Starting

Samantha here and I am starting a new diet this week and I am sharing my progress with you all here on the blog.  I want to get thin and know no other way than to share my ups and downs with you the readers.  I am also going to share via YouTube for those interested in seeing the progress more than just reading it.

What do you Watch on Youtube?

So the 20SB network is having a blog carnival asking this question: What is your favorite YouTube Video?

Well mine are not so much the video's themselves but the channels.  I love watching SourceFed.

SourceFed gives you the news in a fun and interesting way, I have never been bored watching any of their videos and the team is great.  I think Phil got it right with this channel and they even end the week on a good note like their latest Video from Friday.

And another favorite channel of mine is the scripted YouTube version of Pride and Prejudice.  The Lizzie Bennett Diaries.

I will admit I just spent 2 days doing nothing but watching Lizzie from the beginning then going and watching all of Lydia's videos on her own channel.  Hank Green and Bernie Su.  I think this is just an amazing "retelling" of Pride and Prejudice with out all the period costumes for me to sit there and go "You would NEVER catch me DEAD in that!"  My favorite video of this series would have to be one of the latest ones (but I recommend going to watch from the beginning now if you have time).

Then after this episode airs you get things like this image showing up on Tumblr and and Twitter:

Thank you Wigs for asking this question of us, I think it is a very informative question to know what you and others are watching on YouTube.  Check out what WIGS stars are watching and see if you watch them as well

Chanllenge Myself 2013

So I have always been setting a goal to lose weight.  And I never seem to complete my goal, but this year I am going to try something different.  My goal is to walk more. 

I have been doing some reading and found a "Walk to Mordor" Challenge. And before you say it, Yes I know:

But there is a challenge to walk the same distance that Frodo and Sam (Hey that is short for Samantha) walked as they walked from the Shire to Mordor to destroy the ring.  Which in miles is 1779 miles, a very long distance but I am going to give myself 1 year to complete this challenge 365 days of walking.

I originally read this challenge HERE.

I have since spent days reading about Frodo and Sam's Journey and my next two steps are to RE-watch the movies and read the books.

If anyone is interested in joining me on my walking journey, you are more than welcome too, leave me a comment, come back here to keep me updated on where you are in the Journey to Mordor and how close you are to destroying the ring.

Power Rangers and Growing Up

Last week I had decided to have myself a Flashpoint marathon, and if you are a DirecTV subscriber, we have a channel called ION, I do not know if other cable and satellite providers offer the channel but I do know that DirecTV does and they seem to play a lot of Flashpoint in the afternoons and I spent an afternoon watching it. 

Now if you have never seen an episode of the show Flashpoint you should know a little bit about it, you may even enjoy it.  This show is a Canadian Cop Drama (lately I have had a thing for Canadian TV).  Based in Toronto we have a team of police officers known as the SRU (Strategic Response Unit) they take the calls where there is hostage negotiations and talk them down and when needed they take the "Scorpio" shot (kill shot).  This show starts two actors from past shows that I have watched Amy Jo Johnson and Enrico Colantoni. 

In High School I will admit to loving the show Veronica Mars which starred Enrico Colantoni as Veronica's father the PI in Mars Investigations.  Loved the show and one of these days I will find myself a show that keeps me just as entertained in solving the big mystery as modern day Nancy Drew kept me.

But the reason why I bring up Flashpoint is Amy Jo Johnson who plays Jules on the show and my moms passing comment "Hey its the Pink Ranger!" My mom seems to think I do not know who the "Pink Ranger" was growing up, I do not know how many times I tried to be her growing up.  When it came time to pick who got to be the "Pink Ranger" for Halloween, I played the middle name card Amy Jo vs. Samantha Jo, I had the same middle name as the actress who played the Pink Ranger so it was destiny for me to be her.  leaving my sister to be the Yellow or one of the guys (minus the white my brother claimed that one).

Now growing up wanting to be a Power Ranger was always fun, I work a watch to so that I could set an alarm on it and pretend it was Zordon calling me to "Morph" into action.  Of course my mom yelled all the time about attempting flips off the couch or anywhere for that matter, but I did get her to give into gymnastics classes for one year (until I found out that I had no balance).

