Melissa, Oh!

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  • ‘This is your gym for the next 90 days’

    That’s what the box on my newly purchased P90x tells me. I am skeptical. What about my running? But I realize I don’t even know enough about the program to know if they account for that. Here’s what I do know: My gym membership ran out a month ago. I traded in Time Warner for…

  • 2011: less running, more writing

    The obligatory 2010 post: I’m not going to go into a huge play-by-play of the year. You have the archives for that! But I will say I started out the year at Wade’s house, drinking his home brewed beer (yum!) and hanging out in the hot tub. I imagine I may finish the year the same way ……

  • Bikinis and bathtubs and more toilets for women

    So, the bathroom photos I mentioned a few days ago made it into the collage frame. Here is the frame as a whole:   Here are some close ups of the photos that existed prior to me writing the other day’s post: The Italy photos are less “humorous” and more “unique” – I’m kind of…

  • Sadie, the 2-year-old bottomless pit

    As an oldest child, I can say that it’s not that we didn’t want our younger siblings to have good toys. It’s that we didn’t want them to have better toys than us. Same with good grades, fun birthday parties and desserts. I see myself in my oldest niece, Mia. When her 2-year-old sister Sadie…

  • potty talk

    Because sometimes bathrooms can be a conversation piece. There’s a multi-opening frame in our half bathroom that holds photos of some of the more interesting bathrooms we’ve seen while on various adventures. I love taking photos of neat or unusual or weird things I see in bathrooms (not like that, you sickos). I happened upon…

  • ‘I hear 40 is overrated, anyway’

    I choked back tears when I read those words yesterday. Scott texted me to tell me Elizabeth’s cancer news had not come back good. I checked her Facebook page immediately and part of her status alluded to the fact that she may never see the next decade. Lest we dwell too much on the bad, though, Elizabeth…

  • A friend’s house and a very big mess

    So, the brick stripping hasn’t quite gone as planned so far. I’m helping Anil remodel his apartment and the first item on the to-do list was to strip the paint from the brick on the interior walls. Debated hiring a contractor to do the whole thing, then decided it might be best to have a…

  • How did you meet [insert friend’s name here]?

    I met Scott while running.  I met Heather on Twitter while we were both participating in National Novel Writing Month. I met Anil at a pool party. I met Beth through reading her blog and her reading mine. I met Michael when he quizzed Twitter about the viability of platonic make-out parties. I met Megan at a…

  • You don’t dress for the start line.

    I took a little plane ride to Phoenix yesterday to help strip some brick for a friend’s remodeling project. And as I was packing, I realized I had a bit of a clothing dilemma. The temperatures in Phoenix are still reaching toward the 80s. Temperatures in Charlotte are dipping to new lows – as low as 12…

  • Too much of a good thing (and why runners are annoying)

    Lately there has been some talk amoung my running friends and my non-running friends about how running is the new “craze”. Is it the new aerobics videos from the 80s? And in a way, how is that negative? The running fever can spread like wildfire. I love motivating people and encouraging everyone. And I truly…