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Look for live streaming video of “The Equinox Express”

• on Monday, February 8th when it is dropped off
• on Monday, February 8th when Boy Genius arrives home and gets the tour
• on Tuesday, the 9th as we start loading our bags for travel
• on Tuesday, the 9th as we get moving down the road toward Orlando
• on Tuesday at various stops along the trip from my house to Mickey Mouse’s House on Wednesday, the 10th
• on Wednesday, the 10th as we navigate to Mickey’s House
• from Wednesday through Friday, the 10th thru the 12th as we give various bloggers a tour of The Equinox Express
• Saturday, the 13th as we make our final tour of the Mouse’s House
• Sunday, the 14th (talk about a Valentine’s Day of Fun) as we make the trek home from Mickey Mouse’s house
• Sunday, the 14th as we unload the car and prepare for its departure on Monday, the 15th
• Monday, the 15th while we await someone from the GM Family to retrieve the Equinox Express
• Monday, the 15th as well all sadly watch as the Equinox Express is returned to the hands of the GM Family

You know, I’m all about movement and making our mark in the world.  I don’t move enough but I have made the decision to increase my lack of inactivity by just a little each day.  With that, my kids are extremely active and I hope they continue to enjoy the running and playing.  Children learn so much from movement from the early stages of turning their head from one side to another, through rolling over, learning to walk and then learning to run. 

The Primrose Schools are hosting a dance-off.  Basically we are talking about a Family Dance-ff Video Competition.  It combines the exercise that we all need with an increase in quality time with our children.  In case you aren’t familiar with the Primose schools, they are considered the leader in educational child care.  They have launched a national campaign to promote physical activity and healthy choices. 

So how can you join in the fun? 

First, record a 30 second home video of your family putting on the ritz with their best dance moves.  Then, visit the Family Dance-Off site and upload your best video.  From there, you just visit and vote daily for your favorite family dance video. 

If your video makes the cut, you are eligible to win a $5,000 grand prize, Wii Fit Bundle, Flip Video Camera and a $30,000 donation to your local Children’s Miracle Network. 

Here’s some food for thought:

Childhood obesity is a critical issue for young children in America. Dance is a fun, easy way to introduce physical activity into your family’s routine while enjoying quality time together. The Family Dance-off supports Children’s Miracle Network, a non-profit organization that raises funds for more than 170 children’s hospitals, which collectively treat 17 million children annually for every illness and injury imaginable.

With that, how can you pass up the chance to get your groove on and show your little mites some of your best moves?  Let’s go, get busy….moving, growing, learning…

Actually I have been here posting a bit o’ this and bit o’ that.  I’ve got contests and I’ve got video’s but let me tell you about a few other folks I know.

As you know, I’m headed to Orlando next week for the Social Media Moms Celebrate Disney and since I’m headed that way, I might as well get there in style, right?

And, with that, General Motors will be delivering this beauty to my house on Monday of next week (and let’s all pray my husband cleans up the front deck and lawn before then)

I mean, really, you can catch it all here because we will be live streaming it.  If something bigger happens (and trust me, it might), it may or may not be streamed on Facebook an/or UStream.  So, keep up, follow the Twitter feed @The_Jerri_Ann and @GMBlogs

And, you know, the goodness just get’s better around here.  I’m getting some new hot designer business cards for this event too….wait to you see me break out these bad boys…

And for those of you at the conference, the goodies just keep getting better…….

I’ve got temporary badges for your children’s safety from My Precious Kid and right now she has these awesome new car seat ID cards you need to check out too.

So, if you catch me in time, you can have a safety bracelet for your kiddos to sport at Disney.

I’m also going to be sporting this awesome T-shirt……I’ve been working with these folks and I love it…

And really ya’ll, can you say awesome awesome awesome!  And, there’s more…..yea for real, there’s more!

I have some of these…

I have one Otterbox to give away for someone with an iPhone.

I have one of these for the iPhone…

And, I have one of these for the iPhone

And, I have a cover like this if you have a BlackJack II

And, honestly, you never ever ever know what else I might come up with???

Like maybe….some Vital Earth Traditions…..????  you think that would work?

Since I am a day late and as always a dollar short, I’m kicking off he blog-writing-fest tonight by telling you a few tidbits of information.  Yes I know, it’s not Monday and I didn’t tell you any more last week then I have prior til now.  OOPS!

Here’s the scoop.  I haven’t gained any weight and I have had a substantial amount of milkshakes.  As it is, I’ve injured my jaw that I had surgery on in November and I can’t eat much of anything.  For the most part, today’s news from the oral surgeon came with “not even noodles” and no “sucking thick shakes through a straw”.  Great, that’s all I’ve done lately. 

So, I will just put a pack of spoons in my bag…by Go Gaga Bag by the way, have you all seen it?

Because I can and do pack a big punch is this here bag and found myself laughing til I almost peed my pants tonight when my husband declared that a “handbag” is no place for a toothbrush.  Well, who says?

