Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Welcome To My Mind-Mare: Thankful and More...Check it out...beware I whine a bit.
Welcome To My Mind-Mare: Thankful and More...: I am trying something new, trying to make my life better through frame of mind. I have started each day this week with a positive upbeat mes...
Thankful and More...
I am trying something new, trying to make my life better through frame of mind. I have started each day this week with a positive upbeat message to myself and to my Facebook friends. The reaction has been mixed, one of my friends thought that perhaps I only had 6 months left to live. Not the case. If I only had 6 months left to live I would not at all be in a positive state of mind. I have too much left to do. The simple fact I have decided is that if you have a bad attitude you will have a bad day, likewise, if you have a positive attitude your life will be more charged and more intense in a good way.
I spent last night playing board games at R.O.E. Games and Hobbies in Schofield, WI. It's a new game store that has opened in the last week in the area. A couple of my friends from when I had a game store. The guys here are awesome. They are open to suggestions and ideas to make their store the store where gamers want to go. I know they have won me over. I foresee a lot of time spent here. If your a gamer and I know deep down you are, go check the new store out. R.O.E. Games and Hobbies; 1901 Schofield Ave, Schofield, WI 54476.
Getting my stuff out is harder than I thought. I blog, I Twitter and I use Google+ and Facebook. One would think that if you use all these with the amount of friends I have I could get my message out. Yet to my dismay I have 8 followers here on the blog. Eight. I have almost 450 friends on Facebook I have 6 followers on Twitter and I have a bunch of people on Google+ that follow my stuff. I ask how hard is it to click a button and follow my blog. To click another button and share with the friends that they have. I have given multiple ways to follow my blog, I have asked, begged and pleaded to no avail. So can someone tell me what i am doing wrong? Tell me how to get my message out there and get followers? I would appreciate the help.
Until Next Time...
Jaxion
I spent last night playing board games at R.O.E. Games and Hobbies in Schofield, WI. It's a new game store that has opened in the last week in the area. A couple of my friends from when I had a game store. The guys here are awesome. They are open to suggestions and ideas to make their store the store where gamers want to go. I know they have won me over. I foresee a lot of time spent here. If your a gamer and I know deep down you are, go check the new store out. R.O.E. Games and Hobbies; 1901 Schofield Ave, Schofield, WI 54476.
Getting my stuff out is harder than I thought. I blog, I Twitter and I use Google+ and Facebook. One would think that if you use all these with the amount of friends I have I could get my message out. Yet to my dismay I have 8 followers here on the blog. Eight. I have almost 450 friends on Facebook I have 6 followers on Twitter and I have a bunch of people on Google+ that follow my stuff. I ask how hard is it to click a button and follow my blog. To click another button and share with the friends that they have. I have given multiple ways to follow my blog, I have asked, begged and pleaded to no avail. So can someone tell me what i am doing wrong? Tell me how to get my message out there and get followers? I would appreciate the help.
Until Next Time...
Jaxion
Thursday, January 24, 2013
And the Winner is...
The first competition has come to a close and we have a winner. As of Noon yesterday I had 8 followers and those names were put in a hat and a name was drawn at random. The winner will be sent a box of Little Debbie Snacks (Star Crunch). I will need the winner to email their address at chad180knight@gmail.com.
Drum-Roll Please....
Winning Follower...Alice!
Congratulations Alice with your foresight to be one of my followers has worked out in your favor, your the winner of a whole box of Little Debbie Star Crunch. Send me your address and I will send you this wonderful sugary snack.
This takes me to my next point...FOLLOW ME!! It's easy, it's fun and most importantly it's FREE!! There are several options on ways to follow my blog. Be a Google+ member or follow by email.
Here are the other current promotions going on:
- 20 Followers
- 40 Followers
- 60 Followers
- 80 Followers
- 100 Followers
I will be giving away some more awesomely mediocre gifts at these level of followers. So tell your friends and your neighbors, parents, anyone who goes on the internet. This is going to be a great blog and the more the merrier. I look forward to a bigger and better future...who's next?
Until Next Time...
Jaxion
Drum-Roll Please....
Winning Follower...Alice!
Congratulations Alice with your foresight to be one of my followers has worked out in your favor, your the winner of a whole box of Little Debbie Star Crunch. Send me your address and I will send you this wonderful sugary snack.
This takes me to my next point...FOLLOW ME!! It's easy, it's fun and most importantly it's FREE!! There are several options on ways to follow my blog. Be a Google+ member or follow by email.
Here are the other current promotions going on:
- 20 Followers
- 40 Followers
- 60 Followers
- 80 Followers
- 100 Followers
I will be giving away some more awesomely mediocre gifts at these level of followers. So tell your friends and your neighbors, parents, anyone who goes on the internet. This is going to be a great blog and the more the merrier. I look forward to a bigger and better future...who's next?
