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On Cautious Blogging and Finding Balance

22 August 2011 General Life

When I was 10, I got my first computer with Internet access. It was 1998 and I found a website called Open Diary. Being a lover of writing and keeping journals, I was thrilled. Open Diary was the first incarnation of blogging sites as they’re known today and I’ve been blogging (albeit elsewhere) ever since. [...]

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What Inspires Me: Fitness Edition!

19 August 2011 Health and Fitness

I participated in a blog link-up recently so I decided to start one of my own – What Inspires Me! Feel free to add a link to your own blog post about what inspires you at the end of this one. Mine’s about fitness but yours can be about anything you like! Gadgets Oooh, I [...]

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Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred – Level 2

15 August 2011 Health and Fitness

Day 11 First day of Level 2 and my form was terrible. I think I need to sit and watch the workout tomorrow before I actually do it. I was all over the place! It was so hard! I was doing the beginner modifications a lot of the time. Day 12 Really hard but not [...]

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Things I Know – Amuse Me Edition!

12 August 2011 General Life

I’m copy-catting Veronica over at Sleepless Nights and joining in with the Things I Know meme! So, here are some things I know that amuse me: – Double entendre. I am the QUEEN of freakin’ double entendre. It cracks me up and once I’m on a roll, I do not stop. My mind is perpetually [...]

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Because I’m Not a Goddess and Neither Are You

10 August 2011 Motherhood

Women can be their own worst enemies. When I am out with my toddler and he misbehaves, the looks I receive from other women (particularly other mothers) are deathly. It’s not just paranoia, either. It’s practically written across their forehead in neon that they think I’m doing a piss-poor job of parenting. Yet when my [...]

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100 Things That Make Me Happy

5 August 2011 General Life

Food-y smells like cinnamon, apple pie, baking bread, vanilla, berries… Newborn babies and the way they smell, the way their fuzzy little heads feel My children and how they make the small things in life so special, how they help me relive my childhood all over again Warm Summer nights sitting in the backyard The [...]

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30 Day Shred – Level 1

2 August 2011 Health and Fitness

I’ve been keeping a diary as I complete the 30 Day Shred and I’m going to be sharing it here on my blog. The 30 Day Shred is a fitness program by Jillian Michaels. It’s a daily 30 minute workout involving 3 circuits of strength training, cardio and abs. There are 3 levels, each level [...]

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Understanding Caloric Intake and How To Lose, Gain or Maintain

29 July 2011 Health and Fitness

Since having our second son, I’ve been working hard to regain my pre-baby body and improve my fitness levels. I’m actually feeling really motivated and active; I’ve made a lot of progress over the past 6 weeks. I want this to be an actual lifestyle change – not just a temporary diet or something that [...]

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10 Gross Things About Babies

27 July 2011 Motherhood

1) They have swollen faces and coneheads from being crammed inside your lady garden for so long at birth. You can make it sound like you have the vagina of Wonder Woman by telling people that you crushed your kid’s skull into that shape as he was being born, but really…it happens to most vaginally [...]

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Mortality

14 July 2011 Relationships

I was reading one of Lori’s older blog posts last night and it broke my heart. You can read the blog post here, but for some backstory, her husband took his own life, leaving her (and her tiny children) to pick up the pieces. I was sobbing over my laptop, I honestly couldn’t even stop [...]