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Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday.  You get together with your closest friends and family, have a big ass meal, and enjoy each other's company.  Everyone will recite that they are thankful for God, family, wife, children, dog, etc.  Those are all great things to be thankful for, and we should be thankful for them everyday.  It's important to let the people around you know how much you care about them all the time.  

For this Thanksgiving, I want to be thankful for something less cliche'.  I'm thankful for opportunity.  I've been given a lot of great opportunities in my lifetime.  I'm thankful that I've been able to acknowledge them and take advantage of what I've been given.  A lot of people squander away things in their lives because the are irresponsible and foolish.  Other people are just never given certain opportunities.  We've all got to make due with what we have and do our best to achieve more.

There are people that have less and there are people who have more.  Be thankful for what you have not just today, but every single day.  The minute you take something for granted is when you have the greatest opportunity to lose it.   

Happy Thanksgiving.

One of the larger debates in our great nation is that involving gun control. Guns are controversial, although I'm not sure why. Obviously guns are dangerous, but so are many other things in life. I just want to share my point of view on the situation. I am a gun advocate, please let me explain why.

When I got married, my life changed. Not only am I now responsible for taking care of myself, I'm now responsible for my wife's well-being as well. Someday I hope to have children which makes that burden of protection even greater. Before I got married, I hadn't considered my safety so much. Now though, things are different. It's hard to explain, but it's safe to say that I'm much more aware of our well-being than I have even been before. Read more »

This is cross-posted from geekintoshape.com. Since I started this weight loss goal on this blog, I'll continue to post my monthly updates through the end of the year. If you want to read more about my weight loss adventures, please head on over to Geek Into Shape.

This has been a spectacularly crappy month for me. I ended th month at 267 lbs which puts me at a 1.2 pound gain! The month started off with a week of vacationing and overindulgence. After vacation I didn't jump back on things like I should have; so I basically just maintained. Just look at the graph.

Losing weight is going to be hard these last 2 months. It's getting colder, and I really won't feel like running in the freezing temperatures. I'm going to give it a go though because losing weight is all about momentum. I'm sure the holidays won't do much to help, but I can be good on the non holiday days. I need to finish this year strong!