been sick,  but almost better now.

gotta do some mores posting here and catching up.

 havent posted in Food Porn in a bit. Hmmmm what to do???
My food hasnt been anything special enough to go there and I dont have any good food related questions kicking around my head.

So ill give that a thought for the next day or so and have something one way or the other on Friday I guess.

been blowing my nose and sleeping alot and playing video games.

got back in the office today and smashed a report, its almost done and ill have some down time until the next one which if my calculations are correct will be pretty smooth as well.

Still got a bit of a cloudy head at times. I need a long nap this evening is what I need.

did a few TFs (task forces) last night in COH.
getting relaxed for drs appointment this morning.

And some chill time before a hard work out Friday morning for sure!!!


So one of the guys i played with has 2 brothers that play.

this is one of them doing the unthinkable in an MMO. incorporating "excercise" with it.


http://www.chriffer.com/node/54

I am TRYING to get all the info on this new device because my geeky little hands need it.
But its hard as hell to get the info.
Blog sites are crashing left and right, video is choppy on most places.
I had to get it from Fox Business in the office and that hurts me that I had to listen to FOX for my news.
They were snarky they entire time I wathced, I just gave up and came back to my computer.
Gizmodo is doing me a solid and showing some pics.

499 for the device on the low end and im ok with that price. that is doable for me in the future if im in for a laptop that I will no game on.
However, I can game on it im sure.... im sure there is a way lol.

Getting overall healthier.

I started last year with working out more.  Applehead and I began eating much healthier and working out in our gym at the apartment.
Then I started a step aerobics class at work after I got bored with our gym and kind of topped off on what I could do there without a real work out plan. dropped from size 38 to 34 in certain pants.  This year we started with a personal trainer and have been seeing him for about 3 weeks now and are seeing really good results.
Blood sugars are amazing now. Flexibility is better, trying to get back to highschool wrestling days if that's possible. Stomach is feeling much better along with the multi-vitamin and all of the water and tea im drinking to help stay hydrated when working out. Stopped drinking most dairy, only small amounts of cheese and butter here and there and feeling much better. Cut out pork except for bacon... I love you bacon... and staying with beef, chicken, bison and turkey. Lean turkey and beef now and bison when we can find it on sale.  Dropped about 3 lbs working with the trainer but I can see it in the mirror around my stomach area and that's exciting.

So the goal is to continue the trend and get off of as much medication as I can. It seems that is not about just doing it, but more about keeping doing it. If that makes sense....
If I fall off, its ok because I am not a quitter and just hop back up and keep going. I want to drop about 25-30 lbs this year and fit comfortably into smaller sized shirts.  I bought a shirt online some years back and the size was wrong, it said Large but was actually medium. For the heck of it this morning I tried it on and it fit. A bit tight, but that tight where if you wear it for an hour it will fit good and be ok by the end of the morning. 

Lose 25 more lbs, stop pills, grow hair, fight ninjas in showdown on street.

is it me or are people just total asshats when it comes to renting apartments?
I know that most of the internet likes to just complain and the squeaky wheel gets the oil, but come on?!?!

So i read some apartment rating sites when browsing for apartments and people are just whiny and complain about things that I cant fathom.
Maybe im wrong here, but when you move into an apartment complex, how much time are you spending hanging out at the office? Are you supposed to be best buddies with the leasing agents after you sign your lease? Pay your rent, don't harass people and theoretically you should not have to see them at all right? But most of these reviews say the same thing. "They were nice when we moved in but now they are mean and don't care about me as a person they are never nice when I come in. They dont return my phone calls. They only care about new people moving in." I am just finding it hard to see what dealings are they continuing to have with the offices in these places.
i hear, its noisy and people are always partying. When we look for an apartment we try to ride by it on Friday and Saturday nights and see what the "scene" looks like. Those will be the worst nights of the week and if its bouncing off the floor then we know what to expect. Can none of these people do research before signing away their life? 
The maintenance crew never fixes anything. In Texas you get a form to walk through the apartment with when  you move in. You check off problems On day one if you move in and stuff is broken or bad, you pitch a fit right then to get it fixed. Waiting for months to say something is always bad. You can do little things to fix stuff im sure repeatedly asking the apparently horrible maint. team is asking for frustration. They do you wrong once, shame on them, you keep letting them do you in, that who is to blame. I see posts saying  "I lived here for 4 years and I hated it." Really? 4 years? Really?

