May 3, 2014
It’s Show Day!!!! I have to pack my food, double check my costumes, fix my hair, paint my nails and clean the house so the babysitter thinks I’m cleaner than...
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May 1, 2014
If a bad dress rehearsal means a good show, then Ima be the next Pole Star. Because today had to have been THE WORST rehearsal ever. “Oh Lisa,” you say,...
April 29, 2014
“Hi Joe, thanks for talking with me today. I’m very excited to be doing my first Spartan Run in two weeks. Full disclosure: I chickened out once before, ‘cause, let’s...
April 25, 2014
Have you ever been excited and terrified in equal parts? Those were the emotions I felt reading about new healing technologies being used and enhanced right now. (CNN: Healing the...
April 24, 2014
When I’m nervous about something I tend to get stress dreams. During my first bodybuilding bikini competition I had a dream that I ate a giant (as in 2 foot...
April 22, 2014
Happy Tuesday! I’ll tell you some things that are making me happy and you tell me what’s making you happy. My Good News: 1,005 Twitter followers! Not bad considering I...
April 20, 2014
My keyboard is sticky with the remnants of chocolate bunnies my kids were eating while playing on pbskids.org. I limited them to two bunnies each, plus a few peanut butter...
April 16, 2014
The pole fitness competition is in less than 3 weeks! Yikes! Panic attack! FYI – this is a picture of one of my dance teachers, Brenna Wilder, who won the...
April 15, 2014
This weekend was packed. Saturday was The Shredder, a huge natural bodybuilding competition in Austin, TX (more posts to follow later this week,) and on Sunday about 20 people came...
April 14, 2014
Today was a bad day. Nothing overly dramatic or devastating. Just nothing worked right, everything I did went wrong, everything I said came out wrong and I kind of wish...
April 11, 2014
Scrolling through Twitter I came across an image showing two Google searches, one starting “how can u” leading to searches like “get herpes, get hiv, get aids”; the other starting...
April 7, 2014
As my thoughts turn towards summer, I can’t help but fantasize about taking a vacation. But since I am crazy a fitness enthusiast, a dream vacation for me includes hardcore...
April 4, 2014
Remember how I told you that when I turned 40 I decided to enter a pole dancing competition, even though I can’t dance, don’t know gymnastics, and got no game,...
April 2, 2014
Where did March go? It seemed like such a long month, ’cause it was 31 days, which seemed extra long after February’s measly little 28 days, you know? Gone. So...
April 1, 2014
New research from the Harvard School of Public Health suggests that people who eat McDonald’s French fries (size medium) an average of once per week have higher levels of “good”...
March 28, 2014
3 Signs It’s Time for Botox 3. Hot guy at the gym reception desk says, “Have a good workout, MA’AM.” 2. People keep asking you, “Are you angry?” and you...
