I ran this morning!!!!

Well, I must confess, I gained 10 lbs this holiday between the great food of one mother and one mother-in-law.....(and man it was almost worth it, heh..... so anyway it felt so good to get back on track at the track, heh. You really have no idea how much you miss it until you get to do it again. I noticed this was the first time I ran since Oct. 31st!!!! Holy cow that is a long time, but I guess that is what a torn hamstring, tendonitis, death of a loved one, Thanksgiving, and Christmas will do to ya, heh.... but my new year resolution is to loose 65 lbs by the middle of next year!

So with that goal in mind...I need all of you to hold me accountable!!! Desperately! So.... Nike and Apple listened to me and they created a widget for the blog that will show all of you my workout progress and the gaol I have set for myself. It is over there on the right side of the blog... you can see that I set my goal for Jan. to be 15 miles.... I run on average a mile a day 4-5 days a week, so I hope to reach this goal for the month...and I have said that if I do not reach my goal then I will not drink any soda at all in the month of Feb..... so here goes the fun!!!

OK, also I added my Video blog to the bottom of the blog, as well as, gave this blog some Bawls.... I knew it had some, but I just wanted to make sure everyone knew that it had two and notice they are sugar free too, heh...

Oh....and if anyone has a Nike+ iPod adapter (or got one for Christmas)...and would like to join in the challenges I have created or the ones I am in...please just email me and I will add you to be invited! Thanks!

Yall have a wonderful week, and keep an eye on that running progress for me...I need all the accountability I can get! Oh and if you ever eat with me make sure I do not eat any carbs....well, a low amount of this if possible...thanks! KUTPs!!!

i added Snap to the blog...

Hey everyone After Reading Alan's blog post about Snap...I decided that it might be a col thing to add Snap to my blog...so now basically if you mouse over a link from now on it will allow you t see a preview of the link before you click on it... I thought it was very cool and so I have added it....let me know if yall like it or if it is annoying. Thanks and I hope to be back some time next week with a few videos of Christmas and how funny Caleb was/is...take care God bless...and I hope your first day/night on the job was a good one Sean!

OK the online photo war did not last long...Flickr wins!!!

Man I wish the HD - DVD war would end this fast, heh.... well, after playing around all day today I think that I will be using Flickr instead of Piccsa web albums.... I got a lot of cool things I can do with Flickr that are just not possible at all with piccsa web albums...so I will be transfering over any photos from Piccsa web albums over to Flickr soon...but for now go enjoy my new Flickr badge over there on the right side of my blog --->
(that thing is cool, it even updates the latest photos I put on...so if you see different photos in there then you know I updated my Flickr!)

Anyway...here is the link to my Flickr photos (leave comments if you would like)

D.G.'s Flickr photos

I have killed my Piccsa links...FYI....yall have a blessed day tomorrow! KUTPs!!!!

Appology for all the RSS feeders of me out there...

I ran into a friend of mine yesterday (Steve Carr)and he told me that it looked like I was freaking out with the blog updates....and then I realized that for the RSS Feeders out there every time I post a new post OR make a change and correct the posts!!!..... that it shows up on the RSS feed... So, When I was going through my entire blog and putting labels on all the posts about Jay or good stories, etc... it was showing up on your RSS feeds! I am so sorry.....and I am sure that it was weird to have around 130 post updates of the past few days showing up on the feeds...So now you know what I was doing and I apologize for the weird things I do...Have a blessed day!

Hey....Got a photo album up and going....

I use Piccsa for all my photo stuff on my computer (because it is free and the most amazing photo orginizing softwere for PC computers) and I am trying out someting new piccsa is doing, called "Piccsa Web Albums." It is basically Piccsa's way of trying to be Flickr...but not as cool as flicker (in my mind) but anyway.... it is very easy to upload your Piccsa photos to this album and I am trying it out...I did notice that it has a limit in size...unless I want to spend money to increase the size, heh...and that is something I will not be doing...so for now I will try it out and keep creating albums...and if it does not work then I will just transfer over to Flickr all the time (and besides Flickr...just looks much cooler).

Here is MY Piccsa Web Albums for now.

Oh and you will always be able to check out my albums on the links over there ---->
in my link section. Thanks!

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Oh and my mother wanted to see the new shoes I just bought so here they are....(yes yes, I know they are dorkish looking...but I must tell yal the truth...I have tried Dr. Martins, Birkenstock, and every other kind of shoe out there...and none of them hold up to my torture each day...most shoes only last me (maybe) a year...and the last Birkenstock shoes I bought had a hole in them right through the shoe (it was going t be $100 to just get them fixed)...I walked into a puddle of water and my sock got soaking wet...so here is my next attempt at a shoe that will last and feel comfortable. (and that I can wear everyday...and even in a dress up way(maybe still wondering about this one)...so I sure hope that these will last.)

so here is the ugly but durable, and comfortable Dansko Pro shoes:



(I actually have two of them though and the other one is for my left foot, heh)

oh and did I mention this is the shoes that tons of chefs, doctors, nurses, etc... wear? so if it is good for people that are on their feet all day long...let see if they will be good enough for me...)

And also I must be honest I feel like I am wear high heels in these shoes compared to my Birks. heh heh.


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Yall have a great weekend! Take care and please KUTPs for Tiffany she is still not feeling good this morning....and might not be able to be @ church tomorrow...we will see though).

Labels on posts from now on....

