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Tuesday, 01 February 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennifer and I have been trying to make a more diligent effort to eat healthier and work out more lately. Jennifer has been pretty much heading up the eating department. I think we already eat pretty healthy, but there\u2019s definitely room for improvement, especially in the grains and portion-control departments. For example, if you put ten pounds of potatoes in front of me, I\u2019m going to eat them all. Fast. So I need to correct that.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also been visiting the work-out room at our apartment complex more. I\u2019ve been using the exercise bike. This is a bit of a cop-out, since I should really be running on the treadmill for a more thorough work-out. But here\u2019s the problem: running is really boring. Like, reading Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em> boring. But sitting on the exercise bike is not boring because I can read while I do it. Today, for example, I finished reading The Far Side Gallery 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I get the feeling that I spend May \u2013October working out, going for walks, riding bicycles, running, and stuff like that just to make up for what I did to myself during November-April. It\u2019s easy to get sluggish during those months of cold and darkness. Anyway, I\u2019m trying to get a head start on it this year. I\u2019ve said this before (perhaps I\u2019ve said it too much) but, with the birth of my children, I have this weird feeling that I need to stay alive for the next two decades. And I don\u2019t want to turn into some bloated Jabba the Hutt (oh for God\u2019s sake, another stupid Star Wars<\/em> reference) along the way.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 02 February 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m less than 24 hours away from beginning another semester of college. Already I\u2019m starting to feel overwhelmed, and I haven\u2019t even seen the syllabus yet. I have all of these non-necessary things that I do with my time, and I\u2019m starting to feel like they\u2019re crowding me out. The problem is, each one individually is fun and enjoyable, but all together, especially when linked up with things I HAVE to do, makes for too much stress and pressure in my life.<\/p>\n

I was going to devote today\u2019s blog post to listing off the things I do with my time and ranking them by priority. Unfortunately, I can\u2019t seem to figure out how to properly rnak them. I mean, first, there are things I have to do just to stay alive, like eating and sleeping. That takes up a lot of time. Then there are things I have to do in order to have some semblance of a good life: I have to go to work, I have to spend time with my wife and children, I have to devote time to recreation. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I enjoy being with my family, and I even enjoy my job, but those things take up a lot of time. The problem is, I add in a whole bunch of other things: I\u2019m an editor for The Minnesota Atheist, I co-host Atheists Talk, I\u2019m a member of Toastmasters, I insist we work-out (see above), and, as of tomorrow, I\u2019ll once again be a college boy. There are more things to this list (oh \u2013 I just thought of one \u2013 I maintain this blog). I need to write them all down and rank them by priority, and chop a few off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, 01 February 2011 Jennifer and I have been trying to make a more diligent effort to eat healthier and work out more lately. Jennifer has been pretty much heading up the eating department. I think we already eat pretty healthy, but there\u2019s definitely room for improvement, especially in the grains and portion-control departments. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}