Month: June 2008
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This past week was the start of my Melbourne Half-Marathon training. I did easy half-hour runs on Tuesday and Thursday, and I was happy to note that my lower back pain was almost completely gone. On Saturday I had a long, leisurely walk with the Snook. On Sunday, I headed out for a 5-miler. I’ve…
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From the Snook: Chicks dig whiskers. Well, a little bit of whiskers, anyway. Personally, I’m a big, big fan of the scruff.
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Weekend Update: What a difference a week makes. You know how sometimes you just fall into a rut? Last Sunday I told the Snook that I was feeling cross and frustrated. Sometimes we enable each other’s laziness a little too much, you know? And it was starting to get to me. This week, though, my…
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Pushups! Okay, so I nearly killed myself trying to do Day 1 this morning. I don’t think it’s my arm strength so much as my lack of core stability. (My wrists were also kinda hurting.) My form is seriously crap. So I’ve been reading up on ways that I can ease into it a bit…
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Woman Geniuses. Great thread that I somehow missed over at AskMeFi.
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Blogging from the Apple Store! Some idiot’s smashed one of the glass plates at the front door already. 🙁
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I am seriously, seriously thinking about doing the Hundred Push-ups Challenge. I can probably do, like, two proper push-ups.
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I just find this amazing. A major cricket scandal has erupted because, in the course of a match, the English team ran out a New Zealand player after he collided with the bowler and fell down. (In baseball terms, imagine that a base runner collides with an infielder and falls down, and the other team…
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What could be better than a ray gun? A ray gun that changes the TV Channel. Cooooool.
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Ammonite washbasin. Gorgeous. We’re going to have to redo the bathrooms someday…