ELENAPOLIS's CalorieKing Blog
Saturday, May 24th 2008
So, here's the deal. I think people tend to be more motivated when they have a goal. Are there any runners or runner wanna-bes out there?
I think we should get a group of Calorie King friends together to run the Shanghai half marathon this Thanksgiving. I ran the full marathon in '06 and it was a lot of fun. The streets are lined with old ladies waving flags and playing their little drums and school-children cheering in various places.
I've been living and working here nearly 3 years now a...
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Friday, May 23rd 2008
My brother,Ethan, is 17 years younger than me. He is eight and a joker by nature. Sometimes when I lived at or visited home, all us kids (all 6 of us) would get together and have group exercise sessions which included some specific exercises but mostly just a lot of wiggling and jumping around (ages 6,8,13,14,17,25). It's a lot of fun. A while back I was having one of these group exercise sessions and we were doig this exercise where you lay on the ground and lift your rear.
So, I said, "...
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Thursday, May 22nd 2008
Can I say that I am thrilled? So many reasons.
1. about 90% of my classes (which I teach) finish for the summer this week. This leaves me time to focus on job #2, which my current project will give me 5,000 USD towards my wedding.
2. This week has been so very productive. I made a list of habits I want to form and have 21 cards (one a day) to check off each day. More on that in another post but one of them is finish work by 9pm. I just love my job and I tend to over-commit so... must be les...
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Tuesday, May 13th 2008
Talked to the Shanghai judge through an interpreter friend to see if I could go back to the USA in order to unfreeze my bank account that is concerned about the unusual amount of money going overseas to potentially fund terrorists.
Not so, it's just being sent here to raise enough money to pay those suing me from when my house burned down and affected them as well.
Judge said that I can't go and that it will be too complicated and that I just need to get this case resolved and get ou...
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Monday, May 12th 2008
Yes, I binged on granola. with sugar and peanutbutter and softened with splenda sweetened fruit soda. Am I not ridiculous?
Now, I have the runs. Still.
Ugh.
Ignore my food diary for monday. I didn't record the binge.