Dear Everyone: Please Pay Attention (Daters)

The 7 Biggest Misuses of Texting To Avoid in Dating   For those of you who use text messaging as a form of communication with someone you’re dating, whether you have a BlackBerry or an Apple iPhone, text messaging is the most abused and misinterpreted form of communication out there. There are some things for…

WANT

Cream, Sugar and Some Endo-Exothermic Phase Change Material for Your Hot Coffee? [Coffee]: “ Coffee Joulies are stainless steel beans filled with a phase change material that absorbs heat as it melts—cooling down horrifically hot coffee—and then releases that heat as it re-solidifies—then keeping your coffee warm for longer. More »

6 Training Tips to Help You Speed Up | Active.com

6 Training Tips to Help You Speed Up | Active.com Running faster is within your reach—it’s not just for the genetically gifted. Sometimes, the simplest things can hold you back, like how you eat, sleep and think. Of course, you have to put in some quality training. But many runners are surprised to learn that…

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Went out last night with manfriend’s friends without him. Almost woke up with an unplanned piercing. Did wake up with significant knee pain. Did have an awesome time. Did almost lose my phone. Do not want to look at my credit card, because apparently now I’m brave enough to open a tab.

Dear America

STOP ACTING LIKE IDIOTS. We are the land of the free and the home of the brave.  We are the among the richest in the world. My parents would have corrected me at age 6 for doing this, and even then I knew better. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve been on spring break, a…

Dear Bootcamp

Dear Bootcamp: I am writing to offer an official apology for yesterday evening’s performance. There are far too many wonderful bbq places, wineries, and good friends to drink with in proximity to where I live. Also, I would also like to partially blame Texas State for giving me Spring Break, but also thank Texas State…

Refocusing How I Got Here

Okay, someone remind me how I got here again. I was born. I somewhat suffered/survived growing up in Gonzales under two parents who raised me to think, question authority, and most importantly, get the heck out of Gonzales. Moved to College Station for school. Graduated, and somehow ended up in Houston, somewhere I never thought…

this week’s mantra

life is a journey i’ve been falling off track for about a month or whenever my grandma died and the semester started to get complicated it’s time to get back to where i was before all the confusion started i’m forcing a new state of mind i will rise in the morning with the intention…

Email Forward Joke of the Day: ‘It’s Almost Spring Break’ version

FIRST TIME SEX A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night to meet, and have a dinner with her parents. Since this is such a big event, the girl announces to her boyfriend that after dinner, she would like to go out and make love for the first time. The boy is ecstatic,…

Jam

Thank God I don’t like Kim K’s new song, “Jam”. I can’t handle another secret, guilty pleasure from some two-bit celeb who barely has a high school education. I’ve actually heard this song before… In every, single, stupid episode of Jersey Shore.

I lol’d

Found within a Drupal module: For example, specifying user*/foo will create foo named directories under each directory starting with user. */foo*/bar will create bar named directories under directories starting with foo in each directory of file system path. That’s funny, right?

I met Gypsy.

…And I think I’m in love. For the rest of the evening, I kept thinking about how nice the companionship of a dog would be, and how good for me it would be.  From the one bark I heard, I can tell she’d make a good guard dog.  I asked if she would be okay…

Length

Last night I had a dream. I had really long, luxurious hair. I was standing in a familiar yet strange bathroom and getting ready to shower. I found a hairclip. Then I kept finding more hairclips. Hairclips I recognized from years ago. Some I’d never seen. And my hair was so long – like at…

Trying this again…

Okay. Much to my dismay. The ‘Kozmo’ deal did not want to work out.  Or, the foster mother was a flake. Sure, there was probably miscommunication.  But our friendship was totally one-sided.  She completely forgot about trying to visit my house in San Marcos as soon as her facebook relationship status changed from ‘single’ to…

Time.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about tattoos lately… I was (for some reason) getting the tattoo on my shoulder removed in 2009, probably a preemptive move on my part because I was going through a lot, partially because I felt it wasn’t a great tattoo.  Too simple.  Too elementary.  Too juvenile.  So I…

Sometimes…

Sometimes it’s nice to sit back and do nothing… To just stare out the windows that face the backyard… Listen to birds… Watch the clouds go by… Cook something for myself and not eat all of it… Forget I’m in a relationship… Forget I have a job… Forget that someday this will not exist… Think…

As it stands.

Wow, this week.  This week…. This week!  There are some weeks that really deflate you.  This was one of those weeks.    I’ll start off by noting something that my sister wrote yesterday morning: “Last night, God added another note to his symphony. I will miss her dearly but I… know that she is no…

Less Than Three Brownie Date Bars

Okay, so anyone who knows me, knows that I pretty much hate V-day.  I think it’s stupid, I think it’s cheesy, it makes me uncomfortable.  I have a very, very, very cynical look towards it, probably starting with watching “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown” over and over as a child, and then a row of…

Sitting Exercises For Work

Sitting Exercises For Work: “Guess what? Slouching at a desk for eight hours a day is terrible for you!Throughout the day it’s important to release muscle and joint tension by stretching. Here are five yoga moves adopted to work while you sit at your desk chair (compiled by Yoga International):1. Breath AwarenessTo begin, sit at…

Email Forward Joke of the Day

> >> The Brothel > >> > >> The madam opened the brothel door in Elko County , Nevada , and saw > >> a rather dignified, well-dressed, good-looking man in his late forties or > >> early fifties. ‘May I help you, sir?’ she asked. > >> ‘I want to see Valerie,’ the man…

Snow Sledding: Gringa Style

Why Friday was awesome… I woke up Friday morning to an array of emails, warnings, and texts from Texas State University saying that only emergency personnel needed to come into work.  I mumbled out a smile and headed to look out at the backyard. “Hrmph.  Ice.  Goodie,” I thought. Then I opened the garage door. …

Healthy Kick #2: …Below Freezing?

Woke up at 2 a.m. Nope, not time yet. Woke up again at 4 a.m. Still not time yet. I dream about being at work and saying “Yeah I ran in the cold this morning.” I wake up around 6:30 a.m. Damnit, I haven’t run yet. I guess I was excited about it. I hit…

Healthy Kick #1: Second Run of the Year

I hit snooze this morning at 7.  I was, again, having weird, crazy dreams that danced on the negative side of life.  I had to ensure my retreat back under the covers with my eyes close right then and there, to right what had gone so wrong in my head. 40 minutes later I gave…

Chuy’s Jalepeno Ranch Dip Recipe

32oz real mayonnaise 1 cup butter milk 1 cup chopped jalapenos 1 cup tomatillo sauce (comes in a bottle in the Mexican food aisle) 1/2 bunch of cilantro chopped Mix all in a blender until it’s smooth pour into a bowl add 3 packets of hidden valley ranch dressing (not dip) mix and use a…

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