Tomorrow is the first day of my six week fruit and veggie cleanse. I have done probably a total of four weeks on and off, but now I'm ready. I want this weight off and I want it off now. I'm ready to change my body! I know it's going to be tough, but my desire to change has outweighed my desire to stay the same. Here I come, summer swim suit.
So, wish me luck. I'm tired of little to no results. Let's just do this and then I won't have to worry about it. Bam.
Here we go!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
What if.
What if everyone had a job that was meaningful for them?
Maybe the deeper question is, what if everyone cared for each other?
It's been a year since the BP oil spill in the Gulf, and it's everywhere I am. Stories of people slopping through oil today in commemoration, the dark depression in the minds of the fishermen and women, and rage in the hearts of Americans directed at the faceless stone wall of British Petroleum.
There was an interesting caller today on the NPR program On Point. He was an activist. I liked him. He echoed the call that BP needs to take more responsibility (which they do, by the way), and then went on this fantastic little rant on how we only run into these problems because we, as a people and society, feel that it's worth the cost. We buy everything (even plastic) wrapped in a layer of plastic, in a plastic bag and take it to our plastic cars and then to our plastic home with our plastic dishes and countless other objects with petroleum derived ingredients. He argued that we have to accept accidents like this because we continue to live a life that requires us to drill off the coast of Louisiana to support it. His conclusion was that we don't take alternative energy seriously because it won't meet our needs, so maybe we should carefully review our needs.
The other week our family went on a hike at Bald Mountain state park. I love running and hiking with our family. After an hour or so has passed, the kids are lulled into silence and Dave and I have the most wonderful, random conversations-- just like we did when we were dating. This time I opened up and actually said out loud a lot of my political and environment views about the problems of society (which I haven't done for, literally, years because we've been living in Utah and I didn't want to upset the flow too much).
What came out of my mouth was something very similar to this gentleman's point, which he argued so vehemently. If people would just conserve just a little bit, like only have two televisions in the house, and only have then on for 3 hours each day, just think what that would do for our energy consumption. If everyone found a way to ride the bus once a week, or ride their bike or walk to work just once a week; If everyone picked up 1 piece of trash a day, or carpooled with a co-worker, or turned off their power strip at night or put on a sweater or put up one solar panel or-- the list goes on.
What if people cared?
What if everyone had a job that was meaningful for them? And we could stop making plastic bags and assembling pieces of junk and spending more time helping people and feeling happy, instead of selfish and alone.
What if, indeed.
Maybe the deeper question is, what if everyone cared for each other?
It's been a year since the BP oil spill in the Gulf, and it's everywhere I am. Stories of people slopping through oil today in commemoration, the dark depression in the minds of the fishermen and women, and rage in the hearts of Americans directed at the faceless stone wall of British Petroleum.
There was an interesting caller today on the NPR program On Point. He was an activist. I liked him. He echoed the call that BP needs to take more responsibility (which they do, by the way), and then went on this fantastic little rant on how we only run into these problems because we, as a people and society, feel that it's worth the cost. We buy everything (even plastic) wrapped in a layer of plastic, in a plastic bag and take it to our plastic cars and then to our plastic home with our plastic dishes and countless other objects with petroleum derived ingredients. He argued that we have to accept accidents like this because we continue to live a life that requires us to drill off the coast of Louisiana to support it. His conclusion was that we don't take alternative energy seriously because it won't meet our needs, so maybe we should carefully review our needs.
The other week our family went on a hike at Bald Mountain state park. I love running and hiking with our family. After an hour or so has passed, the kids are lulled into silence and Dave and I have the most wonderful, random conversations-- just like we did when we were dating. This time I opened up and actually said out loud a lot of my political and environment views about the problems of society (which I haven't done for, literally, years because we've been living in Utah and I didn't want to upset the flow too much).
What came out of my mouth was something very similar to this gentleman's point, which he argued so vehemently. If people would just conserve just a little bit, like only have two televisions in the house, and only have then on for 3 hours each day, just think what that would do for our energy consumption. If everyone found a way to ride the bus once a week, or ride their bike or walk to work just once a week; If everyone picked up 1 piece of trash a day, or carpooled with a co-worker, or turned off their power strip at night or put on a sweater or put up one solar panel or-- the list goes on.
What if people cared?
What if everyone had a job that was meaningful for them? And we could stop making plastic bags and assembling pieces of junk and spending more time helping people and feeling happy, instead of selfish and alone.
What if, indeed.
Marathon plan
Fallsburg Marathon
$60
Saturday, Aug 20 2011
Lowell, Michigan - 2 hours away
http://www.fallsburghalf.8k.com/index_1.html
I found a great excel sheet that will chart your progress as you go. http://runninginthefamily.com/blog/training/16-week-marathon-training-plan. Let's do this.
