The questions were these:
Your first very best friend in the whole world?
First crush? Do you remember what you even liked about that person?
Grade school bully?
I answered them in order: my best friend was M, my first crush was C, and I couldn’t remember the grade school bullies’ names from Saline—but I did remember that they [...]
The past few days have been fabulous—away from work, away from the people who have been trying my patience, away from the thought that I’m going to be stuck there forever. I’ve made some baby steps in trying to get out of there, but it’s going to a long, hard slog. That’s all right; I’ll [...]
Me: *dancing in my chair at the dinner table and singing* I’m going wedding dress shopping, I’m going wedding dress shopping!
IP: I can’t believe you’re excited about dropping $500 on a dress.
Me: *still dancing* Honey, I’m not excited about dropping $500 on a dress. I’m excited about dropping $1,000* on a dress.
IP: Oh. Okay then.
When [...]
Not a ton to hardcore runners, but it’s the first time in a long time I’ve done a) three runs in a row and 2) anything more than nine miles in the course of a few days. Here’s hoping that it’s the beginning of my running renaissance!
The threats have been relentless. The disdain and disappointment is sometimes overwhelming, but we have decided to stay strong. No matter what people say, no matter what people do, we are united ($10 [family members excluded] if you can guess what song I’m paraphrasing in that sentence). IP and I will not, not be getting [...]
My work project is over; the tough part has ended and I walk away convinced, more than ever, that it’s time for me to jump ship. First, though, a three-day weekend. Saturday and Sunday will be spent in the usual ways, while Monday will be made up of the following:
A nice, long run in the [...]
I listened to Lila Downs’s “Nothing but the Truth” from her album Shake Away constantly in the run-up to last Tuesday’s election. It received a ton of iPod play during my runs, sometimes comprising half of any given workout. To me it spoke to the need for change and it represented to me [...]
I have no words to express my absolute happiness and joy that Barack Obama is the country’s 44th president.
I’ll be honest: the past eight years have done much to add a nice, new layer of cynicism to my already countless coats, but this helps to sand that down a tad or two. As a daughter [...]
How depressing. I run my first race in nearly a year and a half (training diligently, by the way, for a distance I used to do five times a week) and my results aren’t even registered. At least the Forerunner 405, given to me by my loving, wonderful fiancé, has stepped in to save the [...]
