2 more sleeps…

and I will be on my ship. Ahhhhh.
In the meanwhile I am working for the 4th time on Nagini – the b*stard sock from h*ll. It finally fits properly and now I have to stop myself from changing it into an ankle sock to just be finished with the blasted thing already.
I have packed Bellatrix, [...]

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H is for

one Helluva(n) overdue post.
So…here’s the knitting update. Still no pic of the Dress Code – tomorrow should be a red letter day (aka I’ll be wearing makeup and my hair should be somewhat styled) so it could make for a good photo shoot. Then there’s Nagini.
                                      
Ah. Nagini. Just writing about it makes me hissss. I [...]

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Hmmmm…

What does it mean when something arrives in the mail that you have no recollection ordering?
 
I was seriously thinking I should order this over the weekend – and here it is in my mail box. (super fast shipping – thank you Sandra Singh!) I adore this designer’s patterns. Versatile, feminine, unique and let me tell [...]

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WLC Week 14

Thanks in part to everyone’s support of my efforts, I dug deep and really took my excercise up a notch this week. I rode my bike to work each day – and home (before I was getting picked up after work). I took some very long walks and made some of those little changes, like [...]

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Long Overdue Update

So it has been two weeks since my last Weight Loss Challenge update and folks, it’s not going too well.
I shouldn’t be so dramatic. Really the WI on the 4th I was up .2 lbs   No big deal right? I had been expecting a loss because, well I was used to them. So the next [...]

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WLC – Week 11 and an endless Rant

Well, another week and I have lost .6 lbs!
Again, I was surprised. I was pretty sure I would have gained but…I somehow pulled out a loss. Hmmmm…
I have seen this quiz at a few blogs now and thought I would try it out – since things have been all about the dogs lately. Kira and [...]

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WLC – Week 10 Etc.

Somehow, in the midst of not tracking what I ate this past week, I lost 4.6 lbs! Coulda been the stress…
That brings my total loss to 19.8 lbs – boo ya!
So I have 10.2 to go to make my July goal — is it strange that I don’t remember if my goal was for the [...]

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WLC Week 9, Hot Links & A Little Yarn Pr0n

Sooo I really let things fall by the wayside while I was away. Yes, yes we walked nearly everywhere for most of each day but…not enough to counterbalance the food choices I was making.
But oh was it yummy! We had Thai, Dim Sum, Vietnamese (oh the Iced Coffee!! – not many calories in that condensed [...]

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WLC – Week 8 & a little Yarn Pron

Well – even though I ate a bit like a maniac the last couple of days I managed to lose .4 lbs. Which brings my total weight loss to 17 lbs! yay 12 lbs to go til goal. Though I am starting to think that might be a little optimistic for July. Ah well.
I was [...]

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WLC – Week 7

Boo ya!!
I have lost another 3.2 lbs!
Seriously, this is working so well this time.
I am down 16.6 lbs altogether – putting me more than halfway to my 10% goal of 29 lbs by the end of July.
My realtionship to food seems to be changing. I am having less urges to indulge – or overindulge as [...]

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