Experiments in Life

A friend of ours took this test and I just couldn’t resist. So, here are my results.

Big surprise

This is for all you electronic geeks out there, you know who I’m talking to. Scientists have now found a way to merge my wonderful world of biology to electronics. This should really be interesting to some of you. Anyway, here’s the link.

Read on, and enjoy

‘Cellborg’ merges microbe and machine

Ain’t science grand…

4,000-year old pasta

I didn’t realize that determining who made the first noodles was so important

Don’t get me wrong, it’s quite interesting, but…we’re talking noodles here folks

And another, and another, and another…

That’s right folks. Yesterday was the dreaded weigh-in day at the gym. To my relief, I’ve lost another 4 lbs. YEAH!!! I’m totally excited about this. I also managed to lose ~1.5 inches on my waist or so. No wonder I can get back into some of my old clothes. Everything else was looking pretty good. I am slowly but surely becoming more symmetrical. Woot! Unfortunately, my body fat percentage went up just a little bit, but it wasn’t much. And the girl weighing me said that that number was prone to fluctuate somewhat anyway, as long as I don’t increase it more than 1% or so. And I was definitely in that range.

So, go me! I’m really trying hard not to brag, but dang it, I deserve to! I’ve worked hard for this. So, with this new weight loss, that brings my total weight loss to 21 lbs. I only have 16 lbs. to go. Maybe I’ll reach that goal by next summer, just in time for swimsuit season (ugh!).

To all those out there struggling with your weight, just hang in there and be tough. There will be hard times, (I hadn’t lost any weight the last two times I weighed over a period of 2 months), but it’s totally worth it when you can fit into those jeans you haven’t worn in a couple of years or more. I’m wearing a skirt I haven’t worn since my husband and I started dating, about 4 years ago!

So, good luck and just keep on keeping on

This public service anouncement has been brought to you by the letter M and the number 10

The number 10 is such an awesome number. I never thought I would see it again. My wardrobe has now expanded somewhat….and without having to spend any money.

Go me

M…what a wonderful letter it is. In fact, it may now be my favorite letter. The letter M makes many fabulous words, such as mother, mango, microbe, maroon…but more importantly, the word MEDIUM!!! Okay, let me explain. Yesterday I bought some new clothes, including some shirts. Well, normally I just go straight to the rack, find the shirt I like and pray that they have it in a large. At the store, I carried out my normal routine and then went and tried on the shirts. As I tried on each shirt, I thought “Hmmm, these look a little big. I wonder…”. Was it possible? Could I really do it? Should I try it? I was very unsure about trying on a medium. I didn’t want to be horribly disappointed if I put it on and it was too small. On the other hand, I had to give it a try because the next size up was way too baggy. I finally worked up the nerve and went and grabbed a couple of mediums. When I put them on, I couldn’t believe my eyes It fit. I could still stand to lose a few more pounds, but it fit…and it didn’t look too bad at all. So, no more automatically picking up a large shirt for me. So to the large shirts out there!

I’m very excited. Especially since I also wore a pair of pants yesterday that haven’t seen the light of day for a few years now. I think they actually sighed happily as they stepped out into the sunlight, for they had only known the darkness of the closet for some time now

Also, today I am wearing a bracelet that is very special to me. I’ve had this bracelet that my brother made for me many years ago. If my memory serves me, I believe I was gone to summer camp when he made it for me. Well, it’s a beautiful bracelet and I have always loved it. Unfortunately, I have been unable to wear it. You see, even when I first got it, it really didn’t fit No matter how much I tried, I just couldn’t fit it around my wrist without possibly breaking it. I played with restringing it on some stretchy string, but decided against that. It wouldn’t be the bracelet my brother made for me then, and he worked hard on it. I couldn’t bring myself it undo it. So, for the past decade or so, the bracelet has been in whatever jewlery box I had at the time. It’s laid there, lonely, but not forgotten. Over the years, I would take it out and try again, always to have to put it back in the box and hope for a day that I could wear it. And today, for some reason, I decided that it was time to try again. Well, I was very surprised and very happy to see that it did indeed fit around my wrist this time. I had finally lost enough weight to get it on. As Jon was fastening the clasp for me, tears started to form in the corner of my eyes. No one has known how long I have waited for this day, not even my brother.

So Stephen, if you’re reading this, thanks for the bracelet. It’s been a long time, but now I can wear it, and I’m going to wear it every chance I get. I bet you didn’t even remember it until now. And I’m sure you never knew how much it meant to me. Well, now you do. Thanks, from the bottom of my heart. I love you and miss you.

Good day everyone…

I found this little blurb quite interesting. Of course, this link goes to a personal favorite biology blog. I link to it a lot, so if you haven’t already, you may just want to check the blog out for yourself and set up an automatic feed like I have. Anyway, enjoy

Interesting DNA fact