A Catch Up

I just thought I would run down the list today of random things I wanted to catch you up on. No particular order, just thoughts that I’ve had bouncing around or little tidbits that didn’t fit in with any other lengthy post.

First of all, I have started (slowly) to move old posts from my old blogger site into this Wordpress site. You will find them only if you type the year into the Search box up in the top right of the page (see it? It says ‘Lookin’ for something?’)… I have zillions of posts (2 years worth) to bring over to this site, and it is time consuming, so bear with me… here is one from way back in 2007 worth reading…

Also, the latest update on the state of my head cold is this: I am miserable. My head hurts, my nose is painfully congested, but nothing wants to move out. Every so often, I break out into a coughing spasm that is not fun because my lower back hurts and my hip pops out of socket (old volleyball injury). Not to mention the residual effects that affect all women who pass a chicken through their vagina… yep, the possibility of peeing my pants! No, this actually doesn’t happen, but each and every time I break out into a coughing fit, I panic that it will!

I watched Bridget Jones’ Diary yesterday afternoon and marveled at how much I love that movie. That is saying a whole lot for the movie because Renee Zellwegger is not one of my favorite actresses (and that is being nice), but I absolutely love the movie. I run around for about a week after seeing the movie infusing the word ‘wanker’ or ‘bollocks’ into conversation whenever possible. And each time I see the movie, I howl with laughter when Bridget takes off in a snowstorm wearing only her knickers, running shoes, and a sweater to catch Mark Darcy, who has just popped in to a store to buy her a new diary. The scene reminds me so much of an incident my freshman year of college when I popped out of our dorm room wearing only my pink babydoll jammies to run down a football player bound for the Pub, who thought I had said something rude about him (I hadn’t).

*Did you notice in that paragraph how I used the words ‘knickers’ and ‘popped into’, much in the English way? Residual effects of having watched the movie yesterday, for sure…

It is going to take some decided willpower to retrain my family members that I am trying to eat a more healthy diet. Yesterday, I was having a conversation with my husband about how I am trying to eat better, drink better, and just be more healthy (trying to trick myself into NOT dieting, as I believe the word ‘dieting’ implies that at some point I will stop and fall off the wagon, and thereby sabotage any good I have done previously) when all of the sudden, he told me that we were going to a friend’s house for dinner and that I would feel decidedly better about my headcold and aches and pains if I just had a few glasses of wine.

Hello? I guess he wasn’t listening to my side of our conversation!

No, I am not drinking a few glasses of wine. I am drinking water! Gosh, it is going to be a rough road if I have to constantly remind not only myself, but my family that I am trying to be healthier. In the past, it has been incredibly hard for me to remember that I am trying to eat/drink more healthy. Shoot, I will be halfway through a doughnut, eating it mindlessly at work before I ever even realize that I have eaten it! I have to be more conscious, more alert, and more diligent. And apparently, my husband forgets as easily as I do that I am trying to be healthier! Goodness!

Looking forward to the week ahead, I have a meeting tomorrow all day in Houston. Since it is my old stomping grounds, I have been asked by my boss to pick the lunch destination, something that everyone would like and that is nearby the museum where we are meeting. I chose Lankford’s Grocery. Of course, tomorrow I will have to put in extra time on the cardio because I plan to enjoy my lunch!! Watch the video and drool yourself. Lankford’s was featured on the Food Network’s popular show: Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives with Guy Fieri.

Then, looking forward to the weekend, we are planning a little excursion to Green Valley Ranch to see the sire of our sweet and promising foal, Wimpy. His famous Daddy, Wimpys Little Step, is a phenomenal horse. We will tour the facility, see the sire, and talk horses awhile. Anyone that is in the horse world knows that ‘talking horses’ always lasts more than ‘awhile’! Looking forward to a break in the action here and a weekend ‘beyond the fences’. Keeping my fingers crossed for good weather and picturesque moments. Will be hauling along my arsenal of cameras, maybe even my monopod, to capture everything and anything! Look for many photo posts coming next week…

And I’m happy to report that the blog’s page on Facebook just keeps on growing. As of this morning, we have 97 people following!  I am blown away by the growing numbers from this list and am seeing the readership numbers zoom in my Google Analytics on the blog. Readership is up almost 50% since last month. My cup runneth over! If you are on Facebook and you haven’t joined the blog’s page, I invite you to do so. It is an easy way to receive a link to the daily blog post, and to interact with one another. The blog’s page has a wall that you can post on, a Discussions tab that you can start your own forums, as well as the ability to upload photos and videos too! Thanks to Julie, one of my faithful readers, that posted her own rum cake for all to see!

I have decided to start doing Giveaways in celebration of big milestones. Each time the Facebook page reaches a monumental number of readers, I will do a Giveaway (looks like 100 Reader Giveaway is coming up soon!); I think I will also do some Giveaways to celebrate any-and-all achievements in my quest to lose 20 pounds… if you aren’t keeping up with my weight loss quest, I am planning on dedicating each Friday post to my fitness and weightloss goals...

And like always, I love hearing from you. Whether it is in the Comments section of each blog post, or as a comment on the Wall of the Facebook page, I love your feedback. Thank you for jotting down your thoughts on my posts, because it really warms my heart to hear from you. With readers spanning the globe, it is just the neatest feeling to know that I am writing about things that appeal to readers from Germany to Australia and everywhere in between. Thank you for your feedback and your comments! If you ever wonder where the readers are coming from, I invite you to watch the Live Traffic Feed that shows up on the right margin of the blog, underneath the B-who-U-R blue box… this live traffic feed shows you that we are a growing community, pulling readers from Singapore to Idaho! How cool is that???

Very cool.

But maybe I am more than a little biased????

Hey- have a great end to your weekend and please keep reading. I have not even begun to chip away at the mammoth iceberg of things that I have planned for the blog. Please be patient- the best is yet to be!

XOXO,

Casey