Phoebe jumps on the bandwagon
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SweatPea
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Sounds like a good selection of veggies and some fruits. As far as tomatillos they are very easy to grow - about as easy as a tomato plant. I grew some one year and made a huge batch of salsa verde (green salsa.) Mmmm! It had a great taste.
I might have to do that again this year as I haven't grown the tomatillos in a long time.
Everytime i see your name -I start singing the theme song from the very old tv show Nanny and the Professor - Phoebe Figalilly is a silly name... or at least was the name o the nanny 
That's actually who I was named after.
My dad got to pick.Neither my sister nor I have middle names; our parents decided that if they were going to saddle us with less-common first names, they'd give us the option of picking a middle name to go by later.
I'll have to try that this year, then. I dug out a garden over Labor Day, and need to get some spring planting in before the weeds overtake it. Which I've never ever succeeded in doing before, but there's always a first time.
Already have plans for:
- snow peas
- sugar snap peas
- daikon
- lettuce mix
- cucumber
- green beans
- green onion
- spinach
- serrano chiles
- whatever variety of chiles MIL has - they aren't bird's eye, but they're pretty small and hot
- cilantro
- sage
- something cruciferous if I'm not too lazy to net it; if I am too lazy, it'll just be caterpillared and I may as well not bother
- tomatoes
Since I've only got about 50 square feet at the moment, I've overplanted by 4 or 5 times. With any luck, I'll have some hours I can carve out of work to dig sod in March and early April.
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Great list for a garden!
I always can keep the garden clean up until July, then after that it just seems to go to pot ... that is the weeds take over. But by then the plants are strong enough to stand on their own. So I still have a good crop.
I don't have a very big garden space, but you know the more space you have the more weeds you have to tend to! I could have a bigger one, but don't just because I'm usually the only one out there taking care of it even though everyone enjoys the goods!
Good luck with your garden plans.
I always can keep the garden clean up until July, then after that it just seems to go to pot ... that is the weeds take over.
But by then the plants are strong enough to stand on their own. So I still have a good crop.I don't have a very big garden space, but you know the more space you have the more weeds you have to tend to!
I could have a bigger one, but don't just because I'm usually the only one out there taking care of it even though everyone enjoys the goods!Good luck with your garden plans.
The current garden spot is bordered by sidewalk (one whole side), driveway (another whole side), a well-established azalea bed (which is almost weed-free for a good 20 feet), and Bermuda grass. So I've got the same amount of Bermuda-grass exposure regardless of the square footage of the garden - and the Bermuda grass is worse than anything else.
MIL is really good at tending the garden once it's established, but she can't dig and doesn't know a lot about planting. So that's my part, and she keeps it up from there.
MIL is really good at tending the garden once it's established, but she can't dig and doesn't know a lot about planting. So that's my part, and she keeps it up from there.
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That's one cool MIL!
Yeah, I have a good MIL. (She better be good, since she lives with us. It's the only way we can all survive!)
Yesterday: 2/3 of a mile walking fast to warm up, then I managed a slow-but-steady jog the rest of the way (3.25 miles total). Another half-mile or so walking slow as a cool-down. All that before my hair appointment, which is conveniently right next to the park. Little tight behind my right knee, otherwise good.
Later yesterday at lunch, 2 miles slow with my parents (16-17 minute miles).
Today: Another 2 slow miles, 32:45. Tired from yesterday. Came home with only half my steps taken, so I had to walk in place in my living room, which is way less fun than walking outside. But outside is pitch dark (no streetlights here) and drizzly.
Tomorrow: Class from 7:45am to 4pm. Potential for some inside walking at lunch, but more likely, they'll cut lunch short and we'll get out at 3:30. Boss is going to a client's from class, so I may zip over for a quick lap around the park before I head back to work. Should wear comfy clothes to class and bring my water bottle, just in case.
Yesterday: 2/3 of a mile walking fast to warm up, then I managed a slow-but-steady jog the rest of the way (3.25 miles total). Another half-mile or so walking slow as a cool-down. All that before my hair appointment, which is conveniently right next to the park. Little tight behind my right knee, otherwise good.
