So we're on our fourth week of trying to eat healthy, exercise and in general getting ourselves into better shape.  How did your week start off?  Are you losing weight, getting stronger, feeling better?  I thought I'd pull out one of my nutrition books and share something from it with you guys.  Some tips when you go grocery shopping: Buy fresh ( Read more... )

 This is the start of our third week of getting healthy for a fantastic summer.  Diet alone won't work, exercise alone won't work.  You need to do both!  Eating healthy and exercising regularly will help us lose weight, get in shape and look great for the upcoming warm weather. (For those of you already in warm weather, what are you waiting for ( Read more... )

Welcome to another week of OPA!  How's the exercise and/or eating healthy coming?  Spring is totally in the air here (temps reached 82 last week, trees are budding, baseball has started) and before you know it, it will be beach weather -- okay you Californians, it's always beach weather there I guess!  But that's even more of an incentive to get ( Read more... )

April is just around the corner, and here we are again to try to lose weight, get in shape, tone up.... Whatever you're doing, whether it be exercising, eating healthier, eating less, going for a daily walk, report in and keep track of your progress.  How much info you want to give is up to you.  How much you want to exercise is up to you. How much ( Read more... )

Today, March 27, 2010 is the fourth annual Earth Hour.  What the heck is Earth Hour, you ask?   It's a hour that most major cities and several smaller towns around the world participate in an hour of lights out to acknowledge climate change.  So, tonight at 8:30, wherever you are, turn your lights off, turn your TV off, turn your computer off, ( Read more... )

X-Phile memories, Day 1: Sparky's Doghouse; the Secret Squirrels; the Red Speedo Page.

X-Phile memories, Day 2: post-ep chats, spoilers, Tiny Dancer's reviews, The Annex

X-Phile memories, Day 3: "singing" American Pie in the chat room; 4th of July 2001 with Mamatoots watching the Boston Pops and "singing" along - Boom! - then being joined by Mel and ( Read more... )

So yesterday, after missing it the last time, we got clobbered with about a foot of snow.  This morning, there was a 3.8 earthquake about 50 miles west of downtown that was felt from Crown Point, Indiana, up to parts of Wisconsin.  Snow and earthquake together, in the same place, is not something you expect to hear as the lead story on the local ( Read more... )

In memory of family and friends who have lost the battle with cancer; and in support of the ones who continue to conquer it! Re-post this in your LiveJournal if you know someone who has, had or has been affected by cancer. 93% won't even take the time to copy and paste this. Will you?

I know I promised a Thanksgiving / Christmas / Florida post, and I will get to that perhaps tomorrow, but today i wanted to touch base with those of you out there who read.  I've been trying to plan out some reading for the beginning of the new year.  Maybe it's just the clean slate a new year gives us, but I like to start the year with a new book ( Read more... )

In Florida, a man tried to steal a ferret by putting it in his pants.  A witness confronted him in the parking lot and the man held the unhappy ferret up to the witness's face.  In addition to theft, he's being charged with branishing a "special weapon" -- the ferret ( Read more... )