A Night at the Hospital
Wednesday was a busy day as usual, came home from physical therapy to a quick crisis at work, which was resolved within about 30-40 minutes. Craig was home sick, he had gotten some nasty stomach virus previously that morning. I was running around at 8:30 at night making dinner for him, cleaning up the kitchen,…
Physical Therapy
Just posting an update to my herniated back situation. At this point I’m feeling relatively good. Last week I had my first two physical therapy sessions and between being out of shape, and then having not exercised in 2 months, they were intense. Right now, I’m doing some simple core work, and when I’m there,…
Learning to Drive: 1994
Over the summer, we embarked on transferring a bunch of old VHS tapes to DVD. Talk about a trip down memory lane. This shot is from me driving around during the summer of 1994, learning to drive in Craig’s parent’s 1986 Mercedes 190D. We had so much fun, but as I watched an hour of…
Gardening
We’ve been wanting to garden for a few years now, but we’ve been living in apartments. Over the summer, a friend let us borrow her Aero Garden. She has a very sustainable outdoor vegetable garden, and she had gotten this as a winter hold over. Craig got us one for Christmas this year, so we…
Weigh In: January
As a quick check-in. I was a bit worried with my back being out, basically not exercising, being horizontal and my stomach a wreck from medicine, that I might end up putting a few pounds on. Gratefully it’s been the reverse! Post-Christmas I was at 216lbs. Weighed in this morning at, 211.5lbs. Since being home…
Body Shop at Home Party
Saturday my super cool sister in law came down and presented at our house, a Body Shop at Home party. Kelly and I were the hosts. We decided to do the “Spa Day” theme, which means basically, we get to soak our feet, try on body butters, lotions, a little make up and chill out…
Commuting: Pale Sunrise
Pale Sunrise, originally uploaded by criana. Have I mentioned lately how much I’ll miss this commute when my employer moves south two towns and I’ll be back to using the interstate. I took this a few weeks ago while driving in, it was so beautiful and peaceful, I had to pull down the road and…
Where I’ve Been or My Painful Back
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted. By the way, Happy New Years everyone. Post Christmas, I took off the 28th of December through January 1st. Woohoo! 5 days off. On Day #2 I bent down to pick up a very heavy grocery bag and twisted to put it in the cart and herniated…
Foamee Offers Coffee
Foamee Offers Coffee, originally uploaded by criana. Very excited to be able to offer coffees via Foamee. Most of my friends and I drink more coffee than beer so this is great!
A History of Weight
As most know, I need to lose weight and have been intermittently working on it for a while. I’ve recently started working with a nutritionist. Craig is seeing an integrative medicine doctor, who has prescribed a gluten-free diet for a month to clear his system. I’ve also been following James‘ progress over FIT, it helps…
Winter Walk in Steep Rock
The road less traveled, originally uploaded by criana. We took our second annual winter walk in Steep Rock park this past Saturday morning. We’re enjoying making this a tradition, after the walk we go to GW Tavern and have brunch, while warming up by the fireplace. We had a special treat of a fresh blanket…
Email Standards Project
Today launches the Email Standards Project. I can not begin to convey the importance of this project. To help relate why this is so important, I’m going to give you some background on how I ended up designing emails for a living and a typical day. Background I started designing websites in 1997. It was…
MeToday: November 18th
My very first MeToday. Craig and I took a walk in White Memorial Park this morning. Pics from today Flickr White Memorial Set
Canon 50mm Prime Lense
Ordered one of these from B&H Photo and Video earlier today. I was going to go through Amazon, but I want to guarantee I receive it before Thanksgiving. That’s a whole other story of how Amazon has screwed up our shipping multiple times. After listening to the Talk Show episode 4 and coming across several…
iSale 4.4 another upgrade
We’ve been using iSale since November 2006. It’s been a pretty good program making eBay listing much less of a pain. Since we purchased it for $40.00. Then an update came out in February, which we upgraded at $16.00. And now it’s November and another upgrade for $20.00. While I like the app, if I…
Post-Workout High
Tonight I went and met with my trainer. We did a slightly different work out from the last time. This time we focused more on my upper body. 10 minutes on elliptical 5 minutes on the track upper body free weights, 4lb weights machine upper body workout stair case x3 upper body free weights, 4lb…
Leopard Spaces @ Work
Spaces @ Work, originally uploaded by criana. I love the new Spaces feature in Leopard, aka Apple OS 10.5. 1) Lotus Notes 2) VMWare Fusion 3) iTunes 4) Apple Mail, Safari and iChat I’ve gotten pretty quick with using the keyboard shortcuts to jump around screen. [Update: I stopped using Spaces while at work, it…
Knitting and Pumpkin
It’s been quite a while since I’ve been attended knitting. Tonight I made it along with Kelly, Kathy, Pam, Fran, Barbara and a new person Lorraine. It was a lot of fun. Kelly picked up Panera and then for a treat Saranac Pumpkin Ale. She watched the WLTV episode on beers too and was interested…
Dan In Real Life
I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie for a few months. I’m hooked on Peter Townshend’s “Let My Love Open the Door” song, it’s been on repeat in my iPhone for a while. We went to go see it last week on opening night. The showing sold out, which surprised us. I had read…
Feeling Down – Setting Goals
This week started off all good and well, I went to the gym, had a really good work out sessions with my trainer. That night I was feeling really good and organized. Tuesday I woke up exhausted as I have been for the past few weeks. No matter how little or lots of sleep I…