Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Weekly Transformation Week 23
This week was a bit different as my sister was in town visiting so I didn't do as much as I wanted. It also has been raining basically all weekend so that put us all in that "coma"...you know the one, where all you want to do is sleep, eat, read, and maybe get up to go to the bathroom if you really need to! It was nice but now the sun is TRYING to come out so time to get back to some goals. With the kids home for the summer, I am adding in a goal a week to get a "room" in the house clean and spotless. I am giving myself a week to get it done and hopefully keep it clean. Then the hope is to add another room to that the next week and be able to keep up with it all at the end. I do so great with it and then fall off and have to start all over again with the WHOLE house. Basically the only room that I really do keep up on is the bathroom. With a potty training boy, it has to be kept up on! Do you have any goals you are working on this week?
Personal Goals This Week:
Personal Goals Last Week:
Personal Goals This Week:
- Write 10 Posts This Week
- Daily Devotional 5x
- Track Food 7x
- 3 Days Under Calories
- Go To Gym 4x
- Read 2 Books This Week
- Take Kids To Splash Park 1x (since flooding/raining right now!)
- Take Kids To Library
- Don't Weigh Until Next Tuesday!
- Clean Kitchen
Personal Goals Last Week:
- Write One Post A Day Missed Sunday
Daily Devotional 4x this weekTrack Food 7x this week- 3 Days Under Calories this week Only 1 day.....
- Go to gym 4x this week Went 2 times, hoping this week will work!
Read 2 books this weekDrink 64 oz of water a day- Take Kids to Splash Park 2x this week Only 1, its been busy then rain!
Take kids to library this week- Don't weigh until next Tuesday! 2 other times, BUT I used to weigh every day so this is a great start!
Starting (January 7) : 278.4 lbs
Week 2 (Jan 14): 279.0 lbs
Week 3 (Jan 21): 280.8 lbs
Week 4 (Jan 28): 278.8 lbs
Week 9 (Mar 4): 281.4 lbs
Week 16(Apr 22): 285.8 lbs
Week 20(May 20): 281.4 lbs
Week 21(May 21): 281.4 lbs
Week 22 (June 3): 283.0 lbs
Week 2 (Jan 14): 279.0 lbs
Week 3 (Jan 21): 280.8 lbs
Week 4 (Jan 28): 278.8 lbs
Week 9 (Mar 4): 281.4 lbs
Week 16(Apr 22): 285.8 lbs
Week 20(May 20): 281.4 lbs
Week 21(May 21): 281.4 lbs
Week 22 (June 3): 283.0 lbs
Week 23(June 10: 283.2 lbs
Monday, June 9, 2014
Weekly Winnings Through June 8th
This week I won:
- Entertainment Book Digital Online Code
- The Chronicle of Secret Raven Book
Weekly Menu For June 9th to June 13th
Monday - Bierocks
Tuesday - Chicken Lasagna (Hope to put up a recipe post for it too with pictures!)
Wednesday - Grilled Pizza or Hamburgers so something like that!
Thursday - Pancakes and Sausage
Friday - Out To Eat
Tuesday - Chicken Lasagna (Hope to put up a recipe post for it too with pictures!)
Wednesday - Grilled Pizza or Hamburgers so something like that!
Thursday - Pancakes and Sausage
Friday - Out To Eat
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Comic Strip Legends
So I found this post today, linked on news sites and though it would be awesome to talk about.
Bill Watterson is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. He is somewhat of a different character when it comes to how he handles himself in the industry. Though Calvin and Hobbes is his creation and he has every right to their likeness he has never produced any copyright material for profit. That's right, all those stickers and shirts you see are technically not legal, but he allows their use anyway.
Besides his unwillingness to market his characters due to his personal believes (according to articles, I'm not sure we can say that for sure as he does not do interviews) he does NOT do public or even private appearances. He is famously reclusive and notoriously hard to find. After he ended Calvin and Hobbes as a series he left the public eye and became something of a legend.
Stephan Pastis the artist behind Pearls Before Swine was one of the many people to attempt to reach out to Bill Watterson, and like most expected to not hear anything in return. The response he got was something out of an artists personal fantasy and of course he wanted to tell everyone, but he was sworn to secrecy until the project was complete. Well today he is allowed to talk about it and it is an awesome story.
Here is Mr. Pastis' blog post about the exchange and some links to new artwork done by Bill Watterson.
Lots of people don't normally follow artists or care much about them beyond their artwork but I have found that it is far more interesting to follow how an artist develops over time and how their stories change. I've followed a great many web based comics over the years and read about and watch artists grow over time and it makes their work more substantial to me. Perhaps that is one of the topics I will try to cover in the future.
Geek:Out
Bill Watterson is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. He is somewhat of a different character when it comes to how he handles himself in the industry. Though Calvin and Hobbes is his creation and he has every right to their likeness he has never produced any copyright material for profit. That's right, all those stickers and shirts you see are technically not legal, but he allows their use anyway.
Besides his unwillingness to market his characters due to his personal believes (according to articles, I'm not sure we can say that for sure as he does not do interviews) he does NOT do public or even private appearances. He is famously reclusive and notoriously hard to find. After he ended Calvin and Hobbes as a series he left the public eye and became something of a legend.
Stephan Pastis the artist behind Pearls Before Swine was one of the many people to attempt to reach out to Bill Watterson, and like most expected to not hear anything in return. The response he got was something out of an artists personal fantasy and of course he wanted to tell everyone, but he was sworn to secrecy until the project was complete. Well today he is allowed to talk about it and it is an awesome story.
Here is Mr. Pastis' blog post about the exchange and some links to new artwork done by Bill Watterson.
Lots of people don't normally follow artists or care much about them beyond their artwork but I have found that it is far more interesting to follow how an artist develops over time and how their stories change. I've followed a great many web based comics over the years and read about and watch artists grow over time and it makes their work more substantial to me. Perhaps that is one of the topics I will try to cover in the future.
Geek:Out
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