For those of you reading this in a reader or e-mail, click through to the post to see the video clip. You’ll be glad you did! Seriously! Ask any of my friends what they think of plastic surgery and immediately you’ll get an eye roll followed by something like, “That’s ridiculous! Why can’t women just …
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I should have gone with rock, paper, scissors. People challenge me to do stupid things and I do them. This was more a problem in my youth than now although The Primal Blueprint Challenge is evidence that I’m still swayed by peer pressure. (Disclaimer: I’m only saying the PB was stupid for me. I know …
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Adults exercise by lifting heavy stuff & running in circles. I’m not saying it isn’t fun – you know I love the heavy stuff. Plus, I’ve spent a significant portion of my life climbing stairs that go nowhere, running on tracks and treadmills that feed on themselves like a life-size mobius strip and punching and …
The great thing about having an ever-expanding waistline is that it makes it so much easier to navel gaze. There’s just something about pregnancy that makes me turn inward. Many of my friends have noticed it, wondering aloud if I’m okay (yep!) and when Old Charlotte is going to come back (better give me at …
Have you heard? The recession makes people eat more junk food! The recession makes people eat less meat! The recession has been a boon for the diet industry! The recession makes you snack less! The recession makes people sit through the Transformers movie and actually claim they liked it! The next thing you know, the …
Well, this might do the trick. But then I might have more problems than I started out with… (photo credit) Turbo Jennie calls it her splash zone. Not because she has any resemblance to Shamu – quite the opposite – but because anyone within a certain radius of her gets sprinkled with her sweat as …
I read FitPregnancy. It seems slightly silly to me, this being my fifth (I’m a breeder!) pregnancy and all and yet I’m still drawn by the lure of Build An Entire Maternity Wardrobe Out of 5 Simple Pieces (of clothing I could never afford) and essays by professional athletes who do two-hour trail runs when …
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Once upon a time in a rainy kingdom far, far away on Ye West Coast, I was a Godiva girl. No, not the riding-a-horse-naked-through-town kind (can you imagine the chafing?) but the chocolate-pimping kind. My day job was as a professor but due to my directional dyslexia I ran a stop sign and totaled my …
Girl!! Even better, all of the genetic tests have come back 100% clean so it seems that the Turner’s Syndrome that killed our oldest daughter, Faith, will not be an issue this time around. There were tears when the ultrasound tech gave us the news. It’s not that I wanted a girl more than a …
