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Making Progress

By on January 28, 2013

Taking a Picture of Myself in the Mall Bathroom — 182 lbs, Jan 28, 2013

I stepped on the bathroom scale this morning, and it read 182 and change, for the fourth time in the last four days. If you recall, for most of last week my weight was hovering around 184, and I couldn’t figure out why. I still don’t know why; the best I can come up with is that I caught a cold on the 17th, and while I was sick, I was unable to lose weight (but there’s no good proof of that).

In my writing projects, I commonly hit stagnation blockages of a similar sort. You’d think I’d be used to them by now.

However, after not making any progress for almost a week (more precisely, 6 days), to see my weight drop to 182.8, then to 182.6, then to 182.4…

I experienced a bout of acute joy. Continue reading “Making Progress”

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Insert Something Funny Here

By on January 25, 2013

Photo © 2009 Karina Douglas CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Photo © 2009 Karina Douglas CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

After posting a “Bits & Pieces” post yesterday of over 1200 words, I suddenly realized that I had enough good material in there for a whole week of actual blog posts… if I made them a little shorter. And I’m thinking that would probably be a better approach. Starting today.

According to Weather.com, last night began a “wind chill advisory”: Continue reading “Insert Something Funny Here”

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Bits & Pieces 2013-01-24

By on January 24, 2013

Links and things that I’ve run across recently.

Some Random Photos

Because I didn’t pull out an entertaining and interesting image for any of the other blurbs in this post. (Sorry.)

I actually like these better than the typical anorexic mannequins.

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Bits & Pieces 2013-01-17

By on January 17, 2013

Links and things that I’ve run across recently.

Photo © 2010 Sara Everett CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Dropping like a Feather

This morning, my bathroom scale read 184.0. That’s about a pound less than it did last week. Slightly disappointing, as my food journal (which I just began this week) seems to indicate that just cheating even a little causes me to put on the pounds. I get just a whiff of that birthday cake, and my body responds by adding a pound of fat. Ugh.

But 184 pounds is also a confirmed 4 pounds less than 2 weeks ago— So on average, 2 pounds per week. And that’s encouraging. At this rate, I’ll weigh 176 (which is almost “normal”) by Valentine’s Day (knock on wood), and hopefully looking a lot more sexay. Continue reading “Bits & Pieces 2013-01-17”

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Most of What We Think We Know about Nutrition Is Probably Wrong

By on January 16, 2013

A few months ago, I reported that I had lost over 10 pounds and was finally able to fit into some of my old shirts again.

What I didn’t tell you is that I had lost most of that weight by early 2012, and that by the summer I had gotten stuck at 190-195 pounds, which is still about 20 pounds too heavy (and several inches too thick around the middle). As of the beginning of December, I still hadn’t lost any more weight (and may have gained some back), and I was sure my cholesterol numbers still hadn’t improved sufficiently, and my annual physical was coming up fast. Continue reading “Most of What We Think We Know about Nutrition Is Probably Wrong”

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Teaser Tuesdays: Mr. Billy! (He rocks!)

By on January 15, 2013

Something a little different and quirky and reminiscent (in a good way) today.

If you have young kids and you’ve never heard of Billy Grisack, you’ll want to hear this.

If you have ever had young kids (like me), and you want to remember the good times, like dancing and jumping to fun and energetic music, stuff that we old fogies find it ever increasingly difficult to pull off ourselves (without looking stupid)… Sigh.

I so wish I had known Mr. Billy on the Internet when my girls were that age. That would’ve been fun. Not that we didn’t have fun with Lionel and his Ice Cream Songs, because we did. But he never released 12 CD’s in 12 months— which Mr. Billy did in 2012, and frankly, I don’t know how he’s gonna top that. (Do any of you fellow indie authors want to publish 12 books in 12 months? Or would that be “13 books in 13 months for 2013”?)