Until Next Time...
Jaxion
Monday, January 21, 2013
What do I Follow?
Taking a slightly different approach today. I have been wondering what is out there in the way of blogs. I only follow two at this time and I will talk about each of them in a bit. I am looking for your recommendations on great blogs out there so I can get an idea of what is being read and what people are looking to read. This is your chance if your one of my followers to make me one of yours. I have a blogger account as well as a wordpress account. Now, on to the two I currently read...I would recommend these to you as well.
First and the more active of the two that I read. It is called Apologetics & Theology for the Rest of Us. You can find it here. This is written by a friend of mine Dillon. He is a sincere young man, who is finding his way through religion and through life. I find his posts to be well formulated and very insightful. I can't say that this is for every one, but, if your on a journey to find faith or just need a refresher course this is the place to check it out.
The second one I read, when she actually posts is called Lessons Learned. You can find this one here. This one is about a prepper and her desire to get prepared for the end of the world. Here hardships in doing so from a world and family that think she is insane. Will she be ready for the July date this year when she thinks the apocalypse will occur? This blog mixes theories and absolutes with just a bit of tongue and cheek to let you know that she is only partly serious. Check this one out, maybe if she has more followers she will post more often.
Now it's your turn, do you have a blog, do you read a blog on a regular basis? Either way let me know and I will check it out as well.
Speaking of followers and being read, I know you know where I am headed here, right? I need more followers, I know I have more readers than the 7 followers I have. If you read my blog, why not follow it? The more followers I get the better chance I have of gaining a wider audience. Please help me out. That said I am sure by this time tomorrow we will have exceeded the 1000 hits to the blog. As promised one of my FOLLOWERS will get a very mediocre gift to say thank you. So you have until Noon on Wednesday to become a follower at which time I will be selecting a winner.
How do I follow you? You may ask this and I will tell you. Click here.
Until Next Time...
Jaxion
First and the more active of the two that I read. It is called Apologetics & Theology for the Rest of Us. You can find it here. This is written by a friend of mine Dillon. He is a sincere young man, who is finding his way through religion and through life. I find his posts to be well formulated and very insightful. I can't say that this is for every one, but, if your on a journey to find faith or just need a refresher course this is the place to check it out.
The second one I read, when she actually posts is called Lessons Learned. You can find this one here. This one is about a prepper and her desire to get prepared for the end of the world. Here hardships in doing so from a world and family that think she is insane. Will she be ready for the July date this year when she thinks the apocalypse will occur? This blog mixes theories and absolutes with just a bit of tongue and cheek to let you know that she is only partly serious. Check this one out, maybe if she has more followers she will post more often.
Now it's your turn, do you have a blog, do you read a blog on a regular basis? Either way let me know and I will check it out as well.
Speaking of followers and being read, I know you know where I am headed here, right? I need more followers, I know I have more readers than the 7 followers I have. If you read my blog, why not follow it? The more followers I get the better chance I have of gaining a wider audience. Please help me out. That said I am sure by this time tomorrow we will have exceeded the 1000 hits to the blog. As promised one of my FOLLOWERS will get a very mediocre gift to say thank you. So you have until Noon on Wednesday to become a follower at which time I will be selecting a winner.
How do I follow you? You may ask this and I will tell you. Click here.
Until Next Time...
Jaxion
Friday, January 18, 2013
Where Have You Been?
Where have I been? That's a great question and I'm glad you asked. I've been at the gym, mostly. As you know it's the year of NO EXCUSES! I been at the gym about 5 days a week for the last 2 weeks. I been doing a combination of cardiovascular work on the treadmill and the stationary bike. I have also been doing weight training mostly Nautilus, but, some free weights as well. I hurt in places I didn't know I even owned but, (I can't believe I am going to say this) it's a good hurt. I can tell I am gaining muscle, just by the way I feel. I know it sounds weird, but, I can't think of a different way to explain it.
We are very close to our 1000 view. And as I promised once I have 1000 views I will put the name of all my followers in a hat and draw a winner. That person will receive a little token of appreciation from those of us (me) at Welcome To My Mind-Mare. It's not going to be anything grandiose, but, it will be from my heart. So follow me now before your opportunity runs out. How to follow you may ask? Click here. Now with that said once I hit 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 followers there will also be great and fun prizes drawn at random. So please follow me and get your chance to get a wonderfully mediocre prize.
10 Presidential Quotes:
Until Tomorrow...
