One of the best things I found on my Fitness Journey (which has turned out to be a long and wandering road complete with lots of mud-holes and rest stops along the way) was Nikki Fitness.  I spent a good three months floundering around without much to show for it prior to using Nikki's Mil...

I mentioned earlier that my family is visiting right now.  My father, my mother, and my 93 year old grandmother all flew in from California to see us for two weeks.  We're at the tail end of that whirlwind visit (they leave Sunday) and it's been interesting, to say the least. Fir...

I have spent most of today in my room.  Near my unmade bed.   A lot of time on the computer, too.  The TV has been on.  I still haven't taken a shower. Air Force Guy, on the other hand, was up at 6 am (it was a late morning for him) and off to work.  Despite t...

When I tried to get dressed today, every single pair of jeans I tried on was worn out in an unmentionable place. Every.  Single.  Pair.  Following on the heels of the discontinuing of "my" lotion, that's a blow.  But it also makes me quite curious. My own person...

It takes a lot to scare me.  I mean, I go through life like anyone else.  Like most military spouses, I just don't have the time to let my emotions do what they've been urging me to do.  There's just too much to do. But this morning I woke up, and I still can't shak...

Before my life as a military spouse, I was born and raised and grew up in California.  Not Northern California, either.  The part of California where most people live - in various towns back and forth between the coast and the Central Valley.  I started life as a military spouse wi...

Oh yes, I've been able to get back into a work-out routine at the gym.  In between laying my own laminate floors, painting my house, replacing a toilet, fixing electrical outlets, and a few other odds and ends that crop up when moving into a new home of the price range we chose. But now th...

This doesn't make sense to everyone, but even though I'm an optimist I always plan for the worst case scenario to happen.  In fact, I expect it to.  That way when it doesn't I feel like I'm the luckiest person on earth. For instance - if I have to take my car in to the me...

I had the wonderful experience this week of a visit from the lovely and talented Sarah, and her dog Charlie.  We had a few interesting events happen as Charlie, the 22 pound Tibetan Terrier, causing bodily harm to my 60 pound pit bull Ike.  Ike is now missing one toenail at the root. ...

Fit Club posts are going to be a little late in the day for the next three weeks or so - summer Swim Team season has intervened with a vengeance.  It just so happens that from 8:30 am until 11 am five days a week I am sitting by the pool watching my kids in my workout clothes (I go straight to ...