Beth’s Blog

OK. Life is going well, I’m exercising daily.

I pop in a new Wii game called “EA Active, More Exercises.” Yeah. Talk about a lame title, eh?

But, the new workout is anything but lame.

Towards the end, I was supposed to do 20 “crunches.”

No problem. My weight is down. I’ve been exercising daily for months. I plopped to the floor, laid down and prepared for the inevitable.

As the kind lady on TV yelled, “One!” my head lifted from the floor.

Let me repeat: my head. Just my head.

Not my shoulders. Not my back either.

Just the head.

If I recall correctly, isn’t the body, from the waist up, supposed to raise during a crunch?

Dang. My only conclusion is that I’m still horrifically out of shape.

So… I’m still attempting to “crunch,” without much success after two days.

I’ll keep at it. But, if you’ve got any tips on how to get those abdominal muscles to work better, I’m all ears.

‘Til next time,

Beth

Stepped on the scale today and I’m down over 60 pounds. I also completed my certificate in plant based nutrition from Cornell. Yippee! Feels GOOD.

And I swear I felt a little snow in the air.

Arugh!

According to the YouTube page: “The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom.”In a word, WOW.Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hvtXuO5GzU

(If anyone knows how to embed an Youtube vid on a blog without messing up the formatting, let me know.)

Click the pic to get ‘er bigger.

Yeah. Proud aunt.

Looking at a face like that makes writing even more fun!

Click the pic to enlarge it. WAY worth it.

Beth

 Click the pic to see all the beauty.

Straight from Space.com: (Click the pic for the full view.)

Tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings, often with ghostly glows. So it is with PSR B1509-58, which long ago collapsed into a sphere just 12 miles in diameter after running out of fuel.

And what a strange scene this one has created.

In a new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, high-energy X-rays emanating from the nebula around PSR B1509-58 have been colored blue to reveal a structure resembling a hand reaching for some eternal red cosmic light.

The star now spins around at the dizzying pace of seven times every second — as pulsars do — spewing energy into space that creates the scene.

Strong magnetic fields, 15 trillion times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field, are thought to be involved, too. The combination drives an energetic wind of electrons and ions away from the dying star. As the electrons move through the magnetized nebula, they radiate away their energy as X-rays.

The red light actually a neighboring gas cloud, RCW 89, energized into glowing by the fingers of the PSR B1509-58 nebula, astronomers believe.

The scene, which spans 150 light-years, is about 17,000 light years away, so what we see now is how it actually looked 17,000 years ago, and that light is just arriving here.

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).

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(Beth’s comment: MUCHO COOL!)

Now I wish I’d have studied Beethoven more. However, I’m glad I never got into Beyonce.

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