August 30, 2012

Heading Home

What better way to wind up a fantastic Scottish adventure than by enjoying a rendezvous with Shauna Reid, her lovely husband Gareth, and... an armoire full of tasty desserts??


Shauna, as many of you know, not only wrote the must-read book Amazing Diet Girl, but also keeps her great blog Diet Girl humming along, has another wonderful blog What's New Pussycat, has done informative and entertaining podcasts with the awesome MizFit as part of Two Fit Chicks and a Microphone, and she's part of an inspiring online program Up and Running that helps women just starting out become happy healthy runners. WHEW!



As I expected, Shauna and Gareth (the mad cyclist) were totally delightful. (I have a cute picture of the two of them as well, but you will just have to imagine it. It's not really polite to go around snapping innocent blogger's family members and broadcasting their images all over the web where any random crazy googler can find them! But trust me, Gareth is adorable).

Unfortunately though, whilst I was in the middle of consuming a vast and delicious slice of chocolate cake at Lovecrumbs, Sneaky Shauna mentioned the upcoming Fitbloggin' 2012 conference, damn her. Now I'm totally jealous and want to go. All the cool people will be there! I could put together an impromptu lecture on how to leverage a grumpy personality and a complete lack of work ethic into a health blogging empire, can't you just envision it?  Sigh.

So I'm cursing myself that somehow it totally slipped off my radar. Being a cheap crab and contemplating last minute plane or train fares, booked-up hotel rooms etc, this is alas, not looking too likely, but what the hell, I'll put it out to the universe. Perhaps there is a sponsor of some lovely product, service, website or whatever that also didn't think ahead about the conference either and needs a lazy fitness blogger be their ambassador! I could spread the word to my 6 twitter followers, 3 Facebook fans and legions of "1 rule for flat stomach" and "fitness porn" googlers! Or maybe someone's best blogging pal who was going to be their roomate got plague or... wait, that's too mean, let's say they got appointed to a cabinet post or won a round-the-world-cruise, and so there's an extra room or bed or spot in a Partridge-Family style bus going from Boston to Baltimore or... well, obviously the possibilities are endless.

C'mon Get Happy at Fitbloggin '12! I'll bring snacks!
Photo: Telstar

Oh, and in other news, the lovely folks at Blisstree (which is a great health website with an actual sense of humor) ran an interview of Crabby McSlacker! Read all about the care and feeding of a crabby health blogger and learn her shocking and amazing motivational secrets.

So we start the journey home in a few hours, which will take a couple of days and involve various planes and ferries and automobiles. Once the huge duffle bags full of smelly laundry are done, I'm hoping to get back to blogging about actual health and fitness issues.  Although hmm, there are still a few vacation photos left...

Thanks so much all of you who stopped by while I was traveling, I really appreciated it!

22 comments:

  1. Glad you were eating chocolate! Have a good trip home, and post more trip pictures.

    Mary Anne in Kentucky

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    1. Thanks Mary Anne, and eating chocolate is never a chore!

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    1. It was hard to stop at just one gigantic slice of cake!

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  3. An armoire that opens to assorted desserts is a great baseline for a wonderful, magical story.

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    1. The Lion, the witch, the big-ass chocolate cake and the Wardrobe?

      Hmm, my version needs a little work, I think YOU should write it!

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  4. Glad you've had fun, hope your trip home goes very smoothly, and may the opportunity to go to Baltimore come your way!

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    1. Thanks messymimi, and am working on baltimore! And by working, I mean wishing and daydreaming very hard.

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  5. im sooooo jealous! shauna is awsome to read and must be a great person to eat chocolatecake with! have a save trip home and give us some more pics of scottland to give us city-girls some geep to drool over!

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    1. You're right she's awesome! And thanks so much for stopping by and putting up with geeps at this blog when you have a whole sophisticated city of things to keep you occupied!

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  6. I nearly cracked the monitor trying to get to those sweets! :-)

    No Fitbloggin for me either but I did write about slowing down anyway...

    So glad yu had a great time & hope the trip home is safe!

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    1. Putting out good vibes to the universe that some benevolent sponsor appears and sends us both to Baltimore!

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  7. So soooo good to meet you... bloody awesome day! Safe travels home to you and hope we get to meet agaainnnn!

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    1. Hope so too, fingers crossed that it's sooner rather than later!

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  8. Dear Crabby - If you felt anything akin to what I have felt leaving "the continent", the moors will have a wee bit of extra mist from those "I already miss being here even though I'm ready to go home/But I WILL come back as soon as I can" tears born out of all the experiences that touched you during your travels. Safe travels and welcome back state side.

    PS - Last time I came back from Paris I SWORE I would NEVER drink coffee from cardboard, styrofoam or anything of that ilk EVER again. Yeah... for some mysterious reason no one else here read my mind, stuff happened and back to the ubiquitous Starbucks cups I was sooner than I care to admit. Still.... the feelings lingered much, much longer. Savor them, treasure them, and then hurry back to restore them when you are able :) I still look at every Vespa I see longingly.....................

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    1. Ah yes, the basics necessities of life like coffee, beer, wine, cake and chocolate are all much nicer in European countries, plus unlike us, the people there seem to take the time to savor them! And so many more bikes, walkers, scooter riders, train hoppers etc than in the car-addicted U.S.

      Still it's good to be home. We have ice here! And toilets that do not require cajoling or payment in order to do what is required of them.

      But hoping for future travel adventures for you and me and all of us with wanderlust!

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  9. Ahhhh...love me some Shauna! And some Scotland too!

    Shauna and I and the lovely Mara from Medicinal Marzipan will be meeting up at Fitbloggin to facilitate a self-acceptance discussion. I think you should definitely make plans to be there next year...suggest a topic on which you might speak, to Roni!

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    1. Thanks, I might just do that! Sounds like you're going to be part of a great panel, wish I could be there to hear it.

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  10. Oh, that cabinet looks grand! I'll have one of everything, please. Have a safe trip home.

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    1. And everything was just as tasty as it looked! Thanks Reb!

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  11. Sounds as though you had a super time - love the photos.
    I'm hoping you get your wish and make it to fitblogging!

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