PROVERBS31JULIA's SparkPeople Blog

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:58:30 EST

PROVERBS31JULIA I realized in therapy a week or so ago that a reason why I turned to food for self-medication was because most 8-17 year old kids don't have access to bars and money to buy booze...liquor might be quicker, but candy was dandy, ice cream was on my team, and I could bake a cake without anyone knowing it was just gonna help me get stoned on the sugar and chocolate and caramelized butter!! I could huff it all day and no one knew why.

In the immortal and likely imm...

I saw a horse today, oh boy!

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:47:17 EST

I'm kinda of loosely humming the intro to "A Day in the Life" - I think it is? the Beatles song that starts off "I read the news today, oh boy" something like that....

I saw a horse today, oh hey!
I saw it walking on the road today.
It turned around and looked at me,
Well, I just had to laugh—
And then I made the video

ooooooooohhhh

twitpic.com/cwpvkv

He watched me park the car;
He didn't pay an...

Complementary Proteins

Fri, 7 Jun 2013 00:46:23 EST

I fixed a pot of black eyed peas the other day - soaked them earlier and they cooked in the crockpot all night long and were basically perfect today. I just needed to season them - put in about a tablespoon of ghee for the entire crockpot full (I probably have 3-4 quarts of beans in it, all cooked and yummy), shook in some of that Tony C .... someone's creole seasoning, comes in a green canister but I'm too lazy to go bring it here and type in the name... and some sea salt.

Wasn't...

Focus. Balance. Putting together the little parts.

Mon, 3 Jun 2013 19:34:16 EST

I saw a video and it occurred to me that the woman on this video was a physical embodiment of the little pieces we are trying to get back into our lives - the attention to the little details that gradually lead to a larger goal. The focus on these details - and balancing it all in our lives.

The Incredible Power Of Concentration - Miyoko Shida

www.flixxy.com/the-incredible-power-
of-concentration-miyoko-shida.htm#.UYd
oWODOdNY
...

Parody of "Ghostbusters" - "SparkPeople" (work in progress)

Tue, 28 May 2013 18:09:20 EST

(Background Story: So I decided to get up off my heine and jump on my rebounder, playing the "rebounder" playlist on my SparkPeople iPod Shuffle (I won it a long time ago.). One of the songs that came up on rotation was the "Ghostbusters" theme written by Ray Parker, Jr. It occurred to me that the words could be tweaked into a nice parody, utilizing SparkPeople themes. It's in a rough state now, and of course, I don't have a musical track of it with the new words, to make sure it really "soun...

Homework Assignment: Quick and Easy Meals.

Sun, 26 May 2013 17:50:38 EST

This is always tough for me, because what is quick and easy for me is not always what my DH and DS want to eat. And what's with the SparkPeople pop-out ads on the right side of my blog entry pop-out window??

Quick meals for me ---

Cans of beans - black beans, garbanzo beans, pinto beans, navy beans, black eyed peas - I am happy with beans for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Peanut Butter - must gotta be the kind that is basically ground up peanuts and a smidge o...

Please pray for those in Oklahoma tornado path!!

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:12:49 EST

Have many relatives, friends, and likely SparkOkies affected by tornados yesterday and today in Oklahoma!! I have friends just SW of Tulsa who are under tornado warning now until 5:15 CST, a few minute from now.

update: 51 dead in Oklahoma, but numbers are expected to rise...

www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5014
7187n
Shawnee? or the video of Moore, OK? there are several clips...

UPDATE:
Awesome News! One of my deaf friends about...

Please pray for those in Oklahoma tornado path!!

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:12:29 EST

SparkSolutions and other questions

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:20:37 EST

Reminder: Tomorrow is a rest day from your “Fitness That Fits”. Take that time to post a review to your SparkPeople blog about your progress so far and you’ll get 100 SparkPoints!*

Well obviously SparkPeople doesn't have access to a calendar of spiritual events, because this weekend is a Double Sabbath, so I have two rest days - Today is the weekly Seventh Day (Sabbath) rest. Tomorrow (Sunday) is a High Holy Day - Pentecost or Feast of Weeks.

Details: Post a blog on your...

Groovy Trippy Light Show Flower Child kind of thing... or Fractual Nerds?

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:14:01 EST

This has nothing to do with weight loss. Or eating right. Or exercising (other than the mind and/or eyeballs!!)...

