Life as a House

I finally opened up the Life as a House DVD that I bought ages ago. It's still a good movie. Get your hanky if you watch it though. My favorite part of the movie is when Robin (played by Kristin Scott Thomas) backs her car back up to the house and asks George (played by Kevin Kline) about his feelings for her...

"Do I still love you? Absolutely. There's not a doubt in my mind. Through all my anger, my ego; I was always faithful in my love for you. That I made you doubt it, that is the great mistake of a life full of mistakes. But the truth doesn't set us free, Robin. I can tell you 'I love you' as many times as you can stand to hear it, and all that does, the only thing, is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close."

Reba Duets Released Today

I purchased the new Reba Duets album from iTunes today (they have the digital booklet that comes with the album. Very cool.). So far my favorite song, after "Because of You" with Kelly Clarkson, is "The Only Promise That Remains" with Justin Timberlake.

The video for "Because of You" is currently at #1 on GAC Top 20 Country Countdown and CMT Top Twenty Countdown.

Reba is also going to be at the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City on November 16 of this year. She'll be joined by Vince Gill, Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood, and more. Tickets seem to be sold out already (there are some on Ebay), but it says it will be shown on OETA as well. I would love to see her in concert again. It's been about 15 years since I last went to one of hers.

Jack Hanna, Flamingo Stuck in Turnstile

Associated Press Article

I giggle every time I see this headline. I would love to see that picture, but I doubt a picture would do my imagination justice.

R.I.P. Luciano Pavarotti

I've never been a big fan of Opera, but I've always liked Pavarotti, especially the duet of "My Way" he did with Frank Sinatra.

Quotes: Adventure

From Quotes of the Day:

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Adventure is just bad planning. - Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)

Slowing Progress

My diet progress has slowed down in the past two weeks, but so has my cardio workouts. I skipped a few because of shearing and getting cows out of the creek caused by the tropical weather we had. I'm back on schedule this week and I'm going to increase it and see if that makes a difference.

Here are the totals so far:
Body Weight Loss	5 lbs
Body Fat Loss	12.99 lbs
Lean Body Mass Gain	7.99 lbs

Week 3

I've slowed down on losing this week, although my middle "feels" quite a bit smaller, but I still lost some fat and gained some muscle. I bought a smaller belt Monday, but I didn't buy small enough. I'm already close to the last hole.

What crazy weather we have had. The "tropical storm" came through Saturday night/Sunday morning and Oklahoma was flooded. The Washita River is totally out of it's banks around here. A lot of people had their houses flood. Unfortunately there were also deaths. My heart goes out to those families.