Archive for February 2007

Spring is coming ya’ll! I am so happy and excited about that. We got some of the recent ice storm that hit the east over the weekend, but it was not bad compared to the blizzard a few weeks ago. It is still cold here but I can feel Spring in the air.
I am planning [...]

I am sort of done with the new design for Mama Specific Productions…there are still some more things I’m gonna do but I made it live for now. Basically I got frustrated trying to hand code it myself so I just tweaked a CSS template done by David Herreman. I busted it a couple of [...]

The women of Ohio, U.S.A., call upon the women of the world, from day-old babies to our most senior elders, to stand with us on May 13, 2007, to save the world. Our project is based on Sharon Mehdi’s book The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. If you don’t know the story, a summary of the [...]

I’m still working on the new design for Mama Specific Productions, and tweaking the blogger template for here as well…stay tuned, and give me comments/suggestions/feedback about it, if you’d be so kind. I am trying to go from old-school tables to a complete CSS layout, and it’s a little more complicated than I thought it [...]

We are now into week 8 of the new year! Time is going so fast. I am so happy I am sticking to my fitness resolution. I think if I had put it off I would still be at 210 pounds, and probably have gained more weight in this time instead of lost. Weighed in [...]

Weighed in this morning at 186! after a busy busy weekend. I have a busy busy week including today and I am looking forward to bedtime already. I was up late last night working on some things and tonight’s going to be another late night, bleh. I told Mercury Man I couldn’t wait to get [...]

Working on the blog design, sorry it’s so yucky right now…will fix ASAP!!

Man, it is crazy outside, there is no where to walk! We had so much snow!! The snowplows cleared the streets but all that snow had to go somewhere, it’s all piled on the sidewalks and treelawns, in some places taller than me! So I had to do my morning walk in the street, in [...]

It’s not even 11am, and I feel like I have put in a full day already, whew! The kids are home again today, school is off still because of the weather. Funness!
Later we’re going to the Y. I weighed in this morning at 187.5!! Meals today:
Breakfast – oatmeal with apple, water
snack – cucumber & celery [...]

Ok I finally have pics! I still didn’t find my phone cable but I blue-toothed the pics to Mercury Man’s laptop (my desktop is 4 years old and thus ancient as far as that goes, I may put it on though) so here we go. remember my back-fat pic from last month?
Here’s my back now, [...]

Valentine’s Day is coming up and it is the day we count as our ‘real’ anniversay because it was our first date. There have been years we forgot our actual marriage anniversary! but never Valentine’s Day.
So anyway I have been thinking about our relationship and our ups and downs and the things we have done [...]

Busy day for me, actually this whole week has been very busy. I’ll get a break on Sunday then another busy week begins.
Weighed in this morning at 191 pounds. By Sunday I should be out of the 190s!! This is so exciting to me. Pschologically it’s a big boost because my first 20 pound chunk [...]

As of this morning I have lost 18.5 pounds!!!starting weight – 210current weight – 191.5goal weight – 130
I weigh myself every morning, I find that seeing the scale go down a little bit every day helps me a lot and helps me to keep focused for that 24 hour period. I originally started this challenge [...]

I can’t believe it’s after 10am already!! I have had a busy busy morning already and a meeting still before noon, and one after lunch. Weigh-in this morning: 192, I have lost 18 pounds so far!
Today’s Goals:45 minutes spinning class30 minutes treadmill12,000 steps120 oz. waterBrush & floss after every mealOne serving meals, no secondsRaw veggies [...]

Last week of the challenge! I lost 4 pounds last week, woooot. I’m now at 193.5, so I would like to lose 3-4 pounds this week to put me under 190. Good-bye 190s, hope you don’t stay too long! LOL
The kids are home today, all the schools are shut down today because it’s so cold. [...]

Question of the day:What does it mean to you to be healthy?
For me being healthy is the absence of disease or affliction. In the case of a permanent issue, health can be maintained by taking the proper medicine, herbs, and/or following the advice of a health care provider.
I relation to weight being overweight can cause, [...]

Today’s Question:Do you remember to do a breast self-exam?Here are the five steps to doing a BSE: http://www.breastcancer.org/dia_detec_exam_5step.html
Yes, I do one every month the day after my period (because that just makes it easier for me to remember to do). I got started on this back when I got my nipples first pierced years ago…the [...]