...with only a minor detour. Here I am in Traverse City enjoying the 2009 Rural Library Conference and I am thankful for the safe journey. Even though I took the scenic route. My MapQuest directions were right, I was wrong. Evidently Fife Lake is not on Fife Lake Road. But needless to say I arrived, only had to ask directions once, and even traveled along the lakeshore for a while.
It is almost dinner time so this will be short.
Bye!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Can 4 good days...
...erase 2 really bad days? I'll find out tonight as I go to my WW meeting and weigh-in on the topic of "What happens when you eat your way through the weekend"? One of the bad things was that I ordered Girl Scout Cookies before signing up for WW, and they came in on Saturday. I LOVE those thin mints and what started as "I'll just eat a serving" ended up as "I can't believe I just ate the whole box". (And then I had an instant replay on Sunday) But they are all gone now so I shouldn't have to battle that particular temptation for a while.
Tomorrow I head off to beautiful, cold Traverse City for Rural Library Conference. I plan on learning and getting new ideas to implement in the library. Conference food will probably be good and bad. (Taste good/nutritionally bad) I'll have to take the stairs at least once a day to keep my exercise up. If I get wireless up there I'll let you know how it goes. (Not that anyone realizes I've started to post to my blog again)
Tomorrow I head off to beautiful, cold Traverse City for Rural Library Conference. I plan on learning and getting new ideas to implement in the library. Conference food will probably be good and bad. (Taste good/nutritionally bad) I'll have to take the stairs at least once a day to keep my exercise up. If I get wireless up there I'll let you know how it goes. (Not that anyone realizes I've started to post to my blog again)
Friday, April 24, 2009
What do you do when...
...those uncontrollable urges hit you? I'll find myself sitting on the couch probably watching TV while reading a book,(My version of multitasking)when the urge hits. I start feeling antsy, and the urge is all I can think about.
I try to distract myself but my TV show has gone to commercial, I can't remember where I left of in my book, and I can't think about anything but this overwhelming urge...to EAT! I know I should jump on the bike and pedal away from the urge but my stationary bike doesn't take me very far from the kitchen. I've also heard people say that if you don't satisfy that urge or craving you will end up eating more later. What they don't tell you is how to satisfy the urge that just wants to eat everything!
Are there really people out there who's first response to an eating urge is to eat veggies? Probably those Vegan and Vegetarian people but as a normal carnivore I can honestly say that veggies will never be my first choice. Even on those days that I force myself to be good and eat the veggies instead of the cookies, chips, ice cream, pretzels, cheese, crackers, chocolate, etc... I know that isn't going to satisfy the URGE.
I guess I'll have to find other answers to my urges because in all honesty they don't hit because I'm hungry but because of some other reason or emotion. My WW leader said that if hunger isn't the problem and food isn't the answer. I guess I better get better at discovering the real problem before I run to may favorite answers.
I try to distract myself but my TV show has gone to commercial, I can't remember where I left of in my book, and I can't think about anything but this overwhelming urge...to EAT! I know I should jump on the bike and pedal away from the urge but my stationary bike doesn't take me very far from the kitchen. I've also heard people say that if you don't satisfy that urge or craving you will end up eating more later. What they don't tell you is how to satisfy the urge that just wants to eat everything!
Are there really people out there who's first response to an eating urge is to eat veggies? Probably those Vegan and Vegetarian people but as a normal carnivore I can honestly say that veggies will never be my first choice. Even on those days that I force myself to be good and eat the veggies instead of the cookies, chips, ice cream, pretzels, cheese, crackers, chocolate, etc... I know that isn't going to satisfy the URGE.
I guess I'll have to find other answers to my urges because in all honesty they don't hit because I'm hungry but because of some other reason or emotion. My WW leader said that if hunger isn't the problem and food isn't the answer. I guess I better get better at discovering the real problem before I run to may favorite answers.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I haven't died...
...yet! It's been been over 9 months since I've updated this blog. I could have had a baby in that amount of time but that would have required that S & M thing. (s*x and a man) Needless to say I'm still a happy single gal trying to make her mark on the world. It probably won't be through creative blog posts but you never know. Maybe some publisher out there will come across my blog and decide I have an amazing talent for the written word and they want to publish everything I can write. (LOL)
After waking up from that nightmare I'll remember why I'd much rather read than write. Getting to the books part of my blog I'm in the middle of a hysterical historical romance right now. I'd rather be reading it that writing actually. It is a first novel by Lisa Cooke, "Texas Hold Him" and has made me laugh out loud so much that people are giving me funny looks. (I probably should wait until I'm alone to finish it.)I don't often write about my current reading choices because even though I know I shouldn't care it still embarrasses me to say I read romances. I don't know why it does because romances are the epitome of the happy ending story. With everything going on around us, depressions, recessions and dodo's in office, happy endings are essential.
I often like my romances with a heart stopping amount of suspense thrown in, or maybe even a vampire or two, but most often it's going to be a humorous love story where the perfect or more often than not 'less than perfect' couple works through their problems and find happiness together. There are even a lot of romances that make me cry through the whole book. Robyn Carr is such an author with her Virgin River series, but for today I choose to laugh!
After waking up from that nightmare I'll remember why I'd much rather read than write. Getting to the books part of my blog I'm in the middle of a hysterical historical romance right now. I'd rather be reading it that writing actually. It is a first novel by Lisa Cooke, "Texas Hold Him" and has made me laugh out loud so much that people are giving me funny looks. (I probably should wait until I'm alone to finish it.)I don't often write about my current reading choices because even though I know I shouldn't care it still embarrasses me to say I read romances. I don't know why it does because romances are the epitome of the happy ending story. With everything going on around us, depressions, recessions and dodo's in office, happy endings are essential.
I often like my romances with a heart stopping amount of suspense thrown in, or maybe even a vampire or two, but most often it's going to be a humorous love story where the perfect or more often than not 'less than perfect' couple works through their problems and find happiness together. There are even a lot of romances that make me cry through the whole book. Robyn Carr is such an author with her Virgin River series, but for today I choose to laugh!
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