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Name: Herrick
Location: California, United States
Gender: Male
Interests: You! Badminton, Bowling, Lightshows & Raving, and living healthy :]
Expertise: Healthcare, Pharmacy & Alternative Medicine
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
AIM:  fourleafcl0verrr
Member Since:
3/1/2006
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| Breakfast
3 large eggs, hard boiled (231 calories, 15g fat, 3g carbs, 18g protein)
Afternoon Snack
1 Erin Baker”s Breakfast Cookie (290 calories, 8g fat, 52g carbs, 6g fiber, 6g protein)
Lunch (Sandwich)
2 slices Orowheat Whole Wheat bread (180 calories, 2g fat, 36g carbs, 4g fiber, 8g protein)
1 slice Sargento Ultra-Thin provolone cheese (40 calories, 3g fat, 2g protein)
8 slices Oscar Meyer Deli Fresh Rotisserie Chicken (70 calories, 1.5g fat, 3g carbs, 14g protein)
1/4 cup alfalfa sprouts (2 calories)
Early evening snack
1 medium banana (105 calories, 27g carbs, 3g fiber, 1g protein)
Pre-workout
5oz Syntha-6 protein shake, mixed with water (200 calories, 6g fat, 15g carbs, 5g fiber, 2g sugar, 22g protein)
Post-workout
5oz Syntha-6 protein shake, mixed with water (200 calories, 6g fat, 15g carbs, 5g fiber, 2g sugar, 22g protein)
Dinner
1 medium sweet potato (103 calories, 0.2g fat, 23.6g carbs, 3.8g fiber, 7.4g sugar, 2.3g protein)
5oz chicken tenderloin, seasoned and pan-fried with olive oil (250 calories, 10g fat, 30g protein)
1.5 cups broccoli florets, steamed (30 calories, 6g carbs, 3g protein)
TOTAL
1,701 calories (85% DV)
51.7g fat (79.5% DV)
180.6g carbs (60.2% DV)
26.8g fiber (107% DV)
128.3g protein (256% DV) | | |
| As promised, here are some pictures of my bow and other archery gear:
This is what the bow looks like when it's unstrung. This is a 76 inch Japanese style longbow, made of Red Oak wood backed with linen, with a draw weight of 35 pounds. The white string is the actual bowstring, and the black string is the bowstringer.
To string the bow, you place your foot on the bowstringer and pull the bow. Then you simply slide the bowstring up into place and ready the bow for shooting.
After stringing the bow. The arrow on top is the original length of 44 inches. The bottom arrow is what I've been using for practice. I've missed quite a few times, and have ended up splintering the arrow tip by hitting stone and the tip quite literally exploded. To save money, I simply shaved off the splintered end and resharpened it myself.
A nice black leather quiver that I got a good deal on. I store my extra arrows in it.
This is a leather armguard that I also got on clearance. I neglected to use it my first time and ended up with a nice big bruise when I released the arrow improperly and the bowstring hit my forearm.
A cheap leather finger tab that makes shooting more comfortable.
My targets. It's a 23"x23" target made up of a layer of self-healing foam and a fabric interior. Made entirely of recycled materials, and is itself fully recyclable and biodegradable. I also use the shipping box it came in as a secondary target lol.
My shooting form and accuracy is still terrible, of course. It takes months and years to develop good shooting form.
This target stops the arrows easily and they never go in more than a few inches. (It's 14 inches thick, both sides shootable.) Currently I'm shooting at a distance of about 15 feet.
Of course, the cardboard is only two flimsy layers, so the arrow almost goes completely through. At a close enough range, it can pierce through both layers and still penetrate into my foam target.
Anyway, that's about it. Hope you enjoyed.
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| It seems like my life has settled back into its comfortable little rut. After several months of full-time work, the busy season is over.. There aren't many projects available now, and I've been put back on-call. The current project is a mobile phone application.. and since I don't own a smartphone, I'm not part of the main testing team. Oh, how my apathy towards technology has come back to haunt me.. I actually miss work. At least I was making some progress with my life. The saddest part is that I don't have much money saved up, as I'm still paying off my student loans.. What a wonderful moment it will be, when I'm free of debts.
It's been a few weeks since I was put back on-call. To fill up my time, I've taken up archery, and have restarted learning the acoustic guitar. Archery, especially traditional archery, is much more difficult than I'd imagined. Not to mention, expensive. It's a satisfying hobby, though. I just wish I wasn't so stubborn about keeping it strictly traditional.. absolutely no modern modifications. It'll be that much more of an accomplishment when I'm able to shoot accurately though. It's actually quite taxing on the muscles.. I never imagined that archery could be a sort of workout as well. I'll try and post a picture of my bow tomorrow.
