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This blog title is mostly in reference to one of my favorite Maroon 5 songs, because I am going to see them in concert tonight. It’s also refers to how I feel at my office right now. People kind of gingerly stepped around me this morning because of recent incarceration, er, I mean hospitalization. But [...]

I have a plan. A beautiful plan. A plan that involves me moving my fat ass off this chair in my office and going to the gym, that place where they keep the exercise equipment that I subsidize every month. Haven’t been in a couple of months. Got injured. Got busy. Got sick. Got busy [...]

I realize I haven’t posted anything about weight loss here in a while. That’s because I ain’t been losing any. Maybe quite the opposite. But good news today: Starbucks will NOT be featuring its Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate again this holiday season. There’s a 1,000 calories I will be saving. I got that going for [...]

Today is my husband’s 45th birthday. I reminded him that means he is no longer in his early 40s. He said thank-you-very-much-for-reminding-me-beeotch. And I said you-are-welcome-very-much-old-man-don’t-make-me-beat-you-run-your-ass-over-with-my-Hoveround. Then we hobbled around the beach all day swearing at each other as practice for when we are really old. OK, not really. Happy birthday, honey. I love you [...]

This planet is alive. And when the Earth has a temper tantrum, a touch of heartburn, an eruption, the aftermath can be devastating for decades, centuries. We drove up Mount Saint Helens yesterday, and while it is slowly and surely returning to some semblance of it’s former self more than 30 years after it erupted, [...]

When did Facebook become the neighborhood watch? I am sitting here surfing the InterWebs, minding my own busy-ness, when a neighbor posts a comment to my status. My status read: Sent the dogs outside with explicit instructions not to kill any woodland creatures while in our backyard. I don’t care who started it. This was [...]