The Transformation Journals

A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. 
Proverbs 15:5

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up 
children the more they have come to the conclusion that what 
good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for 
their babies is the best after all. 
Benjamin McLane Spock, 1903 - 1998 

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, 
he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. 
Charles Wadsworth  My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me  watch him do it. 
Clarence Buddinton Kelland  John Elway is a great football player. He used to be my son.  Now I’m his father. 
Jack Elway 

I had to

REJECTED SLOGANS FOR FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS

McDonald’s - Still The Best Choice When You Haven’t Got Time for Anything Better!

Starbucks - Now with 0.9% Financing on a Tall Frappucino!

KFC - Open to Suggestions on Keeping the Word "Fried" Out of Our Name.

Burger King - Ask for it Your Way and Get it Any Way We Make it.

Jack-in-the-Box - We put the dot in E.Coli!

Wendy’s - Hey, if Dave Didn’t Care About His Cholesterol, Why Should You?

Taco Bell - Working Around the Clock to Invent New Ways to Combine the Same Five Ingredients.

all from Mark Raymond’s Humor http://mrhumor.net/

And a bonus quote

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt  

Be Well and Safe   ~!~

Here is an excerpt from Dave’s newsletter on 05Mar2008

Crimes against one’s self, sins against man.

Take pride in your weighty endeavor, your iron diversion, your steely
sport or heavy pastime, whether you’re an aspiring fireman, policeman,
taxman, doctor, lawyer or Indian chief. What you do is good…
brilliant, perhaps. Go. Aspire.

Before moving on, you must face the four naked truths: discipline and
perseverance, courage and forbearance. These are prerequisites and
byproducts of building muscle, might and brights. Ya gotta have them,
or, at least, be ready, willing and able to develop them. Be prepared.

Well here it is. The week I have been waiting for.  Headed out of town to Atlanta for four days of R and R, or debauchery if you prefer.  No school.  No work.  School starts back the first week of June and along with it a better mindset and focus on trainig and diet.  I really have been on the edge of burnout with all the things going on at work and the heavy load at school.  Again, not blaming it all on those but that did contribute to the stress.  There just was not enough time and unfortunately gym time took a back seat to school and study time.  I feel the effects of that and if I had done things differently I may have been able to arrange things better.  I didn’t and it is behind me now.  No regrets and time to move forward.  This almost feels like a New Year’s resolution and in a way I suppose it is.  The course of study I am about to start is 12 months long.  Two nights a week with lab/clinicals every other weekend.  Still working 12 hour shifts and working every other weekend.  Yes weekends are going to be non existent for a while. 

I haven’t mentioned it anywhere in my blog about my course of study.  For all my healthcare friends and visitors, or anyone who stops by that might be interested, it is a bridge program to RN.  The course was initially designed for LPN transition to RN but this year the school is allowing Paramedics and Respiratory Therapists to enter.  There is a class that we had to take before hand that dealt mostly with nursing theory, skills validation, and nursing thinking (insert nursing diagnosis and care plans here).  Along with a few prereqs I had to retake because they were too old, A&P I and II, Microbiology, with Human Growth and Developement tossed in on top.  So, if all goes well 12 months from now I will have my ADN and be getting ready to sit for boards.

Thats all for now.  Time to finish packing and head out.  More later.
As always, be well and safe.

Weight is up about ten pounds.  I know all of this is not muscle.  Some of it is I am sure.  I also know that the last several weeks my training has not been what I want it to be and my diet has not been as clean as it should be.  School is part of the cause, but I can’t blame it all on that.  I have just been tired and stressed and apathetic.  It is a circle that I am trying to not let become too vicious.  A couple more weeks and then a break.  I will get things back on track then.

More later.  Be well and safe.  ~!~

Yes I get these too…

idee fixe (noun) [ee-day-FEEKS]

A fixed idea that becomes an obsession.

Too much of a good thing?…as usual early morning random ponderings…Be well and safe.  ~!~

I am sure many have seen or heard this one before.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be well and safe.  ~!~

Someone put up a Waffle House calendar up in the office.  It talks about healthy lifestyles.  Ummmm?  I just noticed that Waffle House has a job position "Health and Fitness Expert".  Who came up with double order scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, etc…romped on stomped on already chomped on hashbrowns?!?!?

Be well and safe.  ~!~

School is really wreaking havoc with my workouts.  I am really beginning to feel the effects of it.  I am tired and irritable more than I usually am.  The irritablity, along with aggitation, is one of the side affects of a medication I am on (yes it sucks) and it is exacerbated by not getting to the gym.  I have school three nights a week and two online classes.  Work every other weekend and now labs/clinicals on weekends too.  Work is 12 hour shifts.  So, enough whining and no thanks, I’ll pass on the cheese with my whine for now as I am in the middle of a vanilla and rootbeer float flavored shake.  I am trying to get in two workouts a week and for now cardio is more often than not on hold.  I just need to make it until mid May.  I will have a couple weeks off before the next semester starts in June and I am going out of town somewhere. No work, no school, no anything.  School will go to class two nights a week and one online class. Work and clinicals/labs will still be the same but I should be able to get in two a week with cardio and maybe even three a week.  Okay, I feel a little better now.  Thanks for putting up with the venting and the ranting.  More later (hopefully not more venting and ranting).  Be well and safe.  ~!~