Welcome to the 4th week of Biggest C&R Loser 2013! This year we’ll be keeping all of the results and placings secret until the end of the contest. We’ll also be pooling our cash to award the 2013 winner the largest prize we’ve ever awarded … a whopping $40! This week’s theme is “EXERCISE” – How have our contestants changed their exercise habits? What are they doing to stay in shape? Are any of them even trying? Here’s what they had to say:
Michelle M.
Well, so far I haven’t been exercising at all. I have been thinking about getting Zumba. Someone was selling it fairly cheap on Craigslist, but it was snapped up before I could buy it. I’m still on the look-out for it. In the meantime I’ve been thinking about walking around the neighborhood lake…
Mikey
Have I exercised any differently since this started? Well I’m writing these blurbs each week…so that is different. Other than that I have not really changed what I’m doing exercise wise. I know this has to change, but if there is something I hate more than exercise I haven’t found it.
Mr. Sombrero
I haven’t had much success with athletic activities recently. But in two weeks fitness classes start at work again. So I’m looking forward to squeeze in some calisthenics and yoga time. In the meantime, I’ll exercise by eye rolling every time Amanda Bynes does something stupid.
Nathan
I haven’t really been exercising at all. It’s ridiculously cold outside (below -40 tonight!) and I’ve mainly been changing my eating habits.
Polt
This week’s I’m to talk about my exercise…or lack thereof. I’m actually trying to get back to walking every 2-3 days instead of every 4-5 days like it has been. But really with as cold as it’s been, I don’t see myself walking much at all until it warms up. This will be me during the cold snap:
Now, if only I had a purple sofa to eat my popcorn on.
Tam
Yeah. That pic pretty much sums it up. Today I will blame it on the frigid -40 temps, but that doesn’t explain last week when it was above freezing. Bah. It was a crappy week for me contest-wise. So let’s just move on people, nothing to see here. *beached whale*
TwoPi
Exercise? It is on my to-do list. I’m currently working on physical therapy, then will start on the exercise bike, and once I’ve built up some stamina the plan is to hit the Y. But I haven’t been a total slug, I’ve been going to the YMCA regularly! Mostly just to watch my kid’s swim class, though.
Adam
It’s effing cold outside and I haven’t exercised at all. Scratch that … I’ve been chewing a lot. Nom nom nom!
This week I turned to you for a Friday Five… and by FSM, you delivered! By the power of Grayskull, I present YOUR Friday Five!
Hot problems! We can all relate, I’m sure. These girls are just… awful. They make yearn for the vocal styling of Rebecca Black. I’m pretty sure this video is the beginning of the End of Days. -Michelle M.
And you know what End of Days means. That’s right. Zombies! Here’s a Zombie Survival Map. Just plug in your address and find all the resources you need to help you survive an undead outbreak. -Michelle M.
Since we’ve been rehearsing FAME like forever – the mastermind behind Tyrone Jackson decided to start filming us seeing as we are a kick ass cast! The vlogs have been posted for our viewing enjoyment and this is our most recent. I recommend skipping the useless stuff and going straight to 2:48 where we start dance warm up with our lovely choreographer Chloe! Then it’s our opening number, Pray/Hard Work. After is our wonderful Tyrone singing Dancing on the Sidewalk! Enjoy! Also this is still rehearsal we’re much better now I promise! Our opening night went fantastic and hopefully the rest do toooooo! -Kristen “The Kid”
I know that this Doritos commercial is from the Super Bowl but I still love it. Every time it’s on I have to stop what I’m doing and watch. When he slams into the window it kills me! -Tam
Polt's laptop was broken!
