photo: Marina Oliphant From the looks of the gym parking lot, I’d say everyone has started making good on their New Year’s resolutions. I think I’ll arrange to drop in by parachute the next time I want to workout there. I haven’t set any terribly ambitious goals.I will be a happy camper if I can: [Read More]
Taming the Monkey Brain
I’ve known for some time now that occasionally I am prone to negative self-talk.Since acknowledgment is the first step in recovery, I’m gonna out myself here.As you probably know, my focus has turned to Boston training for just over a week now. The uber cold weather, coupled with the fact that I operate on toddler [Read More]
Happy Anniversary Giveaway!
Yes time does fly. Who’d have thunk I’d be Running Off at the Mouth for a whole year already? Indeed it is true. One year is the paper anniversary so to commemorate I thought I’d keep with the paper theme.My latest giveaway is sponsored by: The lucky winner will receive a $50 GC for the creation of [Read More]
Happy Anniversary Giveaway!
Yes time does fly. Who’d have thunk I’d be Running Off at the Mouth for a whole year already? Indeed it is true. One year is the paper anniversary so to commemorate I thought I’d keep with the paper theme.My latest giveaway is sponsored by: The lucky winner will receive a $50 GC for the creation of [Read More]
It’s a Jungle Out There
Registration opened for March Madness, the horrendously hilly 1/2 marathon I’ve done every late winter now for 3 years and counting. It’s small and bare-bones swag wise: a field of 1000, no medals, a shirt for the first 200 only, and weather that has not exceeded 24 degrees but it’s allure has grown exponentially. Last [Read More]
Blue Moon
Did you see the blue moon last night/this morning? Our very rare second full moon in a month’s time? Although the blue has nothing to do with it’s color, around here it did cast an eerily pretty bluish glow on the snow. Although I’m no astrologer, I interpret this blue moon on the last day [Read More]
One Final Recipe for 2009
I’d planned on a few final words on resolutions, as if you haven’t heard enough about those lately. But then I realized December/the year/THE DECADE is just hours away from being over and I haven’t shared a recipe! What is this blog coming to anyway? Then I thought wouldn’t it be nice if I shared [Read More]
Time Flies
As if on cue, the battery in the Polar Watch Modern Caveman got me last year for my birthday has died…could it really be that time again? Already? And wasn’t it just a couple of years ago I was turning 30? Can I possibly be having yet another birthday? So soon? Time flies. Too fast. [Read More]
Foggy Memories
I pulled out the old Fuel Belt for today’s 12 miler, only the second time since the marathon that I’ve ventured beyond 10. As I opened the zipper, Qu’est-ce que c’est? It was kind of like changing purses and finding left-behind artifacts from a bygone time: 3 Clif gels: 2 mochas and a vanilla They were [Read More]
Weekend Recap
The GoodWe found a new babysitter the kids love! Maybe now we’ll get out more than once a decade…then again maybe not.I took Thing 2 to a birthday party at the Build-A-Bear Workshop, Fifteen 4 year olds + assorted bears in various stages of creation = cuteness overload.Modern Caveman took Thing 1 ice skating. Apparently what [Read More]
