This coming Saturday, as in March 3, 2007 has here by been named “Don’t go on the internet day” by me. I’m going to do something that hasn’t been done by me in years and I’m not going to go on the internet for one second at all for the entire day. No email, websites, blogs, instant messages, porn, tech news, video games news, news news, zip zero zilch!

Why am I doing this, well Saturday should definitely be the easiest day of the week to not use the internet, plus I need to take a virtual break for one day. This Saturday should be a cool day nonetheless because my friends and I are celebrating my birthday by having dinner at Benihana. What am I going to do the rest of the day? Watch a lot of TV, talk to the dogs, touch Emily, eat, walk the dogs, contemplate my future, beg for money, not go on the internet, listen to music, dance, grind against the kitchen table, shake from withdrawals from the internet & definitely nap!

Are you going to join me in my fight against not using the internet? I’m not going to lie, I’m kind of scared! I’ll feel like Supermodel with a bunch of food in front her, it just won’t feel right not going to my trusty internet to get me through the day. Wish me luck!

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I wish it were easy to change a scary dream into a pleasurable dream, but I haven’t figured out the mathematical algorithm yet for that. It’s pretty crappy when you wake up from a scary dream and you’re huffing and puffing and sweating like a teenage boy who just finished playing racquetball with his boyfriend.

For a while there I kept having these dreams where I’d be getting chased by random people who wanted to beat me up or kill me. It would suck because when I’d try and run away from these dudes I couldn’t run fast at all, in fact my running speed was basically a slow walk. It’s kind of like those scary movies from the 80’s and Freddy Krueger would be chasing the person and he’d only be walking while the victim would be running, but Freddy would still be very close by. Eventually I’d wake up from those dreams and be trying to catch my breath. My pillow would be all wet so I’d need to flip it over or else I’d probably would’ve caught pneumonia! I checked a dream meanings website to see what being chased meant and I guess it means that you have some kind of anxiety going on in your real life, “Chase dreams often stem from feelings of anxiety in your walking life. The way we respond to anxiety and pressure in real life is typically manifested as a chase dream.”. Who would’ve thought chase dreams were so deep in meaning?

Last night I had a weird dream where I was in school still and I was in English class and had to write a paper on some book we were supposed to read. Well, I know that in my dream that with past books that we needed to write papers on I would just skim the book and write a paper. Well for whatever reason I didn’t write the paper and when the teacher came around to pick up our papers I asked him if I could turn it in late because I didn’t finish it The teacher said “No, way! You’re getting a zero!”. I was like “Fuck, now I’m going to fail English and I’m not going to graduate”. I was so bummed out and when I awoke from the dream I was short of breath and freaking out. I was actually still thinking for a few seconds when I woke up that I needed to pass English, then I realized I’m not in school anymore and I’m a fucking incredible mutual funds processor!!! I checked the dreams website and it said “To dream that you are in school, signifies feelings of inadequacy and childhood insecurities that have never been resolved. It may relate to anxieties about performance and abilities. You may also be going through a “spiritual learning” experience.”.
Wow, I really am quite an amazing person when it comes to dreaming! I may be kind of shallow and narcissistic, but my dreams are so heavy!

I’m obviously fucking crazy and need mental help, especially with anxiety and feeling inadequate. Dreaming is so deep, deeper than a Stephen King novel. I can only hope to take on scary dreams head to head and defeat them with a strike to the chest and a blow to the head!

What are your scary dreams?

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Who doesn’t like a little mood setting music for a night of love making? I love a good chill trance song to get me into the mood. I used to wow the ladies back in the day when I was 21 and a single man with some BT, candles & my gentle touch. I don’t know if those ladies ever recovered from the intensity of my shagging.

Fast forward 6 years and I don’t wow the ladies anymore, just one special lady. I also don’t light any candles unless it smells in the apartment. Last night was a kickback to my good ole days of love making. I turned on the internet radio to a chill channel. Everything was going well, the lights were off, the animals were playing and the chill music was in full effect. I get down on the bed and we are shagging like two homeless people that are hungry for food. Well as the ball starts to get going I notice the song playing is a song I’ve heard before, but it’s like a remix trance dance version. In my head I’m dying laughing and I’m trying to keep my soldier in attention, but before long Emily starts laughing out loud. We both start singing the song outloud and can’t control ourselves anymore. What’s the song that’s a remix dance version well just that super awesome 80’s hit “Physical” by Olivia Newton-John. It seemed like they must’ve said “Let’s get physical, physical, I wanna get physical” like 40 times! It was easily the cheesiest most appropriate cliche song that could’ve come on during shag time. We felt like two seals getting chased by a great white shark in the shallow ocean.

