We’ve got 26 Days until the blood sugar and gore fest known as Halloween. Here are some October Resolutions to get through this month: October Resolutions I resolve to exercise 18 times before Halloween. I resolve to drink an unreasonable amount of water 20 times before Halloween. I resolve to purchase Halloween Candy on October [...]

I’ll explain my last 24 hours by way of political analogy (’tis the season and all). Halloween 2008 has been like the Iraq War II. Put aside the argument whether it was necessary to “go in” or not. We’re there. It started out spectacularly in that I only ate 29 points (over my Weight Watchers daily [...]

We all need to form a circle and join cyber hands. Four days from now marks the beginning of the dreaded holiday season. We all know it really starts on Halloween, slides into the Thanksgiving food orgey, then snowballs into “f$%k it, I’m eating this” Chrismahanukwanzakah. Though I haven’t done my usual wikigoogling scientific research, [...]

We are now firmly in October and this month is the departure platform for a bullet train ride to 2009. It’s a train filled with candy corn, Thanksgiving dinners, Thanksgiving leftovers, baking, holiday parties and a New Year’s Eve gorge.  In the blink of an eye it will be January 1, 2009 and if tradition holds I’m at risk of starting the year laying [...]