171 days

Yes, I know it's been almost a year since my last post, I'm gonna try to keep my blog updated going forward. so 2009 is coming to a close and it has been without a doubt the best year of my life!!! I married my best friend in September, we went to Ireland and London for our honeymoon and had a great time, I got a promotion at work and am finally happy again at work, and I got a Jeep Wrangler again in March!!

So, you're probably wondering what the 171 days means.....Well on May 16th, 2010 I will be running my 3rd full marathon, my 1st full marathon in Colorado, I will be participating in the Colorado Colfax Marathon!! So mark your calendars, and come on out and cheer me on May 16th, my goal will be to finish (obviously) and to complete the marathon in under 4 hours. I have started running again (albeit slowly) it feels good to get back into it. Training will officially begin in late December or the 1st week in January and I'll be back to running 4 days a week!! Keep checking back for updates on how the training is going!!

OH YEAH!!!!! :-)

So Friday night I played poker at Matt's house with 6 other guys, had a good time, a few beers, oh yeah and I won $200 :-) Ran 6 miles saturday and sunday, watched football, then decided to use my $26 token on Full Tilt Poker and guess what??? I won $410!!!!!! I beat out 44 other people and took down that tourney!!!!!!! :-)

yeah, I've been slacking, I know it :-)

So, obviously it's been a long @$$ time since my last post. Daria and I moved into our house on June 8th and basically since then we've been working on it, trying to bring the grass back to life, unpacking all our stuff, setting up the basement, figuring out that we have a gas dryer and you need to have the gas valve turned on for the dryer to get any heat!! :-)

Today with the help of Seth and Dan I'm going to install the swamp cooler!!!! I can't begin to tell you how nice that's going to be, our house has an attic fan currently and a window AC unit in the bedroom, which makes the bedroom the best place to be! With the swamp cooler we'll finally be able to hang out in the family room and kitchen and not be sweating!!! :-)

It has felt very strange to be living in the house since June and we haven't made 1 mortgage payment yet!!! That'll all change on August 1st though, we'll make that first payment and then I'll feel like we'll officially be homeowners :-)

Living with Daria and Bishop has been everything I thought it would be and more!!! I love falling asleep with my baby every night and waking up next to her every morning, it always starts my day off on the right foot :-)

This weekend is one that I've been looking forward too for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooong time!!!!! The Mile High Music Festival is this weekend!!!!! And for those of you who don't know KBCO picked some people at random who ordered tickets during the presale and upgraded them to VIP!!!!!!!!!! $500 value per ticket and I got 2 tickets per day!!!!

In case you wanted to know, here's the VIP perks :-)

• Premier VIP parking and entrance
• Exclusive viewing platform for main and second stages
• 2 VIP shade areas
• Executive air conditioned bathrooms
• Complimentary beverage service
• Gourmet food tastings
• Massage Therapist
• Full cash bar (in addition to free beer and wine)
• Lounge area with comfortable seating
• Shuttle between VIP areas
• Commemorative poster
• Private group platform

can you say holy eff????? FREE BEER AND WINE!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm taking my brother in law Dave on Saturday (thanks to my baby sacrificing her ticket so he could go) and we're both very excited because we've never seen O.A.R. live so that should be a good show. Dan is going with us on both days but isn't VIP so I'm going to figure out a way to get him in there!! :-)

Sunday is the day of days though I'll be there with Daria and Dan and the lineup for Sunday is insane!!!!

• John Mayer
• The Black Crowes
• Rodrigo y Gabriela
• Flogging Molly
• Colbie Caillat
• OneRepublic
• The Roots
• Leftover Salmon
• Martin Sexton
• Pinback
• Flobots

and of course the headliner for sunday is the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND!!!!! I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to see them!!!! This will be my 13th time and Daria's first time, their tour so far this summer has been awesome and this will be a fantastic show for sure!!!!!! I'll give a full review of the weekend on Monday :-)

Greatest Day EVER!!!!!!!!!!

So on Wednesday June 4, 2008 not only did Daria and I finally get our house, but I am the luckiest man on earth because she also said yes when I proposed!!!! This was the GREATEST day of my life!!!!! :-)

Rivalry Renewed

Tonight is game 1 between the Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings. These teams haven't played each other in the post season in 6 years, after having met 5 times in the playoffs between 1996-2002. Needless to say I am VERY excited for this series despite the fact that we haven't beat Detroit all season. Our current team is vastly different with the additions of Peter Forsberg, Adam Foote, Ruslan Salei and a healthy Joe Sakic (who didn't play against Detroit all year due to injuries) and with Jose Theodore playing like a goalie possessed we've got all the makings for an upset. I'm predicting that the Avs will win the series in 6 games.

