The last kid picked for the team...
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Friday, 20 November 09 - 03:23 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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Ok, I've mentioned before that I'm on Facebook now....part of me loves it, part of me can't believe how hard it is to keep up! No way am I going to add Twitter to the mix, a blog and a Facebook page are plenty.
Anyway, so all these people (most of them about a million years younger than me and are just my Facebook "friends" because they feel sorry for me) are all talking about Team Edward or Team Jacob. Should I care that I have no idea what they are talking about??? I did figure out it has something to do with the New Moon movie, but I really have no clue about it. Will my ignorance on this topic have any long term impacts on my life? I'm guessing no.
We're going to see "The Blind Side" tonight as a family. I'm excited. 1) We're going as a family. With busy schedules, sports, work, we don't get that a lot. 2) the movie looks really good - let's hope the previews aren't the only good parts of the movie...
Come to think of it - we'll be fighting the Team Jacob vs. Team Edward crowds at the theater tonight....that, and the sheer prices at the theater, are the only two downsides of what I hope will be a good night.
And, as a little sidenote to the whole dairy issue, who would have ever thought I'd be eating this??? http://www.wellnessgrocer.com/food-for-life-bread-white-rice-wf-p-1918.html I'm not even sure it's legal to call that bread, but they get away with it... and, I have to admit, I'm learning to tolerate it. Now that I look at that link, Michelle, did you pay that much for it?!?!?! I hope not! I think I said on this blog before, if you think it's expensive to eat healthy, try eating dairy free...you almost go broke! (I recently re-earned my right to go to the grocery store again, but maybe it just got revoked. Love you honey, and thanks for taking such good care of me...)
Moooooooovies
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Wednesday, 04 November 09 - 06:07 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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We watch a lot of movies as a family, it's just one of our things and I've blogged about it before. Say what you want, but with a 17yr old and a very active 10yr old, both boys, getting everyone to sit in a room together to do anything as a family, is a rare treat.
So, I've seen a lot of movies, I've seen a lot of movie trailers. Mostly, you can recognize the tricks and know if the best parts of the movie make up the trailer and that's it. Some trailers grab your attention, but mostly - you just watch them and forget them and end up renting the movie later because you seem to recall the name of it. This trailer is different - this one caught my attention in a big way, so I had to Google it and find it so I could share. I plan to see this movie - probably in the theater, which doesn't happen often because of the ridiculous price...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYC1ulLHD6Y&NR=1
I've heard the book is fantastic too. Let me know if you've read it.
So, what's up with the title of this post? Why so many oooo's in the word Movie? Because I'm trying to be cute and combine two topics - movies, and cows. Specifically dairy. I won't go into a whole lot of detail (because fankly, some of it is pretty personal and a touch gross) but I've developed quite a severe intolerance to lactose (i.e. dairy products). It's been going on for a while I think, and I've been tapering off dairy products for a while - but it's gotten really severe now. Even small small doses cause a pretty good reaction. I've never read so many labels or spent so much time in the "natural" section of the grocery store. Soy milk, soy cheese (I think I even bought something called "Tofutti"!), non-dairy butter (sorry, "whipped buttery spread"), non dairy chocolate chips (more on that in a minute), the list goes on and on.
Basically, I've had to learn a whole new way to eat. It's not easy, and can be somewhat depressing. You have to watch everything you eat. Ordering in restaurants is a whole new experience too.
In an effort to find non-dairy recipes, we stumbled on this, The Kind Diet. It's technically vegan - which in the truest sense means no animal products at all. I'm good with that, as long as I can eat meat. ha! Someone called me a Beefatarian, but I prefer the word I coined: Carniveganite.
In all seriousness - there are some good recipes in there.....hence the non-dairy chocolate chips. There are some amazing non-dairy chocolate peanut butter cups in there that my lovely wife made for me. Un-real how good they are.
Which reminds me - I need to give a shout out to my wife...again. She's been a trooper through this. When I get mad, ticked, depressed, don't feel like eating, she keeps me in line. She watches labels for me. She cooks special for me. She reminds me to "step away from the Cheezit box". She's awesome. It's no wonder I love her.
So the "dairy free" journey begins for a self-proclaimed cheese addict. This should be interesting...stay tuned.
Car Fifty FOOOOOOUR - WHERE ARRRRRRE YOOOOUUUU??
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Wednesday, 28 October 09 - 08:17 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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Holy Smokes! Did you think I'd disappeared??? Sorry about that. I'm here, I'm well, I'm busy. I used to work with a lady that called that a BFO (Blinding Flash of the Obvious). Obviously I've been busy, which is why I haven't been posting.
I have to tell you, and I've talked about this on this blog before - I'm very careful to not complain too much about being busy at work. The alternative is certainly not a good spot to be in!
So much has happened and is going on, no way can I put it all in one blog post, so I hope to get back on track and bring you back up to speed gradually.
Let's start off with something fun...movie reviews:
Land of the Lost - maybe I'm just burned out on Will Ferrell, especially after I saw Talledega Nights a few weeks ago, but I'm just not impressed with this movie. C-
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - very predictable, but a fun movie anyway. And it's never that bad to watch Jennifer Garner for 2 hrs. Ladies - you get to watch Matthew McConaughey. B
Duplicity - talk about twists/turns and really needing to pay attention - wow. I liked this, but my wife and son weren't as thrilled. At one point my son said "I'm just watching this because it's on, I have no clue what's going on and I really don't care". HA! B
Ok, that's it for now...hopefully back on a regular posting pattern...as if anyone is reading and even cares.... 
Hey meester, you wanna know what's good?
