SHUT UP AND PUT UP!!! - Day 3

UPDATE!!! DAY 3 DAWN CHALLENGE

Okay - so far today...

Breakfast - 1/2 bowl of high fiber ceral with blueberries
Lunch - TLC Peanut Chew bar
SNACK - about 10 pretzel small logs
Dinner - 1/2 cup of noodles cooked with 5 grilled shrimp

I screw it up tonight with drinking Pinot Grigio Spritzers
I drank tons of water and did zumba this morning again...I can feel the BURNNNNNN BABY!!!

And, how's it going for you??? To quote, Jillian, "Talk to me people!"

Speaking of Jillian....... Your fans await --- Where the hell are you?
How about an appearance soon...!!!!!!!

I'll BLOG IF I WANT TO...

Barbara Ward-Finneran

In recent days I have been asked,  “Where are you on that blog of yours?”  

It’s my blog, and I’ll blog if I want to, blog if I want to... WANT TO? I’m dying to!!!!

Wife. Mother. Daughter. Friend. Teacher. Artist. Graphic Designer. Founder of Drawn 2 Design. (My business that  happened to take on a new design client with great opportunity as this blog went live.) Writer. Runner. Exercise Enthusiast. 

Life so gets in the way!  Can you relate?!  

That ‘s said.  Let me set the record straight. I am livin’ at the lounge. (And, if you don’t believe me, ask my husband, as Dawn has become the other woman - and not in a good way. LOL) In earlier in the year when Dawn and I decided to start Delayed Reaction Lounge and internal war started within the artists in me.  The visual artist and the creative artist battled at will to be certain both the writing and design at the lounge would be held to certain artistic standards.  Originally I had grand illusions (later seen to be total delusions!) of designing the site from scratch.  HA!  

I MEAN WICKED AS IN; MEAN, UGLY, NEGATIVE.

Tony Walker


Wicked Wednesday. How fitting. My question to you is why do people have to be so wicked? Unfortunately in this case the word wicked is not meant to be hot or sexy, the way I prefer to use the word.

In this case I mean wicked as in wicked witch. Mean. Ugly. Negative.


Why do people feel the need to go out of their way to be mean? I don't know about you but from my viewpoint most people take the time to be wicked & mean than they do to be nice. Meanwhile it takes so much more energy to be wicked & mean.  So you called an ex friend, lover, or whoever all sorts of names, attacked something they did, & made fun of them. Did it make you feel any better? Did the ex friend, lover, or whoever stop & say, "Yes you're right. I am all of those things. I am going to change right this second. Thanks for the enlightenment?" What really came out of it?

FISHNETS & OTHER CONTRAPTIONS

DAWN BOYLE

I have a saying I use with my kids to get them to eat different things "if you try it, you might like it". That being said I have one kid that will try anything and the other - not so much.

Growing up I was so scared to put my toe in to test the waters on many levels. I never ate fish, didn't swim in the ocean til I was a teenager and would NEVER go into a haunted house at an amusment park. I have been implementing my try it-like it theory within myself for a few months...it's amazing what I have found out about myself and how I have learned a love for things I would never imagined eating or doing. Take this blog for instance, a couple of months ago Barbara and I spoke about how much we loved writing.