New babies.  Sickness.  New jobs.  Lost jobs.  Moving.  Travel.  Injuries. Life happens, sometimes with a super sized portion of “BUSY” making it nearly impossible to maintain a routine.  Especially if you’re like me and easily get overwhelmed. I’m all about making priorities but sometimes priorities mean there is very little time for exercise.  The last […]

I mean I shed like crazy Furry Friday. Since we moved and I lost my beloved garage gym, Brent and I have been working out at the park down the street. Someone likes to tag along. Functional fitness for aliens dogs? I think he dreams of playing tug o’war with my rope like a “real” […]

A few weeks ago, I was on a list to take a meal to a friend who had a baby.   As I was skimming the list to make sure I wasn’t bringing a duplicate meal, I saw “sloppy lentils”.  Since, I already had a bunch of lentils from my last Azure Standard order, I […]

Meet Girl Hero Helen.  Helen set out to weigh less than 180 pounds by her 50th birthday but along the way discovered the real lessons of weight loss are not found in a scale. Helen is married and has a 31 year old daughter and a 29 year old stepson.  Helen works as an assistant […]

Today is the opening for Sucker Punch.  I could not care less about this movie BUT I’m thrilled to see Shape published one of Vannessa Hudgens workouts AND it doesn’t involve 5 pound dumbbells.  In fact, they recommend using “Two 12- to 24-pound kettlebells or dumbbells (they should feel very heavy)”.  Did I read that […]

(source) Fitness trends change almost as fast as a Forever 21 storefront window and the last few years the use of the phrase “functional fitness” has rivaled the popularity of skinny jeans.  However, unlike skinny jeans, (I’d much rather wear these bell bottoms even if they are high waisted) functional fitness is here to stay like […]

How and why (far more important) to make sweet potato chips. PMS, which I like to refer to as Present Monster Syndrome, presents a set of challenges almost every month not the least of which are the cravings.  C.R.A.V.I.N.G.S.  Cravings, if not managed, will leave unwanted additions to my thighs every month and over time, […]

Today on the way to school my oldest, Thing 1, saw this trash truck which had a sign on the back that read “Safety is my Goal”. Thing 1, being the analytical 10 year old he is, says, “That’s a dumb sign.” “Why do you say that?” I asked. “It should say safety is my […]

And she is on her way to a nervous breakdown.  Kidding.  Sort of. Between traveling, getting sick, moving, preparing our rental, taekwondo tournaments and normal and not so normal life stuff like going to the grocery or vacuuming, (we may or may not have just vacuumed for the first time since we moved a month […]

My sister called at 5 am worried about our family and the tsunami warning that had been issued for our town. “Huh?”  “What?” “Earthquake?” “Japan?” Lately, I’ve been complaining about… My bangs are too long poking me in the eyes. The water is too slow in my fridge filter.  It’s takes “all f-ing day to […]