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So I'm back from my trip to Rhode Island and I had a FANTASTIC time! Jubilee (my Latasia jewelry conference) was inspiring, encouraging and just a whole lot of fun! I'm really excited with the changes that they have made, the new prices and the incredible new pieces. It was really nice to be away on my own with other women and enjoy some shopping, great conversation and meet some new friends. The food was great as well! Ahhhhh, food. I do love food! This is one of the reasons I was worried I would pack on some weight while I was away. I was careful to bring my shakes and was faithful in taking them the whole time I was away. Thankfully this means I wasn't eating McDonald's for the whole drive down and back. I shudder to think how much I would have gained if I did that! lol We did, however go to a restaurant many will be familiar with that I was not. The Cheesecake Factory. If anyone really knows me they will know that my favorite food of all time is cheesec

Things were going so well! I was actually liking my running training and I was feeling really good about the progress I was making. Then disaster struck! OK, that's a little over dramatic but I have been brought to a grinding halt. I did my 5th training run about a week and a half ago and by the end my left knee was pretty soar. I sort of figured that I had just pushed it a bit to hard since I had upped my intervals to a minute and a half of both walking and jogging. Before I was just jogging for one minute. As the evening continued my knee got more and more soar and it took a bit of effort to go up and down stairs. So some good rest was in order. Since I was going to Jubilee (my Latasia conference, that was fabulous by the way) I had assumed my knee would heal up while I was gone and I would be good to go when I got back. This is certainly not the case. I'm still finding stairs a little difficult and by the end of the day I'm limping quite significantly. I'

I have leaned something over the last 2 weeks. I'm not in as bad of shape as I thought! I have always wondered about what weight I should be and what is a healthy goal for me to be and since according to my BMI I was still overweight when I was in the best shape of my life it's always been difficult for me to sort out what that means to me. When Randall and I got engaged I had a LOT of motivation to get in shape. It doesn't help that when he proposed I had just come back from 5 months in England and was at my highest weight (to that date). I joined a gym and did my best to get in shape. I was spending about 2 hours at the gym at least 3 days a week and eating really well, especially considering I was a waitress. By the wedding I had managed to get down to my high school weight and was feeling alright about myself, though the feeling was short lived. As soon as my motivation was gone my determination slipped. Living in Elmira then there was no gym around so I joined

I have decided I want to get in shape to run a 5K in October. In order to do that I will really have to work on getting myself in running shape. I will defiantly share more about my experience with this down the road but today I share this with you to set the seen. I need running cloths. I don't own a pair of shorts and the only yoga style pants I have are maternity ones. So off I went to the Supercenter to see about getting something appropriate to exercise in outdoors. Shuffling threw the options I came up with a few pairs to try on after rummaging through rack after rack that were conspicuously missing my size. I mentioned this to the girl letting me into the change room and we had a quick chat about the stupidity of companies and the number of each size they send. Somehow this got shifted to a conversation about the difficulty of finding bras and I entered my change room to try on my choices. When I latter emerged and sorted threw what I thought I might purchase a wom

So I'm one week into my Body by Vi 90 day health challenge and I feel FANTASTIC! I've already lost 4lbs and an inch from my hips and bust, an inch and a half from my waist and an inch off each thigh! The more I learn about the products, what they do and how they do them the happier I am with my decision. I do have to admit though when I saw the videos the first time I was very skeptical. I did assume this was another fad diet that would pass in and out of fashion and I didn't see how I could have lasting results with it. I am now extremely glad that my husband decided I should sign up to promote these products because I already know that I plan to continue taking the vitamins at least for possibly the rest of my life. I am blown away by the energy and wellness I already feel from a few days of taking them. The only problem with promoting something is that I feel I come across as less sincere. I don't want people to assume that I am only telling them out of the h

We have been having problems with our cats for months now. Even before we moved our cat Oscar was using his litter box less and less. Since September when we moved here we could count the number of times he's used the box. Cleo has followed suit. For the most part they pee in it but every day we are cleaning up pile after pile of poop. On occasion they even bring their business upstairs and have ruined a few pairs of shoes by climbing into the hall closet and going in there. We have tried everything we can. We've been giving them more and more wet food, letting them outside whenever they like, spending more time with them and trying to keep the kids from chasing and mauling them. We have alternately tried "punishing" them. We heard that if you close them in a smaller room with their food, water and litter box they will use the box rather than contaminate the room they are in. That does work while we keep them in there but as soon as they are let out it's