When I looked at my training schedule on Monday, I saw that I had to run 6 miles this weekend and then "6 miles or 5K" next weekend. I wasn't planning on running a 5K this year, but the option of running 3.1 miles instead of 6 appealed to both my competitive side AND my naturally lazy disposition. Also, one of my goals for March was to "run at ( Read more... )

My grandmother died in December 2004. To say we were close doesn't quite describe our relationship--she felt more like a third parent. A few months before she died, she packed up a bunch of things for me. Practical things like Christmas decorations and pots and pans, but mostly sentimental stuff like a pacifier and rattle, all my old report cards, ( Read more... )

1. When I was making breakfast on Sunday morning, I heard a racket in the living room which I was SURE was one of our cats spontaneously exploding. Since all the cats were still intact, it probably would have taken me days to discover where the noise emanated. But Brian figured out that one of the tires on our jogging stroller had exploded. How ( Read more... )

Normally by the time January rolls around, it is freezing, SAD is in full swing, and I am absolutely miserable. So in February I develop an artificial cheerfulness and decide February will be "THE BEST MONTH EVER" and then plow through until the first day of spring ( Read more... )

In 2005 when I was 21, I bought my house. It was so small in comparison to the house next door that it looked like it could be that house's garage. And that's actually exactly what it was--a converted garage. It was tiny, but the neighborhood was nice and I had a big yard, so the plan was to build an addition. Eventually. In my early 20s, I was ( Read more... )

The bad news is that I haven't written a proper amount on the novel this week. The good news is that I've been sticking to my running schedule, and have actually gotten out of the house and DONE things ( Read more... )

1. I went to Einstein Bros. on Saturday morning and wrote. I like doing this every Saturday morning. I'm at the halfway point in the novel where I have to write a lot of "middle" that I didn't bother writing in the first draft. Fun times ( Read more... )

We didn't have any plans for Valentine's Day, but last night Brian came home from work and said, "We could go to Qdoba for dinner like we did last year. They've got that buy-one-get-one-free offer again ( Read more... )

The first week of January, all three of us took turns getting incredibly sick. When it was Brian's turn to be ill, Luke and I went to the supermarket to get him ginger ale, and got into a car accident. The car was totaled. Since the accident, we've seen a different car run the red light practically every time we've been at that intersection, so now ( Read more... )

We're three weeks into 2013 and I finally did my first run of the year. Cue the fireworks and revelry! I ran the Baltimore Half Marathon on October 13th, and then the next day birthday/vacation/holiday season started and...well, you know how that goes. After I lost my job I had to quit my beloved (extremely expensive) gym at the end of November, so ( Read more... )