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This is the time of year when people tend to be fired up about their resolutions to get healthier.  One impediment in the past, for me, was that I never seemed to be able to find a sports bra that actually held these suckers in well enough for major motion.  Then I found the Enell […]

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Do you ever have moments when your brain is so mashed full of thoughts, ideas, and feelings that when you open your mouth to speak or pose your hands to type, you pause to collect your thoughts, and then can get little of use to come out? That’s me today.  I’m sitting in a chair […]

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I was just scratching my collarbone, and I’m still amazed that my collarbones have emerged from my body in the last 15 or so pounds of weight loss. When I’ve had abdominal surgery before, it’s always been followed by a natural period of swelling and then an unnatural period of extreme weight gain as I […]

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I successfully kept myself busy while my husband was gone (some might say overly busy), he’s come home from Europe safely, and he brought me gluten-free pasta from Italy! I hear it’s going to be fabulous, so I’m really excited about it.  Nonetheless, I’m holding off on using any this week because I’d already gotten […]

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Whether a song has a slow or fast tempo, it also has an underlying heart of emotion to it.  In my own mind, I generally categorize that emotion as negative or positive.  Some more complex songs—such as many by U2—are harder to categorize so simply.  Other singers are generally pretty easy:  Eminem? Negative, I would […]

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You know how you look back at styles from previous decades–or, even better, from previous centuries—and wonder what they could have possibly been thinking? Powdered wigs, for example. Or those puffy Elizabeth shorts, or knee britches. Or, for a couple of example from women’s fashions, extreme corsets or tiny lotus shoes, worn in China after […]

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Well, the bad news is that I’m still sick. This was Day of Near Silence #2 while I tried to rest my throat. Thank God for writing. But the weekend was certainly not a total wash. The good news is that I have hit a thirty pound loss this year. Early this weekend, I first […]

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Yesterday was a good day.  Perhaps it’s continuing into today, actually.  First of all, I weighed in at 175.4 pounds yesterday morning. (Today it’s actually a bit lower, but I’m going with my Saturday weigh-in.)  To weigh 175 pounds has been a goal that’s been stuck in my head for some reason; 175 seems like […]

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Saturday morning at 8 a.m., I ran 3.1 miles, or 5 km.  I finished working my way through “Couch to 5k” by running a 5k. About a half-mile into the journey, I thought, This is it; I’ve actually done it.  I’ve stuck with this to see it through, even though it’s taken me quite a […]

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