May 15

Go Mongo!

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This weekend my wife and I stopped at bd’s Mongolian Grill for dinner and wow where we impressed. If you are ready for a different experience and great food give it a try.

You purchase a bowl that you then take to the 3 different buffets, the first buffet has your meats from sasuage, pork, beef, seafood and chicken.

Once you pick out your meats you then move to the second is the vegetable buffet and there is a huge selection including tofo.

The final buffet is the sauce and seasoning buffet, there are about a dozen different sauces and many seasonsing to choose from.

 

 

 

Once you have your bowl and seasons/sauce bowl ready you take it to the grill, which is a giant circle that can cook 12 meals at a time. You want in line (which usually moves fast) and watch the your food is cooked, this is a show also. They cooks are very entertaining make the atmosphere that much more fun.

 

 

 

Like I said my wife and I had a great time and look forward to going back again. We are not sure if our kids would enjoy it so we are going to keep this as a “Date Night” or “Adult Night” place. But, there where kids there that looked like they liked it.

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May 13

Weight In Day #8

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I loss .6 pounds this week, which is better than gaining. I am getting tired of dieting and have been waiting to eat more…The challenge is coming to an end, with only a few more weeks left. Last week I joined a gym, which might have been a mistake, I have only been therer once so far. I am going to try to hold the membership and see if I can get myself to go there, I usually prefer to stay home and do exercise with my kids.

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May 06

Great Time @ Rosedale VFD # 222

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Yesterday was the annual open house and spaghetti dinner at Rosedale Volunteer Fire Department (#222), and like always it was a wonderful time. My father is a firefighter at that station and I am just so proud of him, he retires from work to work harder as a volunteer.

Everyone at this and other stations through the country put their lives on the line to help others, and they are volunteers. Days like this are one way we can help support them and they make it so much fun!!

 

 

No matter how many times I have seen Lifeflight land at this event, I still love it! The kids enjoy it and get to get close a and personal with Lifeflight and learn about about it.

 

Using the firehouse is always fun, the kids enjoy it and so do many of the adults.

 

Some different this year was a ladder truck, or bucket truck as we called it. We got to take a ride up in it and a firefighter explained how it is used and what it can do. We went 66 feet up and it could still go higher!

Every year the firefighters give a demonstration of a car rescue, complete with trucks blazing sirens, lights and ripping the door off of a car.

Two firefighters go inside of the car to be the “victims” as the rescue team access the situation and remove the door and then the victims.

This was another wonderful event by the Rosedale VFD #222 and I am proud to be there with them.

 

May 04

Weight In Day #7

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This was a great week for my weight, I lost 2.4 pounds! I am happy with my this, but know I need to do this again next week. Basically I loss what I gained over the past several weeks.

I am at 2.43% weight loss since I began this challenge, if I can get 9 more pounds I will be extremely happy and then will just work on maintain that weight for a bit. I am trying to set realistic goals, I have to be able to achieve them and then after I achieve it I work on the next goal.

My team is currently at 6.20%, right in the middle of the other two teams. The top team is at 8.64% and the bottom team 5.59%. My partner is doing great, I need to do better these next couple weeks and we can win this.

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Apr 28

Weight In Day #6

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1.2 pounds!

That is what I gained this week, I am not happy, this weight in cost me $2.00. I don’t have a lot to say about it this week, the numbers speak for themselves.

I am working on increasing my steps, this is a 30 day graph of my steps, the drop around the 19th is when my fitbit was broken.

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Apr 25

Take Our Daughters & Sons To Work

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My daughters love to come to work with me, they enjoy the environment and helping out. They have come with me at times when I am called in to work on issues and they will stay in my office and read or write. They like to see where I work and who I work with and I love to share this part of my life with them.

I remember as a child going to work with my Dad, my Dad worked in the family business his Dad (my Grandfather) started. It was nice going to work and being part of what my family did, I learned a lot during that time and experience so many different aspects of work. I had to load stock, do labor work and as I grew I also learned to help with book keeping and sales.

I am a computer programmer, I develop software solutions and manage a staff of developers. I worked hard to get where I am and continue to work hard every day to take care of my family and help their dreams come true.

View a copy of the 112th Congress and Senate Resolution, S. RES. 408 which specifically dedicates April 26, 2012 as Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® Day and acknowledges the program’s 20th anniversary! Click on the link.

My girls ask about this day all year long and know that they can’t miss a lot of school if they want to participate in this event. I will take the girls for the first half of the day and they will bring some devices, a book and some school work to keep them occupied at times. I will have them help me organize paper work and they love to “deliver” things to others in the office.

