I just want to let you know that I have not disappeared, my computer is on vacation getting a new brain and organs. I am hoping to get my computer back today or latest tomorrow.
I told my computer guy he better send it back to me with a better attitude than when I dropped it off!
I have been blogging on paper so when I get my computer back I will be filling your screens with all the goings on in my life and my walking LOL
Monday, February 28, 2011
Something I thought was funny
Day three with no computer and I am still writing with pen and paper. I am hoping today or tomorrow at the latest for my computer.
How are you doing with your walking? Have you found anything new in your neighborhood since you have been walking? I noticed that a house down the street has lime green walls in their front room and in the entrance hallway they have bright red walls. Either someone is color blind or there was a sale on cheap paint and they bought what they could afford.
It really is a nice house but the colors they chose are so wrong! I would have gone with a red but not a bright red for the front room or at least one wall and then an off white for the other walls.
Anyway, less of that I have something funny to share with you.
I went to see my friend at the gas station today on my way to take my middle daughter to a specialist’s appointment. My friend and I were doing the general chit chat as she filled up the vehicle and I mentioned where we were going.
She said “oh I have to go and see one of them soon.”
“Oh I hope it’s nothing serious” I replied
“No I have had two tucks in my vagina before because I walk on the cement all day every day, my insides were falling out! So now I get to go and have it again but I this time I don’t pay because it is free!”
“That is not good advertising! ‘Come have a vagina tuck and if it doesn’t work you get the third one free!’ LOL Did you ever think that maybe it isn’t because you walk on the cement?”
“Well what the hell would cause it to keep coming down then?”
I count not resist and said, “Maybe hubby is too BIG!”
“Shut up woman LOL” was all she could say because another car pulled up to get gas and she had to go.
Seriously though, if I was having surgery for anything and there is a ‘first two times and it doesn’t work, the third time is on us’ I would not be going through with the surgery or at least not with that surgeon.
I mean if you have to have a finger sewn back on I don’t think I would want it falling off in the middle of typing my blog or waving at someone.
I just don’t understand how doctors can let something like that happen.
Oh well, I thought it was funny! Now before anyone goes off on me about how insensitive I am being, keep in mind that I am the most caring person in the world and my friend and I have a warped friendship.
I have had my share of medical problems that range from mild to very serious so I know when I say things it is with a grain of salt!
So, no hate mail! Just enjoy the humor as it is meant to be… humorous!
Going out for my walk now and you should be too!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 28, 2011
How are you doing with your walking? Have you found anything new in your neighborhood since you have been walking? I noticed that a house down the street has lime green walls in their front room and in the entrance hallway they have bright red walls. Either someone is color blind or there was a sale on cheap paint and they bought what they could afford.
It really is a nice house but the colors they chose are so wrong! I would have gone with a red but not a bright red for the front room or at least one wall and then an off white for the other walls.
Anyway, less of that I have something funny to share with you.
I went to see my friend at the gas station today on my way to take my middle daughter to a specialist’s appointment. My friend and I were doing the general chit chat as she filled up the vehicle and I mentioned where we were going.
She said “oh I have to go and see one of them soon.”
“Oh I hope it’s nothing serious” I replied
“No I have had two tucks in my vagina before because I walk on the cement all day every day, my insides were falling out! So now I get to go and have it again but I this time I don’t pay because it is free!”
“That is not good advertising! ‘Come have a vagina tuck and if it doesn’t work you get the third one free!’ LOL Did you ever think that maybe it isn’t because you walk on the cement?”
“Well what the hell would cause it to keep coming down then?”
I count not resist and said, “Maybe hubby is too BIG!”
“Shut up woman LOL” was all she could say because another car pulled up to get gas and she had to go.
Seriously though, if I was having surgery for anything and there is a ‘first two times and it doesn’t work, the third time is on us’ I would not be going through with the surgery or at least not with that surgeon.
I mean if you have to have a finger sewn back on I don’t think I would want it falling off in the middle of typing my blog or waving at someone.
I just don’t understand how doctors can let something like that happen.
Oh well, I thought it was funny! Now before anyone goes off on me about how insensitive I am being, keep in mind that I am the most caring person in the world and my friend and I have a warped friendship.
I have had my share of medical problems that range from mild to very serious so I know when I say things it is with a grain of salt!
So, no hate mail! Just enjoy the humor as it is meant to be… humorous!
Going out for my walk now and you should be too!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Geocaching in the cold!
Day two without my computer and it is not as bad as I thought it would be as I have more time now to put pen to paper and write.
I forgot to ask yesterday if you have been walking. I have and today Jason, my hubby, and I went o find two geocaches that he figured out the Sudoku puzzles for. I had been working on these two puzzles for about four years and he turns around and does them in a day. They are not the puzzles with the numbers in them, them I can do, and these were odd shaped puzzles with letters in them!
They looked easy when I first started them but then when I made a mistake it screwed the whole puzzle up and I must have restarted the puzzle about seven or eight times before I finally gave up and put it in my desk cubby hole.
So, as I said we went to get these two geocaches that were about 10 kilometers away from our house. We drove to the parking area of the location and got out of the car and walked for about a kilometer in the deep snow with the cold wind cutting through us as we got closer to the location.
Did you notice how I said we were walking in the snow? I think that should add double the distance that anyone walks! Anyway, yes there was about a foot of snow on the ground and the wind was freezing and it was starting to snow…again!
You would have thought that would have given us a clue that if it is snowing and the ground is frozen, there might be a chance that the geocaches container is also frozen into its hidey hole.
Nope, we walk the kilometer there and find the tree stump where it is supposed to be located and find that the center of the tree is frozen and all of the debris inside it is frozen! Yes I can hear you saying “Well DUH!”
We didn’t think to bring our pick axe with us so we looked around to find a trusty stick. We find one and poke around in the stump to loosen the dirt/debris only to discover that the cache container was not in there. Someone that is not a geocacher (aka a muggle) found it and took it! So, now we are frozen, my hands are turning blue and hurt so much from the cold and the wind (I forgot my gloves in the car!) that I could barely hold onto the GPS. All I could think was ‘it is a good job that the GPS has a lanyard on it so I can hang it around my neck!‘
So now we trudge back through the snow to the car and I can’t get my car door open because my hands were so cold, so Jason opened it for me and I managed to get my gloves on and warm up while we head for the next geocache.
One more cache to try and find and we both look at the location and decide that we will wait until the ground thaws out a bit so we don’t have to go through what we did with the tree stump!
I am proud to say that on just that outing we walked nearly four and a half miles in total, and that includes walking back and forth trying to find the cache.
My days total for distance was five point nine miles!
I can walk for a long time if it involves finding a geocache and it really does take your mind of getting exercise and just makes it fun!
Well, I am still walking even though I am not in contact with you. I hope you are walking as well!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 27, 2011
I forgot to ask yesterday if you have been walking. I have and today Jason, my hubby, and I went o find two geocaches that he figured out the Sudoku puzzles for. I had been working on these two puzzles for about four years and he turns around and does them in a day. They are not the puzzles with the numbers in them, them I can do, and these were odd shaped puzzles with letters in them!
They looked easy when I first started them but then when I made a mistake it screwed the whole puzzle up and I must have restarted the puzzle about seven or eight times before I finally gave up and put it in my desk cubby hole.
So, as I said we went to get these two geocaches that were about 10 kilometers away from our house. We drove to the parking area of the location and got out of the car and walked for about a kilometer in the deep snow with the cold wind cutting through us as we got closer to the location.
Did you notice how I said we were walking in the snow? I think that should add double the distance that anyone walks! Anyway, yes there was about a foot of snow on the ground and the wind was freezing and it was starting to snow…again!
You would have thought that would have given us a clue that if it is snowing and the ground is frozen, there might be a chance that the geocaches container is also frozen into its hidey hole.
Nope, we walk the kilometer there and find the tree stump where it is supposed to be located and find that the center of the tree is frozen and all of the debris inside it is frozen! Yes I can hear you saying “Well DUH!”
We didn’t think to bring our pick axe with us so we looked around to find a trusty stick. We find one and poke around in the stump to loosen the dirt/debris only to discover that the cache container was not in there. Someone that is not a geocacher (aka a muggle) found it and took it! So, now we are frozen, my hands are turning blue and hurt so much from the cold and the wind (I forgot my gloves in the car!) that I could barely hold onto the GPS. All I could think was ‘it is a good job that the GPS has a lanyard on it so I can hang it around my neck!‘
So now we trudge back through the snow to the car and I can’t get my car door open because my hands were so cold, so Jason opened it for me and I managed to get my gloves on and warm up while we head for the next geocache.
One more cache to try and find and we both look at the location and decide that we will wait until the ground thaws out a bit so we don’t have to go through what we did with the tree stump!
I am proud to say that on just that outing we walked nearly four and a half miles in total, and that includes walking back and forth trying to find the cache.
My days total for distance was five point nine miles!
I can walk for a long time if it involves finding a geocache and it really does take your mind of getting exercise and just makes it fun!
Well, I am still walking even though I am not in contact with you. I hope you are walking as well!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Computer is on Vacation
So today I woke up to find that my computer had gone on vacation! By that, I mean that it somehow shut itself off during the night and would not turn back on.
