This is my every-third-week Friday off/Saturday at work combo, and I’m feeling prepared. Some weeks, I just glide through the Friday like it’s an extended nap break before my workday on Saturday. This won’t be one of those weeks. I have a list that contains eleven things. Count ’em. These aren’t weak sauce list items,…
Anywhere
One of my friends and I sometimes play the “where would you be” game. So if I could be in any place/time right now, I would pick this spot: I would live above that shop, and I would spend the morning walking around town, maybe picking up some ingredients for dinner. There would be hot…
Of Dogs and Mail: Henry and Claude
Picking up a friend’s mail this week (he’s out of town, I’m not stealing mail or anything) has reminded me of some other house-sitting-ish experiences from my past, so let me take you back to 2006, when a young me was living on her own for the first time. This was post-college, pre-Peanut, and I…
The Trailerhood
Things that shouldn’t be… I’ve had Toby Keith’s song “Trailerhood” stuck in my head for three long days. I could blame the perfect storm of technological events that encouraged me to turn on CMT’s music videos while I was getting ready for work. It’s still my fault though. Sigh. Almost every morning, I try to…
Gooey Goodness: The Aftermath
It turns out that my memory completely blocked out a few pertinent facts about the mud run. Important fact number one is that of the 5 miles in the race, about 4 of them are sand. Important fact number two is that I felt out of shape when I ran the race last year, even…
Gooey Goodness
Tomorrow is special. I’ve been looking forward to it for an entire year. It’s Mud Run day. It’s true that at various points in my life, I’ve been in shape. This isn’t one of those times, but I’m still going to get myself out of bed really early on a Saturday to stand in line…
December Decisions
It recently came to my attention that my family intends to spend Christmas in Colorado, which makes sense. Two of the five in question live there, and the other three know where to find good snow in December. Unfortunately, my Colorado plans for the year don’t include December. I was really sad about that at…
Small, but valuable. 