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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. We are full, fat, and happy out in West Texas today. The food has been baked, smoked, boiled and cooked, and we devoured it all joyously. Now, while the babies and grandparents nap, there is nothing left to do but sit at the table and drink really bad [...]

Just to update, I am still on the planet…. Well physically anyway. Baby J is consuming most of my time these days. Time marches on however, and I am still working at getting in shape. It’s just not happening as fast as I want it to. I did join the gym and I have been [...]

These will be mine!!!! As will these! and probably these… and these too…. But the latter only to replace a beloved pair of totally worn out ones I already have. I am on the hunt for winter boots.  Can you tell?  I’ve had a long love affair with boots.  I generally buy a pair of love love have to [...]

Wow, so it has been over a month since I posted.  I do hang my head in shame.  I really do have ideas of being a good blogger but I am so darn avoidant!  August has come and gone and I say good riddance.  It was toooo hot.  I honestly didn’t think I could take [...]

Wow what a crazy few months it has been.  I cant really go into details as to why it has been so crazy since I’m only using that as an excuse for why I have sucked at blogging.  It really has been busy…but normal busy.  You know, the kind of busy that goes along with [...]

I am a bad suburban hippie!  It has been a month since my last post.  What is even sadder-er is that I have composed several imaginary posts in my head and was too lazy to blog about it.  Hopefully, I will manage to post at least a few times per week from now on.  I [...]

Don’t worry Kinundra.  I have been a bad blogger too!  I have tried to keep up a fitness routine but these last few week have been difficult. It has been soooo hot and my walking schedule has fluctuated from a few times during the week to nil.  Early mornings and late evenings are not good [...]

g for being I know I have been neglecting this site but next week I plan on getting on the ball.  In the mean time, I hope everyone has a safe and happy time celebrating this Great Nation’s Independence Day.  This was last year’s 4th of July at my parent’s house.  I plan on being in [...]

I know I have been neglecting this site but next week I plan on getting on the ball.  In the mean time, I hope everyone has a safe and happy time celebrating this Great Nation’s Independence Day.  This was last year’s 4th of July at my parent’s house.  I plan on being in the exact [...]

Where is the time going?  I say I’m being lazy, but I’m always doing something.  What I HAVEN’T been doing is blogging about it.  I survived over a week at my parents and have been home for a week now.  It has taken so much effort to get back in the swing of things.  What’s [...]

As you know, I’m spending a week or two hanging out with my mom and family. Yesterday, we walked 2 miles on the Wylie highschool track. The initial reason behind it was so we could help my sister-in-law watch her youngest while she takes a body bootcamp class. Since she has a double stroller, we just [...]

Wow! Kendra is kicking some serious butt. I am so excited about her progress (and feeling a little guilty that I’m falling behind in the exercise department). Keep it up Kinundra!! As for myself, I enjoyed my first full day at the Parental Unit’s. No exercise for this lazy gal today. However, we do have [...]

This was such a good looking lunch I had to take a camera phone pic and post right away. It’s a meatless chicken whole wheat wrap with organic vegetables and cheese with chipotle dressing. (I’m pretty sure there should have been way more comas in that sentence.) It was amazingly yummy, even if all I [...]

*Sigh*  The window of opportunity is gone for my walk today.  I waited too long and now it is already too hot to walk outside with the baby.  I am gonna have to come up with a better plan.  Maybe walking at night when it is cooler, but that means rearranging evening routines.  I suppose the [...]

Fast forward years and I look at what the world has become and I long for that massive garden in the middle of nowhere.  Somehow, I too became a slave to the quick and easy.  It all began in college where I learned about fast food 101.  It was the first time I lived within walking [...]