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Link Love

29
Jul 2010
Hi guys! You’re not going to believe it, but I actually cleared out my Google Reader last night.  Now, admittedly, there were over 1000+ posts (I’m not sure exactly as that is what it maxes out at), so I wasn’t able to read all of them, but I did read quite a few.  Of course, now it is back up to around 30, but hopefully this will be a first dip of my toe back into the blog-reading world. Food-wise, this week isn’t going so great.  And the scale is responding in kind (but it can go suck my big toe).  All-in-all, [ ... ]
Category: Life in General  4 Comments

99 Things

29
Jul 2010
In yet another effort to keep myself up as late as possible, I came across this list of 99 things over at Angelia’s site “Amelioration.”  Would love for you guys to fill it out as well if you’re interested, and if you do, please leave me a link!  Since I can never keep my mouth shut, I’ve made comments on some of the things that I haven’t done, as well.  The bolded ones are ones that I have done. 1. Started your own blog – (Who me? A blog? Huh? No way.) 2. Slept under the stars 3.  Played in a band 4. [ ... ]
Category: Life in General  One Comment

Weigh In & New Dinner Obsession

28
Jul 2010
Today was weigh in day and unfortunately, I showed a 1.1 pound gain.  But surprisingly, I was very okay with it.  While a bit disappointed, I actually had an extremely positive attitude about it all. First, I had Mexican (chips/salsa, grilled chicken fajitas with sour cream and guacamole) for lunch and then the leftovers for dinner on Saturday.  I snacked way more than I should have late Saturday night – not crazy off-plan things (like ice cream), but definitely more than I should have had and didn’t count it.  Sunday, I had a bagel thin pizza (just a homemade pizza using [ ... ]
Category: Food, Weigh-Ins  6 Comments

TEDxKC & Brené Brown

27
Jul 2010
Hi all!  Coming off of my high of the soccer game yesterday, I have some more good news. You all know that I work/sleep some funky hours.  Well, I heard that the TEDxKC tickets were going to become available today, and since I knew that Brené Brown is going to be one of the speakers, I knew I had to do everything in my power to get tickets.  You can read an article in the KC Star about the event here.  It says, though, that she is going to be speaking on social anxiety and human behavior.  Score! I [ ... ]
Category: Books / Movies / Entertainment, Brene Brown  4 Comments

KC Wizards Beat Manchester United!!!!!

26
Jul 2010
AND I WAS THERE!!!!!!!! This was an excited me before we left for the game: You know the best part about it?  I bought that t-shirt at the National World War I Museum back on Memorial Day weekend.  It was the weekend that we went to the dinosaur exhibit.  It didn’t fit when I bought it! It was WAY too tight!  AND NOW IT FITS!  Which is just awesome because it has a picture of Snoopy on it as the Flying Ace. (Note: I went ahead and bought it back then knowing that it wouldn’t fit, because I [ ... ]
Category: Life in General  7 Comments

Theme Switch

24
Jul 2010
So if you’re reading this on my site, you may have noticed a slight theme switch.  For the most part, I personally really like it.  I wanted something bold to represent my attitude towards wanting to live a bolder life.  Of course, there are little things that kind of irk me that I will be stewing over and working on to see if I can figure out.  Not the least of which is why I get an error when clicking on some of my individual posts. So if you happen to have a comment on one of them that you [ ... ]
Category: Life in General  12 Comments

Don’t Let the Scale Derail You

23
Jul 2010
I peeked at the scale today.  Again.  I peeked yesterday, and the day before.  I fully admit it.  I’ll probably peek again tomorrow. In the weight loss blogging world, there is a lot of talk about the scale.  For fairly obvious reasons.  For one, it’s a way to track our progress when it can’t be seen (i.e., clothes aren’t fitting differently yet, etc.).  For another, our doctors place quite a bit emphasis on it.  For another, so do we sometimes. Many of us adhere to the belief that the actual number on the scale doesn’t matter as much as how we feel [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss  4 Comments