My computer and I have a love hate relationship; I love to hate it and it loves to eat my information! You would think by now that I would have figured out that as soon as I had anything important on my computer, I should back it up… and I was planning on backing up my computer on Saturday morning like I do each week.
My computer on the other hand decided to take a vacation from my constant feeding it information and forgot to tell me of its plans.
So, here I sit with my pen and paper writing to my friends.
There is no wonder that computers don’t go out for ‘pixels’ or ‘ram’ with other computers, it is because they are so into themselves that they don’t remember to tell people their plans.
I would not have minded if it was a planned vacation to the computer guys’ house but it was not. I never had time to finish editing the video from the senior and teens Valentine lunch. I never got to save my last few chapters of my latest novel. Oh and in no way did I manage to save any of the countless pictures I have taken over the last month for the 365 Day Photo Challenge! Argh! My 365 Day writing is on there as well!
So, while I sit here with my pen in hand I am going to write a letter to my computer.
Dear Computer,
I realize that I feed your brain full of words and pictures on a daily basis, but isn’t that your job? You are supposed to remember when I have logged into a site and placed my password in the box, you let me down! How am I supposed to remember that my password for this site is one and the log in is another?
You are my trusted friend and I count on you to help me with my daily tasks, everything from writing my books to sending emails and editing pictures and videos and blogging. You know we have had some good laughs together, like the time you didn’t tell me spell check wasn’t turned on and I spelled COCK instead of cook and sent it to my mom! Or the time that you messed around with my settings when I was installing that talk to text program and you started swearing!? Remember how hard we laughed when you did all of those things?
I do not ask much of you and you have all the time off you want when I am away and you know you get two weeks vacation in July/August when we are camping, so why, did you decide to take a vacation today?
Did you want less data entry and more sleep time? You know I don’t like that sleep button because you sometimes forget to wake up and it takes me forever to get you up and running when YOU hit that sleep button.
I will make a deal with you as soon as you come home. I will promise to let you look at the centerfold of ‘Computers Monthly’ if you do not put them up on my desktop (that was not funny putting a picture of a computer with his hard drive hanging out *tsk tsk* on my desktop!), or place them in my emails without me knowing about it.
You can also have some new streaming videos from YouTube IF you keep them PG! None of these ‘Computers Gone Wild’ or ‘Computer Illustrated – Hard Drive Edition’! I draw the line at anything like that.
When you get home you will have your nice room back and you will be plugged in and you will work nicely for me, right?
If you think you are going to have a major break down in future could you please let me know ahead of time so that I can remove all my important documents.
I miss you my lil PC
~HUG~
7Ladybugs
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Walking for Charity
Today while out walking I got to thinking about how I could make my walking count for something other than health reasons. Then I remembered that I used to do these sponsored walks for charity.
I jump on the computer and Google charity walks in my area, you would think that would be easy to locate, wrong! It was the most difficult thing to try and look up.
I tried every version of charity walks I could think of and I still only came up with a few events from the past. Now I am beginning to wonder if I was ever in the walks before.
Not going to be beaten by a search engine I ran into my room and grabbed my participants shirts from my last few walks and Googled them. Finally, I found three events that were in my area. One is the walk for MS, one for the Kids Help Phone and the other one is for spina bifida. I register for all three and download my pledge forms and I am marking them off on my calendar and …oh no, two of the events are on the same day about 5kms away from each other!
Now I have the daunting task of deciding which one I should walk for. You would have thought that someone would have had the brains to check out if anything else was happening on the day they plan their events.
Each walk is either 5kms or 8kms, depending on the event. They said you can also run the 10km route if you wanted… no thanks I am good walking the 5km route!
So, now I have a goal to walk towards and it is three walks for charity. Not only will I raise money for the charity I will also be gaining health for myself.
Do you walk for charity? Which ones?
Stay healthy and keep walking!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Belly Dancing or Belly Wobble?
Today I was not feeling good at all. It all started when my honey made me some three-minute noodles on Tuesday night because I was hungry and he was making some. I have had those noodles before but didn’t really put two and two together until yesterday when I my stomach was doing flip-flops.
Oh well, another day in the life of me! I can’t complain because I know that there are people worse off than me.
So, as I have been telling you, I have been walking just about daily around my neighborhood, aka the free gym, and I have been feeling a lot more energetic. I wouldn’t be entering any marathons or anything but even after a few weeks of walking you can feel the difference.
The only problem I am having right now, other than being sick, is the snow that has piled up outside. We have about a foot of snow and more is expected to fall this weekend. Well, I am putting into action what I normally do when I cant walk on the sidewalks, I am going to the grocery store and walking up and down their isles while looking for the one or two items that I need.
It is a free way to get exercise and get your shopping done as well. If you want a really good work out, walk around the perimeter of the store and then walk up and down the isles before grabbing your purchases. You can get exercise anywhere if you really think about it.
If you don’t have to go to the grocery store, go to the library and walk around their book stacks.
If you can’t go out, then walk up and down the stairs in your house or walk around your house a couple of times each hour. Trust me as long as you are moving it doesn’t really matter where you walk.
If you want to have some real fun and you can laugh at yourself, rent or borrow a “Belly Dancing for Beginners” DVD or vhs.
My daughter and I have never laughed so hard as when a friend lent us her Belly dancing dvd’s. They ranged from beginners to advanced and you know which one we put on first, the advanced one!
To start off with I should explain that we are in shape, round is a shape! And our wobbly parts do like to wobble on their own.
So, if you put music to it and try and get the figure eight belly-dancing move down you are in for a real laughing experience. My daughters belly decided it wanted to do disco and not follow along while mine wanted to do some jazz.
“Move your hips to the side and SNAP. Move your hips to the back and SNAP. Move your hips to the other side and SNAP and repeat all the way around the circle” The lady on the DVD instructed.
If we were to do it as enthusiastically as she was, we would have taken out walls or knocked over things. We decided that maybe we should put on the beginners dvd.
“Welcome to belly dancing for beginners. You will learn all the basic moves of belly dancing in one easy lesson!” The overly excited instructor said.
“To start off, tie a bell around your waist so that you can hear it jingle when you thrust your hips. It is a real treat when you hear the bell ringing!”
Well, about this time I needed mouth to mouth because I was laughing so hard. I had this image in my head of cow bells tied around our waists and CLANG CLANG CLANGing as we thrust our hidden hips with such force that the farmer across the street would think that his cows had jumped the fence again.
After the laughing stopped and we had dried our tears, we managed to press play on the dvd and sort of managed to get our hips swinging one way while our bellies went the other way. Something has got to give in this game of belly dancing. Either the hips and belly need to co-operate or I need a doctor because I will be dislocating something.
The dvd is only half an hour long but we only managed to get through the first hip thrust to the front and hip thrust to the back before we were breaking out in a sweat. I am not sure how these people dislocate their hips to do this but my body is telling me that belly dancing should be called “Large Peoples Demolition Dance” because you know someone is going to knock out a wall or a window with all the thrusts and snaps they want you to do.
And who would think this is sexy? I cannot think that Bessie the cow swinging and thrusting and clanging at her mate would be seen as sexy!
That day we found out that belly dancing was not something that we can add to our resume.
Another tip for you if you want to try belly dancing, if you have a teenage son then make sure you get this in before he comes home from school or he will be scared for life. I can tell you this from experience as my son came home and looked at us like we grew two heads.
“Mom! WTF are you doing? That just looks so wrong!”
“It’s belly dancing” I reply “Do you want to join us?”
“No Mom! I want to live thanks anyway!”
* rolls eyes * Boys!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 24, 2011
Oh well, another day in the life of me! I can’t complain because I know that there are people worse off than me.
So, as I have been telling you, I have been walking just about daily around my neighborhood, aka the free gym, and I have been feeling a lot more energetic. I wouldn’t be entering any marathons or anything but even after a few weeks of walking you can feel the difference.
The only problem I am having right now, other than being sick, is the snow that has piled up outside. We have about a foot of snow and more is expected to fall this weekend. Well, I am putting into action what I normally do when I cant walk on the sidewalks, I am going to the grocery store and walking up and down their isles while looking for the one or two items that I need.
It is a free way to get exercise and get your shopping done as well. If you want a really good work out, walk around the perimeter of the store and then walk up and down the isles before grabbing your purchases. You can get exercise anywhere if you really think about it.
If you don’t have to go to the grocery store, go to the library and walk around their book stacks.
If you can’t go out, then walk up and down the stairs in your house or walk around your house a couple of times each hour. Trust me as long as you are moving it doesn’t really matter where you walk.
If you want to have some real fun and you can laugh at yourself, rent or borrow a “Belly Dancing for Beginners” DVD or vhs.
My daughter and I have never laughed so hard as when a friend lent us her Belly dancing dvd’s. They ranged from beginners to advanced and you know which one we put on first, the advanced one!
To start off with I should explain that we are in shape, round is a shape! And our wobbly parts do like to wobble on their own.
So, if you put music to it and try and get the figure eight belly-dancing move down you are in for a real laughing experience. My daughters belly decided it wanted to do disco and not follow along while mine wanted to do some jazz.
“Move your hips to the side and SNAP. Move your hips to the back and SNAP. Move your hips to the other side and SNAP and repeat all the way around the circle” The lady on the DVD instructed.
If we were to do it as enthusiastically as she was, we would have taken out walls or knocked over things. We decided that maybe we should put on the beginners dvd.