I mean, really, it’s not like I had a full toothbrush and toothpaste in there…who needs it when these Wisps are so easy to toss in the bag?

Anyway, that’s no where near where this post was going.  It was going to the mailman.  Yea I know, I’m warped.  Yesterday, the mailman had a package that I had to sign to even receive.  And in that package…..Your Shape by Jenny McCarthy.

So, now it is on people.  I have EASports and I have Your Shape.  Once my mouth is better so I”m not suffering daily with a monster headache (hopefully after tomorrow), I will get moving…..get my booty moving you hear me?

Watch out world, your gonna see me working out……*shutters*

We just came from an impromptu shopping trip….no one actually made an official grocery store trip this past weekend so…..here’s what Wayne retrieved from the dollar store yesterday on the way home from work:

Toilet Paper

Capri Suns

4 – 6 packs of Coca-Cola

Chocolate Covered Peanuts

So, today, we made another short trip to the dollar store, we bought:

2 boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

2 boxes of Generic Shells and Cheese

1 box of Generic Cheez-its

1 Gallon of milk

1 Box of Apple Jack’s Cold Cereal

1 – 6 pack of Coca-Cola

1 package of Molasses Cookies

1 package of peanut butter cookies

2 bags of chocolate covered donuts

And now you see why it is that weight loss around here is a mute point……….

The Your Shape game is in the hands of a few people I know and know well.  And one of them is on week 2 and the first week she lost nothing.  She was disappointed and rightfully so.  This week, down eleven pounds…just look, this is freakin’ amazing!

That’s the real deal ya’ll!

I haven’t gained any weight since I checked in with you last Monday.  I haven’t eaten anything to matter either.  On Sunday of last week I had a rather large mushy meal from a Japanese restaurant (I still can’t chew) but since then, I’ve survived on Coca-Cola and 3 or 4 milkshakes.  The idea of foods that I can have, chicken noodle soup, jello, macaroni and cheese, have kind of lost their appeal right now. 

So, as I say with pride, I haven’t gained any weight….I tell you that I’m starving the freakin’ frakin’ to death.  I am so not kidding.  I”m hungry…all the time….but nothing seems to be doing the trick.

Let’s just get that out there ok?  You are so not what you eat.  I didn’t even write a post last week because I was so disgusted.  I was at a conference on Monday, Tuesday required me to devote a lot of attention to my kids so by Wednesday I figured there was no reason to write and give you the crappy news. 

As you know, I had TMJ surgery on November 12th.  I was on liquids until right before Christmas when I was told that I could add noodles and the like.  Apparently I was a bit anxious to consume some real food because on Christmas Day I tried a small piece of very tender ham.  And I paid for it.  The pain was horrible and of course, the good doc put me back to liquids.

As you may (or may not) remember, when I had the surgery, I weighed in at 208.  And since that time, I’ve had liquids.  Yes, soda’s, but yogurt and fruit, non-fat yogurt at that.  Yes, I’ve had ice cream and milkshakes but people, real food?  I finally ate some rice yesterday but please, this is really getting old.

And the worst yogurt?  My weight is climbing.  Since I had surgery it has steadily started to rise.  I’m back to 216.  That’s a total of 8 pounds gained on liquids.  And, as I said, it hasn’t been all low-fat foods here and I haven’t actually “counted” calories as I am just not really a believer in that as much as I am in changing eating habits.  (I just can’t actually change any eating habits right now other than to continue to consume liquids). 

The word diet shouldn’t refer to the process of going without food, it should be about the food you do consume.  Meaning that, as if you didn’t know, your diet is what you eat, not what you do without.

With that, I am on a list to receive Jenny McCarthy’s game for the Wii.  Your Shape is the name of it.  I will be receiving the game from Collective Bias and along with a group of people, we will be offering up our weight loss as a counter or “Up the Ante” with a group of people who are the official weight-loss and Your Shape group for CB. 

I will try to post here more often about the game and as always, I’ll continue to use the EASports game too when I can pry the remotes out of my kids hands.  In the meantime…………….just remember……

You

Are

Not

What

You

Eat!

I have an opportunity to win a ticket to one of the smaller but more intimate conferences, Blissdom.  All I knew you to do is go to this post, I Found My Reason and leave a quick comment.  The person with the most comments wins. 

I don’t ask for help often so if you can spare a minute, by all means, please help a girl out.

I hate to start my posts like that, but the fact is, my weight is on the rise.  I”m not happy about but I hurt my mouth chewing over the holidays and had to go back to mostly liquids.  And, while returning to liquids, my anxiety level rose and my sense of sanity apparently flew right out the window.

Instead of yogurt and fresh fruit?  I’ve chosen pineapple milkshakes or maybe strawberry milkshakes….oh heck, I didn’t have dinner last night and it’s already 2 in the afternoon today…might as well give me a large.

And I do a bit of shopping or someone says those magic words “I am going into town, do you want something?”…..and bam, next thing you know I have another one of those great big shakes in my hands.

Something has to give….and I’m serious.