…it was a good weekend.

Thursday: Terrific dinner with good company.  Then off to join friends for dessert and more good company.
Friday: Joined a friend at a women’s spa with various hot tubs, cold pool, saunas, and so on.
Saturday: Got my hair highlighted.  Then I dug out a velvet skirt, a satin tank top, and a shawl my grandmother made [...]

Happy Thanksgiving…

…to those of you in the US; a belated Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in Canada :)   The man of the house is cooking.  I’ve scrubbed the floors, put away, dusted, and so on.
I hope everyone has something to be thankful for today :)

Yoga Videos & Books I have known

I started doing yoga in college with Raquel Welch’s book on yoga.1 Even then I found yoga relaxing and energizing.  It also helped me improve my strength & flexibility.
Years later I wanted to try yoga again, but, remembering how I’d had no idea how to modify some poses, I looked for something more tailored to [...]

Why I Should Go to Yoga Tonight…

… even though I’m probably going to want to skip it just on general “it’s my Monday I want to go home and collapse already” reasons.
More than 1,000 studies have been conducted to determine whether yoga helps people suffering diseases. Here’s a sample from the medical literature:
Depression: Patients diagnosed with depression showed significant reductions in [...]

Day in the Life: Road Trip and Finding Clothing

The man of the house was at a conference this weekend a couple hundred miles away.  On a whim, I hopped in my car Saturday morning to go surprise him.  Assuming I could spend the night, I’d packed an overnight bag: undies, socks, shirt, CPAP.  I could always wear my pants a second day, right?
Oops.
About [...]

Big Fat Pleasures

“Sex is fun and pleasure is good for you” – I first read this in a book on relationships and thought that was a great idea … well, in theory at least.  Or maybe for other people.   I was fat, after all, so sex partners are hard to find, right?  And I still wasn’t all [...]

Is fat hysteria damaging?

Well, now, let’s think about this. Besides the negative affects of weight bias, besides the negative effects of the resulting stress, besides the fact that trying to lose weight often results in gaining more, there’s this little gem:
[I]n one 1960s test, when hospital patients were given sugar water and told it would make them [...]

Day in the Life: Yoga Night

[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.]
Tonight was yoga night.  After work I go into an empty, industrially-carpeted room of the local community college with my yoga mat, blocks, and strap.  We always end with laying down and a brief guided meditation.  What varies is almost everything in between.  Sure, we [...]

Medical Records Out My Ears…

[One of the occasional series of posts about my typical day.]
Or, Annual Physical update the 2nd (and hopefully final :)
What I didn’t mention before was that the day of my annual I was near the tail end of my period.  It wasn’t bad enough that we couldn’t do my pap smear (yes, this 400lb 42-year-old [...]

This week’s Cathy

The comic strip Cathy debuted in 1976.  I was 10 years old and just starting to read newspapers on my own.  It was often the only image of a professional, self-reliant young woman I saw, and not just on the comics page.  Sometimes she was unsure about how to proceed, but she never moved back [...]

It wasn’t intentional…

…Ellie suggested I use a fixed-width scheme. So I looked for one that had 3 columns, and would let me customize the header, and … ended up with the same one Shapely Prose has.
Hee?

Fun on the Bus

Or not.
Yesterday morning, 7:48am, I’m wondering when the 7:45am bus will arrive. Or was it really a 7:45am bus?  The stop I was at has a big board listing all the expected arrival times for all the buses.  So I’m standing there, right next to the stop, double-checking the time my bus was arrive – [...]