Tag: teppenyaki
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I Choose to Button! (March 5, 2013)
At Thanksgiving I wore a long tunic-style jacket with tuxedo ruffles. It was sharp. I looked good. I had a really fun shirt. The tunic hung open and showcased my great jewelry. I was stylin’! This past Sunday I was dressing for church and I pulled out the same jacket, mostly because I had nothing…
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I Choose to Post the Heart Monitor Results (March 3, 2013)
Today I did Zumba Rush on the Kinect. After a vigorous workout on “short class,” it told me that I burned 467 calories. I recently invested in a heart monitor, which I was attached to during said workout. The heart monitor said I only burned 255 calories. Do you know how badly I wanted to…
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Chocolate Chip Cookies with BUTTER!!! (February 28, 2013)
Uh-oh! She fell off the wagon. Nope, she didn’t. She just decided that baking chocolate chip cookies is better than eating the whole batch. Bake them. Plate them. Give them away. There is joy in shared calories!!
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I Choose to Make My Traveling Snacks (February 24, 2013)
Long day coming up. A fazillion basketball games mixed with doc appointments and errands. DRIVE THROUGH!! MCDONALD’S!!! No. I will not succumb! I will bring our food. Oh, I hate doing that. For you moms of many or moms of just a few with big stomachs, it’s like cooking and packing Thanksgiving dinner and all…
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I Choose Prayer
I Choose Prayer (February 23, 2013) Remember in the Sound of Music when Maria says, “Oh, help,” when she first beholds the von Trapp estate in all its glory? That’s how I feel about my days, hours, minutes sometimes. I love Ethnic Man, the spawns, our home, and all of the blessings associated; it’s an…
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I Choose to Forgive Myself (February 22, 2013)
My cravings came at the tail end of the cycle this time. Don’t you hate that?! You think you’ve conquered the beast and the beast sneaks up from behind and smacks you in the head with a box of Girl Scout cookies (which, by the way, I will not be buying again because they just…
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I Choose to Buff My Armor (February 21, 2013)
Merriam-Webster defines buff as to polish or shine. I have some dents in my armor. Oxymoronically, my physical dents are blubbery in nature. Pregnancy and Oreos can do that. Some (all!) of us have other dents…the kind that others can’t see as easily as obesity. These are the dents in our hearts. Some self-inflicted, most…
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I Choose What Data Influences Me and When! (February 20, 2013)
This is to all the ladies. When you have a great week working out and mind the calories and such and the scale affirms your accomplishment, you may celebrate that achievement for 2 weeks if you’d like. Yes, we’re gonna get personal, but sometimes you gotta be real. If your visitor is due to visit…
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I Choose Rest Over Legalism (February 19, 2013)
Tomorrow is my day off from workouts. Thing is, I didn’t work out today. And I’ve decided not to. Tomorrow is the busiest runaround, have everyone there on time or bust day of our week. I need to be sane or I get cranky. My kids don’t need cranky. I don’t need cranky. Ethnic Man…
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Take Your Neighbor’s Stuff (February 18, 2013)
Today’s choice was to take my neighbor’s stuff. Let’s back up now. So far you just know that I’ve committed to make one healthy choice each day for 69 days as a birthday gift to my dad. Subsequent posts will give more of the backstory, but today’s story must be shared. My past choices (I’m…
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Who Are the People in Your Family? (February 12, 2013)
Remember that song from Sesame Street? Well, I don’t tend to name names on my blog. I’m going to update the names of my family, with a brief explanation. Stephanie: That’s me. But with a blog at a link with my name, kind of hard to hide. Ethnic Man is y Awesome Husband whose coworker told…
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The Power of Choice (February 9, 2013)
We enjoyed a fabulous vacation to Georgia over the Thanksgiving holiday at the end of 2012. While enjoying our extended family over a robust meal at Stone Mountain, my aunt MC-ed a little game. As we came into the dining room, we each wrote 3 things for which we were thankful and placed our piece…