Saturday starts my first Derby Lite class. It’s hard to articulate what this symbolizes for me lately. Maybe it’s this time of year, maybe it’s having spent the past three months stagnant in a boot, but ugh. Really, just ugh. My mojo from last year is all but gone. There it is. Gone. I plan…
Category Archives: Health
Updates
Oh this poor neglected blog. The intentions I had for it have just not seen the light of day. I need to figure out how to carve out time for all of the stuff I want to do. Otherwise, oy. For now, the random updates: 1) The boot is off. This has been the biggest…
Brains vs Boobs
The other day my girlfriend posted a link to my Facebook timeline, to this blog post: Rules for Parents of Daughters. So much of it I loved. Especially the parts such as, “Teach your daughter to be strong and confident in her abilities and not be afraid of failure.” I know of few people who…
Resolution Check In
So here we are, at the end (not technically, I know) of Week One of the year. Let’s see how I measured up this week with the ol’ resolutions: 1) Back to the early wake-ups. Done. That was not a hard one. And I like having the extra time to take a hot shower, get…
Still Booted
I have had a boot on my foot for nine weeks now. NINE. I have gained enough weight to need to go back into my still-too-big-but-more-forgiving-for-a-day’s-wear jeans. I stepped on the scale yesterday. Six pounds seems to be the magic number after all of that time not working out and holiday-ing. And, you know, whatever….
Bring it, 2012
Despite spots of 2011 being the darkest I’ve known, it was, quite simply, the best year of my life. The cliches ring true: this was the year I became a mom and it has brought a richness to my life I’ve never known. I maintain, of course, that while Abigail has added a new dimension…
Carving Up the Holidays
The nice folks at the The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston sent me this awesome infographic to share with you guys last month and with all of the crazy that had happened around here at that time, I dropped the ball and never posted this. I realize Thanksgiving is all but…
What Didn’t Kill Me
I’ve spent the past three weeks holding my breath. Seemingly out of nowhere, our nanny told me she was heading to Poland the week after Thanksgiving, the same week we’d also taken off of work. I thought that was wonderful; she still has family there. She then told me later in the day she would…
More from Gimpy McGee
I am still With Boot. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a Shrinking Violet, but I swear on all that’s good and holy I hate attention for attention’s sake and walking around on crutches with a bum foot is just that. Just now, in the line at the Jimmy John’s in my…
Booted
Sigh. I have a stress fracture in my left foot. I’m going to be on rest – on crutches – for 6-8 weeks. Maybe 4-6 if I get this quasi-experimental (read: not covered by insurance) laser treatments. I went into the doctor’s office yesterday thinking I was going to get some advice and scolding about…
Sweet point
Left over from my pregnancy was a wicked, wicked-ass sweet tooth. If you’d asked me pre-AG,what made up my Achilles’ heel, I would have told you that if it started with “P” and ended in “-otato,” I wouldn’t care how you prepared it. SERVE. IT. TO. ME. With salt. Now? I can’t tell you the…
A Month of Good Habits
Very very soon, I’ll be taking a vacation. We haven’t had a vacation since June 2009, and a word of advice for anyone without kids who thinks maternity leave is like a vacation? It. Is. Not. I will tell you a not-so-secret: we’ve known about this trip since January, when I was all sorts of…
Safety First
Yesterday in spinning class, the girl next to me rushed out with 15 minutes left to go. A couple of times I’d glanced her way to make sure she was OK. You never know really what to do in those instances: she was new to spinning, and when someone is new to spinning class, the…
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I got a sample of this from Sephora a few weeks ago and was instantly hooked. I'm not too gonzo over anti-aging products, at least at age 35 I'm not, but this stuff is awesome. Amazing. Seriously. After one sample.
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Another sample, another addiction. And I know, I know. It's a CELEBRITY perfume. But it is awesome. This sample can't last me long enough.
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With the Hashimoto's Disease and Midwestern winter, right now my hands look like someone took a grater to them. Cracked, dry and nightmarish. Plus, they ache from being so dried out. Enter this stuff. Dries quickly, lasts long and makes my hands and cuticles silky smooth.
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A couple of years ago I bought this juicer on sale and loved it. Up until AG was born, I used it weekly. One of my New Year's resolutions is to bring this puppy back into regular rotation. My favorite combination is apple, carrots, spinach and ginger.