Mar 26, 2010
It’s time to VOTE, everyone!! Yes, time to get your keyboards clicking and put me in the TOP 10 for the Total Makeover Challenge – 50% of my score is from online voting! Here’s the deal – one vote per email. Simple, right? One more rule – the vote has to be for me!
Please share on your blogs, twitter, Facebook… PLEASE spread the word, every vote absolutely...
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Time to vote, everyone!
Mar 22, 2010
Well, it’s high time I checked in here! Spring, by default, is my busiest time at work. Taking part in the Total Makeover Challenge was a big leap of faith for me because I know that it runs concurrently with my busy season in my job. Part of me worries about that (I am, by nature, a worrier – trying to fix that though). The other part of me is excited about it, because if I can’t put...
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Am I ready for this?
Feb 25, 2010
I mentioned on Facebook a couple of days ago that I had good success with making my own yogurt at home, and promptly had a flurry of responses asking for how I did it. Well I did it by asking a co-worker how she does it, and then consulted both the Oracle of Google and The Joy of Cooking. Here is my mash-up of all that information:
You will need:
2 litres (or however much you want, just need a pot big...
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Homemade Yogurt, made easy
Feb 22, 2010
Cross-posted on the fitness blog
Four weeks in, so how are things going?
In a word – great! Last week was a bit of a let down, as I stayed at zero – no gain, no loss. I guess that’s what you call a little plateau! I have a good feeling about this week. I think I wasn’t eating quite enough for the amount of exercise I was doing and put my metabolism into a bit of a tailspin. So this...
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Heading into week four of the Challenge
Feb 4, 2010
When I was younger, I always viewed myself as moody. All through my teen years, it seemed all I did was cry myself to sleep at night – of course, this wasn’t really the case. The lens I look back on my life with is a little skewed, to say the least. I think the reality is that inside I was feeling a lot of emotions, tumbling here and there. I thought everyone could see how I felt, but really?...
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Happy just because
Mac'd out geek girl; love my husband, my dogs, design, photography, gardening, red wine, eating fresh and local. I do creative stuff at a large Fraser Valley wholesale nursery.
