Wednesday, January 02, 2008
The Weigh In
Just a reminder...What Is It Wednesday is up!
I joined the Weigh-In at work today. It goes for three months and everyone who participates pays $10. The person who loses the most weight wins the money. To keep myself accountable, I'm going to blog what I eat each day, and what exercise I do.
I did pretty good yesterday, until those potato chips that I kept walking by reached out and tossed themselves down my throat...along with some clam dip! But if that's the worst I had, I'm happy. Breakfast was grits with a tiny bit of maple syrup and a clementine. Lunch was chili, mostly beans but with some pork and some chili-mac...and a clementine :-) Dinner was some broccoli and 5 steak fries (I was full from the chips & dip earlier). I had a cup of coffee, 1 diet A&W rootbeer & water. I also took Wolf on a 1/2 hour walk in the snow (snow snow go away, come again another day...or not).
This morning, breakfast was oatmeal and a cup of coffee (forgot the clementines at home). Lunch will be chili again, with broccoli from last night. Dinner will be roasted chicken, brown rice & brussels sprouts. If I snack, it'll be cashews or low fat, low sugar peanut butter on flax/oat bran/whole wheat pita bread...and clementines!
Oh, and one more thing. I'm going to respond to your comments in the comments section from now on, since sometimes blogger doesn't give me your email address! Just wanted you all to know :-)
I joined the Weigh-In at work today. It goes for three months and everyone who participates pays $10. The person who loses the most weight wins the money. To keep myself accountable, I'm going to blog what I eat each day, and what exercise I do.
I did pretty good yesterday, until those potato chips that I kept walking by reached out and tossed themselves down my throat...along with some clam dip! But if that's the worst I had, I'm happy. Breakfast was grits with a tiny bit of maple syrup and a clementine. Lunch was chili, mostly beans but with some pork and some chili-mac...and a clementine :-) Dinner was some broccoli and 5 steak fries (I was full from the chips & dip earlier). I had a cup of coffee, 1 diet A&W rootbeer & water. I also took Wolf on a 1/2 hour walk in the snow (snow snow go away, come again another day...or not).
This morning, breakfast was oatmeal and a cup of coffee (forgot the clementines at home). Lunch will be chili again, with broccoli from last night. Dinner will be roasted chicken, brown rice & brussels sprouts. If I snack, it'll be cashews or low fat, low sugar peanut butter on flax/oat bran/whole wheat pita bread...and clementines!
Oh, and one more thing. I'm going to respond to your comments in the comments section from now on, since sometimes blogger doesn't give me your email address! Just wanted you all to know :-)
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
One Word: The Beginning
This is what happens when you leave the holiday cloved oranges out too long...mysterious hands appear and come to take them away!
Happy New Year!!! Hope you all had an interesting New Year's Eve :-) I took Dad out for Chinese food and boy was that place PACKED!!! We got home, I hung out with him for awhile, made sure he had some snacks and a beer and then headed over to Megan & Jim's. Jim's brother and SIL joined us, and we played Apples to Apples (Megan won...twice!) and then Uno (I won!). We popped the bottle of champagne at midnight and toasted to health and happiness in 2008.
I've decided to participate in Project 365 (a group on flicker where I'll post one photo a day for an entire year) and this year, I'll complete the challenge! To make it a bit more fun for me, I thought I'd post the same photo here as well and have YOU (in the comments) tell me the first word (or thought) that comes to mind when you see the picture. You can also leave a normal comment, of course!
For example...let's pretend I've just read the entry and seen the photo. Here's the comment I'd leave:
One word: delicious. Hi Janet! Happy New Year, hope you didn't have to play that stupid "What Would Fred Do" game last night!
Easy, right! And if you don't want to play along, that's fine, no worries. I'm easy, too :-)
Monday, December 31, 2007
Six 8s
From Greeble Monkey
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8 Things I'm Passionate About
1. My dogs. Even when Wolf picks a fight with Max on Christmas Day and he gets banished to the outside, I still love him, stupid feisty shiba!
