We’re all about learning new stuff these days. For instance Jelly Bean is learning how to tie bows (and therefore only wears things with tie-able parts… and only ties them in the front). So when my friend Heather offered to teach me how to can peaches, I jumped on it. It helped that peaches are …
If something is good for you then more of it should be great for you, right? Duh. Isn’t that basically the first law of health?? Yeah, okay so that’s obviously stupid – I learned the fallacy of that the hard way during the great Over Training Debacle of ’08! – and yet lots of health …
I love this ad! I bet Death is a smoker. Everything I learned about fitness models I learned from a stripper. Well, an ex-stripper. She was at the book-signing table next to me at local event a while back and because neither of us were selling any books (book signing = sitting and trying not …
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This is a gift that is ALWAYS appropriate to give… Because skunk butthole. Help! Someone call 911!! When you hear this on TV, people immediately come running to the rescue. In real life, as I learned on the 4th of July, sometimes it takes a minute to sink in. One minute we were happily taking an …
So I tried really hard to find you guys a funny 4th of July picture. Pages of Google later all I’d come up with were ecards about not combining booze and fireworks, pictures of girls with their boobs painted to look like flags and a whole bunch of political jokes ranging from mildly offensive to …
I am so totally a trendsetter, you guys. At least according to the CDC – the arbiter of all things cool, right? Being a long-standing citizen of Medication Nation, I was very interested in their latest numbers on how much Americans love our pills. Two fun trends have emerged over the past decade: 1. According …
Man, I miss Calvin! Burping noxious flavors is my primary concern when deciding what to eat pre-workout. Especially now that I have a couple of friends that I go running with a few mornings a week (friends! yay!!). We go early early to avoid both our kids and the hot sun and so this idea …
And, done! Who says I haven’t accomplished anything? Things That Happened on My 35th Birthday – My husband brought me flowers. – I took mine and my sister’s kids swimming. (Jelly Bean looked at me in my swimsuit and asked why my legs are so “bumpy like a dinosaur!” To which I got to explain …
From the inimitable Jen Sinkler Being a woman who lifts weights automatically makes you open to weird comments (as does being a mom of “a lot” of kids) and over the last decade (!!!) of hoisting iron, I’ve got more than my fair share. Here are some of my personal favorites: “Are you a lady …
*blink blink* If I could change one thing about myself to be whatever I wanted it to be – laws of nature be darned – I’d make it so I could make that *blink blink* noise that cartoon characters do when they blink their eyes in surprise or disbelief or heartbreak (probably over the fact …
