Nov

18

Anissa Mayhew and the Art of the Gallery Crawl

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UPDATE: Click here to donate to help Anissa and her family.

It's no secret that I'm not sure what I'm doing around here yet. But I've been hanging around twitter for a little bit getting to know a pretty awesome group of people 140 characters at a time. Back in October, the stars aligned in the form of a visit from grandma that allowed me and mr. kimword to attend the aiminglow in the city event sponsored by hp. I got to meet a handful of the people in person that I follow on twitter including Anissa Mayhew.

We had a fairly brief discussion that covered so many topics, but one topic keeps running through my brain and making me laugh out loud. She was on her way to New York City later in the week for another aiminglow in the city event, and she said that someone had given her a list of all of Museums and Gallerys and their corresponding days of the week that they offered wine and cocktails for free. We both laughed at the creativity of a person that would put together that list. A list for some sort of grown up pub crawl...a gallery crawl really. Perfect! Anissa is definitely my kind of funny lady.

I'm writing today because Anissa had a serious stroke yesterday that has her in the hospital. There's lots of thoughts and prayers going out to Anissa and her family and a process has been setup quickly to handle the bucketloads of help that is sure to follow. If you are reading this, please stop and say a prayer and send a wave of goodness to Anissa and her family. They are bound to need every little last bit of it. Then, if you don't know Anissa (or really even if you do), head on over to twitter and read some of the lol-full-o-funny-ness of this very cool lady including her last tweet before this awful event:

One of my favorite funny posts is the play-by-play of Anissa's Twitterstalking of Ralph Macchio. And after scanning the twitter feed this morning, I came across this little doozy that Anissa is going to LOVE.

You can find more Anissa at Free Anissa; at AimingLow; at Mayhew Review; and at Blog Nosh Magazine.

Update: Link to Today Show Segment about Spanking feature Anissa that aired today

Nov

4

Am I losing it?

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Am I losing it? Hopefully.

There's no better time than the present they say, and, frankly, I am sick of the excuses. The excuses that come out of my mouth, and especially the ones that I tell myself. Time to get a move on. The baby is 14 months old. That makes it TWENTY FIVE months since the pregnancy started. That's a long time to hang onto the I'm pregnant/I've just had a baby excuse. Enough.

So, for the next 16 weeks, I'll be taking things up a notch on the exercise front.  I've been doing strength and cardio workouts about three times a week at a gym that does small group training. I'll be continuing that. In addition, once a day I'll be doing an exercise video.

Weeks 1-6
The Biggest Loser: The Workout - Boot Camp and The Biggest Loser: The Workout - Weight Loss Yoga

Weeks 7-12
The Biggest Loser Workout: Cardio Max and The Biggest Loser: The Workout - Weight Loss Yoga

Weeks 13-16
Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred Lord. Help. Me.

I'll also go on walks with the boy and try to squeeze a swim in where I can. It seems like a lot to take on, but this doing a little here and little there is just not working.

Plus I'm going to update my progress on this blog...stay tuned.