Twitter & TV

#33 - Utilise Twitter more.

I will admit that when I first signed up to Twitter.......... it was boring, I didn't know anyone on it, I didn't know how to use it and didn't really want to know. All i ever did for the first year (i think) was extract information from it, be it gig news, football stories or just plain old local/scottish news. Don't get me wrong though..twitter is absolutely fantastic for all of those things but i never really interacted with it. so...my task for the year is to use it a lot more. I think it's helped that Facebook has become very stale at the minute and made me want to use twitter more. Anyway...

As you can see from the picture I am on the road to nearly 750 tweets and have now got 65 followers (not ALL of them are spam-bots btw). I am really enjoying it at the minute and Facebook has taken a total backseat and I have been considering deleting it

Mon the twitter.



#27. Get into 3 new TV series'

I've been trying to fill in a gap with a TV show to watch since...let's face it. TV is fucking awfil most of the time.
so i scrambled my brains about thinking what tv series has been out recently that i could enjoy....the answer?

Brilliant! Genius! Phil Glenister is a legend! Wish I had watched it years ago, but I suppose it is nice to be able to watch the complete series without having to wait a week for a new episode...however, the downside is that i blasted the series' and have now finished it and am back at square one.

If you havn't watched Life on Mars, get it done.

P&B - The dots game.

I did it! my goal of 250 dots is complete!.........and then some!

I must say most of them were down to the recent events at ibrox as I picked up a fair few "greenies" at their demise. The pick of the lot just a throw-away quip about Papac scored me 17dots. Thank you P&B. That's #50 off the list.

Weight loss #1 priority

As most people tend to do in the new year, I have set myself the goal of dropping a stone in weight. This was mostly brought on by some ghastly photos of me taken over the festive period where I have adopted a chin for christmas coupled with the embarassment of having to buy a pair of 40" waist trousers. - A new low.

Unofrtunately, I did not take the time to actually weigh myself after the new year when I started so it is difficult to tell how much weight exactly I have lost. If I were to pluck a ballpark figure I would say in the region of 15.5stone...possibly more.

Now, the task at hand. I am a very lazy person and I will opt for a takeaway most nights because both me and my girlfriend cannot be arsed cooking, this was the first thing to change. NO MORE TAKE-AWAYS. The next culprit on my list was crisps, i have never beena chocolate person, infact, most times the smell of chocolate makes me feel sick, but i always over compensated my lack of chocolate for crisps. Monster munch, squares, onion rings, space raiders, transformers the LOT. I'm not quite sure if there is a flavour out there that I don't like...hmm...anyway..NO MORE CRISPS. Next on the hit-list was the fizzy drinks, irn-bru, coca-cola all full fat...NO MORE FIZZY DRINKS (unless consumed with alcohol on a weekly/fortnightly basis, and sure as shit not full fat). Anyway.................cutting out these three things on top of a diet plan which consists of:

Breakfast: Porridge or whole-grain cereal.
Lunch: Soup+bread roll
Dinner: Anything within reason, cut-down portion size+more vegetables.
and plenty of water, with absolutely no snacking or "treats", except fruit.

sticking to this plan since around 22nd janruary to now (March 7th). I now weight 13st, 7.
Now, as I said earlier it's hard to judge what i was before i started this as I (stupidly) didn't weigh myself, but potentially, this is a weight loss of nearly TWO STONE IN TWO MONTHS - WITHOUT EXERCISE.

I am absoluely astonished right now at these results but cutting out the snacks and rubbish has been quite difficult but I feel really good about it at present. My clothes fit better and my 40" waist trousers and hanging off me and should probably be binned :-). I do intend to start an exercise regime soon as this was put on hold when i sprained my ankle pretty bad....

but there you have it. Goal #1 has been done and hopefully I can make it down to 12st.7 which is my target weight for my height.......if BMI is to be believed anyway...

50 tasks finally realised - movies and P&B

That's right! I have finally finalised my final list of fifty firm fun activities  for 2012 :)
alliteration was not on the list........

Aaaaanywho, so far I have managed to stay on couse with No.40 - "Watch at least one new movie per week" In fact, I managed not only one hollywood blockbuster....but TWO....but that's not all....both movies were not ONLY on the same night...they were also....CONSECUTIVE. What a rockstar....

So, the movies were..
In Time http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

I liked the idea of the movie and actually thoroughly enjoyed it. I had my reservations on how capable an actor Justin Timberlake is but he made the role his own & done what was required. Worthy of a watch and even a second viewing (note. something I very rarely do} a solid 7/10

Contagion http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/

Now we're talking. A modern movie set around a worldwide epidemic! and the cast isn't too shabby either..
A film I was really looking forward to but felt it missed the mark. The story didn't feel gripping enough and characters seemed under developed. I think I might have enjoyed it more had it been centralised on a few characters rather than a "love actually" type mash. Overall....not bad..5/10



onto the matter of No. 50. "Reach 250dots on P&B". Just after posting my list to P&B I was met with a very unwelcome -1rep from a bad egg trying to spoil my triumphant journey to +250rep. Fortunately fellow Metalhead and also fellow Blogger Forehead rectified the injustice.

To Do

1. Lose at least a stone
2. Finish a couple of books i have been meaning to finish for about 3 years
3. Get my eyes tested
4. Finish my tattoo sleeve
5. Play a game of 5's
6. Go to a few more Albion Rovers matches
7. Learn a new song on bass
8. Go biking
9. Learn to cook a new dish
10. Try a new dish at a restaurant
11. Go to a sushi bar
12. See at least 25bands at Download
13. Go camping
14. Print out pictures
15. Visit edinburgh castle
16. Go to a basketball game
17. Play a board game
18. See a movie at the IMAX
19. Donate blood
20. Sort out all of my photos and organise them properly
21. Sort out all of my movies and organise them properly
22. Get myself decent clothes
23. Make an effort to listen to at least 5 new bands
24. Decorate my house - spare room especially
25. Have a driving lesson
26. Take it easy on the alcohol on nights out
27. Get into 3 new TV series'
28. See a movie in 3D
29. write a blog post
30. play a sport other than football
31. stay off facebook for a while
32. defriend/block loads of people i have little to no interest in
33. Utilise twitter more
34. Play a game of pool
35. Buy a few CDs instead of downloading digital copies
36. Buy a new suit
37. Try out a new beer
38. Make a cocktail
39. Throw out things I don't need to keep
40. Watch at least one new movie per week
41. Participate again in Movember
42. Give Up alcohol for 2 months
43. Go to comedy show
44. Go to more than 10 concerts
45. Review every gig I go to
46. Help out family with things
47. Join a 3rd charity
48. Attend a Scotland match
49. Attend a Sunday league match
50. Reach 250dots on P&B :-P