I’m beginning to miss my own bed and I have trouble remembering what day it is and where we are. I am also discovering that traveling without a man around is not all bad. Us girls are doing just fine!

I could get used to this hotel thing. No laundry!

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We are almost ready to hit the road. We leave June 17th to head for Orangy County California.

Go to the TangyRoadShow.com to check our progress. Tangyteen.com will have the latest news and teen views.

June 3, 2008

I just got home from the gym, and I’m tired. This getting in shape thing is wearing me out. I am seeing the subtle differences in my body, but MAN am I tired! At the end of the day, which is when I am writing this, I can’t wait to go to bed. The good news is I sleep better than I used to. My skin looks better than it used to and my flab is fading.

Go figure…all those magazine articles I have read about the benefits of physical movement (not just lifting my arm to drink my wine) were right. For years I read them, and for many more years I ignored them. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe that working out on a regular basis would really help me mentally and physically, I just didn’t want to do it. It requires hard work and I have to sweat. I hate to sweat.

But this is the best part; I left the gym the other day and the guy that worked there said I looked good. He said I had a glow. Now that’s cool. I can accept glow. I embrace glow. I AM GLOW!

5/31/2008

I hate garbage sales (oops! I meant Garage Sales). I had to get up at 6:00am on a Saturday, which is inhuman. Then, get everything set up. Then, it rained. That was just not fair. So everything that was set up in the driveway was put into the garage to keep dry. It was nice and cozy in there with as many as 10 people crowded in at any given time. By 9:00am I was done. I couldn’t take it anymore.

I did make good money, but what a pain! Every time I do one of these things I tell myself, no more, this is it. I determine never to do one again. Then stuff accumulates over time and so I am stuck with either an enormous Good Will drop, or sell it.

I actually did put the furniture pieces on craigslist, but then everyone wanted to come early for a “sneak preview”. By Friday night at 6:00pm, I was tired of moving furniture into somebody’s toyota and called it a day.

Now its over. 5:00pm on Saturday, the sale is done and I am never doing it again (until the next time)

May 28, 2008

I wish there really was a pill I could pop that would take away flab. I know there is lipo, but that costs money. A spray would do just as well. Just a little something to eliminate having to go to the gym and work out on the eliptical machine (that is the hardest ever!). Every time I get on that thing I feel like I am going to die. The only thing that gets me through is my music and magazine. If I look at how many minutes I have left to go before my workout is done, I’m screwed.

I decided to get in shape, and I’m sticking to it but it’s HARD!. I’ve been at it for three weeks now, and am starting to see improvement. That is my motivation. That, and the fact that bathing suit season is here. I want to look good, so hi ho hi ho, its to the gym I go.

Truth be told, since I write so much, I can actually feel my butt spreading while I type. This is not a good thing, so everyday, minus Sunday, I take 45 minutes and work out. I know eventually I will have to increase this to 60 minutes, but I prefer to walk out of the gym, not crawl.

The upside to all this is increased energy, body getting firm, face looking better and those size 8 jeans feel good now. I can actually breathe when I zip them.

May 26, 2008

I wish to honor and say thank you to all our soldiers today. I think I always took it for granted and never truly appreciated the supreme sacrifice they all have made and continue to make. My son just got a medical discharge from the army and I’m one of the lucky moms. He is home, safe and sound. But many others are not.

I always viewed Memorial Day as a visit to the grocery store to pick up last minute items for the barbeque. It was a day of deciding between chicken or beef and what kind of dessert to have. Sometimes, we would just go to a movie and out to dinner.

I never gave this day the credit it deserves. If you haven’t been directly touched by the Iraq war, or wars in the past, it seems so easy to forget about it. That doesn’t mean you don’t care, it just means that you don’t think about it. Perhaps you’ve become a little de-sensitized.

So for today, maybe give it some thought and be grateful to each and every man and woman who serves in the military.