So the new coach of the Fusion makes us pass a conditioning test at the beginning of practice season. It's a series of sprints in a limited time to prove we have the wind to make it. Different positions have different target times ( Read more... )

It might come as a shock to most of you who read this blog that I am, in fact, a total spaz. LIKE ZOMG ( Read more... )

My older sister was complaining to me some time ago about how she wanted a bathtub in her apartment - they only had a shower - and her significant other hadn't put one in, though she kept telling him to, but he just wouldn't make it a priority ( Read more... )

So, followers of the Exciting Life of Marie will know that I was on my first ever "diet" this year, trying to lose weight to win a rebate on my elliptical machine. They had an offer where you got a rebate if you lost a certain percentage of your body weight in a certain time, and I thought "Well, I could stand to lose some weight" and I did it ( Read more... )

When I was young and poor, fashion was a labyrinthine code somehow kept secret from me but divulged to all the other girls at school. I felt if I just worked hard at it, I could match up my goodwill shirts and skirts and arrive at Fashionable. I read "Color Me Beautiful" and the fashion articles in the paper and really TRIED. And yeah... no dice ( Read more... )

Not over-whelmed yet, but last night I went into my sewing room looking for knitting needles and I was crushed by the sheer number of unfinished projects lurking there, taunting me ( Read more... )

I have emotional problems with running. I get upset while running, my chest tightens, I hyperventilate, I cry. It's not just stupid, it's really really counter-productive when you try to run and just fall apart like that. I often wondered if my little nervous breakdowns weren't just my laziness taking hold and stopping me. Or if my inability to ( Read more... )

For the first time in my life, I'm taking an active role in maintaining my body ( Read more... )

So, a friend posted a link to an article about a man going on a variety of different 'diets' despite being thin. He's a competitive cyclist and tired of the idea that people who exercise a lot can "eat anything" because they'll burn off the calories. He posits, correctly, that diet isn't simply a means to thinness, and being thin doesn't exclude ( Read more... )

So, I'm attempting to read "Don Quixote" in the original Spanish. I'd read a decent-sized excerpt in high school Spanish class and was all proud of my bad self and always intended to get back to it ( Read more... )