It's Thanksgiving in America, so I'm going to use that as a segway into what I really want to talk about... which is belly dancing ( Read more... )

I had a realization over the weekend: that I'll never be able to exercise enough or regularly enough to lose more than 2-3 pounds, so if I want to lose 10, I need to eat less than I've been eating. The way I'm going about this is to only eat when I'm hungry. And the way I'm going about that is to practice mindfulness while eating. And the way I'm ( Read more... )

I was overly optimistic when I posted that her gums looked much better. They are, in fact, the same: no improvement after over a week of antibiotics. Her diarrhea is also pretty much the same. The next step with the diarrhea is to test her poop for a particular kind of parasite that doesn't show up in regular testing. That might explain her ( Read more... )

has been a good day so far. I paid some bills, made some phone calls, cleaned two litter boxes, cleaned the toilets, did some paying website work and prepared for my meeting tomorrow with a client, belly danced for half an hour, and then had an orange and a banana for lunch ( Read more... )

I know I sometimes gush about my latest character crush (current one being Robin and Guy from BBC Robin Hood), and I know that Rob and I don't have a stereotypical fairytale romance: I don't swoon in his arms, he doesn't take me in his arms and shower me with kisses ( Read more... )

Rob and I made the decision a while ago that we were probably not going to have kids (and if we really felt the need, we'd adopt). It's a decision we made mainly for practical reasons: financial, and concerns about my health (namely, whether I'd be physically able to care for a kid and what the effects that would have on my health). We were both ( Read more... )

Rob and I are on our anniversary vacation. We were in Philadelphia for a wedding on Saturday (which was a lot of fun), stayed in the Hilton overnight (which was probably our worst experience in a hotel ever; we'll never be staying in a Hilton again), and then drove around Philadelphia and had a nice early dinner on Sunday (our 5 year anniversary ( Read more... )

Easter has officially become an odd holiday for me. As I've grown in my faith, I've become less and less attached to the idea of Jesus as Messiah/God/etc. I'm now fairly certain that I don't believe that. I do, however, believe that Jesus's life shows the way to God, and I consider myself a Christian in the most literal sense, in that I try to ( Read more... )