Daily Archives: September 29, 2008

Roll Out The Welcome Wagon

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One of my very very best friends just started her own blog (after perhaps a bit too much persistence on my part? :P ) called Red Knows How. She’ll probably talk a lot about her family (obviously), working from home and of course all the books she’s reading (she might read more than I do – actually, she DOES read more than I do, so she aught to have a lot to say about that). I’m sooooo excited – and you should be, too. She is one the funniest, cleverest girls I know, and modest to boot! So I want you all to go check her out and give her a big warm bloggy welcome.

Welcome to the club, bestie. I hope you love bloggy land as much as I do – I know bloggy land will love you. :)

Meme Me Baby, One More Time…

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Saw this short little meme on Nancy’s blog, Life With My Boys:

1. Where do you fold your laundry? I fold our laundry in the laundry room of our building before bringing it back into our apartment, right on top of the washer and dryer, which is taller than my son at least at the moment. He likes to hand me the clothes out of the dryer while I fold them, but that’s about as involved as I like him to be at this point, otherwise the clothes would never be folded!

2. Must you be sure the dishes are washed before you go to bed each night? I’d like to think I did that, and sometimes I do, but it isn’t necessary, just nice to see done. I at least hope they’ll all be rinsed, so nothing gets too hard to wash overnight.

3. Do you use caller id to screen your calls? Well I only have a cell phone so it’s kind of hard to avoid the caller ID, but I think I would anyway – some calls, like from telemarketers just aren’t more important than sitting down for dinner or finishing a conversation with my husband.

4. Do you let the low fuel light come on in your car before you fill up? No, once I notice it dip below the last line I try to fill it as soon as possible, although I’ve been more lax about that lately than usual, it still hasn’t gotten a low fuel light anytime recently (but I can tell you that my car will go a LONG way even after that point – learned that in college the hard way).

5. Are you a registered voter? I’m in between voting registrations since moving (which means I did not vote in the primaries, unfortunately) but I’ve just filled out the majority of my registration form this morning and I’m hoping to bring it in to submit this week along with one for my husband.

6. Breakfast for dinner is one thing, but can you eat dinner for breakfast? No, I can hardly eat breakfast foods in the morning never mind anything else.

7. Do you click on the ads you see on people’s blogs? Never for anything selling anything, but I click the buttons for memes and groups and challenges and the like.

8. Do you just want to yell at smokers who are clearly standing within 50ft of the door at a restaurant? Well maybe not yell at them, but I certainly don’t like seeing people smoke on any occasion or at any location.

Monday Morning: Monday Afternoon Style

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Well my friends, it’s time once again for Monday Morning with Karen @ Write From Karen. This week’s hodge podge of questions are about happiness, breakfast foods, politics and growing pains. If you decide to play along on your own blog, be sure to comment and let me know and also link up at the main post here.

The September 29th Questions are:

1. How do you define happiness? I guess to me, happiness in the long term means being surrounded by people I love who also love me, succeeding at the things which are important to me and knowing I’m living the best life I can. Short term? Happiness can be anything – a pound lost, a good book gained, your child’s laughter – knowing my son is happy makes me very happy indeed.

2. What did you have for breakfast? (If not this morning, tell us what you had the last time you had breakfast). This morning I had a glass of strawberry carnation instant breakfast and half a mug of coffee (and a glass of water with my gargantuan multivitamin).

3. On a scale of one to ten, how sick are you of the presidential campaign? Do you talk about politics on your blog? What about in real life? Why or why not? I’d say I’m about 75% sick of this election. I have talked about it a bit on my blog, but not too much as it’s not a topic I’m normally giddy to read about myself, but being an election year, it is important and thus more interesting to me than usual. In real life, I do talk about politics, especially in an effort to further my own knowledge on subjects, but I try very hard not to argue about politics, because that can be draining and pointless.

4. What about your life today would surprise your teen-aged self? I think she’d be surprised to know that I’m not working, but rather a stay at home mom, and probably also a little surprised to learn that, in fact, her entire family WAS right and that because she kept eating “like that” and exercising “not at all” she would gain the weight eventually and have a very hard time putting the weight off (as evident by the weight still being here at present).

