Shauna Reid's Blog en-US Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:01:49 -0800 60 Shauna Reid's Blog 144 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo_144.jpg /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/241053-ready-to-relaunch Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:01:49 -0800 <![CDATA[Ready to relaunch]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/241053-ready-to-relaunch When we move to Crooked House* next week, I'll have a room of my own. There'll be a desk in one corner and bookshelf in another and a pile of dumbells in another. There'll be a proper place for my Swiss ball so it won't fall on top of Dr G's head. I've got a giant 2010 planner with 365 hopeful blank squares, ready to whack up on the wall.

I'm so bloody burned out, comrades! I'll drag my arse through the next 19 days until the Christmas break begins, then I'll snooze and read and write and...



posted by Shauna Reid on December, 04 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/241054-a-quick-note-for-two-fit-chicks-listeners Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:01:50 -0800 <![CDATA[A quick note for Two Fit Chicks listeners]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/241054-a-quick-note-for-two-fit-chicks-listeners If you've had problems accessing the podcast, you can now play or downlaod all epiosdes directly from the Two Fit Chicks website. We've had serious Issues with our hosting provider this week. It all seems to be back up now, but we're shopping for a new host. Apologies for the ongoing kerfuffles!





posted by Shauna Reid on December, 04 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/234728-review-cathe-workout-downloads Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:01:34 -0800 <![CDATA[Review - Cathe Workout Downloads]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/234728-review-cathe-workout-downloads CatheDo you like working out at home in your pyjamas? Good news - home fitness queen Cathe Friedrich has just launched Cathe Downloads.

Her entire 150+ workout catalogue is now available in digital format, so you can watch your downloads on any computer or video-enabled mobile device, like an iPod.

Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post or a PR conspiracy. I wanted to share this as I know many of you are fellow home workouterers. Cathe doesn't even know I'm alive! Sniff sniff.



I wasn't...

posted by Shauna Reid on November, 27 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/233156-excuse-me-while-my-head-explodes Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:33:22 -0800 <![CDATA[Excuse me while my head explodes]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/233156-excuse-me-while-my-head-explodes Stinky Summary of recent events:


Dr G and I bought a house!
Upon collecting the keys we discovered it stank. In the literal sense.
We're frantically trying to de-stink before the move on December 9
Some bright spark said, "If we're ripping up carpet, we may as well re-paint!"
On Sunday I was most comprehensively defeated in a kickboxing tournament
It was one part life-altering thrills, one part Dear Lord Sign Me Up For  A Lobotomy To Erase The Horror.

These stinky smells and...



posted by Shauna Reid on November, 29 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/227573-better-living-through-the-baby-sitters-club Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:22:02 -0800 <![CDATA[Better living through The Baby-Sitters Club]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/227573-better-living-through-the-baby-sitters-club Bsc The thing I miss least about being a kid is all that longing to be someone else. Oh to be anyone but grotty swotty ginger-haired me!

Like many younguns, I found my escape in books, particularly The Baby-sitters Club series. I didn't want to join the Babysitters Club so much as I wanted to shed my own skin and be one of 'em. I deliberated over whom I aspired to be; which one I most resembled. Kind of like the shrieks of some women in the late 90s: OMG I'm totally a Carrie! No I'm the...



posted by Shauna Reid on November, 22 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/225728-tea-coffee-and-biscuits-provided Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:32:14 -0800 <![CDATA[Tea, coffee and biscuits provided]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/225728-tea-coffee-and-biscuits-provided A flyer whooshed through the door this week for the local Fitness & Friendship Club. Check out the bicep on this smiley face!

Fitness
The F&F Club is basically fitness classes held in various community halls. But it's not all about sweating...

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There are few phrases in this world that give more comfort and joy than TEA, COFFEE AND BISCUITS PROVIDED!

Alas there were no refreshments at Squad Training this morning. "Squad training" is what our coach calls convincing all us kickboxing dames to get up...



posted by Shauna Reid on November, 20 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/219866-two-fit-chicks-episode-04-featuring-the-weight-zapper-5000 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:15:25 -0800 <![CDATA[Two Fit Chicks Episode 04, featuring the Weight Zapper 5000!]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/219866-two-fit-chicks-episode-04-featuring-the-weight-zapper-5000 For your aural pleasure! I am so bloody excited about today's new episode of Two Fit Chicks and a Microphone, least of all because I FINALLY got things working so that if you listen to the show on a iPod or iPhone or other video contraption, you will see our logo on your screen! GEEKGASMS AHOY!

This podcast almost didn't happen as when we went to record on Saturday my new microphone refused to work and I chucked a wee tantrum, but we carried on and it was rockin' good fun! It's great to have a new project to...



posted by Shauna Reid on November, 14 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/219867-ranting-orangutan-follow-up Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:52:40 -0800 <![CDATA[Ranting Orangutan follow-up]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/219867-ranting-orangutan-follow-up Hello dear groovers! I just wanted to follow up on Friday's Ranting Orangutan entry. This time I know it's not the blues or a bad day or Seasonal Affective Disorder (unless it's of the quattro stagioni variety!). It's not about houses or hormones or a terrible secret illness. Nor is anyone having a torrid affair, but thank you for the theories and diagnoses! :)

Most of all I know it's not about weight or food. They are more like symptoms. Or what Martha Beck calls your designated issue ...



posted by Shauna Reid on November, 23 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/217636-it-ain-t-just-a-river Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:59:42 -0800 <![CDATA[It ain't just a river]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/217636-it-ain-t-just-a-river ThinkingThere is a mutant breed of Positive Thinking that is called Denial.

Like if you decide to focus on the many many many great things in your life, and ignore the black cloud that's hovered over for months and months.

Or if you write selectively about that one good day or that one cool thing that happened, and forget about the twenty good days that didn't happen because you were hiding from your friends and eating toast on the couch instead.

Or if you focus on that one kick-arse...



posted by Shauna Reid on November, 28 ]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/222999-happy-halloween Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:01:59 -0800 <![CDATA[Happy Halloween!]]> /author/show/944430.Shauna_Reid/blog/222999-happy-halloween

We carved the homegrown micropumpkins.



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