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Month: July 2011

Body Image (at the CrossFit Games)

#1 in this post is so essential: 3 Body Image Myths We Keep on Believing … having a great body image isn’t about thinking you look hot every single day. It’s about thinking you are powerful, capable, and hot most days 🙂 As the CrossFit Games are this weekend (how jealous am I of all…

[UPDATED] Drink Me: Mercy Mercy

UPDATE: Thanks to commenter Brian, MERCY has given us a promo code for free shipping! WAHOO! Use discount code “Austin” to get free shipping on ANY order. Try a MERCYRITA and let me know how it goes! The other day, I accidentally ended up having a small gathering at my apartment. Luckily, we always have…

Friends

… we all know about Things We Forget by now, right? This and this are my other fave post-its, but today I’m loving, and missing, my friends. Also, as both of my parents are therapists, I do want to add that there is a time for therapy. But there is also a very important time…

Austin: Live Center Stage

I dare you to show me a woman who doesn’t secretly love Center Stage. The movie brings out the inner ballerina in all of us, simultaneously showing the challenges and beauty behind ballet. Plus romance. And rule-breaking. Without Black Swan creepiness and sans toenail shots. Hell, I even love Center Stage 2: Turn It Up,…

Aspen: It’s Me or the Dog

As you probably know from my postings here and obsessively on twitter, it’s never going to be me or the dog. We are a package deal. I am one of those dog owners. Who has her dog on her phone case (I’d take a pic to show you, but I take most of my pics…

Love LC’s Rainbow Tips

I wrote about loving the tie-dye trend last week. When TheBeautyDepartment.com, Lauren Conrad’s beauty site, posted about dyeing the tips of your blonde hair different colors, I voted DO IT! in their poll about wether LC should dye or not. Well, she has. There’s a beautiful tutorial on the site here. I hear Lauren used…

Austin: Day ‘o the Week Breakdown

I love nothing more than a theme party, so you can imagine how excited I was to hear that two Austin standbys, old and new, are hosting themed events every day of the work week throughout the summer! Check out the Day ‘o the Week Breakdown for West Sixth’s Star Bar and South Lamar’s Gibson—almost…

I have decided I think about food too much

I spent this weekend with a new set of friends. A non-Paleo-eating, non-CrossFitting set of friends, who I watched consume foods I haven’t even considered eating for years. YEARS. Maybe ever. (Powdered donuts? Slurpees?) I’m certainly not judging, and they didn’t judge me for my eating habits (gotta love them for that), but it is interesting…

World’s Greatest Dad

Thank you to Yahoo! Mail for sponsoring this post about staying connected. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do. Sorry for the random “Email 2” post all weekend! Sometimes things go awry when you’re on the road back from Denver and you have no internet and then…

Fix Your IT Band

I recently learned that the pain I’ve been having in my left knee (the one with the golf-ball sized bone spur from Oshgoodslaughter disease) is nothing more than a tight IT band. Well … “nothing more” might be an understatement … thankfully, here’s how to fix it. The great news? I’m already yoga-ing and close-squatting…