I’ve given a link to one of the best Dance Dance Revolution sites on the net, DDRFreak.com before, but the really cool part about that site is the fact that they provide the dance steps for each version of DDR they’ve put out. So, what do I do? Hee. I download the songs from the net, and then as they play, I do the steps as they’re laid out. I can play DDR as long as I have a computer. I could care less about the score, so long as I sweat and exercise. Anyway, just wanted to share. I thought this was a cool alternative.

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Monday, I began what I call the DDR Diet. This is sort of an exercise regimen I’ve embarked upon. Here’s the plan, basically:

1. DDR for at least one hour every day. This is a pretty good workout.
2. Restricted to one large meal or two small meals per day.
3. Snacking is restricted to baby carrot, fruits, or water.
4. Water is now my drink of choice. No soda. OJ is okay.
5. I’m allowed 2,000 calories a week, I’m actually thinking about raising this considering the exercise involved.

Extra DDR is good, but when the dogs bark, it’s time to take them home. While an hour was sufficient, I’ve been pushing myself a little harder. For example, Wednesday I did 4.5 hours total.

As for food, it’s been pretty much that Subway sandwich thing for the time being. I actually did the research and figured out that the sandwiches are okay, like twice or three times a week at the outside. But the calories put together is too much over 2,000, if I were to eat them every day. With all due respect to Jared, I’d like to stick to my guns on this one. And I don’t even like Subway to begin with. I just get roast beef with mustard and lettuce, or turkey breast with just lettuce. Mustard and turkey don’t go together, as far as I’m concerned. I figured so long as I stay away from mayo, I’ll be fine. Otherwise, I can also eat salads, with chicken. Or make myself a hot dog (beleive it or not, a hot dog isn’t high in calories at all).

I’ve been drinking nothing but water all week. I have Pepsi’s in my mini-fridge, but I haven’t touched them. There’s also this Twisted Tea that Todd bought and left… but I’m not a big drinker, so, that’s easy to avoid.

Salt is also a big deal with me. Lower my salt intake helps me lose all the water weight I’m carrying around. But once that’s gone, then the real work begins.

I’ll start reporting weight and stuff here, soon enough. I have to buy a damn scale, first.

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So last year, I got to know this really awesome young lady, who’s first name is Karen. We hung out a great deal at Fanime. She was the Vice-Chair, and I was some guy who handled press and public relations and crap like that. But in the time after, we’ve been really good friends, and she went on a multi-month trip to Japan, China, and Taiwan back in January. She’s back! Jody and Todd told me she went to Fanime this year, and they talked briefly, I guess. I was so thrilled to learn she was back! This means that more nights will be filled with joy and fun and Anime watching! YES!

*AHEM* Anyway, I didn’t quite make it over to play DDR today, unfortunately. I had to work on a couple of personal projects. However, I intended to go, because I started my stretching exercises per usual, and then the memory of the projects hit me and I just made the decision to not go today. Besides, with the amount of punishment I’ve been dolling out to my knees and legs, I think letting them have a day off to relax is a good thing. I’ll be back on track on Monday morning, anyway. Not to mention that since I’ll have this weekend pretty much to myself at work (unlike last week), this means I’ll be able to get some unfinished homework assignments done. That’s also a very good thing.

I’ll have more to say later, I’m sure, but that’s all for now.

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Blah.

What an interesting descriptor for a day, but’s officially Blah Day for me. What’s a Blah Day? It’s when you wake up all rummy and feeling in such a sate to just repeat grunts or the word ‘blah’ over and over again. Which is why I seem to be doing. Blah blah blah blah blahblahblah. BLAH! (Oh, I’m sure the spellchecker’ll have a field day with that sentence. It’s such an angry spellchecker…)

Last night, I had intended to go to sleep before midnight, but who the hell am I kidding? I’m a night owl, damnit. I love staying up all night and talking to a friend via Yahoo voice chat and watching her try not to feel too embarrassed when she flicks on her webcam. I had a lot of fun last night, so that definitely makes up for it. I just hope that today is a better day for that particular friend than yesterday was. To fully understand the nature of the whole breakup process, FurBall, it’s important to remember three little things:

1. You are entitled to cry, be angry, rant/rave, stomp around, be depressed, and feel whatever cavalcade of emotions that’re attached to this situation. Feel free to express yourself by any means necessary. Your friends will try and cheer you up, but it’s important to your healing that you get all the mourning out of the way. If you don’t, then you’ll regret it later.

2. You are not alone. You have a lot of friends over here who’re going to be around and try and help you through this. Don’t be afraid to talk, banter, or try and help yourself. No (wo)man is an island.

3. You are not DEAD. What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. The strength you will gain from this will augment the strength that you already possess. So, learn from the situation and apply that knowledge toward the future.

Keep the above three points in mind, and you will get through this. It’s not going to happen tomorrow or maybe not even next week or next month, but eventually you’ll see the light at the end of this long and dark tunnel. We all walk at our own pace, so once you regain your stride, you’ll feel a lot better about this. Especially when you’re looking at this problem as it’s far behind you.

Anyway, enough of the counseling advice. You get the point.

On another topic, I was thinking about doing a live broadcast from work this weekend. It might help me to get over a state of blah by sharing the blah with everyone else. Depressed-Free WNOHGB, here are some more tunes… blah.

Crud. And now I think I’m coming down with a cold. Shit.

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