So I am now officially a certified TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) teacher! I passed the 150 hour course with an overall grade of 86!

Hopefully when I get to Thailand in less than a month I will not have a hard time getting a job.

I am excited

Happy 9th birthday to my friend Mr. NN and his team 7 of those years I have been floating around here hehe. ( I can't believe I have been here that long!) I even won a contest when NN turned 6 I wish you many more years of success Mr NN and company!

Well I tried today for the first time to run 2 miles at US Army Standards 16:36. (16 minutes and 36 seconds) and I did it 16:35! Not great of course but I "passed" first try! I am really excited

I also had some of my moms awesome pot roast for lunch... a great day hehe.

I thought I would give those who are interested some of my work out links:

http://hundredpushups.com/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Physical_Fitness_Test

www.bodybuilding.com/exercises

I hope this helps those who want it! I swear I wont blog about exercise all the time now lol

So I may have mentioned that for the first time in recent memory I am actively working out and in semi decent shape for the first time in forever lol.

My ultimate goal is to pass the US Army Physical Fitness Test it is 75 push ups,80 sit ups (both without stopping, although I think a slight break between the push ups and the sit ups is permitted) well I am gonna take one! lol anyway... in addition to the push ups and sit ups you have to run 2 miles in a maximum time of 16 minutes. This is my ultimate goal.

I have been working out 5 days a week now for over a month and half now. Also, I am doing a push up challenge training to do 100 push ups without stopping (well over the US Army requirements)

So my dad knows that I have been working on this push up challenge. Working towards 100 pushups without stopping. I started practising last week and in my intial test I did 35 without stopping.

My dad is 57 years old and not in the best of shape (or so I thought lol) tonight he challenged me to beat him in push ups. I laughed and figured I would blow him away haha.

Well apparently he has been practising in secret lol. He did 41 push ups without stopping!

Wanna know how many I did? 41. :LOL I shit you not. I couldnt manage even one last one to beat him haha

So here is a little update in my life. I have been seeing my ex neighbour (I moved when I was 12) quite regularly. We had a 15 year gap of not speaking but I really like her alot. We have this amazing thing going....

We relate really well on a friendship level (she is really hot but has such a guy brain!) she is drama free,we can talk about anything and she even makes fun of women drivers lol

So all of that just screams good friends right? well amazingly we have managed to start having sex and not fuck anything up and continue to be good friends! I am very lucky. We are "dating" but not in a relationship. Keeping it casual...

We have talked "feelings" since I am leaving in Nov to Thailand. I certainly dont want to hurt her but we have been real about this and I think both of us are ok with this as long as it lasts.

It is a shame she isnt coming with me, but I feel this wont be the last time I see her...

As for the details on my former fling in Thailand. It seems things are "back to business" when I get back there in Nov. So I am certainly not complaining about that. She is super hot and awesome in the sack so I am excited for that again hehe. (Check my thread in SD)

I feel quite lucky right now lol.

Tonight was a good night. that is all

I think I will have a great monday now haha

8 years ago today my girlfriend died in a car crash. 8 years already... and I remember it like it was yesterday, we were just kids. I was 18 and she was only 17.

She was so smart, such a good person. She was way better than me she really would have done something amazing with her life. I still think about her all the time.

Life is just a blink.

I know exactly where I was. I was just 16 years old at the time and it was a weds if I remember correctly. My mom woke me up for school at like 7 am but I told her I had a stomach ache and didnt want to go (I lied)

But, she let me stay home. So I ended up waking up and turning on the tv to channel 8 (ABC) to watch some morning tv. I turned it on right as the 2nd plane was hitting the towers live.

It scared the living shit out of me. I tried to call my dad on his cell but the lines were jammed up. Same thing for my mom at work. I was so scared and I had no idea what was going on.

Then the late great Peter Jennings came on tv. I still remember how calm his voice was and how he calmed me down. He told everyone all that he knew and it helped me.

In the next days I was so sad for all of America even though I didn't lose anyone directly in the attacks. 10 years later I still cant watch that news coverage, it makes me too sad.

I remember how united our country was right after it happened and how proud I felt to be an American. All my friends all over the world really gave me alot of support too.

RIP to everyone who lost their lives and to those who have lost their lives protecting our freedom in the 10 years since then.

Well.... I have been seeing that girl from my previous blog pretty regularly. We arent an item or anything but we have fun together and she is smart and funny and sexy and on sat. I am taking her to the zoo. We have both mutually established that we want to go nuts on each other but sadly at the moment both of us live at home! (I moved back in with the rents when I came back from my travels)

I think its time for a hotel. hehe

I got back into the gym today after a week off due to sickness and labour day holidays. I killed my body at the gym and tomorrow is gonna be hard haha.

Oh, I am going dove hunting tomorrow! yay. first time in a while!

Last but not least, I read a book called Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption. By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo.

It was one of the best books I have ever read. I finished it in one day. It was about a woman who was d and picked her out of a line up. Only she picked the wrong guy and he served 11 years in prison for a he didnt commit. (Its a true story) dont worry I didnt give anything away that isnt on the cover.... but you all should read it!

well for the first time in my life I am actually working out hard and consistently. Total body this time. Legs,Arms,Back,Stomach all of it... No excuses! (except when I am sick with a really bad head cold like recently) I feel better... I look better and I like it!

Check out the exercise thread in sexual discussion and I hope this motivates yall! I do 1 hour circuit training and some cardio 5 days a week.

Oh ya, date night with the parents was actually good. we saw a band called "Uncle Lucius" (youtube them!) they were great! I figured the place would be packed out but it wasnt. So we sat at my parents table lol. They paid for our drinks though

This girl is actually my old next door neighbour. We have just had about a 15 year gap of not speaking since I moved away lol. But she knows my parents, they know her. anyway all is good. I am NOT rushing into a relationship with her. Just having fun

I will work on eating better later lol. Baby steps....