White Vinegar & Dawn Revisited

I did retry this, as promised.  I just haven't gotten back to here to give the update.  At first, I was going to get on here and give it a big NO.  BUT then I tried something - I took a toothbrush to the bottom of my tub.  Can I just say -- OMGoodness!  It made a WORLD of difference on the bottom of the tub!  It's textured to make it non-skid and apparently that's where the problem has been all this time!  There is NO indication of the yuck that was in the bottom before!

Then, to add to my LOVE of this cleaner, I mentioned it to my mother.  She has a shower stall with a glass door.  Her house is near the sound (the water between the main land and the outer banks circled in the picture below)

 

 

While her water is City water, it's still pretty hard.  AND this is the tub that everyone takes showers in when we come back in from the boat.  So salt water and sand everywhere! 

 

Well, her glass door was no longer see through.  She asked and I suggested this.  I told her to spray it on, leave it for 10-15 minutes and wipe it off.  She tried it and said it made a drastic difference!  She said it's not perfect still, but she does this about once a week and it seems to be getting better each time.

 

Between both stories above, I am going to call this one a win!

 



Restarting working out

So, I promised it, and here it is.  Tonight when I got home, I rode my bike 1 mile.  Not too long, but my husband had already ran/walked 2 miles at the gym and didn't want to ride much longer.

Then I did this workout.

I had to Google the first 2 exercises to make sure I was doing them right.  To save you the time, the links are here and here. 

I was nowhere near as graceful as the ladies in the videos, but this was a good workout.  Tomorrow night I'm going to do another workout.

This pin is in my Health & Fitness board.  And it didn't really point to anything, BUT the person who made this workout was nice enough to include her site on the image.  So I went to http://backonpointe.tumblr.com/ and did a search for abs.  It brought up not only this image, but a bunch of other great workouts.  I will definitely go back to that site!  Definitely a win.

Arm flapping challenge

So, this is my life.  The reason I can't EVERY get a workout routine started. The life of IT (Information Technology).  I didn't do the workout Friday night because of a failed e-mail server.  Then Saturday, we had a network outage that affected Public Safety (and a server room AC outage).  Turned out a squirrel had gotten ahold of the fiber.

 

So that meant my Sunday was taken up with church and assisting with fixing this mess.  Then Monday was finishing up the troubleshooting, plus the daily problems that come up, and by the time I got home and ate dinner, I was exhausted.  Today was working on stuff I should've done yesterday and tonight is my first night to truly relax.  I know excuses are weak and I should push through them, but sometimes you just want to relax.  I'm going to take a break and pick a new challenge (or 2) to start tomorrow.  I'll let you know what I decide on and also pick another pin to try for you.  I'll also try the "Vinegar and Dawn" bathtub cleaner again this week.

7 Day Arm Jiggle Challenge - Day.....

Well, this is a ME fail - I had a problem at my day work that I didn't finish with until almost 9pm.  I was exhausted.  I'll pick it back up tomorrow.  And it probably doesn't hurt to rest one day anyway.....

Baby shower suggestion

I LOVED this one!  My sister-in-law was expecting my 5th niece (no nephews for me!) and I threw her a baby shower with the help of my mother-in-law.  I wanted something that she could keep forever and my niece could look at throughout her life. 

I found this idea and posted it in my "Shower idea".  Then I went to work in my Stampin' Up My Digital Studio.  Her nursery theme was owls/woods in browns, yellows, and pinks.  I made my own cards with unique lines, in a 3 x 5 size, saved it as a JPG, then inserted it into a Word Document (Landscape, with .25" margins, to maximize the printing).  Once I printed enough for the anticipated guests, I cut them down to size, and purchased a small photo album with the colors she was using.

I added the "From" at the top because I wanted her to know who was sending her the love :)

As the guests arrived (aunts, grandparents, friends, etc), I handed them out with pens.  As everyone completed them, I inserted them into the photo album.  At the end, I presented it to my sister-in-law.

I think this was a hit with the "seasoned" shower goers (older generation) that didn't really want to do the same old, same old shower games.  AND it gives my niece something to look at and see how much she is loved by her family and the hopes and dreams we have for her future.

7 Day Arm Jiggle Challenge - Day 4

OW!  My arms are SO sore!  Next time I'm going to do two 7 days challenges and alternate the nights.

So tonight I did the exercises in the order of - 2, 5, 1, 6, 3, and 4.

5 was tough, and just after starting 1, I put my arms down for about 10 seconds because they just weren't working.

I'm glad there's only 3 days left.....

Also, I thought about it last night - I should have measured my arms before, so I could compare when I'm done.

"9 Ways to shave less"

This is a post I had under my "Stuff" (doesn't really fit anywhere else) board.  It's now in my  "Tested and Failed"

I mean, who doesn't want to SHAVE LESS!  LOL  So, I (finally) followed the link, because who checks the link when they post stuff (which is why I started this blog ;).  Well, it took me to the Elle website.... main page.

So the link didn't go to the article - Fail, but no big deal, I'm pretty smart, surely I can find the article.

NO search option on the site - Fail, but let's be logical here.  Out of the headers Fashion, Beauty, Accessories, Street, Culture, Life & Love, News, and Horoscopes, SURELY I could figure out where this article is.

So I went to Beauty (obviously, right?).  Now it wasn't in the featured articles, but no big deal, there was a link to "Show all articles".

When I clicked that, it listed the articles on a page with about 15-20 per page, with a total of 50 pages.

I made it through the first 10 pages and got bored searching - as most would.  America's Got Talent was on and it grabbed my attention.  WHY would you bury an article on your site and NOT have a search.  So, while I didn't "test" this, I'm calling it a FAIL.  If someone can point me to the real article, I'd be interested in trying again.