I’m not really good at coming up with or sticking to New Year’s resolutions, but I feel obligated to at least give it a shot. In addition to the usual stuff about being nicer to people, being a better person, losing weight, etc. etc. my main resolution is to train for and run in a [...]
Archive for December, 2010
I usually hate the Minnesota Vikings with a passion, but I’m rooting for them to upset the Philadelphia Eagles tonight. If they do, it brings the Bears that much closer to locking up the #2 seed — and a bye — in the playoffs. The Vikes are currently leading the Eagles 17-14 midway through the [...]
I don’t like karaoke very much, but a couple of my friends do. I have to be pretty drunk before I’ll even attempt so much as a group song. But when I do sing, there are a few numbers that are a lot more fun to do than others. Some of my favorite karaoke songs [...]
We’re up early today to open presents. Santa Claus was very good to everyone in the house. We all got the main gifts that we wanted, while managing not to go over our tight budget by a single cent. Now my son is going to play with his presents for a while and my husband [...]
Though I’ve been running for fitness for about two years now, I don’t consider myself a “runner” in the athletic sense of the word. I don’t enter races or monitor my heart rate during runs or anything like that. But I recently started tracking my times (because of an iPad app I have), which has [...]
Who would’ve thought the Chicago Bears would win the NFC North and clinch a playoff berth in Week 15 of the regular season this year???? I have to admit that I didn’t. When the 2010 schedule first came out, I thought the last half was going to be extremely tough. But the Bears have caught [...]
Christmas is exactly one week away, which means there isn’t much time left to buy presents for everyone on your list! I’ve got my own Christmas shopping done, but wonder if my husband has finished his. He’s usually a last-minute kind of person, so he probably still has at least a few presents left to [...]