I was supposed to dress up today but i forgot to.
We have a big client coming to talk to us and lots of reporting projects coming down the pipe.
So im hiding at my desk until the big visitors leave.
but now... im hungry as all get out.
Been fighting low sugar since late last night.
67 then 94 then 68 then waking up at 84 NUTS but i dont feel "bad" I think its the working out doing its thing and I love it.

lunch is leftovers from the other night.
angel hair pasta, home made alfredo sauce, diced tomatoes and the last 4 peices of bacon in the house. creamy good and good again.

I used to be Nocturnalsunshine on here, but things occured and it was best to change names.
I left that one far away and was done with LJ land. BUT I like writing out crap and reading stuff other people talk about.
So i cam back under several names. This one was not taken and I liked it.

I used to work late nights and loved doing things at night. So I seize the night. I added the ego (yeah i know in Latin it is kind of implied so you don't have to add it) because carpenoctem was taken *shakes fist*

Been working out for the last few weeks with a Personal Trainer.
Man, that guy is brutal.
An ex Arena Football player and all around nice guy.

First day I was cool, got a little naseous because it was one hell of a work out.
second day I got sick and had to release in the bathroom. But I came back feeling MUCH better and finished strong.
the next workout I was in good form. no sickness no nothing besides very sore leg muscles.
Last workout I did the thing and it was rough. He really upped the level on us and line drills on the football field are rough.
New meal plan on workout days and its making my stomach feel much better. Back on multy vitamin and no sour stomach or gas.
So calcium was the key. My problem in the workouts is push super hard when I get in and do our starting laps. I dont run full out, but it feels good to move that fast and have the room for it I guess, so I go harder than I should.

today was running, lunges, jumping, running more, upper body weights, pushing the sleds, hitting tires with a sledge hammer. FUN stuff. coming to work afterwords is a rough gig, but I am loving this work out and I can tell its making me feel better already.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/20/campaign.promises/index.html?eref=rss_politics&iref=polticker


Looks like according to my math.. he is 5/13, that's not counting the yes/no i have on there...

recovery and unemployment, No
home foreclosure, ? not sure (i cant tell if that number is good or bad, its misleading)
tax relief for middle class, work in progress No
credit card industry yes

health care, yes/no (its close to getting done, but now the GOP is gonna Fili-Bitch it until it fails so they can say told ya so, is there an even ground that actually works, we know we need it changed so lets get it done)
televise health reform, no
expand schip, yes
stem cell research yes

Iran Afghan, yes/no (i guess more no, he said he would bring the home and there is no real deadline but more troops went over)
Gitmo, yes/no (he is pushing to get it closed and they are taking steps so this may still happen)
vet health care yes
dont ask dont tell no(he was pushing for it but they pushed back and stalled and now he is looking at other stuff, so he started but no)

women right yes


So I feel kind of bad for the guy, damned if you do, damned if you don't. And it looks like he meets so much opposition just to be contrary to what he wants that he can barely get anything done. I want him to come out and beat it but damn if it ain't hard. Weird thing is nobody really ever keeps the promises when they get in office and see how things really work, but I think he is trying his best and doing a good job considering how much of a mess the place was in when he got there.  After looking around he looks like he is gonna have to bust heads to get things done. I don't know how much he can accurately do to make that happen though. Presidents don't have all the power and that becomes evident every time he makes a promise.

i was getting ready for work this morning, getting all clean and ready to throw on my shoes and hop out the door to the bus. And lo and behold, I cant find my shoes. I see both pair of Appleheads new shoes, but none of mine... I text her
"u wearing my shoes" TWO SECONDS LATER she calls and is dying laughing.
"I was wondering why these shoes felt different"

Love that girl, how crazy is that crap?

