the best friends

I have the best friends. Thus far they have donated almost three quarters of the funding I need for my Talkeetna bikeride next weekend (the 18th and 19th). Tonight I’m going to go around and hit up my neighbors. :) In the meantime, if you’d like to donate ten dollars, you can do it here. :) Please email me and let me know if you do! Thanks! (Really, that’s about all I have to say today. It’s raining. I’m hungry. Nothing real exciting.)

er, oop.

Oop. missed being social except to say hi, but that’s ok. There will no doubt be time later. :) Saturday I sat around and read all day, despite it being a beautiful day. I did not go bike riding at all. Today I hear my mother’s voice saying, “Go outside and play!” and me saying, “But Moooooooom! I’m READING!” And because it is grey and chillier today, I wish I’d listened to Mom. Except she didn’t say it yesterday. :) I got a cell phone. Ai! I also got two…

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weekend

The weekend: Went to dinner at Lone Star and ate WAY TOO MUCH on Friday. It was a lot of fun. :) We were celebrating Ted’s raise (yay Ted!) and so we went out to dinner, then went toooooooo Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can! Look out! Here comes Spider-Man! Hee hee hee. I really enjoyed the film a lot. There were some entirely too heavy-handed emotional moments, but the heavy-handedness was bad writing, not bad acting or bad directing. Bad *editing* I’ll give you; the two scenes that…

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oh–

Oh, incidentally, Ted and I clocked the distance from Northern Lights & Minnesota to our house; it’s about 1.3 miles. So that’s how far I’ve been walking on the gym mornings when I report I’ve been walking a mile or so.

Fridays, argh

On Fridays I go to the gym and right now I have two dogs to walk when I gets home and one dog to clean up after and breakfast to get and trying to keep the dogs away from each other and a meeting at 9am and yaaagrgh! gym: 50 crunches 25 pushups bench press, 50lbs, 2 sets of 15, 1 set of 8 (total muscle failure! whee!) butterfly press, 60lbs, 3 sets of 15 bicep curls, 12lbs, 3 sets of 15 shoulder press, 24lbs, 3 sets of 15 tricep…

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