Beginnings

4 Days ago, I got on a plane in Houston Texas headed for Colorado. I've been dreaming and planning of moving to Boulder for three years now that it almost feels unreal to actually be living here. Sitting on the plane, looking out the window as the plane broke through the clouds I was nervous and excited. All my hard work was finally paying off.


My name is Aaron and here is where I'm hoping to tell my story. I have spent the majority of my life living in Beaumont Texas. Beaumont has very moderate winters and hot summers. Although the name Beaumont means "Beautiful Mountain", whoever named it that must have had a good sense of humor. I remember being excited as a kid to have a dirt mound to ride my bike down because that was the extent of terrain change you can expect there. Beaumont is about as flat as it gets.

Most people from Beaumont don't hate it so much as they just don't have much good to say about it. Listening to someone talk about Beaumont always reminds me of a girl describing her fat friend. They're careful with their words and tend to skirt around the obvious points.

There are a lot of good people there, and I've made a lot of good friends there, but geographically and culturally it is less than ideal.

And what Beaumont isn't, Boulder is. Before the first settlers moved into this area, there was an Indian tribe (feathers, not dots) that lived here. Their leader, Chief Niwot is said to have left a curse on the valley.

"People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty."

- Chief Niwot

It's a funny curse. This place is so amazing that once people come here they'll never want to leave. Can't say he was wrong.

So what's the point of this blog? Why write it?

I hear people talk all the time about how much they dislike where they live. Nothing to do, etc. I don't understand why these people don't move somewhere better if they hate where they're at so much. I made that choice and I want to share with people how it effects my life over the next 90 days.

I came here in good shape. I'm 5' 10", about 140 pounds with a pretty athletic build to start with. I'll be taking a picture of myself every day to keep track of changes to my physic. I've considered calling this project B90X which would be an intentional rip off of P90X which is a 90 day fitness video work out that is supposed to be amazing.

I won't be doing any weight training or working out for the sake of working out. Everything I do is going to be based on my day to day lifestyle and not a training regiment. I won't be doing any special dieting, and in fact, I will likely be eating more and possibly worse food than I did before moving here.