Back to Fasting - Well...Sort of

Today, marked my first drive-thru fast food meal in over a month. Since March 17, I have successfully gone without eating from any food from fast food establishments (determined by places that have a drive-thru).  This led me to eat significantly more home-cooked meals; it is a good think I like my own cooking! After taking a break from fast food, I definitely felt like I was eating fresher ingredients, and certainly avoided ever getting that sick feeling that one occasionally gets from eating greasy fast food. That being said, I don't know if I necessarily was eating significantly healthier as I was not cutting out any sweets from my diet.

I understood that eventually, out of convenience and managing my busy schedule I would have to once again get quick fast-food. Today, I had Del Taco, and it tasted quite good after such a fast food break.

I do still plan to reduce my fast-food intake, and it is nice to know that I can indeed go a period of several weeks without fast food. Perhaps this may be a good thing to give up if I do indeed honor lent when I am supposed to.

Celebrating Lent a Month Late

Yesterday, after having another bad fast-food meal from Jack-in-the-Box . I never have a "good feeling" from eating fast food, and after feeling sick from yesterday's meal, I realized that it would be nice to try to avoid drive-through fast food. This seems like a doable and good thing to give up. I won't follow the exact Lent routine, and resume fast food on March 30. Instead, I am going to try and see how many days I can go without eating fast food - ideally trying to go for months. I typically eat at a drive through several times a week - mostly for cost and convenience reasons - so this is going to certainly be a lifestyle change but it should be one for the better.

The parameters are just that I cannot eat drive-through fast food. Thus, places such as Subway or Chipotle don't qualify and I may continue eating at such restaurants.

With the increased consumption of fresher ingredients I will likely end up up eating a bit healthier, of course I can indulge in unhealthy goodies as long as it isn't fast food.

  Yum!!!

So far I went the entire day today without any fast food, so I am off to a good start! And as you can see, I make my burgers better than the fast food joints anyways :)

Vote Luke Kuechly For Madden 25 Cover!

Former Boston College Eagle Luke Kuechly is in the pool of players to be selected for the cover of Madden 25. Give him your support by voting at http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/feature/madden25cover.

NCAA Men's Basketball - Rooting for Mexico

It looks like "Mexico" managed to slip in as one of the AP top 25 men's college basketball teams:

BC Bookstore Screws Up

Maybe BC wants fans to wear Montel Harris jerseys after he was disrespected by former Coach Spaziani. Here is to hoping BC honors the purchases of those who catch this one before the error gets corrected.

Phoenix Plaza Parking Garage - Pay After Validation?

Phoenix Plaza downtown on Central and Thomas is a very nice area of downtown Phoenix with nice scenery and upscale businesses. Although I was there earlier today and to my surprise I found out that they still charge (albeit not much) even if you get your parking validated for the Phoenix Plaza Parking garage. I have not heard of that before, but I guess there is a first time for everything :)

Back from My San Clemente Beach Vacation

I apologize that I have not blogged for a while. I just got back from vacation in San Clemente late last night. I did take some nice pictures though!

Backyard of the Beach House:

San Clemente Beach, it is an alcohol-free, very family-friendly beach:

Here is a photo of the gorgeous Southern California sunset. This photo easily found its way as my new computer wallpaper:

Ben Quayle Is the Worst Member of Congress in History

Woops...I over-estimated him.

Ben Quayle is a classless act. Quayle's new commercial makes the Obamacare ads seem pleasant. Instead of promoting his own record, he does nothing but badmouth Obama. For Quayle to go about representing himself the way he does, let alone represent the people of Arizona is shameful. Something must be done to filter the language of public figures. I do not like Obama, and obviously neither does Quayle. However, when a public figure is in the spotlight he or she needs to be careful to do not cross the line. For Quayle to use campaign dollars and air time by name-calling Obama is pathetic and really should be illegal. It is one thing to criticize another's record, but it is another to be plain disrespectful. It just saddens me that Americans sometimes lose sight of the importance of morality and basic human respect. Quayle lacks these qualities and must be ousted.