My few New Year's Resolutions were about being healthier and more productive with creative projects. It's not helping that my dayjob is down by 1/3 of our project manager team, so another poor guy and I are supposed to assume the work of the dude who left. With 10-12 hours a week help from our Events team ( Read more... )

In the past few months, I've been told something that I've heard for years. "You're just a fount of information." If the person is annoyed, then it's often more like, "You're just full of cr*p, aren't you?" But I've also had people take a moment to tell me that something I said in my blah-blah-blah really helped them. Because I don't just talk, I ( Read more... )

Or maybe it's written "mani pedi"? I got my nails did is the point so I'll look nicer on this trip to visit friends in Berlin and Poland. I don't do this very often so can get surprised by the practices and the culture. Like, why are all the mani-pedi people from Vietnam? And why do they all yell back and forth at each other in Vietnamese, roll ( Read more... )

Feeling very punk over the weekend, allergies making my head hurt, eyes burn, and bad tummy ache. But I got up to go to work this morning, showered, breakfasted, had my makeup on... and felt really awful! Like swooning from the ill. So I took a sick day. Glad I did because I felt worse and worse as the morning went on ( Read more... )

Such a hard year! But I made a point of being grateful for any successes or progress, part of what I'm promising to do more of in the new year. Like in 2009, I:

• Did yoga at least 4 times per month.
  
• Signed up for a gym, and went 4-10 times per month. Right through August, when I had the extended trip to Hawaii and came back tired and busy.
  
• Despite ( Read more... )

In some ways, being the home the family comes to for the gifts and the meal and snacks means you don't have to get up to travel on Christmas morning. But you still get up early to prepare the vegetables and roast beast and put them in the crock pot. (The crock pot I got last Christmas, btw.) And you spend a lot of time dusting and sweeping and ( Read more... )

First, the bad news. I haven't been to the LifeTime Fitness gym since before my trip to Hawaii. So... late August ( Read more... )

When we get rain in Austin -- and we've been having drought conditions -- love what it does for my yard and plants. Hate what it does for the inside of my head and general health ( Read more... )

Monday as I left for work, I saw some dampness and water trails coming from the hot water heater closet in my garage. But my work days have gotten beyond crazy busy again and I never called a plumber. When I got home that night, OMG, water was everywhere soaking stuff in my garage ( Read more... )

One of the good things about timing your commitment to better fitness & health with the New Year is that the gyms have special deals then. I signed up for Lifetime Fitness for a $140 processing fee and $75/month. The additional $400 joining fee was waived! I'm trying to fit going to the lovely and well-equipped gym into my already too-busy life. So ( Read more... )