April Came and Went

Well it would appear that I have been most absent recently. Spring arrived and I was preoccupied with outside events. It has been a good six weeks. The weather warmed up and we have been busy. I traveled to PA to see my friends and had a good trip. I have also been playing some golf. Its amazing what losing 35 pounds can do for the golf game. The pool opened and that is always a glorious event. I'll post more soon, off to Atlanta for a hearing later today.

SUCCESS!!!

Ah yes, we finally finished the siding on the gable end as you can see here. A couple things left like covering the dryer vent and a little more painting but all-in-all, it feels good to have finished this task.

Its Friday

Man has it been quite the month. We were scheduled to be in trial this week but we are appealing some of the pre-trial orders. Good times. Its nice to be home though.

We're back to work on the house this weekend! (yes, that still goes on). We hope to have the siding up by the end of the weekend. That would be exciting. then I have have the little holes we put in the roof repaired and we'll be good to go.

Updates to come....

Appearances may be Deceiving

At work we have been talking a good bit about diversity as part of a diversity initiative. Part of that program includes an exercise where you choose which person you would rather be. This exercise forces people to choose among choices which will generate certain assumptions. Afterwards the group then examines those assumptions and talks about how they may or may not be accurate.

I inadvertently tested my assumptions the other day. It was pretty cool. I was walking out of my office when I saw two people approaching on the street. One was an Indian woman wearing scrubs and carrying a plastic bag which I assumed was her lunch. She was walking in the general direction of the hospital. The other person was an African American man, walking the other way and just wearing street clothes. The approched each other silently but when they were just about to cross paths they suddenly give each other a high-five, speak briefly with honest happiness to see each other and then they just keep moving.

I was kinda stunned. I totally assumed these people did not know each other and like I probably would, they would just pass each other silently like most others. Maybe I should start walking around town giving high-fives....

I thought that was cool.

Back to Work!

But it snowed this weekend!!

We had a great weekend. We saw a band on Saturday night with my parents to see Moonalice featuring GE Smith of Saturday night live fame. They were great and we had a good time!

It was good they left town early Sunday morning because we went from short sleves to the picture you see here in about 12 hours. It was fun as all the neighbors were outside watching it snow. It was not so fun as I used a long spatula to scoop snow off our vehicles so we could make it to work!

Home Repair Yesteryear

I promised more pictures, so here you go. This is a photograph of our house before we demolished it. We were all on our way down to a wedding when some friends stopped to see our new house. We gave them a couple of hammers and some beer and good times ensued...at least until it was too dusty to breath at which time we re-convened at a local sea-food joint for more good times.

Each one of these ladies is now married, both have at least one kid and they are doing great. Its fun to go back and look at old pictures!

February is a Short Month

It just never seems that February has enough days go get it all done. Not that I have items that I must accomplish every thirty days but it always seems that February is over before you know it. We havee been busy this month. I finished up my hours goal for the end of January and all the spill-over seemed to hit about a week ago. There are bills to enter in the computer and the study that I had so clean just a few months ago is now trashed again. I guess that will be a goal sometime soon. As for the house, it rained most of the weekend and we didn't get to work. My work partner left to go skiing for a week and he has returned and the forecast is promising so I hope to get alot done this week.

Valentines was good. We just went to Jim Shaw's and had baskets of this and that. Speaking of food, I have to return to the nutritionist today and I am down a couple pounds but not where I want to be. I'll just have to keep moving with the diet. About 23 pounds to go. Good times.

Potential Travel Ahead

Well folks, I have bought an airplane ticket. I don't remember the last time I purchased an airplane ticket to go somewhere I wanted to go. I like to think that I'm the traveling type of person but I think its more honest to say that I prefer to stay home. I don't know that I so much prefer to stay home or if I'm just cheap or if I just have too many things to do.

All that being said, I'm going to Pennsylvania to see some old friends at the end of May. Its just a long weekend but it should be an adventure nonetheless.

In other news, I have been very busy at work. I am thankful to have a good job and to stay busy with it a something I usually enjoy. I made my hours for the last fiscal year and I'm just now getting back in a normal groove.

Things with the nutritionist are going well. I'm still at 25 pounds lost and I have another 25 to go. I took a couple weeks off but am now back on the plan.

I hope your February is going well!

I've Been Busy

I hope everyone is doing well. January has been a very busy month. I've been working on both the law and the outside of my house. My firm's year end is January 30 and I'm at work to be sure I meet my hourly goal. I've also been working on the house. I'm going to try and post more pictures so you can see the progress but here is something for a start. See you in February!