We had to stop at one point because we were both laughing so hard that the laughing was more enjoyable than the shag. This may be the last time I ever put an internet radio station on during shag time because sure it was funny, but it totally killed the mood. Everyone knows how much “greggers” likes the different moods that life feeds us.

Has a song ever interfered in a good way or bad way during shag time for you?

You’ve ever been to a restaurant, that when you walked into it that you knew it was going to suck? This happened to Emily & I on Saturday night. Let me warn all future eaters at this restaurant, the name of it is Kirin Sushi www.kirin-sushi.com
4111 Voltaire St, San Diego - (619) 223-3388. It’s not too disgusting/boring inside, the food is only kind of bad, & we only had one glass that had lipstick prints on the top of it. What sucks is the owner of the place, she is a biotch!

We got into the restaurant and realized instantly that the place was dead and when a place is dead it usually means the food sucks.
I asked the waiter if the chicken teriyaki was white meat and he said yes so we decided to give the place a try. We take our seat and start reviewing the menu when Emily realizes that there is a sushi roll called “Yoshi Roll“. I’m like “ha ha I’ll take a photo”. I take my phone out and take a photo, but the flash whites the photo out too much so I was like “fuck it, I give up”. Emily decides she’ll take a photo of it. When she is done taking the photo, the owner who is this Chinese woman, who can barely speak a word of English comes over and is like “what you take photo of menu for” Emily is like “oh you guys have the same name of a sushi roll as our dogs name”…the crazy Chinese lady says “that menu copyright”, Em’s like “oh no we just think it’s cute”. The Chinese woman again “we copyright menu”..We’re both like “OK sorry!”. What tops this all of is when I got my chicken teriyaki it wasn’t even white meat it was dark meat, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Come on everyone knows I only go for the white meat!

What the fuck were we going to do with this stupid ass menu? We sure weren’t going to sell it or make the recipes from it because the food Fucking sucked! I felt like I was getting reprimanded by my mother or something. It left me with such a bad taste in my mouth and pissed like I used to get when my mom would tell me I had to go do such and such an errand with her. I used to kick the back of her seat in the car with frustration “Ma I don’t wanna go!”.

What I learned from this whole experience is to trust my gut if I feel like the restaurant is going to suck then it most likely will and I should leave. God, Oprah when are you ever wrong?!?!

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Don’t you hate when your favorite store in the whole world is bought by another company and that store is either completely changed or closed. Well boys and girls my favorite healthy grocery store Henry’s aka Wild Oats has been purchased by Whole Foods. Whole Foods is also a healthy grocery store except they charge double the price that Henry’s does for the same stuff. Where the fuck am I going to go to buy my Amy’s Texas BBQ Veggie Burgers or marinated chicken breasts for only $2.99/lb? I’m totally fucked! Yes, I know I could go to Trader Joe’s, but Trader Joe’s doesn’t have the same atmosphere that Henry’s does! Henry’s has that small time grocery store feel with low prices, fresh produce & all kinds of good looking young people! I don’t even think I can afford Whole Foods on a regular basis, I’ll have to go back to the sucky big time grocery stores like Von’s & Ralph’s. What am I going to do?! I should start my own healthy grocery store called “Gregg’s”.

Change sucks almost all the time. For instance, when Bill Clinton finished up his term as President, we got George W. Bush and look where that changed landed us. What about when Coke came out with “New Coke”? They lost a ton of money and went back to the original Coke Classic. I’ll even give you one more instance of when change sucked…How about when I changed the format of my blog? I couldn’t write anything that was funny or witty anymore! All in all change sucks, so everything should just stay the way it is including all of my favorite grocery store chains!

