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Hello Everyone! Thank you for stopping by today to allow me the opportunity to talk to you about my book, The Feria! And a special thank you to an amazing author, the wonderful Patricia Fischer, for a lift on the virtual highway today! My book has culture, love,...
I'm watching tutorials on youtube.com on how to set up and change my website. Doesn't it seem like the setting up takes so much longer than the actual maintenance?
Julie Andrews Sings "The Lusty Month of May" from Camelot The first of May is one of my favorite times because the hot summer hasn't quite arrived, but the chill of the spring has faded. The days are perfect and sunny. Plus, I'm counting the days until the kids are...
Fall down seven times...get up eight. --Japanese Proverb At Thanksgiving, I took a long, hard look at myself and didn't like what I saw. Despite attempts to lose weight and keep it off, I'd bounced right back up again. Now I weighed in at 225lbs. Not only...
Wow! I didn't realize I'd been gone for almost three months. In the back of my mind, I thought I'd only been away for two, not that's really any better. Life gets away from us all. It's already August and less than a month away from school starting. So far, I've...
Up 1/2 pound this week, but down 9.5 for the 7 week MILI challengeOkay, we've made it 7 weeks and I've lost as follows: Weight-211.5 from 221 Waist 37.5" from 38" Hips 47.5" from 48 Arms: 13.5--same Calves: 15.75" from 16" So...
One of the most frustrating things for me when losing weight is the slow pace at which I do it. Now, rationally, I get that's a good thing, but that other part of my brain, the impatient one, tells me it's not fast enough. So when I come up with a 2 pound weight loss,...
A couple of weeks ago, if you'd asked me what I thought of the game Angry Birds, I would have said, "not much." Blame that response on the fact I'd yet to play the game. Now, my husband and I have been chipping away at the levels and we're in the third round, soon to...
Up 1.5 pounds this week. Shit. Bust 38", Arms 14", Waist 38", Hips 48", Legs 26" Body fat 43% This could easily send me into a downward spiral involving every fast food restaurant from here to Houston and most of the Easter candy in my pantry, but it won't. I know...
Okay, great news! I'm down 1.5 pounds from yesterday, which gives me a total of 6.5 pounds since we started two weeks ago. Also, I could move without much pain this morning when I got up and I did get to the gym this morning. I'm still in pursuit of...
Okay, this morning I was so proud of the fact that I'd lost 3 pounds and promised myself I wouldn't eat anything I wanted, meaning I wouldn't pig out. Then the "yeah for you's" came in along with a statement from a lovely woman, Virginia, that she'd hit the elliptical...