I just got this email with a link to a website and I thought it was COOOOOL.

Here it goes:

This is really amazing!

And to think we use to have to hold it up to the light!

Remember the Kaleidoscope when we were kids?

This is really incredible! How amazing that someone could not only
create this, but make it to ...

I Like MOSTMOM1's (Shelli) WOO HOO cards!! Template Suggestion?!

Wed, 8 May 2013 20:22:55 EST

MOSTMOM1 recently had a videoblog about her WooHoo game...

www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_jo
urnal_individual.asp?blog_id=5320931

And of course, I haven't asked her yet (Shelli, are you reading this??) whether she made up a whole bunch of WooHoo cards all at once, or if she cuts each one out at the time she decides she has a WooHoo to write out and put into Captain WooHoo Jar.

But...I thought, hmmm maybe I could make a WooHoo card templ...

Stairs & FitBit

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:57:07 EST

Just walked up 10 flights of steps - up and downstairs on the stairs to my Mom's basement. Was just under 10 minutes under FitBit activity timer. But in SparkPeople activity tracker on my Iphone app, there is no listing for "climbing stairs" Mom's staircase has a slightly shallower "rise" for their steps (my step-dad built it to his specs and he had Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome and he couldn't lift his feet that high - so their staircase has 16 steps, not the usual 13-14 steps.). There is a ...

Nutrition and Healing

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:09:03 EST

I've been looking up some websites trying to find the transcript to a lecture I attended, to forward to some friends who were recently diagnosed with various mental disorders - one has schizophrenia, some others have bipolar and ADHD etc. So I am basically using this as my "notepad". I may be "NYD" on some sort of mental diagnoses as I am frequently called "crazy", and I do have various family members on both sides of my family with various diagnoses. However, ever since attending a seminar h...

DOMS muscle tax muscle fever muscle ache OUCH!

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:30:15 EST

So yesterday I did the monkey see monkey do thing on Coach Nicole's CardioBlast, clicking on number 6, the Cardio BootCamp, I think it was called... looked like something I could modify, and I did modify. Since I have a concrete floor, I wasn't too keen on jumping on it - so the jumpy exercises I just jumped on my rebounder and followed along best I could. For all I know, she was jabbering on about what to do to prevent DOMS but could I hear her?

So today I'm dyyyyying on the back ...

Iced

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:06:30 EST

I can't tell if we had hail damage to car, as It is covered with gloppy mounds of ice. I did have some excitement here about 30- 45 minutes go when I was upstairs in my bathroom and suddenly heard this whamming concussion type sound, like the house does when my son slams the front door shut...
Only....

My husband had already left to take our son to school. I had watched them leave from the front door, waved goodbye to my son. Then I had gone upstairs to the bathroom, when I ...

A Lesson From Passover: Bread Kills!!!!

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:33:06 EST

I did NOT know any of this, before it was discussed in services yesterday...

www.math.wichita.edu/~pparker/person
al/bread.htm

483 495 473 190 467 489 35 475

Article - 22 Things Happy People Do Differently

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:03:02 EST

I saw this WONDERFUL article link on a friend's Facebook page - and I knew I had to share it here. It came out later last year, but information is spot on - at least, they illustrates behaviors which I know I need to be doing. Many are points already covered elsewhere in SparkPeople. I'd run the whole thing here just in case the Internet was down and you couldn't open the browser...but the editors take a dim view of that sort of thing, even if I clearly announced that they were NOT my words, ...

HES Op Ed article by Linda Bacon, PhD

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:37:21 EST

I haven't fully absorbed the messages in this article. I just ordered the book mentioned late in the article, so hopefully it will arrive soon...

m.digitaljournal.com/article/345802

www.lindabacon.org/

www.nutritionj.com/content/10/1/9

The first one, the interview - it's fairly long! And I kept having the feeling she was lurking on SparkPeople, because a lot of what she says about focusing on our ...

article - Studies: Food memory may aid weight loss

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:34:58 EST

I read an article today, oh boy! Seems not only is writing down everything we wrote helpful for weight loss, but also remembering everything we ate!? There may be a point to that, as I'm really bad about reading the paper (!! urk !! like just now?! Quick - what was I eating for lunch just now when I was reading the newspaper? Hmmmm....)

So the article is "Studies: Food memory may aid weight loss" by Mary MacVean from the LA Times, just in case these links below don't work and...

