Posts Tagged "July"
New Goals – Day 1
So, I have some new lifestyle goals. The biggest of which is to drop some unhealthy weight!
I have a six month goal, with shorter monthly goals in the interim. We’ll see how it goes. It requires dropping about 2.5 pounds a week, and I’m not sure realistic that is. I know it can be done, but does it require 2.5 hours of workout a day? Or will 30 minutes a day do along with watching what and when I eat? We’ll find out! I guess, more than weight, my goal is to be about 5 pant sizes smaller than I am now. This time next month I want to be able to slide my 14’s on without unbuttoning them, and the month after that the 12’s, and ideally I want to be back in an 8 by the end of the year. I’ve been wearing size 16 jeans, which I can slide on without opening, and which start to fall off about an hour later from the stretch jeans get. I can fit into the 14s but I don’t like how they look, so that is my short term goal. Fit in them and like how they look. Then we’ll go from there. Yah, I’m a fat ass. Someone else in a 14 or 16 might not be, but I am basically five feet even and it’s too much on my small frame. I’m not asking to be a size 0 or 2 like I was before I had kids. I’m just asking to drop back into the clothes that are in my closet.
Daily Goal: To have my hair done daily. No, not go get it done, but set it the night before (or cover it so it’s still done) so it is styled and finished for the day. I tried today, but I misjudged and my hair wasn’t dry enough to let the curlers out. I think doing this before bedtime is a better option than in the morning. I don’t wear makeup, so for me to feel “done” that hair is what needs to be done.
Those are two big goals for me, so I’m going to stop there for now. I am holding myself accountable.
Read MoreSo little to do, so much time. Strike that, reverse it.
Last night we went to Fogarty’s for dinner. They are the yum. Had a seared ahi appetizer (spit between us), I had mashed potatoes, asparagus, grouper stuffed with crab with a red pepper sauce and Michael had his steak mooing with mashed potatoes (I think), broccoli and onion rings (those thin fancy ones) and we split a piece of cheesecake.
We both brought half of our meal home – there is enough left for another two meals! I’ll be slicing his and bento’ing it for him for dinner tonight.
I got a bundle of new shirts last night – Target has them on sale, yay! They are the “tissue” weight ones I like, with cute prints on them. We picked on up for Eshiva too, but I need to add a modestly panel to the v-neck (we got it in an X-SM to be a dress, but it comes down a little too low in the collar).
I picked up a set of curlers so I can get that soft 40’s curl instead of the curl I already have. I’ll give that a try tonight after I shower.
We spent part of Sunday at a friends house, which was nice. Had a good time and I hope to head back down there again sometime. Then we rushed back home so I could finish cooking & preparing for family to come by. Gram, Zaide, Molli & Larry came over and we feasted on chicken, ribs, watermelon and a delicious trifle I made (yum, homemade amaretto whipped cream) and chatted and it was nice.
I think that wraps up my weekend. I still need to hang my stupid pot rack. I have to bring the ladder in and find the studs and mark them. Then I need to lay out the rack and figure out where the hooks need to be. It’s a process. If I miss the studs and wind up using toggle bolts, I can only put 40 pounds on it, which makes it a useless pot rack, so hope for studs!
Read MoreSweater Girl For Lisa Anne Auerbach, the yarn is the message
http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/11338/sweater-girl/ There are pictures, go look!
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For Lisa Anne Auerbach, the yarn is the messageBy Hadara Graubart | 7:00 am July 23, 2009 Print This Post
CREDIT: © Lisa Anne Auerbach
Lisa Anne Auerbach, 41, works in a unique medium: sweaters. They’re sweaters with messages knitted in, either through words (she has an “addiction to language”) or through images of icons like Barack Obama and Sandy Koufax. The Chicago-bred artist earned her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1994, and she’s lived in California ever since. Many of her works are on display now through October at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. She’s also at work on a series of sweaters for a festival in Nottingham, England, inspired by Robin Hood and the Luddite rebellion which began there in 1811, in which, she says, she’ll be “recasting the merry men as this group of anarcho-feminists.” She explained six of her works to Tablet.
Unveiling A photographer discovers Jewish gravestones at a tony golf course
http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/11096/unveiling/#5 There are photos – you should go look.
Unveiling
A photographer discovers Jewish gravestones at a tony golf courseBy Ahron D. Weiner | 7:00 am July 21, 2009
As a photographer who spent years documenting Jewish sites throughout Eastern Europe, I have a perhaps heightened sensitivity to the use and misuse of Judaica. In town after town from—Prague, Czech Republic, to Uman, Ukraine, with plenty of small villages in between—I’ve found and photographed Jewish gravestones used as walls, as chimneys, and roads. So when I was walking with my 7-year-old son past the 17th hole of the Woodmere Club’s golf course, on Long Island, I was surprised to find a Star of David carved into a stone used as part of a retaining wall, protecting the course from the Reynolds Channel. I looked closer, and discovered hundreds of gravestones, many carved with Jewish names, used as embankment material. The New York Post reported on this yesterday; the club insists the stones—none of which seem to contain dates, only names and symbols—were extra granite, donated many years ago by long-dead club members. Here, for the first time, is a collection of my photos.
I am not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, they are grave markers. They aren’t housing the dead. They aren’t spiritually linked to anything. It’s a slab of engraved marble (or concrete or whatever). On the other hand, someone was loved enough that someone else purchased, and had engraved, this slab of rock.
Were they really donated? Were they stolen? Was the golf course built on an old abandoned cemetery and they repurposed the headstones but made up this cock & bull story about them being donated? If they were donated, how on earth do you convince such a large populous to donate, at the same time, (unused?) gravestones? It’s just weird.
Read MoreI’ve got a picker… what do I do to stop it?
So Eshiva is a picker. She picks at bug bites. She picks at scabs. She picks her lips. Pick pick pick. How do I stop it?
She has scars on her elbows and arms from the picking. Her lip is scabby from the picking (I am constantly putting stuff on it, and I tried just giving her the stick of lip stuff but she eats it – I reapply once an hour or more often if I notice).
She picks, then she bleeds, then she asks for a bandaid.
Michael is concerned we’re going to wind up with a cutter (he feels she picks and then asks for the bandaid for attention).
I just don’t want her covered in scars.
Any way to stop this?
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