Self improvement

So far I am doing well with my diet. 1,700 cals per day, eating mostly healthy raw food. I'm always looking for more healthy superfood to improve my health. I LOVE the Acai juice that we got from Costo. I also saw David Wolf on youtube discuss other superfoods like Maca, Marine Phytoplankton, and Goji berries. I'm still wondering where to get those, but I'll find out. Also, I've lost 9 lbs since november 1st and I've been working out at anytime fitness. I love that place. I put up 175 lbs three times on the bench, which is good progress. I hope to soon pass the 205 lbs mark that I maxed out in highschool. Health is good.

uh, how many more times will this list change?

FOR SURE
Nathan Klement SS/2B
Eric Engstrom LC
Nathan Steele 2B/C
John Bonde 3B/LF
Chris Halbleib 1B
Tom Roeske SS/3B
Andrew Klement RF/C

MAYBES
Jay Navis P
Eric Litke SS/3B
Al Schmucker RC

ADDITIONAL PLAYERS
Jim Weiland P
Craig "Dino" C
Bill Jennaro
Ryan Krueger
Kyle (Craig's friend)
Eric Nierode

next year's softball

a few different senarios

Nathan Klement SS Chris Halbleib 1B
Chris Halbleib 1B Nathan Klement 2B
Nathan Steele 2B Eric Litke SS
Tom Roeske 3B Tom Roeske 3B
Kevin Sand P John Bonde LF
John Bonde LF Eric Engstrom LC
Eric Engstrom LC Al Schmucker RC
Al Schmucker RC Dakota Witte RF
Dakota Witte RF Kevin Sand P
Craig "Dino" C Nathan Steele C
Andrew K. AH Andrew K. AH

The second order would be a much stronger team and it would involve dropping Craig for Eric Litke in the starting line-up. I'd be sad not to play 2B, but if we can get Eric, it's worth it. Additional players would be Andrew Klement and Craig.

Next year's team

This is a tough thing, dropping people from your team to add new ones. I hope no one takes it personally. Here's what I have in mind for next year.

Nathan Klement
Chris Halblieb
Eric Engstrom
John Bonde
Nathan Steele
Kevin Sand
Andrew K.
Dakota Witte

maybe list
Bill Jennaro
Craig
Eric Litke
Al Schmucker


Note: this list will probably change frequently throughout the course of the next 9 months.

Softball

Holy crap, am I sucking at softball on Mondays. It's weird. I'm ok on defense and crappy at batting on monday, but then on thursday I suck at defense, but atleast I can hit the ball. Weird. I'm batting .346 monday v.s. my .500 for thursdays. Well, my goal was .600, but that's not gonna happen. There's always next year.

Softball

Game 1 Open door Red v.s. Christ the king.
Final 34-4 in 5 innings.
My Stats. 2-4, single, dbl, 2 runs scored, 4 RBIs.

Weight loss

I am currently on a new diet called "Don't eat so frickin much ya fat moron". It's really simple. I limit myself to 1700 calories a day and I've been losing weight like a mofo. I figured out that I'm losing .625 lbs per day with a total loss so far of 13 lbs in a couple weeks. At this rate I will reach my goal of 175 lbs by the end of June, (Just in time for the disc golf trip), however I'm giving myself a goal of 175 by my birthday in september. This is extremely reasonable since I'm losing weight so fast. Now, I know they say it's bad to lose weight faster than 2 lbs per week, but screw them. If I don't see fast results I lose confidence and forget what it is that I'm doing. I have a short attention span. So once I reach 175 I will increase my caloric intake to somewhere around 2,600 per day or whatever it takes to maintain that low weight. Note: I have not been lighter than 200 lbs since highschool. I have tried two other massive diets which have resulted in great stress and I forgot exactly what I did to lose the weight. This diet is simple and easy to remember. No more that 1700 cals per day PERIOD.

journal entry

Today was good friday and what do you know, I had a good friday. Worked on the fire job in Racine with Al, Ricky and Eduardo. After work I took the bike to Witte's for dinner and game night. It was a little chilly at first, but once I hit around saukville exit it felt like a warm hair dryer blowing on me due to the temperature change. Felt great. Had a lot of fun at the Witte's. A few of us went for a motorcycle ride and we later played pictionary.