$60
Saturday, Aug 20 2011
Lowell, Michigan - 2 hours away
http://www.fallsburghalf.8k.com/index_1.html
I found a great excel sheet that will chart your progress as you go. http://runninginthefamily.com/blog/training/16-week-marathon-training-plan. Let's do this.
Happy
Yesterday I:
Planted flowers for my window sill
Sang Puccini beautifully!
Went to the gym.
Cleaned my house.
Played with those kids.
Today I will:
Color easter eggs
play some music
Gym it again
Buy feta cheese! <3
Probably go outside.
Life is happy!
Planted flowers for my window sill
Sang Puccini beautifully!
Went to the gym.
Cleaned my house.
Played with those kids.
Today I will:
Color easter eggs
play some music
Gym it again
Buy feta cheese! <3
Probably go outside.
Life is happy!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Summer Saturdays: Renessance Center
We have decided to go do something fun every Saturday this summer. We have compiled a long list of necessary sightseeings to accomplish while we live here. This week we visited the Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit, which houses the General Motors International headquarters. The complex overlooks the river. We had a relaxing morning.
These were taken in the showroom. The guy who designed the Camero is in our ward!
This is a suburban-- the rural Utah mom car that I swear I will never own. I'm minivan all the way!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Fashion show, Fashion show, Fashion show at lunch!
I would like to report that I just had a pre-pregnancy fashion show in the which I fit into my prep-pregnancy clothes I had saved! The pants are even a little big in the leg! I am now officially a size ten! AND, when I stepped on the scale this morning it said 158! Which may mean I'm finally breaking my plateau! I'll tell you, the weight loss is worth the wait of months and months of little to no results. Just stick to it! 2.5 weeks left of Body for Life. We'll see what happens!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Decidedly,
It is time for an update. I feel like my life is so cool, even though society labels 'stay at home mom-dom' as mundane and full of stress. Well, it is, but life can still be pretty cool, too.
I don't even know where to start.
We have decided to sign on our house. We looked around Vernal for an apartment, and even had some good friends think of us when a townhouse came open to rent in our ward. But in the end, this investment is worth the risks, even thoug we really don't deserve a house this nice. So, yay for stability!
Dave's job is getting better. They are resolving issues with the management in the store, and he wants to stay in Vernal until something better opens up with DI (experimental jobs out east and international).
We went up to Salt Lake this weekend. It was like a week of Party. Earlier in the week we drove the 2 hours to Grand Junction, CO to go to their Chick-fil-a and the Bananas Fun Park. We did Bumper boats, where Dave and Sarah got soaked, mini golf, and a Dora & Diego bouncy house. I caught a game of lazer tag while Dave and the kids did the arcade. Then we went shopping at Kohls. Dave spent $100 and saved $500. We loveKohls. Then I went to Old Navy, where I'd like to say I found similar saving, but I didn't. However, I did find that I am officially a Medium shirt size again. I didn3 think it was possible, but I really am that small again! Thank you, Body for Life. I also bought a pair of size 10 pants to motivate myself these next couple weeks. Also they were cheap and I don't have pants smaller than 12s. 3 weeks to go!
Thursday we went to the beach without Daddy (who was at work). Steinaker State park is only about 15 minutes away, and has some really nice sandy beaches. It is $7 per car, which means we can't go all the time, but we can swing it every couple weeks. I didn't but sunscreen on and got a nice burn that is turning into an even better tan. But- no more sun for me this season. I put sunscreen on the kids, but they got burned anyway. =( Not to badly, but I was rubbing baby oil on their backs that night, and it felt so good to Christian that he smiles and says 'woil' every time he sees the bottle. That boy. He says mom, dad, hi and woil. =)
Friday I spent the whole day cleaning and packing. At 4 we got dad from work and left for Park City to the Deer Valley Music Fest again. This time it was the Utah Symphony playing the 1812 Overture with live cannons! It was an audience picks concert, so we enjoyed a lot of classics: Willaim Tell, Beethoven's 5th symph, Kannon in D, Porgy & Bess, Flight of the Valkuries, Four Seasons. Dave's parents met us there. It was nice to do something with them. So, Sarah and Christian danced the night away, and then almost fell asleep until the 1812. The cannons were awesome. Sarah was familiar with the song from Little Einteins, and she talked about the parts of the episode that were associated with each part of the piece (monkey, volcano, playing too loud.) It was tons of fun.
The next morning we went to the Zoo with Kat and Nick. The kids really enjoyed it. At the end we played on a playground there and headed home. It felt like we spent forever there, but it probably was just the sun.
