Archive for May, 2008

Exercise in the Morning

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Exercising is the long lost secret to a long healthy life. Most don’t want to hear it. They want to know what fatty foods are ok to eat and not die from, what pills to pop daily, and maybe they want to hear something as simple as going to bed before 11pm consistently.

The secret to a long lasting and healthy life is to live a healthy lifestyle which consists of eating good food, but the biggest and most important secret is exercising regularly. I have my moments where I slack and gain weight and when it is time to get back to losing and shedding those pounds I begin to research more about the best ways. Maybe this time I will find a hidden secret that will make my quest that much easier.

I did stumble onto something in my quest that was actually a little nugget of truth that might help all of us out when we start exercising to get back into shape and shed some pounds. So what is it?

Exercise in the morning if you can. There are so many added benefits to exercising in the morning that studies show 80% of all people who exercise in the morning lose weight and actually keep it off. And we all know losing weight isn’t really too difficult, it’s keeping that weight off….

I can’t remember the percentage of those who exercise in the evening who are successful at losing weight and keeping it off but it was something dramatically lower like 23% or so…

So what are some of the benefits?

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Is Circuit City Going Under?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Is Best Buy too much competition? Gossip is traveling real fast that Circuit City is filing Chapter 11. My curiosity peaked and so I did a little investigating. Apparently it’s true according to Snopes, and not only that but you may want to go use up any gift cards you might be holding onto.

Unfortunately this will also leave more people unemployed, seeking out new jobs.

-sillydad

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Pain at the Pump – How High is High?

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

It’s all relative… Well it still doesn’t ease the pain…

Today oil prices soared up $5 to a new record of $132/barrel. Crikeys! And probably most people think Bush is raking in some sort of profits from the high gas prices. Apparently quite the opposite, and in fact, OPEC seems to be liking the idea of putting the squeeze on American drivers, so much so the U.S. Congress wants to sue OPEC for not increasing oil outputs…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.

The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.

These same people who are suing OPEC are the same people who say NO to drilling, NO to refineries, and tie the hands of the oil business… then turn around and complain about the price of oil.

I know hauling 5 kids around town in my super minivan, I can definitely feel the pinch of high gas prices, but it’s time to stop complaining and to take matters into our own hands. Either find a new energy source or stop being so dependent on imported oil. Let’s drill. Let’s build refineries. We just found enough oil in Montana and North Dakota to extract what they claim to be 4.3 billion barrels of oil.

The U.S. Geological Survey calls it the largest continuous oil accumulation it has ever assessed.

What the hell are we waiting for folks?

-sillydad

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El Numero Six

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

And just when you thought things couldn’t get any more crazier down here at the funny farm aka the Remington household… we find out that we are now expecting our 6th child due in October. As much as we love children and want to raise a nice healthy batch, this one came as a big surprise.

One of the things most people ask me is how big is the change as you tack on another rugrat to the blend? I mean does it get exponentially easier because of the experience or does it get harder because of the load. Or do they offset each other and there doesn’t seem to be much change?

I wish I could answer that but I can only say “I don’t really know”. But I do know that going from #5 to #6 changes a lot of things in our family. For instance, the minivan holds 5 kids but not 6. The amount of bedrooms in our house and the beds laid out we can fit 5 in nicely and not 6. So in a sense we have come to the point where we have outgrown the house and the minivan. Yowzas.

Going from “I will never be caught dead driving a minivan” to “honey we just outgrew the minivan” in roughly 9 years is a major accomplishment. That’s definitely moving fast up the corporate ladder of craziness with kiddos.

So the dynamics really change a lot this time around. Looking back on things I see where going from 2 kids to 3 was a struggle. I have 2 hands and 2 kids and so when the time came to cross the street I could grab each one with each of my hands. With 3 you can always grab 2 if you have to but there is one person you really have to put a lot of trust in and hope you raised them right… not to go flying off the handle, run out into the road, and immediately get run over by a semi…

I was always good at juggling 3 objects in college. Beer bottles were elongated and more difficult to get into that groove but I think the practice did pay off in the long haul. I can’t say college didn’t teach me anything constructive, practical, or completely eccentric.

But there you have it… another child soon to be terrorizing the house, the backyard, the outgrown minivan… I sure do expect some fun times…

-sillydad

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18 Things A Grown Man Should Never Have

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Of course we fight our own demons and this list is designed for nothing less than perfection. I can admit I never ever ever ever slept on a futon, yet I still carry less than $20 in my wallet and I snag by beer bottle opener on the inside of pants pocket when pulling out my car keys in the supermarket parking lot. I have never named by “you know what” either…

Learn your weakness…

18 Things A Grown Man Should Never Have

1. A black eye.

2. A witty e-mail signature.

3. An empty refrigerator.

4. PlayStation thumb.

5. A key chain with a bottle opener.

Read the entire thing >

-sillydad

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