1.31.2012

Abs of Steel

I've been on the 3 Week Ab Plan for 3 weeks now and the results, my friends, are incredible.
What is the 3 Week Ab Plan, you ask? Well, first let me show you the results...

BEFORE

AFTER


I know, the results are hard to believe. I wouldn't believe it either if it weren't for the fact that my washer just broke down and I have had to do all of my laundry by hand with my abs doubling as a washboard. 

The 3 Week Ab Plan is simple. 
Why spend hours at the gym and count calories 
when you can just cough your way to better abs in 21 days?

I'm not talking about a petite cough or clearing of, what Nate likes to call it,  lung cookies. I'm talking about coughing so hard you might cough up a lung... or a kidney... or if you were pregnant, a baby. 

A cough so hard that it forces you to dry heave on the floor since there's no baby to throw up.

A hacking cough, where coughing without crossing your legs is just as dangerous as being a woman who has birthed multiple children jumping on a trampoline. 

A cough that is so intense it throws your back out rendering your body useless (true story).

I realize I'm not painting you very pretty picture, but folks let face it, just like crying or yawning, there's no attractive way to cough.

No worries to all my fellow germaphobes out there. I've been on an antibiotic for a few days now and I'm pretty sure I'm not contagious via blogging.

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1.09.2012

Defying Logic & Reason

I did it! I finally finished off the jar of candy cane almonds that's been sitting in my cupboard... taunting me... each minute... of each day. And now I have finally rid myself of its minty, chocolaty, almond temptation.

For some reason I think that faster I eat it, the better off I'll be. All my friends on Facebook said I should just throw it away (insert audible gasp here). My parents did me an injustice when they taught me not to waste my food. But really, you don't understand, these were really good.



Now, all I have to show for that empty container of candy cane almonds is
an extra 4 pounds and an exciting new toy for my dog to play with.

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1.02.2012

We New Years Eve-ed

How about a little dodge ball with your New Years celebration? 
Yes, please.


This was my family's after-breakfast entertainment portion for New Years eve.

Everyone joined in...
brother in-laws, sisters, nieces, nephews,
the young, and the moderately old.

One goal... to win.
The second... show no mercy.

It was intense.

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The evening portion of our night consisted of
pizza, home-made empanadas, hanging out with my brother's family,
playing games, turning the clock back two hours, watching the live feed of NY Time Square,
and tricking the kids into thinking they stayed up 'til twelve.

I have no guilt.

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Now the tree is taken down, the stockings are put away, and I'm ready for the new year to begin!