What made this week great for me? Friends that have enough intimate knowledge of computers to help me reformat my laptop. Thanks to StratCat, it’s now back up and running, albeit, a smidge differently than before, just minor changes, mind you, but changes nonetheless. Still, it’s better than what I had before she got it up and running. So yay to friends who can do that, in general, and to StratCat in particular! -Polt
Have you ever imagined what goes on inside the head of your favorite pet? Well one enterprising Brit put those wonders onto my current favorite tumblr blog. It even got me to use the term tumblr, which I hate. I mean…why not tumbler? It’s only one more letter. I mean….seriously. Anyway….check out the site for all the real life inspired texts between one person and their dog. -Mikey
Roscoe would look awesome with a monocle.
MY GOODNESS What a week! Hot Problems, Zombies, Fame, Doritos commercials, friends with computer knowledge, and a British dog that can text! It’s such a great Friday Five that there actually six! Wowzers!
And since I didn’t participate this week, here are MY runners up: open windows, my bicycle, Dick Clark died, Wawa Diet Green Tea, driving with the windows down, going to bed early, ant traps, Draw Something, mustaches, Kindle Fire and hardcore gay pornography.
Last week, Mr. Sombrero and I traveled to the great country of Canada! We had a great time in Montreal, hanging out with Tam & The Kid, seeing all of the sights, taking a day trip to Quebec City, sampling the local cuisine, making fun of the French-speaking locals, and partaking in all of the other great things that Canada has to offer.
Here are some of the highlights…
Mr. Sombrero stole an idea from Tam’s future NYC trip and opted for a short-term apartment rental in Montreal. For less than the cost of a hotel room, we had a spacious apartment with a full kitchen. Oh, and there was a bowl of potpourri that I quickly fashioned into a pair of penises.
Here’s The first day that we were there, we hung out with everyone’s favorite Canadians: Nathan and The Kid! … And Tam! The lady that took the photo of the group apparently couldn’t figure out how to take a photo with my camera, so I stole this photo from Tam’s site.
Canada has a chain of health food stores named Rachelle-Bery. Not to be confused with Rachel Berry from Glee.
The new season of Glee starts tonight! Woo!
Canada is perfect in every way, they even have Subway restaurants!
While we were there, we got to see a little of the Montreal Grand Prix bicycle race. Damn those bikes go fast!
The Montreal Tam-Tams are a drum circle based in Montreal, Canada. The free event gathers thousands of drum players, dancers, vendors and visitors, every Sunday, at the George-Étienne Cartier Monument in Mount Royal Park. The Tam-Tam festivities start at 1 pm and continue until sunset. Tam-Tams, or simply “tams” as they are sometimes called by locals, began in 1978 and over the years have become one of the main tourist attractions of the city. It’s basically a giant group of pot-smoking hippies, banging on drums and dancing in a cloud of marijuana smoke.
At one restaurant that we went to, I was known as an “Ultra Vegetarian” — how cool is that?
In Canada, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups aren’t possessive! How weird!
On our second day, Mr. Sombrero and I took an Amphi-Bus tour around Old Montreal. Here’s a view of Molson building from the river.
Here I am making a creepy face. Check out my awful ginger ‘do!
In Old Montreal, they discourage swimming in the fountains.
Here’s a shot of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Old Montreal. Ooo pretty church!
The prices for stuff in Canada is all sorts of whack. There’s a comma where a decimal point should be! And the dollar sign is on the wrong side! WTF?
On our second day in Montreal, we took the metro to the other side of the city. It was the cleanest metro station I’ve ever seen! A minute after snapping this photo, the entire station was evacuated due to some sort of emergency. (It was all in French…)
We eventually made our way to Montreal’s Olympic Park where I made friends with this cute little kitty.
Our first stop in the Olympic Park area was the Montreal Biodôme. Here’s a photo of of a Capybara, the largest living rodent in the world. How freak’n cute is that giant rat!?
Just about every week, Cocky & Rude presents you with a Friday Five. It’s a list of our five favorite things of the week, wrapped up in a concise package for you to enjoy. This week is no different. So sit back, relax, and enjoy (dramatic pause) the Friday Five.