Later yesterday at lunch, 2 miles slow with my parents (16-17 minute miles).
Today: Another 2 slow miles, 32:45. Tired from yesterday. Came home with only half my steps taken, so I had to walk in place in my living room, which is way less fun than walking outside. But outside is pitch dark (no streetlights here) and drizzly.
Tomorrow: Class from 7:45am to 4pm. Potential for some inside walking at lunch, but more likely, they'll cut lunch short and we'll get out at 3:30. Boss is going to a client's from class, so I may zip over for a quick lap around the park before I head back to work. Should wear comfy clothes to class and bring my water bottle, just in case.
I_wannaBthin
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My daughter is begging me to plant a garden this spring...I can't wait!
My dad's middle name is M, his younger brother's middle names are Arthur Cleveland. Weird that she couldn't think of one of those when she had my dad isn't it? He actually has 3 brothers and 4 sisters.
So did you pick a middle name for yourself? If so what did you pick? I was just thinking about names the other day because our daughter has a "strange" name, but it was always my favorite name growing up, and I was thinking about what name I would have picked for myself. I am Jennifer, named after my mom's pet parakeet!
My dad's middle name is M, his younger brother's middle names are Arthur Cleveland. Weird that she couldn't think of one of those when she had my dad isn't it? He actually has 3 brothers and 4 sisters.
So did you pick a middle name for yourself? If so what did you pick? I was just thinking about names the other day because our daughter has a "strange" name, but it was always my favorite name growing up, and I was thinking about what name I would have picked for myself. I am Jennifer, named after my mom's pet parakeet!
I_wannaBthin
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Just to clarify, one brother's middle names are Arthur Cleveland.
The middle names of the boys (in chronological order) are: Merle (the father's name), M (my dad's middle name), Arthur Cleveland (don't know where those came from) and John (my grandma's brother's name).
Not that you cared, but I just think it is strange!
The middle names of the boys (in chronological order) are: Merle (the father's name), M (my dad's middle name), Arthur Cleveland (don't know where those came from) and John (my grandma's brother's name).
Not that you cared, but I just think it is strange!
Hi, any tips on gardening? I'm planning on planting a garden this spring, have an area all set up for one. Your MIL sounds amazing, mine just calls to complain periodically,lol. Thanks for the advice on walking on my treadmill, boy was I tired last night,lol. I'll push up my speed slowly each week, until I'm comfortable! Have a great day!
Hey, Jennifer! No, I never did pick a middle name for myself. I actually like being Phoebe, even if no one ever gets it right.
My daughter, on the other hand, has a hyphenated (transliteration of her two-character Chinese name) middle name and a two-word-no-hypen last name, so I obviously had some deep-seated feelings about my unusual-but-straightforward name.
evee, I really know nothing about gardening other than what it says on the back of the veggie packets! We have heavy clay soil and Bermuda grass, so I dig out the sod and do semi-raised beds with purchased topsoil. I need more soil amendments, though, because if I plant basil, it turns out inedibly clove-y and bitter. (Oh, and my MIL is not amazing. She's bleached a multitude of my clothes, despite my stated preference for washing them myself. If I need a Tupperware, I rewash it to get the greasy residue out. And she makes a multitude of "it wouldn't have been an emergency if you'd told me when you first knew about it" demands on my partner. So not amazing. But pretty good, all in all.)
My daughter, on the other hand, has a hyphenated (transliteration of her two-character Chinese name) middle name and a two-word-no-hypen last name, so I obviously had some deep-seated feelings about my unusual-but-straightforward name.
evee, I really know nothing about gardening other than what it says on the back of the veggie packets! We have heavy clay soil and Bermuda grass, so I dig out the sod and do semi-raised beds with purchased topsoil. I need more soil amendments, though, because if I plant basil, it turns out inedibly clove-y and bitter. (Oh, and my MIL is not amazing. She's bleached a multitude of my clothes, despite my stated preference for washing them myself. If I need a Tupperware, I rewash it to get the greasy residue out. And she makes a multitude of "it wouldn't have been an emergency if you'd told me when you first knew about it" demands on my partner. So not amazing. But pretty good, all in all.)
