August 26, 2014November 5, 2018
This weekend I was invited to attend a fancy ball. Confession: I didn’t want to go. The past 8 weeks I’ve been fighting (and losing) a battle against looking and...
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August 25, 2014
Son, Tonight you are my little boy (sorry, my “medium” boy. You’ve taken offense to the term “little” after you turned five.) And tomorrow you’re an official big kid, starting...
August 23, 2014
Pop Quiz: Which teen-girl-saves-the-world movie is your favorite? A) The Hunger Games/Catching Fire B) Divergent This is a tough one. Hunger Games’ Katniss is a naturally born badass killing small animals...
August 22, 2014
While doing cardio yesterday, my friend, Kim, and I discussed our summer weight gains but agreed it would get better next week. Why? Because next week children all over the...
August 20, 2014November 5, 2018
We went to the oncologist on Monday and she said the median life expectancy for someone with my mother’s stage of lung cancer is 12-18 months. I told my mom...
August 17, 2014
Two major events happen this week: my mother goes to the oncologist tomorrow to get her treatment game plan and my son has Kindergarten Orientation. Oh my. In preparation for...
August 16, 2014
It’s been about half a month since my last blog post. Are you ready to catch up? Good. My mom went into the hospital on July 2 after falling in...
July 31, 2014November 5, 2018
Health magazine has a really interesting article this month about sugar cravings. Apparently, when you get the urge to eat something sweet, you should play Tetris. Tetris, for you millennials, is a...
July 28, 2014
July is almost over. This month I was supposed to be blogging about my first fitness competition; about my cool routine where I danced to the theme song of James Bond...
July 24, 2014
Pop Quiz: Bust out your VCR’s! What was your favorite old school workout video? A) Jane Fonda’s Workout B) Billy Blanks’ Tae Bo C) Buns of Steel D) Other E) What’s...
July 18, 2014
Each competition I take weekly front and back progress pictures and post them the day of the show. Usually I start my pictures 12 weeks prior to the event date,...
July 16, 2014
Murphy’s Law states, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” You might be tempted to think that this is negative thinking. But secretly I think Murphy was an optimist. ...
July 13, 2014
For the past few months I’ve been diligently working on the flexibility of my limbs; who knew that I’d get an unexpected test of flexibility for my time, finances and...
July 10, 2014November 5, 2018
It’s been a week that I’ve been in New Jersey now. When I flew out here, I had no information to go on beyond that my brother found my mother...
July 9, 2014
Stoners inhaled a sigh of relief yesterday as Washington became the second state in the US to legalize recreational use of marijuana. I never really understood the appeal of pot. It...
July 7, 2014November 5, 2018
If you would like an exercise in frustration, try dealing with the medical world when a loved one is sick. If you are an over-achiever, like my mom clearly is,...
