Comments from my blog on The Naked Diet asked for progress photos, so reluctantly, Amy and I are obliging. The first photo was December 5th, the day we started the diet. The second was taken today, February 12. So, after 5 weeks we're neck and neck - I've lost 29 pounds and Amy lost 29.5 pounds.
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01/12/2007
Interruptions in your day can consume you, whether phone calls or "visits" or just team members asking you a question whenever it comes to mind. This affects each one of us. Amy, our Director of Information, was the first to make project time - she'd put on her headphones and plug in her iPod an
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01/08/2007
Most of us have "rules" about how we work with prospective buyers, and often one of them is, when someone calls that's sitting in front of one of our listings and wants to see it "now", it's generally not worth the effort if they won't set a prearranged time to meet at the office or, possibly, at
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01/06/2007
Tarpon Springs is a Greek "city" of about 20,000 people, in northern Pinellas County, Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico. It's about 30 miles from St. Petersburg, so an easy drive when you feel like authentic Greek food and Greek culture. With 51 miles of waterfront, gulf, river and bayous, The Spon
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01/06/2007
Now that got your attention, didn't it? Even without a photo (Kristal would have had a clever photo for this one) This wasn't a New Year's resolution, since I started December 5th. In the first month I lost 25 pounds, and that was over the period of all the Christmas parties, New Year's Eve, etc.
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01/06/2007
Think food, not carbs. For those of you who want to bring food, why not step outside the box and bring some healthy things - I don't mean to NOT bring donuts or bagels, but how about something for all those people who are trying to lose weight or just stay healthy - it would be neat to bring some
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01/05/2007
Some of you have wanted an update to the blog I posted on the multiple ownership negotiations, so here it is:Today we received the last signatures from the multiple parties, so we now have a contract instead of an offer. It's good I extended the acceptance day until today, to allow for delays, be
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01/05/2007
Do you like block parties? Well, come on downtown. The first Friday of every month, St. Petersburg ropes off a block of Central Avenue, between 2nd St and 3rd St, for a night of live music and festivites. It's a great place for an end of business day party for downtown business employees, and yet
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01/05/2007
Twenty four years ago a museum opened on the waterfront in St. Petersburg which attracts 200,000 visitors a year from around the world - it's the Salvador Dali Museum, with the largest private collection of Dali in the world! We have a permanent collection, and several travelling exchanges. There
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01/05/2007
Book lovers HATE to throw away books. Unfortunately as they accumulate over the years, there aren't enough bookshelves in a home to accomodate them all. We don't want to sell them. Sometimes we'll give them away to friends or family, or loan them out. Generally it's the nonfiction books that I w
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01/05/2007