Watching La Tour de France makes me feel really, achingly nostalgic. Two years ago, I was catching snippets of it while I raced in the US National Championships. Three years ago, it was on day four of the tour that I decided I was done with my hiatus from cycling. Four years ago, I was whining that the resort where Nationals took place didn't have ( Read more... )

Jaime, Rhi, Laura and I went to the Ren Faire on Sunday, and had what was probably too much fun. We tried on corsets, which bruised my hipbones because apparently I'm too sharp and pointy in the hips or something, but which also looked fantastic. Rhi and Jaime bought corsets, and looked very sexy. I bought a boob-corset thing (I have no idea what ( Read more... )

Me: Your dumb. Go to sleep. (Get in the shower, Murphy.)

Jay: I WILL DO WITH MY DUMB WHATEVER I PLEASE.

Me: YES YOU WILL.

It feels really strange, coming back after so long. It seems like I've been away for such a long time that I can't just jump back in. I don't know, I used to be so comfortable on livejournal, and now it just feels strange. But I'm back. And I plan on continuing to be here again, so I know I'll get back into the swing of things ( Read more... )

I am going to be doing a major overhaul on my Livejournal, and actually on most of my accounts across the internet. I've realized that I'm really sick of my Livejournal being quite so... angst-ridden a place. I'm not entirely decided on what I want to do, but I'm working to make everything cohesive. There are going to be a lot of changes over the ( Read more... )

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I make this mistake all the time, where when I know something, so long as I'm not keeping it a secret, I assume that everyone else knows. I make this mistake where if something stays the same for long enough, I don't feel the need to say it. I have this silly, stupid impression that small things mean as much to other people as they do to me, that ( Read more... )

So, week two on NaNoWriMo is well known to be the hardest part. You're not quite halfway. You're past the first rush of excitement over starting. You're probably tired and sick of drinking massive amounts of caffeine, and wishing your wrists didn't hurt, and generally over being a writer. And, the past three days, that is exactly how I've been ( Read more... )

10,000 words or bust

I'm going to try and write 10,000 today--which will get me to 25,000 words total--or bust. So I'm taking challenges and prompts. Please help me to my goal!

>Give me a time and a word goal (30 minutes/1,000 words, 60 minutes/2,000, etc.)
>Give me a specific word or phrase to include within a set number of words
>Give me prompts to ( Read more... )

So, I used to be pretty majorly addicted to chocolate. Like, I had cravings, and I would feel weird, even get headaches it I did not have chocolate every single day. I was able to kick that in the pants and just have a normal relationship with chocolate--as in, I enjoyed it a lot but didn't need it to get by ( Read more... )