so it turns out that while stepping on arrows in ddr, I was also stepping on other buttons (triangle, circle, etc) and it was giving me more steps than I was really getting. this of course upped my calories-burned by 20% or so. who knows 
anyway! I did 27 songs today, instead of the usual 25, but I did the first half before 12 and the last half after 12 so the workout results were for the last half of the songs I did. bleh I did some quick dividing/multiplying and came up with a rough estimate of what I did this workout session. you’ll notice it’s much lower than my previous logs:
Calories Burned: 432.377
Miles Jogged: 5.17
Jump Rope: 2861 times
Miles Swum: 2.292
bleh
oh right! I remedied the problem of stepping on the buttons by loading a save that disabled those buttons during dance mode. I’m glad it’s reporting the actual calories now even though it’s not entirely accurate, it’s giving me a good estimate and it makes me feel accomplished so that I’ll continue DDRing and losing weight =^.^=
BTW — you’ll notice (on my LJ user info page) that I have suddenly dropped 10 pounds!! This is not the case. I was simply waiting til I lost 10 more pounds to update the code. It’s rather tedious and consumes a couple minutes of my life, so I’d rather do it all at once (just the way I wanna lose the weight!!)
My little brother’s birthday is August 29th, and we’ve got some friends/family to chip in on a Gamecube for him, as well as games and controllers and stuff. Evidently his playstation 2 is entirely wireless right now, including the power source, thanks to a handy dandy pair of scissors my bro found. maybe we can sneak him a new ps2 power cord while we’re at it 
he’s already got a wireless controller replacement (since he cut that too) from christmas last year, but I guess he hasn’t been able to enjoy it what with his power cord not getting power. I’m not sure, but it sounds like he made all the cords/wires wireless, so I’ll have to check that out. maybe another christmas present. He’ll be 7 years old, so hopefully he’ll have the sense not to do that again.
For my mom’s birthday (the day before mine on september 25th) we wanted to get her an easel. it sounds like she also wants to take a class at H&R block so she can do taxes for people (she’s excellent with numbers) and hopefully make some extra money. That’ll be good for her, and while it’ll enable her to buy herself some clothes and stuff, she’ll no doubt spend it on Peter. She rarely buys things for herself. She got some new clothes for mother’s day, and they look absolutely cute on her, but she would never have bought them for herself.
Jason’s birthday is September 2nd, so. He wants dvds and cds. that’s it. he’ll tell you “BOXSETS!” and that’s about the best gift you can give him He’d probably enjoy either a best-buy gift certificate or a fry’s gift certificate.
just noting those things to myself, and if anybody knows any of those people and wants to get them something, there’re some ideas. The easel thing though, we really wanted to get it for my mom, but possibly things that go with an easel like paints and paper and stuff?
Jaiden’s been wide-awake all day, not sure why. He finally fell asleep I’d say around 12:30am maybe he can only sleep if I DDR first?
since I’m in hyper-mode from my blood pumping, my thoughts are jumping more than usual, so my apologies if you get a headache trying to follow any thought-trains in this entry.
my legs feel much much firmer, and my butt’s finally rounding out to the way it was before. woot evidently DDRing also works your arms, from keeping your balance and stuff, so my arms are always a touch sore after playing. my collar-bone is also starting to pop out again. my neck is as skinny as ever, however and my cheeks are still chubby 
I’m pretty sure they’re just chubby no matter how little/much I weigh. It’s the chin area that truly tells you how much I am.
Jaiden’s getting a lot bigger really fast. it’s really weird.
We’ve got DVDs of him, three movies on it and 10 minutes of pictures set to two different songs (one after the other), Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing” and then Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” (the first one’s sentimental as hell, the second one is punny )
the three movies are:
Jaiden meeting his god-mother
Jaiden turning over
Jaiden climbing mount-daddy
if you want a copy, send me your addys or walk up to me and demand one! I’ve got the .nrg (nero image file) if you’d rather I send it to you so you can burn it yourself. the file is 1.32 gigabytes though I may export the videos as mpegs though, and upload them separately. the image files are all mostly on albums.artkitty though, so. =^.^=
in OTHER news, I’ve set up something at dmusic.com for my mom’s piano-playing and my singing (believe me, mom’s music is 1million times better than my singing, so don’t judge her by my vocals it’s possibly even infinity times better XD I don’t think my voice is -too- bad, as I can sing on-key, but it certainly isn’t professional the way mom’s piano playing is)
the link is here (check out meg solo stuff, she wrote those on the fly, improv style): http://kandm.dmusic.com/
and that’s it!
have fun
poor brendano! HOPE YOU GET BETTER! and erlynn too, since she got sick 
