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    Three Full Plates and Two Plates That Suck

    Me wearing a color, with writers Tatjana Soli and Jane Smiley

    Kudos and adulations to Gray, Kira, and Mir who bravely soldier on with the plating while a certain Elephant Plate and an uncertain blue-pottery-or-possibly-the-paper Plate are SUCKING WIND like demented Hoovers.

    We ARE currently crafting a FASHION and MAKEOVER challenge that will [...]

    The Tales of Two Schuberts

    I have made a grave error. Very grave! I have named my BODY FAT after my old fat bitchy cat, Schubert. I am trying to lose one Schubert (about 17 and a half pounds) because that’s what I gained as I lay in the bed, post surgery, eating post surgical mac-n-chee with pounds of post [...]

    Tender morsels of random updateyness

    Hello! We here at Five Full Plates are not dead, we are just terribly busy. Doing… things. And also stuff. You know how it is. Joshilyn is busy on book tour; Lydia is busy getting ready for France; Gray is busy getting better, stronger, and faster than before; Kira is busy chasing feral children out [...]

    What I Learned on My Summer Vacation. Or Not.

    1) That summer is no time to be learning things. The mamas here on 5 Full Plates are all not waving in the first week of summer, we are drowning it. We each have our own super great excuses for not being able to manage a single lima bean’s worth of MORE on our [...]

    Weekend Update

    Moxie. We has it.

    This week wraps up the “Discomfort Zone” for most of us, though one or two Plates may want to carry on for another week.

    Lydia says: “I wrote a song about how I bought a shirt without trying it on and then got it home and it sucked. And also a song [...]

    A Satunday update

    Oh, hello. This is totally the Saturday update, you just missed it yesterday. Yes. Yes you did. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT.

    Okay, fine. We are so busy daring the pants off of ourselves that somehow we (read: I) were not able to get all of our updates together yesterday. We’re just out there, daring [...]

    The Saturday Update

    Well, here we all are, itchy and wriggly, as if the space outside our comfort zones was composed entirely of nettles.

    Kira, challenged by Mir to pick up her pen and WRITE, says she “is bothered and annoyed by the unyielding nature of time. She has yet to find a suitable daily block [...]

    Saturday Update

    It’s back, the Saturday update! In our somewhat patchy sort of infinite wisdom, we have decided to check in on Saturdays, to give a snapshot of where we are in the current challenge – the I Dare You Challenge.

    And what a week for an update! Am I the only one hearing the Rocky theme song around [...]

    Fresh Start: What's Clean This Week?

    This is either an ad for HSBC Bank or a metaphor for my freakin’ life…

    What does it mean to spring clean? SO far, we mostly seem to think it means we have to get shovels and attack our crap-closets. This next week, please choose something horrible in your house and join us [...]

    A very quiet few comments

    My Wii Fit balance board kind of lost its mind, this week; after some initial problems with consistency, we had settled in and had a good thing going, I thought, and it seemed to be weighing me fairly accurately. But then this past week, I don’t know what happened. It started messing with me is [...]