10 Interesting things about me...

I was tagged by http://www.chubbyoldgroundhog.blogspot.com/


10 Interesting things about me...

1. I like to fix things. I've been fixing to fix my house for going on five years now.

2. My house does not have termintes. The guy came today and we got a clean bill of health.

3. All of our cars have at least 120K miles on them. That says something about me.

4. I am succeeding with this diet. From 223.3 pounds to 208 so far. We're moving along nicely.

5. That siren in the background is driving me crazy

6. I generally do not play golf in the winter time.

7. I have ripped 1/2 of the stucco off the side of the house

8. I got so busy I forgot to post this entry that was drafted on the 6th

9. I weighted less than 200 pounds this week

10. We hit up the Japanese Steak house in town. I doubt I'm below 200 right now...

New Years Resolutions?

New Year's Resolutions - Who needs em? Well as I look around the blogosphere they seem to be all the rage. I think I like the retrospective followed by the resolute so here it goes.

2008 - Where did the time go?

1. CPA License. I consider this to the the achievement of the year. It took a masters degree, passing an awful exam, and working for two years and some help to get the application in while trying to work full time but I completed it, the board approved it and I now need to get my continuing education file together.

2. The House. Still not finished. More on that later. However, this year I did make great progress in the bathroom, move upstairs so I could finish the trim downstairs, get my shop organized, and install doorknobs all through the house. That's a big start.

3. Work. This was my first full year of employment out of law school. I am lucky to have a great job where I enjoy my work and practice with a good group of people. What a difference it makes.

4. Fun. 2008 has been a fun year. We have really had the chance to meet some new people and to develop our relationships with our friends in town. I've enjoyed playing golf with many of my friends on Saturdays and I started playing some tennis as well.

5. Ending on a high note. I started a "diet" a/k/a "healthy choices lifestyle" at the first of December. My high weight at the beginning was 222.5 pounds. I weighted in at 208.4 this morning. That's a loss of 14.1 pounds. I fit in my clothes, I feel better and I have more energy. We started eating tons of fresh vegetables and being more active. It has been a great change.

2009 - Something to Look Forward To.

1. Consider obtaining another professional accreditation? I am eligible to take the patent bar exam or even another bar exam in another state.... hmmm.

2. Work? I want to continue to progress in my current position. I would like to do more activities that would advance my skill levels. I don't know if there are enough hours in a day but I think it could be beneficial to start some sort of rote memory program for eminent domain law. In short - read more materials that are substantive in nature.

3. The House. FINISH THE EXTERIOR.

4. Fun? Take more trips. See more friends who live out of town. Continue developing the relationships here at home. Work on the consistency of my golf game.

5. The high note... I think for 2009 my first goal is to stick with this eating/exercise program. It was a difficult adjustment but it is getting easier with every day. If successful, my dietitian will have me at my college weight by the end of the first quarter of this year and I think that would be amazing.

2009... What's going on in your life?

A Good Weekend

I've had a great weekend. I hope you have too. We spent the weekend at home, making meals on the "plan" and went to a couple Christmas parties. I do love a good Christmas party. Its interesting though. I've stopped consuming alcohol while I'm trying to drop this 50 pounds and it makes some interesting "cocktail' conversation. I think me not drinking makes others more un-comfortable that me. I'm fine with not drinking and while I do miss a god gin and tonic, I don't need to drink to talk to folks and hang out. It does seem that people don't really know what to do when I say I'm fine or, "I'll take a water" or "Soda and lime". Man, the looks are classic. but I must say, I'm educating my friends on what is going on and for the most part they have been very understanding.

We made some progress around the house. I'm finally prepared to work on the dormers and other parts of the exterior that need work but this week I focused on making a little oak shelf for the upstairs kitchen. I'll have to take a picture later. I have made it to match the cabinets and glued it together so there aren't any fastner holes.

I hope your weekend went great as well!





not drinking on this plan and it makes for some intersting

You Are What You Eat

Well I'm on week two of this nutritionist diet and I must say I'm pretty impressed overall. We have never given food this much thought. Its amazing how persave our food choices can be. My nutritionist gives me a seven day a week, three meal a day plan and you pretty well have to stick to it. I've never eaten such variety in my life. I hated it for a few days (this could be because we hit 5 christmas parties last week and tried to initiate this diet but I digress). It's actually gotten to be a fun challenge to make the meals conform to the plan and be tasty!

