Category Archives: summer

05
Jul, 2005

i bike for food

after training for last year’s epic bike ride, i began to love the feeling of having biked my butt off and earning the right to eat whatever i wanted. i hadn’t really had that feeling yet this year. until yesterday. … Continue reading →

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04
Jul, 2005

jello legs

i have discovered the point in running at which i go from having to think about it to my legs just sort of moving of their own accord, feeling sort of numb and the rest of my body travelling on … Continue reading →

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02
Jul, 2005

this baby cracks me up

i have no idea who this kid is. i can’t even tell if it’s a boy or a girl, so i hope i’m not breaking any confidentiality laws by posting this photo. i took it last summer at a library … Continue reading →

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02
Jul, 2005

harmony makes me happy again

last night i went to singing group–a small group of people from my church who get together periodically to sing hymns. i always mean to go, but something else always seems to come up. this time, it was a potluck, … Continue reading →

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29
Jun, 2005

bike guru

last night, i drove a friend and her bicycle home after a workout (she didn’t have her headlight and didn’t want to bike at dusk on busy frontage roads–who could blame her?). I helped her load her bike into my … Continue reading →

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28
Jun, 2005

wildflowers

this morning on the way to work, there were clouds of blue wildflowers hovering on transparent stems about 3 feet off the ground. below them were tiny rolling hills of yellow wildflowers. pretty.

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24
Jun, 2005

today’s good things

lunch at a chinese buffet–not the best chinese, but hey, i got an eggroll and lunch was free! (well, i had to babysit for a few hours to “earn” it…) having a baby fall asleep on you while you fall … Continue reading →

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22
Jun, 2005

strawberry ice cream soup

i had fresh, crushed strawberries with sugar over vanilla ice cream and stirred in into a soup before eating it. i think aunt c. was the first one to show me the joys of soupy ice cream. recently, i was … Continue reading →

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22
Jun, 2005

papi & kiki

as i ate supper on the porch, i was entertained by a hispanic father and his two sons practicing soccer (and shouting “gooooooaaaaaaaalllll” a lot) in the park right across the street. it made me smile.

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22
Jun, 2005

biking with friends

yesterday, i was at work wondering what exercise i was going to be able to motivate myself to do and i checked my e-mail and there was an invitation from a friend to go on a bike ride!

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