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1. You can’t think of any ideas so you make lists of things like “5 Reasons to not have sex” & “10 reasons to not believe in God”

2. Your friends who started blogs because of you write more entertaining blogs than you now.

3. You look through photos on Flickr to conjure up ideas

4. You visit friends blogs to try and steal one of their ideas

5. You talk about how your NEW diet is going and how much weight you’ve lost

6. You bring your dog for a walk to try and get ideas of what to write about

7. When you start posting semi nude photos of yourself to keep your audience coming to your site

8. You ask your boyfriend/girlfriend for ideas

9. You post voice mails of a drunk guy and make a video out of it

10. You post bulletins on myspace about what you wrote to try and gain some new traffic

11. you write a list of reasons of when you know you have blogger burnout

What did I miss?

I do know I miss you.
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1. Sexually Transmitted Diseases ruin many parties especially sexual parties. Life is not a lot of fun when you go pee and it burns like fire is coming out of your penis. Imagine getting ready to pull down your pants and having massive amounts of warts all over your crotch. I bet you’re lover would be turned on by that for sure. He or She would be all about getting some of that contagious love! Fuck what if you get HIV?!?! Ahhh you’re basically dead or will be in 10-20 years!!!

2. Having sex too early in the relationship with someone usually rushes you into boyfriend/girlfriend hood. If you don’t really know if you even like the person yet and you’re pushing your love device against that other person it usually makes the other person think you really like them. I don’t know how many times I did that, sleep with a girl and kind of date her for two weeks then realize she bugged the fuck out of me so I needed to end it. I was a stupid 21 year old!!!

3. If I found out today that I had a secret love child aka baby with some girl from my past that I couldn’t stand I’d be so depressed. There’s a handful of girls I slept with that I wish I never had. So, imagine having a baby with a girl you don’t like and can’t stand. You’re basically stuck with her the rest of your life. Ahhh child support!!!! I used to hook up with this one girl would in the middle of love time would be smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer, ha ha she was a real winner!

4. You’ll go to hell if you have sex before you get married! Everyone knows that! God gets so pissed at people having sex before marriage and has no other choice but to send them to Satinville. The only way of redeeming yourself is by sleeping with your local priest!

5. You should wait to have sex until you get married so you can perfect masturbating because after one year of marriage or after having kids sex will be non-existent. If you become a pro at masturbating you’re set for a life of self happiness!

What did I forget?

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I was conversing with my significant other the other day and I asked her since she is a personal trainer if she knew where fat went when you lose it? She didn’t know, but some of my ideas of how it leaves our bodies could be you piss it out, shit it out or sweat it out. It must leave our bodies some how because it doesn’t make sense to me that it would just evaporate into thin air.

I did some research on where fat goes when you lose weight and this is what I found…

“When you consume fewer calories than your body needs, your body turns to fat for energy. Body fat is broken down through a series of complex metabolic processes. Your body uses the energy produced by these processes. The waste products from these processes are water and carbon dioxide. You excrete water primarily through urine and sweat, and carbon dioxide by exhaling.”

OK so I can totally understand that it breaks down in our bodies and we eventually pee it out, but we also exhale broken down fat?!?!?! That’s fucking disgusting isn’t it?! It’s kind of like you ate a couple cheeseburgers and a fry yesterday and today you’re exhaling those cheeseburgers and fry out of your mouth. Is that why burps smell like throw up because we’re actually exhaling old food that’s now old fat?!?!

What would be really cool is if they came out with some machine that you could breathe into and it would tell you what you’re currently burning off in terms of fat. It would make losing weight so much more technological and fun! Please don’t steal my idea or if you do at least give me one of those “Fat Burning Exhale” machines!

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I have never ever ever ever eaten so healthy in my life for such a long time. As you can see in the photo I now weigh 180 lbs! Whoever does those PSA’s on eating healthy and exercising leads to a healthy life and allows you to lose weight wasn’t fucking around! My fighting weight of 170 lbs is within reach and if I just cut out eating lunch and dinner then I’ll be 170 lbs by Thursday!

I figure that I’ll be 170 lbs in about 3 weeks. It’s definitely been getting more difficult to lose weight quickly in just one week. I’ve lost a total of 25 lbs and I feel better than Whitney Houston on cocaine (She says “Crack is whack”)!

