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Long Lost Media

I finally located some tapes I’d been missing for a while: the very first mixtape Aaron ever made for me, back in 1996, and three 8mm videotapes from 1999-2000.

As soon as I finish compiling mp3s to correspond with all the songs on Aaron’s Music Sampler, you can expect to find a zip file of 90 minutes’ worth of mp3s for your listening pleasure. You, too, can be introduced to fantastic 90’s alternative like Frank Black, Sebadoh, The Afghan Whigs, the Pixies, Man or Astroman?, Catherine Wheel, and many more.

Eventually, you can also expect to find some mini-montages of the video footage from 1999 and 2000. Old RCC buds will appreciate RCC Fun Day 2000, and family will (possibly) appreciate Thanksgiving and Christmas 1999, including me telling CC Snyder’s “Archibald Barasol” joke, Gary reading the infamous forward about The Best Fruitcake Ever, and general fun with decorations and snowball fights.

I’m tempted to plug the camera into the TV and watch them right now.

What the hell… I think I will. 😀

Update, 1:20am: Damn… I was one sloppy bitch six and seven years ago. I look *much* better now at age almost-30 than I did back then at 23-24. Same with Aaron (no offense, honey).

Even so, I think I’ll be able to edit this stuff into something fun and amusing to watch later. Yeah.

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Disconnect

Have you ever sat at the computer and reloaded LiveJournal and checked out all your friends’ and acquaintances’ blogs and looked at Flickr hoping for new pics from your contacts… just because you wanted human interaction?

Ironic, isn’t it? Or maybe just stupid.

I wish more of my friends had blogs. I’m rarely into chatting online anymore, but I still want to feel connected. I’m not always keen on spending my evenings alone, but I’m not always interested in talking on the phone or doing Instant Messenger. You know?

Evenings like these would be good for walking around BG, stopping into Grounds For Thought, maybe reading a book or writing in a journal about something seemingly profound, maybe doing some BG low-light street photography. The idea kind of loses its charm when it requires a 20-minute drive, though, instead of walking out your door and three minutes down the street.

Enough of this. I’ve gotta go do some dishes, put together my lunch, and go to bed. *sigh*

I’m really not this depressed. I don’t think. I think I’m just tired and lonely right now. And, for once in my life, I feel like a fit person trapped in a fat person’s body. But that’s another blog entry entirely.

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Willpower

There are many things I should be doing.

But I can’t seem to ignore the siren call of Civ IV.

That ho-smack Isabella is just begging for another ass-whoopin’. That, and I really just want to kick some computer tail. I’m tired of Time Victories and Space Race Victories and Diplomatic Victories. I want a Conquest Victory. I want to win because I’m a bad muthafucka, not just because I can get everybody to vote for me as Class President.

Not gonna happen, but kicking ass (or attempting to kick some ass) is still fun.

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Quick Diet Update

For anyone who’s been eagerly anticipating an update on my measurements (Sheryl), here’s a quick update:

I’m down to 209.5, which is a steady loss of a pound a week for the last two weeks. Before that, it was a little erratic, what with the weekends setting me back and all.

As for measurements: since starting this thing on January 16, I’ve lost a grand total of half an inch in my bust (hey! my boobs came back! wtf?), an inch and a half in my waist, one inch in my hips (finally!), half an inch in my upper arms, about half an inch in my thighs, half an inch in my neck, and maybe a quarter inch in my calves.

Since the last measurement, back on February 20: my boobs got half an inch bigger (musta measured ’em wrong or something); and my waist, upper arms, and hips have continued to shrink. Everything else has remained about the same or only changed by small fractions of an inch.

Next Thursday is the big two-month Weigh and Measure, complete with photos that my clamoring public will (hopefully) never see. But I’ll be zooming waaaay in using Photoshop, and trying to find new muscle definition in places where it may or may not be hiding. Then I’ll look at these people and wonder what their two-month pictures looked like…

Update, 11:15pm:
In a moment of late-night weakness, I decided to sign up for PUSH for a three-month stint. I’ve heard good things about PUSH. They send you one DVD a month (for $25 a month), which includes two workouts plus a cardio set. You do workout #1 for two weeks, then workout #2 builds on the first, then you get your next DVD. They also send you one of those resistance bands, which is cool. The workouts are also personalized to your fitness level and your preferences — if I’d said I enjoy, say, martial arts, the personal trainer I chose would include martial-arts-type moves in the workout.

We’ll see if this works out, or if I have chosen poorly.

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I’m in the Toledo Free Press?!

Check out what I found when I looked at my website referrers today:

Blog it, Toledo!
By Lisa Renee Ward
Special to Toledo Free Press

(exclusive online content: 3/8/06)

Most of the blogs out there are personal ones, people write not just to communicate with each other but to share what is happening in their life. Diana Schnuth’s blog is personal in nature. However she’s taken her blog beyond just the mere journal of life aspect. She has also created a pod cast and a second blog related to that called The Low Carb Lifestyle.  There are a few people in my life that follow a low carb diet, I’ve downloaded and listened to a few of Diana’s pod casts and have found them very informative/helpful.

Some personal blogs are more like diaries, Petey P takes you thru the happy and sometimes the less than happy moments in Pete’s life. Another thing about visiting blogs is checking out some of the people a blogger links to which led me to the next featured blog.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, I’d have to agree with that, especially when it is done in humor. The Peep series of posts and photos on Iron Duke had me not only snickering but glad that Peep season was just around the corner.

Another thing about personal blogs is that it seems from time to time a blogger will step away from blogging because real life gets too busy. Joshua at One Bad Website is at that point, “Lack of motivation and school has prevented me from posting. I’m sure this blog has fallen off of most radars. Meh.” Au contraire Joshua?radar is still operational.

Most of these personal blogs are not meant for those under 18, Omar the Great is one of these. He writes about almost everything from his having the flu, dating adventures and personal exchanges he has with people that make me think at times?Gee, I hope none of these people read your blog?

Then we have blogs like Mind Matter where in her posts titled, “Through The Rabbit Hole” and “Blogging Under A Magnifying Glass”, some of the reasons why people decide to not go into too much personal detail are discussed.

So there we have this week’s adventure into personal blogging, from diets to dating to break ups to peeps, someone out there in our area is blogging about it. If you have a blog you want to share with me, email me at glasscityjungle@gmail.com. When I’m not out surfing the net you can find me at Glass City Jungle.

I’ve had at least two people check out my podcast from today’s Toledo Free Press article, and one extra hit to my blog, so thanks to Lisa Renee for directing some traffic my way.

In other website referral news, at least eight people have visited my podcast from the Burning Twenty podcast. Adam Tinkoff from Burning Twenty plugged my podcast to his 9000 — yes, nine THOUSAND — listeners in his Episode #11, and my stats have actually increased a little since then. Adam kind of dogged low-carb dieting right after saying how great my podcast was, so I think his listeners might have gotten a mixed message on that one. To each his own, though, and any publicity is good publicity.