Leap Year!!

Amazing - it's the 29th of February!

Seriously though - why do we get an extra day in the middle of winter?!

Anyway not much to add here - still thinking about my previous post and what I want to focus on here... Happy Leap Day!

(Also, Savage Chickens is one of my favorites - you should visit his site and see all his awesome post-it chicken-ness)

Direction for the Future of the Blog

Yeah I'm really trying to figure that out still... And I'd love to hear some input if you have any.

I'm not going to get rid of this blog, but there are SO many different sites I'm using around the internet, and that's not including my Fitness Blog also on Blogger!

Examples:
Twitter
Books
Running
Body Measurement
My Art
Pinterest
Inspirational Pictures
Goals
More Goals
Even MORE Goals (Schemer is still in Beta so you can't see that unless you already have it!)

Those sites are just the ones I use off the top of my head!!

So what should I do here? I've already got a lot of subjects covered.

One that isn't covered is Japanese Music Videos... I could do just that!

Maybe I'll focus exclusively on Pirates!

Primal Challenge results

21 days have come and gone - we completed our first 21 days of pretty much 100% Primal!

Now that we finished that we have gone into a more 'normal' Primal lifestyle, keeping exceptions to less than 20% of total. It's working out and our kids are starting to complain less as well!

As for results - I lost 5 or 6 pounds - if you want to see what that did for my love handles, you can see my pasty skin over on my Fitness entry on pre and post challenge results post. Now I need to gain back that weight, with no fat!

Eat more fat, have less on my body - I like it!

If you have any questions let me know - I'm happy to answer them!

Gone Primal

As my beautiful wife documented in her blog we have decided that with this new year we would start The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation as outlined in the book of the same name... (If you buy the book through that link I supposedly get money... but nobody ever has so I don't expect to!)

If you've never checked out Mark's Daily Apple - you really should! (I don't get anything if you click on that link)

It is a valuable resource for anybody interested in health regardless what you believe on the whole Caveman/Primal idea. Some of the articles get a bit wordy but I don't think they are anywhere near as bad as Mercola for wordiness!

For an intro to what 'Primal' is, check it out here.

I've mentioned before how my biggest issues in my quest for physical perfection (ha ha) were the 3 S's:
Sleep, Sugar and Soda
This lifestyle change removes the 2 consumables (no sugar which pretty much cuts out the soda for me cuz I don't do diet!) and has some strong suggestions for improving sleep (Turn off electronics earlier and go to BED). That is really hard. I think the sleep is actually harder than avoiding sugar, as my night time ritual of staring at the computer screen is currently my wind down time and my "Me-time" with no kids running around peeking over my shoulder, etc.

So far (day 3 of the 21 day challenge, then after that you modify it to fit your personal needs) I feel great! I'm probably sleeping better already (although the first night I stayed up too late...) and it hasn't been THAT hard to avoid the candy and Mt. Dew (although MAN it is tempting at the grocery store checkout lines!) We got some decent sparkling water at Costco and I picked up some surprisingly delectable High Cocoa content Dark Chocolates so I think that helps!

After work today my fitness challenge is to do 2 rounds of as many pushups, squats, pullups and plank (for time) as I can. I'm pretty good at all of those so we'll see how I do after work!

Finally, I've started a Tumblr photo blog for ease of cool inspirational picture sharing (Fitness, Yoga, Personal progress in Fitness and Yoga, Pirates, Steampunk. You know, the usual!)
Feel free to follow me over at warlordblade.tumblr.com

Fitness Updates!

Finally updated my even more neglected Fitness Blog - Check it out if you'd like!

An Update on My Art That Isn't Really a quality Update at All

I especially like the random capitalization of words!


So I have a big pile of doodles to scan - but it isn't anything really focused. I need some ideas... and drive.


Here's my gallery.



Sorry for the lack of posting - it's been a crazy month since I last posted. I'm not sure I'm going to continue the quotes. Or maybe just none for this month (and last!).

Friday Quotes - Steve Jobs

"Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right."

- Steve Jobs

New from World Order

Love it!

NINJA!!!

Friday Quotes - Steve Jobs

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs