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Simple Treats (Share Your Favorites) Keep Them Simple
For a really simple treat, I like to pick and wash seedless grapes, pat them dry with a paper towel and then freeze them. Frozen grapes make a really wonderful cool sweet treat. Try it. You'll see. Now, what are your favorite simple treats? Remember, keep them simple.
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Annular Solar Eclipse Singularity, did you see it?
This is the upside down reversed image captured off the lens flare of my camera. Pretty cool! Anyone else see anything (besides sunspots LOL).. No singularity in El Paso TX, just a crescent. Still cool though. Nasa Video here:…
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Annular Eclipse Singularity Viewable in Reno
In the late afternoon the annular eclipse will be viewable in it's singularity from Reno. Everywhere else get to see a crescent. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=14483&media_id=143918651&module=homepage Let me know what you see. >Rob
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I'd Rather DIE Than Give Up...
I LOVE CHEESE! But I'm finding that as I grow older, I'm becoming more lactose intolerant. Suggestions anyone? I'd almost rather die than give up cheese. (and BACON) What can you not live without?
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Enjoying Pizza and Still Losing Weight
I love pizza night, and like some of you, cut way back to once or twice every two months. I try and keep it low carb by going to an all-you-can-eat buffet, starting with salad, and then only eating the toppings. The manager was getting upset at me for "wasting" all the crust. I said, "Okay, make me a crust-less pizza." He…
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The Lazy Man's Calorie Burn - Or, do extra chores count???
I'm not usually one to count "extra chores" as calories burned. However, I don't normally prune my palm trees as part of my "daily activity" and I had to do it with a hand saw (arrgh! the pain!). I have no idea how many calories that burns but found this article: here -->…
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A NEW WAY TO EAT CHEESECAKE AND NOT GET FAT!
Forbidden! http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/GabrielMaestas/view/forbidden-232111
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Ever Notice How...
"I love how the Internet has improved people's grammar far more than any English teacher has. If you write "your" instead of "you're" in English class, all you get is a red mark. Mess up on the Internet, and may God have mercy on your soul."
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Girls are meant to have curves
Girls are meant to have curves. Last night my wife was all excited looking in the mirror she said, "I got curves now!". I said, "Honey you've always had curves." She replied, "Yes, but they curve the other way now!" She started out a size 22 and now she's a perfect '10'. :laugh: :wink:
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Metabolic Mayhem and the Schedule from Hell
Here's a question for all you health & fitness gurus out there: What is the optimal proximity of caloric consumption to caloric burn? Said another way, how soon before or after my cardio workout do I have to consume my exercise calories? I used to go all day eating minimally and then late in the evening (between 6 PM -…
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Cowboys and Aliens or Planet of the Apes?
Recommendations anyone?
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Mental Image vs. Reality
How do you cure mental relapse where one day you look and feel great and are excited about the new skinny jeans and the next day you look in the mirror and all you see is the fat person? I know that sometimes for me even going back and looking at old vs. new photos can help but some days even the new photos still look fat.…
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Acupressure Therapist Shares Ancient Chinese Secret...
Has anyone noticed or documented the effect of when you go to bed on your general feeling of health, vitality and well being? My Chinese acupressure massage therapist tells me it isn't getting 6+ hours of sleep that is important, it's getting to bed by 10pm and being asleep by 11pm for 6+ hours of sleep that supports the…
