Category: General Reflections

  • And on Friday, I rest and think a lot.

    Today is my most appreciated day – Rest Day Friday. I get to sleep in past 5a and don’t think for one second I don’t take full advantage of that! I have a few things on my mind that I wanted to talk about today and they are totally unrelated so bear with me. First,…

  • The view home..

    Look at the amazing view I get to drive home in after boot camp. I wish my crackberry could capture how pretty it was.

  • Help yourself and your kids: Don’t diet – CNN.com

    The 6-year-old girl who is watching her mother suck in her stomach in front of the mirror is going to look at her belly poking out and immediately think that she is fat. How awful that we just inadvertently planted the seed of lifelong discontent with her body into the innocent mind of a 6-year-old.…

  • Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008)

    Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler , Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” via Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008).…

  • Shopping for trouble…

    Take a look at Mel’s blog post with the picture of someone food shopping at her local grocery store. That cart is full of shit food. The Clothes Make the Girl: Grocery Cart of Poison. I can’t tell you how many times I go to Wegman‘s and see carts just like this. I like to…

  • Last week in the 4 week group training…

    Today’s group training workout at Plumbline was the last week of the 4 week session. So that mean’s weigh in PLUS body fat measurement. I stayed the same weight however I was down half a percentage (.5%)  in body fat.  MT said that if I lose another 1% he is going to throw a Plumbline…

  • Levin Is Sorry for Creating AOL Time Warner – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com

    Mr. Levin said he had been reflecting on the disastrous merger and cited a piece in The New York Times on Sandy Weill, the former chief executive of Citigroup who built in the bank into a behemoth only to watch it nearly collapse. While Mr. Weill told The Times he felt “incredibly sad” and acknowledged…

  • You are on your way…

    I was thinking about all the new year’s resolutions people make and how the gyms are chock full of people. My co-worker A was telling me this morning that she got up to go to the gym and ended up coming home once she got there because she couldn’t find a parking spot. Can you…

  • The Clothes Make the Girl: Great Body Image Post

    The Clothes Make the Girl: Great Body Image Post. I love posts like this that help you realize a better you! Read it and enjoy!

  • Heading back

    Today is the last day of the holiday vacation which was a “staycation”. I am happy that as a family we are going to get back into our routine. The kids need structure and we as their parents, need them to have structure.  I love my kids more than life itself, but they are not…