February 2012

Shirataki noodles

February 27, 2012

One of my healthy swap secrets I learned back when I was doing Weight Watchers was Shirataki noodles in place of pasta. I had sort of forgotten about them for a little while because they don’t sell them at my go-to Giant grocery store.  But on a whim one evening recently, I went to Harris [...]

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Angry PiYo

February 26, 2012

I spent an otherwise beautiful Sunday in the gym all day today.  From 9am to 4pm I was there, earning continuing education credits for my AFAA Group Exercise certification.  I earned a certificate to teach a class called PiYo Strength which is a Yoga/Pilates fusion class for athleticism and agility.  And what that means is [...]

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Love.

February 23, 2012

I followed the George Huguely murder trial from start to finish, finish being the jury’s verdict of second degree murder and grand larceny with a sentencing of a total of 26 years late last night.  Me following a trial is highly uncharacteristic.  I don’t consider the misfortune of others as entertainment, and generally the highly-publicized [...]

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Lent.

February 22, 2012

I’m not a particularly religious person.  I was raised Roman Catholic; I consider myself Catholic but there exists a strange chasm between what I ought to believe and what I truly believe with my soul.  I don’t fight it, I don’t denounce it, I just don’t understand it.  So I’m Catholic more by tradition and [...]

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My 6am classes, oh how I love thee

February 17, 2012

Back in January, I made a switch from teaching evening classes to teaching exclusively 6am and weekend classes.  The impetus for this was that my work schedule really didn’t permit me having evening obligations because deadlines had to be met and I was exceedingly stressed out about getting to class on time, or scrambling to [...]

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Rabble.

February 16, 2012

I’m struggling to write posts these days because my life is a ongoing circle of work, exercise, eat, sleep, with bits of wedding plans interspersed.  If I spent the next 500 characters explaining the Power Point presentation I worked on yesterday which included such things as how the 35 and under demographic has a propensity [...]

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The land of the living.

February 13, 2012

Well hello there! Boy am I glad today is THIS Monday and not last Monday. Last Monday, at this time (9:50pm EST, to be exact) I was sweating and shivering under a pile of blankets, praying for the Tylenol and orange juice to do their magic and put me out of my flu-induced misery.  It [...]

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Shark Tank

February 3, 2012

The past two Friday nights, I’ve found myself chilling out at home and channel surfing as I decompress from a long week. And, I’ve stumbled upon Shark Tank twice.  I think the reason that this show appeals to me so much is I’m in love with their entreprenurial spirit.  I love their gumption. The first [...]

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No thank you.

February 1, 2012

It’s Wednesday night, it’s 10:20pm and I’m just walking in the door.  I’m writing a post because I SAID I WOULD WRITE ON WEDNESDAYS and after taking last Friday off from blogging (shhh don’t tell the boss) I swore I wouldn’t do it again.  Last Friday, I had a good excuse: I wasn’t feeling well. [...]

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