This is a long overdue entry. I\u2019ve been extremely busy getting acclimated with my new job. I get up at 6:00am, hit the road by 7:00am, and get to work sometime between 8:00am and 8:15am. I work until 5:00pm (sometimes 6:00pm) and get home around 6:00pm or 7:00pm. The drive is crazy. I have to drive 65 miles each way back and forth to Tampa. I\u2019m very comfortable with the job now, and even when I leave work I\u2019ve got tons of energy. However, by the time I get home that energy is gone and I\u2019m exhausted from the drive. I need to learn how to relax on that somehow. I guess it\u2019ll come in time. So, I usually go to bed around 10:00pm so that really only leaves me with about 3 good hours each night. And, if there\u2019s a Lightning game on, I get home, change into shorts and a tee, and watch the game, then off to bed with me. I\u2019ve been doing that a lot.<\/p>\n
However, I\u2019ve found some time to be creative. Suncoast Studios<\/a> has entered into a photo contest sponsored by Informa, my prior employer. Jeff and I worked for about 20 hours or so planning, shooting, and editing the photos. They were submitted this week and we\u2019ll know if we win in the coming week or so.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve also begun pre-production on a new project which has blossomed into a very promising endeavor. I\u2019m very excited about it. I don\u2019t want to say too much about it right now, but, suffice it to say, it\u2019s going to be huge and could very well be the breakthrough project for Suncoast Studios. Jeff and I are co-creators and will both be equally involved in the production. Keep your eye on the website in the coming weeks for more.<\/p>\n This past Saturday marked the completion of my 33rd year of existence. Luckily, there were no friends visiting my bedsheets<\/a>. Instead my mom, Glen and Amy all came over for the day and we ate pizza, watched movies (Clerks II<\/a>, Click<\/a>) and got really sleepy from all the carbs. We celebrated my birthday and Shauna\u2019s, whose is this coming Monday. She got me Superman Returns<\/a> and Iron Man<\/a> on DVD, and I got her a new necklace.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been getting to a point lately where I really have been inspired to loose weight. I\u2019ve been an off-and-on exerciser for a couple of years, but I\u2019m really getting serious about it finally. I figure I need to loose the pot-belly and get a little healthier. My goal is to loose 50 (!) pounds, which sounds like a lot, but it\u2019s not really. That\u2019ll bring me down to my ideal weight. Those of you who frequent my blog know I really don\u2019t talk about this kind of thing unless I\u2019m decidedly serious on doing it. So there. I\u2019m gonna do it. I have my handy diet and exercise software on my iPaq and am ready to go! Maybe this will counter the 2 months of sitting around eating while I was laid off.<\/p>\n Sick Thought of the Day: Smashing fingertips with the lead pipe, making nails pop off and blood leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a long overdue entry. I\u2019ve been extremely busy getting acclimated with my new job. I get up at 6:00am, hit the road by 7:00am, and get to work sometime between 8:00am and 8:15am. I work until 5:00pm (sometimes 6:00pm) and get home around 6:00pm or 7:00pm. The drive is crazy. I have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-it","category-movies","category-studio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}