Plz help us all - request CAPTION or SUBTITLE in newest DVD features survey! Thx

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:02:33 EST

Heads up, plz!! In today's "Insider" tab (Start Page), there is a link to a servey which is asking for input as what kind of dvd we want in the next one - and I personally don't care exactly what kinds of workouts they are - I just would like to see them captioned or subtitles for the deaf & hard of hearing, as well as for our international Sparkers who many not be native English speakers...

They give a couple of "write in your own comments" areas - one was asking for "name of DVD"...

Russell Brand and Me...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:44:49 EST

Re-read Beth Donovan's blog (
www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_jo
urnal_individual.asp?blog_id=5279296 ) about how she controls a binge. And a lot of parallels to a "user" of illegal ways of managing pain. I read an interesting article a couple of mornings ago...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/m
ar/09/russell-brand-life-without-drugs

While I am not particularly a fan of Mr. Brand's "public persona" as an actor and entertainer, I h...

Wet Naked Grandma Butt

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:03:24 EST

After reading James S Fell (Body For Wife)'s email, I got lost looking at various articles of his written in various online blogs...and learned an additional arguement for why everyone (men and women) should leave the toilet seat DOWN.

Not much here about how to exercise, or why, or other motivational information like I usually gain from Mr. Fell's blogs and articles. But sometimes laughter is a good motivator. Or just good for you.

www.chatelaine.com/healt...

Silly Fortune Cookie sayings from MahJong game...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:39:17 EST

Gave up "Bejeweled Blitz 2" off my iPhone for the run-up to Passover (not quite Lent but 40 days is 40 days whatever you believe!)... but then played a MahJong game, and discovered that it was spitting off funny, snarky, irreverent, or sometimes just strange "Fortune Cookie" type sayings after each game was completed. Here are a few of them that I was able to save, for your enjoyment:

"Clear, specific fortunes are better than vagueness, we suppose. Whatever."

"The ...

Man sheds 70 pounds walking in the yard

Tue, 5 Feb 2013 13:53:57 EST

Read an inspiring story of a man named Dave Palmer, in the newspaper today, so I'm sharing it with all of you!! Dave has Downs syndrome. He's literally taken steps - many of them - to help improve his weight and heart health!!

www.kansas.com/2013/02/04/2663684/ma
n-sheds-70-pounds-walking-in.html

I don't know if this man can be made an honorary member of SparkPeople in absentia, but maybe someone in Allentown, PA is a member here and can invite him!...

Stupor Bowl 2013

Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:10:43 EST

While TV analysts are busy psychoanalyzing the Supor Bowl and the impact of the power failure causing lights to go out, I thought I'd comment favorably on the things I did NOT eat...

I did not have any soda pop.
I did not have any hot dogs.
I did not have white hot dog buns.
I did not have a second bowl of chili.
I did mkt have a second bowl of "Pimped up Mac n Cheese" (my own creation and I can't tell you exactly what I did, other than add five or six other typ...

40% off - "Gold Box Deal of the Day: Up to 40% Off 90-Day Workout Essentials"

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:39:39 EST

I don't know if everyone who gets on Amazon.com gets to see the same Gold Box Deals, or if each Gold Box Deal is unique to the person who is looking at this page - but today I get this notice "Gold Box Deal of the Day: Up to 40% Off 90-Day Workout Essentials"

www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=x
s_gb_AZ5W5QW60LY7R?ie=UTF8&docId=10009
91521&pf_rd_p=441937901&pf_rd_s=right-
1&pf_rd_t=701&pf_rd_i=20&pf_rd_m=ATVPD
KIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0J6HNTSY15HRNVPDYNB6
...

Schizophrenia

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:23:03 EST

I'm not up for the backstory and drama.

Gonna be in crash course mode learning about Schizophrenia.

Drove 400+ miles yesterday from Abilene, TX back to Kansas.

(cue up Dorothy: "There's no place like home..." (3x) yada yada...)

I'm soooo tired.

A Sitting Test - which is a possible predictor of longevity.

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:42:46 EST

A sitting test which is a possible predictor of longevity...

fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/ar
chive/2013/01/25/sitting-rising-test.a
spx?e_cid=20130125_DNL_art_1&utm_sourc
e=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20130125

Pretty sure I won't be able to do well. Especially not now , after stressful day in Texas trying to deal with my dad's stuff. Plus I learned today that Medical staff are labeling him with a mental health issue... So don't...

which is a possible predictor of longevity.

