Thursday, September 29, 2011

It is done.....here is what I could not finish and my lame excuses for not finishing each:


3. Get my weight to 195lbs
I love food. I finished 90 days of P90x and actually got my weight to about 205 at its lowest. 195 is going to have to be extreme butt motivation for that weight isnt that great.
8. Fix my crooked tooth (invisiline)
Cash money
17. Volunteer for 2 charitable events (0/2)
Opportunity did not arrive once. I actually joined an honors fraternity recently so I should have some opportunity to take care of this one
18. Generate passive income enough to pay my monthly bills
This is tough to accomplish in a short time and is more of a long-term goal
24. Save up to buy a motorcycle
I saved up a descent amount of money butt now that I am not working and going to school, the last thing I should do is spend money on a motorcycle
25. Brew my own beer
I really wish I did this one.
26. Cook 3 different crock pot recipes (0/3)
I moved away from Tim and he had a crock pot
28. Print out my family tree
It is way too big to print out. It also is not complete even though I have about 3,000 people on it. I have printed out a book report on half of my family and gave it to my great aunts for christmas so I think I half accomplished this
29. Learn to ride/drive a motorcycle
Owning a motorcycle would help
32. Go to a shooting range
This is another one I really wish I had done and I am not sure why it never happened.
33. Take a spontaneous road trip
It is tough to take a spontaneous road trip with so many schdeduling conflicts
34. Ride a jet ski
I came close....we were going to rent jet skis butt it rained that weekend
40. Visit the Playboy mansion
Money and time
45. Do a voice over for a studio
I need somebody on the inside
46. See a sunrise and sunset on the same day in on open land
I was lazy with this one and I guess just didnt want to really do it. It would be nice butt I think this was just a filler for the list
48. Join an intramurals sports team
I tried. I signed up and they never got back up with me to put me on a team. wahhhh
49. Go skydiving
Almost.....I had a tripped planned and one by one people bailed out until it was down to two people. Then money became an issue so I was the last to bail
50. Get a bull dog
I do not want to get a bulldog until I have more of a set schedule and am more financially stable
51. Start a fire with things in nature
Tim and I tried this during our camping trip and I would say put a good hour into. I watched videos before hand and tried really really hard to make this happen. That is a tough thing to do
53. Watch a Duke game live at Cameron Indoor Stadium
I need some friends in higher places
60. Visit an amusement park with some friends
I have this planned for 2 weeks from now so hopefully that still happens
63. Email 3 family members that I have lost touch with (2/3)
I havent really lost touch with many family members. I did meet a lot of new family members that I was never in touch with so that kind of makes up for it
64. Send out Christmas cards (1/2)
It was easier when I wasnt single. Sending out a christmas card of just me is kinda weird
66. Create 10 different play lists for 10 different moods (7/10)
I don't really need playlists so never put much effort into this. I just let my music play on random at all times and that has worked nice
72. Get a big flat widescreen television
TV is such a waste of time
73. Send in a comment card to somewhere
I dont think I really came across any comment cards
75. Catch, cook, and eat a fish
This one I really want to do too. I ned to just hit up a charter boat and catch a fish.
76. Go on another snowboarding trip
Cash money and time
77. Learn how to use nun chucks
There is only so much to learn by watching youtube videos. I would much rather learn by an instructor
78. Give a homeless person some food
I didnt see any homeless people. This one would have been a lot easier had I still lived in NY
79. Do something nice for someone and have them never find out
I really tried. Butt people find things out
80. Visit an aquarium
I kinda did with the croc thing in myrtle. This one is one of those things that you dont really do with your friends butt more with a girlfriend. So single life kinda ended my chances here.
84. Donate 1/2 million grains of free rice at freerice.com (22,000/500,000)
This just got boring. And who knows if I am really donating any rice
86. Transfer my 8mm tapes to digital
I need my tapes to put them on digital and Kenny still has them
88. Attend Crown club
I do not think it exists any more
89. Go golfing on a full course
Still trying to do. I have brought it up a bunch of times butt nobody I know really goes golfing
90. Watch 10 full movie/television season commentaries (0/10)
Wow this was a fail. I guess I am just not that interested in watching them
91. Test drive a car that I know I cannot afford
This sounds like it would be fun butt it is tough to actually get motivated to drive a car you want and know you cannot buy
93. Visit 3 big U.S. cities that I have not been to yet (2/3)
I was happy I got 2. Money would have helped me see more
94. Play in a high stakes fantasy sports league
I have been short on cash and trying to stay away from fantasy sports for a little while
95. Raffle something off
Tough to do when I try to not talk to anybody. This would have been easier when i was running Lazyday and organizing events and whatnot.
100. Cook an elaborate dinner for a friend(s)
This sounds like it should be a romantic type deal and well....single doesnt help
101. Take a trip with Kenny, Ian and Dave
I dont like them anymore.