I've lost 7 pounds, that is 3.5 pounds a week. I get hungry but I'm eating a ton of food. I bet my salad for lunch weights 16 ounces.

I eat a wide variety of things like fish, beef, chicken and even have to eat my carbs. She gave me a hard time for forgeting my bread with lunch one day. Seems that carbs help buffer protein or something like that. I've mostly stopped drinking alcohol and am required to exercise for an hour a day, all cardio, no weights. She say's we'll do weights later to keep me from looking too skinny. Overall its a pretty good deal and its nice to know that I'm losing weight and gettting the foods that I need to stay healthy overall.

Well back to work for me. I've got to hit the gym over lunch!

When it Rains, It Pours

Well the footrace known as Christmas has officially begun. We have bookings for every night of the week just about. Thankfully, we are home this weekend so we can recover. I must admit I do love a good Christmas party.

This year we will be celebrating the season in a different way. I finally went to see a nutritionist to help me lose the weight I gained in law school and well folks, try not having alcohol, butter, cream, cookies, cake, pie, etc and let me know if your holiday season feels a tensy bit different. I'm trying to adjust and this plan is as good as it gets but it is amazing how little attention I paid to what I ate. I now have a hard time just getting in a coherent order. But i am working on it and have yet to go terribly hungry just yet.

We're moving things around in the office as well. Our paralegal graciously relocated to another office so we could make room for a new attorney. It will be an exciting new year here at work.

So, in short there is much going on here at cadleized. I hope your deep fall is going well too.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I'm excited about Thanksgiving and I hope you are too! This is a big holiday for our family and it's always fun to see everyone.

This year should be great because we finally were able to find couches for the barn. While the barn is a great place to have a dinner party, those same dinner chairs just don't get it done. However, thanks to "The Fortress", a liquidator, we now have 6 counches from some convention center in Atlanta which were deemed to old for service to enthusiastic conventionerrs. They show a bit of wear but hey, we're putting them in a bar.

So, amongst other things, I'm thankful for some old couches this Thansgiving. How about you?

I just thought this was funny

People come up with the craziest names! I have tried to figure out what it means to be a "Shrimp Pimp" and I must admit I come up empty handed.. any takers?

First time We Froze

Well the temperatures finally reached freezing this morning. It was very cold. To me anyways.

We had a great weekend. Down to the 'Boro for a randome party and to drop off some lumber and doors. We then returned to Macon and cleaned and got caught up on a bunch of house work and maintenance. Good times.

I am still stoked about the bagging mower. Our yard was full of leaves yesterday and, walaha, 1 hour alter, no leaves and all the clippings were packed into our trash can without the need for putting them in plastic bags. Good stuff.

Our former roommate returned last night. We all had a good time having a few beers and watching to football game in what was her apartment.

Good times.

I hope you too had a great weekend!

Getting back to work

Ah, what a great weekend! Wifey went out of town and boy did we party it up. I went to several clubs and it was crazy to get down here in the MActown! out of control....

Well if you beleive that I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona.....


Wifey did go out of town and I did have a good weekend. While I always miss her, its good to have her back after some quality alone time. Well, I take that back, I wasn't alone too much. Drinks with friends after work Friday, work around the house on Saturday morning, watch the Dawgs eek out a win over Kentucky Saturday afternoon with a law-school friend, more football Saturday night, do some work on Sunday morning and shoot a 98 out at the golf course on Sunday afternoon. So, I guess that's not too much alone time.

Now I'm back in the swing of thing for another week of work.

It Has Been Awhile Folks

Howdy ya'll. I hope you are doing well. Life in the Macon has been rather quiet lately. The wifey and I are adjusting to having a regulary old folks married life no room-mate. We miss the room-mate but I think we're starting to adjust pretty well. To compensate we went out and bought a big TV and moved all our furniture into the upstairs. We've been eating up there and really enjoying the new space. The idea being that I get back to work on the trim and painting remaining downstairs. I haven't been doing such a great job of that but, to that end, I've been working to re-organize my shop. I need a heater out there because it just got cold down here.

So, we don't have much furniutre downstairs but that will come soon enough.

Rainy Days

Well folks, we've moved. Upstairs. Over the weekend we got our neighbors to help us move some of our living furniture and a bed upstairs and we are really enjoying it. Its so nice to have a quiet, clean and finished space to hang out as its misting away outside.

I hope you're having a great weekend.