No Turning Back

Go For It

The new site is ready to go. For the most part. Good enough, I say.

Update your bookmarks accordingly! I don't know how long this TypePad one will be active.

How Do You Know You're on a Diet?

When you dream about the comfort food you used to eat. And then you wake up hungry and realize it was only a dream.

Ugh. I hate the word "diet". Everyone is on a diet; a diet is the food you eat. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

My old diet had a lot of pizza, breads, cheese, eggs, and very few vegetables, fruits, protein, etc. Needless to say, that packs on the pounds pretty easily, especially when I didn't work out consistently.

But I'm 10 days into the diet New Eating and Exercise Habits, and so far, so great! I have lost more pounds than expected. But on the other hand, I have experienced plenty of hunger pangs. And grumpiness. And grief over the loss of the freedom to eat whatever, whenever. But that was a loss I need to go through. It can only get better from here.

And my success has come even though I have not been perfectly strict with the diet NEEH. Come on, what's 4th of July or campfires without smores? Or in my case, one lonely smore? So I don't feel like I'm slave to the NEEH. And that goes a long way. 

New blog unveiling coming this weekend. Pinky swear!

LOL

Saw this commercial the other night and laughed out loud. I admit it; I'm a fan of the Hills. I am not obsessed but I will watch it with a grain of salt, of course.

Pictures Are Worth a Friday Five

I was planning to do this Friday 5 last week, but time escaped me. I've actually been pretty busy at work, which is a good thing. It's temporary, but I'm almost thankful because it makes the days go by so much faster. 

So here are 5 pictures I saw online last week (and I swapped out one for a new one this week, to keep up to date). These are just pictures that I saw, liked, and wanted to remember. 

 
1. This happened a couple weeks ago, but I keep forgetting to blog about it. Did anyone else see Johnny Depp at the MTV Movie Awards? I only saw parts of it as I was flipping around channels. I am not into the whole Pirates of the Caribbean thing, and I am not a fan of him in that movie. But I thought he looked so cool when he was accepting his awards. Not necessarily hot, not necessarily funny, not necessarily exciting. But the dude just exuded coolness. Love him.

2. David Beckham came out with a new ad campaign for Emporio Armani underwear this month. Thank. You. Armani.

3. This one from the lolcats was just too damn cute. I'll take the hugs where I can get them.

4. I frequent the Pop Candy website, and this image for the reader mail made me chuckle. I loved Mr. McFeely. Though saying that now as an adult has a whole new connotation than when I was a kid. Speedy delivery!

5. And this one is just for me. I know, I'm obsessed. But there are worse habits to have. Deal.

Have a fantastic weekend! I'm going to try to make it to A Taste of Rochester, weather permitting.  What are you doing?

A Mosaic for You About Me

In a recent post, NPW did two things: she made her first Flickr mosaic, and inspired me to do the same! So here's how you do it.

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

I am happy with all of them except the last one. I only had one picture to choose from. And #11 did not want to share with the mosaic tool, which is just as well, since I couldn't decide on one word for me.

And I will also award super friend/blogger points to anyone who knows who #5 is. Mrrawr.