Chicana on the Edge

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Al Gore's Movie Debut, originally uploaded by regrodriguez. Yes, I've heard of global warming....

When I was 20 I left a movie theater with a very nauseated feeling. It could easily have been the movie (Michael J. Jox's Secret of My Success), but ever since then a kind of motion sickness makes sitting in any movie theater a struggle to keep from throwing up (and...

Today - third day of training. On second day, big allergy pill took care of hayfever symptoms, but then cold symptoms became obvious and continued to f$%* up my ability to taste. Chinese restaurant chicken soup did pretty good job of knocking out those symptoms, and...

Training Schedule: 8:00 a.m. til 4:00 p.m. today, Wed, Thurs, Fri and next Monday.Excellent part: cool people, non-scary general manager, district supervisor everyone obviously loves, teamwork, wonderfully detailed training (5 days of it, eight hours a day!), great...

1. My new SERVER job at a downtown, corporate restaurant starts tomorrow.2. The against-all-odds relationship with my new boyfriend (boyfriend) is almost five months old.3. Today I weigh 124 lbs and have reached my first weightloss goal.My life finally doesn't suck!...

(I posted this last August, but I'll do it again since I'm currently on this weightloss kick.)Finally, a way to fight obesity that isn't about dieting and exercise -- make sure you get enough sleep! An article in the July/August 2005 issue of Nutrition Action...

Last month I was making some copies at a UPS store. It was a sunny, warm day so I had taken off my sweater and was feeling relaxed in a pair of black, elastic-topped slacks and a tucked-in pink cotton shirt. The Latino guy at the cash register couldn't have been more...

Before this fat-under-siege plan I was probably eating between 2200 and 2400 calories a day (I'm 5 feet, 2 inches).Motivation: Last summer's shorts and jeans no longer fit!5/1/06 Weight: 130Daily Calorie Goal: 1900 (maximum I allowed myself)Daily Exercise: 40-50...

...so when my boyfriend invited me to come with him and some friends this Monday to a White Sox game, I was non-plussed. I'm more of a Cubs supporter, but I figured why not see the Sox? I like the people who are going and it'll be fun to hang out.Today it hit me:...

I want to be excited. I want to be relieved. I want to be proud. I have found my new job!But my employment has been so F#$%-ED for the past six months all I can manage is a weary, tentative feeling of gladness. I wonder, will this job fall through, too? It's a...

Okay, in the past several days my bathroom scale has reluctantly conveyed that I have lost almost four pounds since the beginning of the month, although the big scale at the gym says it's been two pounds. So I'll call it three pounds and I'll take it! Losing three...