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It’s been two weeks since I’ve gotten myself together enough to plan and post a menu for this week. I need a plan or else I either won’t eat or eat the stuff that doesn’t make me feel good overall.         Sunday: Vegetable Bean soup Monday: Salmon (again), roasted asparagus, sweet potatoes. …

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I have made this so many times over the past many years. In fact, my first time to make salmon involved some maple and soy sauce. It was good…but not as good as I made it now. I had actually forgotten all about the magic of maple soy with salmon until  my mother made some …

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About 3 months ago, a girl in our morning CrossFit class mentioned she was working with the Junior League of Tuscaloosa on an upcoming event. She said it would be dragon boat racing. And I immediately thought of this. And this sounded like something I need to do once in my lifetime. Row a huge …

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This one has nothing to do with running. Or food. Or being healthy. This is strictly life-casting. I’ve been stuck for the past few days on what to blog about and the only thing that has been on my mind in the past year and what our town has done to rebuild after last year’s …

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This was a disaster. Short version-I finished on two legs. And my time was slower than my last trail half in Colorado with hefty elevation. I’m not cut out for beach races. Long version: I woke up with burning skin, dry throat, and a way too full stomach from the night before. I had a …

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We are here!!! We rolled into Pensacola just in time to grab a sunset picture. Getting packed for the beach should be easy, right? We had food. . . . ….and that’s about all we had. When we got halfway there, we realized we had left the chairs, sunscreen, his toiletry bag, and towels at …

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It feels stupid making posts knowing that until whatever was wrong was fixed, I couldn’t post them. I finally worked in the dungeons of HTML and got it all fixed. WordPress is great..but sometimes it likes to make me feel like a bumbling idiot. I refused to seek professional help (for the tech problems or …

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Stephen finally broke down and bought some Christmas trees. 11 of them. When we moved in 6 years ago, there was very little privacy landscaping. And we knew we didn’t want fence in the back yard but we wanted something to make it a little more private. He’s of the mindset that it’s his yard, …

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~ I’m lost. Tired. Sleepy. And another day of “Silence!….” for Kindergarten. We have a testing grade next to us and we actually share a very large room because there are two doors dividing us. So we have to be so quiet. I can’t teach in my normal voice. The kids are trying to stifle …

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A few years ago, we began paying a big hefty payment to Sallie Mae each month for my student loans. I spent 5 full years (summers too) and walked away with 2 degrees and they were not cheap. When we refinanced the house, we found some shenanigans with Sallie Mae. I’ve known for awhile that …

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~ Day off! We didn’t get Good Friday, but we got Good Monday..which makes no sense but I’ll take it! ~ Going to doctor to hear some good news, I hope! On one hand, I want to hear “you’ve done great!” with keeping my glucose levels down. On the other hand, I don’t think everything …

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It’s a beautiful day! We are going to the lake to take on another 14 mile hike. Colorado is only about 8 weeks away and we need to get in more long distances. I’ve got my garmin and fitbit charged, but I forgot to buy another camelbak for my hiking pack. Last time, I ran …

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