Made myself a silly goal just under one year ago. I decided that, not only was I going to run a 5K after never running before and barely starting an exercise regime, but that I wanted to do 5 of them. Before my birthday next year. Also, just running 5K on the treadmill didn't count ( Read more... )

Finished my third 5K on Saturday. Been running and working out and, yes, writing when I can and am horribly behind on replies again. I swear I am not ignoring people ( Read more... )

Had the following exchange at the gym when I finished using one of the machines:

Random Father: Excuse me, are you done with that one?
Me: Yep, it's all yours.
Random Father's Son: Aw, man, you couldn't say no, could you?
Me: Sorry, dude.
Father: Tell you what, you only have to do the weight she was doing.
Son: [wary] What weight was it?
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So I had a bad idea. So I poked at said bad idea. So it poked back ( Read more... )

Crawling out of the abyss of mandatory overtime to offer a half-hearted wave ( Read more... )