“Welcome to belly dancing for beginners. You will learn all the basic moves of belly dancing in one easy lesson!” The overly excited instructor said.
“To start off, tie a bell around your waist so that you can hear it jingle when you thrust your hips. It is a real treat when you hear the bell ringing!”
Well, about this time I needed mouth to mouth because I was laughing so hard. I had this image in my head of cow bells tied around our waists and CLANG CLANG CLANGing as we thrust our hidden hips with such force that the farmer across the street would think that his cows had jumped the fence again.
After the laughing stopped and we had dried our tears, we managed to press play on the dvd and sort of managed to get our hips swinging one way while our bellies went the other way. Something has got to give in this game of belly dancing. Either the hips and belly need to co-operate or I need a doctor because I will be dislocating something.
The dvd is only half an hour long but we only managed to get through the first hip thrust to the front and hip thrust to the back before we were breaking out in a sweat. I am not sure how these people dislocate their hips to do this but my body is telling me that belly dancing should be called “Large Peoples Demolition Dance” because you know someone is going to knock out a wall or a window with all the thrusts and snaps they want you to do.
And who would think this is sexy? I cannot think that Bessie the cow swinging and thrusting and clanging at her mate would be seen as sexy!
That day we found out that belly dancing was not something that we can add to our resume.
Another tip for you if you want to try belly dancing, if you have a teenage son then make sure you get this in before he comes home from school or he will be scared for life. I can tell you this from experience as my son came home and looked at us like we grew two heads.
“Mom! WTF are you doing? That just looks so wrong!”
“It’s belly dancing” I reply “Do you want to join us?”
“No Mom! I want to live thanks anyway!”
* rolls eyes * Boys!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
My friend said I am a lost cause!
She sent the following tips in an email to me. I was reading them and chucking because we all ready know this information.
So, just for fun I have added my thoughts next to her healthy tips.
Come have a laugh with me as you read these tips.
The best way to stay motivated to walk is to record your walks. Note your time, distance, steps, etc. You can even keep a little diary of what you thought about, things you saw, what you talked about with your walking partner. I tried recording my walks but no one wanted the cd of it so I stopped. I do write about the things I saw and I sell them to Penthouse Magazine. I didn’t talk about anything with my walking partner because the paramedics were working on them and they said not to talk to her.
Many people overeat when they are bored, lonely, or feeling stressed. Find healthy substitutes to emotional eating, like reading a book, talking to a friend, or going for a walk. I do! I go for a walk to my friend’s house and then we go to Dairy Queen and have a chocolate sundae while looking at the local newspaper.
Add lemon juice to ice cubes to use to flavor your water. I add the lemon ice cubes to my vodka, does that count?
Make your goals real by writing them down. I wrote them down in my recipe book with chocolate sauce.
Avoid elevators and escalators-take the stairs instead. You get some physical activity and save on electricity. You can also see some cute man bums, if you are standing behind them on the escalator. Nice view all the way up!
Splitting your walking time into two 15-20 minute segments will still burn calories and reinforce your commitment to walking. You can burn a lot more calories if you have a sick man-child because all the running back and forth will make up for you not going out for a walk.
Arm motion can lend power to your walking, burning 5-10% more calories and acting as a balance to your leg motion. Flailing your arms around while walking gets you a free ride to the hospital. I should know! They thought I was having a seizure and wouldn’t listen when I said I read somewhere that you are to move your arms while walking.
Ask for a half-portion or don't eat everything on your plate. I never finish what’s on my plate; I am usually full after picking off everyone else’s plate.
Ask for sauce and salad dressing on the side. Eat just enough to enjoy the flavor and leave the rest. I usually don’t have any sauce left after licking out the bowl.
Ask for the breadbasket to be removed from the table as you sit down. Tell them you would like the whole loaf instead, with extra butter.
Ask your vending company to stock healthier options like protein bars, water, and baked chips. Ask your friend to slap you upside the head if you do this.
Avoid large packages of chips, cookies, and similar snacks. Buy a single serving instead when a craving strikes. The smaller bags are easier to hide than the WOE-DAMN bag! Plus if someone sees you eating out of a small bag and then comes back in 10 minutes they will think you are on the same bag and not the 20th.
Bake, broil, or grill chicken and fish rather than frying. Then you can add the sour cream, bacon bits and cheese to the baked potato.
Be dip savvy. Dip apples in low-fat caramel, celery in fat-free cream cheese and carrots in fat-free ranch dressing. Then dip everything in chocolate sauce and enjoy!
Create paths that connect favorite neighborhood spots so you can be safe walking or biking to school, the park, the library, and the grocery store. Or just keep walking the same route and create a rut from the grocery store to home.
Don't forget that household activities, such as scrubbing floors and vacuuming, count as physical activity. Sex also counts as physical activity and you can even add a step counter to count your steps or thrusts. It all counts you know.
Choose 4 ounces of sugar-free yogurt in place of an 8-ounce container of yogurt. Then you can add caramel or chocolate sauce and nuts to it to make it taste somewhat nice.
Choose a low calorie frozen grilled sandwich or Panini to replace a butter-rich grilled cheese. For starters and then order the deep fried burger with cheese and bacon and a side of fries. Oh don’t forget the diet coke!
I sent this back to my friend and she said I was a lost cause LOL
Oh well, at least I will have fun walking and losing weight!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 23rd, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
February 22, 2011
How is everyone today? I managed to get in a small walk when I went down to check the mail today. Took the long way around the block to get the mail! Adding extra steps is always good.
I may not get to go for a walk tomorrow as it is snowing here, again, and the roads are a horrible mess right now. Its not walking in the snow that bothers me it is the fact that there are idiot drivers out there that love to splash the walkers with the dirty snow.
Today was a round up sponsors for my event kind of day. I was either one the phone or on the computer trying to get companies to donate door prizes for my up coming event.
Anyway, in between looking up email addresses and making phone calls I did manage to find a few interesting pages for you to look at regarding walking.
You can change your steps into miles here and you can change your miles to kilometers here.
Also, if you are walking with small children and want to keep them interested and no whine, play an easy game of I-Spy with them. You can also make a scavenger hunt before you leave the house and write down a list on a piece of paper for each child several things that they have to find on their ‘hunt’!
I have used this trick when walking with my kids when they were smaller. I would write out a list for each of the kids and make sure that there were different things on each list. For example, my oldest would have to find a green leaf while my two younger ones would have to find a red or a brown leaf. One would have to find an acorn and the other two would have to find a specific colored rock.
I would give my kids the list and an old party goody bag to put their things in when they found them. It really is killing three birds with one stone. You are getting exercise; the kids are getting exercise and also using their minds and reading skills. It is a win-win situational around if you ask me. When you get home from your walk you can have the kids glue their collection onto a piece of paper and display it on the fridge.
Well that is my post for today. I will be back tomorrow with some more exciting news from my corner of the globe!
Keep on walking!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 22, 2011Monday, February 21, 2011
Bedazzle or Vajazzle? Hmm
Well the last two days have been a blur of activity. I have been running around doing a lot of little things and then I remembered I haven’t even posted to my blog!!
Yesterday I was reading a blog post about Jennifer Love Hewitt’s vagina LOL Yes you read it right, I said Vagina! Wait it get so much better!!
When I first read that I thought, what the hell is going on with people in the world these days?
You know I had to go and find the video to see what the heck this was all about because I love facts and want info from the proverbial horses mouth.
Off to Google I go in search of a video about JLH I didn’t have to search too long before I found my answer! She was on the show talking about her book called, ‘The Day I Shot Cupid’, when the interviewer asked for a sample of what her book contains.
She said that there was a chapter in there about vajazzling that he might like. The interviewer looked puzzled and asked what it was about. She went on to say how she had a friend put Swarovski crystals on her vagina, which she dubbed ‘vajazzling.’
She was quoted as saying:
“After a breakup, a friend of mine Swarovski-crystal my precious lady,” she said. “It shined like a disco ball so I have a whole chapter in there on how women should vajazzle their vajayjays!”
I am sorry but no one is going to be hanging anything from my ‘lady parts’, ‘precious lady’ or any other name you want to call them by! No man could ever make me so upset that I would even think about that!
What are the stars thinking these days? First you have them wearing micro skirts and then no underwear? Damn they must make tons of money with all their shows and reality shows, that you would think that they would be able to afford a pair of underwear.
And just how drunk do you have to be to get your soft parts bedazzled?
In case you don’t know what bedazzling is, it is the art of putting shiny stones on items like shirts, pants, shoes, purses and I am not sure that the original creators were thinking of vagina's when they made this!
If you want to read more on vajazzling, read this article.
For the ORIGINAL Bedazzler, visit here. I still don’t think that they intended people to ‘spruce up’ their special areas LOL
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 21,2011
Yesterday I was reading a blog post about Jennifer Love Hewitt’s vagina LOL Yes you read it right, I said Vagina! Wait it get so much better!!
When I first read that I thought, what the hell is going on with people in the world these days?
You know I had to go and find the video to see what the heck this was all about because I love facts and want info from the proverbial horses mouth.
Off to Google I go in search of a video about JLH I didn’t have to search too long before I found my answer! She was on the show talking about her book called, ‘The Day I Shot Cupid’, when the interviewer asked for a sample of what her book contains.