Hey everyone, I hope your week is going as god as mine is! I ran this morning in the 33 degree weather and loved it...I got out to the track and ran 2 laps, until my body went into shock with the cold weather, and told me that I needed to use the bathroom, ha ha... So I drove home with my prairie dog and finished my run around the blocks near my home, ha ha...and good worship followed.

But anyway...I wanted to let yall know that over there on the right side of the blog you should see something called labels. These labels are little classifications of what the blog posts are about. I really do not want to go back through all my old posts and put in the labels...but I did decide that I really wanted to go through and mark all the ones that I mention Jay in or were about Jay(133 in total...wow that was a lot of prayer requests!)...and I just finished that task...so I welcome you to go over there and check out the labels.

I still need to go back and make sure that I get all my sermon posts labeled, and a few other stuff...just because it would be nice for anyone to read about Jay or desire to read a sermon of two to have that ability to do it...so yall have a wonderful day...I am off to calibrate a home theater for some friends/neighbors! God bless yall!

(Please check out The Sushi Guide, good stories, etc...)

Changing a few things around here.....

You may have noticed that there have been a few changes....well, that is because I have changed over to the blogger beta....this will allow for lots of cool features and such...but it will take a while to make the change over final....so just enjoy the new look for now and expect a few changes to be made...when ever i have time. Thanks! and KUTPs!!!!

new blogger update coming soon!!!!

Hopefull once the beta ends yall will be seeing a new blog from all those that use googles free blogger to blog thir lives (this includes me) they will be adding tons of cool long overdue features that I am very excited about....if you would like to know more then you can go here:

blogger beta info.

KUTPs!!!

Thanks to Matt (sorry man coul dnot find your blog link) for the info hook-up.

Happy Decemberween!

For those of you who even know me slightly (and have not figured it out yet by the strange title of my blog) I am just a little different. heh.

When I was in High School people would ask me who my heroes were and my response was (and still is, but I have added a few)

Jesus Christ
Weird Al Yankovic
Albert Einstein

and now I have added:

All of my family (especially Tiffany)
Alton Brown
A few Pastors I have had along the way

So it should not be too much of a suprise that HomestarRunner.com is right up my alley way. Their humor is very....uh...different, but clean! It is similar to The Far Side (oh look they have videos now!), it is very weird, but very funny if you actually know what they are talking about. Kind of like a lot of jokes on the products (like their tee-shirts) sold @ thinkgeek.com.

Well, go to Homestarrunner.com and you can see Decemberween. It is a lot of shorts that they have created that are very funny. There is also a great HomeStarRunner/The Might Be Giants video on right now too. But hurry because right now you can access these from
the home page (look at the changing ellipse in the top right corner)......and they update it every Monday so it (the stuff of the changing ellispse) might change Sunday night or Monday. It will still be there after Monday, but you might have to go searching for it on the site.

Oh BTW, I was looking around foodtv.com and a great Southern Cook named Paula Deen loves to cook good old fatten'n southern-fried, sugar-filled, comfort food. Well, I was looking at her
product area on FoodTV.com and you should read some of the tee-shirts and aprons they are selling there. You can see them here. My favorite one is, "elbow lickin' good!" Ha Ha Ha! Now you know that is good food then, heh. a few others are: "worth the weight", and "Put some south in your mouth". Oh man those are funny!

OK, I am making myself very hungry! I think I will go try the only BBQ place in Santa Fe today (Cow Girl Hall Of Fame), I hope it just tries to come close to anything in TX. Man, I miss those places that you can just walk up to the pit, point out the brisket, chicken, sausage, etc... that you want then walk inside for them to throw on the tater salad, coleslaw, a few raw onion rings, cherry peppers, and then give you a glass of sweet tea that is really a jelly jar with a glass handle that is the size of a pitcher in most restaurants. Then you take two trips to your table.

One to carry your food and then another one to carry your drink. Once you sit down you see that there is a roll of paper towels for your napkin, and an entire loaf of bread that has been opened by someone just cutting the plastic on the top from end to end............then................you eat!

OK, I am starving now, so I will leave you all knowing that I love ya, and have spent my entire morning this morning praying for you (all those who read this blog). How many blogs out there can tell you that?! Oh yeah, your blessed, ha ha. bye bye.

(No Jay Update....yet, because I have not called him, so just KUTP! Thanks!

I will leave you all with a few closings that you can use when saying good bye to people when you are chatting online:

->bye
->buh bye
->lata
->lata playa
->gtg (got to go)
->brb (be right back)
->peace
->one love, one God, one way (quote of a Christian rap artist)
->fkjsakdfjaISJFDAKSJF (my personal favorite, heh)
->(enter your name) out! (for example, "D.G. Out!")
->10-4
->Ok Im back (heh this one always gets them)
->Or my favorite one of late told to me from my good friend soon to be Dr. John Choi who said this to me as the last thing before he quite the convo, "D.G. Harums will you marry me?". I bet I talked to him for about 7 or 8 more lines of how it just would not work out, and he never IMed me back....that's mean just mean!!!*



*this last good bye message is true, but John and I joke around all the time, so please understand it is all a joke. Thanks for understanding. heh.

Oh and lastly, blogger.com has changed the way I input my posts here on the blog and for some reason the spell check is not working properly and it locks up on me when I try to post. The post gets up for everyone, but I never know that unless I check the main blog site, so if the spelling is way off, it is because...yep I am that bad of a speller and I need help...from programs, heh. Sorry, and I hope they get it fixed soon. (It might be FireFox too, but I will look into that)