Dear lightning,

I appreciate you helping a sister out by testing my reflexes and all, but please stop striking whatever it is you’re striking that I’d guess to be about six blocks away.
Thanks,
Grimsaburger

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54º and cloudy

Dad calls these “frog bellies,” but you’d probably find them in your local nursery under “sedum.” Whatever, they’re coming up in the backyard for another year, and I couldn’t be happier.

(Click image for larger version)

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I blame TV

You know how people on reality shows talk about themselves, and ascribe certain characteristics to themselves that are almost certainly way off the mark? Like when people go on and on about how “weird” or “nonconformist” or “unconventional” they are, when they’re actually ultimate mediocrity dressed up in a tasteful, if brightly colored plaid? [...]

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Check.

I ran continuously for 60 minutes.  Let me repeat that, because I’m having a hard time believing it myself. I ran continuously for 60 minutes. I left the house at 10:47, started jogging, and came back at 11:47. In that 60 minutes, I covered 5.3 miles of sidewalk and trail, used 5 [...]

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Last gasp of procrastination

Raindrop on window.  Click to see the big version, a little pixelated but still–upside-down house in a raindrop! 

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Sudden-onset loss of motivation

Why is it that I’m excited about running 5 miles all week, until the actual morning of The Big Run, when I wither into a puddle of dripping whiny child-snot? 

That’s the most appropriately disgusting image I could come up with, by the way. I should embroider that on a throw pillow or cross-stitch it [...]

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Friday recipe: Miscellaneous

My morning routine has been disrupted by Spouse’s irregular schedule, and I have nary a recipe of my own to share. And one of my favorites hardly bears writing down as a recipe (Boil water, drop pasta, olive oil in pan, drop broccoli in pasta water, add garlic and crushed red pepper to olive [...]

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Photo editing for the People

Adobe has put Photoshop Express (beta) online for free, y’all. Go create an account, upload some pictures and monkey with them to your heart’s content. That is, if your heart is content to work within pretty proscribed limits. I wish there were edge blur and vignette options, but it’s hard to complain [...]

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May I have your attention, please!

I am unilaterally declaring a MORATORIUM on weddings in 2008.  If you’re not already on my calendar for a wedding before October, you may NOT get married until next year.  Six weddings–four cousins, one best friend, and a sibling(?)–is enough.  You MAY get married, IF AND ONLY IF you elope to a far-away destination and [...]

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Take that, toe!

I took my time this morning trying to decide if my toe was going to fall off if I ran today, and eventually got fed up with myself, strapped on a heavy-duty band-aid, and went to work.  I set off on a relatively quick pace (for me–the slowest runner on the planet, remember) and managed [...]

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