I'm not really sure what happened. As most of you know, all my friends in high school and even pretty much all through college were either females or a few gay males. Suffice it to say the straight male culture was something of a mystery to me, and I always wondered why I never seemed to break into that social arena ( Read more... )

So I went into the doctor for various things yesterday, but I happened to mention my insomnia (which has been getting a bit better). She suddenly looked really concerned and asked me the obvious questions first (do I drink a lot, how much/how to I sleep) and then she asked "How's your mood?" And I almost cried...I'm like "okaaaay....I guess I'm ( Read more... )

You can stop reading about my cycling adventures on LJ: now you can read about them (and MORE!) on my new triathlon blog! It will eventually be www.runbikeswim.netIf you want a preview (you can see it half done with no posts!!!) its at runbikeswim.net/wordpress ( Read more... )

Ride Report: Sauvie Island TT take 2 or how I spent 5.5 hours at Performance Bikes ( Read more... )

haven't posted much lately soooo here goes:

Ride Report: 2 weekends ago and Sauvie Island TTI'm suprised I didn't post anything about my weekend ride weekend before last (like 3 weeks ago...). It was INSANE; There were like 50 riders with the 19mph group when we took off; I ended up riding with the group who were all secretly hammer heads and we ( Read more... )

I posted a shit ton of more photographs for your viewing pleasure, see here.

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44 WILLE, KRISTIN PORTLAND OR 23 F 24:34 7:55 F2024 9 / 184 43 / 1734

Yes, I placed 44th out of 1,734 women in the 5K and 9th in my age group, which means I'm actually on the "Top 10 by age group" listing. Holy snikies!


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Friday night HousewarmingFriday night I went to a coworkers who recently moved into an awesome house literally next door to the Hawthorne Buffalo Exchange; she lives with two musicians who run a recording studio out of the house, so they have 2 huge music rooms (living and dining/rec rooms to the rest of us). We actually managed to stay out until ( Read more... )

We got into the Oregon Business Journal's top 100 companies to work for; and we're #10 in the small business category (there's a big biz and a small biz category). Whooo hoo! Party! Apparently our representatives at the dinner last night were causing a ruckus. :) Read about us here!

Stupid Rain
Yeah, it was pouring all freaking weekend. No bike ride for me. Boooo.

Ken's Artisan PizzaFriday night we went out with Erin and a coworker to the Goodfoot and had dinner at Ken's Artisan Pizza which was awesome. We drank quite a lot at the Goodfoot, they pour very very strong drinks. :) We had lots of fun...and then we straggled very ( Read more... )