Thursday Truths, Part IV
1. I believe that the gal getting ready next to me this morning in the gym locker room shut off my straighter while I was blow drying my hair. How can I prove it?! Source. 2. I only see movies in the...
View Article26 Moments That Restored Our Faith In Humanity This Year by BuzzFeed
Sometimes words don’t serve their purpose. How could we ever find the words to accurately describe this nightmare? I cried in my cubicle after reading CNN. I cried myself to sleep after scrolling...
View ArticleTesting Out A High-Fat Diet
Saturday morning was quiet. I woke without an alarm before the sunrise, quickly weighed myself (studies show people who weigh themselves regularly tend to have lower BMIs) and made breakfast. BREAKFAST...
View ArticleMonday Prep
1. Wake up early on Sunday morning. It will help you to fall asleep faster on Sunday night. 2. Eat breakfast. In this case, it was oatmeal, strawberries, peanut butter, cinnamon, almond milk and a few...
View Article2012: A Year in Review
1. What did you do this past year that you’d never done before? I took four vacations in one single year – NYC, Nashville, Portland and Cancun (anticipated) Bikram yoga Weight lifted consistently...
View ArticleWIAW: How Do You Measure Your Day?
I think the measure of a good day right now is how you start it and how you end it. Everything in between can just wash away. How do you measure your day? Perhaps in: Miles on the treadmill Hours spent...
View ArticleThursday Truths, Part V
1. This feature on autocorrect errors made my day yesterday. Hell, it made my entire year! Bring it on Mayans, I can now die a happy woman. 2. When I wear dresses in the winter to work, I always pair...
View ArticleHow I’m Spending My Last Hours on Earth + A Giveaway from Sambazon
For the next 12 hours, you can find me listening to good tunes, snuggling my felines and eating my weight in vanilla Greek yogurt. Thanks Chobani! Your surprise was delivered JUST IN TIME!...
View ArticleA Few Lessons Before Noon
Be sure to enter my Sambazon giveway for your chance to win VIP coupons to sample some tasty smoothies, plus a gorgeous wooden bowl and spoon! _______________ Since this is my blog, and not my real...
View ArticleCaptain’s Chair Leg Lifts
You still have a little time to enter my Sambazon giveaway for a chance to win free organic, superfruit smoothies. Yum! _______________ It appears the holidays are finally upon us! I’m not sure what I...
View ArticleA Few Brief Words About Christmas 2012
Congrats goes out to Raleigh! You won my Sambazon giveaway! Please email me with your full contact information so I can get your goodies out to you. _______________ Christmas 2012 is in the bag. I...
View ArticleSame Old Lang Syne
I am hoping that by this time tomorrow, I will be high in the skies on the way to a luxurious Mexican getaway! And not stranded in a crowded airport terminal due to nasty weather in almost every...
View ArticleFeliz Año Nuevo!
I am back from Mexico! Boy, three days laying on a beach chair really flies by, does it not? Alas, while I get acclimated back into these chilly Chicago weather conditions, let my preview my trip for...
View ArticleNYE in Cancun: Parte Uno
Dark and early last Friday morning, I left for the gym. The flight from Chicago to Cancun is just over three hours. Knowing I would be sitting for that long meant one thing – I needed to get my butt on...
View ArticleThursday Truths, Part VI
1. Three-day weeks are the ish, especially when followed by weekends that feature a two-hour premiere of “Downton Abbey.” 2. I haven’t lifted a single weight in well over a week. Speaking of regaining...
View ArticleNYE in Cancun: Parte Dos
The second full day of our Mexican getaway began on Sunday morning much like it had on Saturday – with an outdoor run. We opted for 40 minutes of intervals that took us just over 3.5 miles. The reason...
View ArticleOn The Mend
It seems like my little Mexican bug was not Montezuma’s – it was the stomach flu, which is rampant in Chicago right now. Yesterday I found myself down for the count…again! I didn’t eat anything outside...
View ArticleThis About Sums It Up
This weekend I… …battled the stomach flu. You want to bond with your spouse or roommate? Obtain the stomach flu at the same time, in the middle of winter, in a 1,200 square foot house with one...
View ArticleTell Them About The Bikini
Not to be confused with, “Tell him about the Twinkie.” But I digress. In Mexico, I wore a bikini for the first time in my entire life. Having been significantly overweight until I was 20, and...
View ArticleWIAW: Testing The (Veggie) Waters
Things are slowly but surely starting to get back to normal after a battle with the world’s longest lasting stomach flu. My appetite is still touch and go and yesterday’s eats were a perfect example of...
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