Okay, so now the real entry for today. We were watching Throwdown with Bobby Flay earlier, so I couldn’t get my thoughts in order, but Kelly’s gone to bed now so I can write some.

I don’t remember the statistic, but I remember reading somewhere that most New Year’s resolutions are broken before January ends. So every once in a while, I will try to check in with my overall progress on mine that I mentioned previously. Since we’re now halfway through January, why not now?

1. Post at least once every day. Yep. You’re reading the proof.
2. Lose weight. I haven’t weighed myself during the course of this month (for that matter, I didn’t weigh myself on December 31, either, so I don’t really know what my starting weight was). I haven’t done a great job here – haven’t really changed anything about my eating habits or my exercise. My clothes don’t feel looser or anything. I’d guess I’m about where I was at the start of the year.
3. Read my Bible every day. Yes! I’ve read at least a chapter every day. I’m ashamed to admit this, but it’s the longest consecutive stretch of days that I’ve read my Bible in quite a while. We’re currently doing a church-wide Bible reading on Jesus where we read through three of the Gospels one chapter a day until Easter. I’ve used that as my guide.
4. Better neatness around the house and yard. I’ve been better, but not what I really want to get to. For example, I’m still not the best at cleaning up dishes every night, so they’ll still pile up. (Ricky, I’m sure that you’re nodding your head in remembrance right now.) But I am getting better at it (in fact, I cleaned the kitchen tonight while Kelly made dinner). It’s a little cold for doing much in the yard right now, though.

I mentioned financial goals, but I think for the most part that I’m going to keep those to Kelly and myself. I like the topic of personal finance, and for the most part I’ll talk about it with anyone who will listen, but I don’t think that I’m quite ready to have an open wallet.

So there you go. I’m 2 1/2 for 4. But the year is still young – still room for improvement!

Today I lacerated the top of my mouth putting a potato chip into it. I can’t say that that’s ever happened to me before in my life.

In the land of Oz this weekend…we’re returning the car that we borrowed from my parents while looking for our new wheels.

Not really much else to report today…hm. Well, I did say that I would post something every day. I didn’t say it would necessarily be interesting every day.

A lot of my day was spent waiting. A lot of it was also spent writing checks.

The waiting mainly came due to my garage door opener repairman being late. I ended up at home for the vast majority of the afternoon. He got there and set up our new opener, complete with sensor (it should give you an idea of how old our old ones are/were that they didn’t include sensors on them). Seems to work pretty well. It’s just not the sexiest thing to buy.

That’s reserved for things like cars. Yep, we finally got our new vehicle tonight as well. Kelly drove it home, and it will become her primary vehicle. I’ll drive her old Civic until we save up enough to get my truck. (Did “Somewhere Out There” start playing softly in the background?) I’ll throw a picture up when I get the chance. I’m going to go register it and get the license tomorrow.

After finishing all the paperwork on the car, we went and saw Katelyn, Ricky and Tammy’s daughter. They’re all doing well (if a bit tired, I’m sure)…they will be able to come home either tomorrow or Thursday; they weren’t sure when we talked to them.

(I realize that by writing the previous paragraph, I’ve gotten two different women rarin’ again for their own grandchild. All in due time…)

If you read this site, you certainly know about the other half of 1122 Productions, Ricky and Tammy Eanes. Their baby girl was born today!

You can go to his site for more information on the big day and their new bundle of joy.

Congratulations, Ricky and Tammy!

My last five meals:

• Pizza
• Leftover pizza
• Leftover pizza
• Taco Bell
• Leftover pizza

Did I mention Kelly’s not feeling well?

We haven’t left the house today. Kelly is recovering from a virus, so it’s been a lazy Saturday. We had originally planned on going grocery shopping, but she hasn’t felt up to it. Yes, I know that I could go by myself, but I don’t wanna. 🙂

So she’s been reading, and I’ve been on the computer, and we’ve both had turns at the TV. Our lives are exciting!

I got a new computer at work today. It’s got a quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM…me likee.

I know that it’s a bit geeky (okay, it’s a lot geeky), but I really like breaking in a new computer. I was able to get a lot of it done today, so if the need comes tomorrow morning I can work on it. But I still have some other things that I have to load and install on it before it’s really prepped and ready to go.

Of course, it really makes me want a new machine at home too. But that will happen in due time…

Happy New Year!

For those of you who still like to check this page from time to time, and are used to seeing nothing here, here’s a surprise for ya…not nothing!

However, I’d like to take this opportunity to let you know that pressing on… is making a comeback this year. Far too long I have been more of a consumer of the web than a producer. I have many fond memories of working on this website and adding the content that now sits gathering cobwebs in the archives. Hey, even I still go back every now and then and read what my former self wrote. Some of it still cracks me up.

Kelly and I talked about resolutions once before the new year, and I said that I hadn’t really planned on doing any. Well, Sunday at church that changed. The pastor preached an excellent sermon on change, and I was convicted of needing to make a few in my own life. Did God tell me to start up pressing on… again? No, but he did reveal to me that I’ve been pretty lazy about keeping up with people in the past, and this site is a great way that I have had to do so. He also showed me that I don’t take advantage of free time very well. This gets back to being a consumer of the web. It’s really easy in today’s Internet to get lost in countless blogs, Youtube clips, and news aggregators and just keeping taking it all in. It’s really easy to convince myself that my life isn’t really all that special, and who would care to read about it? Both are wrong. The former leads to a glazed-over mind and also invites temptation. The latter both tells God that essentially I’m pointless and denies my friends and family the opportunity to commune with me (in the modern way). I’m just enough of a curmudgeon to not want to join MySpace or Facebook…this is my interface to the Internet world. So I need to take care of it better.

So I’m making a resolution (it’s one of five that I’m making) for this year to include at least one post every day. All 366 days. For days that I know that I will not be able to access the blog, I will inform the general public about it beforehand (so no cheating) and then write my entry down during the day, so that when I can get back online I can add it and back-date it appropriately.

What are the other four resolutions, you might ask? Oh, the usual. Lose weight, read my Bible every day, better organization and tidiness in the house/yard, and some financial goals that I won’t get into here.

All right. One day of 366 done. Now to go erase all the spam that’s appeared on some of my other entries.

So last night I had this dream that I was at a party. It was a party with alcoholic beverages. I don’t drink in real life, but apparently in the dream world I like dark beers, because that’s what I was having. I only had a couple, I think.

When Kelly and I left the dream party, I woke up. And when I tried to walk to the kitchen, I felt woozy. Apparently I don’t hold my dream liquor very well.