Rebecca

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

October resolutions

It is officially time for me to get off my ass and start moving again. This summer was understandably not a time of running or moving at all, between the medical stuff and the move any routine I had built up is completely gone. But my clothes are not fitting well, I feel generally sluggish, and I stepped on the scale this morning - ouch!

So it is time to begin. Again. I went for a long walk in the morning before leaving for the theatre three days this week. I plan to stick with walking for another week, and then step up to running again.

I know I do better when I have a goal race to train for so I've been looking at half-marathons to run in the end of January / early February. There's nothing close to me, but I've found one race in San Diego and one in Sedona. AZ that fit the time frame. And either of those places would be fun to visit for a mini-vacation, so a longer weekend could be built around me racing. It still feels silly to travel and pay for a hotel so I can run, but if it gets me off my butt it would be worth it. (Also since I'm working non-stop until the end of December I will be ready for a vacation, and should even have some extra cash to pay for it.)

The plan for a race at the end of January may be overly ambitious; I'm hoping my body remembers the years of running and this isn't as hard as I'm afraid it may be. But where ever I end up eventually it is time to start again.

mood:

contemplative

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Friday, June 26th, 2009

ugh

I went for a run today.

The last time I went running was May 26, two days before my first surgery. That morning I ran 8 miles at a decent training pace (around 11 minutes/mile) and was thinking that I'd be back out in eight days, two weeks at the most. Yeah, that didn't happen.

So here it is, a month later. I was astonished at how many things I had forgotten in a month: the way my little toes go numb half a mile into any run, and then are fine a few blocks later, the way the running shoes feel on my feet, nodding at the regulars I see on my path most days. Today I ran two miles. And it was hard and I was slow. But I ran.

I will no longer be doing the SF half-marathon. It's July 25 and not only do I not have time to train for it safely anymore, but I will likely be radioactive that weekend. I don't think I can ask everyone else in the race to maintain a ten foot distance from me at all times, nor will I have the energy to go that far, even if I could train. That means my next race is at the end of October. I figured out the training plan earlier this week and was thinking I have plenty of time. After this morning, I'm a little less confident.

They say (whoever they are) that there is a two week grace period before your body starts losing conditioning if you stop running. And that it takes doing something regularly for three weeks to make it a habit.

So now I have to fight a little, to get my conditioning back, to get back into the habit of running, to get past the place where two miles hurts and back to the spot where it's easy.

But I guess I am still a runner. And so, I start again.

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Monday, May 18th, 2009

and.... race!

It was Bay to Breakers yesterday, the annual insanity disguised as a 12k run across San Francisco. This is the sixth year in a row that I've run it. About 30,000 people registered, but the counts of how many people were on the course are closer to 65,000.

First, it was seriously hot: 84 degrees at the start line at 8am. In San Francisco in May. Um, did someone cause Hell to freeze over and vent the remaining heat in Northern CA? Crazy. It was an extra relief to get to the finish because it's on the Great Highway right on the pacific coast, and the breeze off the ocean was awesome.

Second, the much ballyhooed crackdown on booze and nudity seems to have been at least partially successful. I didn't see any obvious alcohol anywhere on the course (unlike two years ago when I was next to two guys pushing a tapped keg in a baby stroller at the start). Though I may have gotten a contact high at the top of Hayes Street - whew. However, I actually saw more naked people this year than last. In fact, this year I even saw naked people worth seeing naked, and that is a true rarity.

I finished in 1:26:40, which is my fastest time yet for this race. It felt a little like I ran a 4 mile warm up to a really great 3.4 mile race, there are so many people at the start it's hard to move really quickly and any momentum you have by mile 2 is killed by the Hayes St hill. Officially I placed 7883rd, which is 2000ish spots higher than last year, even though I only went 40 or seconds faster. Weird.

mood:

accomplished

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Friday, May 1st, 2009

hazzards of running

I got up this morning and ran nine miles, and it was good. The weather is overcast and occasionally raining so it sprinkled on me at the start and a few other times, and flat out rained on me for a mile somewhere in the middle.

Then there's the hazzard mentioned in the subject. Along my running trail in the spring/early summer there are occasionally little clouds of flying gnat-like things. They're usually from 4-7 feet off the ground (or right at face level) and they're annoying to run through. On a clear day you can see them and step around, but today not so much. Usually the rain would keep them away but given the stop-start of the weather I still ran through a few clouds of them today.

When I got home I took of my shoes, made my recovery drink, and then happened to glance in a mirror. That is when I realized that today I was the death of one to two dozen gnats. How did I know? They were still STUCK TO MY FACE.

