Wii (I'm apparently not) Fit

So for FISH this Sunday we went to the Lilley's house and had a good time playing, among other things, Wii Fit. This is a smooth game. It is definitely more than you think it will be. I had a friend that joked about seeing a youtube video that mocked the Wii Fit saying something like "Now you and your friends can enjoy getting in shape with the exercises on the Wii Fit! Exercises like leaning to the left, leaning to the right, stepping off the board, and stepping back on!"
The Wii Fit has lots more than that, all the strength stuff you really do push ups and sit ups, and you do real yoga poses as well, and even the stuff that is just stepping off and back on is in a run game so it doesn't feel monotonous. Anyway, we started playing at the Lilley's and when I entered my height and my birthdate the balance board measured my BMI and made my Mii get fat. It was quite a funny scene for the rest of According to the Wii Fit I am too high on the BMI scale, overwieght is how they put it, and not just a tad overweight, well in the middle of the overweight scale. Now I am telling myself that I'm not that bad...I mean it is because of all the muscles I have right? Muscle weighs more than fat, and all that. Truth is though, I have known for a while that I need to lose some weight. In fact my New Year's Resolution was to drop down to 175 pds. by Easter.

So later that night I'm telling Sarah about it and we decided to get the Wii Fit as our Mother's Day/Father's Day presents to each other. We set up our Mii's and got down to working out.
According to the Wii I even need to go a little further than 175 pds., losing about 3 pds every two weeks for the next 3 months to acheive a nice healthy BMI.

Will I do it? We'll see. Anyone who knows me knows I love to eat, and not healthy. But I defiantely have been staying consistent with working out on this week. Hopefully I'll post in Easter about how I now am Wii Fit. At least I'll have fun trying.

Click, Click, Bang, Bang

So for Christmas I got lots of good stuff, like cash, Wii video games, a Chris Cooley jersey, books, gift cards, etc. One of the most unique gifts I got however was an opportunity to go shooting guns with Tyler. After 29 years of life this is the first time I've ever fired a gun, and I got to fire not one, but three different guns.

We went out to some land in Salem that Tyler's friend owns and shot. I loaded all the guns and Tyler gave me a brief lesson on each concerning loading, safeties, etc. I can now say that I have shot a .357 Magnum (using 38 special rounds and 357 magnum rounds), a lever action 30/30 rifle, and a bolt action shotgun (using 20 gauge shells). Shooting is a rush. I learned that bullets cost more than I thought they would, you need to point a little lower than what you want to shoot, that a .357 has a lot of kick and that shooting in general is harder than it looks to hit targets. You have to get used to the kickback. It was cool, and I look forward to shooting again.