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if i climb this mountain, can i see the other side?
went to the chiropractor during lunch today for an adjustment/massage. ever since the nauseating pain i developed last christmas, working like a fiend to complete and press-lock my latest award winning treasure, i've made regular trips to dr. mckrackin' to keep me in tip-top spinal shape. it's always a good thing, but i tend to feel a bit achy and ( Read more... ) -
beach baby, beach baby there on the sand...
hey all you so. cal-ers, anybody want to head up to pismo beach anytime between july 18-25? me and the man (and his uber-cool family) will be in residence and i'd love to share a spot of sand, a margarita or two, and some catch-up conversation ( Read more... ) -
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that's it, i'm going to find stories to tell, dammit ( Read more... ) -
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well kiddies, laura's back in the house. mmmhum that's right, after nearly two years, DSL returns to my home and i am reunited with my own unfettered and unsensored connection to the weirdly wired web and my very own--albeit aging--computer ( Read more... ) -
pink martini and the ho-town hayday
made a super fast trip to ho-town last weekend. (is that the proper hip hop bubblegum abbreviation for hollywood, btw? here we've got "mo-town" as modesto, in college chattanooga was "chat-town" so why can't hollywood be
ho-town? ) to see total fav group, pink martini, discovered while chillin' with the likes of mishdogg, passionseeker, and forkintheeye in san francisco over a v- ( Read more... ) -
life's injustice's #423
after dropping off my dry cleaning this morning i popped over to starbucks for my current fav: half shot raspberry soy mocha latte (a slight deviance from my stand-by satisfaction, a soy vanilla latte) and there was a gaggle of teeny-boppers in line ahead of me, decked out in their cutsy bikini tops and beachy coverups. so after a wistful moment of ( Read more... ) -
decisions! decisions!
ooohh! ooohh!
diana krall will be at the hollywood bowl on august 18
pink martini will be there september 15
which to go see?
my heart beats for both!!
not to mention dave matthews band playing there in october...
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soundtrack
just as we had finished up at the race, sunday, and after i no longer felt like vomiting upon crossing the finish line, our friend kirk and i were walking our gear back to the truck when he turns to me and says, "i missed the loud rock music that they play during these types of events on TV ( Read more... ) -
06.24.07 = 2:25:23
well, i did it. i completed my very first triathlon in 2:25:23. sure i was the next to last woman on the course (and even then that was only because my husband and a friend of mine went back on the course to run me across the finish line--bless them) but hell-yeah i did a triathlon ( Read more... ) -
discrimi-nation
all right, i'm going to get down and petty here, but then what the F*&(#! it's my space anyway ( Read more... )