First up this week is Chris Crocker. You may remember him from a few years ago when he urged the world to LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! Fast forward all the way to 2011 and it seems that Chris has had a bit of a makeover. He’s now recording music, living with his boyfriend, … and will be starring in a full-length gay porno this summer! (Very NSFW preview photos can be found on Unrated Perez.) Oh, and he also has a Tumblr page, where he posts photos and answers questions like, “how do you know when someone loves you for you, and not for what you have, or what you can do for them?” Music, Porn, Dear Abby Chris … he’s a triple threat! Woo hoo! Way to go, Chris Crocker! I wonder if he still likes Britney?
Next up this week is something a little bit more G-Rated: Bicycling! I love to go on long bike rides (featuring tired muscles and a sore ass). But lately, my schedule has been so busy and my self has been so lazy that I just haven’t hopped onto the old 2-wheeler. So yesterday, for the first time this summer, I pumped up tires, tossed my bike into the Fit and drove to Washington Crossing State Park (that’s where Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas in 1776 and changed the course of he American Revolutionary War). From there I rode my bike north along the D&R Canal Trail to just north of Lambertville, NJ. That’s a round trip of about 16 miles! Woo! Note: if you don’t see any blog posts after today, it means that I’ve died.
Third this week is the United States Postal Service! I must admit that it was going to be on my list of most hated things this week (because I am still waiting for all my birthday cards and presents from ALL of the C&R readers (Polt not included — he sent me a lovely card with cute boys on the front)) but the USPS really came through for me this week. They delivered Mush‘s prize for winning Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser 2 in two days (yes, I just sent it THIS week, and yes, she won the contest on March 31st). I paid for the cheapest way to mail the box (because I’m poor) which claimed that it would get it to her in about 7 days … and it took 2. From New Jersey to Washington state in 2 days. I’m impressed. Oh, and speaking of the USPS, it’s also the cause of Patton Oswalt’s most recent tragedy. Enjoy:
Fourth this week are kittens! As a bunch of you already know, I volunteer every week at a cat shelter, where I clean up various disgusting fluids (like diarrhea, vomit, pee, etc.), empty litter boxes, replace food and water dishes, sweep, vacuum, bleach, scrub, squeegee, etc. Along with all my cleaning duties, I also get to spend a little time playing with cats … and kittens! The summer months always mean that we have lots of kittens … and in case you were somehow unaware, kittens are amazing. Not only are they playful and fun, they’re also soft, (usually) friendly, and most of all, they’re freak’n adorable. Check out this kitten video that Tam passed on to me:
And finally this week is the TV series, Fringe. I always try my best (unlike some bloggers) to avoid blabbing on and on about old TV shows that I’m watching. But I just finished watching three seasons of Fringe (over the course of about 3 weeks) and I wanna scream about it! How come I never watched this show? Have you seen it?! It’s great!! Granted, I love J.J. Abrams, the guy could take a dump for 2 hours, film it, call it a movie and I’d probably love it… But now I gotta wait until the fall season to see more Fringe? Inconceivable!!!
So that’s this week’s Friday Five. Do you love it? Chris Crocker, Bicycling, the USPS, kittens, and Fringe! It doesn’t get much better than that. Or does it? Tell me all about your five favorite things of the week in the comments!
Oh, and by the way, this week’s runners up are: the new cheap wok that I bought at Ikea, extra firm tofu, Trivial Pursuit questions (not the whole game), turtles, eBay, cancelling your Netflix subscription, and hardcore gay porn.
Summer is a time of warm weather, happiness and fun in the sun. And what better way to start this new season than with a Have You Ever?! quiz? Today’s quiz is a little different than what you’re used to. Instead of asking you about all of the unsavory things that you’ve done during the summertime, we’re going to ask you about all the wonderful and whimsical summer activities that you’ve experienced over the years. Let’s get started.
The rules are the same: For each question that you answer ‘yes’ to, give yourself a single point. When you reach the end of the quiz, add up your points and post your total in the comments.
Have You Ever?!
