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Transitioning

After the Sandy Hook incident on Friday and the #BlogHeartOut yesterday, it’s difficult to transition back to writing about what (in some ways) feels so self-indulgent.

I’m still due to write about the health journey I mentioned last week in addition to my experience yesterday with acupuncture but something within me […]

By |December 18th, 2012|0 Comments

Back Again

After the Sandy Hook incident on Friday, it’s been difficult to write about anything else other than being thankful and/or sad.  Earlier this week I had planned on writing about a recent health journey but that will again be delayed until later this week because I now have something more pressing….my (lower back) injury is back again.

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Some of the reason for my recurring back injury – besides arthritis. Image by neckandback

I have been in a cycle of back injury and attaining fitness for a number of years.  I’ve had to pull out of 3 half marathons in as many years and I was on a self-directed program to get myself strong once and for all.  Hence my #13in2013 declaration earlier this week.

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By |December 16th, 2012|0 Comments

Safe

I planned on a writing a post today detailing my own recent health journey that ended happily.  I’m delaying that post until the weekend due to the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.

Being a parent and as someone with strong East Coast ties, I’m heartbroken.  I think every human being who has heard anything about this story is heartbroken right now.

I was one of those people that was never going to have a child.  Ever.  When my heart changed and I was able to have a child, I was nervous but thrilled (while I won’t show a recent picture of my child on this blog, I feel that the following photos are necessary for this post).

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Wild Boy at 3 weeks old.

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Day after Wild Boy’s birth. I could and should have touched this up a bit, not my best look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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By |December 14th, 2012|0 Comments

Being Epic on 12.12.12

In 1999, I ran the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon with Team In Training for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  The training took over my life but I knew wanted to run a marathon before I turned 30 and doing it for charity was a fantastic motivator.

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New York Chapter 1999
Image by: http://dtrick.org/

My marathon race day was awful.  I was so physically sick during the race that my coach asked me if I thought it wise to go on because at mile 6, I looked very green.  I remember having friends and family come to see me along the course and not only did I feel sick, I was dejected.  I trained for 5 months, ran numerous races and wound up walking (and not running) for 20 of 26.2 miles.

I finished memorably.  My finish line vomit fest was completed with a wheelchair trip to the medical tent (after which I felt better and wanted to run).  My finish time was 5:20:15 and while my friends, family and team mates said they were proud, I was disappointed.

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Turn the hair brown and this was close to what I looked like post-race.
Image by: gwenboul

Fast forward to today, 12/12/12, the day I decided to something epic.   Today I signed up for the 2013 San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon.  14 years later I will exact my revenge on that evil course (half the distance, twice the fun?) and finish strong.  In addition, I am determined that I will not have to pull out of my 4th half marathon in as many years (due to injury).

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By |December 12th, 2012|5 Comments

Crafting A Life

As the year winds down, I find myself with a ton of possibilities and instead of being thrilled at the opportunity I’m just overwhelmed.

I’ve spent over a year getting ready for this move to California and now that my family and I are finally settled in, I’m at a bit of a loss on what my next steps will be.  I’ve so been focused on getting everyone else settled in (Wild Boy into school with friends, the husband set up in his new CA law practice) that it’s difficult to realize that I can get out of my holding pattern.

During this time of contemplation, I’ve been I keep wondering if the perfect job exists for me “out there” or if it is time to create the newest iteration of my future professional life.  I saw the following quote and it found it thought provoking.

I’ve spent a lot of time finding out a lot about myself.  I know in my heart that I’m a “helper” […]

By |December 11th, 2012|2 Comments

Take Another Little Piece of My Heart

I might have died a little today.  I was notified by New York State that I need to renew my driver’s license.  I’ve been in denial that I needed to renew since I couldn’t when I was in New York a few weeks ago.  Now that I’ve lived in California now for nearly 7 months, providing proof of my residence in New York will be difficult and I’m really not ready to call myself a California resident.

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I’m not ready to give this up yet.

It should be noted that my current driver’s license has been little more than my identification for an excessively long time.  I only learned to drive after college and I’ve had to to take driving lessons two different times because I never used the skill when I passed my test.

In New York, my husband and I only had a car for a short time.  We wound up giving it up because parking in our Brooklyn neighborhood was a nightmare.  We then used Zipcar (an amazing car collective) but I never drove.

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When you don’t have a car…
Photo by Rakka

My current NY license picture is from when I was 26 years old and until I moved to California, it is the honest truth that I had only driven maybe a dozen times in my entire life.   […]

By |December 10th, 2012|2 Comments