Le sigh. Today, I bought new running shoes. I do this from time to time, and the last time was April 2010. (Crap. I didn’t think it’d been that long.) Ever since my first long-distance training day for my first Avon Walk, I have entrusted my feet to professionals. Back then, I had a pair [...]
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The word for 2012 is Home. Making one. Being one. Settling into and contributing to one. 2011 was a year of transitions. Moving from one state to another, from one company to another (with some consulting in the middle), from a large household of one to a small household of two and a dog. We’ve [...]
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With thanks to ejshea, who’s made an admirable habit of using the same list from year to year. I think I’ll do the same. 1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Oh, good lord, so many things. I spent a week on a road trip with my brother. I ran [...]
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Do you know I was never taught that “30 days has September” rhyme as a kid? I’m not very thankful for that. I am thankful for all this, though: My health. I realize this is the best way to ensure that I get lupus by Christmas, but I’ve been really, really healthy this year and [...]
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“Hey, is there a real U.S.S. Defiant*?” “Sure.” . . . “Wait, did you mean somewhere in America’s fleet, or in my collection of little toy spaceships?” “Uh. America.” “Oh. Well, probably, then.” *We just started watching season 5 of Deep Space Nine.
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This weekend, while trying to print the recipe for Smitten Kitchen’s most excellent Red Wine Chocolate Cake so I wouldn’t get batter in my keyboard, I realized we’d run out of printer paper and grabbed the first handy scrap paper with an empty side: A copy of The New Roman Missal Introductory Rite. Yeah. I don’t [...]
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If you got here from Facebook, you probably already know that Rodney, our not-quite-6-year-old Westie, was diagnosed with diabetes this week. How do you know when a dog has diabetes? Well, if he’s so committed to housetraining that he’ll cross his legs through a DC thunderstorm and he has four accidents in a 24-hour period, [...]
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Occupy Wall Street started in New York City on September 17. The protest continues today – in an increasing number of US cities — in spite of hundreds of arrests (Thousands? I’m starting to lose count.) and widespread accounts of…let’s call it “inappropriate police response.” For now. “We are the 99%,” the occupiers say, and their demands [...]
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It’s been almost two years since I made Breakfast Pies and swore that I would be adding them to my “Cook a bunch on Sunday and eat for the rest of the week” routine. Yesterday, I made them again for the second time. Twice in nearly as many years! This may be a personal procrastination record. [...]
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Grape Stomp. In my head, this is pronounced GrapeSTOMP, Hulk-smash style. 5K. October 23. It’s on. A new friend, living up to all reports of coolness from the mutual friend who introduced us, just gave me an actual training goal. Or: THIS WAS ALL HER IDEA. Which in no way invalidates the waivers I signed [...]
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