weight 'n weekend

I weighed myself this morning and to my surprise was under 200, at 197 pounds. If I remain under 200 for the next few days, this will be the first time under 200 since '99. Oddly enough, yesterday I made a short term goal for myself to be under 190 at some point in the near future. Suddenly that goal may be obtained a little sooner than I figured!

This weekend I ended up killing most of my Saturday cleaning my house. I moved my couch around and cleaned underneath it for the first time in 4 years. I wasn't surprised at the grime, but I was at the lack of items that were under there. I thought there would be all kinds of junk, but no, mostly dust, hair and dirt. I also got the windshield of my car replaced. I've been procrastinating that for 4 years... about time.

Today I went to church again at Bethlehem Baptist. Pretty disappointing today, most of the talk was about money and tithing. Then I went to my dad’s to crunch more numbers on the refinancing and car situation. Didn’t get too much decided, still waiting for more quotes to come in. I caught a bit of the Vikings game, as well as the Packers which was nice to see. Ended up closing the day out by going to the gym and swimming a half mile.

Well, before closing this off, I need to post about an article I just read. Here are this years top ten of politically correct words and phrases, so says the Global Language Monitor:

1. Device for master and captured device for slave in computer networking terminology
2. Non-same sex marriage, for marriage used in Democratic Presidential Primaries
3. Waitron for waiter or waitress
4. Red Sox Lover for Yankee Hater during the ALCS playoffs
5. Higher Power for God
6. Progressive for classical liberal
7. Incurious rather than more impolite invectives for President Bush (such as idiot or moron)
8. Insurgents substituting for terrorists in Iraq
9. Baristas rather than waitrons
10. First year student rather than Freshman, though Frosh is still acceptable

It makes me want to puke.