Day in review
Got most of my walking on on breaks during class. Anyone who thinks they don't have time to squeeze in a little exercise: the pedometer says I got in 2+ miles, ~6,000 steps, and 41 minutes of moderate exercise from pacing the hotel lobby the 10 minutes before class, 10 minutes each of two 15-minute breaks (a girl's got to pee), and 11 minutes carved out of the lunch break. Also got "Wow, what a great idea" comments from three different people. (This also keeps me away from the muffins that are out in the morning, and the brownies / cookies that are out in the afternoon, and the cake/pie offered at lunch.)
Came back to the office, had 15 minutes before I needed to head to a client's, walked a mile in 13:15. Did not die. My dad is a good walking partner, because both of us are stubborn and competitive enough that we try to walk just a tiny bit faster than the other, and both of us can do that time and almost, but not quite, fall over dead at the end. That took me almost up to my 10k steps, so called it good for the day. I get the rest from normal wandering around.
I find myself bored and hungry tonight. Left work an hour earlier than I had planned, due to total lack of motivation. Came home and lay on the couch with my kid. I know my calorie count, so I shouldn't be hungry, and the bottle of warm lemon water to my left isn't filling the void, so the hungry boredom is emotional. Probably disgruntled that I plan to work the weekend, but working the weekend now will save me much misery a week or two from now. Ah, yes, I feel the nibbly desires abating, so that probably was it. Also tired (and sleepy) but not yet wound down and relaxed, so going to bed anyhow would be a good plan.
Biggest Loser Play At Home: 41.1 points this week. Combined with last week, when I didn't try very hard and only got 39.1 points, means I'm still far enough down I'd be eliminated from any team except Black. But I'd have been one of the top point-getters this week.
Week Two Challenge from the other board
Write down an exercise plan for the week
Spend 10 minutes stretching (yoga/pilates ok) after workouts (maxes at 8 stretching sessions)
Add 10 minutes to your cardio workouts (maxes at 80 additional minutes)
Spend 20 mins doing vigorous housework (scrubbing, moving stuff, washing windows....anything that gets your heart beating) (maxes at 80 minutes)
LOL - I won't be getting many points this week. Exercise plan I can do, as long as "walk at/after lunch every day I'm not in class, or on breaks if I am in class, as fast as I can and far enough to get my 10k steps in" counts. I'm not philosophically opposed to stretching, but if I did make time to stretch, I'd do it before, not after. I'm already too heavy on cardio (to the tune of 490 minutes last week), and have no "regular" workout length to add 10 minutes to, even if I were so inclined. And I don't do housework during tax season - I *am* philosophically opposed to that! Having just added it up, and concluded that getting max points would require an additional 4 hours of exercise, I think I'll pass.
Got most of my walking on on breaks during class. Anyone who thinks they don't have time to squeeze in a little exercise: the pedometer says I got in 2+ miles, ~6,000 steps, and 41 minutes of moderate exercise from pacing the hotel lobby the 10 minutes before class, 10 minutes each of two 15-minute breaks (a girl's got to pee), and 11 minutes carved out of the lunch break. Also got "Wow, what a great idea" comments from three different people. (This also keeps me away from the muffins that are out in the morning, and the brownies / cookies that are out in the afternoon, and the cake/pie offered at lunch.)
Came back to the office, had 15 minutes before I needed to head to a client's, walked a mile in 13:15. Did not die. My dad is a good walking partner, because both of us are stubborn and competitive enough that we try to walk just a tiny bit faster than the other, and both of us can do that time and almost, but not quite, fall over dead at the end. That took me almost up to my 10k steps, so called it good for the day. I get the rest from normal wandering around.