1. Have you ever flown a kite? 2. Have you ever ridden a swing as an adult? 3. Have you ever picked a bouquet of wildflowers? 4. Have you ever took a nap in a grassy field? 5. Have you ever sat under a tree and read a book? 6. Have you ever caught a jar full of lightning bugs? 7. Have you ever enjoyed a firework show? 8. Have you ever seen a drive-in movie? 9. Have you ever gotten up early and watched the sunrise? 10. Have you ever spent an evening under the stars naming constellations? 11. Have you ever slept under the stars? 12. Have you ever gone camping in a tent? 13. Have you ever gone to the bathroom outdoors? 14. Have you ever made ice cream from scratch? 15. Have you ever had a watermelon seed spitting contest? 16. Have you ever gone skinny-dipping? 17. Have you ever participated in a water fight? 18. Have you ever gone swimming in a river or lake? 19. Have you ever gone fishing and caught a fish? 20. Have you ever ran through a sprinkler? 21. Have you ever skipped stones across water? 22. Have you ever built a sand castle? 23. Have you ever been buried in the sand? 24. Have you ever walked barefoot through grass? 25. Have you ever biked more than 20 miles in one day?
Now tell us your total in the comments. Are you afraid your score is a little too low? You have all summer to add more points to your total. Get started today!
I’ve spent the last four days in a constant state of motion. On Thursday and Friday, I took vacation days from work and met two of my real-world BFFs in the Lancaster, PA area. One of my BFFs is getting married in a few weeks, so she decided that she wanted to live it up and get wild … in Amish country. Then on Saturday, Mr. Sombrero and I spent the day in New York City, where we checked out two Tribeca Film Festival movies. And finally on Sunday, it was a morning of Easter Zombie Jesus Day festivities with my family and then an afternoon of relaxing spring cleaning! Here’s some photos from my crazy weekend:
Wednesday night I spent 45 minutes at the self-service car wash, vacuuming up every spec of dirt, dust and sand on the inside and scrubbing away all of the dirt on the outside of my car. Thursday morning I was greeted by a dozen blobs of avian diarrhea on its hood and roof. Ugh. (That’s my landlord’s truck and half-dead bush in the background.)
Not too far from Lancaster is Adamstown, PA. That’s where I found Adam’s Antiques! I never knew that I had an antique store … but with my never-ending energy and obsessive work ethic, it doesn’t surprise me that my antique store is open 7 days a week.
In another antique shop I discovered this super-creepy Donny & Marie costume (I bet that every kid wanted one of these!). I was a little surprised that the manufacturer chose not to go with the more common phrase, “flame retardant” and instead chose to use … that other word. (click photo to enlarge)
On the second day of our trip, my friends and I visited Intercourse, PA. Here’s a photo of me making a duckface next to the sign.
The word “Intercourse” just makes everything funny!
Here’s just one of the many horse and buggies that got in my way as I was trying to speed down the streets of Intercourse in my shit-covered car.
When I finally got home on Friday, I was greeted by Spring and her three perfect pee pee puddles. Is it weird that I took a picture of this? Yes, yes it is.
While I was snapping photos of urine clumps on Friday, Mr. Sombrero attended a Tribeca Film Festival screening of Angels Crest, which starred Kate Walsh (she used to be on Grey’s Anatomy, but now she’s on that other show), Jeremy Piven (I loved him when he was on Ellen, but now he’s just a douche), Mira Sorvino (meh) and Thomas Dekker (John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor ChroniclesAND he was gay and then not gay and then gay again or something like that … on Heroes). Here’s a shot of the stars on stage during the post-movie Q&A session. (click photo to enlarge)
On Saturday, I joined him at the festival where we attended screenings of Goneand Point Blank.
Here’s Kathy Gilleran, the subject and voice of Gone.
