Upcoming: Health & Wellness
Discovering your passion, Part 2
Two weeks ago my husband and I were watching the history channel. The detailings were of two men who repelled these jagged cliffs to obtain these funky looking barnacles that hang off the side of cliffs.This filiming was done in Spain and that barnacles...
Discovering your passion. Part 1
Good Morning to you all on this beautiful May 10th day. As I sit here in my living room knowing that I sit on the south side of San Juan Island I am brought to a place that makes me question, what is my passion? Where am I and who am I. Do you ever just...
Bullying In Any Form.
Things I Witness and Experience When I got to school I think about seeing my friends, getting work done, and going home. I hate seeing how society has warped our teen life into this horrible stage or phase. Every where in high school you see bullying...
Motivating Students
Facing the reality of a classroom environment can be quite formidable for a new student. When purposeful intervention is enlisted for the unmotivated student, it must be focus on uplifting the student from the doldrums of learning despair and setting...
Yo Yo Ma
Up.....Down......Up.....not so down. That is how my scale read after my two children, respectively. I only gained about 25 lbs with my first and then WATCH OUT! A big whopping 40lbs with my second. This wonderful event in my life left me the heaviest...
Colic or Chucky Syndrome?
Feeling like maybe your baby was switched at birth? As bad as that sounds, so does being in the 10-20% of the lucky ones to have a baby with what they call "colic". My term, "Chucky Syndrome". Actually, I have to credit my Dr. for telling me that ...
Do you feel as if youre listlessly drifting through the doldrums these days??Are you inadvertantly adressing yourself as Mr.Moody??
oh joy, tra-lee-la-la-- I am so incredibly articulated, well read and polished in regards to my poetic prowess. I' ve also read all of John Stienbeck' s novels. ha, haha-- i' m so infectiously, intellectually astute that everybody (that is a somebody...
Reasons to Continue to lose Weight When You Should Wanna Give Up
I have decided to write a list of 30 reasons that even though I have come a long way I should continue no matter what happens.... 1. Although I wore a bikini this summer, I would like to wear one next summer without a t-shirt. 2. I have to make it...
The Road to NYE Hotness Day 2 of 76
Today started out with less of a bang and more of a slow drift into a mood swing. I could not get any morning zing going. Work sucked - and not in that whole 'good thing they pay me for this' kind of way. It was just a day where things didn't go smoothly...
Day One, Two & Three: A ReCap
So, day one and two I randomly came down with a bug. And although I was sick, I did count calories and on day two I hula hooped for 20-30 minutes. Today is day Three, and I'm at 216 pounds! (Recall on Sunday my weight was 221...) Five pounds in three...