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How do you wake up with this song on your mind? WHAT is possibly taking place in my dreams to wake up to this? I know I kidnapped a goat in one dream. At a mall. I ran and ran and ran with a goat. It was awesome. Now I want a goat. But Garth Brooks? C'mon!! Headed out to work...have been busy at work actually so that's nice. Its usually pretty slow this time of year so I'll take it.

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Apparently my readers could care LESS ABOUT ME WRITING ABOUT FOOD. They want to hear/read the dirt. Stats were LOW..'rice, quinoa, blablabla' ...shut up you damn hippie!! (I'll still write about food and working out because that is what I do.)So, onward to my 'Year of Living by the Rules.' I have been having a hard time organizing this idea into a book. To me it is a mix of Bridget Jones

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Quinoa - (spell check doesn't spell Quinoa btw) 1/4 cup dry - well - you don't eat it dry - but that's probably 1/2 cup cooked = 170 calories/2.5 grams of fat/30g of carbs/7g of protein.Rice - 160 calories/(hold on I have to look up Grasa in spanish - we shop at a mexican grocery sometimes...or discount grocery...) ah - its spanish for fat. Grease or fat. soooooooooooooo - ZERO FAT/ 40mg of

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After doing the Polar Plunge yesterday, in 36 degree water, nothing makes me cold anymore. I didn't even turn the heat on today when I got home. I couldn't feel my feet for two hours after the plunge, but other than that I LOVED IT!!!I was super busy at work and although I tried to look cute and professional...the super cute boots I wore are super torture devices covered in suede. I loved

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I am wide awake. It is 3:44 am. I changed the look of my blog. I fucked with photoshop and I still didn't get the pic right. I am going to bed now.Thank you and good night...er...good day...wow.

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Yesterday was weigh in for our beginning of our training for this race. I'm just gonna say WOW. You want a reality check? Put a tape measure around your ass and look at the number. Yeah. Then imagine PANTS THAT SIZE. Then imagine that your right thigh is the same size that your waist USED to be. Yeah. so that happened.Onward and upward. Or should I say Forward. Jeff being on a gluten free

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I am a big, fat baby. All this whining about Christmas and money and kids not being little and stressing FOR NO REASON...is over. I had probably one of the best Christmases ever of all time ever. Jeff's family was wonderful, Prime Rib dinner was amazing, his nephews are two of the best guys around, his brothers girlfriend's kids were wonderful, where his brother got the Special Olympics medal

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Well, since I focused on LACK yet again this year...I have no money for Christmas. I have got to turn this around...as truly, I did have money. I paid some bills, gave an awesome birthday day to someone, and finished my shopping. Albeit not MUCH money, but enough to do all of these things. So I should feel good. Work has been so SLOW ITS KILLIN ME OVAH HEAH...but hey, thankful I'm working or

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What is being googled on my blog site according to mystats.comThese phrases are what is being googled that bring people to my blog:'My Beautiful Naked Daughter' - wow...thanks Pakistan.'Naked Natives''As the world turns naked' - I like this one.'Linkin Park Naked' - ewe.'Naked Douchebag'Naked run men' - has the most. Naked roller derby pics' - I'd like to see that...ummmm maybe not, I've seen

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This living in the PRESENT thing is proving difficult for me. I am noticing how much I am stuck in the past by how hard I have to work to STAY in the present. I am trying to dump a lot of old depression and anger and found that just living in the present is truly the key. If you are in the present, you only have NOW and the past doesn't exist unless you keep putting it in the front of your

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This whole clearing out thing is pretty cool. I have drudged the past around behind me for years (sometimes in front of me) and have read a bookmobile's worth of self help books to know this stuff. Well it's finally real, and working and good and great. I know now even this goodness is fleeting. Not that things TURN BAD, but that all is temporary. Even good stuff. So eat the frosting, lick

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A week and a half gone...sorry. I fell off of my own page, Jeff's page, him off of my page, I fell off of work's page too. I didn't want to come on here during this time and talk about the weather and/or be all self loathing, so I waited a week so I could be self loathing in retrospect. (I might add here, that I am using Jeff's actual NAME and not calling him 'Sweater Guy' or 'Current Dude' or

