Current Obsessions

Stuff I like right now, in no particular order.

• Summer vacation
• Victoria's Secret Love Bitten
• Sally Hanson Salon Effects
• St. Ives Firming Body Lotion
• French braids
• Sundresses
• Lemonade
• Tervis tumblers
• Swimming pools
• Strawberries
• Sweet thank you notes from students and their families
• Bikinis
• Flip flops
• My Princess Kate inspired ring from my hubs
• Not being around children unless I choose to be
• The beach
• Girlfriend time
• Fat free French Vanilla Coffee Creamer
• Redbox

"What's the secret?"

I have lost 24.7 pounds since January 4th.  Stress has helped it along - work sucks this year, my grandfather  passed away, Mike lost his dad unexpectedly.  A huge lifestyle change is what has really kept me moving.  I am working towards cutting out processed foods, I exercise 3-4 times a week... I obsess a bit.

Everyone wants the secret.  I understand, I totally wanted a magic bullet that would pull off the weight I gained as I ate my way through a very difficult time in my life.  I tried EVERYTHING!  Every fad diet known to man, tried and true programs - nothing worked!  Making healthy choices for my body made the difference.  So, as I get asked over and over, I have to give the boring answer no one wants to hear - healthy choices and exercise!

Physically and mentally, I am the strongest I have ever been.  My hellish time at work, helping my loved ones through crazy, stressful situations - I was the strong one! 

I really don't mind "What's the secret?"  because it reminds me that my changes show.  I can't see the difference in my body, except for the dramatic change in my clothing size.  I just wish I had a more exciting answer :)

App-stravaganza!

Deviating slightly from my usual here.  I picked up an awesome Motorola Droid at the beginning of November.  Two friends have switched over, and I wrote this email sharing my fave apps.  Figured I would share it with you as well.

Any visitors who come across this page, share your faves too, please :)

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If you want these, you can search in the market OR 

-download Barcode Scanner from the market

- Google the app (include Android market in your search) 

- Scan the barcode for the app with barcode scanner on your phone. It will take you right to the app in the market.  Nifty!

Basics:

Beautiful widgets!

Dolphin browswer, as a replacement for the stock browser

PANDORA        (iheartradio comes out sometime today, too. Supposedly. I can't find it!)

HiAim for AOL instant messenger

Twidroid for Twitter

Wheres my Droid - so you can find your phone when its on silent and you've lost it in your bed. ;)

Battery widget - so you can see whats up with yo batt

Power control widget - you can quickly dim the screen, turn wifi and gps on and off

Missed Call lets you change the color of the LED..for example, I have green for email, pink for texts, yellow for calendar, on and on

Advanced Task Killer to help with battery life

Pure Calendar widget

Pure Email widget

Games:

FourSquare gives you points based on places you go.. kind of confusing to explain, but you can check out foursquare.com. I like it, but its not very fun if you don't know too many other people playing.  All my points are from going to Sullivan's.  Hahahaha.

GemBuster.  I started with the free and liked it so much I bought the full

Google Navigation is very cool, a few apps that enhance:

Places Directory lets you search around your area

Maps

Music:

Meridan is a nice music player

iMusic lets you download music free

Album Art Grabber puts album art with your music

Mixzing - playlist creator

Video:

TV.com has full episodes from CBS.  Hulu is supposed to be coming in January!

iVideo downloads videos.  I haven't played with this one too much yet

Home replacement:

I use PandaHome to customize my home screens.  I'm not 100% happy with it, but they keep pushing out updates so I'm hoping its a little smoother soon.  I can use PandaHome for themes, adding screens (I have 4 instead of 3) and changing the icons for various apps. It's a little tricky to figure out.  I think a lot of this stuff we'll be able to do anyway with the update to Android 2.1 in January.

Other stuff I like:

Dockrunner puts your phone in multimedia mode

Movies - links with Facebook

Accuweather

Astrid - to do list

Backgrounds

Bubble (because it's cool :) )

Flashlight

Color Flashlight

DC Metro Map

FX Camera 

PicSay

Goggles

Google Sky Map

E! Online

Key Ring (for frequent shopper cards)

My Coupons

NASA Images (because I'm a nerd)

Google Sky Map (because I am a super nerd)

Shazam

TV Guide

Steamy Window

Ringdroid

Bloo is a Facebook app that I like, but the notifications are super annoying so I stopped using it.  I'm using touch.facebook.com on the dolphin browser.  myspace's new site looks so cool now I almost - ALMOST - want to start using myspace again, but the only people doing anything over there are 12 so.. never mind.

Hope this is helpful! :)

Hmm.  Wow.  I use a lot of apps! :D