On the plus side (or is it technically "minus"?) - Down to 207 pounds this morning. I have been exercising at least 5-6 days a week religiously and still eating right. We had a meeting on Saturday morning and I was in charge of getting the coffee and donuts and bagels. I was able to resist their siren's call and did not eat either of them.

I have been doing poorly at keeping up with the blog the last few weeks. I blame it on my Madden 2008 game that I got from Chris and Laura for Christmas. I have been spending my free time at night playing it every night. I am leading the Green Bay Packers through a franchise season. I haven't played Madden since Madden 2002, then I got ESPN NFL 2004, which I felt was a little better. But then EA Sports got the exclusive rights to NFL football teams, so Madden it is. But it is still a great game. Some of the frustrations I had with 2002 I think are still in 2008. If I remember correctly, when I played it then, I put it on the second of four levels of difficulty and it was too easy. I think I have repeated this mistake again. I have just had a perfect season with my Packers, 16-0. I haven't really had any close games and most have been scores of like 70-24 or something like that. So I might crank up the difficulty for the next franchise year, if I win the Superbowl, that is. But if I remember correctly, when I did that last time, I got very frustrated because the computer started to become a little unrealistic in making amazing long passes in triple coverage all the time and stuff like that. We'll see. Nevertheless, I am having fun with the game, but it eats into my free time, and thus, fewer blog postings and messing with the site. That's ok.

Man it is cold outside today! Zero degrees this morning. Still only have an inch or two of snow though, after the big melt off a couple weeks ago. Jaime has been sick all week this week with the flu. Hopefully she'll start feeling better soon.

Gmail is pissing me off. It keeps crashing my Firefox. After a little searching, I think it is related to their "new" interface they recently rolled out. Apparently they didn't check it as well as they should. I will just have to be careful. It seems to just crash the whole browser when I navigate away from a gmail page. I haven't tested all cases, but I read if you have more than one tab open, it won't happen. We will see if that works.

We had a couple of snow storms roll through this weekend. The first one hit on Friday. We got quite a dump of snow and the roads were pretty bad. Phil told us that we were having a "surprise" birthday dinner at the Lodge in Jay for Jaime's mom on Friday night. It took us almost an hour to drive up there because of the roads. Tony was there as well as Phil's son Kevin and his wife Chris. I got some boneless buffalo wings for an appetizer, which were very good. They also make homemade chips there with a pesto dipping sauce which I enjoyed. However, my main meal was not very good. I got a sausage and caramelized onion pizza. I get that sometimes when I go to Lago's and I usually enjoy that. However, the lodge version was not that great. I ended up bringing most of it home in a doggie bag.

On Saturday, Jaime went down to Wal-Mart with Julie so Julie could finish up her Christmas shopping. This worked out well for me because I was able to wrap all my Christmas presents and go buy my stocking stuffers for Jaime. The stores were absolutely mobbed on Saturday. I was going to go to Pick and Shovel to use my Christmas gift certificate I got from work, but after dealing with the lack of parking and all the people that were at Rite-Aid, I didn't feel like wasting any more time. I feel like I didn't get Jaime that much this year, but I think that is because most of the stuff I got was fairly expensive, so it is more quality than quantity. I still tried to wrap everything seperately so she would have the maximum amount of presents to open. She enjoys that!

I messed around on www.simpsonizeme.com on Saturday. It is a marketing thing from the Simpson movie and Burger King. You upload your photo and it turns you into a Simpson. Here's me:

I kept my fatness. I think it is a pretty good likeness! We also messed around with a funny video where you can make yourself into dancing elves. Thanks to Laura for pointing out the site. Here's our video: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1425093786