Mel's Box of Chocolates

The other day I saw this post from Michele at Scraps of my Geek Life about her finding her favorite color {which happens to be orange - what I would say is MY favorite color}.  How did she find it you asked?  Well go read her story to hear the whole thing, but the gist of it is that she used this awesome site Colorstology. Now I always am intrigued by things like this so of course I had to go find my own favorite color.   When I first went to the site I was mesmerized by the intro {yeah, it doesn't take much}.  It had the coolest music with  After coming out of the intro trance I entered my birth month first.  I discovered that my birth month color is Aspen Gold, which is supposed to be radiant, uplifting, and intellectually energizing.  Oh and it was pretty too!  Then I went on to find my personal birthday color profile. I went into the Aspen Gold world then chose my day of birth.  With a click of a button I discovered that m...

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While I was busy packing for FitBloggin and running 5K's while I was there, I missed posting my You Capture photo.  To be completely honest I forgot to take the picture last week too. But when we were at the park on Sunday I snapped this shot... and then when I uploaded it and decided that it captured "reaching" perfectly so I just had to share.   SUBSCRIBE to never miss a piece of chocolate Be Sweet, Follow Mel on Twitter

This April marks the one year anniversary from when I ran my first 5K. Unbelievable.  If you would have told me just a year ago that I would run a few 5K's in the coming year I would have laughed at you, hard! It's been a long, cold winter and I confess that not much running took place after October.  Instead it was re placed with feet up in front of the fireplace and roasting smores.  Yeah, not such a great switch, at least for my waist hip-thigh-butt-line. Last week though, here in Delaware, we welcomed spring with open arms. We were blessed with some absolutely gorgeous weather and it beckoned me to run with it.  So off I went. Last Monday I ran 3 miles up to my local beach. It felt fantastic! Then this past Saturday I ran a 5K at Fitbloggin. Once again - felt fantastic. This week I Learned that I missed running. I missed the sound of my sneakers hitting the pavement.   I missed the feeling of freedom as I run.   I missed the exhilarati...

Why is it that week days crawl and weekends fly? The weekend just passed me right on by before I could even put my thoughts together to schedule a few posts for this week.   Here's a funny story for you though courtesy of my 5 year old daughter.   This weekend was the FitBloggin conference in Baltimore and since I was staying the weekend, I was leaving straight from my school.  That meant that daddy had daycare pick up duty on Friday.  Now Zoe always does better when she knows the plans ahead of time so we had been telling her all week that I was going to run a race in Baltimore and was staying in a hotel so daddy would be picking her up on Friday.  She was good to go and everything was fine. Then came the drop off on Friday. Me - "Remember Daddy will be picking you up today and I will see you on Sunday." Zoe - "Ok, I remember" Ms. A {Zoe's teacher} - "So Daddy gets to pick you up today.  That's nice." Zoe - "Yes, daddy ...

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On Friday, I'm headed to Baltimore for another bloggy conference called  FitBloggin'10 .  This one is geared toward fit bloggers or as the about page says, " anyone who blogs about fitness, wellness, good food and a healthy lifestyle – regardless of where they are in their journey." There are the going to be the usual blogging sessions discussing SEO, how to pitch media, moving to Wordpress {I'll be skipping that one}, getting published, making money with your blog, and social media.  But then there is the session on Body Image and Blogging, a 5K in the morning, Mizfit's Muscles in Minutes, breakfast with a dietician, and some healthy cocktail and reception hours.   I've been looking forward to FitBloggin ever since I first heard Roni talking about organizing it last summer, but as the date approaches I have to confess that I'm getting pretty nervous.   Now I'm not nervous about the conference itself.  I'm looking forward to learning mo...