How about a spring resolution?

If I lose 44 pounds, these would be my before and after pictures.

My New Year's Resolution is two months late, so I'll call it a spring resolution.  I invested some money in a Gold Gym Exercise bike yesterday.  I am going to use it to get in shape and lose some weight, I hope.  I am not mechanically inclined, so it took me about two hours to put it together, but I finally did get it finished and I did ride five miles on it.  What few calories I burned were gained back in a lot less time than it took to burn them off, but it is a start.  I will try to push myself a little harder tonight to see what I am going to be able to do.  Maybe I can get used to it and come to like it actually.  I tried one of the preset workouts on the bike; this one was for 30 minutes with the resistance level going up to 6 (from 1).  I survived it; I did about 7 miles and this time got 145 calories burnt off.  I think I can stick with this.  While I was biking, I was watching some of the men sing on American Idol.  I don't remember the name of the kid, but the one who did the Paramore song was very good.  Also, I liked the one that did the Aretha Franklin song.  Some of these guys have really high falsetto voices, and while I am amazed they can sing such high notes, I don't particularly like it.  I also don't like screaming.  A growl here and there is okay though.  Just as long as they don't get too carried away.  Last year, Haley Reinhardt who was my favorite growled a little too much.

Well, I must get off this computer and do some school work for my classes tomorrow and for my night class tomorrow night.  I am supposed to talk to my boss tomorrow at the outreach center.  Well, I don't have much else to say.

I hope I sleep well tonight.  I have hit one of my insomnia phases where I don't sleep well for a few days.  I doze a little but don't get a good night's sleep.  I'm hoping that it ends tonight.  I read online today that they are finding some associations with sleeping pills and all kinds of nasty diseases and death.  I am so glad that I quit taking Lunesta so much.  I still take melatonin, but that is all natural and safe.

That is it from me.