Jaxion
We are very close to our 1000 view. And as I promised once I have 1000 views I will put the name of all my followers in a hat and draw a winner. That person will receive a little token of appreciation from those of us (me) at Welcome To My Mind-Mare. It's not going to be anything grandiose, but, it will be from my heart. So follow me now before your opportunity runs out. How to follow you may ask? Click here. Now with that said once I hit 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 followers there will also be great and fun prizes drawn at random. So please follow me and get your chance to get a wonderfully mediocre prize.
10 Presidential Quotes:
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is none of your damned business. - Chester A. Arthur
- I have tried so hard to do right. - Grover Cleveland
- May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not. - Millard Fillmore
- Must swear off from swearing. It is a bad habit. - Rutherford B. Hayes
- I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. - Zachary Taylor
- Politics make me sick. - William Howard Taft
- Every man has the right to a Saturday night bath. - Lyndon B. Johnson
- It is better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington
- All great change in American begins at the dinner table. - Ronald Reagan
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
Until Tomorrow...
Jaxion
Monday, January 7, 2013
2013: A Year of No EXCUSES
Here we are a week of 2013 behind us. How are things going for me now? Well, I can't complain. I am over a month caffeine free and almost 3 months carbonation free. I am working on making my life happier and healthier. I have been hard at work for the last week trying to lose weight. I have gone to the gym, I have been working on all my muscles groups.
I have spent time walking on the treadmill. I try to do a decent pace with some incline. I start with that and then I move on to the Nautilus machines. I work mostly my upper body on those.
Yesterday for the first time in probably 15 years I used free weights. Dumbbells and bench-presses. I felt kind of embarrassed that the amount of weight that I was benching was so small, but, I guess i gotta start somewhere. I was benching the weight bar plus 20 pounds and plus 30 pounds. I am not sure exactly what the bar weighs, but, I think it is about 50 pounds. I was benching somewhere around 80 pounds. I guess it could have been worse, but, it could also have been better.
We also took "before" pictures and I tell you if that isn't the way to motivate yourself into weight loss, I don't know what is. I then posted these pictures in our weight loss group. I just wanted to crawl into a hole. Sweat pants are not flattering...to anyone, but, especially an over weight individual. Even as much as I hate that picture I see potential in where I can go with that body. I see that there is still a lot of good left in that body. I want to leave that body behind and find one I am more comfortable in. I hope that I have found a group of people that will help me get to where I am going. It's easier to do it with others than by yourself.
My goal by February 14th is to be done 25 pounds and I think it will happen. I know that now when I get hungry I grab salad or pickles instead of bread and peanut butter or something like that. No more sausage and cheese, no more soda and especially no more constant snacking. I wait until I am hungry instead of just bored. The first really big test will be when something emotional happens. Good or bad, my family is eaters. Bad things happen, you eat to feel better. Good things happen, you eat to celebrate. I think it will all be fine, but, it is going to take will power and a realization that my entire mind set has to change.
I think a lot of my posts this year will be in a way like this. I intend to document my ups and my downs. My successes and my failures. I am human, I will fail. I am human, I will fight back against myself if I have to.
Until Tomorrow...
Jaxion
I have spent time walking on the treadmill. I try to do a decent pace with some incline. I start with that and then I move on to the Nautilus machines. I work mostly my upper body on those.
Yesterday for the first time in probably 15 years I used free weights. Dumbbells and bench-presses. I felt kind of embarrassed that the amount of weight that I was benching was so small, but, I guess i gotta start somewhere. I was benching the weight bar plus 20 pounds and plus 30 pounds. I am not sure exactly what the bar weighs, but, I think it is about 50 pounds. I was benching somewhere around 80 pounds. I guess it could have been worse, but, it could also have been better.
We also took "before" pictures and I tell you if that isn't the way to motivate yourself into weight loss, I don't know what is. I then posted these pictures in our weight loss group. I just wanted to crawl into a hole. Sweat pants are not flattering...to anyone, but, especially an over weight individual. Even as much as I hate that picture I see potential in where I can go with that body. I see that there is still a lot of good left in that body. I want to leave that body behind and find one I am more comfortable in. I hope that I have found a group of people that will help me get to where I am going. It's easier to do it with others than by yourself.
My goal by February 14th is to be done 25 pounds and I think it will happen. I know that now when I get hungry I grab salad or pickles instead of bread and peanut butter or something like that. No more sausage and cheese, no more soda and especially no more constant snacking. I wait until I am hungry instead of just bored. The first really big test will be when something emotional happens. Good or bad, my family is eaters. Bad things happen, you eat to feel better. Good things happen, you eat to celebrate. I think it will all be fine, but, it is going to take will power and a realization that my entire mind set has to change.
I think a lot of my posts this year will be in a way like this. I intend to document my ups and my downs. My successes and my failures. I am human, I will fail. I am human, I will fight back against myself if I have to.
Until Tomorrow...
Jaxion
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