You should be glad that you are not in my family this year. Still feeling the wake from the last year's losses, my parents are preparing me for the loss of yet another grandparent -- this time, my Mom's mom ( Read more... )

Let's play a game of "New and Interesting Social Situations Brought On By That Ever-Wonderful By-Product of the Internet, The Blogosphere ( Read more... )

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE ( Read more... )

It doesn't matter how much it feels like you need to throw up during an especially fast swim, so long as it never progresses beyond "feels ( Read more... )

Anyone else scared about what is happening to what is arguably our most powerful branch of government? I may be coming late to this conversation, but I've been really angered by what I've been hearing over the last couple of days as debate over Samuel Alito continues on the Senate floor ( Read more... )

I think I would be much less introverted if other people didn't suck so much at conversation ( Read more... )

I think we're in the middle of the "two cold weeks in January" that I was repeatedly warned about. This is a bummer since I don't have to work tomorrow, so I had been hoping to stop by Sheila and Alex's, borrow their dogs, and go out snowshoeing. I can stay warm easily down to, say, 0 degrees Fahrenheit (that's -18 Celsius for those of you ( Read more... )

The mission to Pluto has successfully been launched ( Read more... )

I don't normally do this, but this was too awesome to not post so it can be remembered in some way.

[I am discussing the wide variety of cookies that I can make at this moment and then correlating my cookie cravings to Seasonal Affective Disorder ( Read more... )

To: Mimi, Swim Coach Extraordinaire

Re: Your claim that people who are good at 400 IMs have no right to complain about them

I don't care how fantastic at 400 IMs you are, those suckers hurt. Sure, we still like them, and it just so happens that the streak of glutton-for-punishment present in all swimmers happens to run deeper in the IMers, but ( Read more... )