2. My friends. I don't ask for much from them...just be there for me and they are.
3. Photography. I've loved taking pictures since I was a kid, and I love it still, after a bit of a longish break. I may not be that good, but damn it, I enjoy it!
4. Recycling. It's such a small thing to do...but so important! Things aren't like they used to be, people :-)
5. Food! I love to shop, cook, create, taste, touch, smell.
6. Dreaming. My dreams used to be incredibly interesting and detailed, but lately they've been full of death and scary things. I MADE myself wake up and get out of bed this morning cause the dream I was in the middle of was so ... NOT pleasant!
7. Scents; in particular, spicy scents. I love perfumes, lotions, and natural scents, too, such as the woods on a very hot day, lilacs, the ocean, freshly shampooed hair, baking bread, etc., etc..
8. I asked some friends what they thought I was passionate about and these are their answers "traveling", "photography", "Snape and Johnny Depp! Photography. Friends.", "loving life and enjoying it", "photography", "experiencing life", "the reading experience", "photography and the filthiest martini you can find", "Books! Dogs!!", "animals", "...photography...quickly followed by the puppies, traveling, johnny depp...", "photography, with Snape and Johnny running neck-in-neck for second. ;-)", "Japan", "WOLF".
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8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. Become a godmother!
2. Go back to Japan for at least a month.
3. Swim with the dolphins
4. Right some wrongs
5. Be accepted
6. Talk to an old friend again
7. Dance in the light of a full moon with the Eiffel Tower as a backdrop with my lover
8. Be in love again!
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8 Things I Say Often
1. Sweet pea
2. Crikey
3. WOLF! NO!!!
4. Um...I don't remember/I forget/forgot...
5. I know not. [10 points if you know where's that from and 20 points if you know who said it!]
6. WTF!
7. Sorry!
8. MFer!!!
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8 Books I've Read Recently
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2. The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
3. Heat by Bill Buford
4. The three Twilight series books by Stephanie Meyers
5. Rises The Night by Colleen Gleason
6. Alone In The Kitchen With An Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
7. Come Back by Claire & Mia Fontaine
8. The Problem With Murmur Lee by Connie May Fowler
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8 Songs I Could Listen to Over and Over
1. Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
2. The Show by Doug E Fresh
3. Almost anything by Led Zeppelin, especially Ramble On
4. I'm So Tired by the Beatles
5. Suffragette City by David Bowie
6. Jeepster by T. Rex
7. Lola by the Kinks
8. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love by Van Halen
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8 Things That Attract Me To My Best Friends
For those of you I didn't have pictures of (cough, Deb, Laura, Lauren, anyone not pictured that I adore, etc., cough)...next time you'll LET me take your picture, right?!
1. Sense of Humor
2. Intelligence
3. Spontaneity
4. They "get" me
5. They like to talk; I like to listen
6. Acceptance
7. Adventurous
8. They make time for our friendship, no matter what
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That's it for the year! Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog, looking at my pictures, commenting...and most of all, for your friendship! I hope you all have a fantastic, happy, healthy, prosperous and FUN 2008!
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8 Things I'm Passionate About
1. My dogs. Even when Wolf picks a fight with Max on Christmas Day and he gets banished to the outside, I still love him, stupid feisty shiba!
2. My friends. I don't ask for much from them...just be there for me and they are.
3. Photography. I've loved taking pictures since I was a kid, and I love it still, after a bit of a longish break. I may not be that good, but damn it, I enjoy it!
4. Recycling. It's such a small thing to do...but so important! Things aren't like they used to be, people :-)
5. Food! I love to shop, cook, create, taste, touch, smell.
6. Dreaming. My dreams used to be incredibly interesting and detailed, but lately they've been full of death and scary things. I MADE myself wake up and get out of bed this morning cause the dream I was in the middle of was so ... NOT pleasant!
7. Scents; in particular, spicy scents. I love perfumes, lotions, and natural scents, too, such as the woods on a very hot day, lilacs, the ocean, freshly shampooed hair, baking bread, etc., etc..
