Dieting While Traveling

I am trying my best to stick to the diet — I am still avoiding carbs as much as possible. I am eating more tomatoes than normal because of all the greek salads (I love real greek salads).
My biggest problem: each meal, there is wine. Okay, not at breakfast. Other [...]

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Surrounded by Drop Dead Gorgeous Men

As I walk around this city I love so much, that’s really a second home to me, I see a shockingly high number of drop dead gorgeous men. I mean, just beyond handsome like the chairman’s son last night.
I am beginning to think that I may widen my dating pool to include this city. [...]

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Quick Notes from the Road

I am in my hotel room, after a ridiculously long day.  It’s 11 pm here and I was up at 4:15 am to get ready to fly.
I am mentally exhausted, completely stuffed, and extremely excited.  My head is spinning a bit after an unbelievable dinner where we discussed absolutely no business.  We had at least [...]

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Politics: Olbermann on Clinton’s Outrageous Assassination Comment

I spent the evening with my best friend, who did not understand why what she said was so outrageous.
Here is Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment:

If you wish not to watch the whole thing, skip to 9:44.
 
 

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Things I Love About Being Single 2

Being a last-minute fill-in date for my guy friends . . . tonight, I am going to the Austin Symphony Pops to hear The Three Phantoms.  
Now, if only I could figure out what to wear.  

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Politics: Clinton Invokes Assassination — She Must Be Stopped

I am so shocked by what I just heard and read I am having a difficult time processing it.
Hillary Clinton today cited the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign to explain why she was remaining in the race despite long odds.

”We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” Clinton told the editorial [...]

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Career: The Last Person Working This Weekend

There are exciting things about working with people and companies outside the US — business travel feels cosmopolitan when accompanied by a passport and a custom’s agent speaking to you in another language.  Since I love fashion, I love seeing what people wear on the street.  The cultural norms are different — everyone clears out [...]

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Changing of the Digit — 129.2

Finally. Finally I am in the 120s.  Barely, but I am there.
I dropped a pound from yesterday and I have 4.2 pounds to go.
==>  A just stopped by to pick up a fedex and gave me this look, shook his head, and said, “um, maybe you should stop.”  Knowing he would not win that argument, [...]

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Week 21 — Weight Loss — 0.6 pounds — Body Fat Loss — 1.095 pound

When I stepped on the scale this morning, I saw the number 12x for a second while I stood on the scale. It’s the first time I’ve seen that number with both feet on the scale in 6 or 7 years.
My actual weight this morning is 130.2, which means I have officially lost 27 [...]

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Hiding Out

I am hiding out.
I am supposed to be out of the country right this minute, but we delayed our trip until Sunday. I have maintained the fiction I am not here because I am enjoying having unlimited time to work without the annoyance of phone calls and emails to return. I am also [...]

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