Nov
25
Tequila!
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This will be a short one, because I am still just packing and cleaning and job hunting and I don't know if you are bored of reading about it, but I am certainly bored of writing about it!
Except for one thing. It's "eat everything left in the fridge" week. Tonight's meal: arugula, pasta, bleu cheese, avocado, TJ's tomato sauce, all in the microwave (which I cleaned already so I COVERED that dish with like ten layers of plastic wrap). Now oatmeal for dessert, with frozen mango and almond milk. Not sure about the mango part.
The kicker though?
I found tequila in the freezer!!!!! Packing is suddenly so much more fun!
Don't worry folks, my ten-day weekend in Seattle is just a couple ...
Nov
23
I Miss Kitty
Category: enjoy the blog, four-leggeds | 13 Comments
Yesterday, I moved. I drove down the mountain with all my stuff (the stuff that I actually want anyway) in a U-Haul, with the Civic in tow, I put all the stuff into a storage unit, and I took Kitty to Liz's house. She has officially taken over in "OOOO you are SO CUTE. I am going to pick you up and KISS you!!! You ARE a Kitty!" duties, for now at least. It all took me about 5 hours longer than I ambitiously expected it to, other than that everything went incredibly smoothly. I didn't even have to hook up, back up, or otherwise deal with the "auto ...
Nov
20
A Conversation with Mom
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Today I was on the phone with my mom. About whom I'd like to say three things:
1. Her nickname is Adventure Sal, because she constantly doing something inspiring/exhausting. Here is a photo of her hiking the Milford Track in my U.S.S. Pelelieu hat that I insisted on getting in the 7th grade and then was too embarrassed to wear since it is pretty bright, and during my formative years I spent 89% of my time worrying about what people think (as opposed to now, when I am down to ~63%).
2. I know it's weird that I call her Sal. My brother and sister do it too. Occasionally we ...
Nov
20
I found some lipstick when I was going through my bathroom stuff, and I couldn't remember if I liked the colors. So I tried them on. I remembered that I liked them, L'Oreal Raspberries and L'Oreal Rose Serenity (since I am pretty and serene like a rose, right).
Then I forgot I had on lipstick and continued "packing", which at this point in the evening has degenerated to about 2 hours of seated strategizing 'cause I am over it and just want to throw everything away, except the lipstick of course.
Then I kissed Kitty on the nose, because I love it and he hates it, and now he has lipstick on! He hates me.
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Tonight, I have lost count of how many ...
Nov
18
First Casualty
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Whilst "packing" tonight I dropped my blender on the floor and it shattered everywhere. Smoothie season is officially over. But I didn't take a photo because already, here in the very earliest stages of my packing mess, I can't find my camera charger. I did however find my remote-alarm-fob for my car, and I fixed it by replacing the battery (I am so clever!), which will be very important when I move down the mountain and back to places where you don't leave your laptop sitting on your passenger seat overnight in a manually-locked Honda Civic.
I got two job rejections today. The first interviews seemed to go well, "test" steps seemed to go well, then I didn't make the cut. ...
Nov
17
Back to my Usual Self
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... i.e., trying to get a bunch done while simultaneously talking on the phone, blogging, looking for the laziest possible way to make dinner, and telling Kitty how cute he is (if you don't believe me, look to the left, he is SO CUTE and he loves sunbathing, just like me!!!).
Sorry for the freakout last week. Moving is just really stressful and makes me swear even worse than Kelly. But now I have a loose plan, complete with temporary housing and holiday plans, and things aren't looking particularly desolate on the job front.
"Loose plan" involves renting a U-Haul this weekend, snagging some strapping young men ...
Nov
14
Off season is great and everything, I mean I have no complaints about sleeping in until 9 a.m. and having time to play and having significantly less spandex to launder, but this year, right now, I wouldn't mind if I were still training and racing. It would give me something else to focus on besides the fact that I am MOVING in TWO WEEKS and I don't know where to and I don't have a job and I am freaking out and I fucking hate it.
I hate that I feel stuck up here on top of this fucking mountain, I hate that the economy is fucking tanked because it's really putting a damper on my forward progress, I hate ...
Nov
12
Laying Low
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The combination of: my weekend heroics, a full season of other heroics, stress regarding my upcoming move (which is STILL surrounded by question marks, even though it's only 2 weeks away), AND a lot of All-You-Can-Eat Sushi with full-salt soy sauce rather than that nasty low-sodium stuff for old people, anyway all this has rendered me a little bit useless and a little bit quiet.
Sorry about that.
Oh but I'd like to share a story about how awesome it is to turn 10.
Yesterday was my little cousin's 10th birthday. On Monday, she went to bed sooooo excited that she woke up at 1 a.m., then she woke her sleeping parents to announce that it was now her ...
Nov
9
I am sitting in the Vegas airport waiting for my flight home, and I'm totally cracked out on caffeine still from today's race (do recall that I stayed caffeine-free till race day and it was a long race with lots of gels and a Neuro1 so OMG I'm wired and talking a million miles an hour).
Silverman was a perfect way to end my season! If you just want to know how I did without hearing the gory details, just skip to the bottom, but since my flight has been delayed like 2 hours thanks to airlines maintaining their normal flight schedule despite the fact that 1 of the 4 (i think?) runways here at McCarran is closed, I ...
Nov
6
Vegas Baby!
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So tomorrow I head to Las Vegas for my last race of the 2008 season!
I'm packing.
I've flown to 5 of my 8 races so far this year (tomorrow the tally will be 6:9) so I've gotten decent at the bike-packing, tonight my total bike polishing AND packing time was 55 minutes. And that included removing my cassette and scrubbing it in the sink. I'm a speedster!
Packing my other stuff is going well too. I don't know why I am bringing so much spare-time stuff, I will be there for two nights and will have a pasta dinner, a pancake breakfast hosted by the Nevada LDS Church, autograph signings with both Dave Scott and Macca, two naps, a ...
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