It seems a near millenia ago that I saw a link to Space Invaders Pixel Cookies and had the great idea to do it myself.  I had decided before even considering it that I would need to do something Super Mario related. The idea of creating a cookie Mario was soon shot down in leiu of a mushroom.  I googled around for a while and found the mushroom I wanted.  To my chagrin it was 64 by 64.  To the mathematically challenged, I chose not to make 4096 rows of dough for my experiment.  I opened photoshop and resized and pixel colored little by little until I created my best attempt at a 16×16 mushroom.  I then opened up Excel and colored in cells with the appropriate color and drew a blue border around the cells.  Counted each color and realized I needed62 black, 56 red and 138 white rows of dough to accomplish this masterpiece.

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So, I haven’t really gained the motivation since my last post.  One reason is that I have been sick for the last week or so.  I am really wanting to be motivated to lose weight and nothing was really working.  That was, until I saw this story and decided that I can make a transformation if I want it.  Quite frankly all I want is to do what he did from January til June 2003.  The rest of the buildup is a bit excessive, but if he can create such a change in such a short amount of time, I can too.  I just need to be honest with myself and say I am not happy to be in the shape I am in now.

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I am at that point. Again.  That point of my diet and exercise regime where I get tired of what is going on.  I haven’t even been doing the hard dieting for more than a few days, but the exercising is definitely decreasing.  So I need to figure out how to maintain focus.  I realize it is happening this time and hopefully I can remedy it.  Not losing much weight in January really through me through a loop and I think I am convincing myself that it isn’t even worth it to keep trying anyway.  Might as well stay fat.

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Well, I posted on my facebook that I was hoping for an exiting and interesting Superbowl. It did not fail me. Quite an exciting game with ups and downs that I definitely would not have predicted. The Cardinals showed that they definitely earned their stripes and they showed grace and determination. There were some amazing plays on both sides and some disappointing penalties and challenges all around. I wish more football games turned out kind of like this.

This morning I woke up at 8:00am and Zephyr was quiet as could be.  This would not be an issue, except she normally is screaming at 5 o’clock or 6 o’clock or some time earlier than 8am. So my morbid mind turned to thinking what if she had died.  Her silence is normally a releif to me, but this morning it produced concern.  I suddenly had an image of myself going to check on Zephyr and her face was entirely blue and I ripped her out of her crib and started performing baby CPR on her to no avail.  I didn’t go check on her, even then.

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