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(Update: It looks like all is not well, the permalinks aren’t working at the moment, hopefully it will rectify itself shortly.)

Update 2: Everything should be working as normal.

The first change I’m attempting to to cut out drinking soda pop. This might seem like a no-brainer for someone trying to lose weight, but you obviously don’t know how big a part of my life Diet Coke is (and has been). You’d think I’d be okay drinking diet soda, but it looks like it’s just as bad as the sweet, sweet high-fructose corn syrup stuff. Figures.

So I’m going from, I don’t know, five or six cans of Diet Coke (a day) to nothing. Last week I weaned myself down to two cans. This week I’m going to try for one. We’ll see how that goes, but I think I’ll be reaping the rewards in no time.

My main reason behind this is to change my mindset.

Like everyone else, I’d really like to shed some pounds and get in better shape. In need to start somewhere, and I figured now would be a good as time as ever.

So instead of looking to making some grand sweeping changes and new year’s resolutions that wouldn’t survive the month of January, I figured I’d give this a try. If I can lose some weight during the most calorically dense time of the year, I can lose it whenever I want.

So as it stands, at the halfway point, I’m down one pound from when I weighed myself on November 24th. At my current weight, that probably falls in the realm of measurement error, but I’ll take it.

Hopefully this will be taste of things to come.

For those who don’t know, Greta and I picked a different animal for each of the kids and took a monthly picture with them next to their animal. Now that they’re all older, we’ll just be doing it yearly, but here are pictures of the three kids, through the months and years:

Corinne�s Bunny Shots
Mason�s Monkey Shots
Ethan�s Elephant Shots

Crazy!

But now, my time on this project is going to come to an end soon, so I need to take advantage of what time I have. I’m still working on my first project, the monthly stuffed-pet project (and subsequent organizing of Flickr). That should be done soonish!

Not sure what will happen after that. I’ve been itching to scan in old photos, but that’s a home project, so we’ll see what happens next.

With all this free time, I figured I could spend some time working on the site. While Greta has taken over most of the family blogging, I have a few projects I’d like to work on. Those would include finally organizing our Flickr photos (I stopped working on that a while ago), a page of the kids pictures with their stuffed animals, and a few other post ideas.

Now I have to motivate myself to turn off the 4th episode (in a row!) of Law and Order and get to it.

They are all intriguing. I really want to travel to Pennsylvania to check this one out, but the one I found most interesting was this one, the “Deserted Walled City of Kowloon, Hong Kong“.

(I’m hoping to update the site a little more frequently with links like these.)