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Archive for August, 2008

Aug
30

Before and after… sort of…

Posted by Hollyann

Ok, first with the before, that is generally how it goes, yes?  I was going to do this whole thing, but then I decided maybe not… wait, let me backtrack a bit.  I have this thing with my feet.  Basically, not to completely disgust everyone or anything, but my feet generally look, um, like the feet of someone that is 107 years old.  (Yes, like McCain’s feet!  Exactly! [That was Kerri's shout out.])  Any of you who have seen me in flip flops already know this.  And that should be most of you, because, rebel that I am, I ignore the lovely email that comes around Memorial Day every year expecting me to not wear flip flops unless my toes are painted pretty and my feet look to be no more than 4 years older than the rest of me.  Because I don’t like shoes at all.  In fact I once wore flip flops for 2 days in Illinois in the middle of October. (look at that a twofer for Kerri!) The fact that I had just gotten a tattoo on the top of my foot was really just my clever excuse for wearing the flip flops.  I am the chick that kicks her shoes off as soon as she sits in a chair anywhere… restaurants, bars, movies, whatever… and never ever wears shoes at home.  I’ve always been this way, which may explain why my feet look 107 years old, with the dry and the wrinkles and the general ickiness.  Well, that and I paint my toes once in May and then realize I have no nail polish remover and therefore never do it again that year.  So, I am talking to this chick about Avon and she says how she loves the foot stuff and she wants the foot stuff, and the foot stuff is particularly awesome.  I was actually wearing Crocs at the time, so deciding that she wasn’t doing that thing people do when they are trying to make a nice hint, (do you want a mint?) I check out our foot stuff.  There’s lots of it.  So I ordered a bunch of different stuff for my feet.  I totally took before pictures of my feet, but again, icky.  So I am saving the pictures for when they will (hopefully) be useful and make an impact on y’all… namely when I have stunning pictures of normal-aged feet to put next to them after using the stunning Avon foot goo.  Check back in a few weeks or something.

Now, for the after… The Wii fit is still just plain fun, and I have been doing it every day for… 15 days now. Except for 2 days when I was still trying to do it before bed instead of in the morning and decided that vodka and balance games are not as funny as you might think.  So.  After 15 days… I have not lost any weight, or gained any either.  Well, technically the thing said I was 117 this morning, which would be down 2 pounds, but that was only because I accidentally told it I was wearing 3 pounds of clothes, instead of 1 pound.  However, in the name of measurements the balance board doesn’t take, I also took my measurements as one would for making clothes, and am pleased to say that I have lost 1 inch from my waist and almost an inch (7/8 if you need exactness) from my hips.  Sweet.  That means that yes, the jeans that were once my fat jeans and then became my normal jeans are once again my fat jeans… I actually had to look for a belt the other day when they were all that was clean.

In other news, I have no other news.  For the first time in 14 months, I am without a certificate to play the monthly tournament in poker next month.  That makes me sad.  Course, I only played 3 times in August, so I’m not sure what I expected there.  Charlie is doing a report on stingrays for his animal unit.  Kayla still can’t read and has no interest in learning how, but she has more friends than any of the other first graders. Kibbles and Bits does something to Chewie that you do NOT want to hear any more about.  Dusty has an aural hematoma, which is ‘disgusting but harmless’ according to my vet.  Toby caught a hummingbird last week, which I think was just plain showing off.  And that is about it for our little family.

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Aug
19

New stuff…

Posted by Hollyann

Two things occupy my time lately.  Avon and Wii.  I know, you thought I would say vodka and the olympics, am I right?  Ha, fooled you.

First, the Avon.  It’s not so easy to find a job that fits with my kids hours (or any job, really) as I thought it would be.  So, for the moment I am selling Avon and watching one of the neighbor kids before school.  Why Avon?  It’s cheap, if you do it right.  So many of these types of things cost a fortune to get started and then you have to pay for EVERYTHING.  Well, Avon cost me all of $10 to start up and they give you a ton of stuff for free and the rest you can choose to buy, or not so much.  In fact the only thing I HAVE to buy is the catalogs, and they are way cheap.  Plus the commission (or the discount, if you want to look at it that way) is pretty good too.  Anyway, to get back to why this is occupying all (half) of my time… I forgot how much time it takes to get into something completely new like that, and decided it would be a fine idea to sign up just about the time school started.  You know, when I have to start getting up early and back in the school year groove.  Brilliant.  And the downside to having all your training online and free is that there is a LOT of it, and you have to sit through stupid slideshows of diverse peoples telling you how to do the simplest of things for 25 minutes to get to the 5 minutes worth of things you don’t know how to do yet.  SO there’s that.