Even though the journey has been a smooth ride so far the big test, the last 10 pounds should be my biggest fight yet! Yes, I’m a dieting idol and if there was an American Idol for dieting I’d be on it b/c I get results even if I purge my food 2X a day and not eat at all I still lose the weight! Kids eat right, exercise & listen to your mom because she’s almost always right!

Click here for Part I & II

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OK so sex definitely sells! It’s a good thing I have an eye for sexy because as a photographer I suck monkey balls. To quote the great Reverend Al Sharpton “We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems — let’s march.”
I’m not sure if that quote fits this post, but it sure sounds fun to march! And of course I didn’t have any ideas of what to write today so I did the next best thing and put some eye candy for you guys and girls. Enjoy the raunchy photos!

	#1: Naked People holding private parts www.greggoconnell.com • 8757 views / 4 people count this as a favorite / 5 comments
	#2: Erica ex gf i dated her from 2002-2004 www.greggoconnell.com • 8079 views / 2 people count this as a favorite / 4 comments
	#3: The Predicates Outside Erica & I playing at Tower Two in OB www.greggoconnell.com • 4516 views / Nobody counts The Predicates Outside as a favorite / 2 comments
	#4: The Predicates still outside Erica & I playing at Tower Two in OB www.greggoconnell.com • 4128 views / Nobody counts The Predicates still outside as a favorite / 0 comments
	#5: Erica’s The Predicates Erica’s homemade the predicates tshirt with backwards “e” & “d” www.greggoconnell.com • 3741 views / 4 people count this as a favorite / 9 comments
	#6: Happy Nude 2007! Holding my Wiimote for the world to see! www.greggoconnell.com • 3675 views / 4 people count this as a favorite / 8 comments
	#7: boobville my friend jill from jr high is on the left with her friends showing their boobs off • 3514 views / 2 people count this as a favorite / 3 comments
	#8: 80’s Rock Cock Rockin’ The Cock www.greggoconnell.com • 3512 views / Nobody counts 80’s Rock Cock as a favorite / 9 comments
	#9: Erica’s Wicked Smart Erica’s homemade tshirt “wicked smart” • 3261 views / 5 people count this as a favorite / 5 comments
	#10: Gregg underwear model in my boxer briefs looking sexy and BIG. www.greggoconnell.com • 3171 views / 4 people count this as a favorite / 37 comments
	#11: Erica Skirt Pose guys love short skirts • 3024 views / 3 people count this as a favorite / 1 comment
	#12: Jessie my ex gf i dated here from 1998-2001 • 2797 views / Nobody counts Jessie my ex gf as a favorite / 0 comments
	#13: Naked Boy Bum it’s a full moon tonight www.greggoconnell.com • 2623 views / 3 people count this as a favorite / 24 comments
	#14: arizona girls and my nose i met these girls at open mic at blind melons. • 2517 views / Nobody counts arizona girls and my nose as a favorite / 1 comment
	#15: Erica smiling on chinatown erica smiling for money • 2432 views / Nobody counts Erica smiling on chinatown as a favorite / 0 comments
	#16: Busta Boob in my face www.greggoconnell.com • 2094 views / Nobody counts Busta Boob as a favorite / 1 comment
	#17: Meg my ex gf I dated her for 2 months in 2004 • 1967 views / Nobody counts Meg my ex gf as a favorite / 6 comments
	#18: beast man a half nude zdenek • 1884 views / 6 people count this as a favorite / 2 comments
	#19: Isa my ex gf i dated her from 1996-1998 • 1834 views / Nobody counts Isa my ex gf as a favorite / 0 comments
	#20: Gregg Boxer-Briefs in my boxer briefs looking to sex someone up • 1770 views / 2 people count this as a favorite / 4 comments

1. You won’t get laid anymore! Who doesn’t like a little bump and grind? A little T & A? If you’re dead the only laying you’ll be doing will be in a casket 6 feet underground. Sex is probably the most enjoyable feeling in the world besides eating McDonald’s at McDonald’s. You’ll never get to see another person naked, nor will you be able to see Animals having sex on Discovery in HD either! SEX, PORN, XXX!!!

