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Today’s blog posting will be short and to the point: I have a headcold. Good thing I have lots of tea to make me better. (And pills. And nose spray.) See you tomorrow!

I have a sweet tooth that I try not to indulge. So one of my favourite things to finish a meal with is a cup of (sweet! herbal! dessert!) tea. My dessert tea of choice had been celestial Seasoning’s English Toffee tea. I was running low, but none of the grocery stores I frequent seemed […]

I have a really bad sense of direction. This was the second week I tried to follow a 10km map from the running room in rosedale. I got lost again, but a different way this time. In all fairness, I managed to make it through the first two (of three) parts correctly whereas last time […]

It’s a funny feeling getting dressed to go out but not to a wedding – it seems like those are the only things I go to lately. I find getting dressed for a house party way more stressful than getting ready for a black tie wedding. Time for a shopping trip perhaps?

It’s funny how despite working out very regularly, a new exercise can make me hurt oh so very much. Today my abs hurt so much that walking hurts. So does breathing. And when I sneezed, tears came to my eyes. GHD situps, I hate you. But I will continue to do them until I don’t […]

Today my GPS is a Space Case* To get to Crossfit I like to use my Garmin. It’s in a new location, and it’s super early in the morning, so it’s going to take a few times of me being taken there by the GPS before I’m ready to drive there on auto pilot. This […]

Today I am a space case. I brought 2 small lululemon bags to work: one contains a gift card for a friend, the other my lunch. I just went to get food from the fridge. Guess which bag was waiting for me? At least the gift card is nice and cool. I blame it on […]

The past few years I’ve enjoyed developing and delivering workshops and presentations at IBM’s Centre For Advanced Studies conference. This is the first year that I’m not going to be getting the presenter’s bag. I wonder what the gift is – last year it was an electronic sudoku game 🙂 In any case, it should […]

I don’t have cable. I justify it because I live alone and cable would be expensive. Especially since I’m never home when things I want to watch are on TV so would need to get a DVR. I also can watch lots of things online so am not completely deprived. About a month ago I […]

My long runs are normally done with a purpose. There’s always some race I’m working towards that’s motivating me to run a distance larger than, say, 8km. And I do them, and am happy and proud when they’re done. Today was different – today I just ran for me. I was supposed to run with […]