Posts Categorized: Life’s a Butter Dream
Life’s a Butter Dream – Author M.J. Pullen blogs about body image, weight loss (and gain) (and loss again), fitness and struggling to stay healthy as a working mom. When my oldest son, Skywalker, was a toddler, he used to sing “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily… life’s a butter dream.” And he’s right!
Two blogs ago, I made casual mention of the idea that the Internet has become a communal extension of my brain. I also toyed with the idea that maybe parts of my brain are beginning to atrophy — or perhaps to be reallocated to another purpose because of disuse. All thanks to the convenience of […]
And this time I don’t mean self-flagellation! I have to be honest, it’s been a rough few weeks for me motivation-wise. My energy has been spread in a lot of directions lately, both personally and professionally, and some days it has been all I can do just to keep up. I felt I was struggling […]
Ever wonder what you would do without the internet? I know people ask this rhetorically, and conversationally, all the time… but lately I’ve been observing my own ever-increasing reliance on the world wide web as a source of information and connection… and the psychology nerd in me is wondering, “What impact is this having on […]
You know, I almost didn’t want to do a blog this week, partly because – as always seems the case when I sit down to write – I worry that I have nothing whatsoever to say. The more positive reason, however, is that last week’s entry elicited so many fabulous responses from everyone. I didn’t […]
Welcome to the inaugural presentation of the Plastic Scissor Awards: an occasional (sporadic) tribute to those who fly in the face of convention, reason, and general good sense in order to follow their passions. To those who insist on learning every lesson the hard way, who shamelessly come back for more after getting their hearts […]
I guess all that writing about almond lattes yesterday got to me – I was running an early errand this morning and decided to stop in for one. That’s when I found out Starbucks no longer has almond flavoring! First they’re closing 600 stores and now this??? What is the world coming to?? [By the […]
“If you’re going to _____, you might as well ______.” There are many ways to finish that simple verbal formula. For example, “If you’re going to shoot yourself out of a cannon to impress your friends on YouTube, you might as well buy a good life insurance policy.” Or, “If you’re going down with the […]
Maybe it’s the hot weather or caffeine or something. I’m not usually one who has vivid dreams, especially involving cohesive plots, specific people or recognizable places. But I’ve been having some crazy ones lately. Like the one a few weeks ago where I helped a friend decorate her new house with the monsters and fixtures […]
I went to dinner with some friends last night, and a friend of mine – who is in Atlanta for the weekend from out of town – made me feel very special when he explained that he reads this blog regularly as one way of keeping in touch with me from afar. Awww…. how sweet. […]
Like most people, I’ve had money on the brain lately. Recession, gas prices, economic stimulus, housing market, job market… if I weren’t already meticulously evaluating my financial situation on my own (including, as the last blog indicates, calculating what I pay for the square footage in my storage unit), then the news outlets would still […]
