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musings, cats, food, photos, videogames

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The photos of me in a white shirt are from a few weeks before I started at Craic, then before and after photos from last summerish, and the hottie in the bottom rights are from a few days ago. #ilovemirrorselfies

I’ve been holding off on posting this for a few days for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, because my husband posted a set of photos of his progress last week with the most touching essay along with it. Im talking tears, people! I was never good at writing essays, and I feel like Jake couldn’t have shown better progress or said it any better. I’m so freaking proud of him.

The other reason is I have a love/hate relationship with those old photos. When I look at them, I don’t even see myself. Actually, I am somewhat embarrassed. I see how ugly my relationship was with food and exercise and it makes me angry that I spent the majority of my life in that spell. Well, the spell is over!!! No, I don’t like reliving how I looked in those photos, but I love seeing how far I’ve come.

Granted, I lost 25lbs, not 50 or 100. It’s not an incredible amount of weight, but when I had it, it sure weighed heavy on my head. Taking control of my health has given me a new identity. I have new direction, new goals, new future. Not to mention, I have a stud muffin husband that is with me on this 100%.

Come at me!

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Getting at it

Greetings from Germany.  I'm about to head out to visit Crossfit Cologne and do a WoD with them.  My body has no idea what time it is and I'm still a little out of it, so I'm just going to go light with the weight and be careful.  I also have to think about what the conversion of kilos to pounds will be for me :)

Before I left, I went to the Sunday morning class at Craic.  The WoD was a 10 minute AMRAP - 5 kettlebell cleans (left and right), 7 kettle bell goblet squats, and 20 double unders.  I went light-ish at 26# and scaled to 10 DU.  I am a little bit tired from combatting a cold and didn't want to over do it before I was about to hop on a flight across the Atlantic. My hands were really slippery because of the sweat which made the KB hard to handle.  I struggled through this mentally and physically.  Total score: 6.

Okay, off to get at it in German style.  Wish me luck.

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I think Hobo looks like an owl in this one.

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This is my friend's new kitty, Bella.  She is sleepy.

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Henry, short for Jack Henry James. He was the runt of the litter. I'm in love.

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One More Resolution - Posture

Very simple one to state, but hard to do ... have better posture.  The days of my grandmother telling me to "sit up straight" and "stop slouching" are coming to haunt me as I ended up in a vocation which requires a lot of time in front of a computer or sitting in chairs in meetings.  Or flying on airplanes.  It's one that I'll actively have to think about, but I think in the end, worth it.

My fabulous friend, Michaela Foulkes, just did a talk on posture and how it affects the relationship with your body. "Most people don't know what good feels like...or the absence of bad..." Take a gander at her talk below at the PechaKucha Night in Providence, RI.  In addition, if you're living in the area, I highly recommend her services.  She is an excellent masseuse and really understands the body. Check her out at Still Point Massage.

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I was having a good hair / make-up day. Thought I'd share. Happy New Year to all!

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Two of my most fave actors on the planet combining forces for awesome.

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My Precious

I love watches.  I collect watches as well. I saw this watch at Louis Vuitton and instantly fell in love.  The catch?  It's $9,400.  Well above my budget.  The beauty can be found HERE.  I can't get it out of my mind.  You should just start calling me Gollum.  Who knew a watch could consume my thoughts?

"My Precious" the Louis Vuitton Tambour Chronograph Lovely Cup - With Diamonds can be seen below:

It's beautiful, and look amazing on me.  Someday, I'll make it big and buy this for myself.

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And it just keeps coming...

Oh my goodness.  The story just keeps getting better.  Love the investigative work of the gaming press and the power of the internet.  Seriously, everyone ... let this be a lesson learned.

Kotaku Article:

Cut Paul "@OceanMarketting@OceanStratagy" a Break - He Might Just Have Roid Rage [Updated]

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Penny Arcade v. Ocean Marketing - An Update

The flame wars between Ocean Marketing and Penny arcade have progressed and spread like fire all over the interwebs.  But there is one thing we shouldn't forget.  Despite Ocean Marketing's craptastic customer service and the behavior of Paul What's His Face, the Avenger (the controller in question) is actually doing good for disabled kids.  See the link by clicking HERE.  If you buy one, don't do it through Ocean Marketing...but don't let Ocean Marketing's shitty actions diminish the good that the Avenger is doing.  The only mistake that was made by N-Control was that they hired Ocean Strategy.  It was a mistake and hopefully they are servering ties from them (that's the rumo on the interweb).

Also, Penny Arcade posted an update on the saga HERE.  I agree with Gabe / Mike that he's not sorry, he's sorry he got caught and called out publicly.  I don't really care that he didn't believe that Mike was indeed Gabe from Penny Arcade.  Even if it was Joe Schmoe, his behavior is unacceptable.  I hope that Paul learned his lesson.  I think he's now finding that he's essentially a pariah in the industry.  It will be interesting to see what happens when Ocean Marketing and Paul actually goes to trade shows and tries to do more within the video game industry.  I, for one, am staying tuned...  

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As said on the title of the article, "Just wow..."  I

The customer service for Ocean Marketing (@OceanMarketting) - < yes, that's two T's> was an epic fail and extend your ass-clownery towards Penny Arcade was just full of fail.  

Not the customer experience you as a company should ever want to provide and definitely not the video game outlet that you'd want to piss off and insult.  I hope that this serves as a lesson learned for Ocean Marketing. They get better, do better and make this right.  Serving up lawsuits for publicly outing their shitty customer service a consumer received and a disrespectful email thread to Penny Arcade makes me think the contrary.  

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It's not the new year

Looking back at my New Year's Resolution post about eating healthier and then topping it with a picture of an amazing double double from In N Out is a bit of a contradiction. I get that. But it's not 2012 yet and we are in Las Vegas. Great food and great times!

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First day in Vegas. (Taken with instagram)

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Miss my West Coast fast food. Double double deliciousness! (Taken with instagram)

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Resolutions

I'm usually not one to make new year's resolutions, but I think that I just might this year.  Here are my thoughts on what I'm trying to do.

(1) Eat healthier.  I'm not going to go hog wild and ban all bad foods.  That's unreasonable and fodder for fail.  So I'm going to limit greatly the amount of processed, fried, sugary foods that I normally would eat and replace it with some healthier options.  I need to start taking better care of myself.  Also, with the time that I'm hitting the gym, I'd rather lose weight than just balance out the crap that I'm eating.  Seems like a waste.

(2) Exercise more consistently. So this is kind of a half-ass resolution, as I'm already working towards working out more and exercising on a more regular basis.  But I should just put it up here to keep myself accountable about working out.  I guess a better set of workout resolutions would be to: (a) Run at least three 5K's in 2012 and (b) Run the 2012 Beach to Beacon (which is a 10K).

(3) Become more disconnected.  Sounds like a weird resolution, but overall, I'm too addicted to social networking.  I check Facebook and Twitter constantly.  I check-in via Foursquare.  It's too much and I need to start doing other things, like read books and hang out with my friends without checking my phone all the time.  I can't even articulate why I actually do these things all the time, but I'm going to make a conscious effort to be a bit more distanced from social networking. I think it's been causing a modern-day version of adult ADD.  At least it has for me.

(4) Blog more. About exactly what?  I'm not sure.  But I need to update this damn blog more.  Maybe this will turn into a website about my upcoming Pet Photography business.

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Happy Holidays, everyone!