Yes, I am a fan of the all-caps writing for emphasis and normally just bang out these blogs and then go back after-the-fact and fix all the CAPS that I seem to love so much.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

(That one was okay. Maybe I'll leave them in today so you can see what I'm talking about.)

I've never been a big New Year's Eve resolution person although it seems like fewer people are these days. That, or people have just stopped asking me what my New Year's resolution is because they're tired of me not playing along.

But my perceptions aside, resolutions ARE a big deal for a lot of people. And one of the most popular time-after-time is losing weight. You can check out the goverment's list of most popular resolutions here:

http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/New_Years_Resolutions.shtml

Dietitian Kimra Hawk with Providence St. V's says there is one small way you can make a big difference in how successful you are in losing weight: one small change at a time.

If you tell yourself, 'I am going to exercise every single day and run 4 miles and not have any desserts' then you are very likely to fail. But if you tell yourself that today you will take the stairs, and tomorrow you will park far away from the store's entrance so you have to walk, etc etc... you are more likely to SUCCEED! Baby steps. So, I won't get all over my own case for basically not working out over the holidays and instead just try to get in three workouts a week (that's reasonable for me). But if I go twice then that's success. Next goal: add more fruit to my lunch!

Email me: Stephanie Stricklen

My blog buddy Joe emailed me about eating chicken feet (see my previous post). That is something I actually haven't tried. I have had those 1,000 year old eggs:
http://ask.yahoo.com/20011114.html

Random photo.. handwritten note from my friend Ang after we went to see Wicked when the show was in town. Sits on my desk here at work.

If you've seen the show you get the card which is why it's so super-cute (I almost took a photo of our new anchor/reporter Wayne but he just got here and I don't want to make the poor guy too uncomfortable. Maybe tomorrow.)