I discovered it's possible to have a busy weekend and a quiet weekend at the same time. A part of me truly wishes my existence was a bit more exciting in the 48 hour spans that mark Saturdays and Sundays but then I have moments where I'm content with something less flashy. Honestly, I'd like to find a balance. I don't want to ditch my domesticated ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday kind of sucked on multiple levels. Today is already better. I swam 25 laps before 7AM and I passed on the table full of donuts laid out at work. I did, however, cave a little and had a bagel. The odds of having time for lunch today are slim, so that is my substitute. A slight justification, right ( Read more... )

I've given myself my own word now: Prolific. That is how I've felt so far with this challenge I've created for myself and for anyone else who wants it ( Read more... )

I have to say that I am having so much fun with this experiment of my own design ( Read more... )

Is it just me or do days like December 26th and 27th make you feel like you're the parent of teenage elves who threw a party they weren't supposed to while you went away for the weekend (either alone or with your significant other) and upon your return you discover the destruction? Only instead of beer cans, broken household items, and puke stains ( Read more... )

I'm off from work today for a variety of reasons, the highest being that I need to be with my wife later this evening for her company's holiday dinner party and it seemed a hell of a lot easier to take the whole day off then to scramble from work in Portland at 4:30PM and try be to Albany, Oregon (about 90 minutes south) by 6PM. I also have holiday ( Read more... )

I should be grabbing my gear and going for a swim at the Y ( Read more... )

This was the first weekend in what felt like 'forever' (really just August) that we didn't have two kids' worth of soccer obligations, which offered a nice break, particularly on Saturday morning.

I woke Saturday to...nothing. So I had to find something and that turned out to be laundry, a run to Borders, and a grocery store run that didn't really ( Read more... )

You may have caught the story involving a Facebook flame war between Willow and Bristol Palin and their "friends" in regards to one friend's post about Sarah Palin's Alaska, the new highly rated TLC cable program, being a "fail".

The gist of it boils down to this: A "friend" of 16 year-old Willow posted an opinion on his Facebook status. Willow ( Read more... )

Our older son turns 14 tomorrow and, as I think about it, is a pretty remarkable age to be. I have good memories of 14, but when I think about my son having similar experiences or the kinds of "firsts" I had at that age I get a little freaked out ( Read more... )