Un-Skinny Bop.

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T-minus 2 months until Vegas #3 of '16. Happenings are afoot.

Got rid of my Mido watch, crown kept breaking, so a big Amazon gift card refund will result in some Vegas swag and other related buys. Got a few new golf-style polos to upgrade the appearance. I'm not a 20-year old anymore, I can't keep showing up at the Cosmo on Saturday nights wearing a faded old t-shirt.

Looking at maybe a luggage piece - would be my first, I've always just thrown the Vegas trip stuff in a backpack, but as many times as I go to town per year now it's probably time to get a damn rolling carry-on bag and be done with it. The backpack gets tedious to carry on those long airport walks. Also got a Kindle and some new quality earbuds for the airport/waiting around time while traveling.

Got a new watch as well, kind of a splurge purchase that I'll have to pay down a bit before the trip. Was on a German watch retailer site and they had Bruno Sohnle Glasshutte watches at half price, pulled the trigger and put it on my Cap One card. Beautiful piece, truly a big boy watch, normally a $1400 piece but got it for half that. I don't wear any kind of jewelry aside from a watch and I'm being nice to myself after getting a pay bump at work.

The other Amazon purchase that may (better) impact this trip and others in the future is I picked up a Nutribullet personal blender. Had a friend in a bar swear by them, and damn if I don't need some healthy in my life so I'm going to try (for the 800th time) to get by on soups/smoothies during the week now and get away from my crap diet. I don't cook, but throwing a bunch of shit in a blender and pushing a button is something even I think I can do. This is the RX model too which has a heat cycle to make soups, which I love.

Gotta try something. If I see a $160 blender sitting there unused and go back to a crap diet I will hopefully at least feel bad while eating fried chicken and cheese sticks. Maybe money shaming is what it will take to get me healthy and extend this pretty good life I've got going.

So, two months to drop some chub, and maybe be ready to not be the invisible man in Vegas anymore. There's always been one aspect of the "Vegas Experience" I've only rarely partaken in, and that's the "getting my noodle wet" part.

I'm old. I'm bald. I'm chubby. I can fix one of those.

Viva smoothies!

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