Let the week begin!

<p><strong>Monday, Monday!</strong> It isn't the most fun day of the week, but I with my day yesterday, I was <strong><u>ready to meet it head on</u></strong>!! Except... </p> <p>I skipped the gym. Kyle had a hard time sleeping last night and I think as a result I did too! I'm usually a sound sleeper, but for some reason I wasn't last night and heard every time he got up or moved. I forgave him though, just ‘cause he’s cute! ;)</p> <p>For breakfast I made the <strong>blueberry muffin oatmeal</strong> again! I just love how it smells!! I added<strong> 1/4c fresh blueberries</strong> for a total of<strong> 2 points</strong>. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYU8CAYE5-kXTHJL1ANNqeeoLJgpAzkucTddKQO5gkLUnSMBcKTTpO8BhHTasOWF4r24YW_oHr5UWhBdlDV0og_S7wjjvmRArPGzxg8I-2rH8ImHlLK4flniTe-S-ZIvlhG8buKMte_UgK/s1600-h/DSC078583.jpg"><img alt="DSC07858" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCSxkfjidco9w6laHenrQYALTC12Uxs8vAquS71bjxUdJ1lB7eid0YWYSbfRK63SXlQZjcsGCjJUZu3-EQvlHbDxhRfAjsGcHZl5ereqsTXpNwqMlpa66Q2uxucsLddP49sHQ2qMaZY124/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" title="DSC07858" width="404" /></a></p> <p>I didn't stop once I got to work! It was a crazy day! The positive: makes the day fly by! I didn't have my morning snack till a quarter to 1pm!! I mixed up <strong>1 1/2c strawberries</strong>, <strong>ww vanilla yogurt</strong>, and <strong>1/4 homemade granola</strong> for a yum-o <strong>3 point</strong> snack! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5t2HNo39gX0BA8164_CKlmrKki1DsxYPLB6i_SDcYW5MyRyg27UJ9kK2XcvayVlMxmaXoUe6zrpsTm6XroSBR7654aeWZbc_M23k3OBQ8a4xASTXu9EU1LuuDWWJLhiCoVbCVGlxhgT5/s1600-h/DSC078593.jpg"><img alt="DSC07859" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5gNqXfH5cEdqcQLlz4lmQ9Pv4yKGdnuy_W6huk7edjK1mPBvBpqYrcnVK1DPJK2SGWj1bgbb45TZsZNA0oh0D9Br-1MyE8s6X9Bg79zFsvwZXB66YnRZMJQ4Z_0SqblyxFb3CPkoFQkr2/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" title="DSC07859" width="404" /></a></p> <p>Lunch was eaten at my desk. I had <a href="http://weightloss-stories.blogspot.com/2010/07/pain-in-mymouth.html">leftovers</a> once again...but it sure was good!! My serving of <strong>creamy chicken bake</strong> was a tad big so I'm counting it for<strong> 7 points</strong>. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHoMKCjd6lMIAAc-DO6VK1ottfGnWuvQJ5BA-MR2jgmnt00YVUNyuCKgiKqgHtcvD-3ohM-u0T6yW55dBzx3HtVhe_QSjCHw9hB7c_W_KFia3WsCKx6tm5AjjGLuGAf8QbUCwV9pYR09y/s1600-h/DSC078603.jpg"><img alt="DSC07860" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpIP4cvWAbcc4rFrm276_fhI7Owxm94YcbqkW4b21lq7-oAopneCF0i-68YDnAR_WzqlYcB4mYWls3m9ptDcm-NVov5Z3vPJQNs1-ab1WL2dWGnPf18wObdBFXIX__BRMKU43LIxi8tEc/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" title="DSC07860" width="404" /></a></p> <p>After work I met up with my neighbor and her 2 little boys for a <strong>run</strong>. She got a jogging stroller this summer, so now she’s able to join us on our runs! It was a cut a tad short because we went by a <strong>park</strong> and the boys insisted on going. So we spent about <strong>1/2 hour</strong> chasing the 2 lil guys around the playground!</p> <p>In total we ran about <strong>2.5 miles</strong> in <strong>25 minutes</strong>. I was hoping to get more mileage in, but I think if you combine that with chasing kids and running up and down the slides, I got in a good workout! ;)</p> <p>Kyle has class on Monday nights so I made a simple supper for one! I had <strong>2 mini pizzas</strong> and a serving of <strong>broccoli</strong> for <strong>5 points</strong>. My pizzas consisted of 1/4c mozzarella cheese, pineapple, 2 oz turkey ham, 1/4 pizza sauce, and a thin bun. MMMMmmmmm good!<img alt="DSC07862" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHStVJ7wOhMK6ts6N2fc-XZobvT_B9DBSWn3FNumEmEw9eBLzLpkZ8m6S43r0yQaSMDI53xCw5l6KnzJewcKoYTbj4M_vAyUVAg5GS0ZDnieZu_fsErBzb-a1l3aYI0ODqPhm2ubKXj5d/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" title="DSC07862" width="404" /></p> <p><strong>MONDAY’S STATS</strong></p> <p>POINTS = 17/23 <br />WEEKLY ALLOWANCE POINTS = 1 used/34 remaining <br />ACTIVITY POINTS EARNED = 4 today/24 week <br />WATER =  144 oz <br />EXERCISE = 2.5 mile run</p> <p><strong>Tomorrow’s WI day!! I have a confession….I peeked….!</strong></p>

