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Yawn


[Posted on Flickr by dianaschnuth].


It’s been a while since I posted a cute Mei photo… so here you go.

I do have a question for anyone who uses Flickr and blogs their photos: What are your feelings on blogging your photos directly from Flickr versus uploading separate versions to your own webspace?

I’m hesitant to use Flickr as my main photo repository, just because I’ve had bad experiences with storing my files online and having them go poof (ahem, Angelfire). Although it’s not like I won’t keep copies of my own… but it’s easier to archive a website when the photos live the same place as everything else.

Plus, Flickr doesn’t offer thumbnails in the size I prefer, and they don’t support categories. I’d have to edit my entries, anyway, by uploading my own thumbnail to my server and adding a category. I’m thinking it’s more trouble than it’s worth… but I also don’t know why the heck I have a Flickr photostream if not to share and blog my photos.

Thoughts?

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Something’s Working…

This week, in an attempt to re-align my sleep schedule by about an hour, I’ve been assembling my meals at 10pm, then showering, then reading in bed, and turning off the light at 11:00pm, no matter what. I’ve been laying in bed awake for an hour, to be sure, but I’ve been successfully rising with my alarm clock two days in a row. (Yes, this is an accomplishment.)

Tonight, I got caught up in some genealogy research, so I haven’t gone upstairs to make my food yet — and now my body’s threatening to cart itself off to bed without my brain’s permission.

I’d better go make my food already, before I find myself all tucked into bed with no recollection of how I got there.

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On Starting Points

After a conversation I had today, I decided that I needed to take some, shall we say, more revealing “before” pictures.

So, after my workout, and after dinner, I changed into my highly stylish beige bra and bikinis, and traipsed downstairs for a new set of “before” pics.

Looking at these pictures? Makes me want to go work out again. Today. Right now. Until I can’t move.

You know how, in Sociology or in Ethnic Studies or the multicultural class of your choice, they talked about push factors and pull factors? Generally this refers to reasons why people immigrated to America, but it applies to nearly any decision in life. Either you move from A to B because B has so many good things going for it (pull factors), or you move from A to B because A just sucks donkey balls, and anything would be better than A (push factors).

These “before” pictures have become a mighty push factor. Mightier than the pull factor of any post-drumcorps, size 14, tan and svelte Diana photo.

The good news is that I had a good first full day of the new plan. Barring one leftover burger with provolone cheese for lunch, I followed the plan fairly closely, although I do have some room for improvement.

Got up when my alarm went off (for once), ate breakfast at 7:30am (OMG WTF BBQ Me? Eat breakfast?!), and was quite sated until lunch, which was at 11:30am. Snackie-time was my 3:30pm break, and dinner was 6:30pm — ABC Evening News time. Did tonight’s workout while dinner was cooking (lunges were with my body weight only, BTW, and I did 50 jumping jacks before beginning the dumbbell routine). I plan to do some yoga with Chaz later on tonight, before a nice relaxing bath and a reasonably early bedtime (well, 11:00 is reasonably early for me).

According to my handy-dandy Diet Organizer, my calorie ratio for today was 31% from carbs, 34% from protein, and 35% from fat. We’re shooting for 40:30:30, so I have some tweaking to do. (The burger was the likely culprit, methinks.)

Now, don’t worry: this isn’t going to become a daily diet journal. I just wanted to share this first relatively successful day with all of you. Expect some weekly diet updates if I do well, or utter and abject silence on the subject otherwise. ^_^

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My Ongoing Resolution

I haven’t made a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight in years. That’s mainly because the fact that I want to lose weight is a given. Has been since I was in Junior High. These days, I resolve to focus on something in another part of my life — say, this year’s resolution of finishing what I start — and just assume that, yes, I want to continue to lose weight.

This is my “before” entry (no pictures — I’ll leave that to your imagination), in which I discuss my stats and my plans. If you’re still interested, read on.
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2005: Year in Review

I’ve been kind of slack with posting blog entries this week. I just haven’t been “feeling it,” I guess. So, while I’m home from work on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and while Aaron is still upstairs asleep, I’m going to take this opportunity to blog about the major events of 2005.
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