From the TribecaFilm.com: This gripping confessional documentary becomes an outlet for a mother to tell the heartrending story of her search for her missing son. Kathy Gilleran, a retired police officer from Ithaca, New York with 20 years under her belt, received a phone call on October 31, 2007. It was from the UN Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria, where her 34-year-old son, Aeryn, was working. He had disappeared. In Gone, Gilleran shares her personal journey, putting together pieces of what happened, only to have them fall apart again. Talking directly to the camera for most of the film, her articulate manner draws the viewer into her quest for the truth. Mixing in footage she shot while searching for Aeryn in Vienna, she speaks about the frustration with the local police and an investigation full of holes. Like any loving mother, Kathy perseveres—through dead ends, contradicting reports, and signs of homophobia when Aeryn’s openly gay life came into question. Gone will most likely leave many wanting more answers—the same answers Kathy wants.
I was SO jealous that Mr. Sombrero saw famous people without me on Friday… so my eyes were peeled all day. I may have had stars in my eyes, but I think I saw Connor Paolo (Serena’s gay little bro on Gossip Girl) on the subway and I think I passed Hamish Linklater (the Julia Louis-Dreyfus character’s brother on The New Adventures of Old Christine) in a crowd of people outside our second screening. Oh, and a member of the festival’s jury, J.D. Heyman sat next to me during the first screening — I googled him, and it looks like he’s a managing editor for People magazine.
Mr. Sombrero insisted upon snapping my photo next to this “I’m Shady” poster.
And I insisted upon him snapping a photo of me tongue kissing one of the sexiest ladies ever: Madea. Check out my impressive tongue length!
And here’s a photo of an adorable little subway rat! I called to it, but it refused to come any closer to me.
On Sunday, in celebration of Zombie Jesus Day, I decided to snap a few photos of the pretty flowers that are growing all over my landlord’s property.
And then I decided that it’d be a good idea to clean out the giant closet in my kitchen. Most people would probably use it as a pantry or something, but I use it more like a shed. It’s where I store my bike, my tools (I’m handy!), my window-unit air conditioners, computer parts & wires, and some other odds and ends. This photo would be far more impressive if I had taken a ‘before’ photo …
…but you’ll just have to use your imagination. Imagine this heap of paper & cardboard recycling in assembled-box-form, filling the entire closet. Or maybe you can’t even see my mountain of cardboard because you’re blinded by my wallpaper (which is still ugly). Either way, just believe me that it was a disaster. And now it’s organized! Yay!
So that was my way-too-busy 4-day weekend. What’d you do?
The second week of Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser 2 has drawn to a close. Last week we said goodbye to Canadian Bacon; who will we say goodbye to this week? This week we asked each of our contestants to show us and describe the inside of their refrigerators. Here’s what they had to say:
Mel: Since I have to work and won’t be home in time to send a pic of my fridge, I’m sending one of the freezer where we store deceased patients at work. Unfortunately, I’ve been doing this so long that it does nothing to kill my appetite. Fortunately, the week overall has been a good one. My rate of weight loss has slacked a bit, as was expected, but is in a healthy range. I’m in the process of breaking in new custom orthotics and hope to get back to my running training soon. A friend is trying to get me to register for a marathon in July – not sure I’ll be up for that, but I at least want to do another half marathon or two in 2011 (did two this past fall). I’ve been consistently meeting my nutritional goals, eating fewer calories, and not feeling at all deprived or hungry.
John: Food still abounds, but I’ve still managed to make good choices and got some time in to exercise. Riding my bike and doing some push-ups. I hate push-ups, but I hope to be “pec-tacular” when this is done or at the very least, to drop a cup size. I’m down [censored]% this week. As for my (real) fridge, yogurt, bread, rolls, turkey, light mayo, skim milk, grape jam, Swiss cheese and Sprite Zero. Michelle M. will hate at least half of what is in there.
Enrico: This week was hard for me. I would find myself at Mexican restaurants, eating burritos with extra sour cream, completely forgetting about the weight loss challenge! But I did curb my eating habits somewhat… after all, I only ate 45 cookies one night, rather than the usual 60. Either way, this doesn’t really say anything about what’s in my fridge this week, since I hide all the good stuff from my roommates and keep it in my bedroom. But this is what my fridge looks like anyway. MMM.
