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Happy Spring / Ostara

Today is officially spring.  Here in Las Vegas it’s a little overcast, but it’s been a beautiful spring week all week!  The wind has been blowing off and on and it’s been clear and warm.  Warm enough that I even got to wear my denim Capri pants (after shaving my legs).  It’s been wonderful!  We even have been able to keep the windows open!  I love spring and fall here in Vegas because of weather like this.  It’s the summers that are hard! Read the rest of this entry »

Thankful Thursday is a wonderful way of keeping your thoughts positive and gratitude in your heart.  Whether you are doing it for religious reasons or just to be a happier more positive person, it’s a wonderful idea!

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Baby slings have been around for a while. I don’t know if they were around when my boys were babies or not, but I didn’t know about them. I wish I had. They look so nice and comfy! I know my boys would have loved them because they loved being carried around as much as I could as it was.  They didn’t have slings when I was a baby either, but my mom made her own for me,  with a silk scarf.  She loved it because she could tie me to her body and do all her house cleaning or shopping without having to worry about me.  That’s why so many moms love using them.  They are convienient and comfortable for both mom and baby.   So when I heard about the CPSC giving out a warning against baby slings and all the news coverage of the baby’s deaths, I knew I had to learn more about them and what was going on. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy National Napping Day!

Today, March 15, is National Napping Day.  This is a relatively new “holiday” that was started in 1999 to counter act the horrible affects of the miserable Daylight Saving Time.  National Napping Day is always the Monday after Daylight Saving Time in the spring because we have to change our clocks forward one hour.  We all need the nap time!  I know I do!

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Found this on A Moderate Conservative’s blog.  I’ve seen it before, but hadn’t had a chance to post it yet.

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!

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Do you watch it?  OMG!  I love this show and have from the very beginning.  Mostly I think because my mom was always such a talented seamstress, and I always wished I could be like her.  I can’t, and really have NO desire to learn to sew or design clothes.  But this is such a fun show!

This widget is from the Lifetime website for Project Runway.  These are my top three picks of the contestants this season.  Who do you like?

One of the cute blogs that I follow had this  post today.  It’s an interview to get to know her better and it’s part of the 32nd st Blog Parade this week.  I liked it so much that I thought I’d join in.  So here is the link to parade and my answers to the questions.  Hope you enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »

That’s basically what my doctor said to me on Saturday.  I went in saturday to see my doctor so I could get a refill on my perscriptions, talk to him about a few minor issues, and get my handicapp placard renewed. Relatively easy, non-controversial stuff, or so I thought.  You see, my back isn’t just bad, sore, or out of shape, it’s actually broken.  You know, BROKEN!  It has been broken for 20 years now (wow!  It was 20 years ago Feb. 10th!)  So how could I be “too healthy” to need a handicapped placard???  But that’s exactly what he said to me, I can walk, I don’t need a wheel chair or oxygen, so in his mind, I’m too healthy to get a handicapped placard. Read the rest of this entry »

I found out about this wonderful little challenge on Facebook.  Several of my friends there had joined and invited me to join as well.  Sileen Nixon is a wonderful woman, who I had already been following on Twitter, who helps people see the positive.  I love following positive people on Twitter, because they generally send out wonderful little tweets to put a smile on your face.  This Wonder Woman challenge is a free group that helps you to remember to nurture yourself as a woman, just 15 minutes a day will help.  So I thought, I’d post about it here and share my journey through nurturing myself for the next 30 days.

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Valentines day was Sunday.  Steve and I went out to play some poker tournaments, including a “Couples” tournament.  We had fun, even if we didn’t win anything.  I wore some jeans, that I was finally able to fit into again.  I started fitting into them a few weeks ago after I lost 15 lbs because of my gallstones.  Well Sunday, when I put those jeans on, fresh from the dryer, it seemed that they fit me a little better than they had before.  I didn’t take the time to weight myself, mostly because I had been cheating a little to much and last week I had a mild gall bladder attack.  Then yesterday I woke up, and went straight to the scale (ok, maybe not straight to the scale.. I went potty first).  I nearly had a heart attack when I saw what the scale said!!  I am down to….. drum roll please……………………………………………………………………………………

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I don’t know exactly how this is going to work.  I”m not really very good about talking about my private bits, but then again it wouldn’t be called a “challenge” if it was easy to do.  Over at Renegade Moms they are calling for a Vagina Monologue-esqe writing Challenge, and being that  I love a challenge… well lets just say it was like a triple dog dare to me.  So here’s my little contribution…

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My Health:

So, After I was diagnosed with gallstones I stopped eating so much fat.  I ended up losing 15 lbs in almost as many days.  Then over the holidays, I didn’t stick to my diet and I gained 5 lbs back.  Well since New years, I’ve stuck to my diet much better and have lost 7 lbs so far.  I”m feeling really good, even cute!  So this whole “eating right” thing is working pretty nicely for me. Read the rest of this entry »

Just because the feeling after Xmas is often a downer and things are stressful in a completely different way then they were before Xmas, I thought I’d give you this funny little AFTER Christmas son! Enjoy
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So I find myself with an answer that I asked for a while ago. I’ve worried about my weight off and n over the years. As I get older my matabolism has gotten ess active, and with my back my ability to be active physically has waned. So I’ve found myself gaining weight and having less ability to lose it easily.

One of the problems is that I really don’t worry about my weight too much. Ive never been overly self conscious about my weight and have rebelled against the “skinny” image that the media shoves down our throats. Plus I’m just a little lazy….ok a lot lazy too. So finding the motivation to exercise and eat right is really difficult for me to do. And since I have an abslutely fabulous boyfriend who loves me know matter what my size is, well there’s not motivation there either. LOL.

So really the only way to get me motivated to eat better is to make it physically difficult to eat. I thought about getting a Lap Band to decrease my stomache size and it would also make it harder for me to eat various foods too. But it is rather expensive to have that surgery done and kinda frivolous too…. at least in my mind for me it is.

Well the Universe gave me the next best thing….. gallstones. I have to watch the amount of food I eat, or I start to hurt. I can’t eat certain foods, or I start to hurt. So it is forcing me to eat less and healthier or else!

So silver lining of all this icky health stuff is that I will probably end up losing a ton of weight. LOL Be careful what you wish for, because you WILL get it! hehehhehe

If you follow me at all on Twitter or Facebook you’ll already know a little bit about what’s been going on this week. It started Saturday with what I thought was just a gas bubble under my ribs. I went to be with a lot of pain, but expecting it to be gone in the morning. It didn’t go away. It did get worse though. By Monday I was in enough pain that I went to the Dr. He said it was my gall bladder and that I’d probably need it removed right away. He wanted me to get an ultrasound, took some blood tests and some x-rays and told me to go directly to the ER if things got worse. Well, they did. I went to the ER yesterday and got the ultrasound, took more blood tests, more x-rays and they came back with a diagnosis of “Gallstones”. They said that my gall bladder isn’t infected so there’s no rush to have it removed, but it won’t really get better either. I”m supposed to watch what I eat and talk to a surgeon about getting my gall bladder removed. Read the rest of this entry »