I recently finished reading "Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities" by Alexandra Robbins. I then went over to amazon.com to read other people's reviews and found some very incendiary trash talking going on. People are really bent out of shape about this book (which if you don't know was written by the author after posing undercover as an ( Read more... )

So, last night I couldn't sleep so I went into the guest bedroom to read and I had just settled in when I looked up to the ceiling and there was a giant cockroach. Huge cockroach. Must have been at least 3 inches long and very fat. And then, to make matters even worse, it FLEW over to the window! I freaked and ran out of the room. How ( Read more... )

Yesterday I successfully completed my second sprint triathlon (.75K swim, 20K bike, 5K run). I had no expectations going into this race. I did not take training seriously (in fact, other than my normal running schedule, I didn’t train at all!). I swam once in the pool, and other than a few spin sessions a few months ago, have not biked farther ( Read more... )

There is a lady at my office who is very strange. She'll stand at the entrance to my cube and just look at me. I know she's doing this because I have a "rear view mirror" attached to my monitor (for precisely this reason). So, I'll turn around to say something, but she'll then walk away. And then she'll come back. WTF? In addition, I lent her ( Read more... )

I didn't sleep well last night at all. We had a mini-gas leak that I caught at 3:30am. Not much sleeping after that excitement. And I'm having a fat day. Boo ( Read more... )

I bailed on open water swim practice on Saturday so that I could sleep in but I redeemed myself by running 7 miles on Sunday. I surprised myself by running all 7 miles. The original plan was for me to just run 4 miles with the group and then go home because I didn't think I was in good enough shape to run all 7. Go me ( Read more... )

I think I might be addicted to shopping. Maybe "addiction" is too strong a word. But I think I might love it too much... I love the rush you get when you buy something new...the untold promise that this new item might just change your life. And maybe its absurd to attribute such power to an inanimate object, but can anyone tell me they've never ( Read more... )

I'm heading out to Las Vegas tomorrow with
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I seem to have "forgotten" that I have a triathlon in a month. I haven't swim or biked since last summer and its been two weeks since I've run or been to the gym.
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I hit one of the big outlet malls in Orlando, FL today. I was actually pretty dissapointed. Where were all the great deals? Prices seemed the same as you'd find at retail shops. I did find an adorable pair of strappy sandals and a black pencil skirt. But neither at the cut rate prices I was expecting. I did find a gorgeous dress at the DKNY ( Read more... )