What's your biggest phobia?

This is embarrassing. I'm not 100% sure I would be classified as having this phobia or which is my biggest because it doesn't affect my day to day activities; however, I am frightened by heights and darkness, and am a little claustrophobic. Most of these need to be exacerbated by being REALLY high (over 100 feet), scary noises in the dark (or just finishing a scary movie with dark theme), or being tickled while being pinned under a pile of blankets or pillows. Given a few minutes unperturbed, I can defeat the debilitating effect of the fear and repel down the cliff face/walk through the dark alley with the scary noises (stupid cat), or not freak out about having to crawl under the house (except when a spider lands on my face.... I DRAW the line at being in the crawl space with spiders on my face!).

Ask me anything

If you could act out for one whole day and have that day disappear in everybody's memory except for yours, how would you act out?

Honesty is sappy. I would like to say I would go wild and do all the things that I was told not to do: Lie, Steal, and all those other things.

Truth is much less interesting, and at the same time frightening.

A better question is: "If you could do that one thing that your culture, laws, religion, etc, tells you not to do, and know you would get away with it.... Would you do it?"

Someone who you believe needs to die. If no one except yourself never knew, could you live with the knowledge that you crossed that line?

I would spend my day much the same as I do now, because no matter who knows what you have done, you still have to pay the consequences.

Ask me anything

Why do the call it a driveway when you park on it and a parkway when you drive on it

The usages are extended from the base meanings of the words, and are consistent with these meanings.

A "park" is a place set aside for a specific purpose.

The English word way is the equivalent of the Latin word via, meaning "road" or "path." Thus a "parkway" is a road (way) through a park. The road is used by cars, thus you can drive on a parkway, that is you can drive on the road (way) through the park.

The term driveway originated as the designation for the place you drive you car into at the house, like from the gate of the farm, or estate, to the house. When you got to the end of the driveway, you would park the car. ("Park," as in the meaning described above, because you are putting the car in the place designated for the car, that is the car park.)

The term driveway was thus established and continued to be used, even when people with tract houses had only a short "way" to drive to the house, so the place where you drive the car into by any house is called a driveway.

It is still consistent with the base meaning and broader usage of the term in that you "drive" into and onto the "way" designated for the car for that dwelling.

Ask me anything

Is there life after death?

I believe that our belief shapes the world we live in. If you believe that everything just stops when you die, then that is what will happen to you. If you believe it is possible to come back as an animal or even another person, then that is your path. If you believe you sleep until paradise, then you are in for a long nap.

My personal beliefs are just that, personal. I have to know you really well to share at that level.

Ask me anything

Do you believe in monogamy?

I like the anonymous nature of these questions. It makes me think about the answer so much more.

I could be a smart alec and say, "I didn't know Monogamy was a god. Does he or she smite people for not believing in him or her?"

But then I seriously looked at the question and have to say, Yes, I do believe that, having one partner who only has you as a partner, is a common foundation for a good relationship.

That being said, I will quote Savage Garden's Affirmation, "I believe that trust is more important than monogamy." There are so many other factors of a relationship that monogamy may not be the issue.

Ask me anything

Day Two

24 hours of all RAW food!  This has been fun!

For yesterday's breakfast I had a "Green Smoothie" with an apple, a banana, handful of baby carrots, spinach, and strawberries.

For yesterday's lunch I had a huge salad with cucumber and tomatoes.  The dressing was homemade with a tablespoon of cold pressed olive oil, a dash of sea salt, juice from a lemon, and 1 clove of garlic.  It was very good!

For yesterday's dinner I snacked on cauliflower and cucumbers dipped in avocado.

Total calorie count 1286

I'm going to have to adjust how I eat food to get enough calories.  Three meals a day is not frequent enough on a raw diet, because the raw foods digest faster.  Also I stuffed myself silly and was still way low on the calorie count.

So for today, Day Two, I'll do things a little differently.

Breakfast = Banana, strawberries, and orange juice smoothie.  286.5 Cal

Brunch = Almonds, Banana, Cashews, Walnuts.  495 Cal

Lunch = Another huge salad, with spinach, bell pepper, and the same dressing. 287.8 Cal

Dinner = A quick banana, with a bowl of strawberries. 224.7 Cal

Snack = A glass of orange juice. 204.1 Cal


Total Calorie Count for Day Two = 1498.1


I've been starting the detox symptoms that many of the blogs and sites I've been reading talked about.  If I had eased my way into this diet by slowing increasing the raw food, I may have been able to avoid this.  However I don't do things well when I'm only going halfway, so I decided to risk it.

So far the only thing bad has been a nagging headache.  I'm looking forward to day 5 when I should be "out of the woods" in regards to detox symptoms. 

Day One

For the beginning of my life style change, I believe it is important to track improvement.

In order to track improvement a baseline must be set, so for the last week I have been recording several statistics and here are the averages from that time frame.

Starting Statistics


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Weight	234.6 LBS
Resting Heart Rate	65 BPM
Resting Temp	98.7 F
Body Fat %	27.00%
Lean Body Mass	168.63 LBS
Blood Sugar Level	102
Circumference Measurements
Neck	16.5 in
Chest	41 in
Upper Arm	13 in
Fore Arm	11.5
Waist at Belly Button	44 in
Hip	42 in
Thigh	23 in
Calf	17 in

I have almost none of the "tools" most hardcore 100% raw people have, however am ready to commit to this and will be blogging my journey to help me stay honest, and hopefully inspire someone to better their own life.