Friday, December 16, 2011

The joys of technology

I'm playing with my Christmas present early ... An iPad2 ... And decided to try out how easy using blogger would be with the app. My hope is that this will help me post more to my business blog (inkabella.com), if nothing else.

Once I finish a project, I can take images and post right away, in theory. So I took a picture of my desk at lunch time to test with.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Legend of the Christmas Spider

Legend of the Christmas Spider

Long, long ago, on one Christmas Eve, the spiders were banished from homes while the houses were cleaned for Christmas and their webs were broken. They just managed to survive and had to move to the farthest corner of the attic for the time being. However, some of the young spiders longed to see the decorated Christmas trees and the little Christ child that came to bless the homes in the midnight. The elders tried to make them understand that they were not allowed inside the rooms but the young spiders were quite curious and adamant. Finally, the oldest and wisest spider came up with a solution and suggested that in the night, when everybody went to bed, perhaps they could creep out of their corners and get a closer look of the magical Christmas tree.

Even the adult spiders felt the thrill of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them and in midnight, when the house of a noble family was dark and silent and everybody was fast asleep, spiders crept out of their hiding place and slowly reached the Christmas tree. They were so captivated by the ethereal beauty that they spent all night in the tree, crawling up and down and examining its beautiful ornaments. They could not curb their urge to weave pretty and delicate spider webs all over the tree as they danced on its branches. In the wee hours of the morning, the little Christ child came to bless the house. He was surprised to find little spiders and their webs on the tree.

He knew that every creature was made by God and yet he knew how the mother who had worked hard all day to make everything perfect would be dismayed to find the spider webs on its tree. Thus, with a heart full of love and a lovely bewitching smile on his lips, the Christ child gently touched the spider webs and set them sparkling and shining in silver and golden colors that made the Christmas tree look even more beautiful than before. It is said that this is how tinsel was introduced to decorate Christmas trees. Some people also hang a plastic spider in remembrance of the devoted little spiders who worked hard that Christmas Eve.

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And so for our tradition, we have placed a spider in our tree...

Monday, December 5, 2011

Battling the Fat Fairy

My own going battle with the Fat Fairy took a major hit. I've had a lot going on the past year and I was trying to use the Weight Watchers @ Work meetings to get on track and lose the weight. I was successful and had lost some weight. However, things got stressful at work and home and I couldn't afford to keep going. I stopped going, stopped paying attention to what I was eating and didn't track and guess what? I gained all the weight I'd lost back (and probably some).

So today I decided it was time to get back on the horse and get rid of this extra weight. I'm tired of the way I look and feel - I just hope I can keep this feeling for motivation.

I  weighed myself this morning to give myself a starting point and came in at 323 lbs (down actually 2.6lbs from last week when I had slowly started getting back on track). Starting today I'm tracking and exercising again. I went for about a 40 minute walk. I didn't mean for it to be that long, it was actually going to just be 20 minutes as I walked to the Weight Watcher's Meeting Office nearby to get a new calculator. However, as I got back to work, I noticed that she waaaay over charged me for the calculator (a new model was just released so they were selling the old models at $3.95 - she charged me the regular price of $11.95). It was freezing when I set out at first and when I got back to the office I was sweating pretty badly. Thankfully my deorderant did its job. :)

The other great thing about my walk is that I get to add in 15 points. However, I'm only going to add back in six because while the book says that my walk was considered high intensity, I think it was actually moderate because of my lack of stamina.

So here is me telling myself that I will make it this time!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

It might be time for a switch

The more I tinker with my iPhone, the more I love it. I'm seriously considering getting a 3G (4G when it comes out) iPad. Right now, I'm making this post via the blogger app. I'm thinking if the ease with which I could do this on an iPad with either a wireless keyboard or keyboard dock. I'd be able to take photos and post with ease (like this :D).

It's certainly something to consider. The only draw back is some things I wouldn't be able to do, like edit/upload HTML docs, but I can get around that.