Sandgolem's Blog

This is alot of personal stuff, I dont most people would want to read this :P

I've been thinking about joining the army reserves. I have to lose so much weight and get in shape before I can though. But I've been wondering, is it really worth it? I mean I have to go away from my life for 10 weeks, almost 3 months. For basic, and then more time for job training. before I am able to resume my normal life.

 There are so many things I want to do with my life and Im so unsure about what to do. I want to finish my book, get my song recorded by someone, I want to be an artist or the visual format.

There are so many things pulling me in many directions. I have to wonder when I think about joining the military. Am I doing the right thing for me? for my family? for the woman I love?

Having moved so much in my life I have no real friends. I kind of hope I will find that comradery in the military. I suppose there is nothing wrong with the military...

but trying to come to this cross-roads, so many things in my life to take care of, the plus side is I would be able to further my education, get alot of money saved up for a house and a new car. (almost 26,000 sign on bonus + all the money I will earn while in basic, the only expense I will have is rent on my apartment.)

Then after that the only thing worrying me is that it is an 8 year commitment. (6 years then 2 years of Ready Reserves.)

Im trying to weigh the gains versus the costs and I am unsure..

Well today I noticed my pants fitting a bit snug and I realized I had gained 10 pounds. Well since Im still a bit Over the weight of what Id like to be. (ok lets be honest that puts me at 60 lbs heavier than my ideal weight.)

So I though long and hard about what is in my diet that is giving me so many problems. Pop mainly. And I eat to large of portions. So here is my plan.

Everymorning I will wake up at 5am (that is actually normal for me so that wont be hard.) I will then do the following exersices:

• Push-ups (20)
• crunches (20)
• oblique-twists (20)
• fencing leg drills (5mins)

now the point of those exersices is that it works up a mild sweat burns some calories and get my blood and oxygen flowing. Then after a nice shower Im gunna eat a light breakfast. For lunch I shall have a salad, and for dinner, whatever I want but in half the size I normally eat. Then Im gunna allow myself one snack (carrot sticks, cheese, nuts, apple slices to choose from.)

And sunday comes by big exersice. It's gunna be a tough one but I know my body will adjust to it eventually. I might do this on Wed too, but anyway here it goes. Im gunna lay out a route to jog that takes me 20 mins or so to fast walk. Im then gunna do 3 laps of it.

why 3 laps you ask? because on sunday I do laundry and the washers take 28 mins to do a load. so one lap and they should almost be done. Then after that first lap, I throw my clothes in the dryers and take 2 more laps (approx 40mins.) then my clothes will be done.

On wed I wouldnt juggle the laundry I would just run the laps.

 SO ANYWAY! that is my new routine, it seems easy enough for me to keep, considering at my prime i used to do 1000x times worse exersices. If I keep this up I will definetly lose my weight! Each week I shall post how Im doing on my diet. Did I faulter? Did I skip exersice one morning? I will be brutaly honest in the hopes that I can get some support and encouragement to cheer me on.

Okie Well I've made that team and I've had to adjust some of the attacks a bit, my main problem is that by the time I get a monster all status'd up, its dead so quick I cant really make much use of my entire team lol. I have so much life gain on my team its ridicolous. Anywho my team:

1. Weezing (lv 39)
2. Jumploom (lv 37)
3. Miltank (lv 38)
4. Haunter (lv 39)
5. Kingler (lv 40)
6. PineCo (lv 16)

Yeah I just got my PineCo. He was a nasty bugger to catch. But since haunter cant be hit by selfdestruct...its all good :P I caught a suicune, but I have absolutly no enthusiasm for the pokemon so like my red dragon it got put in the box.

Im gunna work on messing with my team a bit, I really like the status that I have atm, but I might re-lv another ghost pokemon. Depends on what I find before I start training my final 4 team.

Because I really want that other ghost pokemon the one that looks like a banshee, but cute.

Sing, Perish Song, Dream Eater, Curse (are the attacks I would want her to have.)

When I get my PineCo to evolve, it will be my nice Anti poison pokemon. I think Kingler might end up taking a box seat this game too. Yes its weird I love my kingler I have used a kingler in EVERY pokemon game up to this one, but now I reallly want a Snorlax or Chansey on my team. Why? I dont know lol. Oh Im also condisdering a Golbat too, since it can learn almost all the same poison attacks as Weezing, + hase a 3rd evolved form and can learn fly, steel wing, or Whirlwind (muhahah + Caltrops = win). I just wish I could come up agianst some trainers that would actually make me use my team and my brains, but I guess that is what link battles are for.

 Anywho! More as I progress and continue on!

I havent actually been blogging much but I started a debate with myself over my team. So Im gunna list out my team and pokemon (some of there exact names may be wrong and be edited, simply because I use nick names alot.)