Let the week begin!

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Art In Goldfield & Tonopah: Contrasting Aesthetics

The art scene in Tonopah could never be mistaken for the art scene in Goldfield. The main feature in Goldfield – and there is no competition – is right along 95 on the northern outskirts of town. It is a field of car art. There are simply no words to describe what some post-modern sculptor has done there to blow function apart, without obliterating the vestiges of function, while celebrating form for form’s sake. It is a parking lot with cars. But the cars have been mixed and mingled with all sorts of things. One small car sits atop another. One van wears a speedboat for a hat. On the grilles and fenders, the cars are adorned with toys, cattle skulls, whatever you call those curved little metal troughs that you spit (or worse) into in the hospital -- all manner of objects, generally having once had a practical use, now displayed like something from Andy Warhol for the sake of their shape and color – unremarkable when seen apart but amazing in the context of a community of forms assembled according to a design formulated in a uniquely appreciative mind. Yes, Goldfield. Who would have imagined it?<br /><br />The public sculptures of Tonopah are of a mostly – perhaps not entirely – different order. The Tonopah exhibit is not concentrated in a single parking lot, but adorns the whole downtown. There are two basic kinds of sculpture. One is rust colored impressionistic representations of people from by-gone days. It is a historical theme – like the bronze statues of Boulder City – only the Tonopah figures are deliberately rougher and rustier. The other Tonopah kind of sculpture is arrangements of machinery – cog wheels, beams, mining equipment – which is somewhat like the cars of Goldfield. But Tonopah’s collections of metal are one color while the Goldfield displays are deliberately garish. And there is a deeper difference. Tonopah’s machinery sculptures and human sculptures are of the same color and texture – both roughly rusted. It doesn’t take an art critic to know that this similarity is deliberate and it is saying something. The question is: what? And here context may help to interpret. If I saw this likeness of humanity and machinery in Berkeley, I’d think it was a Herbert Marcuse critique of utilitarian capitalism dehumanizing workers. But not in Tonopah. I may be wrong. There may be some remnant of IWW radicalism at work in this art. But I don’t see it. This looks to me like a tribute to the resilient strength and courage of a mining town where people work like their equipment and with their equipment – together digging a life out of the earth, the iron rusty earth. We are more than what we do, these sculptures say, but we become ourselves while doing. Unlike the post modernist form for form’s sake of Goldfield, Tonopah’s art suggests stories as wild as the West and as human as anything by Zola or Hugo.<br /><br />Speaking of great writers, not all the art in Tonopah is visual. There’s literature too these days. The best used bookstore I have yet found in Nevada is Whitney’s Books – open well into the evening. Whitney’s also hosts the AA and Al-Anon groups, which strikes me as showing some social conscience. Like any used bookstore, they carry the good, the bad, and the ugly. Someone at some point appears to have been a fan of Rod McKuen – groan. But I picked up two A. B. Guthrie novels and found several by Susan Howatch, as well as lots of classics – all for low, low prices.<br /><br />So if you should be driving through Tonopah someday, don’t just think of the Mexican food at El Marquis, the historic ambience of Tonopah Station with its 1940’s Coca Cola posters and vintage gaming machines, or the educational value of touring the mining museum. Look around at the public art. And by all means stop in at Whitney’s Books.