Looking Fine 2009: Week 5 Update

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So Am I going to be…

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I gained a pound. I think that goes to show you that being “pumped” and “excited” and “optimistic” while dieting might be setting yourself up for failure. But let’s evaluate, shall we? During the week, per usual, I did well with eating – my water consumption might be a bit down but I think that’s because I keep finding fun beverages to buy and then don’t want to waste them. But THAT mostly happens in the evening. Whatever. I also keep neglecting to eat breakfast and once or twice last week, lunch also. Which probably means I get ravenous at dinner or after dinner. This weekend was game night so you know I ate delicious pizza, my favorite potato chips and drank SODA ::gasps::

Also, we ate out twice this weekend, we had lunch out twice – once at a KFC / Taco Bell, in an effort to save money (the other was Applebees, soooooooo good and totally worth it) KFC not so much and I’d have gone home to eat, but we were an hour from home and ill prepared, I know, totally my fault – but I got a pretty rain coat from LL Bean that tucks into a pocket in the hood for easy storage – so cool!!!

Oh right and exercise. So that 10 minute dance hurrah hurrah DVD? I realized a problem with this DVD included (but was not limited to) the fact that I lack all coordination and dance like a white girl. I.E. badly. I can jump around and make goofy faces with the best of you, and my son got a kick out of it, but ask me to step in specific places at specific times? Not likely. And after 5 minutes I was exhausted… and I never put the DVD back in. I guess I aught to return it for something else not involving dancing. But let’s be honest, guys, fat blasting dance mixes… it’s step aerobics. I won’t lie to you, they shouldn’t either.

I wish I had a big beautiful elliptical machine instead of the strange dwarf midget version we got on the cheap that clutz = me has a hard time staying on without falling and hurting myself and DAMN is it exhausting and quick – I can’t last more than 2 minutes on that thing. I want to work out for 60 minutes, not 2, not 6. Any ideas that don’t involve a gym membership, because let me tell you how much that isn’t happening. We actually just canceled our gym membership which we had for almost 1 year and used religiously for 2 months and then never again.

And walking? Yeah, we already do that, a lot, and apparently it doesn’t actually equal exercise since we don’t do it CONSISTENTLY every day or some crap. Whatever. I’m feeling discouraged, but I haven’t given up, so that should count for something, right?

Did I mention the delicious apple pie I made Saturday? Or the delicious cherry pie I made the next day? Who said baking was a good idea? I BAKED guys – that should equal cheering not tsking. Okay the halloween sugar cookies I got from Stop and Shop aren’t as impressive to tell you about, but they were DELICIOUS…

Fine I’ll admit, apart from that 5 minutes of DVD time, I pretty much ignored the diet all week until I hopped on a scale Monday morning and said, “crap, what happened?”

Jen @ Daily Mish Mash (our fearless leader who is also a bit discouragedish after a week of slacking off, which seems to be the general consensus this week of Looking Fine by 2009) wants to know what your mini goals and maybe mini rewards are for this week? I think mini goals are where it’s at – a major goal is all well and good, but without mini goals, it’s easy to forget your on a “diet” at all.

So my mini goals this week are to DRINK more water and to cut back on snacks and eating out of home which I was doing REALLY good on until game night i.e. evil night for diets everywhere. Excepting the leftover pie and sugar cookies I will try to be good. Oh and the apple cider. Okay, I’ll share all those things and throw them out by the weekend, how’s that?

Okay, my mini goals are REALLY to drink more water and get my hands on a new DVD for working out or a new GOAL without a DVD. Any suggestions that I haven’t already tried are welcome. And I’m also hoping to not gain more weight from my delicious snacks that invaded my house when I wasn’t thinking.

Maybe my goal will be in the form of those mini treats? Like I can ONLY have pie or cider or cookies IF I worked out AND had 3 glasses of water that day… that seems like sort of reasonable… And when the snacks run out I’ll replace them with a better Mini Reward that doesn’t involve junk food, but at least in the mean time, I’ll only have snacks if I’ve done good already that day. That’s better than eating junk food for no good reason, right?

How about you?