{"id":4136,"date":"2010-01-17T23:55:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T04:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:44:31","slug":"two-weeks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=4136","title":{"rendered":"Two Weeks In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Beginning of the year notes\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the risk of sounding unhumble, I\u2019ve been doing pretty well with some of my big 2010 resolutions.\u00a0 We\u2019re a little over two weeks in and I\u2019ve only eaten after 10 pm one night.\u00a0 Okay, maybe two \u2013 but no more than that!\u00a0 I promise \u2013 and you know it\u2019s true because this is a \u201cblog-promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Yesterday I went to the movies (The Book Of Eli \u2013 better than I thought, but let me just say this\u2026 I would really love to see a movie about the apocalypse where a scrappy group of nerds survive to awkwardly re-populate the world and only fight about Dungeons &amp; Dragons levels or stuff like that)\u2026 wait, where was I&#8230;right, so yesterday I went to the movies\u2026 and I got a medium popcorn instead of the large bag AND didn\u2019t even finish it.\u00a0 You can\u2019t imagine what a breakthrough this is for me.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now before you all write in with angry anti-popcorn rants because I\u2019m a diabetic, I will paraphrase a great American when I tell you that as long as I live (and am able to go see movies), you\u2019ll have to \u201cpry the-value-bag-popcorn-bag-out-of-my-cold, dead, greasy hands\u201d \u00a0before I give it up entirely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019ve lost 4 pounds in the last 2 weeks despite the aforementioned popcorn-fetish and my numbers have been really good.\u00a0 I go for an A1C in a few weeks, so we\u2019ll see if I\u2019m feeling confident for a good reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I try not to start every year with exacting work goals, but I\u2019m changing it up this year. I\u2019ve decided to become more pro-active in pursuing my various career goals in 2010 \u2013 the\u00a0 \u201cWhat Do I Have To Lose?\u201d Year \u2026 the key element in this decision is still to come (the being pushy part), but I\u2019m getting in that more aggressive state of mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019ve also stopped wishing people a \u201cHappy New Year.\u201d\u00a0 If I haven\u2019t seen or talked to someone by now in 2010, then I don\u2019t care \u2013 and they don\u2019t care either I\u2019m sure \u2013 what kind of year they have.\u00a0 I say this not to be mean, but rather, I\u2019m making every effort to not seem insincere this year and I feel late January (or even early February) \u201cHappy New Year\u2019s\u201d greetings runs that risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That\u2019s it for now folks\u2026 Happy Martin Luther King Jr. 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