As someone who is often “on the go” I find that when I do manage to take the time to slow down, it’s difficult for me to relax.…
Kim at Elastic Waist wrote a great post the other day about her August resolutions. I agree with her wholeheartedly – why should we save the resolutions for January when no one keeps them anyway? In my comment to Kim’s post, I made some goals for the month that I don’t intend to keep. It’s not that I don’t WANT to spend more time enjoying the outdoors, or experiment with new recipes, but what I’d really like to do in…
Despite my rants about eating cookies the size of my face and pasta oozing with mozzarella cheese, I’m usually very careful about what I eat. Not careful in a sensible low-fat-dairy-plenty of protein-Kashi-7-Grains-on-a-Mission way, but I know I like to indulge. A lot. When I eat ice cream from a gallon in my freezer, sometimes I can’t resist going back for second and third scoops. I know that after a long busy day when lunch was bites of a salad…
I love to read magazines. Though I like to read books, blogs, websites — magazines are far and away my favorite. (I never really liked the newspaper until they came online – I don’t like the way you have to hold it in order to read it, and I hate that stories continue into new sections.) I look forward to the new Real Simple as soon as I finish the current issue and there’s something soothing about the glossy cover…
I’m hooked. It’s no secret to anyone who knows me well that I’ll plan my life around my next trip to the NYSC that sits merely two blocks from my apartment. I’ll skip happy hour for a bike in a class with the “good” spin instructors, and I’ll even wake up an hour earlier on the busiest, meeting-packed weekday in order to cram in a 5K on the treadmill. I use the Today Show to gauge whether I need to…