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Wikipedia needs you.

Kelley — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:45:07 +0000

Yes, it indeed is a world of economic recession. Yes, none of us are secure in our jobs. Yes, we still turn for the internet for information of all kinds. And yes, Wikipedia needs your help to sustain it’s efforts in providing honest to goodness information. If you’ve ever used Wikipedia to understand something, to solve and disagreement, to prove your point via link, or if you simply like this idea, then you really should help them continue to provide the exceptional, ad-free, information portal since 2001. Even if it’s only a few bucks, they appreciate whatever you feel the site and information you get is worth. They aren’t greedy.

Click the button below to give back what you’ve taken… so they can give you more. Get it? Great!

BOLTS JOLT COLTS!

Kelley — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:11:55 +0000

This literally says it all:

I rest my case.

Facelift? But I’m only 36!

Kelley — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:18:39 +0000

*giggle* All kidding aside, I will be making several GUI mods over the next few days/weeks. I won’t take the site offline again as I see my stats are doing pretty well since the relaunch… so please bare with me. Just wanted to let you know!

Ok, for real… good night now!

It’s 2009! Happy New Year!

Kelley — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:52:41 +0000

Well, all-in-all not a shabby start to the new year. The Dawgs pulled out a meager 24-12 win over the Michigan State something or others (insert mascot name here…) in today’s Capital One bowl. My Mom was in a FANTASTIC mood by the time I left… which sadly, is uber rare! The only not-so-good thing about January 1, was that I allowed my Mom to convince me to being “bad”… but after all, it is New Year’s Day. It only happens once a year and it was fun and worth the sacrifice! By “bad” I mean already breaking my new way of eating, but that’s okay… the good thing is I’ve been on the horse long enough to know I WANT saddle back up tomorrow. For once in quite some time, I have sustaining motivation to continue pushing on to my goal weight.

The truly “bad’ thing was that Bubby was quite sick tonight. I was pretty sure that it was going to be another trip to the emergency room with him… for fortunately, he just ate too much and ate it too fast. So, while I absolutely cannot handle puke, I’ll take that over having my poor little guy go through another rectal “procedure”. I would do just about anything in exchange for him to never experience that kind of pain and agony again. Sometimes, only sometimes, it’s really heartbreaking to be a Mother.

Tomorrow is my first day back in the office since December 19th… and believe it or not, I’m looking forward to it. I’ve already finished the hand sketched wire frames I was asked to create and emailed them this evening. Though I do have to admit, I’m glad it’s just one day… and then two more off! I like to be eased back into the everyday routine.

Even though today’s diet had nothing to do with my modified Somercizing routine, I’m going to do a high level journal of what my food/beverage intake was. For breakfast, regular coffee with fat free cream with eggs and low fat sausage scramble. Lunch… this is where it was fun!…. Lumpfish caviar with lowfat cream cheese atop garlic Melba toast. Smoked salmon also with the same cream cheese and Melba toast. Followed by several glasses of Korbel Extra Dry and a bit of yummy smoked Gouda cheese. No snacks… obviously! Dinner entailed a small jar of artichoke spread over reduced fat Triscuits, a beer and two glasses of Bonterra Chardonnay. So, there it is… my confession to my internet priest.

Goodnight everyone… must be up fairly early in the morning.

Chronicling my Progress

Kelley — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:27:35 +0000

As noted in a previous blog (that was destroyed with an attack on my server… bastards!), I will be checking in daily to keep myself accountable for my weight loss progress. In keep with that, here is what I did yesterday:

~~ Breakfast ~~

Two tangelos
24oz. of water with fresh squeezed lime

~~ Snack ~~

Two individually wrapped portions of pepper jack cheese

~~ Lunch ~~

Medium sized portion of cocktail shrimp with butter (believe it or not, yes, I can have butter!!!)
24oz. water with fresh squeezed lime

~~ Dinner ~~

Grilled Chicken Strips atop of a blend of greens, capote capers with an Newman’s Own Olive Oil & Vinegar dressing
Glass of Penfold’s Cabernet Savignon

~~ Snack ~~

Sugar-free vanilla pudding (individually portioned)
Six Reduced Fat Triscuits

~~ Exercise ~~

15-ish minutes on the Urban Rebounder

I’m waiting to get my DVD-RW back from my Mom so that I can do Yoga at home… I’m also awaiting my Gold’s Gym packet so I can either workout at lunch or on the weekends. I just found out I have a Gold’s extremely close to my house!!

That’s it for this chickee… Happy New Year’s Eve everyone….

Buh bye 2008.

Kelley — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:14:41 +0000

2008 was the “Year of the Rat” according to Chinese Astrology. Fortunately, I am considered a “Rat” (enter silly pun here)… which helped make it an overall damned good year. I landed my dream job in web design, found a new home where I could fence in the backyard, and have had notable financial success despite that of the taking of the economy. While I’m sure most people around the country (maybe even the world) will be quite pleased to say Adieu to 2008, I, however, will be sad to see it go. It’s been many years since my personal and professional success has seen such a fabulous year.

That said, there’s absolutely nothing I can do about stopping 2009 from entering the picture. So, with that I’ve decided to embrace it and hope that the “Year of the Ox” is just as good.

Happy New Year everyone!