Yay. An “opportunity” to grow in character already this year. This evening, I got a message that the kitchen in our rental had flooded and we are still 2000 miles away on vacation.  Thanks 2010 for the great start. I haven’t been on the computer much because I’ve been spending as much time as possible [...]

We returned home from the Sequoia National Forest Monday evening.   Our trip was lovely.   I’m missing the simplicity of our days spent under the majestic  trees.  A full grown Sequoia is quite a sight to behold.  And since I’m prone to seeing the world through analogy, their massive thousands-of-years old trunks spoke to [...]

Like many girls my age Dirty Dancing is a nostalgic peg of my youth on which some fond memories of adolescence hang. I was too naive to even pick up on the questionable choices of some of it’s characters.  Instead, I resonated with Baby’s careless sense of adventure and her feelings of being a misunderstood [...]

I try not to compare myself to others because…well…I just don’t think it’s a good habit.  At best I tell myself I’m not doing that bad, at worst, I get depressed or cocky. Neither is lovely.  Not at all.  Most of the time if I compare myself to others I start to feel like I’m [...]

Last week, we discovered a leak in the gas line at our rental property.   To save money, my husband helped dig the trench for the plumbers and after it was fixed I was commissioned to go fill the trench back up with dirt. As I was shoveling the dirt  I started to think about [...]

I lost two pounds last week without “working out” or “dieting” (a word I very much dislike but that’s another post).  Yep, two pounds.  I even went out for Chinese, Baja Fresh, Subway, and El Pollo Loco throughout the week.  I don’t have an abnormally high metabolism or find some “secret”.  I have to work [...]

(source) A friend posted this article on Facebook yesterday from Time Magazine Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin.  I commented on FB but thought I’d expand more on my little slice of cyber space.  It’s a long article but the gist of it is that exercise alone won’t make you thin because exercising increases hunger [...]

It’s July 1st.  That means six months of this year have come and gone.  That leaves 6 more months to accomplish what you set out to do this year.  I re-visted my list of goals from January. 1. Compete in another competition. – Done. 2. Hold a 5 minute plank.  - Over halfway there. 3. [...]

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn’t will find an excuse. - Stephen Dolley Jr I love making lists and unfortunately my list of excuses is probably one of my longest lists.  For years, I made up all sorts of excuses of why I couldn’t lose weight, get [...]

Am I going to follow through or drive thru??? I’ve been asking myself that multiple times a day the past week.  I’m going to be honest. Training for my upcoming competition has been very hard and lonely.  Last time I didn’t have a trainer but I did have an accountability partner who was training for the same [...]