Grammar Fun

Peak = the top of a mountain
Peek = to look or glance quickly or furtively

Get it right, people.

80 Degrees

It was 80 Degrees Fahrenheit when I returned home from a 3 mile run at 7:10 am!!. That's right, 7:10 am. I met my friend Lisa at 6:30 and somehow managed to run 3 miles in under 45 minutes! Things I've learned since I started running 3 weeks ago:

1. A good, non-sliding, absorbent headband is imperative.
2. The tiny tiny hair clips do a great job holding bangs back.
3. Pace yourself.
4. I wish I had an iPod shuffle. The video one is sort of big, and the armband holder sort of feels like a blood pressure cuff. Is it good to have something constricting my arm when I'm running? Who knows.
5. It's too hot to wear a sports bra AND a shirt. I'm ditching the shirt next time. Not really an attractive look, but more comfortable.
6. There's nothing worse than climbing 32 stairs after a 3 mile run, just to get in the front door. I should leave a bottle of water at the bottom of the stairs.

I've also signed up for 3 days a week of water aerobics and 1 day a week of Pilates, all at the Y. I'm determined to lose some weight this summer, at the risk of not having a social life!

Bad Decision?

I'm beginning to think cancelling the landline was a bad idea. I need to learn how to NOT answer the phone when my mother calls. At least, not every time. And not after 10 at night. Getting to sleep when I'm all worked up is next to impossible.

Other things I'll mull over as I try to get to sleep:

Will there ever be a time when my mother feels as bad for me as she does for my brother?

Why the hell did I wait so long to move out of this city?

Will it be possible to vacuum, clean up, and pull some weeds tomorrow, while making pasta salad and wrapping a birthday present, and also taking a shower and getting ready to leave, all before 11:00 am? God help me, this open house better go over well.

Is it fate that someone sprayed a big freaking graffiti down the street from my house, 3 days before my open house? "Welcome to the Ghetto - aka The West Side. Wanna buy a house?" I'll post a pic tomorrow.

bachelorette party game

each girl picks a card that describes a type of guy and the bride has to take a picture with the guy. Some of the ones they had on "Engaged and Underage":

"Punk Rock Forever guy"
"I skipped 4th grade guy"
"I've got tickets to the gun show guy"

This might be the kind of game I'd like to play at a bachelorette party but I don't want that kind of party. Well, actually, the one on tv was at a ice rink because everyone was under 21. I would enjoy that but I'd end up having my picture taken with a bunch of high schoolers.

In Touch With Reality

Here's what the 8 year old girls are singing while they ride bikes around the neighborhood:

"Nobody's per-fect! I gotta work it!"

User Error

From a wanted ad on Craigslist:


I am looking for a gas on gas stove in good working condition. I can pick up myself. I would like to verify the unit is in good working condition- for example it does not burn food, the burner flame is strong etc. Will pay cash.

I think that burning food is a user error. Don't blame the stove.

Bad Day

I know it's going to be a bad day when I wake up with serious neck pain - pain that came on by sleeping badly over Memorial Day weekend. It was almost gone yesterday and then I went and slept on too many pillows and now I can barely look to the left. Hopefully advil and some relaxation can get rid of it. Currently, though, I'm so tense I can barely relax.

Condo Search
Tense because of the condo search and selling the house. It's been on the market since Sunday so it's only been 5 days but so far no calls. Apparently it's the last week of school, so people with kids aren't looking this week. Then it's Father's day this weekend so no use having an open house. That will be on the 24th.

Money
I also have to decide if I want to have 2 mortgages and also can I afford it? This is way too much to have to think about. I just want it all to be done.

So, I'm grouchy and it's coming across in an IM I was having with a coworker. How will I get through the day? With my iPod, weak iced coffee and an outing at lunch. "An outing?", you ask. "Why yes, I'm off to Target to get some contact lens solution and multi-vitamins." My life can't GET any more boring. Another reason I'm so goddamn grouchy.

I'M IN IOVE

with this blog.

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Current Faves

Hackensack and Mexican Wine by Fountains of Wayne. Well, really, just about the entire "welcome interstate managers" album. Album. That's right. I still call them albums.
The song that samples the Supertramp song "Take a look at my girlfriend" or whatever it's called. I am going to buy the actual Supertramp song.

Condo Shopping

I don't even feel like writing about the condo search so I will be brief, if only so I can look back on this later to jog my memory.

I went to Roslindale to some open houses yesterday. 2, I'd already seen. One had a parking space AND a yard, and really high ceilings. If it wasn't only in my first week of looking, I might have made an offer, but I think I need to keep looking. Can't buy the first thing, even if it does look good.

Mom and I took some time (not a lot) and walked around the square. I bought some delicious rosemary bread from Fornax bakery. I also bought a super-buttery croissant with spinach and romano filling. It was good, and their sandwich menu looks delicious. It would be nice to have that within walking distance. There are at least 3 bakeries in the shopping area called Roslindale Village. Also, a bookstore, garden shop, library, pharmacy, and grocery store.

I also did some internet searching, and found this report of a satisfaction survey that the Roslindale business association sent out to the residents. A lot of things that people asked for (yoga/pilates, a woman's clothing store that wasn't outrageously prices, etc.) are things that I would want too. So, they aren't there now, but I bet they will be eventually. Optimistic. Also, someone who Dad works with has lived there for 30 years and loves it. I think I might be happy there.

Right now, I'm seriously not happy. I'm covered in mosquito bites that I got when clearing out the yard last night. Thankfully, Dana helped me so I wasn't out there in the malaria haze for too long.

Fun Link

Passive-aggressive notes

Worcester represents here.

You Tell 'Em, Rick

City Councilor Rick Rushton, quoted in the Worcester T&G, about the new garage that is being built near Union Station.

“The Union Station garage and what is happening in Lowell are apples and oranges,” Mr. Rushton said. “The reality is that the council, including the mayor at the time (Timothy P. Murray, who is now lieutenant governor) decided we didn’t want a honky-tonk garage next to a beautiful station. Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.”

I LOVE that he used the word honky-tonk.