She said that there was a chapter in there about vajazzling that he might like. The interviewer looked puzzled and asked what it was about. She went on to say how she had a friend put Swarovski crystals on her vagina, which she dubbed ‘vajazzling.’
She was quoted as saying:
“After a breakup, a friend of mine Swarovski-crystal my precious lady,” she said. “It shined like a disco ball so I have a whole chapter in there on how women should vajazzle their vajayjays!”
I am sorry but no one is going to be hanging anything from my ‘lady parts’, ‘precious lady’ or any other name you want to call them by! No man could ever make me so upset that I would even think about that!
What are the stars thinking these days? First you have them wearing micro skirts and then no underwear? Damn they must make tons of money with all their shows and reality shows, that you would think that they would be able to afford a pair of underwear.
And just how drunk do you have to be to get your soft parts bedazzled?
In case you don’t know what bedazzling is, it is the art of putting shiny stones on items like shirts, pants, shoes, purses and I am not sure that the original creators were thinking of vagina's when they made this!
If you want to read more on vajazzling, read this article.
For the ORIGINAL Bedazzler, visit here. I still don’t think that they intended people to ‘spruce up’ their special areas LOL
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 21,2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
February 20, 2011
Well you will have noticed that I haven’t blogged about my walking for the last little while, it was not intentional at all. I have been doing my walks daily and even some extra walks when time has allowed.
In the last three days I have walked a total of fifteen miles. I was thinking it wasn’t very much but when I added up all my steps and converted them to miles I was like WOW!
You see it really doesn’t matter how far you walk or where you walk as long as you are moving around. I haven’t done anything different in the last three days other than go to the Vancouver Airport to pick up my oldest daughter. So, my walking totals are just from being more active than I was last year… that is a great thing!
I was reading on a website earlier today about a diet that was the ultimate in weight loss and only using walking as the exercise. I was reading through the menu and it was basically rabbit food! For breakfast you had half a slice of whole wheat bread with a thin slice of non-fat cheese and a glass of water. Hell even a mouse couldn’t survive on that!
After reading further I decided to Google diets. Everyone of the diets that I checked out were asking for people to buy things that I had never heard of and when I Googled them they were super expensive.
Do you really have the money to buy all this food? Can you really lose weight by eating what they tell you? I know I could NEVER follow a diet like any of the ones I read as the food they wanted me to eat are things that I am allergic to, or I can not digest.
As I have said many times before, don’t “diet” to lose weight, just change your food habits and portion size. If you eat three pieces of chicken only have two. If you deep-fry your chicken, coat it in cracker crumbs and bake it. There are so many alternative ways to eat food that I do not understand why there are so many diets telling you that you have to eat like a rabbit to look like one of those anorexic models.
We do not have a lot of money but I make damn sure my family eats healthy food for each meal. They do not eat like rabbits but they eat healthy. I bake my chicken, I bake the potatoes and I steam the veggies, very simple and easy. My kids eat the healthiest meat we can afford, and if it happens to be a cheaper cut of meat I will do my best to make it as healthy as I can.
Little changes each day are better than trying to get your kids to love your fried tofu the first night! You have to be sneaky sometimes to get your family to jump on the health wagon with you. I used to serve Wonder Plus bread that was whole wheat but looked like white bread and no one complained. I have served them veggie burgers before and they didn’t really know it was tofu, they just thought it was a crappy version of their normal frozen burger LOL
Call me sneaky or whatever, but sometimes you have to be sneaky to get past the picky eaters in the family. It is the same way with exercise. My friend that I sometimes walk with has three children. They are the poster children for square-eye-it is. They watch TV when they wake up and after school and do not do anything outside.
I happen to mention to my friend one day that maybe the kids would like geocaching which would get them out of the house and get them exercising even if they didn’t know it.
A week or two went by before I talked to her again and she asked if I could bring my GPS over and ask the kids if they wanted to go geocaching with us.
I showed up the following day, gps in hand, and I asked the kids if they wanted to go for a five-kilometer walk with me. They looked at me like I had grown two heads and said no they were busy.
I went and had a coffee in the kitchen with my friend and told her what her kids had told me, she said welcome to my club! My kids were never inside they were always outside playing or over at someone’s house playing, I really couldn’t understand why she didn’t just boot them outside on nice days!
I changed my tactic and walked back into the TV room with my GPS and my backpack and said to the kids, “See you later I am going to hunt treasure!” and before I could get to the front door I had three kids scrambling to find out what I was talking about.
I explained about geocaching and showed them a map of where we were going and what we were looking for. They had their shoes and coats on before my friend even had time to get her things together!
That day those kids walked a total of ten kilometers and never complained once! They were running up and down the dike we were walking on and asking how close are we now every so often. I suppose if I actually calculated up how many steps those kids took, they would have taken three times as many as my friend and I!
So, sometimes you have to be a bit sneaky with friends or family members to get things to change. Small changes with food is easier than telling them they are having tofu for the rest of their lives !
Well that is all for today. Tomorrow is a new day and with each new day comes new steps ! Happy walking everyone!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 20, 2011
In the last three days I have walked a total of fifteen miles. I was thinking it wasn’t very much but when I added up all my steps and converted them to miles I was like WOW!
You see it really doesn’t matter how far you walk or where you walk as long as you are moving around. I haven’t done anything different in the last three days other than go to the Vancouver Airport to pick up my oldest daughter. So, my walking totals are just from being more active than I was last year… that is a great thing!
I was reading on a website earlier today about a diet that was the ultimate in weight loss and only using walking as the exercise. I was reading through the menu and it was basically rabbit food! For breakfast you had half a slice of whole wheat bread with a thin slice of non-fat cheese and a glass of water. Hell even a mouse couldn’t survive on that!
After reading further I decided to Google diets. Everyone of the diets that I checked out were asking for people to buy things that I had never heard of and when I Googled them they were super expensive.
Do you really have the money to buy all this food? Can you really lose weight by eating what they tell you? I know I could NEVER follow a diet like any of the ones I read as the food they wanted me to eat are things that I am allergic to, or I can not digest.
As I have said many times before, don’t “diet” to lose weight, just change your food habits and portion size. If you eat three pieces of chicken only have two. If you deep-fry your chicken, coat it in cracker crumbs and bake it. There are so many alternative ways to eat food that I do not understand why there are so many diets telling you that you have to eat like a rabbit to look like one of those anorexic models.
We do not have a lot of money but I make damn sure my family eats healthy food for each meal. They do not eat like rabbits but they eat healthy. I bake my chicken, I bake the potatoes and I steam the veggies, very simple and easy. My kids eat the healthiest meat we can afford, and if it happens to be a cheaper cut of meat I will do my best to make it as healthy as I can.
Little changes each day are better than trying to get your kids to love your fried tofu the first night! You have to be sneaky sometimes to get your family to jump on the health wagon with you. I used to serve Wonder Plus bread that was whole wheat but looked like white bread and no one complained. I have served them veggie burgers before and they didn’t really know it was tofu, they just thought it was a crappy version of their normal frozen burger LOL
Call me sneaky or whatever, but sometimes you have to be sneaky to get past the picky eaters in the family. It is the same way with exercise. My friend that I sometimes walk with has three children. They are the poster children for square-eye-it is. They watch TV when they wake up and after school and do not do anything outside.
I happen to mention to my friend one day that maybe the kids would like geocaching which would get them out of the house and get them exercising even if they didn’t know it.
A week or two went by before I talked to her again and she asked if I could bring my GPS over and ask the kids if they wanted to go geocaching with us.
I showed up the following day, gps in hand, and I asked the kids if they wanted to go for a five-kilometer walk with me. They looked at me like I had grown two heads and said no they were busy.
I went and had a coffee in the kitchen with my friend and told her what her kids had told me, she said welcome to my club! My kids were never inside they were always outside playing or over at someone’s house playing, I really couldn’t understand why she didn’t just boot them outside on nice days!
I changed my tactic and walked back into the TV room with my GPS and my backpack and said to the kids, “See you later I am going to hunt treasure!” and before I could get to the front door I had three kids scrambling to find out what I was talking about.
I explained about geocaching and showed them a map of where we were going and what we were looking for. They had their shoes and coats on before my friend even had time to get her things together!
That day those kids walked a total of ten kilometers and never complained once! They were running up and down the dike we were walking on and asking how close are we now every so often. I suppose if I actually calculated up how many steps those kids took, they would have taken three times as many as my friend and I!
So, sometimes you have to be a bit sneaky with friends or family members to get things to change. Small changes with food is easier than telling them they are having tofu for the rest of their lives !
Well that is all for today. Tomorrow is a new day and with each new day comes new steps ! Happy walking everyone!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 20, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
My Funeral
Last night while in the coffee shop, the conversation arose about how you would want your funeral if you could plan it yourself.
This is based on an idea by Carmen!
Here goes with my funeral arrangements.
I would want everyone to wear red (my favorite color), NO BLACK at all.
Before my body is cremated I would want a boob job and a tummy tuck. Got to look good for the guys from Ghost Adventures. If I don’t have a tummy tuck all the fat will cause a huge explosion and I will be forever burning, kind of like heartburn! Then I would like to be propped up in a nice sexy pose so I can over look the party.
The party would take place at my favorite camping place, everyone knows where that is, in July. I don’t care when I die but you have to keep me on ice until July when I can see my friends partying their asses off one last time.