2. No more late night summer driving with the windows rolled down and the Indie rawk blasting out of your 20 Watt factory installed stereo speakers! Late night driving especially alone is one of the best things in the world to do besides eating McDonald’s at McDonald’s. Cruising the side roads as Matt Pond starts singing “Went to where the people were on a Saturday night. Seems like it always seems, where I go I want to leave…” Fucking A this might be better than sex and McDonald’s combined!!! Now if you’re dead the only music you’ll be listening to will be Hell’s Chorus because you committed suicide and God doesn’t allow suiciders (ha ha is that a word?) into heaven.

3. You’ll never see the sun again. Sunlight makes everyday a happy day, even the days where everything has gone bad in the office from all the fucking up you did. Once you walk outside those office doors into the sunshine you’re body might react with a sneeze like mine does, but the sunshine turns sadness into happiness. You’ll go from a cold and dark office to a bright sunshiney day outside. If you’re dead the only light you’ll be seeing is the fire from Satan’s flames!

4. No more naps! Naps are not only relaxing, but also a good way to escape reality without the permanent effect of death. What’s nicer than when you’re really tired than taking a 2 hour nap and waking up with a refreshed face, bad breath & a head of hair that looks like it got run over by a car? A Nap! If you’re dead the only napping you’ll be doing is the permanent kind in a casket.

5. No more Harry Potter movies and books! J.K. Rowling is a modern day Charles Dickens. Imagine a world without that little boy wonder? AHHHH it’s too scary and unpleasant to think about that. Who doesn’t like to imagine that they are Harry Potter sometimes? What’s more fun than running around the house with only your underwear on, a black cape, glasses & a stick yelling out spells like “Expelliarmus”! If you’re dead the spells you’ll be casting are fainting spells from the heat of hells flames!

If you’re planning on killing yourself than make sure to re-read this post. It’ll really put life into perspective for you! I know it did for me!

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Aren’t holidays wonderful? Yes they make you spend money, but they also create things to look forward to. Imagine a life without holidays…AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH you’d be a Jehovah Witness!!! Those people are crazzzzzzzy. I used to work with this one guy who was Jehovah Witness and he’d get all upset if we celebrated someone’s birthday in the department. People with different beliefs like Jehovah Witness really need to either deal with it or just not work where they work. I never put my beliefs onto someone else or make them feel guilty about it, so neither should they!

Valentine$ Day is one of those holidays it seems that only the girls get stuff. They get pretty flowers, tasty chocolates, soft bears, iPods, Harajuku Watches, dinner, sex & thoughtful cards. The guys on the other hand get to pay for all those gifts, dinners & sex. I can’t think of any guys that I know getting anything for Valentine$ Day from their significant other. I must admit I don’t want a teddy bear, chocolates, Harajuku watch or flowers. I would love free sex and dinner though, but that’s tough to come by unless you’re like me and are always broke and your girlfriend takes you out dinner almost everytime.

Valentine$ Day should be renamed to be Vagina Day because we all know that it’s a woman’s holiday. Sure, it’s bit graphic and kind of grotesque , but it really doesn’t hide the fact of who’s benefiting from the holiday like “Valentines Day” does. Since we’re officially giving woman Valentines Day, then we need to give men a holiday of their own. We could name the holiday “Nagfree Day”. It would be the holiday where guys get to do whatever they want and the women can’t nag us at all or complain. The guys would get presents from their significant other like Tonka Trucks, iPods, Macbooks, Converse, clothes, sex, dinner & thoughtful cards.

Ladies Happy Valentine$ Day, I mean “Vagina Day”.

Love,
Gregg

The only time I got a Jury Duty letter sent to me is when they thought I still lived at my moms house. I didn’t have to serve because I lived in a new county thus excusing me from Jury Duty. Last Week I received a letter in the mail saying that I was to do Jury Duty on Friday, March 16. I was reading the letter closely and it says and I quote “Jurors scheduled for Friday at the Hall of Justice will be on telephonic (ha ha I didn’t even know that was a word) standby for five days“. Those motherfuckers even had the audacity to bold “five days” on the letter. Motherfuckers are making me call in for 5 days straight to see if they need me to come in! That’s fucked up! First off I don’t even want to serve, second off I have sit on pins and needles waiting for them to tell me to come in or not.