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:41:37 EST

"There's More to Life Than Being Happy "

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:55:48 EST

I just saw the link to this article on the current issue of PostSecrets.com (which expires at 13 midnight well, 11:50, 4 minutes away, CST).

It's s long article. I need to re-read it.

m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/201
3/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-ha
ppy/266805/

List of B Vitamins and their "other names" - Manny, Moe, Jack, Niacin, Riboflavin etc.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:35:19 EST

In entering the nutritional information for a KIND bar today, I noticed how they had B vitamins listed as B1, B2, B3 etc. And of course, the SparkPeople nutritional listing is a capricious listing of B vitamins by their number (B6, B12) as well as B vitamins known by their other names - Niacin, Riboflavin etc. And of course, I can never remember which is which. Why SparkPeople can't just combine both number and name in the nutritional listing in one nice neat listing beats me. So in the inter...

Mid-Day Meditations - a video of nature

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:55:03 EST

There has been lots of stress in my life recently. Then this morning, I received a really nice letter from my sister-in-law - the one that was with my brother this past weekend taking the POA issues for our dad.

Then later, after starting up a pot of leek & veggie soup (I hope it turns out okay - I snuck some Vegemite into it for flavour and nutrition.), I read some more email. One I got from an long-time older family friend. He and his wife and kids have sheltered various ones of ...

Update on my dad...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:27:36 EST

So... a new chapter begins today.

My dad's wife got to a point where she couldn't handle dealing with my dad's issues, because of her own disability. So she told my brother that he or I had to take over as medical POA. Evidently she was clueless as to what was going on medically, even though she did have the power of attorney, because as soon as the paperwork was signed today, my brother found out that Dad hadn't been on this expensive chemo drug after all. That alleviates some of...

Cued Speech Videos

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 00:42:27 EST

What is Cued Speech?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9emmTMswkE&
feature=youtube_gdata_player

Learning Cued Speech?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9emmTMswkE&
feature

Cued Children's Stories
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0Fx6S8VLg&
feature=youtube_gdata_player

About the National Cued Speech Association
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AWfwjSqg4c&
feature=youtube_gdata_player

Hooray for Israel - Photoshop Law

Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:43:35 EST

Wow - The Nation of Israel is stepping out on the presentation of models who are entirely too thin - anorexic, below 18.5% BMI, etc - and also requires magazines fashion pages to disclose if any photoshopping was done to "trim off weight" from appearance of models pictures...

Here are just a couple articles - I'm sure more will be showing up as the law ripples through the fashion industry.

m.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/20
13/0104/Israel-tells-underweight-m...

Home. For now. Nothing really different ...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:49:56 EST

Dad's in the hospital still. Hospital wants him out. We're not filthy rich. He never filed any sort of power of attorney or other similar end of life paperwork. (note to self: do this!! SOON!).

The "wife" may not really be legally his wife....

The "girlfriend" is very helpful because she's been like the keeper of Dad's secrets the past 18 years or so. For a variety of reasons they never married...(different drama and not mine really to discuss.). But the "wife" of cours...

Abiliene, TX - my dad - cancers, POA, care homes, what to do!?

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:33:41 EST

Arrrgh been typing about being here in Abilene and went to get this link and now my blog is gone. Arrrrgh these iPhone interfaces and hotels with spotty wifi coverage and about 20-30 minutes of work typing my thoughts, and how this song fits in...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqH21LEmfbQ&
feature=youtube_gdata_player

Just going to have to edit in later.

I don't know if there are Sparkers in Abilene, Clyde, Eula, Baird, Cisco ... Howdy if ...

Update on my dad...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:47:24 EST

So much has been going on past week or two, and I can't begin to cover lt all. Some family drama is in the mix now. But after an surgery to attempt to place stents in thr lines going between kidneys and bladder, which failed, doctors discovered the cancer(s) are pretty much eating him up from inside out. Doubtless the toxins are what is affecting his mind. He only has Medicare part A, no part B coverage at all. It's complex why not, and yet simple why it is the case, but no point in going the...

My Dad is in the hospital...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:18:09 EST

Just found out today that my dad has been in the hospital since Sunday. One of the Brethren from his congregation saw fit to check up on him before the cold snap that was to hit Kansas Okla and Texas, and discovered him talking incoherently. It's a miracle that an email from Amazon inspired me to call my dad's cell phone, which he had with him at the hospital. Or maybe coincidence, for those of you with an alternative spiritual belief system - I don't care what it is called.