GO AVS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Biggest Loser week 3 update

Since I won the weigh-in last week I thought that I was in great shape for the rest of the competition, I felt that I had my routine down and I'd be consistently losing 4+ pounds each week, well, I think I need to rethink my workout routines and my eating regiment. This week on the scale I lost 2 pounds and finished second to Angela who lost 3.5 to take home the weekly title, nice job Angela!!! I have been working out 2-3 nights per week and doing some intense cardio during those sessions, but if I'm going to continue to lose weight, I need to maintain my healthy eating all week, maybe take sunday's off, but only after I have worked out, and add working out on the weekends to help out. So this weekend, I'm going to run Saturday morning, then workout for a while saturday night, and run Sunday morning as well, in addition to working out Monday and Tuesday nights. Hopefully this will make a difference and I can drop 4 pounds or so this week to take the weekly title next week!! I am down to 217.4 pounds which is GREAT!!!! I've lost 12.6 in just under 4 weeks!!!! I'm getting closer to getting back down to my goal of 180 :-)

stay tuned..........

Biggest Loser season 5 and week two update

Last night Daria, Matt and I watched the season finale of the Biggest Loser. Daria got me hooked on it in week one and I watched every episode throughout the season!! This was the perfect show for me to get hooked on, since I ballooned up to 230 pounds after stopping running for a while, it provided a motivational spark. The final 3 were Roger, Kelly and Ali, I totally was happy with all 3 contestants but wanted to see Ali or Kelly win it for sure since a woman had never won before.

They brought back all of the previous contestants who had been kicked off to see which one lost the most weight and won the $100,000 prize, it was amazing to see all the weight that everyone had lost. Bernie won the $100,000 prize, I couldn't believe how much he lost away from campus, it was amazing. After that they brought out the final 3 and did their live weigh in's, Roger was in the lead and Ali needed to lose 105 pounds to take the title and become the first ever female Biggest Loser!!! Ali won!!! she entered the show weighing in at 234 pounds,at the finale she weighed in at 122 lbs. In all, she lost 112 lbs., or 47.86% of her body weight!!! It was very nice to see her win and to finally have a woman win the Biggest Loser!! Congrats Ali!!!!

Now, today was the weigh-in for our work Biggest Loser, this is the 2nd week and I was feeling pretty good about my chances. I hit the gym 4 times since last Wednesday, I've been eating healthy, and on the weekend drank a lot less and didn't eat too bad. I was the first one to weigh in, my weight from last week was 223.8 and when I hopped on the the scale and it read 219.4!! I had lost 4.4 pounds!! WOO HOO!!!! last week Jennifer lost 5 pounds to take the weekly victory, but this week she lost 3 pounds, and was my closest competitor!! so needless to say I won this week, which is a GREAT feeling, but I know that there will be more weight lost in the remaining 6 weeks of the competition. Softball, Hockey and hopefully Volleyball will all be on the horizon within the next few weeks!!!!

The Biggest loser

So, I have never seen any seasons of The Biggest Loser before, until this season. I have been hooked from the first episode!!! Last night was the 2nd to last episode of the season and there are 4 contestants left (1 of which will be voted off by the viewers) and the live season finale is next week!!! In honor of this show there is a group of my co-workers who started our own competition. It will last 8 weeks total, the biggest loser (pound wise) each week gets $1 from every other person, and after the 8th week, the biggest loser overall (% wise) gets $20 from every other person!!

Today was our second weigh in, I lost 3 pounds from last week, which isn't bad at all, but this past weekend I wasn't good at all, didn't workout, ate like crap, and drank waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy too much!! But despite all that and only working out once, I lost 3 pounds. I have a newfound motivation for the upcoming week, I'm determined by the time this competition is over to be under 200 pounds at least (180 is my ultimate goal) and I know that I can do it!!!!!

I started out weighing 226.8 pounds last week, I'm down to 223.8 right now and hope to lose at least 7 pounds this next week, the winner this week lost 5. I'm playing hockey tonight, and taking up running hardcore, and cutting back on drinking big time, and eating right so I should be in good shape. I'll update you all next Wednesday to see how I did, wish me luck!!!! :-)