Doesn’t serving Jury Duty seem so 1800’s and it also seems to go against Americans freedom. To me it’s like the draft for the military, no one wants to do it, but if you don’t you might go to jail. No, you hopefully won’t be dying either while attending Jury Duty unless you get hit my car on the way there.

Another thing that sucks about Jury Duty is it’s downtown. Going downtown means you either pay $20 for parking or you take lame ass public transportation. Don’t those mofo’s know that March 16 is 10 days after my birthday?!?!? I’ll probably still be celebrating my 27th birthday for all I know and they have to go and ruin the party by making me serve Jury Duty.

In conclusion. FUCK CIVIC DUTY! The last thing I want to do is sit in a courtroom all day waiting to sit on some jury that I don’t give two crappolas about!

Love,
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2/11: A week has passed and another 6 lbs have been lost! 3 1/2 weeks ago I weighed 205 lbs, today I weigh 185 lbs! I’ve lost 20 lbs in 3 1/2 weeks. I’m a dieting superstar! My pants have been getting looser and looser to the point where they are almost getting too loose! Oprah wish she had some of my dieting skillz cause I don’t fuck around what what!

Here is a before of me on a skateboard and an after photo of me in a fighting stance

2/4/07: Long, Long ago like 3 weeks ago I weighed and I’m kind of embarrassed to say this 205 lbs, but I did have clothes on. Today I weighed myself and I came in at a paltry 191 lbs. I’ve been on the best life diet for 2 weeks now and I’ve already lost 14 lbs. Sure it took a lot of throwing up and not eating, but I did it! Ha ha OK so what I really did was eat a hell of a lot better, cut soda out completely, go on short walks every single night & shag 2X a week. My pants are getting looser than a pornstar, my brain is as sharp as MacGyver & I feel really great like that wall in China. If you want my recipe to success than email me!

I’m going to keep updating this post every week to keep you informed of my progress.

Love,
Gregg “The Future Skinny” O’Connell

My voicemail was frequently being left messages last week from my psycho fan Mike. He left me terrificly splendid tale on my voicemail because “I’m a guy” and I might understand the magnitude of his story. His story is of how a guy fractured his penis during a romantic evening of bliss. I hope you all enjoy this tale and guys please be careful when having sex!!!

I’m a very messy person if you didn’t already know. My bedroom usually is a classic example of how messy I really am. It always has a mound of dirty laundry, random empty water bottles everywhere, Fiber One wrappers all over my desk & condoms filled with whip cream. My mom is a messy person too and she has definitely passed on that trait to me. I can live in the mess, but most people can’t, especially girls!

When I moved out on my own the only time I would clean my room was when I knew I had a girl coming over. I’d throw all my dirty laundry in my closet, lite scented candles, make my bed or at least try to make it. Little did the girls know before hand that only hours before they arrived my room was dirtier than a dead squirrel. I was really lazy doing the dishes too so my roommate when I would go out would put my dirty pots under my bed. I’d come home and be like “Damn, it fucking smells in here”. I’d scour my room for the smell until I’d find those trusty dirty pots under my bed. It’d smell like rotten spaghetti sauce.

This brings me to today, well yesterday anyway. Emily was watching Oprah (Goddamn you Oprah and your Ideas!!!) when Oprah was saying that in order for couples to have a good healthy relationship physically and mentally then their bedroom needs to be clean and in order aka a sanctuary. I took Emily’s advice and picked up all my dirty clothes. I called Em into the bedroom “Hey babe look the room is now a sanctuary!” ha ha…She’s like “NO..it isn’t” OK, so the room smells like a sweaty teenage boy, my shoes were all over the place, my desk was a mess & the bed wasn’t made. How am I supposed to know that just picking up my dirty laundry (No not you Sarah I’m talking actual dirty laundry) wouldn’t make the bedroom seem like a “Love Den”?

I continue my quest for bedroom love den status, although I know it’s a tough road ahead I race towards the challenge of making the bedroom a “Sanctuary”.

