recipes you need: healthy slow cooker chili

I finally got around to appreciating the many great things about slow cooking!  Josh and I got a really nice slow cooker for Christmas to replace the cheap one we had.  This one is digital and has a built-in timer that will switch to “warm” when food is finished (a benefit our other one did [...]

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health and wellness

My approach to health and nutrition is a modified version of the concept of HAES, which stands for “Health at Every Size”, combined with a mostly “whole foods” eating plan.  The following is information about HAES, taken from Wikipedia:
Health at Every Size (HAES) is an approach to health that focuses on intuitive eating and joyful [...]

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random thoughts on weight, beauty and dieting (more to come!)

It’s nothing new that everyone is on a diet.  Or so it seems.  I’m not “dieting” but “maintaining”, which means that I stick to a healthy eating plan to keep my weight from going up.  It will go up if I just eat what I want.  (I am SO NOT “naturally thin”!) 
My mom put [...]

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why can’t i have nice things?

I drove my new car to work today, still excited to drive it, since I have hardly driven it yet at all in the day and a half I’ve had it.  I came out after working just four hours, to find this:

(Please ignore my and Josh’s reflections.) 
It was actually worse than that, but the primary dent [...]

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one car goes out, they all go out

Yep, you guessed it… Buh-BYE, Cavalier!
It didn’t completely die.  It just wouldn’t start.  Well, then it started, but it gave me hell, moaning and groaning and complaining and threatening not to start at all.  And then it did it again, and again, very nearly stranding me everywhere we went.
So, we were on our way to [...]

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new wheels

Nothing fancy, but it is many times better than the Kia we left at the dealership.  The Kia had 4 working gears, a cracked windshield, a fried paint job, no radio (stolen) and the front passenger door tied shut with an electrical cord.
We spent all day Thursday used car shopping.  After a frustrating morning spent, [...]

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house guest

My brother-in-law decided to visit us for a few… weeks.  I’ve heard that guests, like fish, stink after three days, so we’ll see how this turns out.  I really don’t mind him staying here, but I’m just not used to having another guy in the house.  I also have never spent much time around him [...]

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