December 2009
16 posts
“I don’t love broccoli, and I don’t love the treadmill, but I love the way I feel...”
– Jillian Michaels, via Move Your Booty (via girlwearsmascara)
I hate Jillian Michaels but she makes a good point.
(via allthingsalishan)
This is just the kind of motivation I’m going to need for the next 4 months. Training for the half marathon starts in January…(but first a little...
Jello at Christmas and Sky Mall in the Morning
When you get married, I think you have to be open to the new or the whole thing could be quite a jolt to the system. New man-clothes appear in the closet, new pots and pans burst from the kitchen, new conversations start as new milestones are crossed. New things you didn’t know about each other emerge, just as new things do that you didn’t see before in yourself. Married life is full of these...
You know you're in Kansas when...
Your husband turns off the headlights momentarily in the middle of a snowing-sideways Christmas Eve blizzard and you realize that the only light emitted for miles is your own solitary car’s. We are officially in the heart of the heartland.
Dear Chicago,
I love it when it snows here with you. It feels like an intimate thing between us that makes up for this forbidding season, which constitutes the hate of our love-hate relationship. I forgive you for your unrelenting cold because of the snow. It’s impossible to be begrudge you anything when your world is this fresh and beautiful. And of course because, even when you’re bitter and murky, eventually...
“She continues to use her harp and do some counseling and has enjoyed Jazzercise,...”
– This is pulled verbatim from my crazy aunt’s christmas letter. You can’t make this stuff up people. Happy holidays indeed!
“Nothing should be taken more seriously than pleasure”
– La Tour d’Argent via NBC Nightly News
Things I’m learning lately.
It is much harder to go after something in life that you want than it is to just go with what is in front of you.
It is scary to tell people what you are going after when you finally, quietly, resolutely convince yourself to try, because… what if you fail?
Sometimes you are given reminders that whether you succeed or fail is not all up to you. Sometimes you pray about things and they’re...