Recently two of my friends who were never out of shape, but were never in real great shape, have both gotten super jacked and super in shape. I was joking with one of them and asking if they were on steroids, and his exact response was
" Not on steroids, we are both recently single"
That made me realize that it is not being single for a long time that makes you get in shape, it is that initial break up and becoming single that pushes you and motivates you to get back into the gym. It makes sense since I know a lot of people that once they are happy in their relationship they slowly stop working out, stop caring about a diet etc, and they are just happy with their life and they do not feel the need to work out.
I view it differently, I always want to stay in shape( or at least try) not only for me but for who ever I am dating. If I run and work out when I am single and when I start dating someone, they probably like that about me. I do not want to get fat and lazy, I want to stay in shape etc so the person I am with is still attracted to me etc.
I do get that a lot of couples work out together or run together or diet, but for the most part, people that are single, esp. recently single tend to workout the hardest and diet the most etc.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Brad's Wedding Speech
I have known Brad for close to 20 years and even though it is the cliche' thing to say, I have never seen him this happy. I have known Kerri pretty much since I graduated college and started playing kickball with her, and as much I would like to pretend to be younger, we all know that, that was several years ago and in turn, I have known Kerri for a while also.
I will skip all the mushy stuff and just focus on one event. We were all in Boston for a vacation and we were out to lunch and Brad got a call on his cell phone from Kerri's father. He looked at his phone and looked at all of us, and none of us knew what was going on. Brad had this look of panic and being frightened and shocked all at the same time. He could only think that if Mr. Sullivan was calling him, nothing good could be coming from this call. He went outside and took the call. We were all sitting there coming up with all types of reasons( none of which were remotely possible) why he would be calling.
Brad came back in and his look had gone from frightened and nervous to happy and excited still with a little bit of shock to it. He then preceded to tell us the story of the call and about the diamond and what Mr. Sullivan's plan was for the engagement ring etc..From that moment on, it was on, as the kids like to say.
Every time you are around Brad and Kerri, you just smile, because you can look at them and see how happy they are and how not only are they truly in love, but how truly happy they are to just be around each other.
At the end of the day, all anyone is looking for is to be able to fall in love with their best friend and be able to spend the rest of their life with the person they love and care about the most, and it is obvious that they have found that. Brad and Kerri both have great loving families and great loving friends, and as part of that group of friends, I would just like to say that we are all so happy for both of you and deep down we are all jealous and we all hope to have the love and closeness that you two do in our own life....
I will skip all the mushy stuff and just focus on one event. We were all in Boston for a vacation and we were out to lunch and Brad got a call on his cell phone from Kerri's father. He looked at his phone and looked at all of us, and none of us knew what was going on. Brad had this look of panic and being frightened and shocked all at the same time. He could only think that if Mr. Sullivan was calling him, nothing good could be coming from this call. He went outside and took the call. We were all sitting there coming up with all types of reasons( none of which were remotely possible) why he would be calling.
Brad came back in and his look had gone from frightened and nervous to happy and excited still with a little bit of shock to it. He then preceded to tell us the story of the call and about the diamond and what Mr. Sullivan's plan was for the engagement ring etc..From that moment on, it was on, as the kids like to say.
Every time you are around Brad and Kerri, you just smile, because you can look at them and see how happy they are and how not only are they truly in love, but how truly happy they are to just be around each other.
At the end of the day, all anyone is looking for is to be able to fall in love with their best friend and be able to spend the rest of their life with the person they love and care about the most, and it is obvious that they have found that. Brad and Kerri both have great loving families and great loving friends, and as part of that group of friends, I would just like to say that we are all so happy for both of you and deep down we are all jealous and we all hope to have the love and closeness that you two do in our own life....
new job, new start
I started this job back in July and I am now getting around to finally doing this write-up about it. I took this job mainly as a change in my life. It seems as if this job is not exactly what I want in my life and that makes me question why I took it.
The problem therein lies with am I not happy here because of the specific job or am I just not happy in general and it doesn't matter what job I am at. It is a stable job and good money etc, yet I find reasons not to be happy with it. I am not sure why I do this to myself, but that is another issue I am working on fixing. At the end of the day, I need to stop complaining about the negative aspects of this job and focus on the positive ones and continue to do well.
I wrote this and never published and as now, as of today, I no longer work for this company. it is for the better, I was not happy, and nothing in my life has gone well since I have been at this job. I needed to get out and I needed a change, and now is my time to start over and to truly start to be happy.
The problem therein lies with am I not happy here because of the specific job or am I just not happy in general and it doesn't matter what job I am at. It is a stable job and good money etc, yet I find reasons not to be happy with it. I am not sure why I do this to myself, but that is another issue I am working on fixing. At the end of the day, I need to stop complaining about the negative aspects of this job and focus on the positive ones and continue to do well.
I wrote this and never published and as now, as of today, I no longer work for this company. it is for the better, I was not happy, and nothing in my life has gone well since I have been at this job. I needed to get out and I needed a change, and now is my time to start over and to truly start to be happy.
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