I've been on the 5:2 Fast Diet for 13 weeks and I've lost 13 lbs! So at first I think I was having a lot of fluctions from water weight and such. But I’ve been sticking with it and it’s been so great to feel better and have my clothes fit better. Also, Jorge and I...
After 3 weeks on the 5:2 Fast diet I haven’t lost a single pound. As a matter of fact, I’ve gained a pound. I was 157 when I started and now I’m 158. That’s f-ed up. Fasting isn’t easy. I wonder what I’m doing wrong. I must be eating too much on my non-fasting days....
It takes a lot of courage to share your deepest thoughts and fears and failures on a blog like this. I’ve never really opened myself up to criticism as blatantly as I am here. But I believe that in this world we just don’t get enough connection anymore. We all hide...
“So you’re starving yourself today?” That’s the encouragement I get from my husband when he realized that the breakfast I just made is only for him. That’s because I recently turned 40, and since I was up to a ridiculous 157 lbs, I decided that it was time for a...
A lot of people have asked me how in the world I left a lucrative 6-figure engineering career to be a full-time working musician. Well, it was hard and a lot of work, but with the proper planning, I was able to make it happen and eventually make even more money as a...
This weekend was an absolute BLAST playing with my band Bohemian Insurgence!! We had a fun string of gigs starting Friday at Tempe Center for the Arts, then Saturday at the Tempe Festival of the Arts for a mid-day set. We closed out the evening headlining the...
I was Working on making new percussion instruments out of seeds from the Texas Laurel tree and got tired of drilling holes in the seeds and wanted to make a break. I ended up getting out my DSLR camera and opened up DragonFrame and started to play around with...
Jorge and I decided a couple years ago that we wanted to get into stop motion animation but neither of us had any idea where to begin. We bought some software (Dragonframe) and he started trying to make a puppet. We didn't talk much about it - kinda kept it on the...