I had run through a cloud of them right after getting rained on, so apparently the extra wet acted a little bit like glue. Ick. I grabbed a paper towel to wipe myself off and pondered a few things.

-A few people on the second half of my run looked at me a little oddly today when I smiled and waved - now I know why.
-This is total vidication for my choice to always wear sunglasses when I run. (I ran without them once and a buzzy something was around my face near my eyes. I thought I had shooed it away but apparently I had killed it with a blink because when I got home there were small insect legs in my eyelashes. True story.)
-I probably swallowed one or two, given how all over my face they were. Which leads me to the question - how many calories are in a gnat?

mood:

energetic

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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Accomplishments!

I finished the baby afghan on Friday! It ended up taking longer than I thought, I didn't fully take into account how much longer a row of 800 stitches would take to do. I wet it and pinned it out in a generally square shape (yay for blocking) that night but when I went back to it Sunday night it still hadn't dried. I was seeing the folks it was for that night, so I tossed it in the dryer. It lost some of it's squareness, but is still all cozy. Things I learned:
-this pattern is cool and simple but time consuming
-I need to learn to bind off much more loosely (I could have pulled the blanket more square but for that)
-I wish a knitting store would offer a class in the best way to weave in ends.

I did not get a picture of the finished afghan (FAIL) though I'm hoping to get a photo of it with the baby in about a month. We'll see. I still need to send them care instructions - though pretty much it's a wool blanket.

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On Sunday I ran a 10k. I hadn't really trained for it at all,

womanplus had sent an email a few weeks ago - "come run with me". I decided that I had been running five miles at a time and wanted to move up into six miles that weekend anyway, so why not?
CONS: wet cold feet that were numb until mile two, getting the start time wrong so I was up 30 minutes too soon, a windy day, and specifically a nasty headwind for the last 1/2 mile
PROS: running into friends I hadn't expected to see, the best run t-shirts I have seen in a long time, a chance to get a definite measure of where I am at right now.

I finished in 1:07:05, which is 10:48 a mile. (There was a rumor after the race that they had mis-measured the 10k course and we had actually run 6.4 miles, but there's no way to know that for sure.) Not bad, especially given that I hadn't really trained for this at all, but I want to get faster for my next half.

mood:

content

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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Things I have been meaning to write

-So J met my family, my family met J. Everything went very well, and everybody likes each other (or if they don't they didn't tell me). J was a little exhausted by all of the driving we did while there - 2.5 hrsx2 to the cabin and back 2.5 hrsx2 to my brother's and back - and he now gets why I don't always consider trips home to be vacations. My favorite comment about J and I came from my mom who said that it is the most mature relationship I've ever had, and that both J and I are obviously happy. I can handle that.

-Rehearsals have begun for the new show. We're working straight sixes (ie. 2p-8p with two ten minute breaks and one twenty) and it's a great schedule for getting to have a life, but there's a lot of stuff I used to get done while on dinner breaks that I am finding myself behind on. The usual incompetent staff people are frustrating me, and I've realized that I have to be better at not sinking to their level, or getting angy at their incompetence. Cause they're not going to change, and I am doing what I can to get them fired (documenting the stupidity to send to my and their bosses). And the constant frustration over managment's inability to see how bad it is (or to be willing to do anything about it) and the desire to choke the shit out of her (there are two hers for those keeping count) really just mess up my head space, they don't accomplish anything.

-My chiro decided to take x-rays last week since we had never done that. I had started going in for hip issues, but had been mentioning more and more that my neck and shoulders were unhappy, so they x-rayed my lower back and neck. The lower back stuff looked about like I suspected, the curvature front to back is a little too pronounced and my right hip does sit higher than my left. But my neck is kind of a mess. The curvature in the neck should be a 30 degree angle, mine is -9. It goes the wrong way! And it doesn't so much curve as it goes in a straight line and then bends between the 3 and 4 backwards. They keep asking if I was in a car accident or some other trauma to my neck, but other than the standard put the car in the ditch in the winter there really isn't anything. I think this is just years of too much time staring down, at keyboards, at books, at my knitting. Anyway, I'm back to weekly chiro visits (bad for the wallet and time) to work on it.