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Wednesday, 09 September 09 - 07:15 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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My wife is laughing hysterically right now at the title of this post. Only one other person would get it because it's an "HTBT" (Had To Be There) moment. That's ok, I'm not going to tell the story. Sometimes it's ok for a husband and wife to have inside jokes.
Anyway - so, some things that are good that I've come across recently, or have been sent to me.
1) Can you believe this? Love the story line and I'm sure every major network does too, who isn't sucked in by a story like this? I'll be watching and cheering her on tonight: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Sep08/0,4670,TENUSOpenOudin,00.html
2) Man vs. Food is a rather fun show to watch in our house. We all try to determine if we could do (or would ever even want to attempt) that night's episode. So, this is an interesting article: http://desmoines.metromix.com/restaurants/article/man-v-food-des/1449211/content
3) Here is a good article that Mark sent me....not good because of the content, but good as a reminder and an update to the never ending violence that our friends to the South are still facing. We won't be crossing the border on our next mission trip again, which is disappointing, but it's just not safe: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
4) And a big shout out! 4million+ meals in 4 days....simply amazing. Great job to everyone and I'm glad I got to help at least for a little while... http://www.mealsfromtheheartland.org/
5) Finally - the Sons of Anarchy season 2 premiere was beyond my expectations. Love it. And in 60 short minutes they easily set up a whole season worth of shows. Nice. Can't wait.
SWEEEEEET!
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Wednesday, 12 August 09 - 04:41 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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Don't run over me as I wander around aimlessly outside in the middle of the night with my head turned skyward:
http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-air-guard-training-081209,0,2317982.story
Interesting tidbits...
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Wednesday, 29 July 09 - 03:21 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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Often we hear stories of animals in captivity that people ignorantly forget are truly "wild animals" by nature and they end up getting hurt. Well, here's a little different twist on that story:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2560871/Beluga-whale-saves-drowning-divers-life.html
Uhm....how bad do you want/need that tan?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535220,00.html?test=latestnews
Ok, just how many terrorists HAVE you met?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32200951/ns/us_news-security/
And finally, I won't even get into how things are so wrong with this whole situation, start to finish, over the last week or whatever it's been....I can only imagine how "stupidly" we must look to the rest of the world.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/07/28/williams-gets-cute-over-beer-summit-white-house
This, that and a few things in between....
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Monday, 27 July 09 - 09:27 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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Dr. Blessman, who heads up Blessman Ministries who we partnered with for our South Africa trip has updated his blog with some good commentary and pictures about our trip/group. Check it out here.
Spent the weekend constructing walls for Habitat for Humanity houses. Our church has a huge summer festival and as part of the festival this year, we partenered with Habitat for Humanity in an effort to construct all the walls for 6 complete houses in 3 days. I'm happy to report that we got about 5 3/4 houses done and really, we could have gotten all 6 done, but the last house had a few issues with the plans and we ran out of materials about 45 mins before our "end time". Nevertheless, everyone is thrilled with the progress and what was accomplished. YEAH!
Have you ever seen Joe Rogan’s blog? I’m not necessarily condoning it, but the kid in me has to admit that he makes me laugh…some of the posts are really bizarre and I skip them, but some make me roll on the floor laughing…He’s got some good UFC 100 stuff on there now and a recap of his deviated septum surgery/post surgery appt that made me laugh out loud.…
Movie reviews from the weekend:
12 Rounds - ok, I know Hollywood has gotten pretty extreme in what is even possible in the realm of real world, physics, and human tolerance, but this is a whole new level of unbelieveable. Now, it's an entertaining movie, but even my 9-yr was saying "Oh yeah, right - like that could ever happen!" Overall, probably a B for action/adventure, but a D for believe-ability (I maybe just made that word up)
Eagle Eye - some parts just as un-believeable as 12 Rounds, but more entertaining in the fact that you didn't know what was coming next (not predictable) and a lot of the stuff could possibly happen, so it makes you stop and think a little bit. B.
We have an appointment for Senior Pictures for our oldest tomorrow and a college visit set up for August...are you kidding me?!?!? Talk about feeling old!
Lessons in Life...
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Wednesday, 10 June 09 - 04:42 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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Thanks Sean, for sharing this:
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio.
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled
over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.
Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God
never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a
special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25 No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27 Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
Randomness
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Wednesday, 10 June 09 - 03:03 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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Wildcats played well in KC this past weekend. Got #2 seed after pool play on Saturday, but lost in semi-finals on Sunday. I haven't seen the final brackets, but I think we got 3rd place. Not bad for our first "traveling" tournament.
Our 9-yr old pitched some on Saturday for the Wildcats - 1st inning pitching - 4 pitches = 3 outs. Nice!
Movie Review - Fools Gold. Not bad, but not great, some funny parts - mostly family friendly. Predictable, seen this plotline many times before. B.
Why is Facebook addicting?
Wife and 9yr old went to I-Cubs game yesterday. 9yr old got on the JumboTron AND snagged a foul ball on the fly. They had a great time, wish I could have been there.
Iowa - if you don't like the weather, wait 5 mins and it will change.
Eating Healthy is very expensive and more difficult than eating junk. If we don't fix that issue, how will we ever fix the "larger" issue?
Heard on the news this morning that London reporters/journalists were "impressed" that the Obamas were showing their girls the world at such an early age. Uhm...give me access to Air Force One, the Secret Service and Taxpayer money and I'll show my kids the world too.
Adventure....
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Monday, 01 June 09 - 05:55 PM (GMT) By Chad Holtz in Misc. Musings / Self-Improvement |
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How fun would this be?
http://www.adventurefilmschool.com/
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