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Great. Just what Anytown needs. Another overweight, balding, middle aged White Man to run things. To show us how its done. Nice. Ah hell, I'm just judging on looks I guess. 'Typical' is all I thought when I saw the mailer on my desk of the Fat Guy Campaign for Office. That, and how cool would it be to see a healthy, fit, happy, glowing, takes-care-of-himself-guy run for office? It would

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I toured with Iggy Pop. Me. I used to be cool. I was actually with someone who was doing the lights for The Pretenders, who were touring with Iggy Pop. They played in gymnasiums. In Florida. I was 20. I lived it up in my twenties. Damn. Y'all should. I saw Iggy about five years ago and it was one of the best live shows I've seen in years. He played it like it was his first. Iggy is the

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Yeah, yeah, yeah...we all hate it when that one person at the table suggests that everyone go around and say what they are thankful for. Some family members groan. Its a time when our little pink underbelly's are exposed to Family. If we so choose to participate in a heartfelt way and not say, 'Grandma's sweet potatoes.' I used to love being the (asshole) person who suggested this game when I was

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Is it still considered living in sin if you are over 40? Does anyone care anymore? I'm sure some folks do...in the south...from the 50's...er sumthin like that. I'm seeing how I kind of took some time off to let things be...let my daughter be...with her dad...without me. I asked and asked if she wanted to come over...'No. I'm busy.' And I'd just say ok and let it be. I would tell her I

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Everyone at work, everyone around me, is glad Jeff is home I was such a big, fat, baby all week. OMG. I left food in the microwave, I ate peanut butter for dinner, I drank a gallon of milk, ate brownies in bed, watched Bridesmaids over and over, people at work asked me if I took my meds. I don't have meds. This really took me by surprise so much! I lived alone for years, was very capable. I

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peace. Now we go on from here. So much has happened in a week. i smile.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaA6OS1bN0&feature=autoplay&list=AVGxdCwVVULXeLumm_VdIkrSMBM1touOiw&lf=artist&playnext=4I get to have a whole life. Things have been so hard for so long. I have shut off and shut down so much so I could just get through it. Pretended things didn't matter when they broke my heart. Acted strong for my kids so they wouldn't know I was a puddle of mess. Walked

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Just got off the phone with my daughter's dad. They talked about her moving here with me. Going to school out here. In 14 years they've always gone to school near their dad...I'm always driving all over hell and back to try and fit into it. Now I'm home, happy, together. wow. Life is the shit huh???

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I do much better in hindsight in my writing...when I'm actually IN something and write about it I feel like a big fat whiny baby. Now that I made this blog private, trying to stay out of the sight of Douchebag - also known as Boyfriend Who Beat Me Up, and Guy Who Sent Me an Anonymous Comment With a Threat in it...I'll prolly make it all NOT PRIVATE in a bit...but no one is reading it. ok - I'm

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Me: Jeff asked me to move in with him.Daughter: Then shit got real.Best quote of the DECADE. (I love you Savannah!) Technically I am still in my Year of Living By the Rules. So technically I should still be writing about my experience. Today, instead of 'catching' up, I will just jump right in.The book does state that even after you find a man, you still must act like a Creature. I mean,

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In the last blog I stated I was home. I am. I am home in my smile, my heart, my work, everything. Wow. Moving all my stuff. My stuff is now touching his stuff. Our stuff is together. We have 'merged', moved in, combined our things and our lives. He now knows all my weaknesses and ugly eating habits. He also knows what lifts me and makes me smile. He is my rock and I am his rock. After

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I am home. My best friend asked me to move in with him. He said that his place wasn't home without me. I got a job. In one day my life changed. This is what happens in life. Usually I am in this little blog box complaining about negative changes. I now have a positive change I want to celebrate. After many years of feeling below others, trying to stay afloat in the baby pool of life, kicking and

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Well its June. Trying to re-invent myself. Being attracted to jobs where I get to be in my dysfunctional family has not been a good map to follow. I had an interview lastnight and one today coming up. Lastnight was warm and inviting and happy...so it would be my instinct to NOT go there...but I hope she calls. It seemed like a great opportunity actually. I'm so ready for that. Wow. What would I

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