After a hellish last week, I think Andrea’s (from a peek inside the fishbowl) challenge is just what I needed to see today.
Two weeks ago I ordered an exercise video. Now, I’m not an “Exercise Video” kinda gal — I hate them, really — but I’d heard great things from quite a few folks I know about this particular one and was promised it would kick my ass. By the time it arrived last week, something else was kicking my ass and I’m only now feeling up to cracking the cellophane and tossing it in the DVD player.
15 minutes a day isn’t a lot, but it’s sadly more than I put into a concentrated effort in a 24hr period.
As I haven’t a scale that works right now, I’ll measure my progress for a week with a tape measure and see if I see a quantifiable change by the end of a week. I will also continue to add to this post my thoughts and observations on this challenge for at least one week. I won’t use the video everyday, but will absolutely be getting that 15min in somewhere!
Can *you* do 15 minutes a day?
Filed under: Activism, Diaper Fluff, General, Review Things, Work at Susie's | Tags: environment, reviews, cloth diapers, cloth diapering, product review, soapnuts, soap nuts
Those of you who know me well know that I’m a bit of a cloth diaper nut. I was rather sad when #2 finally toilet-trained, as it meant packing away all that beautiful fluff for an indefinite period of time.
In the few years since then the cloth diaper market has exploded and they’ve become much more accessible to the average consumer. Accompanying this trend, natural laundry washes, soaps and detergents have multiplied on store shelves — increasing consumer options and leaving me feeling, at times, as though I went to university just to be able to read the ingredients labels on cleaning products.
Filed under: Awkward Conversations, Get All Mushy, Holidays, My Kids, Random Geekery, Things I Overheard | Tags: bakugan, boys, Coraline, farts, kids, pyromania, transformers
#1 is having his “birthday party sleepover” with his best friend tonight, which means my house is at its testosterone max with four guys (5, 6, 7, and 42 years old).
After baking a Transformers (the original series, thankyouverymuch — watched it growing up) “Autobot” cake, arranging an outing to a cool animated and slightly scary 3D movie they all loved, winning a “fake farting” contest, being proudly decloaked by #1 as a “tomboy”, knowing that Bakugan are not robots (DH, you’re so uncool!), and taking them outside to light giant sparklers on fire (!!), I was banished at bedtime when all three boys declared they intended to sleep in their underwear.
Apparently, I’m too much of a girl.
