Great Advice

Today I was watching my Tivo'd Jimmy Kimmel live when the flood advisory from last night came across the screen. I didn't pay much attention to it as the flood was last night and I was still on dry land...but I did catch one phrase that struck me as great advice when facing a flood.

My life as a dog

I am dog sitting again for the week. I was making myself a little snack when I realized that my life is alarmingly similar to the dogs I am watching over. Especially Baxter. We both have white hair, we both like laying on the cool kitchen tile, we both often run into the screen door, and we even eat similar meals. Where we differ is he sleeps 20 hours a day and then of course there are our political views.

Today I am thankful that the heat wave is over but I'm a little angry that this is the week it decided to rain. There is nothing worse then the smell of wet dog. Again though the 60 degree weather is welcome. I've been sleeping in the living room the last few nights so that I can keep an eye on the dogs. Usually I keep them in the bedroom so I know they aren't walking around all night chewing on all my things. But it's been too warm so I had the AC on which means I needed the windows closed...which means I'd have to sleep locked in my room with two smelly dogs. Also the dogs like to get up at 6 in the morning and wake me up and wrestle. As soon as I let them outside they commence to bark at the neighbor dog until I let them back in. As soon as they have made certain that I won't be able to fall back asleep they then take a nap for the rest of the day until they can do it all over again the next day.

Until next time...

Suck it BMI

Those of you with lives and have better things to do then work out 15 hours a week may not of heard of the BMI. It stands for Body Mass Index and is all the rage in determining if you are over weight or underweight. Basically the equation is (WeightX705)/Height(/Height) = BMI with Healthy: 18.5 - 24.9 Overweight: 25 - 29.9 and Obese: 30 or more. Anyway according to these figures I am 6 lbs overweight...when I figured this out the first thing I said was "F(*&CK you BMI!! Although I had a mouth full of raisenettes at the time so the BMI might not of heard me. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm in the best shape of my life...which isn't saying much, but I am in the best shape by a very large margin. So what I've decided is that I am not going to try to lose 6 lbs. I'm pretty sure if I stopped lifting weights I'd lose 6lbs in a couple weeks...instead I am going to try to grow 2 inches. In order to grow though I'm going to have to eat a lot more food.
So now that I have decided with all my dietary knowledge that the BMI doesn't apply to me I am going to make up my own way to figure out if you're too fat or too skinny...I call it the Amundson Mirror...It's just like a regular mirror accept you have to buy it from me and it will cost you $20 more than what i paid for it. If you look in the mirror and you think you're too fat or skinny...act accordingly...
Anyway I know how you're all dieing to know about my workout schedule so let me share with you. I really wish I had something better to write about and may be it would be best to just not write anything at all...but I'm a sharer. Anyway the last month I've been working out 6 days a week at the gym, running 3 miles a day with every other day switching between more running and weight lifting. The results is that I think I look more cut, but weigh exactly the same...actually a little bit more. Also I've been using the Gazelle I took out of the trash every day. It is a strange machine...No matter how fast or slow I go I can't get my heart rate up, but if I do it for 2 hours my upper legs feel slightly soar when I finish. I'm not sure it's worth it as an exercise machine but it works well if I do it while I watch TV or play a video game....also sometimes I do it while I eat. I've trying to eat less but it's hard to do so I've been eating foods that are good for me...then again I broke down the other day and ate a dozen cookies and an entire bag of chips for no reason at all. It was enough calories to be an entire days worth....I don't regret it at all.
Also I've been reading one book a week for the last few months. Lately I've been reading novels by Clive Cussler on recommendation from my friend Jake the Snake. They are Dirk Pitt novels, who is pretty much James Bond, but not a spy. He's been writing them for like 30 years so there are a lot of them, and it's kind of neat if you read them in order. Although the local library is missing a few.
Really I have nothing worth mentioning and I feel sorry for you if you've read all this. This week I am dog sitting again so that might be interesting and in April a Shermer tornado is rolling into Austin...I hope Christie and Amy like sleeping on the floor.