victim of free will

I made a lot of decisions that weren't exactly great, but because I could. The saying it takes three weeks for a habit to be formed has a lot of merits to it. Fitbit has become a daily element much to the annoyance of my family. I haven't changed my lifestyle too much, but I'm more consious of my inactivity and empty calorie intake. My clothing fits better as a result.
I need to set my sights on a worthwhile goal and get out of my plateau funk.

rethinking job

I started the work week by getting strayed in the face with wall cleaner. Fortunately, I had protective eyewear on and didn't get blinded. After some checking, I found myself washing with a bucket rather than a hose. Bucket is so much more cumbersome and labor intensive, for gravity isn't doing half of the job and brush bristles fling too easliy when making forced movements.

rabbit, rabbit

Where does time go? June was the first month of Fitbit. May was the first month of logging sleep. What will July bring?
Maybe I'll blog daily? Not much to say, but only because I don't gush about my children.  I used to blog about them but doing such was very lame. Here's a pic from a few years ago when I only had two:

They were little. My grass was so green. I think it is summer but they look too cold, don't they? Then again, it's been cold this week or so. If it was summer then, it was probably the last year we didn't have a pool pass. I digress.

I'm very proud of my boy. He's at camp for the week, and I'm pretty sure he's going to make it through the week without my having to get him early. He's 11, but he's been very sheltered in his approach to life for he has no desire to be with other kids. He's content with his books, computer, and video games when he's not watching something on tv via Roku.

Looking forward to his coming home.

remember when "gay" meant happy?

K asked me the other day why "gay" can refer to both men and women but Lesbian only to women.  I told him I didn't know exactly but the latter was derived from a historical place near Greece.

Ever notice when gay couples started getting married, it ceased being referred to "gay marriage" and is now simply "same-sex marriage?" I figured it had to do with the "gay" being not PC when considering it defaultly means men, but I'm starting to wonder if the whole "same-sex" aspect to be less PC to transgendered persons. Gender is not equal to sex and I was under the impression that the rainbow was the whole LGBT spectrum. Or is it LGBTQIA?

Anyways, a marriage license isn't all it is cracked up to be, as the saying goes, half of marriages end in death. With that in mind, I figure that the happiness over the marriage equality ruling will be short-lived by advocates for "same-sex" marriage when they notice those non-same sex couples with children that don't get married.

In the grand scheme of everything, marriage is a tax, just like any other fee paid towards a government entity.

New Fitbit

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Fitbit update

Fitbit, it's now trading on Wall Street! 

I don't see how it's anything worthwhile given their customer service/tech support is lacking the ability to communicate well. I told them my naps aren't tabulated into the weekly graphs, so they told me to reboot my tracker. I rebooted my tracker without my problem being fixed, so they told me to delete the app and re-download it to get it back to "factory settings," though I'm dubious that's how apps work. Since I'm dubious, I waited until a challenge, which was unrelated to my sleep issue, was over before messing with my app, but yet again, the sums of my sleep weren't tabulated.

Sergio at Fitbit told me my Fitbit is broken, so I sent him some info about my employer and such, though I think the Android app is problem. Anyways, everyone is a bigot towards us sleep deprived, it seems.

Regardless, I started counting calories over the weekend. The weekend may not have been a great time to start a diet, but counting calories isn't exactly dieting and I'm not going to not celebrate Father's Day without steak, chocolate donuts, and apple pie if they are presented to me.

Counting calories is nuanced. Not everything is perfect serving sized into my gullet. I just assume marking my intake much like a soccer defender takes note of players in her zone. As long as I acknowledge food I encounter, I am accounting for it.

The Fitbit app allows you to scan bar codes and to add those items to your daily caloric intake, rather simply. For all other things, googling menu items and the add quick calories option works as well.

I'm hoping to ditch my fat jeans by the end of the Biggest Loser competition, especially since one pair has holes in the crotch, but even today, I am not doing great given I like leftover donuts and pepperoni pizza. To offset those items, I walked to the cemetery and paid respect to my dad a day late. After which, I had calories to consume in my budget.

No one is making me participate in the Fitbit challenges and such. It's an odd coincidence I don't want to wear my fat jeans, and I want fit in my jeans from a few months ago again. Free will is funny when it seems to coincide with peer pressure conformity.

I also think this article about dieting is funny.

Fitbit thoughts

I got my Fitbit  a couple days later than everyone else, so I am way behind in the various challenges. Two people from my store are in top 3 of 185, but neither seems to have a life where they are depended upon to do things unfun. I am not complaining just annoyed at my desire to be competitive with kids half my age.

Today marked the first day of Summer Vacation. We did stuff, the kids and I, at least.

I can't do things like long walks since I don't have strollers for my older kids and they lack the interest to walk as much as I do. D and I have been known to walk to the cemetery and back, but it's over a mile away so I can't walk with my older ones.

I will no longer need to keep a sleep log. Fitbit knows when I'm sleeping. My life is getting simpler in that sense.