 

Designed to be more than a career day, the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® program goes beyond the average “shadow” an adult. Exposing girls and boys to what a parent or mentor in their lives does during the work day is important, but showing them the value of their education, helping them discover the power and possibilities associated with a balanced work and family life, and providing them an opportunity to share how they envision the future and begin steps toward their end goals in a hands-on and interactive environment is key to their achieving success. Each year, we develop new interactive activities and partnerships that will assist us in taking girls and boys to the future they dream of.

http://www.daughtersandsonstowork.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=293

 

 

Apr 21

Do not sell beer at Kennywood park

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First off, I enjoy drinking a beer or two and there is nothing wrong with it. I just can’t figure out why we would have to have beer at a family park that has teenagers as both visitors and employees. Kennywood built itself up as a family friendly place over the years (decades). I know that other parks sell beer, I don’t agree with that either but that doesn’t mean that Kennywood should change.

While at Disney World this past year, we encountered a drunk woman in Epcot that nearly knocked over my daugther who has cerebral palsy. Also, I know that Chuck E. Cheese sells beer and have seen several drunk parents with their children there. I never understand how they could refuse to allow someone to smoke, but still sell alcohol so people can get drunk.

I have read several people comparing Kennywood selling beer to family friendly restaurants selling alcohol, I do not see any comparison at all. Looking at these restaurants which all have bars in them and are not built for children to come and play in, is comparing apples to oranges.

I hope Kennywood reverses their decission and stays focused on the children and families that have made traditions of visiting the park. Kennywood is a park of memories, special memories have been formed there for so long, I hope those memories don’t become tainted. Families spend the day at the park providing freedom to their children to move around the park without worry about people who have had 1 to many who then cause problems with the park visitors and employees (who are teenagers). One final thought is why would this “beer garden” be next to Kiddie Land?

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30 Hour Famine

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The youth group at Stewart Avenue Lutheran Church is participating in World Visions’ 30 Hour Famine. I am so impressed with how dedicated the kids and their teachers are.

 

We are so excited to be doing our Famine this year! During the 30 Hour Famine, our youth group will actually NOT EAT for 30 hours. YES! You read that right. Teenagers not eating… for 30 hours. Why? Because nearly 8,000 children under age 5 die every day because of hunger-related causes that is one child every 10 seconds. And we are NOT okay with that, we will NOT stand by while children die from lack of food.

 

Seeing the faith in all of the members of our parish brings makes my faith stronger. I want that with my kids to have that dedication and faith in our Lord. Our world has so many sad stories every day but seeing children and young adult putting aside their lives to help others is so inspiring.

 

Apr 20

Weight In Day #5

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I gained again this week, 0.4 pounds.

I knew I didn’t do good this week and I can blame it on anything and everything. But, the fact of the matter is that I gained and I need to be loosing. I would be super happy if I could get under 200 by the end of this challenge in June. I am currently at 210, so this is an achievable goal to just under 200.

My Fitbit broke this past Saturday while I holding my dog for the vet, during the time I apparently bumped the table and broke it. First off, a Fitbit is a small super pedometer in my opinion, it wirelessly transmits data from the small device to my computer and then I can monitor my activity through their web site. I am able to tell how many steps I traveled as well as the number of floors I climbed and the intensity of effort that I put in. This information combined with my personal information (weight, age, height) is used to determine how many calories I burned.

I started the week using that as an “excuse” to overeat this week and that is what it was an excuse. Also, I emailed the Fitbit and told them what happened to my Fitbit and they replaced it for me. I am amazed that they needed, I was hoping to buy a refurbished one and didn’t expect to have it replaced. This company is amazing, the fact that they replaced the Fitbit for me shows they really care about their customers and I am now a customer for life.

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Apr 13

Weight In Day #4

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This week was not a good weight it, I gained 0.08 of a pound from last week. Below are a few of the charts that I pulled from MyFitnessPal that I will talk about in this post.

My goal is to stay at 1,500 calories a day, which from looking at the chart I went over on 3 days. Also we can see that on 2 days I was under that which is not good. I need to make sure that I am maintaining a healthy caloric intake for my weight loss to work.

Every weekend my steps go up and I usually try to get 10,000 steps on each day off. I need to increase my steps on weekdays and also add a regular exercise routine to my schedule.

I can see that my carbs increased as I left stoped attempting to “Do Atkins”, maybe this wasn’t the right idea, not sure on that. Another factor is that I do like to have a beer on weekends. I stay with low calorie beer and only have a couple.

I think keeping my carbs under control does a lot, I will see how I do this week and will increase my calorie burn.

 

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