Mark and I had a great anniversary and a fun (yet productive) weekend.  We got facials and massges on Saturday, which was soooooooooooo nice.... I love love love how totally relaxed it makes me.  And sure, it's total pampering, but there are also some serious health benefits to that kind of indulgence.  The kinks in my neck are gone.  My skin has a ( Read more... )

Since I couldn't come up with my own words very well, I'm borrowing Anaïs Nin's....

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. "

Thanks, Anaïs!  And thank you ( Read more... )

It's our two year anniversary today!  Mark snuck out earrrrrrrrly this morning and came back with two dozen gorgeous roses.  I'm one lucky girl.

Y'know, it's hard to explain why our relationship is so great.  Sure, I could list hundreds of reasons and various things that make me happy about us... but I'm not sure if I can really sum it all up in ( Read more... )

There's an awesome new LJ community for the health and fitness-minded.  Mark said everything about it that I was going to say, so you can just read his post here:

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Wow.  This is really sad... National Texting Champion.

Does she have parents?  Shouldn't they encourage her to do something other than text messaging and shopping?  Geez!

Okay, so Mark and I decided NOT to tackle the bookshelf assembly last night.  We'll get that done tomorrow (hopefully).  We have to show that bookshelf who's boss.  Hmph ( Read more... )

Dear Swedish Embassy (aka Ikea ( Read more... )

Earth Day was yesterday, as I'm sure most of you know.  But I just read something that was a good kick-in-the-pants and makes me want to get a bike for more than just fun exercise purposes....

Yes, Litter Days in the local park are swell, and I'm not saying we abandon this; but a few candy bar wrappers by the children's swingset is not going to be ( Read more... )

I am disappointed.

I didn't make it to the gym on Sunday, so I vowed that I would get up early with Mark and go this morning, since the gym is closed by the time I get out of my GRE class tonight, and I didn't want to miss going two days in a row.   But instead I woke up at 3:00 a.m. and watched the clock tick away, thinking about how Mondays are ( Read more... )