Since I pretty much have my entire days free again, I've restarted my strict diet and exercise regimen. 30 minutes cardio, an hour of weights, alternating between sets of two muscle groups every day. Eggs for breakfast, protein shakes for lunch, chicken and vegetables for dinner. I have to say that I'm already growing tired of my chicken recipe.. I don't quite know how I lasted for ten entire weeks last time, eating the same exact things every day for 70 days. I'll have to find some way to keep it interesting, cooking fish once in a while will help as well as finding some other simple way to prepare chicken healthily.. I have been switching up vegetables depending on what's on sale, but of course the main concern is the meat, a man's bread and butter. I wish had enough money to enjoy a nice steak once in a while.. Oh, the state of our economy. The state of my finances. A broke college graduate is a dime a dozen. When will I be able to find a better paying job? I'm just so absolutely terrible with interviews.. How I wish I was born a social butterfly instead of an introverted, socially oblivious overthinker. Which is also a dime a dozen.
Funny how I started typing this with absolutely nothing in mind and ended up with this. I guess it's just been that long since I've written here. On a side note, I changed some of my recent more personal posts to protected, because this does remain a personal blog, after all.. I feel a bit awkward knowing that any random person can look at my blog and see into my deepest thoughts. Though I have met some people here randomly who did care and connected with me, they are few and far between. Strange how people I've never met can care more for me than people I've known for years. Is it so much easier to build a friendship when I'm left to your imagination? When you can't see and observe my flaws, both physically and in personality? We're all so shallow, after all.
Well, that's about it. Thanks for reading.
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| Hello! I realize that I haven't updated in a long time. Things have been going pretty well lately, for the most part. I've been dieting and exercising consistently for the last 10 weeks. I'm pretty happy with my results; I've lost about 9-10 pounds of fat and gained about 2 pounds of muscle. Motivation to keep going (:
I finally got a job. It's completely unrelated to my degree, but I'm happy for it nonetheless. My first day is on Monday, a full 8 hour shift with a 3 hour class right after x.x I hope I can keep up with my exercise and diet when I have these lengthy workdays..
Life has been lonely, as always. I'm sort of used to it by now, but I do have those weak days once in a while. Today, I looked through all my old xanga posts and comments I received over the 6 or so years I've had this page.. It made me a bit depressed, being reminded of those days where I was still naive, and those days before everyone started drifting away. It's sad seeing conversations with people who I used to talk to on a daily basis.
Looking back at some of my posts, I realized that I actually wrote pretty well when I was really depressed.. I actually got a lot of comments back then, haha. Even from random Xangans that I didn't know. It was nice getting some attention for a while, haha! It's also interesting to know how I've changed since then. I have made some little steps, though I still have a long way to go. But what's missing is still the same. I wish I could have someone I could really talk to.
I was hoping I'd be able to go somewhere on Halloween, but I have class that day from 6:30pm - 9:40 pm. Actually, I have to present a speech that day. My professor said she'd give us extra credit if we showed up in costumes. I'm debating on whether I should dress up in my V for Vendetta costume... It's an all-out costume with mask, wig, hat, boots, cape, belt, everything.. so I think I'd feel a bit sheepish, especially if everyone else just wears simple stuff. Delivering a speech in full costume would sure be interesting.. But hey, who cares what other people think, right? :P
Well, that's about all I can think of for now. thanks for reading!
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| Have you ever met someone that, no matter how hard you try, you just can't seem to "connect" with that person?
Lately, I've been hanging out with best friend along with another friend and her bf. Now, her boyfriend is a good guy - he's tolerant, talkative, friendly, and active. And even though he tries talking to me and I try to be agreeable and get to know him, there's just something that feels wrong. I'm strongly reminded of this clip from Family Guy that outlines how Quagmire feels about Brian : http://www.noob.us/humor/seems-like-quagmire-is-talking-about-you/
I don't know what it is, but I feel like whenever I respond to him, he's quietly judging me or something, and that he secretly hates me. xD Even though my friend insists that he likes hanging out with us, I always feel that my personality clashes with his - he's outgoing and sociable while I'm quiet and reserved. It's just that my best friend absolutely loves hanging out with them so he keeps arranging hangouts with them, so I'm hoping that whatever it is that's wrong is solved.. haha. But I just can't help but feel that my type of personality is the type that he hates most.
Has anything like this happened to you?
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