But lets get back to my moms comment "Hey its the Pink Ranger!" and what that led me to find out, yep you can watch the first few seasons of Power Rangers or what is was back then: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on Netflix and now I am back to watching them and wondering why I never attempted Karate like the guys, that looks like so much more fun that the gymnastics ever did.

So what show from your childhood do you see the actor/actress now in movies or TV shows that you currently watch and have you thought about going back to watch the show again.

Guns, Hunting and Dating...

So there is this really interesting radio segment on my favorite Morning Radio Station here in the Houston area called Second Date Update.  Well this morning a guy who is not used to not hearing back from or having his dates act the way his did called in wondering what he had done wrong. 

As he was describing the date, I heard nothing wrong.  Took her to a local steak house "Texas Roadhouse", had great conversation and then all of a sudden she got an emergency call and had to go to the hospital where she worked as a nurse.  Now I know that this is a high possibility that she had to go to work at a hospital, don't know how possible with a nurse but it is a possibility.  Now here is where things get really fishy, she did not get him to drive her when she had ridden with him to the restaurant.  So yeah, he did something wrong that he was not telling us, so lets here the lady's side of the story.

Well the date started OK is what she had to say, he picked her up though he had something "familiar" looking on his truck but was unable to pinpoint what it was.  It was later while talking about hobbies that she realized what he had on his truck.  Now before we go any further in the explanation of this date lets remember this is TEXAS and and COUNTRY radio station.  The man was an avid hunter, now this is something I expect from someone who takes a girl out for steak on a first date in our area, and he was talking about some of his recent kills hunting one was a deer.  He did lightly mention dressing a deer, if you do not know what this means look it up, now this may be one of the things that would turn me off of the date but he did not go all gory with the details.  So the guy was an avid hunter, no big deal to me, my family is big on the hunting scene.

Now this was a turn off for the girl, but what she did not know which she found out on the show was:
1.  He is a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) holder
2.  He was carrying a Concealed Handgun during the date

These two facts brought up the whole debate how do you feel about bringing a Concealed Handgun on a date and would you tell your date?  Personally I do not care, I know if I had my CHL I would bring a handgun with me and I would probably feel safer if the guy did have one but I do not need to know if he is carrying the gun with him.  That is his bussiness, if he wants to tell me he can and I have no problem with it.

So who do you feel?  Would you date someone who hunted a lot and talked about it?  Would you date someone who had a CHL and carried?  Would you wan to know before the date about the handgun?

Being Raped Cant Cause Pregnancy?

Last time I checked that is not true.  A woman's body does not "Shut Down" its reproductive cycle because she is being raped. 

So I heard a little about this earlier today and now I have seen this interview and even I am amazed at what people believe.  That would just give all these rapist a way of getting off, she got pregnant so it could not have been rape, as the woman can not get pregnant if she is raped. 

Day 30: A picture of yourself this day and 5 good things that happened since you started the challenge.

Well I started my diet this past 30 days so it is nice to say that the first good think that started during this 30 day challenge to myself was me starting to lose the weight.

Another good think that has happened is that I have started to search for a new job, though I have not had any luck in finding a job outside of working retail, I have started the search and that is a step in the right direction.  So lets all keep our fingers crossed about the job search.

During this 30 days I made the 12th payment on my 5 year loan on my car.  I know I still have a long ways to go on paying it off but I have started to pay it off and I am 1/5 of the way done!!!!

I bought a couple of cute jackets for the fall season on clearance at work, don't know if me finding cute clothes is something that can be considered a good thing but I want it to be considered something good so I will count it as a good thing since it is another thing toward the finding of a job since they will make good business attire.

Lastly, I have made plans to go see my dad for the first time in over a month.  I should have gotten to see him right before this 30 day challenge started on his birthday July 13, but he did not make it home for his birthday but I have made the plans to go and see him in September since August in Back to School month in retail and I can not get off work just yet to go and see him.