My family is from Arkansas and we ended up in Texas. I started school in Stuttgart Ark. where  I was born after we moved to Houston for a few years then back to Stuttgart. So my first school was in Ar. Lincoln Elementary then Burkele Elementary. Burkele was taken out by a tornado a few years back. I went there until 2nd grade. Half way through the year in grade 2 they had me tested because I was acting up in class and being a brat. I was bored and done with my work. I made new work for myself to keep busy and then bothered kids. So the tests revealed I was gifted and they sent letters home to my mom to tell her I was "special and needed special attention and classes at school" she freaked out because then special was starting to mean mentally handicapped back then. Eventually she found it was a good thing and I was allowed to go to special classes 3 days or so a week and some days at the Jr. high School across the street. It was weird being in a room with 13 and 14 year olds and I was in the 2nd grade. But from there I think I learned how to get along with people very fast and make friends in odd situations.  We moved from Arkansas when my dad got a much better job in Texas and the school hoping started.

went to a school for 3rd grade near our apartment, B.F. Darrell. I was alienated somewhat because I was far ahead of the class due to my special classes in Arkansas. A teacher sent a letter explaining how I was gifted but my teacher took that way to serious and paraded me around to the point where I was bothered a lot. Again, being friendly and funny saved me many fights and some trouble.
4th grade was spent at a school down the street that was better suited for my needs. It was called Whitney M. Young. There I was put into the 4A class where smarter kids were given specal projects and such. But school officials were sure I was cheating and I was accused several times of cheating on tests and exams. I had a special project for to make a story book. My mother was called in when they were sure I took the story from some book I read. I just really freaking liked unicorns and had just learned about the Pegasus from an encyclopedia.  While there over the summer they picked certain kids who scored high on standarized testing to got a Young Peoples University day. It was college prep to get us thinking about college. It was held at a high school and I was in love with that place and how big it was and all the books the library had. A whole second floor was the library.
The next year we got a house and I moved to a new school. Roger Q. Mills. there I was put into another special class, 5A in the TAG (talented and gifted) program at school. One teacher made a difference and let me realize that being smarter wasn't a bad thing and there I really came into a balancing act of being the class clown along with being a bit of an egg head.  When I left that school after 6th grade I went to sepcial Magnet school. Thomas A. Edision Environmental Science Academy. My teacher that showed me being smart was ok, actually transfered to that school as well so I had her again. There I really learned to revel in my nerdness. Being around other nerdy little kids was great. I also saw and  used my first computer and have been in love since.  For highschool I applied to other magnet schools. I applied to the Arts magnet and sent a portfolio of stories and comics and never heard back. My back up plan was for Skyline Career Development Center and their Computer Cluster program. The same school I went to visit in 4th grade. It was a great highschool and one of the best in the nation. But I really wanted to write and draw. I got word back from Skyline and went there. I found out the first day of school at Sky line that my counselor had gotten the letter back from the Arts Magnet but misplaced it and forgot to tell me. But things work out for a reason. and If I didnt goto Skyline, who knows where I would be now. All through out those school changes I felt odd. I had many things against me  that were involved. One of the major things was being a  black child that wanted something different than what was in the neighborhood around me. I was called "white talking" or accused of "acting white" many times in schools. In some places I was "too white to be black and too black to be white" That really affected me in some ways but I got better from it. And over the years I learned that it doesn't matter. If i like it, and want to do it or learn about it, then skin color is the last thing that will stop me.  So by Jr high I was a firm believer in that fact that I can go and do anything. I sat with every ethnic group at school during lunch. Different table every day, it didnt matter, and I ate their foods and went to their parties. In High School my circle of friends looked more like the UN and crossed all groups other than race. Football players, the wrestling team, the Rodeo kids,  the Nation of Islam black kids, the skater kids, the theater nerds(although they still bother me, lol), the Comic geeks and gaming nerds all the way to the super thugs on campus with parole bracelets.

So I jumped around a lot and because of that jumping I learned coping skills that I can still use today for new situations. I learned to ignore the boundaries not only being a new kid in class but also the black kid that spoke with correct English and read books without being told to.
I'm a talker and even though it doesnt appear that way, I am shy. But because I hate losing, I beat my shyness to the punch by approaching and talking to people so they never see the shyness.

I hope to pass all that experience onto some kid one day, my own or some other.

one year, one move.

