January 9, 2008 by Avy.

With 8 months til my wedding, I find myself not getting anywhere closer to my goal of losing 80 before my wedding. I’d be happy if I lost 60, to be honest. I don’t get what I’m doing wrong. I seldom allow myself Tostitos, I’ve cut back on the ice cream by a lot, and when I get into baking fits, I bring stuff to work and demand people from multiple departments eat the stuff. I just don’t get it.

To run down what I typically eat: Fruit for lunch (banana or grapes typically) and salads or wraps for lunch.

For dinner, I make pasta and those healthy portion chicken breasts w/ veggies. I do that a lot. I also make veggies, rice and potstickers(or tuna steak/shrimp/spring rolls/empenadas and other yummies from Trader Joes). Once every few weeks we’ll go out and have lots of sushi for Friday dinner.

I only go to the gym 2x a week, but plan to go on Saturday mornings as well.
What else can I do? I was trying to stay away from diet pills, but now I’m about ready to just take them. I was lookin at alli, but I don’t want my butt to explode while I’m at work if I screw up and have a cookie.

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January 9, 2008 by Avy.

1. Driver’s Test Failed. I was a 1/2 inch on the line because I didn’t straighten the back wheel enough when I parallel parked. The guy had to get out of the car to check because that’s how close it was. I still want to maim him.

2. Lunch with the families was nice.  There was lots of sake and laughter.

3. I started Weight Watchers again and actually went to the gym alone when Meghan bailed. I broke her balls over it yesterday. That’s what friends are for.  I’ve decided I’m not gonna care about losing weight anymore.  What’s the point. Seriously. Fuck it.

4. I have more photo work lined up, but  still have to buy some gear which is lame. Little by little, I’ll piece the stuff together and all will be well. That’s the part that sucks. The stuff I want is not even really expensive, but such is life. On the plus side, I’ll get the money back after a few jobs.  Like the one this Friday. I’m not terribly excited, but it’s money.

5. I’m sleepy (as usual).

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January 3, 2008 by Avy.

I haven’t heard this song in ages.
NCC- “Seven Steps of Nervousness”
It just popped up on the Archos and I was gettin my lil groove on at work. It make me crack up laughing. This little gizmo is great because it’s really just a hard drive with headphones that’s pretty small. See:

The thing is built solid as a rock and is small enough to make life happy. When it first came out, that was a huge selling point. It was special because it was 20GB wrapped in 2″ x 3″ of metallic goodness with an internal battery. I’ve never tried the jpeg viewing, but the audio/file browser system is nice and easy. The village idiot could use this thing. The only downside is that there’s no USB charging. Ah well.

As much as the Archos rocks, I want a Zune hardcore. The iPhone can ctrl+alt+del itself for all I care (when it comes to getting the Zune). I wanna trade songs and pr0n wif mah babay. Even though I’m the pr0naholic of the relationship, but you get me.

In other news, I have to exchange my backdrop holder to Adorama because it went fubar. That’s lame. It’ll take a week or two to go through the whole process. I’d rather drive to NYC and exchange in person! Roadtrip!!! Then I’ll buy the lighting kit and life will be groovy!

And high five for having more income to get better gear and hopefully be closer to publishing a photo book (more on that later since I don’t think I’ve blogged about it).

[EDIT] Curious about Archos? Here’s a list of many products with prices and ratings. Viva la Archos! 

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