I find myself bored and hungry tonight. Left work an hour earlier than I had planned, due to total lack of motivation. Came home and lay on the couch with my kid. I know my calorie count, so I shouldn't be hungry, and the bottle of warm lemon water to my left isn't filling the void, so the hungry boredom is emotional. Probably disgruntled that I plan to work the weekend, but working the weekend now will save me much misery a week or two from now. Ah, yes, I feel the nibbly desires abating, so that probably was it. Also tired (and sleepy) but not yet wound down and relaxed, so going to bed anyhow would be a good plan.
Biggest Loser Play At Home: 41.1 points this week. Combined with last week, when I didn't try very hard and only got 39.1 points, means I'm still far enough down I'd be eliminated from any team except Black. But I'd have been one of the top point-getters this week.
Week Two Challenge from the other board
Write down an exercise plan for the week
Spend 10 minutes stretching (yoga/pilates ok) after workouts (maxes at 8 stretching sessions)
Add 10 minutes to your cardio workouts (maxes at 80 additional minutes)
Spend 20 mins doing vigorous housework (scrubbing, moving stuff, washing windows....anything that gets your heart beating) (maxes at 80 minutes)
LOL - I won't be getting many points this week. Exercise plan I can do, as long as "walk at/after lunch every day I'm not in class, or on breaks if I am in class, as fast as I can and far enough to get my 10k steps in" counts. I'm not philosophically opposed to stretching, but if I did make time to stretch, I'd do it before, not after. I'm already too heavy on cardio (to the tune of 490 minutes last week), and have no "regular" workout length to add 10 minutes to, even if I were so inclined. And I don't do housework during tax season - I *am* philosophically opposed to that! Having just added it up, and concluded that getting max points would require an additional 4 hours of exercise, I think I'll pass.
It's too darn cold here. The cold seeps in through the floor and freezes my toesies. Woke up early this morning to a sick kid. Lay on the couch with her feverish, coughing, grouchy self. Eventually her mama got up and forced some ibuprofen into her - 15 minutes later, she was her normal cheerful self. Tomorrow, I get to be the medication bad cop.
Hung out until afternoon, feeling tired and unmotivated. Ate what seemed like way more food than I should have. Dragged kid over to her grandparents', where I walked a mile and a bit with kid + my mom and then 2 miles with my mom. Still too darn cold. Face was all burny from the cold wind, and I never got sweaty despite walking at a decent pace with a long-sleeved shirt, sweatshirt, jacket, penguin mittens, an earwarmer, and a hood. Too darn cold. Ate a bunch of fruit and veggies.
Came home, ate some more veggies, put kid to bed, had a big bowl of popcorn. Turns out I didn't eat way too much food in the first part of the day, because my total for the day was completely reasonable.
I expect the scale to be high in the morning, because salty popcorn at bedtime = water retention.
Need to come up with a plan for upping my calories. Between the increase in exercise, the stresses of tax season (thinking really really hard really does burn calories - I've always been able to eat with abandon this time of year without significant consequences), and being outside in the way-too-cold, I'm losing a bit faster than my projection. Which was the case in the past, too - but I'm finding myself hungry at the end of the day now, and I haven't been in the past. Not sure what I want the plan to look like, though. 1/3-1/3-1/3 has worked well for me for the last 4 months. I'm thinking about adding the additional calories all in complex carbs, though. Right now, I'm getting almost all my carbs from fruits, veggies, and legumes - I'd like to get more of my protein from legumes without cutting back on my fruits and veggies.
Back to the too darn coldness - the weather forecast for tomorrow looks like:
Sunrise 7:32am
8am 21°F feels like 9°F 0% winds From SSE 11 mph
9am 24°F feels like 13°F winds From S 12 mph
10am 28°F feels like 17°F winds From S 14 mph
11am 33°F feels like 23°F winds From S 16 mph
12pm 37°F feels like 27°F winds From S 18 mph
1pm 40°F feels like 31°F winds From S 19 mph
2pm 43°F feels like 34°F winds From S 20 mph
3pm 43°F feels like 34°F winds From S 20 mph
4pm 42°F feels like 33°F winds From S 21 mph
5pm 39°F feels like 29°F winds From SSE 22 mph
Sunset 5:37 pm
Sooo. If I walk at my parents', I get a 20mph wind from the side, and won't go fast enough to keep myself warm. If I walk at the park, I get a headwind at the beginning and end, and a tailwind for the longest stretch, and will go fast enough to keep myself warm for at least half the distance - but I can't quit halfway through if it's too darn cold. For comparison, the official wind speed today was 9mph - with gusts up to 25. I will be freezing my bippy off.