8. I asked some friends what they thought I was passionate about and these are their answers "traveling", "photography", "Snape and Johnny Depp! Photography. Friends.", "loving life and enjoying it", "photography", "experiencing life", "the reading experience", "photography and the filthiest martini you can find", "Books! Dogs!!", "animals", "...photography...quickly followed by the puppies, traveling, johnny depp...", "photography, with Snape and Johnny running neck-in-neck for second. ;-)", "Japan", "WOLF".
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8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. Become a godmother!
2. Go back to Japan for at least a month.
3. Swim with the dolphins
4. Right some wrongs
5. Be accepted
6. Talk to an old friend again
7. Dance in the light of a full moon with the Eiffel Tower as a backdrop with my lover
8. Be in love again!
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8 Things I Say Often
1. Sweet pea
2. Crikey
3. WOLF! NO!!!
4. Um...I don't remember/I forget/forgot...
5. I know not. [10 points if you know where's that from and 20 points if you know who said it!]
6. WTF!
7. Sorry!
8. MFer!!!
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8 Books I've Read Recently
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2. The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
3. Heat by Bill Buford
4. The three Twilight series books by Stephanie Meyers
5. Rises The Night by Colleen Gleason
6. Alone In The Kitchen With An Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
7. Come Back by Claire & Mia Fontaine
8. The Problem With Murmur Lee by Connie May Fowler
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8 Songs I Could Listen to Over and Over
1. Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
2. The Show by Doug E Fresh
3. Almost anything by Led Zeppelin, especially Ramble On
4. I'm So Tired by the Beatles
5. Suffragette City by David Bowie
6. Jeepster by T. Rex
7. Lola by the Kinks
8. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love by Van Halen
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8 Things That Attract Me To My Best Friends
For those of you I didn't have pictures of (cough, Deb, Laura, Lauren, anyone not pictured that I adore, etc., cough)...next time you'll LET me take your picture, right?!
1. Sense of Humor
2. Intelligence
3. Spontaneity
4. They "get" me
5. They like to talk; I like to listen
6. Acceptance
7. Adventurous
8. They make time for our friendship, no matter what
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That's it for the year! Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog, looking at my pictures, commenting...and most of all, for your friendship! I hope you all have a fantastic, happy, healthy, prosperous and FUN 2008!
2007: The Year in Review
January:
- Had one day early in January where the temp hit 70 degrees...in JANUARY!
- Got lots of new scents from BPAL
- Bought new eyeglasses
- Traveled to CT to visit ME and watch her skate; got to see Deb & Laura, too!
- Visited my cousin and the new puppies!
Movies:
- Night at the Museum
- The Departed [excellent movie!]
- Notes On A Scandal [very good, but I went around calling myself Judi Dench for a long time afterward...also, it was FREEZING that day!]
- Little Children
Books:
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- S Is For Silence by Sue Grafton
February:
- Decided to keep my Honda Civic Si and buy out the lease
- Bro's 17th anniversary
- Heather's birthday
- Tried a new tomato sauce recipe that has since become my standard!
- Started working my way through the alphabet on Thursday Thirteen!
- Joined WeeWorld and made my first WeeMee
- Dad's birthday
Movies
- Hannibal Rising [eh on the movie, but the actor who played Hannibal was hot!]
- Music and Lyrics [cutesy type movie]
- Pan's Labyrinth [beautiful but sad]
Books:
- Predator by Patricia Cornwell
- For One More Day by Mitch Albom
- Next by Michael Crichton
- Hard Truth by Nevada Barr
March:
- Went to the Boston Flower Show
Movies:
- Venus [good...but a bit freaky!]
- The Host [lol loved this one, a Korean horror story]
Books:
- no books, at least none that I can remember!
April:
- Took a photography class
- Visited ME in MD
- Visited my cousin and the puppies
- Went to DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park
Movies
- Hot Fuzz [eh]
- Snow Cake [eh]
- Blades of Glory [eh]
Books
- nada [i.e., can't remember, didn't write it down!]
