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I was doing very well earlier this year trying to keep fit. I was working out on an almost daily basis, had pretty much quit smoking and was really starting to feel good and lose a bit of weight as well. I don't take any kind of supplements or diet pills, just exercise.

Lately I have been doing pretty badly at it though. I need to start going to the gym again and get back in shape. I have been maybe once in the last month and I am getting tired earlier in the day. I can really tell the difference.

It's just a matter of mind over body I guess and making myself do the right thing.

One of the things we have started doing around the house over the last few months is to try and eat healthier and well as doing other things that get us in shape. The wife is doing a much better job of it than I am but I am at least trying to participate. We don't eat as much junk and we are taking supplements that we know work as well.

My wife was looking at different drinks the other day. One of the big things right now are energy drinks. The problem with most of them is that they are full of sugar and other stuff that work temporarily but don't really have any kind of beneficial effect the way that Orovo and other good juices do.

So my oldest daughter is almost eleven. Amazing. My son of course will be 20 in January and he's long gone but one of the awful things we dealt with that I can remember from my teenage years was the acne. No matter what you are doing as a kid that stuff just keeps interrupting :)

No doubt it won't be long again before we start shopping again for acne cream and facial treatments, except that with the girls I am sure that I will be spending even more money than I did with my son. Women are so much more complicated...

I have to buy work shoes about two or three times a year. The rough floors combined with the grease from cooking are pretty hard on clothing, particularly shoes. For the last couple of years I have been shopping at Shoes for Crews and prior to that Walmart or whatever I could find cheapest.

I'm considering getting a pair of Dansko shoes this time just to see how they hold up. My daughter also saw some over there that she's interested in so although i may end up getting my non-slip shoes from somewhere else I have the feeling I will be shopping for her and getting Dansko.

I will be 42 this December. It is amazing how fast it's gone. In all likeliness my life is now halfway over. Scary though that. When I first reached my mid-thirties I used to think about all of the stuff I couldn't do anymore and how much I missed being a teenager and in my early twenties. I'll tell you one thing I haven't missed and that's having to deal with acne treatment.

Weird huh? I had pretty bad acne when I was growing up and I was so happy when I noticed that the acne was starting to improve. Mainly it just went away as I got older, not as a result of anything else.

There are plenty of other things I'm glad for now but for some reason that just stuck in my head...

We have been contemplating a new purchase lately. Since the wife and I are both now working out at the gym we've also been using our son's weight sets as well. The only problem is that without having any weight benches it makes it difficult to use all of his free weights. The handheld ones are OK but the bigger ones are a bit more difficult.

My new neighbor has a pretty nice weight bench and the darn thing is just sitting out in the yard. I've been thinking about asking him if he wants to sell it. If not then we will start looking at new benches. Something we can put either in the playroom or the basement. It doesn't really matter to me. I'll leave that up to the wife...