Journal entry

Started our job in Racine today. It went well. Ricky and eduardo were with us. It looks like Ricky might take the job that Al offered him. That would be awesome. we also had softball practice. I think I did pretty well. I'm excited for this season, however I'm gonna miss my tuesday night team. At first I thought I could only play one night a week so I just stuck with thursday night. But now I'm playing with Open door too and Nate left the thursday night team. I'd way rather play tuesday night than thursday. I guess I'm also a little upset that Eric never asked me to play. Kinda feel bad about that. But, all in all, I'm looking forward to it.

journal entry

Spent the morning playing bass at church which concluded my five day stretch at worship team. We did sanctuary on friday night. I then had a good talk with pastor Sid about my concerns with Jonathan's faith being real and not just a conditioned habit. I then went disc golfing and shot a lousy +1. I am really taking awhile to warm up for this season. Josh and Andy have been shooting all year and are hitting -6's. What's wrong with me? +1? Suck. I finished the afternoon off with a nap and doing nothing since it was so cold and windy. The Friedburgs came to visit while I was napping. I forgot they were coming. So did Debbie. Debbie and Jonathan are doing well.

Epic short story

The epic short story movie idea about a janitor turned olympic curling gold medalist.


The film begins with a lonely janitor being yelled at by his supervisor because the entire cafeteria needs to be spotless before some stupid teacher's award ceremony scheduled to take place there the following day. The supervisor, finished yelling, leaves in a huff. Meanwhile, the greatest curling coach ever known happens to be standing unnoticed in the doorway across the room. Why he's in the school I have no idea...it doesn't matter. The janitor, thinking he's alone, grabs his broom....takes a deep breath.......and starts sweeping like an insane broom wielding psychopath and cleans the entire floor in less than 5 minutes. The old retired coach approaches him and explains what he'd seen and what he could do with such talent. The janitor hems and haws, but eventually contacts the coach....has an 80's montage and becomes the greatest sweeper guy ever. The end.

Health

I find healthcare to be a very interesting topic lately. Not just the whole national healthcare deal, but personal health in general. While everyone's running around to doctors to try to fix things that go wrong with their bodies, it makes me wonder why more people aren't thinking about preventative medicine or healthy eating. It's just like a car, you change the oil every 5,000 miles or so, you don't wait until the engine ceases up and needs to be completely overhauled. What ticks me off is that the people that really scream for the free healthcare are the ones that take the least care of themselves. Why should I be paying for some crack addict to get healthcare? How 'bout I pay for myself and my family instead? Even more, why don't I actaully take care of myself and the health of my family so that hospital bills are at the lowest posible lifetime cost? I see a nutritionalist and go to health food supplement stores. Guess who pays for that......ME. And I expect no one else to pitch in. Why is that concept so far gone for most people? Why does everyone think that healthcare is a right and we all need to pitch in? I hate being a part of the system.

The Endless struggle

If you know me, you'll realise that I often think out loud and say things before I actually think about them. This post will be one of such rantings. I just finished up a horrible round of disc golf. I shot 15 over par off of the pro tee pads at Tendick nature park. That's really bad for me. Disc golf is just one of MANY hobbies and tasks that I set before myself that are constantly challenging and create an overwhelming sense of short falling and failure rather than reward and joy. And I ask, why do I do this? Why do all my hobbies in life seem like to be unacheivable goal resulting in epic failure? Fishing, disc golf, softball, etc... Everywhere I turn there's someone better and I'm the guy that sucks, yet I don't quit and I never give up. Maybe God is shaping me somehow. But the real question is....what am I being shaped for? or, maybe God is just trying to reveal how futile and vain all of my silly activities are. But, then again, I never made it without biting....ask Mister Owl.

First one

Hi ho, beloved readers. I finally got around to starting a blog. Now you all have a window of insanity deep into my soul. YAAAAYYYY!!!!!