Art In Goldfield & Tonopah: Contrasting Aesthetics

The art scene in Tonopah could never be mistaken for the art scene in Goldfield. The main feature in Goldfield – and there is no competition...

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Sunday Prep

<p>I hope everyone had a great weekend! They are my 2 favorite days of the week! :)</p> <p>Kyle, Wendi, and I started our Sunday out with church. After church we got right to work. Kyle trimmed trees in our front yard and I got to work in the house. I did 5 loads of <strong>laundry</strong>, <strong>made brunch</strong>, <strong>vacuumed</strong>,<strong> cleaned the kitchen</strong>, and <strong>cleaned & cut</strong> our <strong>fruits</strong> and <strong>veggies</strong> for the week! I was a<strong><u> busy girl</u></strong>!!</p> <p>For brunch I had<strong> 2 ff pancakes</strong> with <strong>1 T peanut butter</strong> and <strong>1/4 c sf syrup</strong> for <strong>5 points</strong>. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RgHyVFoIXa7Dtzau82Q1b-FqQmYLOo4uJXlHCmWBhd4BfXAOpH47Vg8j2x22LF1Bu6QYgMSgg-Ip2qOP4dvqScvDuAzSgI7FHGVAAx5DJMKd4TdSFz6DfPMQzNUtfR8ot4pHh4QB4UFf/s1600-h/DSC078523.jpg"><img alt="DSC07852" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqmVs86dkQ-1PCNSKb53H7ek1VLny4LtqH5DaGgvqH4h5Tkgq3gW1amp6X0SjHa31TjN_7Exrd__BlSUCLkTfDl90ZI7qSv7INGA9igQx53EX7-q76IeOqcJHuiK18cQgFEus2Ai3ymaQa/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" title="DSC07852" width="404" /></a></p> <p>After all my busy-ness in the house Wendi and I decided to go for a <strong>bike ride</strong>. We rode on some trails near my house for about <strong>45 minutes</strong>.</p> <p><strong>Watermelon</strong> was  the perfect way to cool down after our hot afternoon ride! I had <strong>1 c</strong> for <strong>1 point</strong>. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8P8jx4BK-vaR-b2BcKFCSFvfLNullIUp03Q55eoYoSzb1QzhWD764zMf8HJKJg9QPhnnqsQ_uk6rC09RgzAV3ClB42SVoaPItka8a7LoZeGZzTW8Bz0T0O97Opo0h_86FVJfFLlOy9DG3/s1600-h/DSC078533.jpg"><img alt="DSC07853" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyZXkNLee8A0eqR4Ak2cAhlJls-qGIN2OhmC1jP2ye-6IQQ4fLxXw-VjflqQ3iYJfnJNRKTqzEAONoIT5-h9R8OxujGXdl4nVBeAXVNx37R-uYjLzQD0Xjv8HViP4y-iSnkynA8nAUQuq/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" title="DSC07853" width="404" /></a></p> <p>For supper I mixed some <strong>yellow squash</strong> with<strong> 2oz whole wheat pasta</strong> and<strong> 1/4 c ff mozzarella</strong> for <strong>5 points</strong>. I ended up not eating the sweet corn that is pictured because it really didn’t have much for taste. :( <u>Pretty disappointing!</u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sqUHH15ZD_NzW9wW9dzpYTsJSUpLlWfW85vm47DZXIjxEs3otYQcyTfpmWDwbpseHrqfHjFbeucf7FK-QyFsLTRnTz-BYHLor_wsSLguIIMrZV7mauOz_RokyoKI8j1wW4VhY3FZdBz0/s1600-h/DSC07857%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="DSC07857" border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIsgGtwgttmQ9uxGtwxGVK6HrwfbDHQCJwcnYEJkB97CMQqBVr0TiQkUtSCfTXT3HSh5Vv73qNWN1W2LvYvURgvJktqv7K2eTWNlY-2lG_Au9eVt8ehSrS8NCEmHskkM88jzG_OB7OK5Z2/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" title="DSC07857" width="404" /></a></p> <p>I was still <strong><u>hungry</u></strong> after supper since I didn’t eat the sweet corn so I ended up snack on some <strong>chips and salsa</strong> for <strong>5 points</strong>. </p> <p>Once again I had some ice cream and forgot to get a picture! Tonight I had<strong> 1 c ff frozen yogurt</strong> with <strong>lite chocolate syrup</strong> for <strong>3 points</strong>. </p> <p><strong>SUNDAY’S STATS</strong></p> <p>POINTS = 19/23 <br />WEEKLY ALLOWANCE POINTS = 1 used/34 remaining <br />ACTIVITY POINTS EARNED =  3 today/20 week <br />WATER =  152 oz <br />EXERCISE = 45 min bike ride</p> <p>Sorry for the boring post! Sunday was a day I needed…getting my food ready for the week, laundry, and cleaning! I feel like if I don’t get a day like that on the weekend I’m not ready for the week ahead! <strong>Anyone else feel like that?</strong></p>

