Sunshine, good food and friends
What could be better than sunshine, good food and friends. Well, more than one day of freak 80 degree weather and brilliant sunshine would be a nice start but all in all, the one day was at least a hopeful glimmer of what is to come. On Saturday, I got out for my last "long" run before Leona next →
Smile at the rain
Yesterday as my first day of work at the library and by the end of the day, I was worried that my brain had turned to complete mush. The morning was spent at Central trying to understand all the medical, dental, and various supplemental insurance plans and all the various deductions, filling out forms, getting the new employee handbook, etc. →
Like clockwork/ forgeting time
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. Ok, well not quite that dramatic, but it is my first day of work at the library. I am very excited and nervous. It has been quite a while since I worked in an institution/environment that had things like hours, dress codes, offices.... It is quite the change. But →
The calm before the storm
I had the most satisfying run just now. I felt challenged, I felt free, I felt renewed, I felt levity. And that is saying something considering my body didn't actually feel that good. Today was the first (hopefully of many) trip to West Seattle Stadium to do a track workout. I haven't been doing track workouts really this year and →
I run this city
Deep breathe, whew. It has been a whirlwind week. A week ago this time I was sitting at my desk trying to figure out whether or not I was going to be moving or not. My landlords hadn't found anyone yet and I was stuck in a nether realm, limbo, waiting at any moment to have to go into overdrive and →
Living up to my namesake
Last night I lived up to my namesake. More just (someone with) my name. That is I made a delicious meal of a spin off of 3 recipes from Everyday Living (a Martha Stewart magazine). Get it? Martha... I whipped this up in just over an hour after getting home after a long day of hardworking out! It is →
la belle nouvelle vie; an overture in three parts
Despite being an up and down week, it truly is a beautiful new life. My saturday has been productive, I ran errands, I ran miles and I threw down in the kitchen! What more can you ask for? Bubba Cakes-a work in progress This morning I decided to attempt to make a vegan gluten free oak cake, based on the "flying aprons" →
The Blues
I've got the blues. No, I am not about to break out into song like a commercial for that quasi-food stuff that comes in a blue box. But I got the blues. I got the everything is going right-post good race-sun is shining-weight off my shoulders blues. Wait what? It makes even less sense to me. I just have been →
Kinda Quarterlife-y
There are just those days when life sometimes fits like a coarse wool shirt on bare skin. It comes out of nowhere and is often prompted by nothing specifically. A feeling of inherent meaninglessness just zaps all semblance of energy and passion and all I want to do is crawl back under the covers and try to sneak out the →
I’m a hasher afterall
Food and blogging about it can take up so much of my attention that I lose track of all other things. For example, like just now when I was writing up my race report I left a pot of water on to boil to make tea and promptly forgot about it, but steadily wondering what that burning smell was. THANKFULLY, →
What could be better?
Than sunshine? Sunshine, the beach, running and then to top off a perfectly lovely day, gluten free dark chocolate brownies. Today was another beautiful day in Seattle, slightly warm, nearing 50 degrees and crystal clear for most of the day. Working away at my desk I was beckoned outside and half tempted again to hop in my car and head →
The cat that got the canary
I am sitting here quite pleased with myself, smiling deviously, kinda smug and at the same time feeling very humbled and silly. I love paradox! I just returned home from a really good 8.5 mile run in the pissing rain, which puts me at 69 miles already this week. And feeling good, finally! Finally... I will explain, later, but first →
Last week, before this week becomes last week….Jan 18-20
Ah how time gets away from me! I had a really awesome last end to my week and great weekend and haven't had a chance to blog about it! Shame shame.... I am traveling now and got busy with work so the pics I took will have to be updated later...but nonetheless, onward to review.... Running, week 3 In only my third →
