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Note Able Quote from Current Song: More Latin than you can shake a stick at. Also, more Latin than I can translate, but it sure is purty!

Current Weight: 249 lbs.

Currently Reading: "Anvil of Stars" by Greg Bear...still!

For those of you that replied to my last post on the 4th, I thank you all. Highly at that. All of the advice and ideas were very sound and there are a lot of them I am going to try to put into practice. Especially in an attempt to up my energy level and health in general.

However, it wasn't exactly what I was looking for, and I blame myself for not having written the post clearly enough. So, let me give it another try.

The main thing I am looking for it how people motivate themselves to do things they do not want to do.

Everyone gets tired, and most people are groggy in the morning first thing when they wake up. So, at those moments in time when you have things that need to get done, or that you should be doing, how do you get yourself to stand up and just...do it!

The ideas about making a list and telling yourself "this routine must take place as soon as you get up/get home before you allow yourself to relax" is a good idea, but it has a flaw, be it a small one. If I tell myself that I am going to make myself perform certain tasks (cleaning, working out, what have you), the second I take the step in the door when coming home from work, or sit up in bed in the morning, many times (well, okay, MOST of the time) I just do not want to do it. With that mind set, even with the plan set up to make myself take care of the responsibilities, I am able to talk my way out of it. I tell myself I had a hard day, or that I am tired and need a good nights sleep, and eventually make myself believe that I will simply start it tomorrow.

So, when you are faced with that situation, what do you do? What is it that you tell yourself that is able to get you motivated to tell the little devil on your shoulder to shut his pie hole and then just get down to business?

Note Able Quote from Current Song: Jazzy drum and bass...but no lyrics.

Current Weight: Ugh...249.somethingorother...not going well.

Currently Reading: "Anvil of Stars" by Greg Bear. This book is taking me forever to get through.

I have a question for those in the LiveJournal world.

Recently...okay, now that I think more about it this has been going on for years...but even more recently I have been very tired. Now, I don't mean in the mental/spiritual exhaustion sort of way exactly, but that is part of it. I am talking about being physically tired. I get 8 hours of sleep and wake up with my eyes stinging, my muscles sore, my head cloudy, and I end up sitting down in front of the PC and not able to move until it is too late for me to work out, what have you, and I have to get to work.

It's partial tiredness, and part of it is just lack of ability to motivate myself...I am guessing.

It's not just working out, either. Example, the house is a complete mess, and the room I have is destroyed. It's bad enough that I don't even like to be in it. I want to clean it up and feel like I can spend time in there relaxing, but the fact that it is in such disarray keeps me constantly thinking "I should be cleaning this mess up", but I can't motivate myself to do so, but can't relax due to the mess.

Now, after a 9 hour day of being at work (yeah, it's in front of a computer and is in NO way physically stressful) I get home worn out, just as I know most people are, so it is not just me. I also realize that I am not in good physical shape, which would explain some of the tiredness. Yeah, getting regular exercise and eating better would make a hell of a difference, but that is where the motivation comes in...and the question.

SO...what do you do when you come home from work and are exhausted but still have many other things you have to take care of? How do you get yourself to not slow down and keep going when you feel like sitting down and slipping into a vegetative state? How do you motivate yourself to get through and finished with the things you need to do but would really rather not do?

For those of you that are able to wake up in the morning and get right on track, how do you pull this off?

I am interested in any and all answers I can get.

Note Able Quote from Current Song: "Preach all you want but who's gonna save me?
I keep a gun in the book you gave me,
Hallelujah, lock and load"

Okay...so the second meme, brought to you by the lovely Miss glammastar, is as follows. ( Another perfect cut... )

Note Able Quote from Current Song: "I had time to kill
It's dead and buried
You've got guts to spill
But no one trust-worthy"

Current Weight: Unknown...I have not stepped on a scale for 3 weeks, and have not worked out for 2. I have also been eating like a pig, so it is most likely for the best that it is currently a mystery.

Currently Reading: "The Forge of God" by Greg Bear. I SWEAR I didn't know this was going to be part of a damn series!!! Went out a while back and used over $200 in trade to buy a TON of books, this one included, and now I have to go out and buy the sequel since I am practically done, while the rest sit in waiting...DAMN YOU, SALIZAR!!!...I mean...BEAR!!!

So, I was tagged a while back for some memes. One by dooomkitten and one by glammastar and finally I am getting off my ass and getting to it. First one will be posted here. ( Come on...just click it. First one is free... )

Note Able Quote from Current Song: "I never worked on a car,
but I sure know how to screw."

Current Weight: 246.2 lbs...so, this was after a couple of days of exercise and eating...well, embarrassingly little. BUT, I think this is more of where my weight is at. Which is a damn good thing.

Currently Reading: "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson. The edition that dooomkitten loaned me has additional short stories. So, at this point I have finished "I Am Legend", but am still reading the rest of the stories.

( That being said... )

Note Able Quote from Current Song: "Nobodies right if everybody's wrong,
Nobodies right if everybody's wrong,
You can't see white if you won't see black,
You can't see white if you won't see black,
Empty shell,
Shallow skull,
Your fight lost,
Theres no other way,
I'm held back,
WAKE!"

Current Weight: 250 lbs Since Only been a few days...so no pressure. Working out...good! Just need to loose as much weight as you can before March 12th. Again, no pressure.

Currently Reading: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

This post is in a partial rebuttal to tragerstreit 's post that stated "..I wish I was beautiful." Mostly it is me unloading something I have thought for a while and I need to get off my chest. ( Pardon me while I scamper into the saddle of my high horse. )

This is mostly for noodlboy, even if he didn't warn me the alarm to his apartment was armed last night. ;P I am finding this WAY more amusing than I should:

http://www.rathergood.com/morris_dancers/

XD

Yesterday, dooomkitten gave me a Christmas present that was a print of her photgraph "Blur Baby". I just wanted to take a momment to declare how fucking awesome she is and how much I appreciate this gift. It is going to get framed and placed on the wall near my computer in my office and, in the near future, I will use it as inspiration to write what went through my head when I first saw it...and she will be the first one to read it.

Thank you, Kyle.

Note Able Quote from Current Song: Once again those crazy ladies are chanting in Hungarian...damn purty, but I have no idea what they are yapping about.

Current Weight: 257 lbs (Wow...that's, like, over 6 lbs you have lost...keep it up, you fat bastard!)
Currently Reading: NOTHING! I finally finished the Manifold Trilogy...more posted on this later

The following is kind of freaky...and fairly accurate. Only thing is I figured music would have been higher on the list. However, it's not like I play an instrument:

You scored as Terpischore. You are Terpischore, the muse of dance. You love to be in the middle of everything and have all eyes focused on you. In all of your childhood videos and pictures you are always hamming it up. </td> Terpischore 62% Euterpe 56% Erato 56% Thalia 50% Calliope 44% Polyhymnia 31% Clio 31% Melpomene 25% Urania 25% Which of the Greek Muses are you? created with QuizFarm.com

Note Able Quote from Current Song: It's in Hungarian...but it is damn pretty.

Current Weight: 260.8 lbs (you are STILL a FAT bastard...)
Currently Reading: Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter...still

I hate this. I've been at my job long enough that I just don't care anymore. I try to do as much of my job as is necessary and I would like to believe that I do a good job, if not too good of a job sometimes, but I do not (and will not) strive to go above and beyond to the point of volunteering for additional work, or wandering outside the realm of what I am supposed to do day to day. ( The bitching continues. )

Apparently one of the scales is hitting the ground:

You are 60% Libra