-I went to buy new running shoes yesterday and the store I went to last time was closed. Or more accurately, gone. The sign for the strip mall still had them listed but looking through the windows there was only an empty room. So I pondered, and decided to go south to the store where I had gotten the pair of shoes before the last. And it too was gone. So I decided that yesterday was a bad day to buy shoes. And now I am off to try again, at a third store that I have visited but never bought shoes from. Whee!

mood:

happy

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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

stuff

- The show has closed. The train made it to the end and everything. I think my to do list for the two weeks I am off contract is actually longer than what I will need to do to prep the next show.

- I've seen Coraline (in 3D) twice. The movie is very beautiful and well worth going to if you haven't seen it already. (Also if you want to see the 3D {psst, and you do want to see the 3D} you need to go in the next two weeks. Then the Jonas brothers 3D movie comes out and will take over all the 3D theatres.) It is different from the book, but it gets the tone right. My favorite line from the book isn't in the movie which makes me sad, but then, it's still in the book so I can go reread it any time I want.

- I'm going with friends tomorrow to the SF Cartoon Art Museum where they have a Coraline exhibit. I'm curious to see what is there.

- On Saturday I was running and a man passed me going the other way pushing a stroller. An empty stroller. I still haven't figured this out, was he practicing for when there would be a baby? Did he leave the baby by the side of the path (I looked but didn't see one). Did the baby get bored and decide to walk home?

- Also on Saturday I bought a new vacuum. I spent more money that I probably should have to buy a Dyson, which came highly recommended by several friends. Once I got home I vacuumed my living room, makes sense right? I wasn't moving furniture or getting under the tables or anything, I just wanted to see how the vacuum worked. After going over the living room, I had to empty the dust trap thingy. Then I vacuumed my bedroom, and again had to empty the dust trap. This tells me that: #1 the new vacuum is in fact awesome, #2 my house has been much dirtier than I realized for a very long time. This is somewhat unsettling.

- I haven't been writing home topics for LJ Idol, without the deadline I find it hard to set aside the time. Last week's topic was 'blanket' and while I had several ideas, really all it makes me think of these days is the baby blanket I am currently working on. The pattern can be found here on Knitty, and this is what mine looks like so far.

I keep thinking I'm almost done because I only have four stripes of color left, but of couse the stripes get wider and the rows get longer so I'm not really all that close. The baby shower is March 1st, I'm farily certain I can beat that. I am very happy with the way the colors worked out though, buying yarn on line is always a little tricky when it comes to color.

- To combine two previous thoughts in this post Coraline and knitting, I need to find a screenshot of the gloves she gets. I so want to make myself a pair.

mood:

content

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Friday, January 2nd, 2009

voting

After a week off, it's voting time in LJ Idol land again. This week the bottom two in each tribe go home, and competition is getting tighter. I'm still in the third tribe on the page here:
community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/216134.html
and would appreciate your vote if you enjoyed my post about running.

(Also, yes I did get up and run the two miles this morning I said I would. I over-dressed in fear of the cold, but it was a good welcome back run.)

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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

LJ Idol week 14 - resolute

The alarm goes off. It’s always a little too early. I would love to stay in my warm bed, or get up and just watch TV, or make myself a relaxed breakfast. But I do none of those things. I get out of bed, eat my quick and carefully calibrated breakfast, get dressed, and tie on the special shoes. Then I leave for my run.

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In 2005 I made a generic resolution to add more exercise to my life. That spring I traveled to watch my mother run the Boston Marathon. It was my mom’s fifth or so marathon but it was the first one I was able to be at. Watching your mother cross the finish line of a marathon is an interesting kind of motivation – it’s inspiring and a little bit shaming. If Mom can run 26 miles surely I can at least jog a few times a week. I had run in the past, though I had never managed to keep going for more than a few months before I would lapse back into inactivity. I knew I would be more likely to follow through if I had a specific goal so I changed my resolution to finishing a half-marathon and started looking for a race.

I decided to register for Bay to Breakers (7.4 miles) that May and for a half-marathon in San Jose (13.1 miles) that October and began training. There were setbacks and issues along the way but I finished both races. Yay for me! Then my recovery time from the half-marathon stretched out and suddenly it was five months later and I hadn’t run at all. Again.

So in 2006 I recommitted to my running and finished the same two races, and lapsed into the same inactivity for the winter. 2007, rinse and repeat.

I got back into a running mode earlier in 2008 than I have in previous years. I added another race this year too; I ran a half marathon in San Francisco in early August. This November, after my last race of the year I took two weeks off, and then started to run again right away.

But my running fell apart in mid-December. I was transitioning between two jobs, my strange schedule and the holidays conspired to keep me in my slippers. A few days ago I realized something new. I missed it. That has never happened before. I’ve always treated running as something I have to do because that helps me get out the door. For the first time I realized that running was something I wanted to do. Not running is no longer okay.

