Wow! I can’t believe
I started this blog almost 2 years ago and haven’t done a thing with it
since. Time to get started on it again I
guess. The main reason I am starting
this blog is to remind myself about all of the blessing that we have. This has been a rough year for me
emotionally, and I found that I was spending too much time worrying myself sick
about things that I could not possibly change.
I decided that I needed to fill my time some other way, so thought I would
give this a shot. I am mostly going to be blogging about the things that
interest me.
We are Americans, living in Stavanger, Norway because of my husband’s job. We LOVE to travel and I try to find new, different and if possible cheap things for us to do. As of today, May 27, 2012 we have been to 50 countries since arriving in Europe on October 13, 2003. We hope to travel to many more, before Ron retires and we move back to the US. Our absolute favorite way to travel is to cruise. And lucky for us, we have a 14 day transatlantic cruise planned for September to celebrate our 100th birthdays! No, we are not really turning 100, but Ron and I will turn 50 8 days apart this year so we decided to celebrate with a cruise.
I also LOVE collecting recipes at Pinterest. I have decided it’s time to stop collecting
and start cooking! And speaking of
cooking – we are ALWAYS on a diet. My
problem is I get bored with a diet and then quit or switch to a different
diet. So, today, we started a new diet
again! It’s the Chrono nutrition diet
that we saw on 20/20. They didn’t have
the actual diet plan itself; I had to research to find it. Here is a link to the diet if you are
interested: 20/20. Our goal is to be at our “goal” weight by the
time we leave on our cruise. I’m not
going to tell you how much we weigh, but I am hoping to post how much we have
lost each week. Today was the first day
of our diet and so far, we have not really been hungry at all. Even though church got out pretty late, and
by the time our lunch was cooked, it was past 2:00. Weigh in days will be on Fridays, even though
we started the diet today. We are also
supposed to exercise for 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week. Of course, we over did it the first day …. According
to my Garmin Forerunner, we rode our bikes for 1 hour 39.42 minutes and went 10.33
miles. We went up 533 feet and came down
532 feet. I have NO idea what happened
to the extra foot … it may have been one of the times I forgot to turn it on
when we had stopped. Average speed was 6.2 mph with max speed at 16.9 mph (going downhill I’m sure!) and
according to this, I burned 1,026
calories, but that is WAY too much in my opinion. Here are some pictures that we took along our bike ride so hopefully you can see how beautiful our small corner of Norway is.
My other interests include antiquing, and spending time and
resources (money!) on our grandchildren.
We have 2 grandsons at the moment with our first granddaughter due in
August. So …. That’s it for today. The bike ride was pretty hard and I'm exhausted. :)
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