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October 12, 2023

Morning Yoga

screenshot of a yoga with adriene video

It's no secret that I slipped way back into a sedentary lifestyle over the last year. Now I'm at an age where I start paying the price for inertia with aches and pains and tightness. In early September I started doing this practice almost every day after waking up. It's only 11 minutes long. When I started I couldn't kneel/sit on my heels at the beginning or hold the hip twists at the end for more than a second. Now I can move through this entire practice most days without any modifications. ...

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January 26, 2023

My Apple Watch

sweaty gym Kim

I have an Apple Watch and while I used to really, REALLY be into it, I'm not feeling it anymore. First, I've become disenchanted with the Apple Fitness app. The app rewards streaks: perfect week, perfect month, etc. I am a person who HATES to break streaks, and so I fell into the trap of thinking that activity doesn't "count" unless I have a fitness device tracking it. And for me, that's not a great way of thinking. You need rest from exercise. Even The Rock only exercises 6 days a ...

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March 21, 2019

Fit Journal — March 2019

I’m taking an online class to help me be accountable w/r/t fitness: physical and emotional. This is my (tardy) monthly journal entry. What are some of your expectations that do not match up with reality?  I expect myself to be an all-or-nothing person. I expect to be able to, when dieting, completely give up all junk food. This isn't the case. This NEVER has been the case. I don't know why I think this can the case. Let's take my favorite snack chip ever. Cool Ranch ...

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February 3, 2019

Fit Journal – February 2019

I'm taking an online class to help me be accountable w/r/t fitness: physical and emotional. This is my monthly journal entry. Pencils down, January is OVAH! I made a lot of mini goals for January. Time to see how it all shook all out. What worked, and why: Food: Water drinking. By the end of the month, I began to notice if I was behind because I was thirsty. I am eating lunch from home at least 4 out of my 5 workdays a week. Sometimes I eat my own stuff all 5 days, but knowing I can let ...

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September 2, 2018

Friday 5: Just Wing It

Happy Sunday! To wind up "Operation Use a Bunch of my PTO this Summer" I don't go back until work until Thursday. I actually went OUT Friday night. Out. Past 11. I went to Atlantic City with Mom and my sibling who doesn't read this blog and we had a great time. It was just like the old days, and even though a taking a family trip to AC to gamble sounds dysfunctional, well, we grew up okay. Some families go to singalongs or campouts. (Or campouts where they all sang.) Mine took me to play ...

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January 29, 2018

Breathing love in and breathing love out

I'm still trucking along with my TRUE - 30 Days of Yoga program by Yoga With Adriene. As a sedentary human, it's hard for me to commit to moving every day for a month. But I'm still here. And barring injury, the end of the 30 days is near! I feel like my arms are made of warm dough and are twenty feet long. All of these videos are free on Youtube just in case you want orangutan arms too! Most nights I even have a yoga buddy. ...

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February 29, 2016

Fitness sucks

My journey towards fitness continues. I embarked on this Quixotic quest for two reasons. The first one is obvious. I'm larger and rounder than I've ever been. I hit my highest weight ever (my personal best!) and needed to start getting serious about my shape. Then I read and realized that fitness won't help with that. There's a dbaggy quote going around on Pinterest that says "Abs are made in the kitchen and not the gym." Yeah yeah, whatever. This will still help with my roundish shape. The ...

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January 31, 2016

Goodbye, January!

Today is day 15 of our "omg what is WRONG with us we need to turn this around NOW" life plan. I'm so stinking proud of us. The plan is as follows: Eat our own food. No takeout. (Wednesday dinner w/Mom is an exception, as are lunches that work buys for us, as long as I eat one serving and not three. And Fancy Coffee Friday, because that's just yogurt, granola, and black coffee.) We make a menu on Sundays and we stick with it. One cheat meal twice a month. Cheat day does not work for us, ...

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About Me

I've been blogging for over twenty (2 decades! 2-0!) years and I'm apparently one of the few over-50 female bloggers who haven't sold out to THE MAN yet; hence this blog remains quirky, homespun, and unprofitable. No big. However, if you're from Disney, Doritos, or Dave Matthews Band, I'm open to talk about selling out.

I live in Southern New Jersey with my husband WM, and our dog Murphy. I'm an adult who likes Disney but not a Disney Adult. I used to work a fun (really!) office job in Philadelphia, but since March of 2020 I'm a work from home hermit. So if you're looking for a childless, slightly round, marginally boring GenX woman's blog to follow, you've come to the right place! :)

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The Duke and I
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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
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