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When I wake up early this Friday morning, to eat my quick breakfast and tie on the special shoes so I can run two miles before getting to work, I will smile on my way out the door. Because a long ago resolution to finish one race has created something new. I am a runner now. And that is a good thing to be.

@@@This is my entry for week 14 of LJ Idol – the topic is ‘resolute’. Per usual, I'll post a link to the poll on Friday once it is up. Thank you for reading.@@@

mood:

contemplative

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Sunday, November 16th, 2008

things

I got to spend all day yesterday with J, it was the first time we've had the same day off since late August. It was a wonderful thing.

I jokingly asked him how I should wear my hair for the day and he quickly answered "in braided pigtails".
"Why that?" I asked.
"It's cute, and then I can pull them which satisfies the seven year old boy in me."
So I wore my hair in pigtails. And he occasionally pulled them.
***
I have started logging all of my meals at Sparkpeople again. I had taken a pause from the site after the race I ran in early August that ended up lasting until a week ago. During that pause I regained some of the weight I had managed to take off. Boo. For me sparkpeople is less about being on a diet than simply being aware. For example, the salad I get when I go to Boston Market turns out to be 1100 calories. So not okay.
***
I also got moving again last week, going back to yoga and running for the first time since the most recent race. It seems less vital to be setting aside exercise time when I'm working on my feet all day - but it felt good.
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My big plans for later today include picking up my custom-made hula hoop. Whee!

mood:

happy

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008

and the time is....

2:18:45!

I have a knot in my right hamstring that I cannot get out, my knees are starting to get a little achy, and I'm about to call today's matinee. Thank God it's possible to stand and call in this booth - I have a feeling I'll be doing some interesting stretches during the show. But it's another PR, and this year's finisher's medals are beyond cool.

mood:

sore

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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

A few things...

- We start tech tonight. Everything on this show seems to take longer than it should, and I'm guessing this weekend will be no exception. I brought my coloring book so I am ready.

- I didn't get the job. I'm okay with this, while I think it would have been fun it wasn't necessarily a great career move. I've been pondering work and career stuff a lot lately, I may write that all down at some point this weekend.

- I keep coming up with more topics to write on for this LJ idol prompt, but I've already written and submitted my entry. I've been trying not to procrastinate, but maybe I should start holding on to things for a day or two to see what else might pop out of my brain.

- I am now free for the half-marathon I planned to run in Fresno in Nov which is great. Of course this means I have to get organized about that, and get serious about my training.

mood:

blah

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Monday, September 29th, 2008

a day off

Yes, this is the second Monday I'm writing a post with the title 'a day off'. But it is my day off, and therefore a good day for catching up on things and updating. Maybe next Monday I'll get more creative with the subject line. Anyway...

- I ran ten miles this morning. This is the first long run I've done since my race in July that didn't feel like plodding. The area just above my right hip is still tight, and it's in a difficult spot to stretch. But it doesn't hurt, mostly I'm just aware of it.

- I haven't heard anything back about last week's interview yet.

- I made it through the first elimination of LJ Idol - though I was in the bottom five of the polling in my tribe the whole weekend. This had me fairly freaked out on Saturday but I have regained a sense of balance about the whole thing. After all, it is just a game. So my goal this week is to get one more vote than I did last week. Hopefully that will also keep me in the game ; ), but either way it's more sane. This week's topic had me completely stumped when I saw it, and now I've had mutliple ideas. So I've been jotting down notes and tomorrow I'll have to pick one and roll with it.

- In another 'it's only a game' moment - why oh why did both of my football teams fall apart in the fourth quarter this past weekend? 'Watching' games on the computer is annoying enough when we're winning, but when the opponent's score just keeps going up and I've got no real reference for what else is going on (I didn't know Aaron Rodgers got injured until several hours after the game) it is frustrating.

- It's tech week - woo. The runthru on Sunday was 20 minutes shorter than last weeks which is a very good thing.

