Can I get you anything? Do you have an iphone 6 charger?

I've got a new roommate and I decided to host a my first Taco Tuesday to have some friends over to meet him.  It was a pretty fun night, including some cards against humanity and an actual table where we all SAT and ate our tacos! It was fancy.  No more eating off our laps, which means we're totally responsible adults.  Maybe caviar and crumpets are in my future.

Every one was getting along great, and my roommate was fitting right in nicely.  He asked at one point while getting up for a beer from the fridge if anyone wanted anything.  My friend Katie piped up immediately asking for an iphone charger.  He definitely wasn't expecting that response, but after blinking at get for a few seconds, gladly obliged.   I think at over point everyone charged their phone...hmm I should charge a fee.

Well I figure withstanding my loud crazy taco night and being able to hang with a game of cards against humanity is probably a good sign for this roommate.  Let's see if he survives my Halloween party next!  I'm accepting ideas for a theme, so give me a suggestion!

Electric parade

Howdy folks!  My leg is electric.  Or, rather, it seems to have developed an electric shock ability.  When I would take a step my leg would get a shooting pain and give out underneath my weight.  This went on for about two weeks and then dissipated.  

I paraded around for the next week or two with the fear of my leg pulling an episode 6.  That fear was legitimate, because the pain returned.  Silly Jedi.  Now it is focused entirely in the bend at my hip.  I always seem to want to pull my leg off like a Barbie doll, and then jam it back into the right place.  It just doesn't feel right and I can't shake it off like swift.  

I've seen my doctor and have been told to avoid some of the types of movements that I'm doing at my new gym.  On top of that, I'm icing my hip three times a day.  I hope it goes away.

Want some icing on that cake?  I also electrocuted myself a little last week at my parents basement.  I reached up to twist a fixture my mom had claimed didn't work and ZAP.  That stung for a few minutes.  

All this is also going on during moving.  I moved a majority of my things all by myself and it has me broken and gnarled.  I feel like an old battered tree; bent, knotted and ready to snap.  Ugh.

Boy, I'm beaten up.

Orange theory, no juice.

Three months ago I joined a gym called Orange Theory and I'm about 90% impressed.  I hold back with that last ten percent because I'm not sure if I'm getting the result I was originally going for.  I wanted, like so many other people, to lose weight.

I haven't shown great numbers on the scale.  For a little while I went down about five or six pounds.  More recently, I've gone back up three or so pounds.  This was all tracked because right around the time I got into the swing of the gym they announced a weight loss challenge, for a money prize!

I never had the notion I'd win the money, simply because so many people joined the challenge.  I only wanted to meet my personal goal: three classes a week, and drop a pounds a week.  Attendance is great, but my loss isn't great at all.  Should I find peace that the reason behind this odd fluctuation is that I've simple gained muscle?

No.  I'm sadly dissatisfied with that reasoning.  So where does that leave me?   I'm really not sure.  I don't want to be jacked.  I want to feel healthy and look good.  I don't think that's unreasonable.

So where from here?  Quit? Save my money and do home workouts?  Go more?  Some other changes?  Ugh I don't know...help me obi-gym fit-nobi!

To get a TV or not?

If I'm only going to do Netflix,  should I bother?  What if I buy Hulu?  What TV do I get? How do I pick a good one? Do I get one that's a smart TV? Will it be able to do Netflix and Hulu on its own? What about an Amazon firestick?  Yikes I really don't know much about these things.  I'm moving and I haven't really had a TV for real in a few years.  I've gotten by so far.

Boston comic con. Mixed reviews?

Ugh I just lost my entire post. Since I have about 5 minutes now to write this, I'm just going to say that Boston Comic Con has been announced for next summer and all you lazy people who didn't come this past summer need to get on top of it.  It was gross and hot sweaty this past year due to the location and I'll never wear a wig again if I can help it!

Your punishment for not attending with me is that I will not post photos on here.  You may need to wait as I collect snapshots during my Halloween escapades. 

Remember tickets on sale Feb 1! www.Bostoncomiccon.com

You Are Beautiful

I was enjoying a nice yoga routine on youtube, because my leg is really doing some funny things and I wanted to stretch to relieve the electric jolts.  More about that later, though.  The point is that a video popped up on the sidebar after I finished.  It was titled' "You are Disgusting".

I'm full of mixed emotion regarding this film.  I'm proud of the woman who made the film.  I'm ashamed of the people she quoted during the film.  I'd be lying, however, to say that I don't, at times in my life, fall into the trap that lures so many people feeling confused, insecure, or just downright mean into saying or thinking bad things about other people based on their appearance.  It is a societal characteristic, unfortunately, to assess face value without pause or thought to the actual reality that there is more than surface.  Why is this so common?

Surface can be altered so quickly with cheap and efficient methods.  The internal, however, needs tender care and nurturing to be able to undergo effective change.  Maybe for that very reason, we should seek to know the internal aspects of the people we experience in our lives.  It could be a longer investment, and yes, of course, it is harder and requires more effort to dive into the deep end of that pool.  However, what is the alternative?  Isn't time all that we have, after all?

What is my MASTER GOAL?

I have been to many Star Wars Celebrations.  I'm going to Boston Comic Con this weekend.  (If you're worried, never fear.  I'm so blogging the con).   I've even been to a few other little con's along the way.  But one has eluded me. The con to bring all con's together, and in the dorkness bind them.

You may have guessed it already.  You may have even attended.  Well, don't go rubbing salt in my wounds, but I confess that I have never attended what I consider to be the big fat kahuna of con's!  Yes, that means you, San Diego Comic Con!  But I'm planning.  I'm going to reel you in, hook, line, and sinker.  Then I'll mount you on my wall.  Maybe I'll even install a little button that when pushed will have you crack cheesy Batman jokes when I have company over.

Well anyway, moving along.  I need to get real for a few moments.  SDCC is my goal for next year.  I will accomplish this goal by making sure to be aware of when the tickets go on sale and actually plan and buy them.  It will be my ultimate triumph.  If I say it,  then it makes it real,  so I'm posting it here,  which is good enough,  right?

This may be tricky, considering Star Wars Celebration is in London next year, and THAT will be pricey.  Three day tickets already sold out.  Yikes.  Anyone know how a little droid can make some extra bucks, around here?