Long Time, No News!

Well hey there, folks! It's been a long time since I checked in here, and so I think it's time to give a real-basic style catch-up. You may or may not see this area updated more often from now on, depending on how things go. So, where're we at half-way into the year?

The new place! Back in December I changed where I was living, and boy was that a good move. With my noticeable lack of online presence, almost any of you could guess I had reprioritized. No longer sitting in my room for hours on end, I found opportunity to change things up significantly. The new place is good: no kids, no cats, comfortable room, low rent, low stress all the time. While this isn't my final resting point by any means, it's more than nice enough a place to stay for now.

The job! Job continues to go well, with less worries, and review coming up. Hopefully, I've done well enough in my fulltime position to get a significant pay raise, though this has been oft-promised and almost never followed through on. I continue to consider shopping around for a new place to be, but really, I do have a lot of friends here at the Bar, and really help things run around here. It's nice to feel useful and needed, something this job regularly affords me. It's nice and laid back, with work right up my interest-alley. Smooth.

The friends! Really been branching out socially of late. Trips to the gym and concerts introduce me to more and more folks, and fun times ensue. The only real regret on this front is still not finding any particularly special someone to spend time with. Aside from the occasional lewd concert dance, not much really comes of that. But hey, good to be out there and getting any response! And why am I getting response...?

Holy crap, he's improving himself! Down under 300lbs for the first time since high school and with shiny-good teeth in my face, I feel absolutely awesome. It's interesting: I never really considered while I lived there that my home life was anything other than normal. How deluded could I possibly be? Looking back on my old eating habits, I'm frankly pretty shocked compared to where I'm at now. Living and learning -- stuff other people have had a pretty good handle on their entire life are things I still have to hammer out. I can't even begin to blame my parents really, though. It was mostly a function of laziness and lack of attention on my part. When your role-models include a large number of fictional characters (Donald Duck doesn't change his clothes -- he doesn't even wear pants), something is bound to get missed in translation. More about that in the future, but right now, things are good. I'm going to continue my weight loss, as I really want to see how far I can take it. The next goal is to hit 280, and hopefully I'll nail that within the next 10 weeks. Then, 260. See where I am then, and in time to go show off for the family over Christmas. Very cool.

To be honest, I feel kind of bad having nobody online really know what I'm up to and doing, and feel like I've grown apart from the online community. But to be frank, a lot of my early social interaction and friends living out on my own came online, and you folks (even though I don't oft have a chance to talk to you) are all pretty cool, and been awesome to me in your own ways. Even folks I'm only met a couple times.

So thanks for reading about how I've been doing, and caring at all. Let me know how you're doing, so I can repay the favor, or something!

And ofcourse, if you're ever out in Vegas, let me know.

-Martin