If I were my employee, I would fire me!

I do work for myself so maybe I am lying! But if I had an employee that acted like me these last few week I would fire him/her. I am sitting at my work desk with heaps to do and not accomplishing anything. I am in a deep funk that is hard to explain.

Could it be the lost election? No, I felt like this before the election. I am surprised at Yahoo's headline story calling Obama the "First Global President." Does that mean that we have to lower our standards to be like the rest of the world? The rest of the world should be more like the USA and not the other way around. I lived out of country for two years and can attest to the greatness of this country. No, we are not perfect but we are the best thing going. We don't need to lean any more towards socialism than we already do. The government shouldn't be responsible for bailing out companies or individuals who made stupid investment decisions. If they had made good decisions and made lots of money would they have given that profit to the taxpayers? And never forget that we finance the government with our taxes so we are paying for idiots who got into too much debt.

Back to this funk I am in. It is not the good kind of funk like on the Soul Train where you dance really cool and wear trendy clothes. I am just plain tired. Years back my wife told me, "maybe if you lost some weight you wouldn't be so depressed." That has been a running joke ever since. There was context to the conversation that makes it easy to understand why she said that but the context takes away from the humor so I won't include it.

I think my wife was right! I am getting chunky. When I got married in 1997 I weighed 155 lbs. Now I am up to 225 lbs. Don't get me wrong, I was a bit too skinny way back when, but when I was 175 lbs I was in my prime. I have a goal to get back to 175 lbs but I am not doing much to accomplish it. The main reason I started this blog was to start an exercise habit and keep up with my weight in a public forum. However limited my readership may be at least my far away relatives and a few friends will be able to see if I do anything about it.

So here it goes, today I am 225 lbs (according to my home scale which shall be my reference), and I wear a size 38 waist.

Wish me luck. I will see about adding some pictures if I can fit into one frame ;-)