November 2009
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Built an Attic in the basement
I should have taken a before picture. Let’s just say that empty boxes, tools, clothing, magazines, comic books, vinyl, collapsed ceilings, ancient machinery, dirt, broken pieces of flooring and floods created an inaccessible gray wasteland that has just been building since (at least) 1920. We strung a couple lines in the only open space at the bottom of the stairs next to the washer and...
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Crisp (aka the Fist Pump morning run)
6:00 am I’m laying on my back on my bedroom floor, looking up at my motivation wall and literally, with the most obstinate 3 year old look on my face, flipping off my wall with both hands. I have on one sock, my sportsbra and my running pants. my top is folded under my head so I can be comfortable during my temper tantrum. My eyes scanned the pictures of the happy running girls in the...
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blah blah blah yackety schmackety turkey day :P
A different take (for me) on being thankful- LOL - WARNING THIS MIGHT MAKE YOU HUNGRY-I’m told :P The Holiday Snowball effect starts tomorrow. Don’t Blink! It’ll be 2010 before you know it. Time is going to start speeding past us. Kids will be home for the holidays. We are going to have several days off of work, so when we are there- we will be busier than normal....
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Reset the Clock, COWABUNGA!!!!!!!!!!
*clears throat* I won’t apologise for getting that out of my system because it’s still running through my veins. My determination has wobbled all over the place. I’ve found myself contentedly laying on the couch watching crap tv too much. If I can get up, put on my coat and go down to the bodega for a thingie of Breyers @ 11:30 at night, then I am no longer too sick or...
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Date/No Date & Starting over
Friday night I went to my pub, had an all nighter with some of my closest pub friends. Drank nothing but water (YAY I WIN) but still stayed til 6:30 am. My date was at noon, and I would have to leave by 10:30 to be able to meet him at the NHM. So, yeah I cancelled. I would rather have gone when I wasn’t exhausted and running on zero energy. But that night I had a friend over and we ended up...
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Not Every Day Will Be Strong or Triumphant. (or...
(of course they only usually show us pictures of really happy people exercising, amirite?) We are fighting one of the ugliest, most grueling, terrifying, embarassing and life-changing battles that most people in our lives would not, or could not, understand. We are the enemy that we face in every reflective surface and every corner of our mind. We are the ally that greets us every morning before...
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lol
I’m doing my strength training, watching the Jeff Dunham show and Bubba J is in a hypnosis clinic and the woman is speaking slowly while his eyes are closed and she tells him, allow yourself to go deeper….. deeper… And he says, “that’s what she said” all seriously. HAHHAHAHAHA anyway- does carrying home 40 lbs of groceries in your arms for 30 minutes count as...
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I don' wannnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Oh good, I’m so glad. What? That we aren’t going running today, i can hear your thoughts, remember? I never said we weren’t running today. No but your thoughts are like……riiiiiiiiiiight on the edge of that decision. I figured I’d chime in and add my vote, let you know that you are on the right path. You wouldn’t know the right path if I left you...
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Ahhh Sunday
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two,...
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I have no idea how fat I am.
“Using your waist measurements and weight of 207 pounds your body fat percentage is estimated to be 37.37 % using the U.S. Navy body fat formula, or 25.29 % using the formula developed by the YMCA. ” Healthcentral.com measured my wrist, hips, waist, height, calves, thighs, neck, weight and gave me this: Your Results You have 23.9% body fat. You have 49.4 Pounds of fat and...
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Part II - Don't Get Gobbled Up
The second half of this challenge was the visual motivation. I already have a wall, but obv can’t bring it to work with me to keep me going. So I added a bit more to it and took pictures of some of my favorite parts to keep around digitally. The point was originally to make a wall of motivation with exercises mixed in with it so I could have somewhere to stand and read while I...
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Don't get Gobbled Up
(My neighborhood in Brooklyn where I run- or at least what it will look like in a month) (what it looks like right now, sob sniff, am going to miss it so much) Make a list of your strengths and weaknesses that you have discovered in your first month here. Weaknesses: chocolate (especially ridiculously intelligence-sapping so when PMSing) slipping from 15 to 12 reps when doing upper body...
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We all know it's coming...
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” -William Arthur Ward. This week I make a month on Sparkpeople. The first month is one of the very hardest because most of the changes that take place won’t show up on the scales or in measurements, maybe not even in the way our clothes fit. These changes are the invisible ones; the ones...
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New Year's Evolutions
The holidays take alot out of you. Being all bunched up at the end of the year, they make it impossible to ‘cram’ to reach your new year’s resolutions at the last minute because all of your energy is going into keeping your self-control, fighting illness, people-pleasing, cooking, cleaning, shopping, keeping up appearances, catching up on sleep, hangovers, fights, making up,...
