Alright, so we made it through Thanksgiving. My holiday consisted of me helping my girlfriend’s family make mashed potatoes, tricking her dog into staying upstairs away from the guests and eating so much that I hated myself and spent the remainder of the afternoon piled up in a comfy chair holding my belly. I didn’t even eat dessert until the next day. Maybe that’s doing Thanksgiving right. I was certainly zapped and ready for bed by early evening. I was up bright and early o

Holy cow. We haven’t done a Weekly Thing in what seems like forever. But just like I noted in my State of the Viking Freak Address, it’s time to go again. Or, in the words of a famous philosopher I once knew — We’re back just like we said we’d be back. You can leave now and beat the traffic … If you can’t finish that line then either you’re too young, too old or too stuffy. Come off it. Bloody hell. We’ve been watching The Great British Baking Show on Netflix and all it has r

Happy November, weirdos. October went by like a flash and we’re now on the holiday road. The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing colors, it’s (apparently) tornado season in East Tennessee and countless desks at the office have bowls of leftover Halloween candy on top of them. That All Hallow’s Eve remnants are an early indicator of what’s to come: fried turkeys, stuffing, pies, cookies and eggnog. The holidays, baby! Also: Caloric surplus, baby! There’s a reaso

I mentioned in my last post that it’s way important to not be a glass jaw when it comes to stepping up your game after falling off the wagon for the holidays. Did any of you fall off of said wagon? I’ll be the first to tell you that not only did I fall but I fell hard – like extra hard. After spending more than a week with my parents for Thanksgiving, mom and I were at a grocery store when we passed their bakery. Mom: Ooh, let me show you their cheesecakes! Me: Okay. Mom take