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Laura Dixson

5 Reasons You Should Add Stairway to your iPod

by Laura Dixson · 1 comment

  1. You knew I was referring to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” when you read Stairway
  2. Its old school
  3. The song is over 8 minutes long – which makes it ideal for a warm up, and keeps you going into your core sweat educing activity
  4. When it came up tonight on shuffle, it made me really happy I was working out
  5. Because …sometimes words have two meanings

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Work Out More

December 15, 2008

My Polar fitness watch just sent me an update regarding my weekly exercise log. It seems last week I only worked out one time, and burned 429 calories. I’m no data analyst but I’m thinking that is not enough for me to lose weight.
Matter of fact, I just read that even the old walk 30 [...]

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Turkey Tummy

November 29, 2008

Pie and turkey are so yummy,
I ate so much it blew up my tummy.
Now it time to work out again,
Otherwise I’ll look like a fat Christmas hen.

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148 over 121 – High Blood Pressure

November 10, 2008

I’ve been feeling a bit strange lately: lightheaded, tingly, woozy even. I thought maybe it was because I had a bit of a stomach flu and I was just off kilter, or I was stressed from a horrible business trip, or maybe even that I was having a blood sugar issue from overindulging in cupcakes [...]

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I’m having an affair…

October 15, 2008

I’m having an affair… taking it to the courts…
 
The tennis courts that is! 
 
Chingy and I visited our long lost tennis club last night.  It was perfect – a crisp 72 degrees, the gentle buzz of the early autumn insects against the hum of the stadium lights… Well, court lights anyway.
 
Friends…  I love me some [...]

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Fall in love again

October 10, 2008

I just fell in love again… with my treadmill.
I know you’re thinking… “She owns a treadmill?…  And shes chubby?”
Nonesense, right?  One would think these things are mutually exclusive by they are not my friends.
 
Happily, I got back on the treadmill.  I believe this is due to my extreme laziness that has prevented me from [...]

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Blue for Barak

October 9, 2008

I guess I will follow the lead of everyone else and make a political statement.
 
See photo below.  Notice how I am only consuming the blue popcorn kernels? 
 
Skills, my friends.  The skills of a hard core, registered Democrat.
 
Don’t forget to VOTE on November 4…  Unless you eat the red ones….                                                        

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