On to the Wii… I am currently obsessed with Wii Fit.  It makes me hurt.  I still do it.  Every day.  Is it making me more fit?  Hard telling, since it’s been only 4 days since wii (haha) got it, and I haven’t exactly stopped eating chips and dip for lunch or anything.  But I’m sore, so I’m guessing it’s better than what I was doing, which can best be summed up as nothing.  If you have been living under a rock, the Wii Fit is a game.  Of sorts.  It consists of a white plastic thingy that sits on the floor.  You stand on the thingy, which looks like the lid to one of those rubbermaid boxes basically, and play all these games, or do exercises with your superhot cartoon trainer dude named Jack.  Well, I named mine Jack, technically I believe he goes by ‘male trainer’.  There are 4 categories to the exergames:  Yoga, Strength, Aerobic, and Balance.  But before you get to that, you get weighed.  And measured.  (you have been weighed, you have been measured and you have been found wanting, that’s for Kerri.)  It’s called the body test or some such nonsense, and it’s totally the best part.  First it says you can step on, then it does this little sound like “oh!” as in “holy shit, you’re HEAVY!” when you do step on.  It gives you your weight and your BMI, tells you to set some goals, and off you go.  If anyone is interested in my stats, 119 and 17.94, which makes me underweight according to the thingy.  My pants disagree, but that’s a whole different argument.  Remember the chips and dip.  Oh, it tells you all sorts of things about your center of balance too.  Mine is slightly to the left.   Then you get to do training, which consists of the exergames.  The Yoga and Strength categories you do with Jack.  The first Yoga exercise is called Deep Breathing.  I kid you not, the idea is to stand still and breathe.  I completely rock at it.  No one beats me on doing nothing.  The strength exercises make me want to kill Jack, however.  Especially anything to do with my upper body, which is woefully underdeveloped.  The Aerobic and Balance categories are different game type things.  The Hula Hoop game is so much fun, and I have decided everyone looks like a complete idiot doing it, except that one girl on YouTube, and I assume she isn’t human at all.  If you haven’t seen it (where is this rock you live under again?) go to YouTube and search ‘why every guy should buy his girlfriend a wii fit’.  Oh, there is also a step thing on the Aerobics which is hilarious, all these little cartoon people stepping up and down together.  Harder than it looks.  And you can run.  You stick the controller in your pocket and run in place.  Except I run around the coffee table, because when I run in place I do it all on my toes and it hurts my knees.  This is more fun than you would think, you have a little cartoon dude you follow through a park.  The Balance games are the most fun, and so funny.  One of them you try to hit soccer balls with your head.  Only I am horrible at it because really its counterintuitive for me to let anything hit me in the head.  And you have to dodge the occasional shoe and panda head too.  One of them you walk a tightrope and jump over some kind of possessed bear trap that comes down the rope at you.  There’s also a ski jump, a slalom course, and today I unlocked something where you float your bubble down a river.  On all of these you just sort of lean back and forth to do whatever.  Anyways, Wii Fit = Big Fun.  Even the sore parts.  I’ll talk about the other Wii stuff we have later on.

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    About Me

    I'm Holly, mommy, photographer, digital scrapbooker, poker player, Disney lover, and world domination seeker (I've been working on it way longer than Ellen) currently residing in Colorado Springs with my 2 kids Charlie (11) and Kayla (8), my 2 dogs Chewie (lhasa apso) and Skye (siberian husky, aka BEST DOG EVER), my cat Jasmine, and the baby hamsters Bubba 1 and Bubba 2. I attend the local communtity college seeking my associates degree in multimedia graphic design, am the Colorado Springs regional manager for Denver Poker Tour, and am addicted to TV, my iPad, and my Nikon D5000.