The food would be all of my favorite and only rum, khaluha and of course beer would be served. The food would be served on silver platters and everyone would have a silk napkin with a crystal plate.
There would be a karaoke machine there and EVERYONE would sing my favorite songs. I want a continuous song playing in the back ground, and that is Bitch - Marideth Brooks.
I want everyone to tell a story about me that is funny, I have plenty, so you should too! I want to know what made you like me in the first place, I have been curious about that all these years!
I want the guys from Ghost Adventures there because I have a message for them. I want them to bring the talk box and not that stupid radio frequency thing. They can use the infrared camera to take pictures of me, trust me they will be awesome pictures.
I want a Bagpipe band walking along the beach playing LADY IN RED. I am going to look up their kilts and see who is really into the spirit and who exactly needs their spirits rising.
I want the Ringling Brothers Circus to perform there with lots of clowns. Everyone hates clowns and I do too so this is my parting shot and knocking them down and them going WTF! Plus they will be sad and make everyone cry. I want red handkerchiefs for everyone to wipe their eyes and snotty noses on. Lots of tears are to be shed at this party.
I want people to sit down for the reading of the eulogies in the order that I liked them. Awesome up front, Tolerated next then why the fuck are you here at the very back!
Awards will be given out to the most creative costume/clothing a person wears, so be creative. You will also get an award for the biggest lie about me told; I will be listening so make ‘em believable and you might just win something. Now that’s something to tell your grand kids!
I want all red flowers, real flowers not the dollar store ones. I don’t care how far you have to travel to get me a dozen of every red flower in the world, just do it! I might be dead but I will still KNOW and haunt you if you don’t! I want everyone to have lei’s of red roses, complete with thorns to remind that that I am still a pain in their neck!
I want a memorial of my life to be placed on top of the highest mountain around here and big enough for everyone to see it down in the city. I will be standing there with one hand in the air flipping everyone the bird. They will name that mountain range after me. Ladybugs Mountain Range! It has a nice ring to it actually LOL
{start quote} Quote from Carmen's post
I want something called a Rosetta Tablet put on my grave/urn area. It is a new thing for the computer age that lets people scan this tablet thingy with their smart phones and then read up on my life story. LOL. {end quote} ME TOO!!
I want hundreds and hundreds of ladybugs released at my funeral. You can buy them here www.thebuglady.ca She sells 250 adult ladybugs for $15.00. I want hundreds and thousands of them. Start saving! NO ONE had better squash these or I will attach myself to you as well! And I can promise you will not like that at all!
Just remember, I might be dead but I can still see you and you can not see me. How embarrassing would that be to have me pinch your bum when you are having sex? Pretty creepy eh? Naa it is damn hilarious!
So, in closing, remember my last paragraph and carry out my final wishes and you wont be getting your bum pinched during sex…by me anyway!
I WILL be watching!
This is based on an idea by Carmen!
Here goes with my funeral arrangements.
I would want everyone to wear red (my favorite color), NO BLACK at all.
Before my body is cremated I would want a boob job and a tummy tuck. Got to look good for the guys from Ghost Adventures. If I don’t have a tummy tuck all the fat will cause a huge explosion and I will be forever burning, kind of like heartburn! Then I would like to be propped up in a nice sexy pose so I can over look the party.
The party would take place at my favorite camping place, everyone knows where that is, in July. I don’t care when I die but you have to keep me on ice until July when I can see my friends partying their asses off one last time.
The food would be all of my favorite and only rum, khaluha and of course beer would be served. The food would be served on silver platters and everyone would have a silk napkin with a crystal plate.
There would be a karaoke machine there and EVERYONE would sing my favorite songs. I want a continuous song playing in the back ground, and that is Bitch - Marideth Brooks.
I want everyone to tell a story about me that is funny, I have plenty, so you should too! I want to know what made you like me in the first place, I have been curious about that all these years!
I want the guys from Ghost Adventures there because I have a message for them. I want them to bring the talk box and not that stupid radio frequency thing. They can use the infrared camera to take pictures of me, trust me they will be awesome pictures.
I want a Bagpipe band walking along the beach playing LADY IN RED. I am going to look up their kilts and see who is really into the spirit and who exactly needs their spirits rising.
I want the Ringling Brothers Circus to perform there with lots of clowns. Everyone hates clowns and I do too so this is my parting shot and knocking them down and them going WTF! Plus they will be sad and make everyone cry. I want red handkerchiefs for everyone to wipe their eyes and snotty noses on. Lots of tears are to be shed at this party.
I want people to sit down for the reading of the eulogies in the order that I liked them. Awesome up front, Tolerated next then why the fuck are you here at the very back!
Awards will be given out to the most creative costume/clothing a person wears, so be creative. You will also get an award for the biggest lie about me told; I will be listening so make ‘em believable and you might just win something. Now that’s something to tell your grand kids!
I want all red flowers, real flowers not the dollar store ones. I don’t care how far you have to travel to get me a dozen of every red flower in the world, just do it! I might be dead but I will still KNOW and haunt you if you don’t! I want everyone to have lei’s of red roses, complete with thorns to remind that that I am still a pain in their neck!
I want a memorial of my life to be placed on top of the highest mountain around here and big enough for everyone to see it down in the city. I will be standing there with one hand in the air flipping everyone the bird. They will name that mountain range after me. Ladybugs Mountain Range! It has a nice ring to it actually LOL
{start quote} Quote from Carmen's post
I want something called a Rosetta Tablet put on my grave/urn area. It is a new thing for the computer age that lets people scan this tablet thingy with their smart phones and then read up on my life story. LOL. {end quote} ME TOO!!
I want hundreds and hundreds of ladybugs released at my funeral. You can buy them here www.thebuglady.ca She sells 250 adult ladybugs for $15.00. I want hundreds and thousands of them. Start saving! NO ONE had better squash these or I will attach myself to you as well! And I can promise you will not like that at all!
Just remember, I might be dead but I can still see you and you can not see me. How embarrassing would that be to have me pinch your bum when you are having sex? Pretty creepy eh? Naa it is damn hilarious!
So, in closing, remember my last paragraph and carry out my final wishes and you wont be getting your bum pinched during sex…by me anyway!
I WILL be watching!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Redneck Funeral
I die. Leave me in the bathtub out back so I don’t stink the house out more than it already does. Just make sure the coonhound doesn’t come near me or try and hump me!
When Bubba gets sprung we will have a barn dance. Of course that would all be after gator season. You can use my body as a counter weight in your boat if you are going gator hunting alone, but make sure I have a life jacket on!
At the funeral I want everyone in his or her Sunday best. That means no man sweaters and no cut offs that might pop out what goodies you have. Wear underwear!! Damn it, have some respect!
I want a 21 rifle solute or just shoot some tin cans down in the back forty will be good.
I want the following for grub: Cajun Alligator Balls, Boiled Crawfish, Spicy Teriyaki Frog Legs (fried), and Dave’s Turtle Sauce Piquant. If ya’ll don’t have your own recipe then use this page http://hubpages.com/hub/swamp-recipes
When we have done grubbing, I want everyone to do an honorary ‘alligator roll’ in memory of me. Come on, get down and do the roll!
When everyone has done the roll I want to be placed in a custom built gator chasing boat. I then want to be towed to the middle of the swamp and set on fire!
When I am just ashes I want you to mix my ashes into some gator bait and feed it to them so I can give them heart burn like they gave me LOL
When Bubba gets sprung we will have a barn dance. Of course that would all be after gator season. You can use my body as a counter weight in your boat if you are going gator hunting alone, but make sure I have a life jacket on!
At the funeral I want everyone in his or her Sunday best. That means no man sweaters and no cut offs that might pop out what goodies you have. Wear underwear!! Damn it, have some respect!
I want a 21 rifle solute or just shoot some tin cans down in the back forty will be good.
I want the following for grub: Cajun Alligator Balls, Boiled Crawfish, Spicy Teriyaki Frog Legs (fried), and Dave’s Turtle Sauce Piquant. If ya’ll don’t have your own recipe then use this page http://hubpages.com/hub/swamp-recipes
When we have done grubbing, I want everyone to do an honorary ‘alligator roll’ in memory of me. Come on, get down and do the roll!
When everyone has done the roll I want to be placed in a custom built gator chasing boat. I then want to be towed to the middle of the swamp and set on fire!
When I am just ashes I want you to mix my ashes into some gator bait and feed it to them so I can give them heart burn like they gave me LOL
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
My Gravestone Wording
Here lie the remains of the original Bitch!
Her after life will consist of hanging out with the
cast and crew of Ghost Adventures and messing with their equipment and making them laugh!
“I might have pissed you off at some time in my life but please do not piss on me now as you will regret it.” – S. R *NOTE* She will reach up and rip your dick off! Keep that in mind if you have the urge to whip it out!
Do not leave flowers here that are not red, she will hurt you with them.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Insulted By A Gadget
Personal Exercise and Analyzing Card
So today I was going to tell you about my day and how I hadn’t done my big block walk but rather several smaller walks. But then I went and checked the mail!
Today arrived my free pedometer from Prevention Magazine. I got quite giddy and excited to try out my new pedometer, but when I opened the envelope, inside was small square box that said “Personal Exercise & Analyzing Card” on the outside. I was beginning to wonder what the heck this was as it should have been just a pedometer.
