All About Long Beach (The Race Report)
After days of pouting and moping, I’m ready to talk about Long Beach. If you missed the announcement on Facebook, I did not finish (DNF). Even if I had not stopped, I would officially gotten a DNF...
View ArticleRoast Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
First, sorry, I totally forgot to take a picture. So imagine a pretty-looking glass container with three roast chicken breasts. So last night I was totally craving mashed potatoes and biscuits. While...
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The New Posts: AKA a Little Motivation, Workouts and Food
Did you think I ran away? Well, I promise, I didn’t. I just had a crazy couple weeks. In fact, I’ve done some behind the scenes work instead. Starting, well, today (with this post), you’ll be...
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Meal Planning (For People Like Me)
Fun fact: I just spent the last two hours coming up with a weekly meal plan and there is a 95% chance that I will not stick to it. I HATE meal planning. Hate, hate, hate it!!!! It ranks right up...
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The Habit Binder Part 1: The No-Nonsense Routines
When I was building my binder, I was trying to find a way to combine what is essentially a day-timer with FlyLady’s Control Journal, but neither was really quite what I wanted (thus why I made my...
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Down and Out
That’s how I feel right about now… The first time I ever remember feeling like this, Beautiful G was a mere three months old. It was a quiet night in February, when I started feeling sick. My throat...
View ArticleWhen You Know Too Much
I am not a know-it-all (or I hope not) but I do know a lot. Enough that, as teen, one of my nicknames was the human dictionary (I probably could have been better described as an encyclopedia, but...
View ArticleMy Agreements
(Officially it’s after midnight, which makes it day 3. But I started writing before midnight & I haven’t been to bed yet, so count it as day 2, would you???) The first part of “No Plot? No...
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Let the Cleaning Commence!
(Photo courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net and Suat Eman) Every year, usually around April, Dave and I start discussing the possibility of moving. Our lease is up in June and so usually between...
View ArticleRunning
Today was my first official training session for my couch to 5K. The plan called for doing a 5 minute warm up, followed by a 4 minute walk/2 minute run, repeated 5 times, finishing with a 5 minute cool...
View ArticleBad Days
Today was one of those days that it probably would have been better if I had simply skipped over it. It started with only 5 hours of sleep (added in by a child who woke up incredibly early and insisted...
View ArticleYes, I’m Reading!
I had an odd conversation with my kids today. They love to read, but I hadn’t seen either of them really reading the last few weeks. So I did what any book-obsessed mom would do. I “suggested” they...
View ArticleThe Mix That Makes Me (Or What I’m Gonna Blog About)
I’m in the kitchen the other day, doing the whole “I have to make dinner” thing. It’s a Monday, we have to eat, and 9 times out of 10 if someone’s cooking in my house, it’s me. I’d chosen to … Continue...
View ArticleFirst Day Back
Like millions of kids across the United States, it’s time for my kids to go back to school. Beautiful G, my older daughter, is starting 4th grade. Sunshine, my younger daughter, is starting 1st. While...
View ArticlePicture Time!
So my friend Jenna messages me last night (yes, we use the horrible FB messenger. It works for us.) and told me that this morning, we were going to downtown and she was going to take my picture for my...
View Article100 Days of Jacqui’s Stuff
So, if you have followed along with my blog, you may have noticed I haven’t posted in awhile. Oops. Also, if you were to scroll back, you would find that of the few posts I had up, many are gone. I...
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