Weekend Blues..weight blues..just blues

Cold weather is no joke. It makes you want to hibernate and stay in bed.....ALL.DAY.LONG. I did this practically the entire weekend.

Hope all is WARM where you are....prolly not. This weekend has gone on record as being one of the coldest. Reading twitter posts let me know I was not alone. All the Tweeple from the South, who regularly see temps in the mid to low 60's this time of year, were all a chatter about the weather. At its lowest point it was in the 20's here in Houston. I ventured out at the highest point - about 46 degrees- Saturday around 3 and quickly rushed back in. Needless to say for those of us not use to this type of weather, I got little done. I tried to complain to a girlfriend who lives in Pittsburgh and she stopped me in my tracks, told me it was 11 degrees where she was and changed topics. Allrighty then. I had no comeback so I let her change topics. Hopefully this coming week will bring milder weather.

The weather has also wrecked havoc on my workout plans. I would like to at least do a drive by on the gym. It is difficult to get into a decent routine with weather like this.I suppose if I had some sort of routine before it may not have been as difficult to disrupt. Who knows. I am not claiming negativity with this situation or being whiney but I need to get it together. All I can process is 184.184.184.184. In case you are wondering what those figures represent its.... wait.....hold for it...it my weight. There I said it. WHEW! glad that's out. They say acknowledgement is the first step to recovery so..there it is. I think by far acknowledging being overweight with a BMI of 29 has been really hard. I didn't compile a new years resolutions list (translation I didnt commit to anything per se) but since my weight has pushed me to being a borderline diabetic I am more focused on getting something done. I have been given until April to "show improvement" so I need to get it going. I thought about rearranging my apartment so I could work out in front of the television. My cable company has work out videos "on-demand" so since I am paying for cable, the workout videos are there and it could be a start. We will see

I just watched the Joel Osteen on BET a little while ago. The message this week is having a good opinion of yourself, #447. Again, no resolutions but I really need to put this in check. I am my own worst critic. Here's a link to his site incase you want to check it out. I think its only up for a week so get on it.


Have a great week everyone...Bundle up

Onyx Magazine closing

I live in the Houston area and enjoy the snippets of the middle/upper middle class upwardly mobile. It's nice to occasionally see how the other half lives. Needless to say, when I saw this in the Houston Chronicle I was saddened. I had the opportunity to meet Onyx publisher, Ms. Burton-Allen about a year ago. She talked about starting the magazine, the day to day of magazine publishing and most importantly the joy starting a magazine of this caliber in the City of Houston. The article states she plans to pursue her "media relations and crisis-management consulting business." Seeing this article made me think of black publishing on a whole. Is it still necessary to have this niche in the world? She mentioned in the Houston Chronicle article that Onyx only "scratched the surface" adding "hopefully someone will pick up the torch." Could mainstream publications pick up that torch and cover this side of the black middle class? As a journalism major I know magazine publishing on a whole is a difficult business. The topic of the closure of some well-known black publications was discussed some time ago on Richard Princes's Journal-isms site Check out what publishers of now defunct magazines had to say on the topic. What are your thoughts on the subject