Ok I do and as fun as it would be, it is tough to get us all together unless somebody is getting married.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

#98.) Pulled a camping trip with some friends over at Carolina State Park. Apparently no beers and no fire were the rules. I did not get to poop in the woods like I wanted to and I tried to scratch off #58 butt could not get a fire to start. It is a lot harder than I thought it would be. The toughest part is finding sticks to fit the right specifications.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

#7.) I got the first outline done on my half sleeve yesterday and go back for a second session next wednesday. I think I do a third after that to get it all colored. I will wait until it is done for a picture.

#21.) Finally got my savings account to over $5K. I have been putting 10% of every paycheck into the account and not touching it. Every now and then if I have extra money laying around I will throw that in there too. Not really sure what I wanted to do with this money butt I suppose it is just good to have.

#67.) JBone got a scale for our bathroom a way back. Although I did not buy this scale, I still have one in my bathroom which is really all I wanted. I just wanted to keep a general idea of how fat I was.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

#61.) I finally had a day to just go through everything and get rid of junk junk. I did not realize how much of a hoarder I was. I had every phone bill statement I have ever had along with a ton of little knick knacks that are completely useless. I got rid of a good amount of clothes that I will donate to good will. I still have a few shirts that I was iffy on. I do not wear them butt cannot bring myself to get rid of them. Maybe on my next list on my second run of clearing out my room.

Monday, November 15, 2010


#57.) I did not exactly join a gym butt I did start an exercise program which equals out to the same thing in my head. I have just completed my 60th day of P90X

#58.) By completing my 60th day in P90X, that is sticking with an exercise routine for 2 months which scratches off number 58.

I have my day 60 photo butt I already had this image cropped up and didn't feel like adding another picture. Plus day 60 does not differ much from day 45 except for the fact that my hair is
a little longer.


Here is me after my day 90. I was really excited to finish the 90 days so I took this photo right after a workout which is why I am all red. I really am not cut out like the commercial photos because I did not follow the diet plan. I just love food way too much. And by food I mean bad fatty food.

#62.) When I made this list, my mom was still living in NY so my idea was to send her something nice in the mail. Now that she lives in NC with me, I did not have to send it very far. I saw a small pin that says "bikers for boobs" which may seem inappropriate as a gift for mom butt it happens to be quite the opposite. She rides motorcycles and is all about showing support for people who have breast cancer or know somebody else who does. It is a jazzy little pin for her to put onto her biker vest.

Monday, August 9, 2010

#47.) For Kenneth Kohler's wedding, him and his now wife were generous enough to have us buy an outfit that we could wear always rather than renting a tux. This last outfit assisted my goal at number 47 which was to improve my wardrobe to become more professional. What I really meant by this was that I would have 5 combinations of ties, nice dress shirts, and slacks to complete a business week and not repeat outfits.

#59.) On the way up to Kenny's wedding, I finally hit a toll booth. I was nervous about this one because I rarely cross through toll booths anymore. I slowed down to make sure that I could see somebody filling in the spot behind me. I was considering paying for the car behind me without them being in sight so they wouldn't know it was me. Had I done that, I could have completed another goal in doing something nice for somebody without them knowing. However, I do not know how trust worthy a toll booth employee would be so I wouldn't even find out if I did something nice or created some theft.
So the dude that pulls up next to me just so happens to be a very scary looking black dude. I am not implying that all black people are scary or that he was scary because he was black. I am simply saying that this guys was a black man and had a very scary face. Butt since I did not want to blow my chance, I paid $2.50 for myself and requested to pay for the car behind me. I slowed down a bit leaving the booth to make sure the lady didn't pocket the money.
Now there were 2 scenarios I would have liked from this:
  1. I pay for the person behind me and they 'pay it forward' and pay for the car behind them and so on.
  2. I pay for the car behind me and they feel good about the day and drive past me with a smile and wave.

Neither of these two happened as the dude lurked behind me for a while and then sped past me. So I am still counting this as done with results that I was not expecting.

#52.) Laura Hoyle just moved in with a friend who had an extra bed. He wanted it gone and I have been sleeping on an air mattress for about 5 months. $75 got me an almost brand new queen size mattress. This is an upgrade from my air mattress and from my previous queen size that I removed from a dumpster a few years back. The springs were terrible and my body ached every morning from that bed. This new one is firm and beautiful.

#93.) On the way to Kenny's wedding, I stopped by Washington D.C. to visit a friend with Laura. It was an okay city with ridiculous roads that create more traffic than there needs to be. I did not get to see the monuments up close butt I got the general idea. Hit up some bar that night as well and I was not impressed. It was a sports bar that had people clubbing and dancing all over the place. I was very confused by that. First thing I saw was some dude standing on a bench dancing to Ke$ha which made me sad. No rush to head back to D.C.

Monday, July 12, 2010

#31.) I was browsing through the ole Lollapalooza lineup for this year and came across a group by the name of MyNameIsJohnMichael. Apparently the dude who got this group together has the first and middle names of John Michael so that name is not too creative. However, the name caught my eye because my uncle's name is John Michael Hamilton. So I decided to check em on out and thought they were pretty descent. They sound a little like bright eyes with more life to the music.

My three musical artists/groups that I checked out and liked on my own:

  • Regina Spektor
  • Band of Horses
  • MyNameIsJohnMichael