My Body Tells me No-o-o, but I Won't Quit

It's been an excellent weekend off. My sunburn continues to heal. Which is a good thing. I went and saw a couple of movies this past weekend.

First, I went and saw Red Riding Hood which I tried to get people to go to with me, but no one ended up being able to go so I went by myself. It was pretty empty, so I sat with my Sour Patch Kids and sent out the occasional twitter. It was pretty good. The casting was interesting. It was kind of like the line of thought went "Let's just cast everyone who's convenient to Vancouver, B.C., oh, and Gary Oldman." I don't really mind since it means we ended up with the guy who played Saul Tigh in Battle Star Galactica and Michael Shanks (it took me seeing his name in the credits to realize that it had been him; in my defense he looked really short and died really early on). And then y'know Catherine Hardwick had to have Billy Burke. It was pretty well put together. A lot of the tension is similar to how the first twilight movie feels (same director). I did enjoy that they were pretty true to the whole people who were already considered odd were the first people accused to being witches thing (autistic kid, prettiest girl in the town, etc.). Overall, I would probably buy it eventually to add to my DVD collection.

I also went and saw Battle: Los Angeles with my dad. It was pretty much right up his alley. Lots of explosions and military confusion. It runs a little bit along the plot of independence day, but not so much alien technology in the end. And very few computers. So, Independence Day without Jeff Goldblum. Also not as many good one liners as Independence Day. But I feel like it was much grittier than Independence Day and in that way more real. Kind of excellent.

I still want to go see Beastly. I have a thing for remade fairy tales. Also I think it has an Olsen twin in it. Also I don't think their version of making him ugly (or beastly, ahahahaha, pun) is really that bad. In fact tattoos and piercings and scars are kind of hot. But to each his own I guess.

I've got another good chord progression on the ukulele, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it quite yet. I'm not sure it wants words or not. Hmmm...I'll have to spend some time contemplating it. I wish I had a little thing to record it on so that I could play it over and over.

I'm getting better at remembering to take my vitamins and I've almost gotten rid of the weight that I gained back in Hawaii (which was 3 lbs, so not absolutely the worst thing ever). I feel like I've stalled a little bit though. I'm confident weight loss will continue, but I just need to get past this point. I feel a little bit out of control with the eating, but I'm getting better every day, so it's just a matter of time. And that's really hard to remember some days, that as long as I'm not going up, it doesn't matter how long it takes me to lose the weight as long as I lose it. That's all I care about.

And now I'm off! Have a good night internets.

Close to town but not to the city

Back from my trip to Hawaii. And I managed to sun burn the backs of my knees, a strip on the bottom of my back and the backs of my shoulders. Awesome. It's slowly getting better, but I am not yet surviving without the aid of tylonel to kill the pain.

Hawaii was great and so very pretty. Though I could never live there because it's so very humid. And I only saw one cat the whole time I was there, and it was in a graveyard, if that's not foreshadowing I'm not sure what is. We went and saw a lot of things. The Polynesian Cultural Center and that was pretty cool, hit Germaine's Luau, where we saw our neighbor's son, that was awfully strange. Also tried to go on a whale watching trip on which we saw no whales and got really sea sick because it was so rough. It was the roughest boat I've ever been on. We did see some humpback whales the next day when we went to Hanuama bay for snorkeling. The snorkeling was awesome. The fish are just like "I'ma gonna keep eating, you do whatever you want." Awesome. I could spend all day there. I played navigator the whole time because I can read a map. My mom did not appreciate my Sailor Moon jokes about Asian girls on pink mopeds, nor did she appreciate my Dragonball Z jokes about Kamehameha Highway, nor did she appreciate my Monkey Island jokes...sometimes she got the Pirates of the Caribbean jokes, but only sometimes. Next time I definitely need to bring Sarah and Mary.

Other than that the plane ride there was fairly bumpy, but okay. The plane ride back was really awful because I was stuck in the middle and had the only panic attack I had ever had. UGH. Other than that it was a lot smoother than the ride there. However, I'm having some severe chills and a lot of vertigo, which I don't know if that's because the flight back effed up my inner ear, or if I'm actually sick. I just can't tell, but I definitely wish it would stop. The vertigo is no fun at all. I'm also thinking that I might be dehydrated a little bit or something, so a lot of water is going in me as well.

Evil Dead the Musical is going to be in Lynden. Which sounds impossible, but awesome, all at the same time. I totally intend to see it. I can't believe it took me this long to find out and they're building a stage for it and everything at the Northwest Washington Fair grounds. I've got to get some tickets soonish. I'll talk to Mary and see when she wants to go. And then force everyone else to go with me as well.

So I reached my weight loss goal for Hawaii, but then gained back about 3lbs while I was there. I think a lot of it is water because the amount of salt that I ate was ridiculous. Though we did a lot of walking as well. My next goal is to be down to 225lbs by the end of July, which I think will be definitely possible, but I'll have to step up my game with the exercise once the weather gets warmer. I also need to get more on top of my vitamins. I've been really bad about taking my vitamin D. So get better at that, and my doctor suggested taking Magnesium because I get a lot of muscle cramping in my calves, and because I don't sleep well, so it's supposed to help with those things. I'll see how it going.

I'll try to get another Hawaii post up with some of the pictures that I took. Later party people.