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Well, it’s about time, I guess. It’s been a long time, but today, I dug out the ol’ roller blades and went in circles outside my abode for about a half hour.

I was a little rusty, but basically, it wasn’t too bad. I know when I do it more frequently, I have more fun, because my balance is stronger and I feel more relaxed. But still, I had a good time.

And I had forgotten how much better–and more energized–I actually feel after exercising a little while. I mean, it’s such a little thing. I was out there 30 minutes. A piddley little half hour, for Christ’s sakes! And I sat down a few minutes of that, for that matter. (After being off the skates a while, it doesn’t take long for my arches to start hurting. It’s just the skates, I guess, or how my feet go in ‘em or something. I dunno. But it goes away when I do it more offen.) (more…)

Stop The Thyroid Madness » Index Page–
“For decades, we, as patients have unwittingly become victims to a thyroid treatment madness that involves treatment with an INADEQUATE medication called T4-only (aka Synthroid, Levoxyl, Unithroid, Levothyroxine, etc), besides being HELD HOSTAGE to a lab called the TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) with it’s erroneous and dubious “normal” range.”

If you have thyroid problems (particularly hypothyroid), or suspect you may be, this site provides a lot of info on treatment options that may be a lot more helpful to you than the daily dosage of synthroid.

Motivation: The Secret Formula

“So what’s the moral of the story? To create motivation and new habits, you need to coax it with small changes — not force it. This philosophy has worked for many of my clients and for eDiet members who have a dislike for exercise.”

This breif article echos my advice about lifestyle changes and small, relatively painless adjustments that you can live with…

Size Matters…More Than You Think

weight and penis size appearance….uh….

Size Matters…More Than You Think

weight and penis size appearance….uh….

What? It’s January-Fucking-Fourth and I haven’t done an obligatory post on resolutions?

Damn. I’m slacking.

Well, anyway. Okay, I give…But it’s not my normal anti-resolution rant this year. I’ll spare ya. Because this year, I’m actually feeling more at peace with the whole resolution thing.

I’ve just figured out, “Okay. I am who I am. If I don’t like something about who I am, then I can let it the Hell go, you know? That’s my job every day. But if I want to set a  positive goal for myself that I feel happy about, well, sure. That’s cool.”

For me, the difference is about the focus–if your resolution is about not being good enough, thin enough, smart enough, rich enough, right enough or white enough or whatever…well, fuck that noise. You’re on shakey ground at that point.

You know? Life is here, now. This is it, folks. There ain’t no dress rehersal. What you see is what you got, Sparky. So why waste this beautiful gift we have berating ourselves?

I mean, c’mon. You respond better to feeling good about yourself anyway, right? So make your thoughts feel good, and you’ll do better, and on and on it goes, a vicious upward sprial.

I can dig it.

bah. i’m slacking. here lately, i’ve been slacking. as the team lisa coach. regular readers know about team lisa. it’s the group from the kansas city star–the reporter and group of 10  who started out to lose weight, and chronicle their progress in the paper. (more…)

Well, I decided to pull the rollerblades out yesterday, since the weather had cooled a lot and I’m out of practice.

But before I could skate, there was the issue of my skating parkng lot. This place is surrounded by trees, and there were about 3 kajillion little acorn-nutty-tree-seed things everywhere. sticks and leaves and a great big mess. squirrel’s heaven, skater’s demise.or at least, demise for a so-so skater like me. tripsy mine-field. what to do? (more…)

it’s a funny thing. or, it is to me, anyway, and that’s what we’re talking ’bout here. me. but it’s a funny thing, to me, how my focus works.

i have this thing, when i get focused. it’s like a goddamned laser beam, and i can do things. a lot of things. get shit accomplished, you know. you do know, right? what the hell i’m talking about? big shit. hard work, big projects. i can pull off shit that nobody but people who have known me a long time would guess I could, and maybe not them.

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I’m in the process of changing servers and managed to blow up the site’s backend. Not to worry–(((s)))g is coming back! But it may take me a few days…I have many sites to move over and my client responsibilities do take prioritiy over my own sites.

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