August 2010

The Art of Saying No

August 30, 2010

“No.” Jelly Bean, 9 months old, said her very first word a few days ago! It was very clear (and very much a product of having three older brothers who like to scream that word incessantly) – said in the context of me taking away the graham cracker she was powdering the floor with. You do not get between that girl and her food. She was still her pleasant adorable self but a steely look came into her eye as she said it again, this time with more force. “NO.” And then she spitup blueberries down the front of her [...]

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When Old People Attack: Swimming Experiment Results!

August 30, 2010

Things would have gone better for me had I had one of these caps, I know it! Either you’re a swimmer or you’re not. False dichotomy though it may be, there is an easy test to see which camp you fall in. When someone tells you, “Let’s swim half a mile.” do you answer, “Sure! It only takes me 4 or 5 minutes to run a half mile so this should be a piece of cake!”? If so, you are not a swimmer. If you answer, “How far is a half mile? Like… 10 laps?” you are not a swimmer. [...]

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How Do You Feel About Blog Giveaways/Product Reviews?

August 27, 2010

Anyone who has been in the blogosphere for more than 10 minutes (which is pretty much everyone including my 9-month-old daughter) knows about the mostly symbiotic – occasionally parasitic – relationship between sponsors and bloggers. At first look, it’s pretty simple: companies want their product to get good Internet buzz, bloggers love try free stuff and blog-readers (who are quite often bloggers themselves) love to get free stuff. Everybody wins! Until it gets complicated. Behind the scenes: 1. Sponsors often have a lot of rules governing giveaways and product reviews such as how many posts must be run, what key [...]

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Adderall Makes You Crazy (The Lindsay Lohan Cautionary Tale)

August 25, 2010

Normal. It’s not a word I’m used to using in regards to Lindsay Lohan. From the very beginning she has been many things – oh how I adored her as the red-haired imp on The Parent Trap, Culottes Edition – but she has never been normal. Currently, for those of you keeping tabs on the fallen princess, she just finished serving jail time for missing her alcohol classes and went directly to rehab (do not pass Hollywood & Vine, do not snort $200). She was supposed to spend 90 days in rehab but doctors at the UCLA center have decided [...]

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Eating Fat Does Not Make You Fat

August 23, 2010

Confession #1: Today I stopped and bought my boys t-shirts at a garage sale to wear because I haven’t had time to do laundry for two weeks now and everything they own has been worn twice. (Once right side out and once inside out – for the latter, I just tell everyone they dressed themselves. I don’t add that I told them to dress themselves that way.) I hang my motherly head in shame. But that is nowhere near as shocking as my next confession. If Charlotte-from-10-years-ago knew what I was about to confess, she’d have had me committed then [...]

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Plateau Busting 101

August 23, 2010

Manscaping your nipple hair to attach to your nostril hair won’t help you lose weight butI admire his willingness to change things up! Also, I think this dude shaved a swatch down the top of his head. That might be my fave part. Sprained ankles. Broken bones. Gym Hottie rejection. Stolen spots. The occupied state of the “lucky” treadmill. Pistol whipped by a resistance band. A personal trainer with cold calipers and cold fingers. All the TVs locked onto The Hallmark Channel during a Nicholas Sparks cry-a-thon. Discovering the protein powder mixed in your water bottle is actually infant formula. [...]

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Telling Yourself You Are Beautiful, The Robert Downey Jr. Edition

August 20, 2010

All images are from the Pinup RDJ blog, which the artist delightfully explains thusly: “Vintage pinups are the pinnacle of art. Robert Downey Jr is the pinnacle of sexy. It’s not rocket science.” For those of us not lucky enough to be the love child of Robert Downey Jr. and a pin-up girl, feeling beautiful on a daily basis can be hard. While it is easier than easy to look into my children’s eyes every day and tell them they are gorgeous or tell a Gym Buddy they look stunning (sweat-soaked hair and all) or to tell my husband that [...]

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New Research: Toning Shoes, Instability Exercises Don’t Work

August 19, 2010

Shoe pants. (Shpants? Poos?) Brilliant. If you keep the laces going up, you could use them like suspenders thereby completing the trifecta of cool. You knew they were too good to be true. We all did. And yet “Officials from Reebok, a unit of Adidas, say the EasyTone is the company’s most successful new product in at least five years.” I blame the word “easy.” Here’s how it went down in my brain: Um, I have to wear shoes. (And a shirt or I won’t get any service.) Minnesota weather precludes me from going barefoot 9 months out of the [...]

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Can I Be a "Formerly" If I Am a "Never Was"? (Giveaway!)

August 17, 2010

This is as close as I’ll ever get to being a hot chick in a hot tub. Stephanie Dolgoff is omnipresent in the body-image blogosphere these days. You might have read a review of her new book My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the other side of young (that comes out today!) from MizFit, Leslie, or Jezebel. Or perhaps you caught her front page story in the style section of the New York Times (which strangely pictured her amidst a large pile of shoes because shoes… are a measure of youth? Hotness?) ANYHOW. Even Gawker – a site dominated [...]

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Book Cover Photos! (You Guys Were Right About the PinkJacket!)

August 16, 2010

Well hello there! Fancy meeting you at this park. Don’t worry I have lots of random fitness equipment to show you. No that’s not a euphemism and no I’m not trying to sell you any of it. Although this post is, apparently, sponsored by Subway. (Which is a bummer because Subway irritates me on two fronts: Jared, their spokesman who only proves you can lose a ton of weight by eating a verrry limited diet and also, how can anyone eat a normal sub after having one toasted with guacamole? Mmm… Quiznos!) Me? A real model?? (I ask you, would [...]

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