From an article yesterday in the Seattle Times is a list of five bad habits that we pick up in our youth (20’s) that will age you prematurely. Yuck. Some are the classics, but there are a couple of different ones in here. So, don’t do these things, ok?
1. Wear high heels every day – this will lead to damaged and painful body pain – back, joints, shoulders, and tendons. Ouch.
2. Binge drinking – we all know this is bad. Have you ever seen an old drunk? They don’t look so good. …read more

So, about a week and a half ago, I joined Jenny Craig .
As you can see from my *oh so lovely* videos, we have a problem. I have never, ever been truly skinny – at my skinniest as an adult, I was around 140 pounds (and am 5′ 9 for reference). Which, compared to now, was damned skinny. *Oh* to bring back those days – but they came along with lots of partying and what I call the beer diet – beer and bar food and dancing til the bars close. Awesome exercise!
So …read more

Two perfect resolution days. I got this groovy new elliptical machine (yep, hubby, I chose this instead of the treadmill), and am 2 for 2 (days of working out. w00t!

 
I have some serious poundage to work off, from (how many is it now?) about 5 attempts over the past 2 years at quitting smoking, but I am geared up to do it. I have also been drinking my water, taking my vitamins and washing my face every night. Good for me. How are you doing on your resolutions?

I just woke up from a nice morning nap, and had the craziest dream – I dreamed I received this glorious birthday package from Jane Iredale (my current love – have you seen this – it is my FAVORITE), of the most amazing goodies, and then this group of strange girls were at my house, one was busy hitting on my husband, and the other one told me as she was leaving with a giant duffle bag stuffed full on her shoulder, “if I saw anything I liked, I just took it. I will bring it back.” And …read more

Am I insane for going to my 20th high school reunion? Maybe. Why do we put ourselves through the stress?
I am sitting here watching my very favorite movie, The Full Monty – and if you have never seen it before, it is the story of 5 “regular” men who are down on their luck and decide to do a Chippendale’s type show to make some money. And it is oh-so hilarious – rent it if you have never seen it before, you will have to watch it a few times to get all of the …read more

I am being a lazy bum today – well not really – my mother is coming on Saturday, and my house is a wreck (story of my life), so I have that kind of stuff on my mind rather than beauty or MRSA or Brad Pitt, like usual. LOL I am so deep. Ha. Anyway, I wanted to not miss getting this bit of news in, as I dearly love Joey New York for helping me get through the hard times of quitting smoking:
Joey Chancis, the founder and CEO of Joey New York will be featured …read more

The latest round of skin care that has struck my fancy is a dermatologist developed product, by SkinMedica. (Remember talking about cosmeceuticals? I love them so!) You know of my woes with my blackheads and my oily skin and the fact that I refuse to give up coffee and I have been stinking at getting all of my water in lately. Ha ha. So that leaves me on a search for the perfect skin care line that can tackle my problems even though I am very resistant to change in lifestyle. C’mon, I quit …read more

I am going to sit here today until I am caught up. I have quite a few things that are time sensitive and have been hanging around here, and I have been too lazy/preoccupied/selfcentered/delusional to get them done. Call me out if you don’t see 4 posts from me come around today. There I have said it. Time to go to work.
Oh – guess what? Today is my one month non-smoking anniversary. I joined this group – QuitNet – and they sent me an email this morning to remind me of …read more

I am now 22 days into this non smoking thing (lets just call a kettle what it is, ok?) and I feel like I have crossed some sort of a bridge – rickety as it may be – and I am a little ready to get back to some sort of normalcy around here. My husband was home this weekend for the first time in 2 weeks, and I could tell, really, how bitchy I was. I sort of feel like that ol’ laid back gal I once was is not coming back, and she is being replaced …read more

I am sure you will all be happy to know that I have survived. LOL I had a REALLY bad day yesterday, but somewhere around 7 or 8pm I came back to life. Stay tuned for yesterdays planned posts, and if you are thinking about quitting – it is a good time to give it a whirl. Once you get past the 3rd day, it is no problem (I can say this, cause this isn’t my first rodeo). But now I have to find a nice way to dump all of my smoking …read more