- I did convince the boys to watch Doctor Who season one. I'm having fun re-watching those episodes, and we're one disk away from moving on into season two where everything will be new to me too.

mood:

content

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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Things I know (SF 1/2 marathon edition)

Things I know about today:

-4:15am is too early to ever wake up
-Driving north on 101 I saw this lovely glow and thought the sun was coming up, then I realized it was just San Francisco.
-The 280North to 6th street exit is one of the few overpasses that still terrifies me.
-Event parking with bathrooms is the best idea. No waiting for porta-poties.
-The wave starts were not as well organized as they could have been. I ended up starting ten minutes later than I was supposed to.
-I went out faster than I had planned, though the pace felt good. Then there were hills.
-Running across the golden gate bridge is awesome. It's also fun when the drivers on the bridge start honking their horns.
-At mile ten I checked my watch and did some math with my pace and realized I should still be able to beat 2:20 (last 1/2 was 2:23:11) which became my new goal.
-Did I mention the hills? I mean yes, San Francisco so duh, but there were a lot of up and down hills in the last three miles. It got to the point that every time I started running downhill I got sad, because I was fairly certain that meant I was going to have to run back uphill shortly.
-i finished in 2:19:53.
-I have to be to work at noon, after getting off work at 10pm last night. Fitting a half marathon into the middle of a five show weekend is more than the average amount of crazy.
-I have a two hour break between shows today. My brain is already at war over what will be more important at that time: food or sleep. I think food will win, but we'll see in four hours.

( Under here you will find lots of details about things like what I wore and what I ate and when all weekend so I can find this info for my next race. Seriously, skipping is good. )

mood:

accomplished

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Friday, March 14th, 2008

philosophy while running

I went running this morning, and I took one of the little side paths around a park, which is near a pre-school. As I turned a corner a class of 3 and 4 year olds got to the head of the path and then all started running towards me with all of the exuberance of youth. I stayed to the far right of the path and watched the kids run past me - energetic, smiling, yelling - happy. Towards the back of the group there was one little dark-haired girl standing resolutely still. After having gone ten feet another girl looked back and realized her friend wasn't moving, and she ran back and took the dark-haired girl's hand. They then both began to run, smiling huge, and passed me by as well.

Today my goal is to try to hold on to their joy in my life. And to remember that if I stand still and ask for help, I have lots of friends who will turn back and grab my hand.

mood:

contemplative

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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

with visions of sugar plums

1) Rehearsals have started for my next show. This cast is a lot of fun, and while the script isn't my all time favorite at least it's interesting. Even better, the director and the cast prefer shorter days so my schedule is mostly 12-6p! Today is our last day before four days off (in a row! Astounding!).

2) My holiday present to myself is to ignore Sparkpeople until after the New Year. Not so much because I'm eating crazy amounts of sweets or food, but because deconstructing holiday food to its ingredients to enter is a serious pain. But...

3) I have finally started running again. I took several weeks off, but started moving again on Monday. I found a 10K race in mid-February that fits into my schedule, and it means I have something I have to train for which will keep me more motivated.

4) Life has been crazy. Between travelling with J for Thanksgiving and then home to WI, finishing at Klutz and starting a show, house sitting for a friend in San Bruno, dealing with holiday shopping and stuff, and wanting to still see my boyfriend - I have spent only three nights in my own bed since Thanksgiving. This is insane. But as everyone is going off to their versions of the holiday I thought I'd share mine.

-- I am always working on a show in Dec, either in rehearsal or finishing performances. So travelling home hasn't been easily possible - especially given that the Midwest weather can wreck havoc with careful plans. (This is why I usually go home in early Dec or Jan.) While I have received many invitations from friends it feels odd to me to intrude on someone else's family at this time of year. So I spend Christmas alone at home. And it's wonderful. In a world that is often too busy with too many things going on, a day (or days this year - whee) that I can spend selfishly alone is the best gift ever. I get a chance to actually cook for a change, to watch videos (last year I marathoned season 1 of Dr. Who), and do whatever I want, whenever I want. Much as I am going to miss J ,who is driving home to CO for the holidays, I am kind of relieved that I have no reason to be anywhere but home for ten days. The rituals I have now are going to a midnight service on the 24th where a high school friend of mind leads the choir, and calling home the morning of the 25th. That's it. And that's wonderful.

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Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Ohmigod SQUEEEE!

I ran my third half-marathon today. That's 13.1 miles.

At a later time (probably tomorrow) there will be a post filled with race day details like what I wore, what and when I ate, etc; mostly so I can track it for myself going forward. But here's what has me all squeeful.

Last year I finished this race in 2:42:15.

This year I finished in 2:23:10!!!!! (And there really need to be capslocks for numbers.) That's right - 18 minutes faster! I attribute this to my training being better, my day before being better planned, and having lost 10+ pounds but still, I was aiming to beat 2:30.

