THAT kind of a day

You know the one where everything seems to be a shade of grey... literally and figuratively. The sun's in hiding and my brain is in power conservation mode , kinda dimmed out hnce this entry is gonna be short and not so sweet.
Heres hoping for sunnier weekend post.
Toot Toot!

Carb Cravings

are hitting me hard today.. resisting away.

Food + Friends + Fun = Good Weekend

And stayed pretty close to the SBD Phase 1 recommendations barring the one meal which had carbs but you know what ? Its a weekend and am gonna cut myself some slack here. Plus, I got my first ever personal training session today so am gonna work it off. Exciting stuff my blog posts. All about food ( or lack of it) and exercise. :-)

SBD Phase 1 - Day 3

Doing surprisingly well..considering am a carboholic with no intentional carb intake for the last 3 days.:)

SBD- Day 2

So, yes I know there is a reason I don't like diets but I cannot remember it now. Yah, its only day 2 and am still riding high on optimism.

Ok, I should start at the beginning. So, Me+ preggo = weight gain and Me-Preggo does not equal weight loss.I'm still trying to deal with this reality. The baby weight did not disspears magically as I was convinced it would and after 6 months of keeping my fingers crossed and watching the number on the scale NOT go down, am on SBD. South Beach Diet for the uninitiated.
So here I'm in Phase 1 day 2. Carb free so far. Sipping unsweetened iced tea and thinking good thoughts.

I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Been too busy to blog. What with having a baby , returning to work, having parents over for a few weeks then having in-laws over for a few more... you get the picture. Well, anyhoo now back to business. Need to write about a bunch of stuff. First, baby. Lots of work, very little sleep but a lot of joy really, baby smiles and makes you feel all gooey inside. Better than having chocolate.Good stuff. I will recommend mommyhood....just make sure you are okay with not getting yur 8hrs of Zzzs for the next oh, forever .:)

Life imitates art or vice-versa ?

Anyone not catching Tina Fey's SNL skits the last few weeks are missing out on some serious fun!
Tina Fey is absolutely rocking .. shes got beautiful timing and totally deadpan delivery. I love her in 30 Rock but the Sarah Palin impersonations are just brilliant. Check out HULU for clips.
After the VP debate and the Couric interviews ...left me wondering if life imitates art or vice-versa or does it even matter when its so damned entertaining ;-)
Heres hoping for more gaffes,
Batty

Zapped out of blogertia

Ah yes, I've finally zapped out of blog-ertia today while I was driving to work this AM and NPR started airing a program on the reactions of women (from various political leanings )to Sarah Palin's choice as the GOP Veep. The prevalant opinion irrespective of political affiliation seems to be that this is a topic that can be discussed legitimately. To me its downright offensive that anyone in this day and age would even bring up this question on the sole basis that Sarah Palin is female. I didn't hear anyone ask the same question about Obama's ability to raise his 2 young daughters or Edwards ability to deal with his wife's cancer while gunning for the top post. To me this reeks of typecasting the female as the nurturer and the male as the bread winner .
Had to vent.
Still fuming
Batty

Tax troubles

Yes, I was all set to spend 40 good ones on a custom plate for my cool new ride, my much prized MINI .And so I spent a good part of the week making up 6 space alphanumeric combinations that would be cool , fun and hip ....in other words me ;).
Well, all that came to naught. My well laid plans fell apart very quickly once I discovered that Bush country charges 6.25% of the car price as sales tax for registering the vehicle or doing a title transfer.Yes, even on used cars bought from private owners.And incase anyone has the bright idea of marking the purchase price down ,it doesn't really help.These nasty buggers have devised a system of estimating the car value by year and mileage and they do not allow the price to be marked below 80% of that value for the purpose of calculating tax . Can you blame a girl for being too upset to forget about niceties like custom plates when being hit with an unexpected tax bill of over a grand?
Grrr....

"Readability" Rating

So here someone rates the "readability" of your blog.I couldn't find any information on their criteria for readability . I thought about this for a bit and realized that I wasn't completely certain either of what makes any material readable . Is it only about how easy it is to read that makes it readable? Or is it about how interesting the content is that makes it really readable? I think mostly the later but surely that's hardly objective . So anyways to clarify this I looked up the definition of readability. Dictionary.com defines read·a·bil·i·ty as the state or quality of being readable which left me none the wiser. Since there is no mention of the interesting quotient , I think Funkeying with its rating should be able to attract a pretty wide audience;-).

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