OMG, I almost forgot the most exciting news... it is now exactly ONE MONTH until we leave for China!!  And I received the sweetest e-mail from my Tibetan family today:

Dear Leah,
How are you? How is your family? I with my family really hope that everything is going smoothly with you all.
Here, we are fine and well therefore don't worry about us.
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This is more for me than anyone, but posting it here makes me feel more obligated to DO everything ( Read more... )

My boyfriend amazes me.

Last night, at StandUp for Kids...which...okay, you have to read Mark's awesome entry on StandUp because it's so spot on and powerful.  (
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I grew up with a Kindergarten teacher mom who also happened to stay home with me for the first 4 years of my life.  I often make fun of my mom for having a song about every holiday, every action, every feeling, every milestone in life.  I tease her for talking to all of my friends and all of HER friends as though everyone is a permanent 5-year-old ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention that Mark and I saw Alanis in concert two weeks ago!  She's touring with Matchbox 20 right now, and my parents got us tickets to the concert for Christmas.  (They still remember the days when the walls of my bedroom were plastered with magazine articles of Ms. Morissette.... I wasn't obsessed ... just ... inspired!  She inspired ( Read more... )

 Mark and I have befriended a fabulous and fun new group of people here in the ATL.  It's quite a diverse bunch, but we all have at least one thing in common- we LOVE food.  We love eating.  We love the experience of sharing a really awesome meal.  And we like to write about it, too.  It's the Atlanta Yelp group, and they rock ( Read more... )

Important lesson learned/reinforced during yoga class today: I need to relax with intention.

I think I look at relaxing mostly as an escape, a break from other stuff I need to do, or a recovery from having done lots of stuff.  But it is a.) possible and b.) waaaaaaaay better to have the intention to fully and deeply relax.  For the sake of ( Read more... )

It snowed this weekend!  It was so pretty- Mark and I curled up in front of the fire for most of Saturday and watched movies and napped.  Yay for cozy-time!  It's still so cold here that a lot of the snow hasn't melted.  I get today off, but Mark had to go into work.  Boooooo.  I should probably do a deep clean of the house...  but I think I'd ( Read more... )

So...yeah... the other day when I was all like, "I'm not spending $300 for a bike, blah blah blah ( Read more... )

Namaste!  So, in 2008, finances permitting.... I plan on taking yoga classes... regularly, not just sporadically.  It's something I've been wanting to do for a while now, especially since I don't get super-cheap lessons from my yoga-teacher friend in Arizona anymore.  But yoga classes have always been so expensive, and the DVDs just don't really ( Read more... )