Needless to say, I am more excited about one than I am the other!  Tessa and I went and joined Coops Health and Fitness on Friday since one of their trainers, Mike Baehser is a good friend of mine.  He gave us a quick rundown of the diet he was going to put us on and, I gotta admit, I’m not exactly thrilled about cutting out some of my favorite foods for the next couple of months but I am hoping to develop some better eating habits that will stay with me once the diet has run its initial course.

Needless to say, we did what most people do when they are about kick off a hardcore diet, we lived it up all weekend long!  We spent most of the weekend at her mom’s up in Spindale, NC and went to go see my friend Miles at the Wicked Needle in Rutherfordton, NC Saturday to get some new ink!

I went first and had Miles do my tribal Cthulhu tat on my right forearm!  Miles worked well and fast as it only took him roughly an hour and a half and the tat is KILLER!  Check it out!

Tessa was next with a set of stars behind her left ear!  I went into another room of the tattoo shop to have a shot and came back 5 to 10 minutes later and he was done!

Afterwards, we headed back to Miles’ and his wife Melissa’s house to do a little post ink festivities!  All I can say is that it involved the usual party elixirs and Michael Jackson the Experience on Wii!  I think there is a video of it out there somewhere….

Sunday, on our way back home, we stopped off in Spartanburg to catch a showing of the Coen brothers’ remake of John Wayne’s western classic True Grit.  I have to admit, I’ve never seen the original having been exposed to very little of John Wayne films, but the remake was a damn good film!  Definitely worth seeing!

True Grit  \m/  \m/  \m/  \m/

Now that the weekend is over, the diet has begun!  All I can say is that what doesn’t kill me had damn well better make me stronger!