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Christmas Eve Shenanigans
Christmas Eve is usually culminates in some sort of meltdown on my part. Today, crisis averted because my husband made the trip to the zoo of a grocery store, my girls wrapped presents [oldest wrapped the youngest’s and vice versa], and I had help doing things that normally would have taken hours and hours. I’m…
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Turkey Trot Recap
The 37th Annual Turkey Trot is in the books. I not only survived, but I met my goals–I ran the whole time and I didn’t die. Surprisingly enough, I also managed to run the same pace I did at the first 5k of the year that I ran in October. Also, I somehow clocked 5.07…
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Five Miles?! Am I crazy?
The answer to that second question must be decidedly — “YES!” I joined a group wellness class at work in late August. It loosely followed the Couch to 5k paradigm with which I was familiar, but in a group setting. I am always last–no big whoop. I don’t run for other people. Most of the…
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Hibernation is Overrated
Thank goodness the sun is shining today and the temperature made it into the 60’s. After last winter’s absolutely offensive cold complete with tons of snow, frigid ice and wind chill records, I really couldn’t take much more from this year’s version of winter. Could we please just move along to spring and call it…
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2015–Stick with the Old & Add a Little New
The beginning of a new year always seems to spark a bit of enthusiasm. Even the most cynical among us, if honest, have a twinge of “what if” when the clock strikes midnight in a new year. January is also my birthday month, so there is that. Ever since I turned 40, I promised myself…
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Still Struggling
Another month has passed and you’d think, after all the clear thinking bravado of my last post, that I was probably eating well and feeling better. Not really. Embarrassingly enough, I’ve allowed my obligations, the stress of non-stop scheduling, and just plain not paying attention to bowl me over repeatedly.
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Whole 30 — Days 13 thru 16
Tonight I decided to be a little adventurous. All it took was seeing a 3-pack of portobello mushrooms on market’s weekly special list to start me thinking. I knew tonight was likely “pizza night” for the rest of the clan, and I’d thought about my own meatza or something. But, I also had pineapple and…
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Whole 30 — Days 7 thru 12
The past few days have been full of all kinds of “excitement” that has prevented properly documenting my Whole 30 progress. To make a long story short, the horribly cold temperatures caused a malfunction in one of our sprinkler system pipes. Fortunately, when that happens, it alerts the nearby fire departments who responded & were…
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Whole 30 Days 3-6 : Still Standing
Never fear! I’m still here…remarkably. If you thought I’d given up, thrown in the towel and consoled myself with a block of sharp cheddar cheese & a bottle of red wine, you’d be mistaken. If you thought I’d spent nearly every idle second fantasizing about those two no-no items, you’d be absolutely right! Although I’ve…
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Whole 30 Day 2 — Forgot How Much This Sucks
The good thing about doing another Whole 30 is you remember how awesome you’ll feel soon. The bad thing is, you figure out faster the second time around how much it really sucks at the start. It’s kind of like having your second baby–the minute those contractions start, you remember EXACTLY how much it’s going…