Posted by Bern on June 1st, 2010
Michael Ventrella came in as the largest contestant ever – 526 lbs.
I think I’d be lying if I said I thought he’d make it all the way through the competition.
At 6′3″ and only 30 years old, Mike was definitely headed to an early grave. There were several times watching him struggle through a workout or coming to grips with who he was and who he wanted to be, that I questioned whether or not he would succumb to the overwhelming “journey” that was ahead of him. In order for him to get to a healthy weight, he needed to lose somewhere near 290 lbs. That’s two average sized people!
Posted by Bern on June 1st, 2010
It’s kinda funny how MToD came to be in the first place. In 2008 I was looking for WordPress themes for another project I was working on and stumbled across that gorgeous bull staring at its own image and I just had to have it. Didn’t matter that I wasn’t actually working on my own blog at the time. Nope, not at all. Oh great. Now if I want to use this theme, I’ll have to get a new domain name and I spose I’ll have to keep a blog while I’m at it. I decided on mythoughtoftheday.com and in May 2008, it launched with this “Bull” theme.
Posted by Bern on December 20th, 2009
So my roommate and I have a full slate on our livingroom DVR. We are total Bravoholics, from Real Housewives to Flipping Out to Make Me A Supermodel – we watch them all. We also seem to have a very strange penchant for crime shows like CSI (NY, Miami and Las Vegas), Numb3rs (not really so much), and Criminal Minds. I think our favorite of the crime shows is Criminal Minds. We start watching on Friday night on A&E and don’t finish watching until sometime Sunday night. Totally hooked. Like we were totally devastated when Garcia got shot. Like she’s part of our family, too.
The other night we were watching an episode and found ourselves wondering if some of the crimes depicted actually happen. Then we thought, “Oh hell, even if they don’t actually happen, who the hell in their right minds thinks this crap up??” We sit for the hour yelling at the characters to not go in that room because the bad guy is in there or don’t turn around because the bad guy is right behind you. I should find a tape recorder for when we watch tv. We’re even worse when watching The Vampire Diaries.
Posted by Bern on December 19th, 2009
If you’re a smoker like me, on more than one occasion you’ve seriously considered quitting smoking. And, on just as many occasions you’ve actually tried to quit. Almost all of us understand the health risks of smoking, and actually care about what smoking does to our bodies and those around us. In terms of finances, we get how much we spend on our habit and if we were to look at a pie chart showing how much we spend on tobacco products compared to food or clothing, we would hang our heads in shame.
Because my work is done in front of a computer all day, and I’m in my own home, I go through just about a pack of cigarettes a day. Maybe about 5 of them actually get smoked. It’s a physical and psychological habit that I don’t know if I can break. I have no trouble going to a movie and sitting for a few hours without a smoke. I can sit in an office and survive without a smoke until a break or lunch. But at home, at my computer, I have no control over myself.
With that said: I was in my bedroom this afternoon, a room in which I don’t smoke, and turned on the tv. There was a commercial for Chantix on and they were singing their own praises that 44% of their users quit smoking within 9 to 12 weeks. Sounds pretty good. Makes it sound like it’s not all cold-turkey and total dt’s, right? So the commercial then goes into the risks and side effects of using Chantix. Um, I think I’d rather keep smoking…
More and more everyday we, as a society, are always looking for the quickest and easiest way to spread information. Right now, as you’re reading, I’m spreading information about a woman who is being harassed because she tweeted about her son’s death.