1. Weezing
2. Skipbloom
3. Miltank
4. Kingler
5. Gengar
6. (PineCo, evl)

First up is Weezing. Always a favorite of mine. Explosion, Hyper Beam, Sludge, and Smokescreen. He is a good pokemon, with some very nice attacks, AND he can poison or reduce accuracy. Both are important to my battle style.

Second up is Skiploom. A really decent pokemon. Leech Seed, PSNpowder, SLPpowder, and Sythensis. Its a good Status pokemon, including a status that cant be cured easily, leech seed. Which gives me and advantage on my side. Sleep powder combos with my ghost pokemon, has poison to help with status. And  Sythensis helps it tank a few hits in case I need to let the Status effects take out the pokemon.

Next is Miltank. yeah thats right miltank. Why? Because Miltank is my "tank" ie my dmg taker and dealer, while the status work there magic. Rest, Drink Milk, Mud Slap, Stomp. Stomp is a really good basica attack, high pp, high dmg, can make enemy flinch. Rest, Drink are in there for self healing.

And now we have: Kingler. Kingler has always been my baby. In everygame, if I could only have kingler as a starter...I would be happy. Anywho attacks are: Gullitene, Crabhammer, Hydropump, and the 4th Im looking at seeing if Fury Cutter is avaliable to him. A bug type attack would be nice. espically FC. if not blizzard, or auroa beam.

Now here is a debate Ive been having: There is a new ghost pokemon, and generally as long as my pokemon has: Dream Eater, and a sleep attack Im happy. Im going to stick with Gengar for the moment, but it may change. Attacks are: Dream Eater, Shadow Ball, Curse, Hypnosis.

Last but no least we have a pokemon I cant remeber the name of: Its a steel type and exolves from Pineco. Attacks are: Mega Drain, Caltrops, Explosion, ??? (not sure for last attack yet status or accuracy attack if I can.)

My strategy is fairly simple. Status a monster up and take it down. This is a very nasty team imo. That combos well on paper. But if you have any thoughts or suggestions please post them.

Well last time I had alot to do and since then I have played the hell out of my pokemon game. I have made a few mistakes too. Those mistakes will be stated after I say the following:

 When I started this pokemon yellow ROM I didnt know that it was in fact a hacked version. As I have lv and progressed in the game some things have gotten really screwy. And then I saw a Mew in the Safari section of the game. And that the dept store sold Master Balls for $0 each.

 saidly Im going to have to quit now that I think about it. The game isnt fun with those cheats on. So Im gunna go ahead and start playing pokemon silver instead of restarting over. And this time I wont be playing with a hacked version. I will make sure its the normal version.

 >.> which is so frusterating since I just had gotten my 5th gym badge T_T but its all good :P

The continuing adventures of Pokemon Yellow!

Anywho I now have 3 badges (Rock, Water, and Thunder) and I have completed alot of routes as of now. (ie. SS Anne, Diglets Cave, etc etc.)

And Im now in the big main city with the grass gym. After picking my self up a few things from around the city Im getting ready to head into the grass gym. My team as of now stands like this:

•  lv 26 Mankey
• lv 25 Charmeleon
• lv 26 Warturtle
• lv 25 Ivysaur
• lv 27 Pikachu
• lv 27 Dugtrio

My Charmeleon will clean up here. But because its a grass gym I loaded up on Parz Heals, Awakenings, and Antidotes. Because they use that alot. They also seem to use wrap alot of high speed pokemon. I tested the waters so to speak by wailing on the first trainer. Charmeleon will own this place with both Fire Blast and Ember. (hopefully sometime he will learn a better attack.)

Anywho last time I blogged I was not yet ready to get the thunderbadge. or even gone through the cave yet I dont think. Any who that battle was retardedly easy. I got a Diglet in the caves and he tore apart that gym. Literally tore it up. So not much of a challenge.

In any event my favorite moment was when I got squirtle. I just happened to have Water gun and Bubblebeam TMs in my inventory when I got him. (go go TMs ftw) and so at lv 10 he knew both of those.  I then took him down to diglets cave and just grinded him up to lv 20. Once that was done, which was pretty quick. I moved on to get my flash TM and then went through the cave. My Squirtle and Ivysaur both owned in the cave.

So now Im sitting ready to do the gym then own the rockets. and my team Im looking at upgrading too is:

• Pikachu
• Charmeleon
• Izysaur
• Prime Ape (soon so soon!)
• Krabby (<--- I want my freaking krabby already!)
• Koofing (<--- Almost going to get one, just need to be on the bike path.)

So anywho thats my plan as it stands now. Im really excieted about getting though this and getting to Pokemon Silver and Gold ^_^.