The box description says:
Multi-functional credit card size exercise assistant, pedometer and fat analyzer. This ultra slim device includes the following functions:
- Stores up to 5 personal data profiles
- Step counter
- Distance counter
- Calories counter
- Body fat meter and monitor
- Clock and alarm
I was thinking I had won the lottery with this pedometer! I mean all I was expecting was one that counted my steps not one that does everything but wash the dishes.
I open the box excitedly to find this credit card super slim electronic gadget. I pull the plastic tab from the battery compartment and I see the unit light up with zeros and flashing numbers and a beep. This was so exciting to me!
I open the instruction manual to figure out what all the buttons do and how to set it up. I really think you need a college degree or maybe a university degree to operate this, or give it to a toddler!
The information booklet tells you that the first step is to set the time, which I did. Then it tells you to fill in your height, weight, age and if you are male or female. No problems with filling in the information at all. Then I get to the part where it wants to get a reading on my body fat. If you know me then you know this is not going to be good.
There are two thumb areas on the bottom of the credit card device that you press set and then put your thumbs on and it will tell you what your body fat is and then it has an overall guide as to how you are doing with your fitness.
Ok that is how it is SUPPOSED work. I press the set button and put my two thumbs on the correct place and wait while it calculates my body fat. Considering it is a mechanical item I never thought I would be insulted by it, but I was.
Before I tell you what happened I will explain that I had been goofing around with the unit with their “fake” figures and I had done the body fat reading using their anorexic figures and I had a 17.4% body fat which was supposed to be fabulous according to their guide.
When I put in my information it read ERR. So I figured I must have not held the contacts properly. Reset the unit and tried again. ERR again! Now I am thinking something is wrong with this unit. Not more than 5 minutes ago it was telling the fake person I had a 17.5% Body Fat and not it is saying ERR.
My daughter was sitting next to me so I asked her to put her thumbs on the contacts and see if it would read for her as I had lotion on my hands. ERR it read. Now we are laughing because no matter what we do we keep getting ERR. So, as it can hold up to 5 profiles, I switched to the number two profile and went to the body fat section and pressed the set button, put my thumbs on the contacts and it reads… 17.5% body fat! Argh
So now I know that the unit is working again I switch back to my profile and get it to the body fat setting and would you believe it, it said ERR!
Now we are laughing at this ERR and I said, “You can’t read fat in my thumb? How about my belly?” And I put it on my tummy, only to get the reading ERR. Of course you know we are having too much fun with this gadget now and my smart assed daughter said, “Mom, put it on your boobs!” So I did and it said ERR. For those that don’t know me, I have a smaller chest than my daughter. When the reading came up ERR she didn’t miss a beat and said, “Mom maybe it is using echo location!” I couldn’t do anything for laughing!
Now my daughter and I are in hysterics because it can’t read someone’s body fat that is not anorexic. We decided that ERR means CANT READ THAT HIGH! LOL
I can honestly say that I have never been insulted by a gadget before now, and believe me I will not let this lil thing forget it!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 14, 2011
So today I was going to tell you about my day and how I hadn’t done my big block walk but rather several smaller walks. But then I went and checked the mail!
Today arrived my free pedometer from Prevention Magazine. I got quite giddy and excited to try out my new pedometer, but when I opened the envelope, inside was small square box that said “Personal Exercise & Analyzing Card” on the outside. I was beginning to wonder what the heck this was as it should have been just a pedometer.
The box description says:
Multi-functional credit card size exercise assistant, pedometer and fat analyzer. This ultra slim device includes the following functions:
- Stores up to 5 personal data profiles
- Step counter
- Distance counter
- Calories counter
- Body fat meter and monitor
- Clock and alarm
I was thinking I had won the lottery with this pedometer! I mean all I was expecting was one that counted my steps not one that does everything but wash the dishes.
I open the box excitedly to find this credit card super slim electronic gadget. I pull the plastic tab from the battery compartment and I see the unit light up with zeros and flashing numbers and a beep. This was so exciting to me!
I open the instruction manual to figure out what all the buttons do and how to set it up. I really think you need a college degree or maybe a university degree to operate this, or give it to a toddler!
The information booklet tells you that the first step is to set the time, which I did. Then it tells you to fill in your height, weight, age and if you are male or female. No problems with filling in the information at all. Then I get to the part where it wants to get a reading on my body fat. If you know me then you know this is not going to be good.
There are two thumb areas on the bottom of the credit card device that you press set and then put your thumbs on and it will tell you what your body fat is and then it has an overall guide as to how you are doing with your fitness.
Ok that is how it is SUPPOSED work. I press the set button and put my two thumbs on the correct place and wait while it calculates my body fat. Considering it is a mechanical item I never thought I would be insulted by it, but I was.
Before I tell you what happened I will explain that I had been goofing around with the unit with their “fake” figures and I had done the body fat reading using their anorexic figures and I had a 17.4% body fat which was supposed to be fabulous according to their guide.
When I put in my information it read ERR. So I figured I must have not held the contacts properly. Reset the unit and tried again. ERR again! Now I am thinking something is wrong with this unit. Not more than 5 minutes ago it was telling the fake person I had a 17.5% Body Fat and not it is saying ERR.
My daughter was sitting next to me so I asked her to put her thumbs on the contacts and see if it would read for her as I had lotion on my hands. ERR it read. Now we are laughing because no matter what we do we keep getting ERR. So, as it can hold up to 5 profiles, I switched to the number two profile and went to the body fat section and pressed the set button, put my thumbs on the contacts and it reads… 17.5% body fat! Argh
So now I know that the unit is working again I switch back to my profile and get it to the body fat setting and would you believe it, it said ERR!
Now we are laughing at this ERR and I said, “You can’t read fat in my thumb? How about my belly?” And I put it on my tummy, only to get the reading ERR. Of course you know we are having too much fun with this gadget now and my smart assed daughter said, “Mom, put it on your boobs!” So I did and it said ERR. For those that don’t know me, I have a smaller chest than my daughter. When the reading came up ERR she didn’t miss a beat and said, “Mom maybe it is using echo location!” I couldn’t do anything for laughing!
Now my daughter and I are in hysterics because it can’t read someone’s body fat that is not anorexic. We decided that ERR means CANT READ THAT HIGH! LOL
I can honestly say that I have never been insulted by a gadget before now, and believe me I will not let this lil thing forget it!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 14, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
February 12, 2011
I hope everyone got out to walk today and is feeling in tiptop shape!
My mom and I went for a walk in the rain around the block. Well it wasn’t raining when we started our walk but half way into our walk the heavens opened up! Isn’t that the way it always works though, you go outside to do something and you get halfway through and you cant stop no matter what Mother Nature sends your way!
Yesterday I didn’t get to post as I had hoped to as I had a deadline on a project I was working on and had to get that out of the way, and then it was time for bed; where does the time go?
So, I was doing some reading on a couple of different web pages about walking and how to jazz it up a bit, there really wasn’t just one page with any jazzy tips on them but there were a few that gave me ideas that I would like to share with you.
One was called “ground score”. From what I gather they want to find out what the best item(s) you have found on the ground while walking. I don’t know how many times I have been out walking and found money in various amounts. I have found two usb flash drives, numerous amounts of clothing and a piece of equipment that literally fell off the back of a work truck. It is a LED level thing that you would use for leveling buildings or making sure lines were all the same height. I am not sure what it is called but it works and I have no way of tracing the owner. I am hoping that the ads I put in the paper are enough to get this item returned, if not, then hubby has a new toy!
Some people save the pennies, nickels and dimes up and once a year they go and buy them a treat, a coffee or a new pair of shoes. What is your best find?
I am hoping one day someone will leave a nice red ’68 Ford Mustang on the side of the road for me to find LOL
The next tip I though of was to join any of the local walks for charity. It is a two-fold win for everyone. You get the exercise and motivation and the charity gets the money for more research. Some of the walks have prize levels and you can win some really nice things just from asking friends, neighbors, family and co-workers to sponsor you.
I usually walk for charities that I have been effected by like the Mother Daughter walk to end Breast Cancer (ex mother in law passed away from complications), SPCA Animal Cruelty Awareness walk (as a foster mom for sick and injured animals I am a huge supporter of this one), The MS Walk to Make a Difference was for my friends husband.
Find a walk close to where you are and sign up for it. It is fun to go to the events and really is nice to walk in a different area. Try it; what do you have to lose?
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 12, 2011
My mom and I went for a walk in the rain around the block. Well it wasn’t raining when we started our walk but half way into our walk the heavens opened up! Isn’t that the way it always works though, you go outside to do something and you get halfway through and you cant stop no matter what Mother Nature sends your way!
Yesterday I didn’t get to post as I had hoped to as I had a deadline on a project I was working on and had to get that out of the way, and then it was time for bed; where does the time go?
So, I was doing some reading on a couple of different web pages about walking and how to jazz it up a bit, there really wasn’t just one page with any jazzy tips on them but there were a few that gave me ideas that I would like to share with you.
One was called “ground score”. From what I gather they want to find out what the best item(s) you have found on the ground while walking. I don’t know how many times I have been out walking and found money in various amounts. I have found two usb flash drives, numerous amounts of clothing and a piece of equipment that literally fell off the back of a work truck. It is a LED level thing that you would use for leveling buildings or making sure lines were all the same height. I am not sure what it is called but it works and I have no way of tracing the owner. I am hoping that the ads I put in the paper are enough to get this item returned, if not, then hubby has a new toy!
