A Very Pumpkin Weekend
In case you missed it, this weekend was Halloween weekend! We celebrated with a complete pumpkin overload and watching by our favorite Halloween movies (aka movies that are not scary like Hocus Pocus,...
View ArticleOh Christmas Tree (and an evil virus)
Wednesday, in an absent-minded moment, I noticed a notification pop up out of my task bar. Something about low memory. I’ve seen these before, and really, after 2 years of downloading pictures,...
View ArticleRiver of Lights
I am on a mission to be as Christmasy as possible. This weekend Aaron and I went to River of Lights, which is Albuquerque’s version of a large scale light display of happiness hosted by the Botanic...
View ArticleEve of Christmas Eve! (And a Completed Gingerbread House)
In the word’s of one of my favorite literary heroines, Eloise, ”It’s the Eve of Christmas Eve!” I discovered this year that The Plaza Hotel unveiled their Eloise tree, designed by the Queen of whimsy,...
View ArticleA Lovely Christmas Weekend
December 26th is one of the worst days of the year. The radio stations have stopped playing Christmas music. Everywhere, people are (prematurely in my opinion) taking down their lights from their...
View ArticleBoston, Titanic, Sneeziness, Etc.
Happy Friday the 13th! Every 6 years my birthday falls on Friday the 13th, so I bear no ill will toward the occasion or the number 13 in general. Though I suppose if I break a mirror today, I may get...
View ArticleMay the Fourth Be With You and Friday Pre-Half Thoughts
HAPPY FRIDAY! Is it just me, or has this week been particularly trying? Weekly Race Shout-Outs First, To Shantarella who did the Safari Half in South Africa on Tuesday, and ran her best time ever!...
View ArticleChristmas Survey Because I Love Christmas
I saw this Christmas Survey on Christina’s blog, and I decided to steal it. Consider this a gratuitous fluffy non-running related post (they do ask a running question!). But I mean, who doesn’t love...
View ArticleLesson Learned: I’m a Hibernator
Operation Fast Half is coming to a close here soon (the race is in a week and a half), and if I could sum up my lessons learned during this training cycle into one phrase it would be: people don’t...
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