Friday, November 26, 2010
Holiday Sale at www.BlueStarBaby.com
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Catching Up on Sleep
We are very slow movers when it comes to doing house and yard projects. For example, we had our house built 6 years ago. We still haven't really done any landscaping, a very large portion of the house is still just white walls and we have the cheapest vinyl blinds in the windows that we got just so people couldn't look in. I guess we can usually just find better things to do with our time.
Over a year ago, we re-did our bedroom. We got new furniture, painted the walls and bought a new bedding set with curtains. We did everything but put the curtains up. We just never thought of it as a big deal. I mean we had the curtain rod, curtains and valances but we were just too lazy to put them up.
Finally, after all this time we got those curtains up and I must say, they look quite nice. But the real treat is that our bedroom is actually dark at night. I never thought it was a big deal before, but now that they're up there's a real difference.
I guess I should tell you that one of our back door neighbors has a motion sensing spot light. The thing is really bright and it turns on with every little rodent that goes by. We have a ton of rabbits in the neighborhood, so the damn thing is on and off all night long. I never really thought about it since once I'm asleep, my eyes are closed and therefore dark. But let me tell you, I apparently have been lacking sleep for 6 years. Since we've put those curtains up, I've sleep the longest and hardest than I have in the past six years. Now I'm wondering, just how do you catch up on six years of sleep deprivation?
Over a year ago, we re-did our bedroom. We got new furniture, painted the walls and bought a new bedding set with curtains. We did everything but put the curtains up. We just never thought of it as a big deal. I mean we had the curtain rod, curtains and valances but we were just too lazy to put them up.
Finally, after all this time we got those curtains up and I must say, they look quite nice. But the real treat is that our bedroom is actually dark at night. I never thought it was a big deal before, but now that they're up there's a real difference.
I guess I should tell you that one of our back door neighbors has a motion sensing spot light. The thing is really bright and it turns on with every little rodent that goes by. We have a ton of rabbits in the neighborhood, so the damn thing is on and off all night long. I never really thought about it since once I'm asleep, my eyes are closed and therefore dark. But let me tell you, I apparently have been lacking sleep for 6 years. Since we've put those curtains up, I've sleep the longest and hardest than I have in the past six years. Now I'm wondering, just how do you catch up on six years of sleep deprivation?
Saturday, November 20, 2010
The Low Down
I'm going to start with what's going on right now in my life. I stay at home with my daughter who is 2 1/2 years old. I have an online retail store specializing in American made baby and toddler products, I'm also working on getting into shape and finally I'm working on homeschooling my two year old. I also pick up other odd ball projects along the way.
I'll start with http://www.bluestarbaby.com/. This is my online retail store. I will tell you, it's been very tough in this economy to get it going. Everyone seems to want to buy cheaply made items from China. However, I knew when I started this project, I was not targeting the Wal-mart crowd. We are looking to do a major overhaul of the website, but that is a long process in itself. I will say that on Black Friday I will be launching free shipping on all items. So, if you know anyone who has a baby or one on the way, feel free to check us out.
Next is getting into shape, I've been working on it for over a year now. I started off at 201 lbs. I'm 5'3" so that's a pretty big girl. I've never been one to be overly conscience about my weight, but I was terribly concerned with being out of shape, as in not being able to do the things physically that I wanted to do.
It started with a gym membership in the Fall of 2009. I'll admit I half-assed it for the first couple of months. I was kind of lifting weights, doing water aerobics and the elliptical machine. But I didn't know what I was doing and even though I thought I was doing something, I wasn't doing much. I lost 5 lbs. in those first two months.
However, after Christmas 2009 I decided it was time to quit screwing around. My husband convinced me to start lifting heavy. By that I mean, lifting as much as I could for 6-8 reps. That's when I started noticing the change. I was still doing my own workout but it was working for me, so I didn't care. I would switch up my workouts every four to six weeks, but that was usually just and exercise or two. I started using http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ to log my food and http://www.bodybuilding.com/ to log my measurements.
This summer I decided to work on the Couch to 5k (C25k) program. I personally like the podcasts from Suz at http://www.kissmyblackass.org/. She uses hip hop in her podcasts, which was more up my alley. Now C25k is supposed to be about a 9 week program, but I'm not very consistent with it. Especially now that it's getting cold. I'm currently on Week 7 of the program.
