Finding Me, part one

I’ve been thinking about this post all summer; trying to frame it in a way that made sense. I’ve started, erased, restarted a dozen times.
Did I ever tell ya that most of my teen and early adult years I was thin?  From 13 to 27 I weighed in around #100 pounds (from 98# to [...]

Self-Motivation

Kelly at Grounded Fitness offered a homework assignment for over this past weekend: explain how you keep yourself motivated to workout when you’re working on your own.
When I took 3 months last month to workout on my own (leaving the safety net of a trainer for the first time), one of the key items I [...]

Happy Healthy Girl, I am!

When I was 34 my father underwent quadruple bypass surgery.  He was 61 (or 5 years older than I am today).  He’d had some vague symptoms for several years before unstable angina forced the surgery.  Those symptoms were always attributed to something else.  He never had a screening blood test that might show his high [...]

Five Things To Do When Negative Self-Talk Haunts Your Day

Woke up this morning with a cloud of negative self-talk settled down over my psyche. I wonder what I was dreaming about?
Rather than pulling the covers over my head and wallowing in a bed of self-loathing, I tapped into the actions that help overcome this pervasive sense of self-doubt. Some days I need [...]

Tale of the Scale: Work and Rest

Rest.
Working out is equally about work and rest.
The work part seems fairly clear: head to the gym, sweat, push, balance, step, squeeze, hold, breathe. Work.
For the work part to be really successful, however, the body needs time to heal. That’s called rest. I’m having a challenge with rest.
I get that [...]

Tale of the Scale: w.o. 1/13

I had my annual physical last week, where I aced my stress test and general exam. Heart beat, blood pressure.. all looked well. Then I got the bloodwork result. NOT. HAPPY.
I’m eating healthier than I ever have before. Fresh veggies every day every day; fresh fruits, whole grains. Few if [...]

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. Ralph Waldo Emerson
While reading my KSR trilogy, one of the characters constantly refers to an unfortunately non-existent website/email messaging system that offers a quote of the day from either Emerson or Thoreau. I like many of the quotes offered, so for [...]

The Universe Is Trying to Tell me Something…

I was checking out regular posts and trying to choose who to nominate for Webbies and thinking about my goals for this year, when I found Crazy Aunt Purl’s horro-scopes (finally!!).
Sometimes I save Cancer for the last, either because I can’t see that far ahead into my own month or because it’s too personal. This [...]

Shopping Online

An original painting by James Seward that I inherited this from my parents.I love the colors in this piece.
If you do much shopping online, you want to know about RetailMeNot. When you’re shopping at a retail spot online, you often see a box to get some kind of discount (“enter discount code here”). I [...]

My Tree. Part of “My Back Yard Series”. I altered the colors… we didnt’ have weather that was this weird. Actually I’m playing around with using this image in my banner. Whatcha think?
My friend Karen, who’s recovering from surgery, lent me one of her Pfaffs until mine is out of the shop. [...]