The Ominivore’s One Hundred – What Will You Eat?

And will you still love me after you realize what I’ve eaten *grin*?  Yes, that includes roadkill…
I discovered this eye-opening list (I didn’t realize I was so carnivorous) via Mark Salinas’ helpful and super-motivational fitness blog and A Life Less Sweet (which makes me cry, BUT IN A GOOD WAY!  Wow, do I eat a [...]

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Love Life List: U.S. Parks I Want To Visit And Hike

This is the first of the lists I’m creating to reconnect with life, the programmer and myself. (Don’t know why I’m creating a slew of lists? Visit my previous post.)
Below are the top ten parks in the U.S. I want to visit and hike/backpack. The list is actually much longer on paper, [...]

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When Your Career Shoots Your Life In The Foot

I’m the little oddball in my family as far as backpacking is concerned. Their version of seeing a park is driving the scenic route, perusing the visitor’s center and climbing the well used path to the classic overlook as long as it isn’t more than a mile. Absolutely nothing wrong with their method, [...]

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Pushing The Tush: Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract

I played hooky yesterday.
The sky was an incredible azure in the Washington, D.C. area with those too-picturesque fluffy, white clouds putting along with the light breeze. So I gave up staring at my computer screen, filled up my CamelBak, and took off for the Patuxent Research Refuge at 10:30 A.M. Normally, in August, [...]

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Dusty Adventures In Computer Maintenance

This post could also be called: When So Many Things Are Broken You’re Finally Forced To Do Something.
Normally, I’m all about prevention because in my life, crap always breaks at the most craptaculous times. However, this has been the year where the programmer and I have focused on some big projects to the [...]

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Searching For My First Trail Race (and how to trick the Programmer into joining me)

You know how you can tell you’re maturing (I’m so not going to say getting old)? You can no longer sprint from a dead standstill like a squirrel that just found a junkie’s speed stash but you can log 7 miles and barely notice, when the thought of running 3 miles much less 7 [...]

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Revisiting Ginormous and Stratospheric

The programmer is a conservative linguist.
An English traditionalist.  (Actually he started spouting off that all words should have Latin bases…Did the programmer ever take Latin?)
By my definition, the programmer is a word snob.
I on the other hand, am a language lover.  The more words the better.  Dare I say I enjoy adverb and connotation orgies [...]

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De-Junking Life of Your Mother-In-Law

I’m a creature of habit when it comes to the webpages I visit when I first crawl out of bed but haven’t yet woken up (there’s a huge distinction between the two).  I typically hit msn.com to check a combination of the news, smut, and other lifestyle stories.  I like the financial section.  I can’t [...]

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My Back Up Career: Olympic Games Announcer

If the farmer/writer/consultant thing doesn’t work out, after watching last night’s coverage of men’s gymnastics, I know what I can always fall back on.
Olympic Announcing.
The programmer says I’d be fabulous.
Why?
1. I can babble for hours about nothing.
Never fear wife-rights activists! The programmer says this with much love. He adores that I can [...]

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