Craig:Wow. My refrigerator looks ridiculously unhealthy. Look at that giant bag of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups! And donuts! And mayonnaise! And beer and wine and homemade Bailey’s Irish Cream (that’s that’s in the brown jug up top)! Oh but wait! Not all hope is lost! We drink skim milk! Yay! We’re so healthy!
Adam: Visitors to my apartment are usually surprised by how bare my fridge is. I hate to waste food, so I usually only buy as much as I need for the next few days. Since I cut out the junk food, a significant portion of my (vegan) diet is made up of fruits and vegetables, so I usually have a good stock of apples and oranges on hand. I also have onions, tomatoes, baby carrots, lettuce, frozen veggies, etc. A few condiments, juices, seltzer water, tofu, sandwich thins, and tempeh take up the rest of the space. Boooooring!
Mr. Sombrero:As most of you know, Mr. Sombrero had la gripe for the past week. Veggie soups for breakfast, lunch and dinner – 4 days straight. So I’ve been able to lose the weight without doing any exercise. And I highly recommend it – the more contagious the disease, the more weight you’ll lose. So go ahead – get that flu, diarrhea, malaria (your choice) – and see that belly fat melt away! At least for one week. And here’s a telegraph from Mr: Sombrero: BEEN SICK FOR QUATTRO DAYS STOP SOUP FOR BREAKFAST LUNCH AND DINNER STOP FRIDGE EMPTY STOP NADA TO EAT STOP SAD FACE STOP
Polt: This is the Poltfridge. It’s got all the essentials: Pepsi, wine, outdated milk, beer, a shelf full of condiments. Even a box of Arm & Hammer in the back. You may notice the healthy stuff: a shelf of yogurt, apples, and even celery…still wrapped in plastic. Please don’t notice that the healthy stuff is outnumbered by the unhealthy stuff. And by the way, it does look kinda lonely in there, and i DO take donations….
Jere: My fridge is full of many mysterious leftovers belonging to my roommates. For some reason, almost all my items are currently in the vegetable drawer. These include a loaf of bread, a banana, and two bags of shredded cheese. I also have half a dozen eggs on the top shelf. The absence of red delicious apples. It’s time to go grocery shopping.
FDot: The inside of my refrigerator contains food and drink. Most of it is in bottles and jars. Some of it is in Tupperware. Tupperware was developed in 1946 by Earl Silas Tupper as a way to contain food in an airtight receptacle so it would last longer. There is also a light in my refrigerator that allows me to see inside of it when I need something in the middle of the night. Anything I can possibly need is inside my refrigerator except when I really want it. Atop my refrigerator is a freezer, but I never open it anymore ever since that fateful day……….
Paul: Here are the contents of my fridge. Top Shelf: bottled water, filtered water and coffee. Meat Drawer: steak, cod fillet. Middle Shelves: yogurt, cottage cheese, sugar-free, fat-free pudding (chocolate and cheesecake), eggs. Bottom Shelf: chicken, tomatoes, fat free Cool Whip (for the pudding). Crisper: onions, potatoes, beefsteak tomato, golden delicious apples, oranges. Not a very exciting selection, but it’s working. I do recycle the water bottles, having them like that helps me keep track of how much water I’m drinking. I like to make the cheesecake pudding into a pie, but right now I don’t want the extra calories of the graham cracker crust. I saw the doctor today and got my meds and the clearance to start working out, so now it’s time to really get started losing weight!
Mush: My weight loss this week is an astonishing [censored]. That’s [censored] pounds! I’ve never lost [censored] pounds in one week before, like, ever. I’m super excited! I also don’t expect it to last; I’ll probably go back to my usual plodding [censored] lbs-per-week loss after this. The vast majority of the stuff in the fridge I use doesn’t belong to me. What’s in there is leftover Indian food in containers and some veggies and diet ranch dressing. And 1% cottage cheese and no fat milk. Being skinny better be fucking worth it.