Time for a Change

22
Jul 2010
Is anyone else as glad as I am that it’s Thursday?  That’s one day closer to Friday! Unfortunately, I’m either fighting off a head cold or have just been slammed by allergies.  Last night, I was thinking head cold.  Today, I’m thinking probably allergies.  Right now, I’m struggling with really watery, burning eyes.  Not too pleasant when you’re at work.  I’ll be fine, though. I got my license plate all renewed today and will get to keep the same personalized plate.  I’m glad about that, because I kind of like it. Overall, it’s been kind of a rough day [ ... ]
Category: Life in General  6 Comments

Various

21
Jul 2010
Yeah, I had no idea what to call this post, as it’s just another random mish-mash of things going through my head. I’m still on plan!  WHOOHOO! No slipping up at all.  <SHOCKED> I’m getting really excited about the Manchester United v. KC Wizards soccer game on Sunday.  Just really dreading the heat!  It’s at Arrowhead Stadium (Home of the KC Chiefs) and I’ve never been there before in my life even though I grew up here in KC. I’m also excited about *hopefully* attending TEDxKC. I wouldn’t be so excited if it was just the event itself, but
Category: Books / Movies / Entertainment, Brene Brown, Life in General  6 Comments

Weigh In 7/20/10 – YAY YAY YAY

20
Jul 2010
Wow, that was eloquent of me, wasn’t it?  I’m getting ready for work, so this is going to be short, but I just had to share….. I just weighed in…..and I LOST 6.5 POUNDS THIS WEEK?!?!?!?!  How the heck does that even happen?  Man, I must have been eating like crap the past few months.  Okay, we all know I really was. But that means I am now down 96.1 pounds total since I started in June 2006.  I’m at a new low since I recommitted myself (beating the low I saw back in May). And remember that goal I had of [ ... ]
Category: Life in General  13 Comments

Excited Again

19
Jul 2010
Hi folks!! First, I want to say thank you for your sweet comments on my last few posts. You’ve helped remind me that we’re all in this together! Second, I want to say that I know my past few posts have been on the rather depressing side. Let me assure you that I don’t sit around feeling sorry for myself. Seriously, I don’t. Most of the time I don’t even think about the things I posted about – but they’re there, hovering in the background, so I thought I would come out and acknowledge them. Now, on [ ... ]
Category: Books / Movies / Entertainment, Life in General, Weight Watchers / Weight Loss  4 Comments

The Importance of Food

17
Jul 2010
So many people have written about the importance of food and how its purpose is merely to provide sustenance. I have to wonder when it was that I began to place so much more meaning on what is merely supposed to keep us alive. There are moments when I actually get excited about what I’m going to eat next. I’ve mentioned before about how I feel I get cravings that have to be similar to the cravings a drug addict must experience.  I also get excited when I know that a delicious meal is coming up. And I get resentful at the [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss  4 Comments

Enough of the Blahs

15
Jul 2010
All right, you guys.  Enough with the god-awful depressing crap on my blog.  I’m still kind of in a funk, but today is looking up. My supervisor at work is on vacation as of today, and after many years of working here, my coworkers and I know to expect *it* to hit the fan.  And it kind of did earlier today.  But we got all of the fires put out and the people that were unhappy are now happy and we’re all caught up again.  It’s been really nice to be a bit less busy the past couple of days, because [ ... ]
Category: Life in General  One Comment

“Face Into the Sun. Embrace Whatever Comes.”

14
Jul 2010
Hi folks.  For the first time in what seems like a trillion years, we’re having a fairly slow night at work tonight.  Hence the double posts from me today. I’m feeling somewhat at a loss this evening.  I know I posted that positive, hopeful “Daughter of the Night” post yesterday, and I meant every word when I wrote it.  I still do mean every word.  I’ve had moments of sheer self-confidence and joy in the past several days.  But I also haven’t been this low in a long time. To be honest, I think part of it is that I’m allowing myself [ ... ]
Category: Life in General  2 Comments

Mourning “This World Fair”

14
Jul 2010
A while back, I went through an “obsessed with Shia LaBeouf’s acting” stage and saw the movie “Disturbia” an obscene number of times in the theater.  I bought the soundtrack and for the most part, I adored it.  It introduced me to some bands that I’d never heard before.  One of them became one of my favorites:  This World Fair. I eagerly anticipated the release of their new album a couple of years ago.  The release date seemed set according to a friend that worked in the industry, and I was thoroughly excited.  I fell in love [ ... ]
Category: Books / Movies / Entertainment  One Comment
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