After a full day that included painting, cleaning out my room at my parents' house, and eating an awesome spaghetti dinner, I'm ready. I'm ready to plod my way 6.2 miles down Peachtree St. to receive the coveted Peachtree Road Race T-shirt. Design to be revealed later, of course ( Read more... )

A nonfat decaf vanilla latte from Starbucks never tasted so good! I met my friend Mandy, who got married 3 weeks ago, for coffee tonight, and it was great. We chatted about everything - Aruba, married life (not that I could add a whole lot to that), summer vacation, boys, contentment... It was awesome to see her ( Read more... )

I forgot to rub it in that I went to see "Spiderman 2" on opening night! And for my HS friends, it was Becky and the boys again - just like old days ( Read more... )

Heading to ATL to spend the holiday weekend with the cutest baby in the world - and the rest of my family too, of course. Dad and I will be hanging out with 55,000 of our closest friends when we run - er, plod/trudge - the Peachtree Road Race. Come out and see us...and have a beer at 9 AM on Peachtree St. for me ( Read more... )

I've decided that whatever I want to do, God has a different plan for my life.  I make up my mind that I want to do something or go somewhere with my life, but God simply says "no."  I suppose that by now I should've realized that things aren't up to me anymore and that MY plans are bound to not work out.  Or am I simply being my usual pessimistic ( Read more... )

Today marks day #4 with NO CAFFEINE!!! For those who know and love me dearly, you know how HUGE this is for me. Man that headache on Monday was a tough one, but I made it through. I've decided that while I don't necessarily miss the caffeine, I've got a serious hankerin' for a cup of Starbucks. It's not so much the drug contained within java, but ( Read more... )

Man, I never thought 10 weeks of paid vacation would be so boring! Granted, I enjoy having incessant amounts of free time, but if you knew me, you'd know that I HATE not being busy. I mean, who can complain with sleeping late, hanging out at home in your PJs until the latest minute possible, watching ridiculous amounts of Dawson's Creek, running ( Read more... )