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Happy Thanksgiving to My Readers

Michele — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:43:45 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for all the usual things. It may sound cliche, but it’s true. I’m thankful for my family, my health and my friends. I’m thankful for my blog and all the friendships that have come with this venture.

Hoping you are all spending time with your family and friends!

Happy Thanksgiving to My Readers originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

I'm Workin' It…Using the EA Sports Active More Workouts

Michele — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:19:41 +0000

I have completed week 4 of the 6 week challenge in the EA Sports Active More Workouts. During the 4 weeks I encountered several obstancles including Thanksgiving, a trip to Atlanta with my husband which included many parties, Christmas cookies and several Holiday parties. Despite all that, I managed to lose 5 lbs and 4 inches so far. During this same time period last year, I gained 10 lbs. I also feel much stronger and more energized. My 13 year old son even said to me (when I was all dressed up for a holiday party), “WOW Mom you look nice. That EA Sports is working.”

Here are a few videos of my weekly recaps:

Week 4 Recap

Week 3 Recap

Week 2 Recap

Week 1 Recap

What I like best about the EA Sports Active is that I don’t feel like I’m working out. I’m having so much fun.

I'm Workin' It…Using the EA Sports Active More Workouts originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

EA Sports Active More Workouts Update

Michele — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:12 +0000

I haven’t done a formal update since I started the 6 week challenge on November 20th. In case you didn’t know, I am part of the EA Sports Active More Workouts 6 Week Challenge. There are 12 Challengers and we started on November 20th and will finish on December 31st.

You can check out my 411 at the EA Sports Active website and the article I wrote for cafemom about how EA Sports Active helped my family learn to be healthier.

I am much better at showing you how excited I am about this, so here was the first vlog I did on Day 1:

I wasn’t going to do a second video right away, but I was so excited, so I did this one:

Yes, I really did that!!! So, unlike me. Day 3 was a killer. It was a lot of arms and an abs workout where you raise both of your legs up in the air. I am still sore today and today was my day of rest. I know that this challenge is really working because I wake up sore every morning so I’m working muscles that I haven’t worked in a long time. It’s a really good hurt.

For Thanksgiving I am all prepared to do my workouts all week and I plan to do an extra workout on Thursday before dinner. I do plan to eat my dinner and have dessert and I’m not going to worry about the calories or fat. I will do an extra workout and probably run twice this weekend.

EA Sports Active More Workouts Update originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

Thanksgiving Traditions of a Geeky Family & Anniversary

Michele — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:01:23 +0000

Every year Thanksgiving seems to get earlier and earlier in the year, doesn’t it? It seems like it was just Fourth of July. But anyways, enough with that. The only tradition we can count on is that Thanksgiving is different for us every year and will involve lots of gadgets for our geeky family. Since both sides of our family live about 3-4 hours from us, we are either having company or we are traveling.

If we travel, we always try to leave on Wednesday morning, right after work day rush hour and before Noon rush to get out of town. Very precise timing involved which means checking traffic often on my iPhone. Some years we make it and it takes us 3 hours to get to our destination and sometimes we have #iphonefail and it takes us 8 hours (seriously) to go 3 hours.

Thursday mornings are devoted to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade viewed on an HD TV only. We turn it on and sit around and chat skype, eat appetizer type of foods, surf the web while the kids play video games and drive us nuts. Oh and there is usually some cooking going on that involves those large objects in the kitchen that people who cook use. Jason will head to McDonald’s for breakfast if there is one open, otherwise, it’s cereal.

We shoot for eating around 4:00 pm. We do get off our gadgets long enough to eat and enjoy the company. We typically have turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, green bean casserole, rolls and apple pie for dessert. (no gadgets involved, boring, huh?)

Do you call it stuffing or dressing? We say stuffing.

After dinner we usually get comfy, watch a movie and doze off early.

Friday morning Jason will head out to Best Buy for the hot gadget we need want. Black Friday is a geek’s dream event. It’s like a gadget white sale event. I will check prices online while he stands in line. We end up with a few items for the kids for Xmas (and something for us too).

We got married on November 26 (after meeting on AOL, told you we were a geeky family,) which was the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 1994. We try to get away for a dinner without kids, but not without gadgets, over the holiday weekend. This year will be married for 15 years and our Anniversary falls right on Thanksgiving. I think we will try to go out for dinner on Saturday night and then do some shopping.

Our plans vary, but we are always together with family and thankful for all we have. I enjoy hanging out at my parent’s house or my in-laws and spending time with family. I hope that our times together as a family will be what my kids remember.

Now, head on over to my good friend Hanging With Mrs. Cooper‘s blog and tell us about your Thanksgiving traditions. She’s giving away a gorgeous Path2 Peace basket and you could win a basket with your Thanksgiving tradition story. I’m sure that basket would be a fantastic place for me to hide all my gadgets and cords.

Big plans, big stars set for NBC’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (tvsquad.com)
Macy’s BELIEVE Campaign (takepart.com)
NBC cuts Glee from Thanksgiving parade (tvsquad.com)
Dirty secrets of Black Friday “doorbusters” (finance.yahoo.com)

Thanksgiving Traditions of a Geeky Family & Anniversary originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-27

Michele — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:59:59 +0000

is there an easy way to find my facebook friends on twitter? #
Happy Thanksgiving to my twitter friends. #
Checking out #MrTweet, a personal assistant for discovering the great followers and influencers in my network: http://mrtweet.net?c=5 #
Watching the Macy’s parade. #
Just took my 23rd mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/3903 #