on a forum that I like to visit, it was a post from a Canadian triathete who has something wrong with his feet. It has been diagnosed and the test have been done. Because it is socialized health care in Canada, he doesn't have a lot of options and is in a lot of pain and won't be able to have surgery until April at the earliest. Wow. He is so desperate that he is willing to come to the US and pay out of pocket if he could have this done sooner. I think ALL of you people that think universal healthcare is this GREAT thing, you need to reconsider. I know it will never work in the US because people will always have the option of getting private healthcare and those people will then have better doctors and treatments then those who are on a universal healthcare plan. People don't think these things through at all, as soon as it happens then people will complain that they aren't getting as good of healthcare as someone who has it privately. PEOPLE NEED TO GO DEEPER THEN JUST "FREE HEALTHCARE, THATS A GREAT IDEA!" Seriously.

Happy Ground hog Day

Well it is groundhog day. A holiday. Guess what he saw his stupid shadow and crawled back into his little hole for 6 more weeks of sleep. Thanks Phil, we really can't take much more of this winter stuff. I am so ready for it to warm up. It was 50 degrees on Saturday and I couldn't even run outside because I was sick, finally I get hit with a cold, I haven't had one for close to two years so I am do for one I guess. Get set for some more winter!