May:
- Visited MB (my cousin)
Books:
- Nada [i.e, see above lol]
Movies:
- Shrek 3 [cute]
- POTC 3 [fantastically trippy eye candy!!!]
June:
- Trip to Vegas with friends to celebrate my 50th!
- Cirque du Soleil's LOVE
- Got my first poppet!
- Had my first taste of Cucumber, Mango and Black Bean Salad
Movie:
- Ocean's 13
- The Astronaut Farmer
- Bridge to Terabithia
Books:
- The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
July:
- Trip to MB's w/Michelle
- 4th of July at my cousin's
- Day trip to Portsmouth, NH
- Fuller Gardens
- Trip to VT w/Diane & her two girls to visit Mo, and then Betsy & her three girls!
Books
- Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
- Heat by Bill Buford
Movies:
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [first time I liked the new Dumbledore]
- Hairspray
- Sunshine
- Ratatouille [saw it at a drive in!]
August:
- Hosted, all month, Photo Thursday at Create a Connection
- Megan's birthday
- Got a new tattoo (mandala)
- House & dog sat for Diane
- Photographed & attended Diana's wedding!
- got a new phone with GPS and named her Jessamyn
- Finished working my way through the alphabet on Thursday Thirteen!
- My Tivo died!
Books:
- nada!
Movies:
- Stardust [loved it!]
September:
- Went to see the comedian Lewis Black w/Pat in Hampton Beach, NH
- First anniversary of A Girl Must Shop; have you checked it out? Cool site! Happy shopping!
- Bought my first laptop
- Got a replacement Tivo
- Bought a Dyson vac
- Took Dad to his adopted grandchild's wedding
- shot Krista's wedding
- Krista's birthday
- Shot Aislinn's wedding in St. Thomas; took a day trip to St. John
Books:
- Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
- Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer [LOVED them!]
Movies:
- Into The Wild [so damn sad]
October:
- Michelle's birthday
- Aislinn's birthday
- Visited Mo in VT
- Great new tv shows like "Pushing Daisies" and "Reaper"
- Started a new home for "What Is It Wednesday" and "Friday Fill-Ins"
- Paid off all my charge cards
- Saw Van Halen in concert!!!
Books:
- Strangers by Taichi Yamada
- Rises The Night by Colleen Gleason [one of the sexiest passages I ever read are in this book!]
Movies:
- Gone Baby Gone [excellent and thought provoking]
- Some old horror movies with Krista [one was an old Vincent Price movie!]
November:
- Participated in Carla's My Sacred Life and NaBloPoMo
- Pat's birthday; went to her surprise party in NH and on my way home got pulled over THREE times because one of my brake lights was out
- Maribeth's birthday
- Laura's birthday
- Started an Etsy Shop; sold one picture so far :-)
- Heard a rumor that Led Zeppelin might tour!
- 11/28/07 - fondofsnape.com crashed...and it WILL be resurrected!
Books:
- The Problem with Murmur Lee by Connie May Fowler
Movies:
- Wild Hogs
- Live Free or Die Hard [great adventure flick]
- Sicko [makes one sick to see what goes on in the states, medically speaking]
- American Gangster [I forgot how sexy Denzel is!]
- Fred Claus [abysmal]
- The Song Remains The Same (an old Led Zeppelin movie)
December:
- the house next door caught fire was rebuilt!
- blogging at http://fondofphotography.blogspot.com for the time being
- Visited ME in MD; went to her work Christmas party...hoity toity!
- Saw Hall & Oates in concert
- Yes!!! The Hobbit will be made into a movie!!! Jackson will produce!
Books:
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
Sundays With Vlad by Paul Bibeau
Movies:
- The Golden Compass
- Sweeney Todd! [that man can sing!]
- I Am Legend [I heart Will Smith!]
- The Kite Runner [made me want to read the book]
- Juno [an adorable movie, go see it!]
- Charlie Wilson's War [ahhhh, reminds me of the 80s!]
- Enchanted [a bit slow at the beginning, but ever so cute later on!]
Onward to 2008!
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