TREADMILLIONAIRES!

Look out world, I'm a Treadmillionaire!

After months upon months (actually, it might be years upon years) of being dissatisfied with my weight and overall fitness, I've decided to take the necessary steps to edumacate myself on the subject and get my act together.

I'm in the prime of my life, yet my body and fitness habits are super-blah.  I'm not fat by any means, but I'm not very fit either.  I sit at a desk all day and act pretty carefree about what I eat and now it's slowly starting to catch up with me.  I'd like to get it together before it becomes an even *bigger* problem.

So for the past few months I've been trying to come up with a strategy, but without much success.  One day a friend of mine posted something on Facebook about getting a personal trainer...this post got a conversation going between me and a new friend I had just met and it turns out she was in the same boat as me.  We decided to team up and try to lose weight and develop healthy habits together. 

Our biggest tool to do this is not a gym, nor a work-out video or cookbook or weights or a jump rope or anything like that...it's a...BLOG!

Everyday we keep each other in check with a blog we nicknamed the "Treadmillionaires" and it's slowly developing into a great motivational tool not only for us, but possibly for others who feel the way we do about our eating/exercising habits.  So, please, feel free to check it out.  In addition to posting our daily food and exercise logs, we will also post tips, tools, recipes, insights and more about our journey from blah to bam!

http://treadmillionaires.blogspot.com

For the record, I'm not dieting...just trying to be more conscious about what I put in my body.  Also, I hired a personal trainer who meets with me once a week to teach me about fitness in addition to kicking my booty with all sorts of weight-training torture techniques such as burpees and jump squats and planks, etc.  It's hard but I'm loving it!  I'm going to be in tip-top shape yet...

A blog post about Zach White, my friend and former protege

I DJ'd this morning at WLUW...being the manager of the station, usually when I'm at the board it means something has gone wrong. But not this time...I signed up for a winter freeform shift and spun my 80s-crazy head off.

And then I got a call from ZACH WHITE on the request line. Zach is not only my friend and former protege, he is also the owner of this domain name, AdorableChorus.com, in addition to another failed blog of mine, FlourBed.com. When I don't update my blogs I feel guilty about ZACH and wasting his domain name monies.

Zach is still in Lawrence, Kansas. But tomorrow he will be at Chicago's Union Station for five hours. So I will be there too and we will catch up.

And now, a photographic journey through the life and times of Zach White, the owner of this blog, technically:


he's like a kitty cat!


Oh, Zach!


Like angels crying


back when Zach was my protege


around the time he stopped being my protege

Thieves are stoopid

See the blog entry below this one? The introduction of our new bicycles? Yeah, well, those happy days are over.

We came home to lame-weathered Chicago to discover that our brand new bicycles had been swiped from our own building. We only owned them for a little over a month.

Monday morning, December 28th, Dave said, "bye," and I said, "have a nice day at work," and I heard the front door close and thought it was going to be a regular morning until about five minutes later when I heard the front door open again and Dave belted out a very panicked, "HEY!!"

When I came to the door he explained that glass was everywhere downstairs...the small window on the door of our basement bike room had been smashed. Of the twenty some-odd bikes in that room, his brand new $1,000 Specialized and my brand new $500 GT were the only ones gone, along with our new bike pump.

No, the bikes weren't locked up while in the bike room...nobody does that as there's no room and nothing to lock them to except an extremely hot water pipe. Someone must have been watching us, because the bike room isn't in a completely obvious location and it's extremely strange that only ours were stolen. We last came home with them together a few days before Christmas after gift shopping and they were stolen while we were out of town for the holiday.

It's shattered our sense of security in Logan Square. When we purchased the bikes I pondered the absurdity of paying so much while living in a bike thief-riddled town like Chicago. So I'm not surprised they got swiped. I just thought they'd get taken from us while out and about. I never would have guess someone would have pulled something so meticulous as to steal from our own home.

Anyway, that's that. $1,500 down the drain. Riding the CTA in the morning is miserable enough...even more so when then only reason you're doing it is because some asshole stole your bike.

P.S.--we called all the pawn shops nearby, combed Craigslist, etc. Our bikes were registered with the city, but I doubt that'll make a difference.

Also: http://chicago.stolenbike.org/ for more horror stories, if you're into that sort of thing.