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Instructions...... Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird or random things, facts, or habits about yourself. At the end, you choose at least 6 people to be tagged, listing their names . Don't forget to leave a comment that says, "You're it!" on their profile and ask them to read your blog. You can't tag the person who tagged you.... 10. I pack my cigarettes exactly 13 times before I open them. 9. I love owls. 8. My dream car is a Shelby Mustang Fastback. 7. I set my parents house on fire when I was 3, leave me alone and bored will you. 6. I have a scar on my back from getting thrown on a barb wire fence by my horse when I about 12. 5. I have a birthmark on left bicep that used to look like a bat now I don't know more like a bear. 4. I am a nurse. 3. I am a Virgo but I was supposed to be a Libra, I came 2 weeks early. So I'm obsessed with fairness. 2. I have 3 awesome kids. 1. Married the guy I crushed on in Junior High.

Seven Deadly Sins-Dieting Tips 2 2. Greed. No I don't mean eating every last M&M so that you have to share. Or gobbling down the last piece of birthday cake hiding behind the kitchen door. That's another topic, I'll get to it. So how does greed make you fat? Or keep you from getting in shape? Well, what is greed. Simply it is the flip side of generosity. If you are not being generous you are being greedy. So let's say you want to go to the gym, the track, start a dance class or start hiking but you don't have a buddy. And lo and behold lack of a buddy is your last and final obstacle. Now you start polling your cache of BFF's to see who is most likely to be interested and willing to tag along. And when you find somebody, they plead poverty. You could first determine if excuse of poverty is not simply a ruse to disguise lack of interest. Then offer to pay for it yourself. Oh but that would be just too crazy and way to expensive. Is that money you are hoarding the last money you will have at all without it you will starve to death with no power, no heat and no gas in the car to go work? Or will you just hit mall one less time, go out to eat one less time, or buy a few less smokes? And what if friend simply refuses to accept your generosity? Offer it in the form of a birthday present or Christmas present. Once upon a time, my kids and I wanted to take up archery. But I never could get the cash together to buy all the equipment. Wouldn't it have been nice if my fairy godmother had appeared waved her magic wand and bibbidy bobbidy boo there it was. Well someone could have done that. Christmas morning we all run downstairs and Santa has brought us all bows, arrows, gloves, targets the whole nine yards. You don't have to impoverish yourself. You want to go hiking, nobody to go with, consider finding a buddy and tada here's some hiking boots, let's go. Once in Church our priest was talking about tithing. Well, here we go again I though, give us money, give us money. But then he surprised me. Yes tithe 10% and if you want to give it all to us that would be great, we've got some great programs and we will try to be good stewards of your money. But if you feel led to put your money somewhere else then go ahead. Give money to the arts, to a wildlife fund, or friend who is in need. Final thought on the subject: if you just don't have anybody to play with. No kids, friends refuse. What about Big Brothers/Little Sisters? Kids live to play. It's their job. Sign up. And go play Frisbee. Go ride bikes. If your kid doesn't have one, buy one to keep at your house. Roller blade. Ice skate. Horseback ride. The most fun people in world are kids. And that would be being generous with your time. Ahhh. Anyway, think about it, this is good for outside and inside.

1. Pride Applying the 7 Deadly Sins as dieting tips maybe my new diet strategy. First, letting go of pride. If I had a nickel for everytime a friend told me they couldn't go to the gym because they looked too bad, they didn't want to look silly, didn't have the right outfits for it or there would be men there...my next cruise would be paid for. The gym maybe the only place where looking bad is actually the goal. Sweaty= yay! Hair askew= who cares! Face beat red=great workout! Yes, there are 20 years old prancing around there almost naked and the only time they will have any fat on them at all is when I bump into them; I no longer give a damn. Yes, there are girls there working the weight room like a nightclub, good for them, don't care about them either. If I manage to make it to the gym; find the time, get my clothes on and get down there. Then I feel just a triumphant as the young man who bench 200lbs for the first time. As for looking silly; well, good. Anyone who bounces into a class for the first time looks silly while learning the routine. Looking silly is good, means your trying. Wobbling around a track on a pair of roller blades wearing helmet, knee pads, elbow pads, wrist guard is okay too. Takes practise. I used to roller blade with my kids, maybe I did look silly to them, it was still fun and I got to spend time with kids. And after roller blades and pads were bought it never cost me another dime. Looking silly=beginner. After awhile, you won't look silly anymore. The right outfit would be one that is clean and doesn't smell like B.O. Not covered in paint from where you painted the house. And not all torn to shreds. Wal-Mart sells sweats every fall. Go buy 2. One to wash while you're wearing the other one. Once you get tone, buff and lose weight, go buy a couple of those nearly naked outfits the 20 year old are wearing. There will be men there and they will see me. Eek. Get over it. Heart disease kills women dead by the thousands every year. Besides they are most likely looking at the fat free nearly naked 20 year olds. Let go of pride. Work out. Have fun. Get into good shape. Live long and prosper as Spock would say.