Still working on will power

This week started my "get up at 6 and go workout" week.

I did it on Tuesday, and I was very proud of myself. I felt really good. Then this morning rolled around. Alarm went off at 6, I said "holy shit it's cold out" and went back to bed.

When I did get up an hour later, I did some pushups and planks, so that's not too bad. But if I'm gonna reach my goal, I'm gonna have to actually go to the gym.

I've been working on exercising my will power recently. I had started to slip into a habit of "just one won't hurt" and all those "just one"s were starting to hurt.

Just one stop at McDonalds, just one donut, I'll just bite this one finger nail. You get the picture.

I haven't bit my nails in over a week (which is impressive for me, really). I actually busted out the nail clippers like a real human being!

So, here's to hoping I can keep up with my own ambitions.

On another note, Dave and I sat down to build my new computer on Tuesday. It was quite a daunting task, with wires everywhere and all sorts of very vague installation instructions. After four hours of plugging and screwing and securing, we were pretty sure everything was connected and in the right spot, so we plugged it in and... nothing.

After another hour of trouble shooting, we had pretty much concluded that my power supply was dead. Which, in the grand scheme of things, is probably the best component to be dead. I verified this with Raidmax tech support (the maker of the PSU) by completing the circuit with a paper clip and trying to turn it on (and not electrocute myself).

It didn't turn on, so it's definitely dead, so I ordered a new PSU from Amazon and it should be here on Monday. So keep your fingers crossed.

My parents are coming in this weekend for dinner, and my dad and I are hopefully going on the Goose Island Brewery tour (we're on a waiting list right now). I'm looking forward to it, and if we don't get in on the tour, we can at least just drink beer!

So this is the new year...

Christmas was great. I went home with Amber and Ethan to see my whole Mom's side of the family. It was a fantastic few days, with Ethan being a big hit and falling in love with my cousin Kendall, and just being around family.

New Years was fairly low key. We went over to Amber's friend's place for a kid friendly party. In this case, 'kid friendly' meant the kids stayed in the basement with a baby sitter and the adults got drunk and ate bagel wrapped hot dogs. Good times, and only a bit of a hang over the next day.

We recently joined XSport fitness and it's been good to get back to the gym (though being sick on and off for the past few weeks have made that difficult). I'm really excited to get through their little training for the climbing wall so I can go use that whenever I please.

I'm going skiing up at Cascade this Saturday, and though it's no Breckenridge, I'm still really pumped. It's just Dave and Russ and I going I think, but that should be a blast. I get to try out the new goggles I got for Xmas.

Well, that's all for now. Peace.