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  • When I found out about this program it was like I was dealing. I carried the brochure around with me and shared the information with any parent who seemed interested. "No, seriously, dude. $200 for 8 weeks of summer e…

  • The cake turned out great... The pawn is stranded on a desert island. Or dessert island. It is made of cake, afterall. Star Wars was disturbing. I felt bad for Darth Vader. And I understood Yoda and …

  • He's shaking me a martini. I am reclining in bed listening to a baseball game on the radio. It's 1-0 Nebraska. Baseball. Big XII. Could I have less to do? Nope. I think I am taking kids to …

  • Maggie is recuperating well from her surgery. The vet assures me that the hair will grow back and that she will walk on the remaining pads of her feet soon. In the meantime she has a bright blue bandage. Her heart,…

  • Eric and I were driving back from Fremont in our Geo Metro with a package of cinnamon rolls from his mom. The cinnamon rolls were gooey and full of pecans, just the way Eric liked them. We stopped for gas in Valley …

  • Last night we watched American Idol. It was the first time for me. The kids were ecstatic. And incredulous. We don't turn the TV on during the week. I sometimes turn it on and it's usually a sign that I have had a r…

  • I ran eight miles before work this morning. The run is burrowing into my psyche. It has a life. It will stir and whisper inspiration to me on future runs when I am crabby or tired or just not in the mood for a run. I…

  • I am soaked in sweat and it has soaked through my thin, gray cotton nightgown. I can't tell if it is the heat in my bedroom or the weird dream I had. My ex was wearing a navy blue sheer robe. It was scary. I kick off…

  • "Mom, are you sure you moved everything?" It would be weird to come home after a weekend and find that your whole house has been moved. The kids were at their dad's this past weekend and I did the bulk of the moving. …

  • I found $3 in the pocket of my pants this morning when I got dressed. It's really the perfect amount to find. Not too much. Just enough. I think I am going to go look for those dark chocolate M&Ms on my afternoon…

  • So Dave's favorite John Lennon song is "Working Class Hero" and he told me about this really bad job that he once had where he was able to listen to his own music and he would listen to this song over and over again. He…

  • We slept at the new house last night. Sleeping on the floor on my feather bed is even less comfortable than it sounds. I don't care. I wanted to sleep at the new house. A friend with a Jeep helped me move clothing …

  • Route66 came and she brought her van. We moved nearly the whole first floor of my house. And a bunch of stuff from the basement. At 9:45 we brought grumpy kids back to my house and I sent little kids up to bed. The o…

  • We bought a house. "You will be successful in everything." Hell, yeah. A short tour... Living room to dining room... French doors to the office and the first floor bathroom (There are three bathrooms and tha…

  • I got just enough sun from a Sunday afternoon tennis game to make the freckles on my shoulder really pop out. Unfortunately my cute freckles are covered by a black crepe dress. I am meeting with one of our major funder…

  • I ran to the reservoir and back. 10 miles. I even ran the little hill at the end up to the top of the reservoir. Yep. There's the lake. I resisted the turn off before the zoo and made it the whole way around. The m…

  • Her dad missed her band concert. I walked up to talk to her after the concert and she burst into tears and buried her head in my leg as she sobbed. I sat down in the folding chair next to her and held her while she cri…

  • I am in love with my guitar teacher. He sang "Jolene" today while I played. "Well, where do you want to go from here?" he asked at the end of my lesson. I am at the end of Book II. "Well, I have this John Lennon book…

  • We're merging finances. And I am simultaneously elated and terrified. This is a pretty vulnerable naked. And not the sexy kind, either. So here we are with our shambles of financial lives - student loans, the financi…

  • Yesterday was our four year anniversary. I got a ticket stub from an REM concert - the one that Bill and I both attended in 1984 long before we knew each other. Bill found it when he was sorting stuff for moving. I th…

  • I ran for the first time since the Half Marathon. Oophf. Three miles. And sometimes three miles seems like more than thirteen miles. Heh. This week in suckage - custody trial tomorrow, the landlord is parading peopl…

  • The day before vacation and here I am at my desk at work. I am simultaneously worthless and fabulously productive. I am getting shit done. But I am already gone, you know? A coworker is covering a hearing for me tomo…

  • The landlord is going to show my house today. Gah. I really wanted to be moved out before that. So I was up at 6 picking up and touching up the paint on the banister where my kids' grubby little hands gra…

  • From this month's Runner's World (can you tell what the fight was about this weekend?):Dear Miles: I train with my girlfriend and we have our first race coming up. Should we stick together or run separately?…

  • "I'm hungry, mom." "Carrots? Bagel? Crackers? Cheese?" I rattled off the usual snack choices that I knew that we had. My son solemnly shook his head and then pulled the box of pop tarts from behind his back. "No. …

  • Dear Abby Runner: My boyfriend is faster than me and can run farther than me. This is really unfair because when we first started dating he could hardly run two miles. He started lifting weights and training for a mar…

  • We both ran the race. But Bill's medal is bigger than my medal. It's only fair, I guess, since he ran twice as far as me. Red eggs, olives, champagne and Sport Drink? It mu…

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