Strawberries are a keystone in our healthy diet – we ALWAYS have frozen strawberries in our freezer as we make fruit smoothies 3-4 times a week. However- we take advantage of the year-round availability of FRESH strawberries in the produce aisle of our friendly local grocery store. And this gives me a chance to use …
Anna-Marie Walsh
I found some interesting whatchamacallits in the local K-mart while visiting Indiana recently. Apparently, since I live Florida, I did not understand the proper use of these doohickeys- for instance- the sled supposedly works better outside in snow than in the middle of K-mart…. but I had fun……until I was asked to please either buy …
I recently visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Islands Of Adventure with my family. I have read a few of the Harry Potter books and seen a couple of the movies, but I am not a Harry Potter fanatic like the rest of the world it seems. Let me start with the …
They call them a race – but unless you are an elite runner, there is no race. Here are 10 reasons YOU should still sign up for a 5K: 1. You get a free T-shirt – After you pay the entry fee (usually about $20) you get a free T-shirt AND you get free exercise. …
Left.. right.. left.. right.. left.. right……sounds so easy….. This past weekend was the OUC 5k and Half Marathon. Every time my alarm goes off at the pre-rooster hour I think “WHY????? WHY????!!!!??????” But after Chad drags you to downtown Orlando and you see thousands of other runners- you kinda sort of start getting into the spirit …
I have never attended Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios as I am a self proclaimed chicken and I cry easily when scared…….. so naturally this year I decided to audition to be a part of it- this way I could make other people cry. This event has been dubbed the world’s largest and best …
As you can see, my staff and I have been working hard over this long Thanksgiving weekend trying to get the updated version of the “Beauty and the Beets” website up and running. This is a picture of a typical business meeting with me and three of my staff members- here we are designing and …
The Hollywood Studios – formerly known as The Disney/MGM Studios. Back in my day we called it MGM. It will always be MGM to me. My ol’ stomping grounds. I worked in entertainment here – I marched down Hollywood Boulevard in the parades, I danced across the stages in a couple of shows, greeted guests …
Ah- the perks of living in Central Florida – we can spend a day at any of the area theme parks without needing plane tickets or hotel rooms – today we chose Disney and our adventures started at Epcot. The very first thing we did was go snag some fast passes to Test Track. We …
In this case the Savannah Marathon was a bust..well sort of….I was planning on completing my first half marathon (notice I used the word completing as opposed to running.) Unfortunately, I had been battling the flu the few days before so we decided it was best that I don’t run/walk/over-exert myself. Chad was running his …