Month: October 2008

October 27th

William

Today would have been my sister’s 31st birthday. Here is a link to a page on which I discuss what is being done to preserve her memory. I’ve already shared several photos of my family form when I was a young child, so below i have included a family photo form 1996. The picture was taken at the Marriott in Memphis at the banquet honoring my grandmother’s 80th birthday. Below that is a photo of my parents with Mrs. Fontenot and Sarah at the scholarship dinner were the Caroline A. Cody memorial scholarship is awarded. Mrs. Fontenot gave a generous donation to the scholarship fund. Sarah, a close friend of the family, was this years recipient… I turned off comments for this post. If you would like to share any memories or thoughts feel free to contact me or my parents.

We would also like to say happy 1st anniversary to our Friends Maya and Jamaal! Can you believe a year has already passed?

Stars

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I spent the weekend with Kyllan in Dallas. We are always looking for something new to do, so Kyllan got tickets to a Dallas Stars‘ game on Saturday. The plan was to stay for a while and then head to the State Fair of Texas, but something strange happened when we got to the arena… we enjoyed our selves. Apparently Kyllan and I are hockey fans. Who knew? The Stars lost, to the Colorado Avalanche coincidentally, but it was a really good game. We had to look up some of the rules in the program guide, but it didn’t take us too long to figure out what was going on. This was Kyllan’s first hockey game, I attended a game as part of my recruitment trip to Cornell, and the first time either of us had been to the American Airlines Center. We did eventually make it to the fair, but we didn’t stay too long. Kyllan also took advantage of my time in Dallas to show off her Wii fit skills.

Random Post #8

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I visited Kyllan in Dallas this weekend. As usual, we had a great time. I just got in a few hours ago. When I have a little more time I will post some pictures and tell everyone all about it.

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New workout plan

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With William well on his way to his workout goal, and me lagging behind a bit, I decided to take it to the next step.  I had a couple of assessments done at the gym to make sure I maximize my workouts and balance out my eating.  I took two tests.  The first one was an Anerobic Threshold Test.  I bascially had to walk on a treadmill at varrying inclines and speeds with a mask that measured my oxygen output.  Yesterday, after 12 hours of fasting, I took a Resting Metabolic Rate test that told me how many calories my body needs to function.  This test required me sitting in a chair in a dark room for about 20 minutes while again breathing into a mask that measured my oxygen output.  I was expecting for the trainer to tell me my metabolism was poor, but it was actually pretty good.  I burn a lot more calories during the course of the day than I thought I did.  So, the two tests have given me a good baseline on how to plan my exercises and my meals.  I have a workout plan for the first couple weeks that consists of interval training in specific zones, and since I know how many calories I burn each day, I am planning my meals better so I can both make sure I get the nutrients I need and can loose a few pounds also.  I need to learn to eat more meals during the day than just the typical breakfast, lunch and dinner…. something I already knew, but this only reinforced it.  Anyway… the tests were intersting and I will seewhat kind of results I get from this new direction.