Monthly Archives: July 2011

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In #51

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Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. 
~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In(please feel free to use this!)

I love learning more about my fellow MilSpouse bloggers. So I created a weekly meme. Each week, I’ll post a list of questions on Thursday (so you can have your blog ready on Friday). Come back here on Friday (like today!) and enter your blog post into Mr. Linky below so others know who else participated and we can all visit other blogs. Please leave a comment too! And please feel free to use the button above!

This week’s questions are:

1. Facebook or Twitter?
I like both for different things but I spend more time on Twitter because I like the instant feedback and actually feeling like you are having a conversation (though virtual).

2. Hard Tacos or Soft Tacos?
I like hard tacos but I still love burritos, which, of course, are in soft shells.

3. Gardening or crafting?
Gardening. I try to get into different crafts but just never finish them. And I love eating the fruits of my labor!

4. Fruit or vegetables?
Fruit. I love my vegetables for sure, but I love the sweetness of fruit.

5.  Motorcycle or bicycle?
I haven’t ridden my bike in years but I really want to. Huzzy now has two Harley’s (which he got after his dad’s funeral) and I do like riding on the back of his Harley. I refuse to ride on the expressways that go more than 60mph but I do like the back roads and seeing the scenery.

Please don’t forget to add your blog link to Mr. Linky below by clicking on it. But also if you are not participating in MilSpouse Friday Fill-In this week, please do not put your link on there… I will remove it. It is unfair to others who do participate.

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In #51: Questions for Tomorrow

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Politicians are like diapers.  They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. 
~Author Unknown


MilSpouse Friday Fill-In(please feel free to use this!)

I love learning more about my fellow MilSpouse bloggers! MilSpouse Friday Fill-in took off even better than I could have ever hoped. I learned so much about my fellow bloggers and can’t wait to learn more… and hopefully even MORE will join in as we continue.

Here’s the skinny for newcomers about MilSpouse Friday Fill-ins (and when I say MilSpouse, I mean significant others, too!):

Each week, I’ll post a list of questions on Thursday (so you can have your blog ready on Friday). Come back here on Friday and enter your blog post into Mr. Linky so others know who else participated and we can all visit other blogs.  And please feel free to use the button above!

This week, it’s all about the “or’s”… just make sure you tell tell us why!

  1. Facebook or Twitter?
  2. Hard Tacos or Soft Tacos?
  3. Gardening or crafting?
  4. Fruit or vegetables?
  5. Motorcycle or bicycle?

Can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with tomorrow!


MilSpouse Friday Fill-in #50

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~Russel Baker


MilSpouse Friday Fill-In(please feel free to use this!)

I love learning more about my fellow MilSpouse bloggers. So I created a weekly meme. Each week, I’ll post a list of questions on Thursday (so you can have your blog ready on Friday). Come back here on Friday (like today!) and enter your blog post into Mr. Linky below so others know who else participated and we can all visit other blogs. Please leave a comment too! And please feel free to use the button above!

This week’s questions are:

1. Do you eat raw cookie dough?
Yes, but only if it is chocolate chip or molasses. I looooooove cookie dough and don’t care if I might get sick from it. I might get sick from a lot of things, but I still eat them.

2. When you get online for the first time of the day… what site do you immediately head to?
Google.com. It has my email, news and link to the two comics I read every day (Luann and For Better or for Worse).

3. What was your favorite pet as a child and why?
I’d have to say Sam, my 16hh red dun Impressive-bred Quarter Horse. She was my buddy and my confidant. I miss her.

4. If you had a snail that could magically grant wishes, what would you name it?
Speed Gonzales the Genie-us

5.  How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?
I usually can only make it about 5 before I suck on it and until it is thin enough to bite and eat the yummy Tootsie Roll inside!

Please don’t forget to add your blog link to Mr. Linky below by clicking on it. But also if you are not participating in MilSpouse Friday Fill-In this week, please do not put your link on there… I will remove it. It is unfair to others who do participate.

MilSpouse Friday Fill-in #50: Questions for Tomorrow

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Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.  Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
~Author Unknown

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In(please feel free to use this!)

I love learning more about my fellow MilSpouse bloggers! MilSpouse Friday Fill-in took off even better than I could have ever hoped. I learned so much about my fellow bloggers and can’t wait to learn more… and hopefully even MORE will join in as we continue.

Here’s the skinny for newcomers about MilSpouse Friday Fill-ins (and when I say MilSpouse, I mean significant others, too!):

Each week, I’ll post a list of questions on Thursday (so you can have your blog ready on Friday). Come back here on Friday and enter your blog post into Mr. Linky so others know who else participated and we can all visit other blogs.  And please feel free to use the button above!

  1. Do you eat raw cookie dough?
  2. When you get online for the first time of the day… what site do you immediately head to?
  3. What was your favorite pet as a child and why?
  4. If you had a snail that could magically grant wishes, what would you name it?
  5. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

Can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with tomorrow!

Change of [Diet] Plans

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If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. 
~Author Unknown

So in a previous post, I talked about how Huzzy and I were going on the Dukan Diet.  Well, we did for the last 2 1/2 weeks and we lost a really good amount of weight (like I lost 7 pounds and Huzzy lost 11). However, my body does not like the diet. I need carbs or by the afternoon, I’m feeling exhausted and like I’m “disconnected.”

I realized it was the diet doing this when I was on the USS Nimitz last week and forgot my lunch one day. Because I was only on the ship for a week, I didn’t have a ship debit card and they didn’t take cash. So I had to buy something from one of the carts on the pier. I had a whole wheat sandwich… and wow did the rest of my day go well! I had energy and I felt normal! From two little slices of whole wheat bread.

So I began to re-think the diet and really realized that while lean protein and low fat are absolutely some of the best things for you… your body does need carbs to function. Good carbs, though, not just any carbs.

So I looked into the second diet I was considering along with the Dukan… the South Beach diet. It is very similar in the fact that you are only allowed to eat lean protein and lowfat (nonfat in the case of Dukan) dairy in the first phase, which also lasts two weeks. However, in the second phase, you bring in GOOD carbs (just a few of them) and fruits (low-carb and high fiber ones). I live for fruits. While I won’t be able to eat bowls of them, I’m glad I’ll be able to eat some. And my favorite fruits are on the list.

(as a side note, Huzzy and I TOTALLY blew our diet for the last four days. As in, eating out a lot. Olive Garden, a steakhouse, Japanese, etc… and I only gained 1.2 pounds. My body just needed the carbs!)

It also helps that my friend over at One Guy in a House of Girls is on the diet and her doctor actually recommended this diet for her since she has diabetes AND runs marathons. She actually has the energy to on this diet! Not only that, but she can actually make food that fits her diet and her children… get this… EAT IT AND ENJOY IT. Wow!

So, we are switching to the South Beach Diet. I’m sure we won’t lose weight as quickly as the Dukan, but I think it’s no only better for me personally, but is a more well-rounded diet. I’m not saying the Dukan is bad… I know a few people who have done really well on it! But for me, I just couldn’t deal with the tiredness and discombobulation I felt.