Some people save the pennies, nickels and dimes up and once a year they go and buy them a treat, a coffee or a new pair of shoes. What is your best find?
I am hoping one day someone will leave a nice red ’68 Ford Mustang on the side of the road for me to find LOL
The next tip I though of was to join any of the local walks for charity. It is a two-fold win for everyone. You get the exercise and motivation and the charity gets the money for more research. Some of the walks have prize levels and you can win some really nice things just from asking friends, neighbors, family and co-workers to sponsor you.
I usually walk for charities that I have been effected by like the Mother Daughter walk to end Breast Cancer (ex mother in law passed away from complications), SPCA Animal Cruelty Awareness walk (as a foster mom for sick and injured animals I am a huge supporter of this one), The MS Walk to Make a Difference was for my friends husband.
Find a walk close to where you are and sign up for it. It is fun to go to the events and really is nice to walk in a different area. Try it; what do you have to lose?
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Why is it...
that males only see boobs when they look at profiles? If you look at the majority of profiles ANYWHERE on the net, you will see that the males have only girls with their boobs hanging out or just about hanging out. Now my question is... WHY?
Do you think that the bigger the boobs the smarter the person? HA! I can tell you that it isn’t true. I may not be willing to splatter my boobs all over your friends list but I do have a brain and a huge heart.
So, why don’t the guys that think you are drop dead gorgeous take a chance on the nice ladies that aren’t a perfect size 4 with big boobs and that aren’t willing to splatter there cleavage on your friends list?
To the women out there that think they are drop dead gorgeous... how can you only accept someone as a friend only if they are 'hot'? Don’t let yourself be used for your body because you will get hurt in the end.
Fat people need love too you know and even though we get passed over all the time... the ones that won’t give us the time of day are missing out on something else. I have been on the skinny side of things and it is true, skinny people get better treatment where ever they go, fat people get customer service last and plenty of stares too.
Grrrrrrrrrr it just pissed me off that "if you aren’t a 'perfect' model then you will never find love" That is a quote from someone’s web page that I was browsing. Sad really because even though you think you are pretty or good looking, your personality might suck. True beauty comes from the heart and the inside -- not the outside.
I am not fat by any means but people still don’t care to talk to me because my boobs aren’t splattered on the profile LOL Man you people are missing out on a beautiful friend and laughs LOL
Well, I am done being pissed off now and I am laughing :)
Do you think that the bigger the boobs the smarter the person? HA! I can tell you that it isn’t true. I may not be willing to splatter my boobs all over your friends list but I do have a brain and a huge heart.
So, why don’t the guys that think you are drop dead gorgeous take a chance on the nice ladies that aren’t a perfect size 4 with big boobs and that aren’t willing to splatter there cleavage on your friends list?
To the women out there that think they are drop dead gorgeous... how can you only accept someone as a friend only if they are 'hot'? Don’t let yourself be used for your body because you will get hurt in the end.
Fat people need love too you know and even though we get passed over all the time... the ones that won’t give us the time of day are missing out on something else. I have been on the skinny side of things and it is true, skinny people get better treatment where ever they go, fat people get customer service last and plenty of stares too.
Grrrrrrrrrr it just pissed me off that "if you aren’t a 'perfect' model then you will never find love" That is a quote from someone’s web page that I was browsing. Sad really because even though you think you are pretty or good looking, your personality might suck. True beauty comes from the heart and the inside -- not the outside.
I am not fat by any means but people still don’t care to talk to me because my boobs aren’t splattered on the profile LOL Man you people are missing out on a beautiful friend and laughs LOL
Well, I am done being pissed off now and I am laughing :)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
February 9, 2011
Did you get out and walk today? I managed to get some walking in but it was in spurts rather than just going out for a walk. We really don’t realize how far we walk until you start using a step counter and then you realize that just in your daily routine you walk quite a fair distance.
Yesterday I told you that today I would let you in on a secret that has kept me motivated. It is really simple actually. Get a lined notebook that is bright or has a nice picture on it, or decorate it yourself.
In the margin write the date then with a ruler make two other vertical columns. At the top of one write STEPS (records how many steps you took) and in the other write DISTANCE (so you can keep track of the mileage on your shoes).
I have added little stickers to each page and use different colored pens to log my day. I know it might seem a little like work to do that but at the end of each page I have totaled up the STEPS and DISTANCE for that page.
In the very back of the book I keep the totals written down and at the end of the year I plan to see how far I have walked… if it was in a straight line.
Today I was talking to a friend that is also walking the 365 Challenge with me, but in another country, and she emailed me this tip about walking shoes that I did not know.
As a general rule of thumb, you should replace your walking shoes when you have walked in them for about 400 miles. Everybody is different. Some people strike harder or softer than others. Some walking shoes wear better than others. By looking at the bottom and sides of the walking shoes, you can tell when it is time to replace them.
Another good reason to keep a walking journal!
Today’s tip for adding 2000 steps is to take up photography— walk at a scenic location while hunting for photo opportunities. As you know, I am also doing the 365 Photo Challenge, so I am often out walking with my camera, ready to take that perfect picture. It is fun to take pictures, as you never really think that you are taking all those extra steps when trying to line up that perfect shot.
We have a nature park close to where we live and I love going there to walk the trails and take pictures of the different migrating birds that have made it there stop over. See if there is a nature park or reserve close to where you live and go for a walk around there, you will be amazed at how much ground you can cover when you are in a new environment.
That’s it for me tonight. Keep walking!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 9, 2011
Yesterday I told you that today I would let you in on a secret that has kept me motivated. It is really simple actually. Get a lined notebook that is bright or has a nice picture on it, or decorate it yourself.
In the margin write the date then with a ruler make two other vertical columns. At the top of one write STEPS (records how many steps you took) and in the other write DISTANCE (so you can keep track of the mileage on your shoes).
I have added little stickers to each page and use different colored pens to log my day. I know it might seem a little like work to do that but at the end of each page I have totaled up the STEPS and DISTANCE for that page.
In the very back of the book I keep the totals written down and at the end of the year I plan to see how far I have walked… if it was in a straight line.
Today I was talking to a friend that is also walking the 365 Challenge with me, but in another country, and she emailed me this tip about walking shoes that I did not know.
As a general rule of thumb, you should replace your walking shoes when you have walked in them for about 400 miles. Everybody is different. Some people strike harder or softer than others. Some walking shoes wear better than others. By looking at the bottom and sides of the walking shoes, you can tell when it is time to replace them.
Another good reason to keep a walking journal!
Today’s tip for adding 2000 steps is to take up photography— walk at a scenic location while hunting for photo opportunities. As you know, I am also doing the 365 Photo Challenge, so I am often out walking with my camera, ready to take that perfect picture. It is fun to take pictures, as you never really think that you are taking all those extra steps when trying to line up that perfect shot.
We have a nature park close to where we live and I love going there to walk the trails and take pictures of the different migrating birds that have made it there stop over. See if there is a nature park or reserve close to where you live and go for a walk around there, you will be amazed at how much ground you can cover when you are in a new environment.
That’s it for me tonight. Keep walking!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
February 8, 2011
How are you today? I am pretty good actually. I went grocery shopping and walked as far as I normally would if I was on one of my favorite walking routes! I haven’t worn my pedometer shopping before so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that it was just about the same distance as my normal walks. Who would have thought you could kill two birds with one stone!
We also did a bit of maintenance on our geocaches today and you never know what you will come across when you are geocaching. Today we went to ‘winterize’ all of our geocaches. That means that we check on them all and replace any containers that are damaged or leaking and check the logbooks.
The first few were very uneventful and everything was sealed and in great condition. Then we get to the second to last cache and turn onto the side road to get to the access point and we see a car parked in the area. I thought it was fellow Geocachers! I was wrong!
If you want to see a new Olympic sport, pull up close to a lonely car when the windows are steamed up and watch how fast the clothes go flying on the naked people!
I think it took them about 15 seconds to get their shirts and pants on! Of course, I couldn’t do anything for laughing, but I certainly wasn’t going to leave and let them at it again! I was on a mission and I wasn’t going to let their ‘car gymnastics’ stop me from checking on my geocaches.
When they realized I was not going to leave, they started the car and backed all the way down the road so that we couldn’t see whom it was that we had caught in the act! I was going to give them a gold medal but they left so fast I didn’t have time to give it to them. I do have their license plate number though!!
So, until next time, remember you can add extra steps by making several trips up and down the stairs doing laundry or other household chores.
Tomorrow I will share something with you that is helping me and encouraging me on my road to walking healthy!
Keep walking!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 8, 2011
We also did a bit of maintenance on our geocaches today and you never know what you will come across when you are geocaching. Today we went to ‘winterize’ all of our geocaches. That means that we check on them all and replace any containers that are damaged or leaking and check the logbooks.
The first few were very uneventful and everything was sealed and in great condition. Then we get to the second to last cache and turn onto the side road to get to the access point and we see a car parked in the area. I thought it was fellow Geocachers! I was wrong!
If you want to see a new Olympic sport, pull up close to a lonely car when the windows are steamed up and watch how fast the clothes go flying on the naked people!
