I mean, there are legal medications out there that will make you start going through withdraws after a few days, but at least you need a prescription for them!

No caffeine yet today (although I believe that’s about to change, with a soon-to-be trip to my friendly neighborhood El Pollo Loco!), and already the blood vessels in my head are spinning around like drunken dreidels. Low blood pressure sucks. But is it enough to stop my intake?

Using caffeine as a workout supplement is great, too. Check out this article by my beloved Figure Athlete: Dissolving Fat with Caffine

But on the other side is doing it right. I don’t just drink sodas, I drink diet sodas. Now, I’m not going to get into a discussion over which is worse: sugar and an exploding heart, or artificial sugars and a crippled brain – but it’s no secret that the ingredients are pretty icky. I mean, caramel sodas (Pepsi and Coke) have phosphoric acid in them! A substance used to strip metal!  And the pH of most soda pop is 2.8, which is super acidic.

Now.. if you’ll excuse me, I’ve a pepsi Max to hunt down.

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Head Crab Hat!

For some reason, whilst growing up, I never got around to playing Half Life. I know, I know.. I don’t know how it happened either. Most of my friends and family where big on FPSs early on. So big in fact, that when I got a new game for Christmas or Birthday, Dad was either hogging the comp, or the console with my game. But that’s a different story.

Here I am, married to the hugest Half Life fan in the world.

And, of course, I did the right thing. I made sure I was completely scarse when HL2 came out… and again with HL2:1 came out… and again with The Orange Box.

BUT WAIT! What’s this? Portal, you say? Now, this was awhile ago, back when it first came out, but it took my husband a few times of assuring me that Half Life was just like Portal, only faster and with more killing, to make me break down and go back to play the original. It’s depressing.

Why is it depressing? Well, not only did I neglect to play my husband’s favorite game in the world (believe me, I would have felt pretty down if Trevor had refused to play Morrowind for years!), but it took me until I played (what I would consider) a “gateway game” in order to play it. Dang.

At the same time, I’ve been going back and playing a bit of Age of Empires. Let’s throw some STP on the player and have a party.

But going back to Half Life – I’ve started playing a few times before and always got distracted for some reason. One time I was playing it without the CD, but apparently another CD was in the drive. It starts spinning up as I walk down a corredor. As a turn, I’m face to face with two of my enemys eating scientist face, suddenly set to “Who Are You” by The Who.   .. I’ll have to make a YouTube re-enactment one of these days.

Hopefully I’ll finish it this time so I can go on to number 2! Lot’s going on, so it’ll still take me some time, but Trevor’s getting a kick out of watching me jump, scream and then laugh.  …. fun times.

(Head Crab Hat photo from blog found here)