February 2011
35 posts
Dark Sky. →
Sark, Uk was recently designated the first “dark sky community” meaning its residents have made a commitment to keeping their light pollution to a minimum. This means you can see the actual Milky Way stretching across the night sky. How cool is that?
Let’s go here.
Grocery shopping is hard.
I came home with eggs, celery, dried beans, some fruit, and sour cream. And no idea yet what to do with it.
January 2011
37 posts
100 Days of Real Food →
This family of four did the whole foods lifestyle for 100 days (omg, I’m worried about sticking to it for 28!) and shared all their lessons, wisdom, and recipe ideas on this blog.
I have a feeling I’m going to refering to this site a lot for support and ideas in the month ahead. Their “rules” are similar to mine, a little more flexible and a lot more thought out, so I...
My Secret Sunday
I actually find songs I like on the radio at work. The same radio we all moan about being so lame.
Fresh Foods February.
Sounds crazy, right? Well, let me explain it before you dismiss this new fangled idea.
Fresh Foods February will be my first 28 days of life without processed foods. No high fructose corn syrup. No monoglycerides. No red dye #40. No false foods. It’s going to be four weeks of whole foods as close to their natural forms as possible.
This means a few new food/grocery rules:
Buying...
Common Ancestors →
You learn something new every day, right? And today I learned I’m linked to Frank Sinatra.
Turns out that some ten-thousand years ago, someone was born with the genetic mutation that causes blue eyes, and the good fortune was passed down from there. Brings new meaning to that “we’re all related through Adam and Eve” story we all heard as children.
Kickstarter - The Throbbing Testicles are... →
Remember a long, long time ago when I mentioned discovering an awesome band with a weird name? Well, they’re back and in need of a little help from us all. Check them out on youtube, myspace, or itunes. Get your groove on. Loosen up those purse strings. And GIVE!
What was lost is now returned.
Waaaay back last November, I handed over a check so large it made me wince. My rental deposit plus my first month’s rent was the largest number I’ve ever written out of my bank account. And then I forgot about it over the months and months that I lived in my cramped little apartment on the west side.
Today! Today, I got a check in the mail from my rental company. It’s not nearly...
Intelligent Headlines?
Yeah, there is someone I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. We talk, we chill, we even work out together on occassion, but it’s nothing serious and nothing I’d ever act on.
So why is every other headline on my yahoo homepage relationship advice? I don’t need to know the signs that he thinks I’m the one. I don’t need to know what turns men off. I definitely...
Getting off early from work because of The Suits’ fear of paying anybody any overtime leads to me not getting a lunch break and gorging myself on fast food at 3pm.
Not good.
But it will be made up.
Promise.
Bought 'Em.
Hobbies I'd like to pick up this year.
Or at least try.
Guitar. I found my brother’s cheap plywood one in the closet yesterday.
Languages. I have a list of tongues I’d like to learn starting with Gaelic.
Cycling. The bike needs to get out more.
Dance. I’d like to learn more than the cabbage patch and sprinkler. Though those are classics.
Painting. What better way to decorate your brand new house.
...
Too Early.
4:45am.
Looking forward to this 12 hour split-shift.
BIG bowl of Special K Fruit n’ Yogurt.
Bruno Mars on MTV (They do still play music videos! Who knew?).
Icy roads awaiting me on the other side of this post.
Promises to be a good day, right?
When you actually have to work a snow day, they suck. We had maybe twenty customers from noon (when we opened) to 5pm. Most of those customers came in at 4. I’ve never been more exhausted, though.
Trapped.
When it snows in Arkansas all hell breaks loose. People ransack supermarkets; rednecks ride around in their 4-wheel drives, spinning their tires; idiots drive too fast and smack into light poles or too slow and get stuck in ditches. It’s a whole ordeal that yankees don’t understand. I myself, as someone who understands the laws of physics and meteorology, have a hard time believing the...
Three Terrible Words
Lower. Back. PAIN.
11:06 am
I haven’t slept this late in AGES! And it’s all because I stayed up waaaaaayyyy too late last night. Had a few laughs with old friends and new. And drank too much as well. But that’s all yesterday’s biz. I don’t regret any of it since I was in dire need of a mental health day.
So today is likely to include:
Running—4 miles, maybe 5 if I can work it right.
...
Why Tuesdays Suck.
I could tell you all. I could rant and grumble and bitch and moan all about how Tuesdays suck and this one just shit all over me. But I’m not going to.
Instead, I’m going to tell you about tonight’s run.
Some of you might know that the Razorbacks are playing Ohio State in the BCS Sugar Bowl game tonight in New Orleans. Some of you might even been there. Well, I forgot about it...
Shut up, Aberman
Surprise Might Ducks marathon on ESPN Classic!
An old wives tale.
It’s kind of an old superstition in my family that whatever you’re doing on New Years Day is what you’ll spend the year doing. Kind of an extention of the who-you-kiss thing. So what will I be doing this beautiful Saturday?
Work. 9:30-6.
Napping. (Not a concrete plan, but a strong possiblity.)
Running.
Cuddling with dogs. My own and others’.
Sleeping.
Looks like...