Ryan: A mix of my and my roommate’s stuff. Highlights: rhubarb preserves, yogurt (fat-free so that can eat a pound to get protein without freaking Mush out), lard (which should go to the freezer since I don’t plan on baking anything with it any time soon); vinaigrette in need of mixing, turkey, cottage cheese (still not tried), eggs (which I learned you can poach inside cooking oatmeal); more yogurt; beer (not touched since this started).
TEAM OINKHarry & Michelle M.
Harry & Michelle:Because we live in the same house (and use the same refrigerator) we only have one blurb. And because neither of us likes to be on the bottom (shut up), we took drastic measures.
Mikey: This is my fridge, well at least it is the fridge my apartment. I share this fridge with a roommate and absolutely everything you see in there is hers. I have no food at home, which is part of my plan and part of my problem. When I do have food at home, I eat it all until it is gone. When I don’t, I drink water and complain about my lack of food. It takes all of my strength and sense of ethics to not steal my roommates food. Wish me luck!
Ty: To look at my fridge, you might think I never eat. This is even particularly well-stocked for me; usually it contains the water pitcher and condiments. Ah, but how deceptive! Most of my calories never see the fridge except as leftovers. Even when I cook, I tend to buy only what I need for immediate use. The simple reason is that I tend to be a little OCD about food: Gotta clean my plate, finish off any leftovers ASAP, eat the entire box of Cheez-Its, etc. Since I vowed not to make any profound discoveries about my eating habits in this competition, I’ll have to stop there. As for this week’s results, there was a lot of socializing, hence a lot of outdoor calories, hence only a nominal drop. Boo!
How did our teams do in the second week? It’s time to find out!
We’ve calculated the cumulative percentages for each team, and here are the results:
And now it’s time to eliminate a team! Here’s how it works: just like American Idol, you vote for the team that you want to save. The team with the least votes will be eliminated. Polls close around Noon (EST) on Saturday.
Wait a minute! Before you start your campaigning, please feel free to plead your case, write speeches, freak out, party down, or even flip your shit in the comments. We’ll see which team is eliminated next on Sunday!
Summer is a time of warm weather, happiness and fun in the sun. And what better way to start this new season than with a Have You Ever?! quiz? Today’s quiz is a little different than what you’re used to. Instead of asking you about all of the unsavory things that you’ve done during the summertime, we’re going to ask you about all the wonderful and whimsical summer activities that you’ve experienced over the years. Let’s get started.
Have You Ever?!
10. Have you ever spent an evening under the stars naming constellations?
20. Have you ever ran through a sprinkler?
Wednesday night I spent 45 minutes at the self-service car wash, vacuuming up every spec of dirt, dust and sand on the inside and scrubbing away all of the dirt on the outside of my car. Thursday morning I was greeted by a dozen blobs of avian diarrhea on its hood and roof. Ugh. (That’s my landlord’s truck and half-dead bush in the background.)
Not too far from Lancaster is Adamstown, PA. That’s where I found Adam’s Antiques! I never knew that I had an antique store … but with my never-ending energy and obsessive work ethic, it doesn’t surprise me that my antique store is open 7 days a week.
On the second day of our trip, my friends and I visited Intercourse, PA. Here’s a photo of me making a 
The word “Intercourse” just makes everything funny!
Here’s just one of the many horse and buggies that got in my way as I was trying to speed down the streets of Intercourse in my shit-covered car.
When I finally got home on Friday, I was greeted by 
On Saturday, I joined him at the festival where we attended screenings of 
Here’s Kathy Gilleran, the subject and voice of 
And I insisted upon him snapping a photo of me tongue kissing one of the sexiest ladies ever: 
And here’s a photo of an adorable little subway rat! I called to it, but it refused to come any closer to me.
On Sunday, in celebration of 
I think that this is a 
This one’s a ginger.