2:23:10. Today, I kind of rock.

mood:

ecstatic

music: pats vs. colts

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Monday, May 21st, 2007

Bay to Breakers!

So yesterday it was time for the annual craziness that is Bay to Breakers, a 12k (7.4 mile) run across San Francisco. For the first time ever they were chip timing us (ie. I had a little thing attached to my shoe laces that recorded when I crossed the start line and when I crossed the finish line so they have a record of how long I actually ran). My personal goal was to beat 1:40. I've run it three times before and always bounced between 1:40 and 1:45.

My finish time? 1:31:48! Woot! My clock time? 1:49:43.

Why almost a 17 minute difference? Well I was still in line for the port-a-john when the start gun fired and there's only so much point in hustling to start in a race where people are still crossing the starting line when the top runner finishes (35 minutes - at which point I was at the two mile mark staring up at Hayes hill). Heh. I actually think starting later may have helped me out, surrounded by mostly walkers there was no way for me to go out too fast.

I had a lot of fun, got mildly sunburned, and am not really sore at all today (my right knee isn't fond of stairs), so I consider this a success.

What did you do on Sunday?

mood:

giddy

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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Questions

I have a few random questions to send out to my flist, because I'm thinking someone out there will know things I don't.

1) Is there a way to track how many times you've used one of your icons?
I've found some new icons I really want to rotate in, and I'm so far refusing to up to 100 icons because that seems like overkill. But I want to pull icons I haven't used as much and I'm wondering if there's a way to track that.

2) Speaking of icons I need a really great running icon. Any suggestions or places to look?

3) Does anyone have experience with tanning beds? I have horrid tan lines from my running, and I don't particularly want to get any darker than I already am (on my arms and legs that see sun when I run) but would like the difference between the tan and not tan areas of my body to be less extreme. Especially with swimsuit season coming up, cause hoo-boy my tan lines are in the wrong places for that. Would getting into a tanning bed with super high SPF or actual clothes on the areas I don't want to tan help me at all? Do I run any risk of burning the currently white areas? Or should I just get over the vanity of this and be glad I'm fit enough to move around outside.

4) I also need new shorts for everyday. Ideally they should be modest enough that I can wear them to my oh-so-casual workplaces, but still cute. Please recommend your favorite pair.

5) Anything else I don't know that you're certain I should? Feel free to comment with those items as well. Heh.

location: klutz

mood:

mischievous

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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Clear eyes, full hearts...

CAN'T LOSE!

Alright here's the deal - are you watching Friday Night Lights? This week's episode made me laugh, cry, gasp, whimper, and stand up and cheer. It is the best new show on television this season, and quite possibly the best show period. Now look, I know that just because a show is well written, incredibly acted, and beautifully shot does not mean that the subject matter is for you. But have you tried it? Yes it's football in small town Texas, but it's about everything. The teenagers talk like teenagers, not overly self aware 20 somethings. The coach's marriage is between two equals who obviously love each other despite being frustrated sometimes. And the boys are hot. (What, I still play in the shallow end of the pool too.) So here's the deal, you need to give it a try. No really. I'm betting you'll fall in love.

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I've been having one of those weeks where the world fills in. You know, instead of 'here be monsters' there's actually a map? Downtown San Jose is suddenly a whole place, and my tattoo studio is only a few blocks from the Rep theatre. I have a better sense of El Camino all the way from downtown Mountain View to the Lawrence Expressway. I feel very smart.

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I am now less hobbly after the race. My right knee still catches every once in a while, but chiro last night certainly helped. I went for a 30 minute walk today, and it felt good. Yay!

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I did not wear a costume yesterday. Partially I realized that no one in the office would be dressed up (hell Halloween never got mentioned at all) and I didn't feel like being that different, and partially I realized that getting into costume would have required me to get up earlier. Sorry to have disappointed anyone.

In general the new temp gig is okay - but not my favorite thing. 8am has gotten easier, but at the end of the day stage managing someone's life just isn't as rewarding as stage managing a show. It pays better, but no one applauds.

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I am bad at birthdays. So many people on my flist have October birthdays and here's what happens in my world. I see entries where others have remembered to wish you a happy birthday and I think 'oh it's < your name here >'s birthday? That is so cool - I hope they have a fabulous day.' And you stay in my thoughts all day, but I don't ever type anything. Just FYI.

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Um, I'm sure there were other things I was going to talk about, but that's all that's coming out of my brain right now. Oh, and I totally haven't started nanowrimo at all. Instead I'm updating here. I wonder if there's a way to make this part of the story?

mood:

mellow

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