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site news MISTRESS SUNDAY Due to a death in my extended family I will have to cancel the Oct 16th event. Check back here for updates on the November event, which will be held in a nice warm gym thanks to the most excellent donation by Marshall Tully of Full Blast Personal Training. A new Rant of the Month for October is up. How do you measure up? september 2005 First Mistress Sunday was a success and a fun time was had by all. At least I'm sure that will be true once everyone recovers. Gallery of pics Also new in the gallery: Make Yer Own Medicine Ball! Guest ranter Wendy M. is a horrible mother! She makes her child walk to school! Read about her egregious parental crimes in September's Rant of the Month. Won't someone please think of the children!? august 2005 You may have wondered why there were no Stumpblog updates in the last two weeks. I was on vacation in the Emerald Isle of Ireland, filling my arteries with potato and sausagey goodness. You can read about my adventures here and see pics here. Speaking of pics, there are a few new ones in the gallery. Nothing like a little hot, sweaty, dirty summer action... in other words, sandbags and sledgehammers! Update: I've added one more of me pushing a Smart Car. Soon I'll work up to my Mini! july 2005 Work is underway! The cottage cheese page has been updated with a ton of new recipes from all you wonderful readers. Also, you may notice that if you wrote to me in, oh, 2002 or so with a suggestion, I've made your changes. And yes, I will fix that frickin power shrug link. Honestly. Stumptuous.com: moving at the speed of a large beaurocracy! That'll teach me to make so much stuff. summer 2005 Over the summer I will be working on revising and updating the site. The frames will be gone eventually (nassty framesess, how we hates them, my precious). This will mean you'll be able to bookmark individual pages, and pages will scroll better, especially on smaller monitors. I'll be putting the whole site into a content management system, which will mean you'll be able to search it and find things more easily. This is going to take a while because I'm tidying and pruning as I go, adding and editing the existing content and code. And there are quite a lot of little booboos (plus a few large ones) to find and correct. So if there are no new articles for a little while, please be patient. I'm working behind the scenes to improve your Stumptuous.com experience. june 2005 The June Rant of the Month is up. Exercise... fun? Now there's a concept! Apologies for some site weirdness in the past few days, including a Stumpblog that was MIA. We had some server issues and the blog part just decided to take a walk. It said something about wanting to see other people, then it told me it was going out for a pack of smokes and didn't come back for a week. *sob* april 2005 A new Rant of the Month is up. Say Yes to Crack. Need to join the army, the police force, or the legions of buffitude? The pullup is the gold standard for upper-body strength, but most women have a tough time doing them. Mistressing the Pullup takes you through the progression from dead fish to antigravity. Once you do your first pullup, you'll never go back to lat pulldowns again. march 2005 Rant of the Month for March 2005: Bury my heart at Wounded Ass: My butt, human misery, and existentialism. *zombie voice* Grains! Graaaaaaaaains! Given up on Wonder Bread? Don't despair! Now you too can benefit from several thousand years of human agriculture. I've revised the Home Gym article to include a peek at my own Mistress stash. It's not as glamourous as you might think. Or, maybe it is as glamourous as you think, because you think I am a total bum. And you would be right. Don't make me get the sledgehammer. february 2005 A new Rant of the Month is up: Ruts, destiny, and small furry animals. What The...? A few new exercises you've probably never seen before, for shakin' up the workout blahs. Just in time for the post-New Year's Resolution slump! Workout for the Time Poor: Now you have no excuse! If I can do it, you can too, and by the way, a sledgehammer is a lovely decor piece. Breaks the ice at parties! january 2005 A new Rant of the Month is up. You say you want a resolution? december 2004 If you've been reading the blog to the left, or listening to your momma, you'll know that fruits and vegetables are good for you. In An Apple A Day, I splain why and give you lots of ideas for ways to bring F/V into your life. Searching for the perfect gift for the iron belle in your life? Perhaps the lovely lady might enjoy a Kettlestack! I review this cousin to the kettlebell here. A new Rant of the Month is up. I know, it's late. I have no excuse. I don't even do any Christmas shopping, as I confess... november 2004 Yeah, this isn't site related, nor even weights related, and it's kind of spam, but hey, it's my site so ha ha. My new book, Doing IT: Women Working in Information Technology is hot off the presses! If you enjoy the writing and trenchant social commentary of Stumptuous.com, there's plenty more of it in Doing IT, and hey, you might even learn stuff.
More about the book Welcome to StumpBlog! As you can see to the left, StumpBlog will bring you the latest and greatest in health and fitness news with NO EFFORT ON YOUR PART! For once, I let you sit on your ass. Isn't that fun? For now, you'll have to check this page if you want to be updated, but eventually I'll get around to embedding a nice geeky RSS feed for y'all that will alert you of any updates. Site updates will be in this column on the right hand side. Gym nerd blog and site updates: two great tastes that go great together! By the way, I hope to overhaul the site design again some time in the winter. I'm not crazy about the frames and my CSS guru assures me that with CSS, all things are possible. For those of you who have no idea what RSS and CSS are, don't be alarmed. Avert your eyes from the nerdiness and think pleasant thoughts. A new Rant of the Month, The Fitness Fascist, is up. Hint: I do not care how much Halloween candy you ate. october 2004 I survived the work event! Whee for me! I'm celebrating with a new Rant of the Month. september 2004 As you can see, not much. I have a very very very large upcoming deadline at work at the end of the month. Thus I have reduced my life to the bare essentials: sleep, food, partner, exercise, and the occasional dumbass movie. Not even a rant, although I assure you that I have plenty to rant about, so look for me being Ms. Furious next month. However, I did find time to put up three new pics in the photo gallery. |