Becoming Shredded

I want to tell you about this new thing I’m trying. Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred. I’d read about a few bloggers trying it, saw some Twitter chatter about it, and eventually came across this fabulous site that Kristen started: http://www.motherhooduncensored.net/shred/ The results these women are seeing? Are amazing. Seriously, just click on over there and [...]

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Happenings

I haven’t really talked much about what’s been going on in our lives these last couple of months. So in no particular order, here’s a glimpse into what’s been happening this month: 1. Paid off my car earlier this month – a full 14 months ahead of schedule. I still turn to my husband and [...]

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Another sign that I am turning into my mother

When you were a kid, did you ever run off from your parents in a department store and hide under the clothes racks or behind giants stacks of toilet paper on the stock shelves? Man that was fun. Until your mom freaks the fuck out because she can’t find you and thinks child abductors stole  [...]

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Because everyone needs a good workout mix

Everyone knows that the key to staying motivated during a workout is a solid workout mix. Whether you prefer to rock out to The Killers or Britney Spears, you need good tunes to carry you through those sweat-drenched-feet-on-fire-legs-about-to-give-out-from-under-you workouts. And for the first few weeks, it works. But when you’ve heard the same old songs fifty times [...]

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Just when you think you know someone

I’ve only been to a strip club once in my life. (How’s that for an opening line?) I don’t believe I conformed to any labels in high school, but then again let’s be honest. Who here confesses to being a huge dork? Or a band geek? Or the kid who got his tighty-whiteys pulled up to [...]

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Clooney Watch

St. Louis doesn’t see many celebrities. We hang our hat oversized sunglasses on musicians like Nelly and Chuck Berry (which, by the way, I can’t believe I just grouped the two of them in the same sentence), and movie stars like John Goodman and…Brad Pitt? (Hey, he’s from Missouri. Close enough.) If I’m not mistaken [...]

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