So… breaking from the bookish meme that is “Teaser Tuesdays” (which I do occasionally), and for the little kid in all of us (and right now jumping on the bed of some of us), and with allusions to Jurassic Park (which has never traumatized the little kid inside of you), here enjoy Mr. Billy’s “I Like Dinosaurs” music video: Continue reading “Teaser Tuesdays: Mr. Billy! (He rocks!)”

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Not Giving Up on New Year’s Resolutions

By on January 14, 2013

Photo © 2012 lucidtech CC BY 2.0

Right about now, you may be feeling that urge, which hits sometime during the first couple of months of every year, the urge to forget the New Year’s resolutions to which you had so daringly committed only weeks ago. After all, you’ve already eaten that cake, skipped that workout session, smoked that cigarette… whatever. You tried, you failed.

But if the resolution was a good idea to start with—good enough for you to resolve to do it in the first place—then it’s probably still a good idea now. And giving up on resolutions, it seems to me, may be the sign of an addiction.

What do I mean by that? I’m glad you asked. Continue reading “Not Giving Up on New Year’s Resolutions”

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Teaser Tuesdays: Warpaint, by Holly Lisle

By on January 8, 2013

The job sounded simple enough; locate a space miner’s missing wives. Quick. Easy. Painless. This was not supposed to have anything to do with the damned Legends. This was supposed to have been a milk run, a simple job of locating two women who’d extended their vacation without notice and getting them back home to their worried, waiting husband…

After the hectic of the holidays, I settled down with Warpaint, the second installment of Holly Lisle’s Cadence Drake series, which was released last month to much personal fanfare— The Little One (who’s not so little any more) and I had been waiting for it for a long time. See, the first title in the series, Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood, came out in 1997, hit the Locus best-seller list, and sold out its first printing, at which point the publisher promptly canceled the series. (Corporate reorgs are a bitch.)

The Little One and I have been waiting not-quite-since-1997 for the sequel, but we have been waiting, and hoping. HCTB was one of those stories whose characters have staying power, that having read it, I felt a profound loss at having finished it. I so wanted to continue on with Cadence Drake that (for a time) I had trouble getting excited over reading anything else.

Then Holly got fed up with the publishing industry, went indie, personally republished a bunch of titles from her backlist, and began working on the sequel to HCTB (which was originally supposed to be the first of, like, 10 titles). Warpaint went up on Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and other sites last month.

So I figured, with the new year now fully in flow, I would start on Warpaint (planning to go back and read it again with my daughter) and post a teaser. Unfortunately, I couldn’t put it down, and now I’ve already finished it, even before the first Tuesday post. Hrm.

No matter, I’m still posting a teaser today. (Hope to work on a fuller review, for my ebook-reviews site, later today.)

Today’s extended teaser, from Kindle Locations 165-171, 174-179 of Warpaint: Continue reading “Teaser Tuesdays: Warpaint, by Holly Lisle”

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Bits & Pieces 2012-12-27

By on December 27, 2012

Links and things that I’ve run across recently.

Photo © 2010 JustBec CC BY-NC 2.0

The Most Important Lesson I Learned This Christmas

Give the gift you would most like to have for the Yankee Swap. That way, when you get stuck with it at the end, you won’t be so disappointed.

If You Forgot to Get Holiday Gifts for Your Favorite Authors…

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A Merry Happy Christmas Holiday

By on December 24, 2012

Photo © 2008 Dan Klimke CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Photo © 2008 Dan Klimke CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I just briefly wanted to wish you a wonderful holiday.

We are planning on joining my parents for their Christmas Eve service later this afternoon. Then we’re all going over to visit my brother and sis-in-law for their Christmas Eve service. Tomorrow, the whole extended family (on my side) is getting together with my kindergartener niece for some good food and fun present-opening. This year, we’re getting together with my Beloved’s family later in the week.

I know visiting with family is not so fun a time for some of you. But it ought to be, especially at the holidays. Here are a few tips for making your family day the most enjoyable it can be. Continue reading “A Merry Happy Christmas Holiday”

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