Been at the current job for one year. And today I was given a new job title. I feel good about it. There is no pay raise since we just got them for the year a month ago. However, this does put me in position to look even better on my review for next year and such an increase that reflects that can be spoken about at that time. It feels good to get more responsibility and to learn new stuff. I am confident enough in my current spot to pick up a bit more and not feel overwhelmed. It is stuff I have bee unofficially doing for a while anyway, so even better. A new title will look funn on my emails though.


Kendrick Jackson
Reports Developer and Quality Assurance Analyst

thats a weird one. Most of the people I know and are friends with today I met via the internet in some way. Heck even people I work with was due to internet job postings. The woman im gonna marry through a round about way was from the internets, although I wasnt looking for her that way. Just weird how it happens. I think the internet just makes the world smaller and when it gets smaller and information can be shared faster your options in turn get bigger. I think like most things it is a tool and when used properly the results can be great, when abused or misused then circumstances can become dire. It is often said, the first thing we do with new technology is have sex with it. I guess in this case we used it to help us have sex. And that seems to be somewhat ok because people are using it to make real connections and not replace those connections. You can argue that many people would rather chat than meet or play games with people across the world than talk to them face to face, but at least there is still a person on the other end thinking and reacting.

Saturday cleaned up and had the group over for D&D. Game took a while because people were late. It always happens with us grown folks...I don't know why.  They took forever to figure out a puzzle and were so paranoid that it drug on. I was OK with that because it meant the situation was giving them enough of a problem to scare them. They lost the NPC who had been helping them along to a horde of water logged zombies and decided it wasnt worth it to go back for his body. Which I love.

We went to Urban Taco yesterday and had a nice little lunch after being destroyed at the gym that morning.
WHEW the personal trainer is great but that work out is a beast and a half.

I got her right in the dimple!


One of the items we had was the salsa trio which I love. A new choice appeared, Peanut Habanero salsa. MAN its HOT.... and GOOD.
I went home for lunch and brought some back to nibble on a bit in the later evening when im needing food.

Go back for session 2 of the week in the morning. I hope im not as sore. I really like the sessions and the pushing ourselves together is pretty fun.

Using magic shopping skills I got a new pair of sneakers for 27 bucks, some nice pumas. My other ones were flapping(talking to me) and had to be put down... I still like them though, but these new ones fit good.

no, my shoes dont have ipod cables attached... my floor does though.


I apparently have small feet... Wearing shoes a half sized to big made a big difference. The smaller, correct sized ones were pretty damned nice on my feet and 27 bucks is insane. They were on regular for 59, then on sale for 49 then rang up at 27 with tax. 27.00 when it was all said and done.

That was enough for us to be able to get some nicely priced sushi at Simons, We havent been in so long and it was nice to go and chill and laugh at other people trying sushi for the first time.

Cookie Exchange.
I work with the Dairy Industry. Not making milk but making software that works with milk.
We sometimes have milk and milk products at work. I don't know how it gets here, but it does. So we need reasons to eat and drink it.

So today we had the Cookies Exchange.

few small pics in between eating and coding.

For the PB and Bacon cookies I used this recipe

http://mywoodenspoon.com/2009/05/29/maple-bacon-cookies/
But i made a change. For te second egg i only used the white and then 2 tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter. I also used 7 slices of bacon.

I labeled them for people who were not eating bacon/meat/the good stuff. I even used sepearate bowls and such to make these so as not to cross contaminate.


They look normal to me.

The Spread

  Cake balls and Chocolate Chip

Happy today, feeling pretty good.

Had a cookie Exchange at work today,
We all make cookies and bring them in to share and swap and drink milk and hot chocolate.

I made Snickerdoodle cookies from scratch and combine a few recipes and tricks together to make Peanut Butter and bacon cookies.
People don't believe there is bacon in them. I held back on too much bacon because  I didn't want to just have a pile of bacon at a cookie party.... I think the amount is perfect.


So im grinning and stuff at my desk and about to goto lunch with an old coworker and my Applehead.
then when i get home from work tonight its COH and mes with my DnD prep for the game tomorrow.

Doctor says im not intolerant to gluten.
So yay burritos??!?! although, corn tortillas just sound better.
no bacteria either so i may just be having acid reflux for no real damn reason other than to make me mad.

... im closing in on you body, you will be under my control soon!!!!!