Everything you wanted to know...
Last Updated 12-02-99
Note: This page is long out of date. I am now almost 30, James and I live in the Twin Cities and the Bonneville I mention further down the page is no longer in existance. However, I just haven't had time to update the bio. Hopefully, soon.
Alas. The infamous "about me" page which is required of most websites of a personal nature. No doubt this is probably one of the first things you clicked on upon finding my site. Just who is this woman who's baring her soul online? Oh, and of course, what does she look like? Isn't THAT just the double standard of the online world. We think we're all cerebral and into this "real person" thing saying "oh -- what they look like doesn't matter" when in reality if a personal page as a "pictures" link, it's the first thing we click on. Admit it. You do it too. I do it. I'm curious. That's why web cams rock.
Anyhow.
My name is Heather. I'm 27. I live in a small town in Wisconsin (which is not Purgatory, contrary what the film "Dogma" suggests). I have a husband. We have a dog. We even have a Volkswagen. How yuppie can we get?
Of course, to offset the yuppie-dom, I have an ENORMOUS Pontiac Bonneville that I purchased from my mother. It did save my life one time when it shredded a deer. Ask me and I'll tell you all the gory details.
But back to my story. Every weekday morning, my husband gets in his Volkswagen and drives to his job as Managing Editor of a newspaper. At the same time, I get in my Pontiac and drive to my job as an Art Director/Graphic Designer/Web Designer person for Corporate USA. We both have 30 minute commutes. Isn't that cute?
To offset my 40 hour weeks behind the desk designing catalog pages and corporate propaganda, much free time is spent cooking, cleaning, working out, watching tv, reading, playing with the pup, grooming the pup, walking the pup, and working on various web projects.
Of these web projects that I often start and rarely finish, this online journal of fitness and health is my most adored and cared after. I started it over a year ago when I really focused on losing some serious weight. My previous "about me" page went on and on about my struggles as a child and teenager with weight, blah, blah, blah. But all you need to know, really, is that 2 years ago I joined a gym and have since lost 20 lbs. I'm an exercise fanatic, a healthy eater and I love to cook. I wasn't always this vision of health and it's taken me a while to get here. To document my metamorphous, I created this website which started out much more diet-centric.
However, over this past year, the tone of my writing has changed. In the early entries, I focused on food and exercise and entire pages were dedicated to eating this and not eating that. But soon that same old spewing of diet-data got old. I thought I sounded like a broken record. I hate myself for eating this. I'm so happy I didn't eat that. Blah, blah, blah. It's a wonder anyone read it.
Now, I like to think of this site as more of a personal journal than just a diet journal. My entries speak of whatever is plaguing me on a given day. Sometimes it is health related. Many times it's not. And I'm not going to say I'll never ever have another "I can't believe I ate that entry" -- I'm sure I will. But a year full of pages of that nature, this is not.
As for my goals: I'm currently in the 150s after losing about 20 pounds. I'm really happy where I'm at. I like my body. I don't have any weird complexes or body image problems.
Ideally I'd like to lose about 20 more pounds. But that's not a big deal. I know I eat very healthily, I exercise A LOT. And if my body is happy here forever in the 150s, then so be it.
Still, I have a keen interest in health and fitness and that is why I'm continuing this journal. My health, fitness and well-being are an integral part of of my life. My daily trips to the gym wake up and make me vital. I love finding healthy recipes and conjuring feasts in the the kitchen. And that is what this site documents. At the risk of sounding a bit new age-ish, I feel my journal of fitness and health is as much a mental exploration as well as a physical one.
But enough of this tyraid, get back to the entries!
questions, comments, email me at heather@funnymoods.com |