I think it took them about 15 seconds to get their shirts and pants on! Of course, I couldn’t do anything for laughing, but I certainly wasn’t going to leave and let them at it again! I was on a mission and I wasn’t going to let their ‘car gymnastics’ stop me from checking on my geocaches.
When they realized I was not going to leave, they started the car and backed all the way down the road so that we couldn’t see whom it was that we had caught in the act! I was going to give them a gold medal but they left so fast I didn’t have time to give it to them. I do have their license plate number though!!
So, until next time, remember you can add extra steps by making several trips up and down the stairs doing laundry or other household chores.
Tomorrow I will share something with you that is helping me and encouraging me on my road to walking healthy!
Keep walking!
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 8, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
February 5, 2011
How are you doing today? I am feeling pretty good! I actually managed to get some of my ‘To Do’ list completed. I had about fifty small wooden blocks sitting on my desk waiting for me to go over to my parents’ house to use the belt sander. I sanded every one of them without any injury and then when I was unhooking the bag from where it was hanging, I cut my finger on a piece of sharp metal!
So, today I didn’t go for a walk as I had hoped to but that is ok because tomorrow I am hoping to go for a nice long walk with my mom.
When I was on the Internet today I was looking up some things about walking. I want to share with you some of what I found.
If you think walking is boring, then try and think of something to ponder on your walk. Some examples are “Where do I want to be in five years?” or “If I won a million dollars and couldn’t spend it on myself or my family, how would I spend it?”
If you are trying to add 2000 steps each day, which is a great goal to start with, then circle around the block when you go outside to get your mail.
It is a small start but you have to start somewhere.
Tomorrow I will give you another way to add 2000 steps to your walk with out you even knowing you are adding any steps.
Well, this is all for tonight! Have a great evening and keep walking!
©2011 7Ladybuys
February 5, 2011
So, today I didn’t go for a walk as I had hoped to but that is ok because tomorrow I am hoping to go for a nice long walk with my mom.
When I was on the Internet today I was looking up some things about walking. I want to share with you some of what I found.
If you think walking is boring, then try and think of something to ponder on your walk. Some examples are “Where do I want to be in five years?” or “If I won a million dollars and couldn’t spend it on myself or my family, how would I spend it?”
If you are trying to add 2000 steps each day, which is a great goal to start with, then circle around the block when you go outside to get your mail.
It is a small start but you have to start somewhere.
Tomorrow I will give you another way to add 2000 steps to your walk with out you even knowing you are adding any steps.
Well, this is all for tonight! Have a great evening and keep walking!
©2011 7Ladybuys
February 5, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
February 4, 2011
February 4, 2011
Well I am sure you have noticed that I haven’t been around all week. That is because I have had doctors appointments and also I have been trying to take it easy and get rid of this cold I now have!
It’s true what they say about what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Hell I should be as strong as an Ox right about now LOL
Well, as I said I have been to the doctors earlier this week and I was surprised to find that I have lost nearly ten pounds!! I know I was shocked but very happy at the same time.
The only thing I have done differently is walking. I have added walking to my daily routine and that seems to be what is making it so that I can lose weight. I haven’t changed my eating habits, as I can’t really eat much to begin with so I know it is not my diet that has helped.
I find that many diets on the market today give you these recipes that call for things that you wouldn’t normally buy, and to someone that is working on a tight budget, it isn’t going to happen. Then you get discouraged and don’t think you will ever lose weight.
Do you really think that the brand name soft tofu is better than the no name soft tofu? I have tried both (not because of a diets but due to health reasons) and I can tell you that if you don’t like the idea of tofu, but you like the taste of yogurt, you can make something like yogurt with tofu.
You use the soft tofu, blend it with some fresh fruit, I used strawberries and banana, a dash of vanilla and blend until smooth. Pour it into small cups and put it in the fridge. They are high in protein and they taste really good and curb your appetite. I would be having them now except tofu and my body has a love hate relationship.
I find that having to follow a diet isn’t going to make me lose weight; it is going to make my life miserable. I do not know many people that will go out and buy everything that a certain diet calls for, only for them, and then buy something different for the rest of the family. The only people that will do that are the people with lots of money, as I know a family of five people cannot do this on a budget.
So, I was thinking about dieting and what it really means. Dieting is supposed to limit your intake and teach you how to change the bad foods into good eating habits. Seriously, why cant we just leave the diet books on the shelf and do it ourselves gradually? Ok so we know that eating fried chicken with fries and gravy isn’t the healthiest meal on the planet, but it is good and once in a while you have to eat something you crave just to get it out of your system.
I do not follow diets at all! I eat a bowl of cereal in the morning, maybe a bowl of soup or something light for lunch and then as a mid afternoon snack I will treat myself to a small bowl of chips. For Dinner I usually eat chicken with carrots, onions, celery done in the oven. As I can only eat chicken and turkey my variety is not that great. I cannot digest raw vegetables so I have to make sure my veggies are roasted or cooked so that I do not get sick.
After dinner, at about 7pm, I might treat myself to a small bowl of Rice Dream Ice cream. If I don’t go for a walk I don’t get a treat! It is a small reward for getting out there and walking. It doesn’t matter how far I walk as long as I have walked that day!
I am not suggesting you follow my diet at all as it is specialized for my medical condition, I am just saying that even if you cant eat all the foods on a diet or cant afford them as you are on a budget like we are, you can still make a few small changes to the way you eat.
Remember how I said Fried Chicken, fries and gravy isn’t the healthiest meal? Well how about if you oven roast the chicken with some potatoes and carrots and onions and then make a small amount of homemade gravy with the juices that are in the bottom of the pan by adding a small amount of fat free condensed chicken soup! It’s the same meal as before just cooked differently and probably better for you than the deep fried foods.
So, until next time, keep the walking going and think about how you cook and what foods you eat. You will be amazed at how stopping and thinking about what you eat will make you realize that you can make small changes that are better for you and your family… and they wont even notice!
Happy Walking
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 4, 2011
Well I am sure you have noticed that I haven’t been around all week. That is because I have had doctors appointments and also I have been trying to take it easy and get rid of this cold I now have!
It’s true what they say about what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Hell I should be as strong as an Ox right about now LOL
Well, as I said I have been to the doctors earlier this week and I was surprised to find that I have lost nearly ten pounds!! I know I was shocked but very happy at the same time.
The only thing I have done differently is walking. I have added walking to my daily routine and that seems to be what is making it so that I can lose weight. I haven’t changed my eating habits, as I can’t really eat much to begin with so I know it is not my diet that has helped.
I find that many diets on the market today give you these recipes that call for things that you wouldn’t normally buy, and to someone that is working on a tight budget, it isn’t going to happen. Then you get discouraged and don’t think you will ever lose weight.
Do you really think that the brand name soft tofu is better than the no name soft tofu? I have tried both (not because of a diets but due to health reasons) and I can tell you that if you don’t like the idea of tofu, but you like the taste of yogurt, you can make something like yogurt with tofu.
You use the soft tofu, blend it with some fresh fruit, I used strawberries and banana, a dash of vanilla and blend until smooth. Pour it into small cups and put it in the fridge. They are high in protein and they taste really good and curb your appetite. I would be having them now except tofu and my body has a love hate relationship.
I find that having to follow a diet isn’t going to make me lose weight; it is going to make my life miserable. I do not know many people that will go out and buy everything that a certain diet calls for, only for them, and then buy something different for the rest of the family. The only people that will do that are the people with lots of money, as I know a family of five people cannot do this on a budget.
So, I was thinking about dieting and what it really means. Dieting is supposed to limit your intake and teach you how to change the bad foods into good eating habits. Seriously, why cant we just leave the diet books on the shelf and do it ourselves gradually? Ok so we know that eating fried chicken with fries and gravy isn’t the healthiest meal on the planet, but it is good and once in a while you have to eat something you crave just to get it out of your system.
I do not follow diets at all! I eat a bowl of cereal in the morning, maybe a bowl of soup or something light for lunch and then as a mid afternoon snack I will treat myself to a small bowl of chips. For Dinner I usually eat chicken with carrots, onions, celery done in the oven. As I can only eat chicken and turkey my variety is not that great. I cannot digest raw vegetables so I have to make sure my veggies are roasted or cooked so that I do not get sick.
After dinner, at about 7pm, I might treat myself to a small bowl of Rice Dream Ice cream. If I don’t go for a walk I don’t get a treat! It is a small reward for getting out there and walking. It doesn’t matter how far I walk as long as I have walked that day!
I am not suggesting you follow my diet at all as it is specialized for my medical condition, I am just saying that even if you cant eat all the foods on a diet or cant afford them as you are on a budget like we are, you can still make a few small changes to the way you eat.
Remember how I said Fried Chicken, fries and gravy isn’t the healthiest meal? Well how about if you oven roast the chicken with some potatoes and carrots and onions and then make a small amount of homemade gravy with the juices that are in the bottom of the pan by adding a small amount of fat free condensed chicken soup! It’s the same meal as before just cooked differently and probably better for you than the deep fried foods.
So, until next time, keep the walking going and think about how you cook and what foods you eat. You will be amazed at how stopping and thinking about what you eat will make you realize that you can make small changes that are better for you and your family… and they wont even notice!
Happy Walking
©2011 7Ladybugs
February 4, 2011
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