I'd been planning to go jogging this morning, but last night it was so nice out walking home, and then I checked the weather and saw that today's low was supposed to be 31, so I thought jogging last night might be a better idea. It was a good jog--I went my usual route and cut through the park, but then I cut over to the right and went up the hill ( Read more... )

F wanted to go jogging this morning. We went around campus. He says not to worry about how I look in my running shorts. It was a decent jog, but there are lots of hills around campus ( Read more... )

My dad had spinal surgery this morning. My parents were up at 4 AM, at the hospital at 6 AM, and my mother called me at 9 AM to let me know she'd just talked to the surgeon and the operation went well. Go, efficient surgeon man, go. Dad just called me from Mom's cell phone to let me know they're on the way home. (His SPINE was operated on this ( Read more... )

Friday night, F's sister Meg and her boyfriend Nick were in town to visit. We went all over downtown--F parked in the lot underneath Love Park (which I didn't even know existed), and we walked all the way up to the Art Museum, did the steps, walked back down, tried to eat dinner at a few different restaurants that F had researched but everyone ( Read more... )

Last week I had a dream where someone cut off all my hair, and I was really really upset because I'd wanted to have it long for my wedding. (I do really need a haircut, though ( Read more... )

Last week was a long, rough week. My mom's dear friend Denise, whom I'd asked you to pray for/send positive energy towards, passed away just over a week ago. I got approval from my boss for a day off to attend the service, so my week pretty much revolved around that--because F and I only have one car, he had to take me to my parents' house on ( Read more... )

My mom just called me up in tears because she just finished Mark Doty's Dog Years. I said, "I gave it to you because I thought it was a good one!" She said, "It was a really, really good one." Then she said I'm not allowed to give her any more books or stories because they make her cry. I protested that just this summer I gave her Haven Kimmel' ( Read more... )

I spent Friday night and all day yesterday with my parents. It was really fun. Friday night we went to Chili's for dinner, then shopping at the mall. Our local Boscov's is closing, but the sales were really lame. Apparently some other company is running the closeout sales, because everything was way more expensive than it is at Boscov's on a ( Read more... )

Random discoveries of today ( Read more... )

For years, my mother has been putting out holiday lawn ornaments, waiting for this special moment: the moment when the local newspaper finally acknowledges her hard work and tacky display ( Read more... )