Operation Tubetop

Well hello everybody! I hope you all had an amazing Christmas! I definitely did but if you heard wailing coming from the 4th district this morning, that was me, getting on the scale. I don't really beat myself up for putting weight on over Christmas but I seem to treat Christmas eating as an Olympic sport... and yes, the games last over 2 weeks. As of yesterday, I am back to the grind in terms of working out and I am definitely not throwing my face into a bag of chocolate or melting cheese on everything... right now. I figured I had my time of nutso eating and now I need to focus on making better life choices. Also, in exactly a month I will be heading to the Science Ball and I do not want to look like I ate me in the pictures. Speaking of the ball, my dress arrived and it does seem to fit but I would like it to make me look fit so there's a goal. Or I think about Spanx... full body Spanx. Christmas was definitely lovely this year. On the 21st was my last day of work. The p

Well hello Friday! FINALLY! It's been a bit of a busy week and we are coming up to the last weekend before Christmas. CRAZY! I still have a little bit of shopping to do but otherwise I am done! Hurray! Of course, I am nervously awaiting some gifts being mailed but I have faith in ye olde postal service. I am also incredibly naive. This weekend is going to be another crazy one filled with Christmas joy. Tonight I am going to a Bulgarian restaurant for a friend's birthday. I don't think I have ever had Bulgarian food but based on the menu online, there seems to be a lot of meat and I will be fine. Tomorrow morning is the Santa event at Hard Rock Cafe for kids with special needs. It should be pretty amazing and I am so happy that we could do this again this year. I did, however, on Wednesday night have had a bit of break down due to a last minute cancellation. I cannot go into details but I did not sleep most of the night and the word "vengeance" may or may not have

Well I had a whole thing written out about politics but we just had a talk at work about avoiding politics so I decided to delete my paragraphs. But... I think it is pretty clear about how I feel about a certain vote that happened somewhere yesterday. I think that a marginalized group of people should receive incredible praise for doing what they are doing and for dealing with so much crap and so, here is a gif to sum it all up. Thank you. You will be changing the world. And I will do my best to support you. So... what's new? Well you can hear all about my cray cray weekend of yore on the latest podcast episode which you can find  here . A huge huge thank you to C.B. for one of the biggest surprises of my life. Here is the picture of the card (if you didn't see it online) and as I said, I totally cried. It was amazing. I have decided that in the new year I will try and set it up and kind of put everything that I do together on one site: my blog, my merch, my adventures

Well hello Wednesday! If you listened to last week's podcast, you would have heard about my 24 day challenge. I am happy to say that I have already completed a couple of them and tonight I will be checking off Bridget Jones off my list. I am trying my darndest to get into the holiday spirit and it is kind of working. Below is the list and if you want more of an explanation of each challenge, you are going to have to check out my podcast. Sorrryyyy... There is still a lot to do and I have more presents to buy. I am about to ship a big old box off to Canada for my family. I did decide to not ship a bazillion books as I usually do at Christmas time. Books are heavy, mail is expensive so it is not a good idea, Tova. In other news, we had a parent teacher conference on Monday night and it wasn't great but it wasn't bad. Let's just say that one of his after school providers showed up with a bandaged arm. Our hearts broke a little. You can hear all about it tomorrow on th