Tale of the Scale: Ooops

If you work out, have you heard about interval training instead of static cardio work? The idea is you work at a normal aerobic pace for a period of time, then work at a much faster pace for a short interval (2/3rds easy pace, 1/3rd maximum.) In a 20 minute session, you can [...]

Geek Girl, Subpar

67% GeekMingle2
Is it wrong that I wish my score was just a little higher??

Tale of the Scale, The Return

For 14 days I was travelling through Southern Europe and Asia Minor… eating cruise ship food(which, yes, means it’s available almost 24 hours a day, often cooked with butter and cream, and in the restaurants comes with appetizer, first course, main course and dessert if you choose). The first couple days I did what [...]

Good bye, So Long.. Auf Weidersehen…

Ok, Folks. The computer is bound for it’s stay at the “spa”.. and I’m within days of winging it to our cruise.
This is it for blog posts until the end of June, unless I break down and find an internet cafe sometime between here and there. (there’s a coffee shop with free internet [...]

Tale of the Scale.. With Good News!!

Weight this morning (at home): 130# This is within 10# of my likely final goal.
Weight at the gym (after breakfast, snack, a couple bottles of water, and 30 minutes of hard cardio): 137.5#!!
Now the unfair thing about this is all the calculations on body composition we made today are based on the 137.5# number [...]

Green Grocery Bags…

I have been recycling my paper grocery bags for about 15 years now. I fold them up and carry them in them in car so they are always there waiting for me if the impulse to stop and pick up a half a cow should hit me. A set of bags lasts me [...]

Do You Twitter??

There is a phenominon spreading like wild-fire through the internets: Twitter.
Such a simple idea: tell your friends and the world what you are doing right now in 140 characters or less. And your friends can “hear” about on thier computer screens, their mobile phones or the IM screens.
Great, you think, [...]