Totally unrelated but Gym Buddy Allison and I were noticing the other day how ridiculous song lyrics look when you have to read them close-captioned on the TVs at the gym. I still love Adele. End tangent. (Does it count as a tangent if I haven’t even started on the subject yet?) What is the …
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Click to enlarge It’s a known fact that I don’t like to drink my calories – so known actually that at a recent dinner date my friend’s husband announced loudly “Every time I drink, I think about Charlotte! And feel guilty!” (Downsides to having a very public blog: At another dinner party a different …
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Huge thanks to Meanliving for tweeting me this pic!! If she were wearing a tutu, it would totally be me. As you probably already know (I think I’ve mentioned it on here elventy times now) I’ve been going through some rough stuff emotionally. There was all the PTSD drama around Christmastime – it was really …
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Bloody rampages can really get the blood pumping – in more ways than one. The hottest new fitness trend coming out of Japan (where else do all slightly demented yet meteoric trends come from these days?) is Samurai Training. The aerobics class, which is open to both genders but is almost exclusively dominated by women …
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Trigger warning for mild mention of eating disordered behavior. This post talks about part of my recovery process. I love love love Natalie Dee. Ever had a “fat and ugly attack”? It’s like being on one of those makeover TV shows where everyone who you thought loved you shows up to tell you that you …
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I so need this shirt. Tonsils. Appendix. A chunk of my uterus. Several weird tumor-cyst thingies that had teeth and hair (no joke). I don’t want to brag or anything but I pretty much have no expendable organs left. This makes me either super evolved (although I still have my pinky toes…) or the life-size …
Samantha Brick may be the most hated person on the Internet right now. And considering Tonya Harding has a website, that’s saying a lot. She makes the backlash against tragi-comic singer Rebecca Black look like mere backwash. What was her crime against society that earned her such an…honor? Trading on her looks. And then bragging …
Asleep at 9 p.m.: this one fact alone qualifies me for my AARP membership I’m pretty sure. And yet this is what happened last night – and hence why today’s post is so late. After putting Jelly Bean to bed, I innocently went in my room to take a quick breather from the non-stop-ed-ness of …
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I love it – the artist even gave her a little orange-peel bum hole! “On [a recent] vacation to Cabo, I wore a bathing suit on the beach for the first time in years. Usually I’m just petrified. A couple of years ago someone zoomed in on my cellulite and it was so mean. I …
Lots of videos in today’s post – click through to see them if they don’t show up in your reader or email! Trust me, you want to see these! I dare you to watch this and not laugh once. Try this experiment: Find a funny YouTube video. But DON’T watch it yet! I recommend this …
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