I tried that exhale-and-pinch-your-belly-fat thing this morning. It was more like “seize” than “pinch”, I’m afraid… :) I’ve noticed that over the last week or so, after 3-4 weeks of Pilates, I am more inclined to sit and stand up straight, and that, especially the last few days, when I’m out walking I’m sucking my gut in more. I donno, I think maybe this might be good for me or something. We walked outside this morning to go to the gym, and there was a great golden moon hanging just…
off to minas tirith!
I had an email this morning asking if the local newspaper could run the picture of Seirid and Breic with their snowman in this week’s paper. That’s cool. :) *laughs* From a fitness rules thing on msn.com: “[Forget weighing yourself.] Place your fingers on your belly and inhale deeply so that it expands. As you exhale, contract your abdominal muscles and push your fingertips against your hard abdominal wall. Now pinch. “You’re holding pure fat,” says Tom Seabourne, Ph.D., co-author of Athletic Abs (Human Kinetics, 2003). Do this every day,…
many things
Seirid, yesterday, was singing, “Who let the dogs out!” and then barking. Except all of a sudden he said “No no no,” and sang “Who let the ducks out! Quack! Quack! Quack quack quack quack!” I have funny nephews. :) I have decided to keep on with the beginners Pilates for another few weeks, not so much because I don’t think I can do an intermediate level workout as we’re going to Dublin for three days next week and the minute I get TRUTHSEEKER finished we’re going on holiday somewhere,…
snowmens!
Today, there was enough snow in Longford for the nephews to build a snowman! there was also enough snow for Uncle Ted to show the nephews how to have a snowball fight. :) A bunch more pictures here, and a few of the kitties here. :) It’s been a nice day. :)
got it in one :)
Deborah/ on the general proclivities of her friends: “Kit would grimly march forward, complaining in very short spurts about how she should not have set herself up for this, doing pretty much the absurdly impossible, take it on without much hesitation and not account whatsoever for the fact that she is also writing two to three times the volume of the average writer that year, and then when it is all done, accomplished handily, and she is literally on another continent, she will plunk herself down, blow out her breath…