That evening I bought Dave some strawberry cake rolls, red vines and ordered out for Papa Johns Pizza, all his favorites, and talked him mom into letting him open and use his present, Star Craft II. He has been waiting 12 years for this game to come out. Star Craft was his game of choice, and apparently he could womp most people growing up. It was fun to play with him. Star Craft is a lot like War Craft, which I played as a kid, just set in space instead of a medival fantasy world, so I got the hang of it pretty quick. We, along with Dave's little brother Michael, started on Very Easy against 4 computers, and got all the way up to Hard by 1 am, when we decided to call it quits. Because kids don't care if you didn't get any sleep the next morning.
We got up on time, though, and went to church with Josh and Carrie. Carrie gave a wonderful talk on living a balanced life. She's so amazing. I'm always surprised when they want to hang out with us because they're so cool. After church we hung out with them and Josh let me eat some Ranch Doritos. They were yummy.
The last thing to do was family dinner, which is now a bit of a blur. There are so many people, and his parent's house isnot small, but there is too much sometimes. His mom made lots of great food, as always, and we had cake and pies and opened presents. Christian had his own little cake, which he had fun riping apart with his fork. It was wonderful.
There you have it. Any question?
I don't even know where to start.
We have decided to sign on our house. We looked around Vernal for an apartment, and even had some good friends think of us when a townhouse came open to rent in our ward. But in the end, this investment is worth the risks, even thoug we really don't deserve a house this nice. So, yay for stability!
Dave's job is getting better. They are resolving issues with the management in the store, and he wants to stay in Vernal until something better opens up with DI (experimental jobs out east and international).
We went up to Salt Lake this weekend. It was like a week of Party. Earlier in the week we drove the 2 hours to Grand Junction, CO to go to their Chick-fil-a and the Bananas Fun Park. We did Bumper boats, where Dave and Sarah got soaked, mini golf, and a Dora & Diego bouncy house. I caught a game of lazer tag while Dave and the kids did the arcade. Then we went shopping at Kohls. Dave spent $100 and saved $500. We loveKohls. Then I went to Old Navy, where I'd like to say I found similar saving, but I didn't. However, I did find that I am officially a Medium shirt size again. I didn3 think it was possible, but I really am that small again! Thank you, Body for Life. I also bought a pair of size 10 pants to motivate myself these next couple weeks. Also they were cheap and I don't have pants smaller than 12s. 3 weeks to go!
Thursday we went to the beach without Daddy (who was at work). Steinaker State park is only about 15 minutes away, and has some really nice sandy beaches. It is $7 per car, which means we can't go all the time, but we can swing it every couple weeks. I didn't but sunscreen on and got a nice burn that is turning into an even better tan. But- no more sun for me this season. I put sunscreen on the kids, but they got burned anyway. =( Not to badly, but I was rubbing baby oil on their backs that night, and it felt so good to Christian that he smiles and says 'woil' every time he sees the bottle. That boy. He says mom, dad, hi and woil. =)
Friday I spent the whole day cleaning and packing. At 4 we got dad from work and left for Park City to the Deer Valley Music Fest again. This time it was the Utah Symphony playing the 1812 Overture with live cannons! It was an audience picks concert, so we enjoyed a lot of classics: Willaim Tell, Beethoven's 5th symph, Kannon in D, Porgy & Bess, Flight of the Valkuries, Four Seasons. Dave's parents met us there. It was nice to do something with them. So, Sarah and Christian danced the night away, and then almost fell asleep until the 1812. The cannons were awesome. Sarah was familiar with the song from Little Einteins, and she talked about the parts of the episode that were associated with each part of the piece (monkey, volcano, playing too loud.) It was tons of fun.
The next morning we went to the Zoo with Kat and Nick. The kids really enjoyed it. At the end we played on a playground there and headed home. It felt like we spent forever there, but it probably was just the sun.
That evening I bought Dave some strawberry cake rolls, red vines and ordered out for Papa Johns Pizza, all his favorites, and talked him mom into letting him open and use his present, Star Craft II. He has been waiting 12 years for this game to come out. Star Craft was his game of choice, and apparently he could womp most people growing up. It was fun to play with him. Star Craft is a lot like War Craft, which I played as a kid, just set in space instead of a medival fantasy world, so I got the hang of it pretty quick. We, along with Dave's little brother Michael, started on Very Easy against 4 computers, and got all the way up to Hard by 1 am, when we decided to call it quits. Because kids don't care if you didn't get any sleep the next morning.
We got up on time, though, and went to church with Josh and Carrie. Carrie gave a wonderful talk on living a balanced life. She's so amazing. I'm always surprised when they want to hang out with us because they're so cool. After church we hung out with them and Josh let me eat some Ranch Doritos. They were yummy.
The last thing to do was family dinner, which is now a bit of a blur. There are so many people, and his parent's house isnot small, but there is too much sometimes. His mom made lots of great food, as always, and we had cake and pies and opened presents. Christian had his own little cake, which he had fun riping apart with his fork. It was wonderful.
There you have it. Any question?
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