Category Archives: Daily Thoughts
Intermittent Fasting – Decision Day
EatSmart Bath Scale

How appropriate… The day I decide it’s time to start on this whole intermittent fasting plan, my starting weight is 166.6!

I have some specific goals, such as getting my weight down, lowering my cholesterol, slowing down perimenopause hot flashes, healthier skin and hair, and having more energy.

The main question being… is it possible to do this while I’m on the road working?

Running a Business On the Road – Introduction
Running a Business On The Road

That’s right. I’m (once again) taking my blog (and my business) on the road. This time with a lot more knowledge and a road map (for the business, not the job… well ok, yes, I’ll have a road map for the job too but that’s a given… I’ll be on the road… stop confusing me!) 🙂

Yes, I have a Class A license and can drive a big rig. I got it back in 2007 when I suddenly decided I wanted to go “play trucker”. Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t something that just popped into my head out of the blue and no, I wasn’t having a mid-life crisis…

My Happy Valentine’s Day Gift to Me…
Valentines Day Gifts 2014

Yes, it’s Valentine’s Day, my sweetheart’s not here (nor has he stopped by or sent a text) and I don’t expect him to be because we’re going through a weird time right now that has us apart.

I got up this morning (ok, so MY morning starts around 2pm so it would technically be afternoon), took a shower, prettied myself up with the usual cocoa butter body oil, my favorite face lotions and makeup (hell, I even took a curling iron to my hair!), just so I could spend the day working on taxes and business stuff!

But this day had a very surprise ending …

Whoever Said There’s Such a Thing as a Good Break Up, Has Never Had a Broken Heart
Broken Heart

Yep. My heart is broken… and I don’t know if it can be fixed.

I’ve been with the same man for five and a half years… and he walked out of my life last night. Without going into a lot of detail about the things that led up to this, I’ll just say that it’s tough integrating families from different backgrounds and different cultures.

Can things be made better? Well, that depends on a lot of factors. Some that I can control, but most that I can’t….

Coconut Oil as a Hair Care Product?
Coconut Oil - Great Stuff!

My hair’s been really dry this year. Age is playing a factor I’m sure. But the newest drying agent, besides the dry winter air, is the chlorine from the pool.

I live in Arizona and the complex we live in has a pool right outside my door. Literally, I’m about 25 steps from the gate. And in the winter, it’s heated, so I’ve been going out to swim and relax.

Last night, I decided to test whether using coconut oil as a conditioner would work as great as all the stories I keep reading online. …

Change a Domain Name? What Was I Thinking?!
Change Domain Name

No, I haven’t been avoiding posting or slacking already on my goals for 2014. I’ve spent the past 2 days making sure that my blog is redirecting right from the original domain name to here. I’d like to make sure it gets done without losing my page rankings and such.

I hate technical stuff!

I’m fairly sure at this point that it’s redirecting ok, but I won’t know for a couple of days as I see what Google is actually indexing and whether it’s getting indexed with the existing rankings and such. …

Kid Corner – Wiffle Ball Bat Incident Leaves Permanent Scar

I have a small scar underneath my eyebrow on my right toward the my nose. I got it when I was around six or seven years old.

My neighbors on one side has two daughters and two sons. My neighbor on the other side had two boys, Kenny and Billy.

Joy and I spent a lot of time hanging out and playing with Kenny and Billy and occasionally we would get in a fight with them too. One day, I got really mad at Kenny (I don’t remember why) but I remember chasing him over to his house and, when I got there, I picked up one of those big fat wiffleball bats, backed him up against the wall of his house, and hit him across his chest with it.
Of course Kenny was around the same age, so it probably did hurt him. Even if it didn’t, I do know it made him mad. …

I’m Listening to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40!
Casey Kasems American Top 40

Believe it I just finished listening to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 from the week ending September 10, 1983!

So cool! I remember what a big part of our life Casey Kasem was every week when I was a teenager. He had such a unique voice. Even if you didn’t know what radio station he was going to be on, all you had to do was flip through the stations until you heard that voice coming across the airwaves and you knew you were there.

40 of our favorite songs that we have listened to all week long… Patiently waiting to see which one was going to be number one! And always such a letdown when it was over because you felt like it was time for a friend to leave. …

Cracking Open Raw Nuts Should be Easy

I know it’s not Christmas yet but this crossed my mind last night when I reached for the raw pecans I have on the counter. You know the ones. The kind you buy at Christmas that come inside their shells. They’re usually mixed together in a great big bin that your mom keeps telling you to stop playing in.

Whenever mom brought these home, she’d put ’em in a big bowl and throw the nut cracker and picks into the bowl with the nuts so that we could actually get the shells off and eat them. As far as I knew, that was the only way to get to the good parts of the nuts.

Well I just got re-edu-macated last year by a short little Mexican lady that my sweetheart calls mom. …

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
St Patricks Day

My wish is that it’s completely green and pure gold for you (and that you don’t get pinched)! 🙂

You know, I remember getting dressed in green and going to the St. Patrick’s Day parade as a kid, but we just don’t do that anymore.

So, for those of you who celebrate by going out to have a few green beers… Cheers! (to you AND your designated driver… hint, hint) 😉 …

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