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I'm now 9 days into the kettleworx program, so I've only done four workouts. But last week I was at 124.4 and as of last night I was 122.2. For kettleworx there are 3 dvds, you do one workout from each cd each week. The dvds are cardio, resistance and core and I reallllly hate the Cardio, and I love core. Resistance is just okay. But I've decided to do cardio as the last of the 3 workouts each week and then report my weight the next day, so hopefully knowing that I'll be telling you guys about my Read more [...]

I would spare you all from hearing about my resolutions, but I've always heard that if you write down your goals you are more likely to achieve them. So here they are: I want to make it to blogher. Of course, I am going to continue to seek out sponsors but I also want to focus on my etsy shop and put any profits earned into a blogher savings. I also want to do a better job of ebaying items that I have laying around and don't use and won't use. I want to regularly use coupons. Coupons have interested Read more [...]

Things are going pretty good here at my dad's. He hasn't had any seizures or side effects so far. Not sure how long we will end up staying here...probably through Monday or so as long as everything continues to go alright. Tomorrow (okay so in 7.5 hours, technically) we are going yard saleing, they are having a local event with lots of yard sales. I'm so excited. I hope to find a good sale that has men's clothes in Ryan's sizes - he needs clothes pretty bad and they are so hard to find at goodwill Read more [...]