It started out so innocently with a favor, a request really. A dear friend getting married, and they wanted me to make cupcakes for their wedding, two kinda. Yellow cake with chocolate icing, and red velvet with cream cheese icing! What me really??? You want me to bake your what wedding… Read full post »

So my first week of Group Weight Loss Class at my gym Lifetime Fitness has ended. What a week it was! Monday was a hard sweating 56 minutes of treadmill work of incline decline use the hand weights and resistance bands. At the end I felt good, hot, tired, and ready … Read full post »

 When I think of Love any kind of love the images that dance in my head and heart.

 You can see it in his eyes.....

You can see it in the way they support each other.....

 My Family

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Life is fragile and rough and can come up and smack you in the face, before you even realize it is going to.

Today just another day at the grind, the phone rings it’s my sister.

“Guess what Dad just told me!”

“ I don’t know, what?”

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I am so friggin sore it is unbelievable! I hurt in odd places and that damn class Yoga/Pilate's kicked my ass hardcore.

There was a lot of the things I really couldn't do, because of my size but I toughed it out through the whole thing doing modified moves that still… Read full post »

Thats what I hear from my sister, my dad and my husband, who I have forced physically upon death and dismemberment to join LT with me. All of us are over weight and not by a little, but by a lot. And it is time we didn't something about it before… Read full post »

I have been married twice, my second marrige is to an amazing guy who never fails to make me laugh on a daily basis. How he does it I'll never know but regardless of pressure, or agruments, amongs the dirty dishes, the dogs going crazy and the mortgage needing to be paid.… Read full post »

The city, in the rain, was not unlike a forest. But the old man, who had been in many forests and many cities, had no special feelings for it. His feelings, his senses, were primed to other things. Nevertheless, he was conscious of his bizarre and anachronistic effect, like that of… Read full post »

The woman was old and no longer beautiful. In common with all living things, she had aged, though very slowly, like the tall trees in the park. Slender and gaunt and leafless, they stood out there, beyond the long windows, rain-dashed in the grey morning. While she sat in her high… Read full post »