Sunday Prep

I hope everyone had a great weekend! They are my 2 favorite days of the week! :) Kyle, Wendi, and I started our Sunday out with church. Af...

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Where do bloggers go when their blogs die?

I cleaned up my blog list tonight. There were blogs on there where people hadn't posted for over a year. Several hadn't posted for over two months. I deleted 34 blogs from my list. <br /><br />It's sort of sad that these were people trying to lose weight that either gave up on losing weight or at the very least, gave up blogging. I can only hope they went on to live healthy lives, but unfortunately, I really doubt that's what happened.<br /><br />I had contacted a few of them by email the last few months asking if they were ever coming back. If they responded at all, they said no, they probably weren't coming back. Blogging had lost it's charm for them or they found it to be a chore or they said it was boring. <br /><br />It's funny, even though I have days where I feel like it's sort of a chore, most of the time I enjoy blogging. Both reading other people's blogs or writing on my own blog. It's sort of like free therapy.<br /><br />When I read about other people's weight loss struggles, I realize they're just like my own. We're all fighting the same battle and it's somehow comforting to know other people are going down the same difficult path of weight loss. <br /><br />Not only do I find comfort in other people's blogs, but often I gain enthusiasm from reading other people's thoughts. Or a recipe, or a tip on how to overcome a binge cycle. There's so much helpful information out there that I can't imagine stopping reading weight loss blogs. In three years they have been a life saver for me. <br /><br />I'm still sadden by the loss of my 34 friends. Yes, I considered them friends. If they were on my blog list that meant they were blogs I read on a fairly consistent basis. I left thoughtful comments on their posts. I cared about them. Now they're gone, probably to never be heard from again. <br /><br />On the other hand, there are lots of friends that are still blogging. Along with a lot of new people just embarking on this journey. They're old friends and new friends that I haven't met yet. Friends that unbeknownst to them, will make a difference in my life. That's the bright side, the one I shall remain focused on for now.

Where do bloggers go when their blogs die?

I cleaned up my blog list tonight. There were blogs on there where people hadn't posted for over a year. Several hadn't posted for o...

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