Introduction

I'm obviously new to the blog experience, and I'll try to make this intro to the blog as short as possible.  As for the title of the blog, it's simply an homage to one of my favorite movies, The Big Lebowski.  The reasons for starting a blog are a bit more complicated.  I have no delusions of being a good writer, I just don't have the vocabulary for it.  I guess I see the blog as a good outlet for all the things that get compartmentalized and shoved back in my brain because there are always more immediate issues to deal with, like chasing a newly mobile 9-month old around the house making sure she doesn't eat carpet lint, while fielding the unending stream of questions that 3-year olds are so good at.

Additionally, my wife an I have made the decision to get healthier and in better shape.  For those that are facebook friends with both of us, you know that she also started a blog and has been an inspiration for me to do the same.  We started jogging about a month or so ago with the goal of running the Azalea Trail Run, a big annual race here in Mobile that takes place every spring.  The idea is to use the blog primarily as a motivational tool, the idea being that if we publicize our goals, we'll be more likely to accomplish them, since no one like to admit failure to themselves, much less a bunch of other people.

My health goals went to another level when I received the P90X exercise program as a (requested) Christmas gift.  For those not familiar with it, I won't bore you with details, but I'm understating it to say that it is an intensive, 90-day program that I am in NO way ready to begin.  There are aspects of the program that I will not pretend to be able to follow fully (namely the diet plan and supplements), but I'm going to jump in and see how I do, all the while using this blog as a sort of deranged diary of my progress.  My 90-day experiment begins tomorrow at approximately 5 am (unfortunately there's no good time to find an extra hour a day to exercise).

I have no idea how this will go, honestly.  I'm using the P90X as a jumping-off point for the blog and will hopefully include other observations and life lessons as I learn them.  I'm quickly learning that blogs (this one, anyway) are mostly for the writers, but maybe some of you will like what you read enough to check in from time to time.   If so, welcome, and wish me luck.  I need all I can get.