Losing weight

Ok, I'm officially disgusted at myself.  About 5 years ago, I actually lost about 30# when we livede in China. I know it was a diet of low fat food with lots of vegetables, and the fact that I walked alot everyday.
Soooo, why can't I do this here? I've been steadily gaining weight back since then. Yesterday, I reached that breaking point, it was a little chilly, so I went to put on jeans instead of shorts. It was ugly, people. I could barely get them up over my lovely lady humps then my muffin top was spilling over and I could barely button them.
 Then as if to dispel my hopes that somehow these jeans had shrunk over the summer, I weighed myself. I don't want to post it, but it was ugly too.
 Ok so now to force myself to eat sensibly and try to exercise more and get rid of all the beer here. sigh... how depressing. I also love to have wine in the evening, while I watch TV. But I know that also needs to change. I wish they make diet wine, with nutra sweet or something. Lite beer is also gross.
 I guess I will go out and join Curves today, since Lagrange has no gym. Good Lord, we have to go to the next state just to see a damn movie, why would I think they'd have a gym.
I read somewhere lately that Indiana is one the countries fattest states. I am not proud to say I'm really fitting in well here!

jesco, our new hound dog puppy,has been chewing up everything. so far he has destroyed 2 pairs of flip flops,and at least 4 pairs of underpants.we have also been trying to potty train jesco, witch is basically not working. instead of going outside, he has been peeing on the patio, witch is right next to the door leading outside.we had also recently went on a trip to the rocky's.our campground area was by longs peak,but we didn't spend much time there. most of the time we were on trails or mountains,the highest mountain we hiked was the twin sisters, it is about the same height as flat top, witch is about 12,000 ft. it was really cold on top of the summit because we were way above the tree linewhile we were at the rockys there was tons of wild life we saw about 6 elk up close, and we saw at least three herds of them, and they had the biggest antlers youve ever seen we also saw big horned sheep and pikas, they are cute,hamster like creatures with huge eyes and whiskers. i need to go and get ready.
                                         bye,
                                          kurt
                         

Carpe Diem

It's been very shocking to us to hear about my nephew Matthew.  Matthew is a gifted tennis player, and a very intelligent young many who is preparing to enter Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.  For a person of this promise to fall ill so quickly is, to say the least, a surprise.

Matthew remains constantly in our thoughts and prayers, but our thoughts also turn quickly inward.  It is a reminder to live each day on it's on, and enjoy the good times-- you never know when somethings going to come along a slow you down.

To me, the lesson isn't so much that you need to live to excess every day, going on expensive vacations, and indulging yourself.  Rather, to me, the lesson is to be nice to people.  I think it's way too easy to take the people around you for granted. Life is better if you take a moment to appreciate the people in your life. It's the best way to seize the day.

I know I don't do that enough.

Dan

Well, I am officially a BLOGGER! Ok, well, here's my first attempt at this, and I will start by just writing about my day. After almost a year after losing Sunny, our beautiful Golden Retreiver, we adopted a new puppy today. We went out to the Lagrange Animal shelter and walked through aisle, and all the sad longing eyes of the dogs there. It seriously took all my control to not just take most of those sweet dogs home. I could most definitely become an animal hoarder someday.
So, we went out back and looked in the puppy pen, and there he was... a black and white hound mix of some sort. He was laying down on his tummy with his little back legs stretched out behind him, just lookin pretty chill.
The lady commented that he was super sweet, but not necessarily the smartest dog out there. He's the one!! I needed a sweet, submissive and not real smart dog, to be a companion for Butters the Diva.
Butters, our black Mexican street dog, has been living a very priveledged life, and she is quite precious. So any threat, perceived or real, is bad. This little doofus is the perfect guy!
We got him home and decided he looked like a chill southern/hillbilly kind of hound dog. The kind that will end up being a dog/rug someday, barely moving from his sleepy state. We named him Jesco, in honor of the tap-dancing hillbilly guy from the "Wild Wonderful Whites of West VA"
Jesco does not come when he's called yet, he did not really understand the whole concept of a leash, and so far when we've taken him outside, he just lays down and scratches himself and relaxes. hmmmmmm He's also already chewed up Kurt's new nerf ball.
Honestly, what was I thinking?
Well, that's going to be the blog for tonight. Perhaps tomorrow I will write what I had tried to write today. I blogged for almost 30 minutes on what I thought was a hilarious diatribe about the BMV. But being a computer-tard, I didn't have it in the right place and it didn't save. Soo, you're all stuck hearing about Jesco instead.

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