Life
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Random Thoughts for Today
– I hope this weekend's weather report is wrong — I really need a good beach weekend. If not, I suppose I'll get a relaxing getaway weekend nonetheless.– I like packing for trips, but am always afraid I'll forget something important.– I'm enjoying Top Chef Masters, although the judges are much nicer to the contestants
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Slow it Down
This article, The Ten Essential Rules for Slowing Down and Enjoying Life More, caught my eye today. Good advice for everyone these days. [via @gourmeted]
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Time After Time
For some reason I really enjoy looking back through the archives of my blog to see what I was doing a year ago in any given month, or even looking farther back. What was different? What is still the same? Take a look at June 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 and let me
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A Strange Phenomenon
Will someone please explain why it is that I prefer to set my alarm much earlier than I have to get up so that I have the option of hitting the snooze alarm repeatedly rather than set it for the time I actually have to get up, which would give me 30 – 45 minutes
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Test Drive
After my painful experience with the last pair of new running shoes I tried out, I traded them in for the Nike Zoom Structure Triax+ 12 (hell of a name). I'm happy to report that today's 5+ mile test run felt pretty good. We'll see if everything feels okay tomorrow, and if so, will try
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Positive Thinking (a.k.a. Fake it till you Make it)
Sorry about the gloom and doom around here, kids, but that's just the way things are right now. And although that's not likely to change for a while, I'll do my best to keep it off the internets, at the very least. I generally don't get very personal on the blog, and I've been a
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Quote of the Day
"The two important things I learned were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision." – Robyn Davidson, who traveled alone by camel across the Australian Outback. This quote was stuck on
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A Taste of the Weekend
Spud, our table's mascot at the crawfish boil. The sun beginning to set on the ferry home from Kismet. There was also some great company and conversation, a 19.75 mile bike ride, and the healing powers of all of the following: friends, laughter, the rays of the sun, the sound of the ocean, and the