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The last couple of posts on my blog have been pretty wimpy. Love this, diet that, anniversary here, sex there! I’m trying to figure out where my raw unadulterated fire and passion for getting pissed off about something has gone? I’m turning into a girly man with girly feelings. OK, so I’ve always kind of been a wimpy man, but I usually never have like 5 posts in a row of sappy love crap. I should make a vow to myself to never have more than 1 positive lovey dovey post in a row.

I went for a walk with Emily, Herbie & Yoshi and I was trying to think up some ideas of what’s gotten me pissed off or fired up about lately, but to no avail. I mean there’s stupid shit going on at work, but I don’t want to really get into that, nor does it consume my every thought so to me it’s kind of a mundane topic. It’s kind of weird the process I go through when trying to think up a topic to write about in my blog. I usually look through my flickr photos and see if anyone of my latest photos gives me any ideas on what to write about. Then I’ll skim my friends blogs to see if I can steal an idea off them. If that fails I ask Emily and if that fails, I usually write about how much of a pussy I’ve been lately and try to make fun of myself.

Do you ever got lost in your computer? Ever since I got my first computer and internet at the age of 15 I’ve been glued to it. For living beings Herbie is my truest love, but for electronic love I’d be lost without my computer. My girlfriend Isa in high school used to come over my house after school almost everyday. Well instead of talking to her and making out and stuff I’d sign on AOL and be online for hours. She used to get so sick and tired of watching me surf the internet that she’d end up leaving. Ha ha it’s funny because I’m still the same way now. The computer is the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning, when I get to work, when I get home from work & before I go to bed. Whoever created the computer and internet has changed my life, God Bless you!
My girlfriends have suffered such traumatic boredom from it, but I wouldn’t trade all that nagging for anything. I’ve received so much from my computer, I love you computer! Fuck!!! There goes the sappy shit again! AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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Emily & I have officially been dating for 1 year. We’ve gone through a lot of ups and downs, but definitely more ups. We’ve gone up and down the coast of California and I’ve never had so much fun! She’s everything I could ask for in a girlfriend, she’s awesome!
This video is 66 photos our first year together, so get ready for sappy photos!

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Since posting my success story on losing weight yesterday, I’ve been bombarded with emails asking “What’s the recipe to losing weight”. OK, so I only received one email asking how I did it. I’m going to give you guys a list of foods I eat, how much I eat, how I exercise & all that stuff.

Here’s a list of foods I eat:
Amy’s Veggie Burgers: These are so good. The best part of is they are made of not just soy but real vegetables. Best Veggie burgers by far!

Grilled Chicken Breast with a little A-1 sauce: Eat like half a chicken breast and the A-1 sauce is high sodium so only use a little but contains no fat. The added flavor from the A-1 makes you feel like you’re eating a delicious fattening meal!

Grounded Turkey Breast: This is very versatile and is very low in fat and contains no cholesterol! You can make tacos, burgers, etc…

Oven Roasted Turkey Breast or Chicken Breast Deli Meat: These are the two best deli meats to eat b/c they are low in fat and yummy!

Low Fat Provolone or Low Fat Swiss Cheese: They taste just as good as the regular kinds except they are lower in fat.

Feta Cheese: it’s yummy and low in fat in terms of cheeses and goes great with a lot of different foods. You only need to add pinch or two for lots of flavor!

Use mustard or low fat mayo for sandwiches

Add fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, green peppers and other veggies to sandwiches

Baked Potato: put some holes in it throw in the microwave for 7 minutes and you’re good to go! Add some spray butter and magic seasoning blend and you’ve got a great tasting side dish!

Yoplait Light Yogurt: This yogurt is so freaking good and there are so many flavors! It’s only 100 calories and fat free!

Progresso Soup: Go for either the 100 Calories soups per serving or the 50% less sodium. Both are really delicious and make your tummy full.

Frozen Green Beans from Trader Joe’s: They are easy to cook, just throw them in the microwave and they are way lower in sodium than canned green beans.

Frozen Mixed Vegetables: Again very easy to cook, just throw it into the microwave and wahlah fresh veggies!

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Spray: This stuff is amazing, it’s fat free and tastes like real buttah!

Bertolli Extra Virgin Olive Oil: a lot healthier to cook with than butter plus it’s got good fat!

Barilla PLUS: It’s a whole wheat pasta with omega 3 in it.

