Wow! I’ve only done one day of the EA Sports Active, but I’m already impressed. It was fun, it was a workout, and multiple people can play (unlike the Wii Fit). I’ve already been looking at Wii accessories to buy the pieces so that two players can play on our new game. I’ve also gone ahead and bought enough Wii controllers and numchucks so that we have 4 of each. I am acutally anxiously waiting this evening so that I can try day 2. According to the trainer, it’ll be a slightly different workout each day to keep from being boring. I’ll keep you posted!
Posted by Kimberly on 07.03.2009 at 7:32 am// Tagged: Women's Issues , diet, EA Sports Active, exercise, wii, wii fit //
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To get back in the swing of my daily blogging, I thought I’d post some Thursday meme’s today as I take a break from the elliptical machine so that I could have a fairly easy writing topic (or topics) and go around and read other meme’s too. Surfing through the participants is as much fun to me as writing them each week.
We’ll start with Booking Through Thursday which asked:
Do you read celebrity memoirs? Which ones have you read or do you want to read? Which nonexistent celebrity memoirs would you like to see?
And my response? RARELY. Usually only if recommended by someone else. I am a fiction type of girl.
Next Up, a New one I found TODAY! Thursday Thunks!
1. When you close a door, do you close it quick and just let it slam or do you hold the knob and slowly shut it tight? I hold the knob and slowly shut it tight unless my hands are full in which case I kick it closed.
2.Train A is moving at 60 miles an hour. Train B is moving at 22 miles an hour. They will pass each other at X time. Now what color shoes are you wearing when train A derails? Pink of course.
3. What if M&M’s grew on trees? What color M&M tree would you have? Red
4. How many petals on a flower does it take to make it the perfect bloom? yea, I’m clueless. I guess it depends on the type of flower.
5. I took you to spend $421.67 on you, what did we spend that money on? A vacation
6. If you were a squash, what type of squash would you be? Yellow and cheerful
7. Have you ever gotten a wrong number call and ended up talking to the person for longer than 5 minutes? No, but I’ve texted someone for a long time before I realized it wasn’t who I thought it was.
8. Why haven’t you joined Berleen & Kimber at Insanity Cafe yet? Do we stink? Today’s the first time I’ve heard of it.
9. Now for one of Ber’s questions back when TT was brand new… Shampoo bottles say lather, rinse, repeat… do you? Not unless I’m REALLY ick!
10. It’s July, the year is half over. Do you see it as “whew that part is over” or best is yet to come? I’m more of the best is yet to come I guess.
11. Why do you do the Thursday Thunks meme? This is my first one. I thought the questions looked fun! Looking forward to doing them each week.
Did you join in one of these memes? If so, post your link here and I’ll be sure to check you out! You must comment to leave your link!!!
Posted by Kimberly on 07.02.2009 at 1:16 pm// Tagged: meme , booking through thursday, meme, thursday, thursday thunk //
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I have had this week off from bailing hay between weather, family illness, and tractor equipment failure. But it’s been a nice week because I’ve gotten a good bit done, and Cameron has finished up 2 of her summer activities which will give us time to visit family and friends now hopefully.
Today was the last day of the Summer Reading Program hosted by our public library each year and today was the last day of her swimming class. That frees up two days a week completely. I usually don’t mind, and I’m happy to have her involved in all of these activities in the summer, but since I am working this summer, I’ve hated having to completely depend on grandparents to run her around the country. 
This week we also got yearly vet trips taken care of. The dogs are vaccinated and we’ve bought our yearly supply of Frontline to keep them flea free.
The house is pretty clean. The pool chemicals are bought for the summer and the pool is in great shape.
Speaking of shape, I haven’t lost any more weight. 
