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the catch 22 that is my weight

July 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Today marks me going to an endocrinologist for the first time. Some tests came up weird, but I’ve been assured that’s normal because I’m weird to begin with. Ha ha. I kid.
I went in because I can’t lose weight. Six months at 150 without budging, and I kind of think it’s [...]

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denial is not just a town in Illinois

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

I don’t get sick.
Oh, I get sinus infections. I get run down. I get days where my “allergies sure seem out of whack!”, but I don’t get sick.
Nope.
Never sick.
I get ten sickdays a year. It’s a point of pride for me to use as few of these as possible. It helps that I have the [...]

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coming this weekend….

October 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Seriously, no one out in the Internet-lands has ever tried to make baked home fries?
Seriously?
Man. As if I needed an invitation to try.
Last Friday I weighed in at 161. I’m 157 pounds as of today. Both numbers reached using the scale at the gym, which always adds three pounds due to me [...]

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Tags: Cooking · Health

bubble, boba, babbo

October 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Friday night a few of us went to Riddle’s and had some good wine, decent appetizers, and a stunning lack of desserts. Though I know we’re hitting the end of the year, I still crave sweet, tart, airy things for my desserts. Raspberries, blackberries, peaches. Creme anglaise and meringues. Alas.
The boba [...]

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Tags: Health · Life

how I am crazy, part umpty-six

September 18th, 2007 · 6 Comments

I bought a fast-food grilled chicken sandwich, got it home, threw away the bun, and put it on one of my own.
Call me crazy, but it did save me about 160 calories.
Houston, we have gender. I’m going to need to order girly colors. I am very excited, because this will perfectly balance the [...]

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Tags: Health · Life · knitknit

routine

August 9th, 2007 · 12 Comments

Okay, so, my workout routine. Which is working, might I add. It’s behind a link, so those of you who don’t care, don’t have to read it.

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Tags: Health · Personal Training Notes · Recipe

no, I won’t come over and clean your house

July 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Fact: it’s easier for me to clean other folks’ place than my own.  My brain shuts down at some point when I start thinking of all the cleaning I really should be doing here.
Not true in a three-story ex-convent, oddly enough.  I enjoy doing it, so if anyone asks why I’m going to Joliet this [...]

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Tags: Health · Personal Training Notes

getting personal

July 10th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Sugar scrubs? Pfft. So 2001. All the cool girls nowadays are using sanded grout. On their arms. On their hands. On their bare feet. In their hair….
I don’t actually have money, but I went and hired a personal trainer anyway. We shan’t discuss cost. Mom pitched [...]

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Tags: Health · Personal Training Notes

ever vigilant

June 16th, 2007 · 4 Comments

“My doctor says I should go on a low-fat diet,” I said to my mom, and we both began to laugh that slightly hysterical, brittle-edged laughter that the women of my family always emit whenever a doctor tells us our cholesterol is too high.
We have family history of this thing, you see. It doesn’t [...]

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Tags: Cooking · Health · Recipe

notes from a leaky basement

April 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Certain parties will be thrilled to hear that I committed a small act of scrum today. If it works, it will mean I won’t have to spill my brains out across my keyboard every time art team needs an asset list…and that’s a good thing.
I also filed my taxes. Verdict is: I’m definitely [...]

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