Whole Wheat Bread, Whole Wheat English Muffins & Whole Wheat Pitas & Whole Wheat Tortillas: any brand will do, my suggestion to you is pick the one with the most fiber and lowest calories.

Whole Wheat Cous Cous: Trader Joe’s brand is really good.

Wasa Crackers: They are high in fiber, no sugar added & are officially my favorite crackers

Brown Rice: Trader Joe’s sells these packs of Brown Rice that you can cook in 90 seconds in the microwave and they only contain brown rice and grape seed oil.

Magic Seasoning Blends (Salt Free): This adds a lot of flavor to whatever your eating and best of all it’s salt free.

Fiber One Fiber Bars: These are a great snack or breakfast. One bar contains 35% of your fiber for the day. They taste really good!

Egg Beaters or Egg Whites: These are awesome, especially if you put them on a whole wheat toast add a little feta and pepper. Plus No cholesterol!

Gala Apples, Oranges (Navel or Cara Cara), Bananas

Almonds: these are a great snack and they contain good fat and protein. Only eat 12 or less per day.

Drinks: Crystal Light (Raspberry Lemonade), Propel Fitness Water (Lemon & Berry), Spring Water

Supplements: Multi-Vitamin (One-A-Day), Calcium Pill & Flaxseed Oil Pill.

Stay Away From:
Soda
Foods high in fat (Pizza, Hamburgers, etc…)
Fried Foods
Transfat
White Breads
White pasta
White people (ha ha)

exercise: Walk 15 minutes in the AM, Afternoon & Night

Here’s what I eat on a typical Day:

Breakfast: Fiber One Bar & a piece of fruit (apple, orange or banana) & Bottle of Spring Water

AM Snack: 2 Wasa Crackers & Bottle of Spring Water

Lunch: turkey and one piece of low fat swiss cheese, mustard, tomatoes, cucumbers in a whole wheat pita
Yoplait Light Yogurt
Bottle of Propel

PM Snack: 12 almonds

Dinner: Amy’s veggie burger with one slice of low fat swiss cheese in half of a whole wheat pita, green beans & a handful of cous cous. Crystal Light Raspberry Lemonade as my beverage.

Eating like this after two weeks keeps me full and I’ve lost 15 lbs already. Make sure to not over eat either. Eat half a chicken breast, handful of rice or cous cous, 3 turkey tacos, etc…

Hopefully this helps some people out who are hoping to lose weight. I’ve been very strict to this diet and I’ve really seen results.
Let me know how it works out for you.

gso

I may be the only guy in America who doesn’t really give a shit about who wins or is playing in the Super Bowl or that the Super Bowl is even on today. I used to love sports growing up and I’d remember all these useless stats about America’s superheros. As I’ve gotten older I care less and less about who is doing what in sports or who’s playing who, something like the Super Bowl comes and American men especially seem to foam at the mouth with excitement.

I went to a Super Bowl party last year at my friend PK’s place, but the reason I went wasn’t for the game as much as it was for the socializing. PK seems to know everyone everywhere he goes and I figured there would be some girls there that I could talk to. Low and behold I ended up meeting this really cute girl with a great smile. I was pretty shy, but not overly shy like some nerd who doesn’t know how to pickup a girl. Trust me I know how to pick up a girl. I’m just like “Yeah, I play music…oh ya you should go to my website greggoconnell.com or just go to my myspace to listen to my music”. It’s a good icebreaker and it doesn’t make the girl feel like you’re all up in her business trying to just get laid or whatever. The moral to this little pickup line is to start a band or pretend you’re in a band.

Anyways back to that pretty girl I met at last year’s Super Bowl party. The girl’s name was Emily as I came to find out, I got her email address and the rest is history. Yes, it’s the same Emily that I’m dating now. I can’t believe it’s already been one year that I’ve been dating her. It went by really fast, another year from now I’ll probably be either married or single ha ha…

Oh ya and I don’t really believe in soulmates like I had mentioned in the title of this post. I think there are thousands and thousands if not millions of people in the world that are compatible with you. You just need to find them thats all. So for Super Bowl Sunday what will I be doing? I’ll be going on a hike, walking Herbie and Yoshi, eating veggie burgers & napping.

gso