But I am continuing at least 4 days a week in the gym and I’m able to do more on all of the machines than I was at the beginning of the month. so irregardless to me is the weight right now. At least I know I am getting healthier which was probably the #1 goal. But to help with the weight loss. I’ve just bought EA Sports Active for the Wii, and I plan to start their 30 day challenge today. Wish me luck and trying to keep up. I’ve had it a few days and hesitated starting it because I’m so tired some days and if we travel/vacation I’m not home to do the 30 days, but realistically, that’s my life all the time so I figured I might as well start today.
That’s our life right now. Busy? Of course….but still good. Keep us updated on your lives. We miss everyone.
Posted by Kimberly on 07.02.2009 at 12:06 pm// Tagged: Oddballs , activities, exercise, parenting, Personal, summer, weight loss //
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I have to confess. I haven’t cleaned out my junk mail folder in over a month! I use gmail for my email, but I download it through Outlook. This means that anything that Google stops in the junk folder doesn’t make it to my Outlook inbox. I usually login to webmail and sort through it, but I seem to have gotten out of the habit! So if you’ve emailed me lately, and I didn’t reply, maybe it was because I just discovered your email! I’m so sorry. Because there was definitely a lot of valid personal emails and some requested “advertisement” emails and review emails (like diet pill reviews and News Alerts).
On a positive note though, I’ve lost 6 pounds in the last 2 weeks, Becka’s finished her 2 weeks of training on the job and was an “official” employee yesterday.
Posted by Kimberly on 06.23.2009 at 6:09 pm// Tagged: Personal , email, junk mail //
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I left this one off my list, but sometime in this busy summer, there has to be a vacation, but with things so busy, I’ve decided that it might be a little costlier, but I think we are all going to have our own vacations. (Nope, no Orlando vacations this year as we are planning on TWO Disney cruises next year). I will be going to Chicago for BlogHer. Cameron’s class went to Moody Gardens for a few hours for their field trip this year and she loved it and wants to go back, so I think when she and I both have 2 to 3 consecutive days off, I’ll load up her and we’ll do a quick Galveston trip, and Becka wants to go to A & M Corpus so I want to take her to Corpus to vacation and see the campus (and visit with them to know deadlines and tips). With her work schedule, this one may not happen until school starts. But add planning vacations around our schedules and making them work to our busy summer schedule.
Posted by Kimberly on 06.16.2009 at 7:28 am// Tagged: Vacation //
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So summer is officially in full swing around here and life is super busy – this goes against the laws of nature around here – being a teacher, I’m off with the girls and June and July are supposed to be our lazy months! But not this year! Everyone is so busy.
I’m working two jobs, trying to do lesson plans for my new teaching assignment next year, exericising,and summer house cleaning. Becka’s working and taking 11 college hours this summer, and Cameron is taking dance and twirling lessons along with participating in the library’s summer reading program. The only lesson I didn’t sign her up for was piano. I thought about trying to convince her how fun it would be to learn to play piano, but I decided life was just too busy.
So what’s suffering? My blogging and my rewards programs. I have decided that I have to find a way to squeeze in just a little more. I’m not sure where, but I miss everyone in my forums and here on my blog. I miss reading your blogs, and I miss earning some money over at my reward site. So….after I have Dish Network installed today (DirecTV and I had it out after being a 10 year customer), I’m going to be around here slowly getting back into my online life! I’ve got a few things I’d like to post about (I still keep a list even if I don’t come around much) so I may be posting random posts, playing catchup, off and on today!
Posted by Kimberly on 06.16.2009 at 7:12 am// Tagged: Oddballs //
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Just wanted to take a minute to touch base. It’s storming here and so my Internet is coming and going, but Becka’s interview went great (apparently) as she is now employed! She texted me to let me know they hired her at the end of the interview. That will make summer even busier as we only have one vehicle but it will be worth it for her to have a job. I’m hoping it works out for the best for her. I’ll be sharing more soon about her new job. But wanted to come and share now.
Posted by Kimberly on 06.03.2009 at 4:41 pm// Tagged: Parenting Issues , employment, parenting //
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