My strength training program has changed now for winter as well. I'm using The New Rules of Lifting for Women and I'm currently on Stage 2 of that program now. I'm supposed to be doing High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) along with it, but I'm still working through C25k and after those weight training sessions, my body just does NOT want to do HIIT. So, I started at 201 lbs and I'm at 165 as of this morning.
Why am I doing all of this? Well, for me. I have goals, you know. My first goal is to run a 5k. I've not picked one out, but you can bet your butt that it'll be in the spring when it's warmer. I'm also looking at doing the Warrior Dash http://www.warriordash.com/ in June. That is, if I don't get knocked up first. (We're just not preventing.) I'm not sure about what I want to do fitness wise after the warrior dash, but I think maybe a beginner triathlon. I do know that one of my big goals is to completely section hike the Appalachian Trail. So, that's where I am as far as looking forward on my fitness goals.
Finally, I'm working on doing Pre-K homeschooling. I'm using the Calvert curriculum available through www.calvertschool.org. I've decided to go through this program because I felt it was a good road map for education. My daughter was 2 1/2 years old when we started. I bought the program with the intentions of using it over a two year time span. I figure since she's two, we'll do "school box" for a couple of days during the week. Sometimes we don't stay with the curriculum, but we're always working on something.
So that's it. My big three projects going on right now. I hope I didn't bore you too much with it. I'm sure my future posts won't be near as long and tedious. I'm also sure that I'll be adding smaller projects on top of these.
I'll start with http://www.bluestarbaby.com/. This is my online retail store. I will tell you, it's been very tough in this economy to get it going. Everyone seems to want to buy cheaply made items from China. However, I knew when I started this project, I was not targeting the Wal-mart crowd. We are looking to do a major overhaul of the website, but that is a long process in itself. I will say that on Black Friday I will be launching free shipping on all items. So, if you know anyone who has a baby or one on the way, feel free to check us out.
Next is getting into shape, I've been working on it for over a year now. I started off at 201 lbs. I'm 5'3" so that's a pretty big girl. I've never been one to be overly conscience about my weight, but I was terribly concerned with being out of shape, as in not being able to do the things physically that I wanted to do.
It started with a gym membership in the Fall of 2009. I'll admit I half-assed it for the first couple of months. I was kind of lifting weights, doing water aerobics and the elliptical machine. But I didn't know what I was doing and even though I thought I was doing something, I wasn't doing much. I lost 5 lbs. in those first two months.
However, after Christmas 2009 I decided it was time to quit screwing around. My husband convinced me to start lifting heavy. By that I mean, lifting as much as I could for 6-8 reps. That's when I started noticing the change. I was still doing my own workout but it was working for me, so I didn't care. I would switch up my workouts every four to six weeks, but that was usually just and exercise or two. I started using http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ to log my food and http://www.bodybuilding.com/ to log my measurements.
This summer I decided to work on the Couch to 5k (C25k) program. I personally like the podcasts from Suz at http://www.kissmyblackass.org/. She uses hip hop in her podcasts, which was more up my alley. Now C25k is supposed to be about a 9 week program, but I'm not very consistent with it. Especially now that it's getting cold. I'm currently on Week 7 of the program.
My strength training program has changed now for winter as well. I'm using The New Rules of Lifting for Women and I'm currently on Stage 2 of that program now. I'm supposed to be doing High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) along with it, but I'm still working through C25k and after those weight training sessions, my body just does NOT want to do HIIT. So, I started at 201 lbs and I'm at 165 as of this morning.
Why am I doing all of this? Well, for me. I have goals, you know. My first goal is to run a 5k. I've not picked one out, but you can bet your butt that it'll be in the spring when it's warmer. I'm also looking at doing the Warrior Dash http://www.warriordash.com/ in June. That is, if I don't get knocked up first. (We're just not preventing.) I'm not sure about what I want to do fitness wise after the warrior dash, but I think maybe a beginner triathlon. I do know that one of my big goals is to completely section hike the Appalachian Trail. So, that's where I am as far as looking forward on my fitness goals.
Finally, I'm working on doing Pre-K homeschooling. I'm using the Calvert curriculum available through www.calvertschool.org. I've decided to go through this program because I felt it was a good road map for education. My daughter was 2 1/2 years old when we started. I bought the program with the intentions of using it over a two year time span. I figure since she's two, we'll do "school box" for a couple of days during the week. Sometimes we don't stay with the curriculum, but we're always working on something.
So that's it. My big three projects going on right now. I hope I didn't bore you too much with it. I'm sure my future posts won't be near as long and tedious. I'm also sure that I'll be adding smaller projects on top of these.
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