Right place, right time?

Ok. I'm torn on opinions here. I can say, and believe, one of two things here.

Take 1:
Isn't it strange how things seem to happen at the right time? The sermon the week you decide to go to church seems to be aimed directly at you. The movie you watch tends to portray your life at that exact moment. An article on Yahoo! has a heading and advice on budget problems the day your bills are due.

Take 2:
Isn't it strange how much you're aware of things when they are applicable to your current situation? You buy a new Accord and all of the sudden it seems like EVERYONE has an Accord. Wait, bad example. Everyone DOES have an Accord. The sermon the week you decide to go is on a subject that you can relate to. The movie you watch has situations, that you would have otherwise just watched, but you're drawn to tie the moral into YOUR life. There are 4 articles on Yahoo! about love, health, money and Michael Jackson, but you only notice the one about love because you just broke up with someone.

Whichever take you agree with doesn't matter. All that matters is that it does, temporarily, motivate you! And tonight, a stupid movie that I put on my Netflix did just this. It was called Run Fat Boy, Run! In case I didn't mention it already, which we both know I did, it was stupid! Brief synopsis: Loser ditches pregnant bride at altar, continues dead-end job, is overweight, irresponsible, broke and finds out his baby mamma found a new man. He decides to run a marathon to both compete against new guy and prove he can finish something he starts. New guy trips him in marathon, sprains ankle, finishes anyway. Wins girl. Gag.

I know you're probably thinking to yourself, "Hmmm. How does this relate to Kyle?" Well I'll tell you. I recently inpregnated a woman and we thought of getting married. Then we realized that we were both broke and I was too irresponsible. And tonight, on the drive home, I was thinking about one of the brilliant ideas I mentioned back in post 1 or 2, about using exercise to deter myself from spending money. I think it was something like, "Get in shape AND save money? Brilliant!" Anywho. I was going to post tonight about how I am going to COMMIT to this, but in a different way, and then I watched this movie and although it was stupid, it did motivate me. It being stupid isn't the point. The point is that they made the movie because it's believable and relatable and I related. The only Hollywood fantasy was that he probably wouldn't have gotten the girl in real life. So here's a new goal.

Goal #6: Exercise at least 3 days/week (between M-F) before work!

The key factor in this goal is the 'before work' part. (Oh and before my phone blows up, the entire first half of that paragraph was made up.) It's key because even though I have the time before AND after work, I need to instill a sort of "lifestyle change" and I don't think working out after work will do anything for me. I will also be starting this goal tomorrow, so I don't just push it off for another week!

My hopes are that this will give me more energy throughout the day. Get me up earlier in the morning and working. And show me that I can really commit to something that I know will be the hardest.

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Update on the past 4 days, since I haven't blogged. After accomplishing goal #4 & #5, blog for 7 days straight and spend $10/day on misc. things, respectively, as well as doing a lot of housework, I thought I should reward myself. In retrospect, it was exactly the WRONG decision. So, here I am to fess up to what I spent, and come up with a way to make it up! It's so easy to make excuses, as there's always some sort of birthday or holiday you can blame it on, but it's also just as easy to come up with alternatives. One just requires less thought.

SO:
Sunday - I spent $5 on Del Taco, which is my new least favorite place. POOOOOOOOOORQUE DEL TACO???? And $33 at PF Changs where I had an unnecessary $7 glass of wine. (TOTAL: $38)

Monday - I spent $6 on In-N-Out.

Tuesday - I spent $15 on golf, $13 on In-N-Out for Scott and me (lost a bet). $10 on dinner. $13 at 711 on completely unnecessary items. I could have saved probably $23 here, but didn't. (TOTAL: $51)

Wednesday - I spent $68 on groceries. Now, this isn't all a waste, as I got some spices that I'll use forever, and some pork that should last me a few days. I did probably make too much chicken last night though.

Total for 4 days = $163 or about $41/day I'm going to say that about $40 is on things that I will still use, so bring it to $123 or $31/day. :::shaking my head at myself:::

Today I spent $5 :::SMILING:::

Till next time...