Infomercials you got me again!

Every now and again, I do these ponderings posts. One would think that I would be on some kind of schedule, but mmm… that’s not how I roll, so I don’t see THAT happening in the foreseeable future

Okay, so here we go.

Infomercials-The bane of TV
There’s nothing like coming home from a long day at work, sitting down to turn off the brain, and find that as you surf the boob tube, people are hawking their wares. My oh my, how life would be grand if every item out there did what it was actually professed to do. Improve your love life, eat better, lose weight, be a millionaire, get rid of depression, save the world, banish acne forever, makeup that erases the evidence of age, undergarments that will give us that perfect hourglass shape, or perhaps even a boob job without even having surgery. Literally every single part of our lives can be impacted by some product that is being peddled.

So… yesterday, I am flipping the channels, and I see that Tony Robbins has a series that will give you “emotional muscle”. Learn how to deal with every day stresses, take control of your life, da da da.. I have to admit, I could feel the vacuum of Tony Robbin’s promise of a life transformation simply by making a personal commitment, and oh yeah, buy all of those CDs. So for $14.95 (risk free trial offer) plus S&H of course, I can:
Create the Life You Were Meant to Lead – One of Unlimited Possibility
Learn Practical Solutions to Take Charge of Your Life
Determine Your Motive for Action to Get the Results You Want
Develop the Psychology to Overcome Any Challenge

Sounds like a good deal, right? A free trial of $14.95 no risk money back offer. I am sooo there. So i start scanning through the website, because yeah, $14.95 sounds good, but what’s the total? How much is this ultimately going to cost me? Only when i got to the ordering page, do I get the 411. For the Ultimate Edge series, I am looking at $329.79 (14.95 trial + 14.99 s&h + 3 x 99.95 mo billings). Whoa… now that’s a chunk of change! Annnnndd… Included in the Ultimate Edge™ program ordered today are 7 volumes of Tony’s audio magazine, PowerTalk® which includes automatic membership into the audio series. Monthly you’ll receive two specially produced CD issues of Power Talk® for just $19.95 per issue plus $3.99 shipping and handling.  *BLINK*

The above information is directly from the website Ultimate Edge.  This is verbatim so that it does not include my biased opinion.  Heck… Tony Robbins has literally transformed literally millions of people’s lives, he is very good at what he does and is respected by many.  That is not my issue.  I guess it is the smooth way Gunthy Renker markets their stuff, that irritates me to no end.  I mean come on… if they had just said how much it was in the infomercial, I wouldn’t have wasted all of that time digging around the website.

Tony, Tony, Tony…. your reputation is what sells your product.  Do you ‘really’ need Gunthy Renker?

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Please consider giving a little, and if you can, give a little more. We are nothing without our humanity

Begin Anew

So, while I was pondering over things to do at work, my hands accidentally made their way over to facebook, and of course, I was reminded about the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure on May 1. Do I run, or do I walk? Decisions, decisions. I’ve decided that I am going to do the run, so it’s time to get my fat butt back into shape. So, after completely slacking over Christmas, and a few other vices that we won’t even talk about, I am doing 2 wks of workouts at home, just so that I can keep up when I head back to the gym. My knees are already barking at me, but I knew that was going to happen. Water retention, weight… yeah, you know what I mean. So there it is.

Today was 20 min of Cardio and another 10 min for strengthening.  I focused on upper body, specifically: military press, push ups, tricep push ups, delts, tricep kicks, and bicep curls.  Since I don’t have a sheet to go from (was going to do that today and forgot), I forgot about lat rows, but will make sure to get those on Thursday.

Party on.

A noteworthy mention

Go to  Manybooks.net for free ebooks. I think those would be perfect to download to my ipod to read whenever I have the opportunity

I do NOT ignore my blog

I just… uhm… drag my feet sometimes!  That being said, I do believe I need to get this baby back up to snuff and stick with it.  Yes?  Yes.  And with that dear friends, family, countrymen…  Have a great day!

Walmart & Kiss – A match made in ……..

Snow is not fun

and that’s all I have to say about that

What a fine mess

After digging around for a while, I decided to just delete my blog and start all over again.  I really hate that I lost everything, but heh.. brand new start and all of that.

So what have I learned?

Back up the database!

No registered members

Everything else should be copacetic.  So please bear with me while I set everything back up.