And then I decided that it’d be a good idea to clean out the giant closet in my kitchen. Most people would probably use it as a pantry or something, but I use it more like a shed. It’s where I store my bike, my tools (I’m handy!), my window-unit air conditioners, computer parts & wires, and some other odds and ends. This photo would be far more impressive if I had taken a ‘before’ photo …
…but you’ll just have to use your imagination. Imagine this heap of paper & cardboard recycling in assembled-box-form, filling the entire closet. Or maybe you can’t even see my mountain of cardboard because you’re blinded by my wallpaper (
Mel: Since I have to work and won’t be home in time to send a pic of my fridge, I’m sending one of the freezer where we store deceased patients at work. Unfortunately, I’ve been doing this so long that it does nothing to kill my appetite. Fortunately, the week overall has been a good one. My rate of weight loss has slacked a bit, as was expected, but is in a healthy range. I’m in the process of breaking in new custom orthotics and hope to get back to my running training soon. A friend is trying to get me to register for a marathon in July – not sure I’ll be up for that, but I at least want to do another half marathon or two in 2011 (did two this past fall). I’ve been consistently meeting my nutritional goals, eating fewer calories, and not feeling at all deprived or hungry.
Enrico: This week was hard for me. I would find myself at Mexican restaurants, eating burritos with extra sour cream, completely forgetting about the weight loss challenge! But I did curb my eating habits somewhat… after all, I only ate 45 cookies one night, rather than the usual 60. Either way, this doesn’t really say anything about what’s in my fridge this week, since I hide all the good stuff from my roommates and keep it in my bedroom. But this is what my fridge looks like anyway. MMM.
Adam: Visitors to my apartment are usually surprised by how bare my fridge is. I hate to waste food, so I usually only buy as much as I need for the next few days. Since I cut out the junk food, a significant portion of my (vegan) diet is made up of fruits and vegetables, so I usually have a good stock of apples and oranges on hand. I also have onions, tomatoes, baby carrots, lettuce, frozen veggies, etc. A few condiments, juices, seltzer water, tofu, sandwich thins, and tempeh take up the rest of the space. Boooooring! 
Polt: This is the Poltfridge. It’s got all the essentials: Pepsi, wine, outdated milk, beer, a shelf full of condiments. Even a box of Arm & Hammer in the back. You may notice the healthy stuff: a shelf of yogurt, apples, and even celery…still wrapped in plastic. Please don’t notice that the healthy stuff is outnumbered by the unhealthy stuff. And by the way, it does look kinda lonely in there, and i DO take donations…. 
FDot: The inside of my refrigerator contains food and drink. Most of it is in bottles and jars. Some of it is in Tupperware. Tupperware was developed in 1946 by Earl Silas Tupper as a way to contain food in an airtight receptacle so it would last longer. There is also a light in my refrigerator that allows me to see inside of it when I need something in the middle of the night. Anything I can possibly need is inside my refrigerator except when I really want it. Atop my refrigerator is a freezer, but I never open it anymore ever since that fateful day……….
Mush: My weight loss this week is an astonishing [censored]. That’s [censored] pounds! I’ve never lost [censored] pounds in one week before, like, ever. I’m super excited! I also don’t expect it to last; I’ll probably go back to my usual plodding [censored] lbs-per-week loss after this. The vast majority of the stuff in the fridge I use doesn’t belong to me. What’s in there is leftover Indian food in containers and some veggies and diet ranch dressing. And 1% cottage cheese and no fat milk. Being skinny better be fucking worth it.
Harry & Michelle: Because we live in the same house (and use the same refrigerator) we only have one blurb. And because neither of us likes to be on the bottom (shut up), we took drastic measures.
Mikey: This is my fridge, well at least it is the fridge my apartment. I share this fridge with a roommate and absolutely everything you see in there is hers. I have no food at home, which is part of my plan and part of my problem. When I do have food at home, I eat it all until it is gone. When I don’t, I drink water and complain about my lack of food. It takes all of my strength and sense of ethics to not steal my roommates food. Wish me luck!
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