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 [...]
Last night I wrote and attempted to post an entry about how much I now hate my job. I was doing it via BlackBerry thanks to a faulty internet connection, but there must have been some type of error; the post didn’t post and when I went to approve the draft today, it was all [...]
IP and I stayed up until midnight, laughing about SNL’s Obama variety show spoof. We kept on singing the Jeremiah White/Bill Ayers/Gnarls Barkley spoof segment to one another: “White devils be crazy! White devils be craaaaaazaaaay!” When IP called me this morning at work, I didn’t answer with a hello. I answered [...]
Although you’ll probably not believe me given the lack of book list updates around here, I’ve been reading. A lot. As you may have noticed, the writing thing isn’t going so well (I attribute that to a busy work schedule and pretty, pretty dresses that must be perused).
First thing’s first: I’ve gone through [...]