I was...

My viewpoints on Math Word Problems

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:30:03 EST

I just saw this on Facebook and I just HAD to share this poster. It explains so much about me....

So now you know.

I'll understand if you feel you need to unfriend me...

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I think I know what happened!!

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:08:31 EST

Remember last thursday's blog? that headache?? I think I have figured out what that was about!!

look at The DailySpark blog for today:

www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=is_
your_exercise_routine_turning_into_a_h
eadache

Many of those things I was doing wrong before, during and after my scrubbing-tub-like-a-mad-woman routine. and the things that I seemed to want to do afterwards - like drinking a big glass of water 194

Overdid things... (this is more of a diary or journal type entry....).

Thu, 6 Dec 2012 23:23:06 EST
Woke up and went for a walk. Kinda hard to start my FitBit and my MaPMyWalk app on the iPhone at the same time. Both agreed that I had walked basically 20 minutes, so, oh well, that's my "10 minute streak" for the day. One said I walked 17.8 mph and the other made up some random number about 20 mph. Maybe it was measuring only the very last part of the walk, rather than an overall average?

Had my bowl of oatmeal and later on a cup of coffee... read paper. Did some email.

...

The Funny Laws of Life...LAWS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU KNEW!!

Mon, 3 Dec 2012 23:25:24 EST
I'm kinda brain dead and tired. Saw these funny "laws" in email, so thought I'd share - some are related to weight loss!!

Here goes:

1. Law of Mechanical Repair - After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll have to pee.

2. Law of Gravity - Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

3. Law of Probability - The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the...

"Life Becomes Easier When You Learn To Accpt An Apology You Never Got"

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:39:42 EST
I saw this a few weeks ago on Facebook or somewhere else, maybe Pinterest, who knows, my head is swimming...

sayingimages.com/life-becomes-easier
-when-you-learn-to-accept-an-apology-y
ou-never-got/

Just felt like sharing this (so I can find it later when I need??). I alluded to it earlier this week in Bruce's Happiness Blog:
www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?pos...

Introducing our new baby girl...(with pictures!)

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:08:19 EST
..puppy dog. Chihuahua (is that how it's spelled??)

Went to the YMCA this morning to do some apres-Turkey repentence - put in a mile around the track (was too gusty and cold to walk this morning and for some reason I was being a wimp about walking.). Then we spent some time up on the "30 Minute Circuit" doing some of the weight machines

Then, we went to Kansas Humane Society to see about a new black dog. Being Black Friday, they were giving away BLACK DOGS. FREE. (or Bla...

Southern Peach Yambake today - with extra modifications....

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:05:33 EST
I typed in the recipe for Southern Peach Yambake this morning - but I'm not entirely convinced I did all the math conversions right. The SparkRecipes converter doesn't always play nice with the ingredients measurements when the ingredients found in the "Enter Food" tracker are only entered as "one serving". As an example, the nutritional information for the Ziyad Marshmallows was like 2/3 cup or some such, I've forgotten already, and so many grams. Well, recipe calls for 1.5 cups. The way I h...

Law of the Garbage Truck

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:20:50 EST
I received this in email today - seemed to hit home for me. Maybe it will be useful for others.

Law of the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.

My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us...

Hearing Aids or Heartache?

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:58:39 EST
Today I went to a presentation by the ReSound representatives to hear about the latest greatest hearing aid technology...

I'm cautiously optimistic... or maybe always hoping and optimistic, but still raw and cautious from some of the less than professional conduct of previous hearing aid dealers and other snake oil salesmen.

This blog won't make a lot of sense to the average hearing person and so it's okay, as this is really just my place to sort out my thoughts. And I g...

PAH! Another Captioned video - finally, I can see the subtitles!

Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:58:59 EST
PAH!!!

Remember me muttering elsewhere about all the settings and switches and TV and DVD and all, trying to get the "Tai Chi for Beginners" DVD to perform the captions that were allegedly on it (produced by Element, taught by Samuel Barnes)???

Today I installed a different free-ware Video DVD software that was recommended to me by a woman I met last month who is late deafened (she teaches ASL at a private school for the deaf, as well as tutoring for pay. She captures Y...

First night...

Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:28:04 EST
...flying solo with my new cpap. Will see how this goes.