Hung out until afternoon, feeling tired and unmotivated. Ate what seemed like way more food than I should have. Dragged kid over to her grandparents', where I walked a mile and a bit with kid + my mom and then 2 miles with my mom. Still too darn cold. Face was all burny from the cold wind, and I never got sweaty despite walking at a decent pace with a long-sleeved shirt, sweatshirt, jacket, penguin mittens, an earwarmer, and a hood. Too darn cold. Ate a bunch of fruit and veggies.
Came home, ate some more veggies, put kid to bed, had a big bowl of popcorn. Turns out I didn't eat way too much food in the first part of the day, because my total for the day was completely reasonable.
I expect the scale to be high in the morning, because salty popcorn at bedtime = water retention.
Need to come up with a plan for upping my calories. Between the increase in exercise, the stresses of tax season (thinking really really hard really does burn calories - I've always been able to eat with abandon this time of year without significant consequences), and being outside in the way-too-cold, I'm losing a bit faster than my projection. Which was the case in the past, too - but I'm finding myself hungry at the end of the day now, and I haven't been in the past. Not sure what I want the plan to look like, though. 1/3-1/3-1/3 has worked well for me for the last 4 months. I'm thinking about adding the additional calories all in complex carbs, though. Right now, I'm getting almost all my carbs from fruits, veggies, and legumes - I'd like to get more of my protein from legumes without cutting back on my fruits and veggies.
Back to the too darn coldness - the weather forecast for tomorrow looks like:
Sunrise 7:32am
8am 21°F feels like 9°F 0% winds From SSE 11 mph
9am 24°F feels like 13°F winds From S 12 mph
10am 28°F feels like 17°F winds From S 14 mph
11am 33°F feels like 23°F winds From S 16 mph
12pm 37°F feels like 27°F winds From S 18 mph
1pm 40°F feels like 31°F winds From S 19 mph
2pm 43°F feels like 34°F winds From S 20 mph
3pm 43°F feels like 34°F winds From S 20 mph
4pm 42°F feels like 33°F winds From S 21 mph
5pm 39°F feels like 29°F winds From SSE 22 mph
Sunset 5:37 pm
Sooo. If I walk at my parents', I get a 20mph wind from the side, and won't go fast enough to keep myself warm. If I walk at the park, I get a headwind at the beginning and end, and a tailwind for the longest stretch, and will go fast enough to keep myself warm for at least half the distance - but I can't quit halfway through if it's too darn cold. For comparison, the official wind speed today was 9mph - with gusts up to 25. I will be freezing my bippy off.
bikinibound
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LOL@ your "cold" weather. Today's high here was 10F and it's currently 2F. 
Sorry your daughter's sick. That's no fun for her or you. I'm glad your MIL is cool. If I lived with mine, it wouldn't be pretty.
I hear ya with the late night cravings. I get them almost every night. I usually manage to fight them off, but it isn't easy.
Today's high here was 10F and it's currently 2F. Sorry your daughter's sick. That's no fun for her or you. I'm glad your MIL is cool. If I lived with mine, it wouldn't be pretty.
I hear ya with the late night cravings. I get them almost every night. I usually manage to fight them off, but it isn't easy.
Karebare
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Its freezing here too....I cant stand the cold weather....
I went to bed around 11pm last night and woke up at 1:00 a.m. starving..and wide awake..I watched a little TV and just talked myself out of raiding the fridge...
have a great day, and i hope your dtr starts feeling better....the flu/colds are going around here...
I went to bed around 11pm last night and woke up at 1:00 a.m. starving..and wide awake..I watched a little TV and just talked myself out of raiding the fridge...
have a great day, and i hope your dtr starts feeling better....the flu/colds are going around here...