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I'm 'in training' for a very short race on June 16. It's a 5K and I know that your average person can knock that out after eating a plate of nachos on Super Bowl Sunday, but for me, it's the ULTIMATE CHALLENGE. I'm not a good runner, never have been. I'm slow and I panic when I feel like I can't breath, so it takes me a while to get back in the swing of things.

Update: I'm running the in Jim Gibbons Traffic Jam 5K in support of the Leukemia Research Foundation. If you'd consider giving a few bucks to the cause to support my efforts, it would be most appreciated in addition to being money-well-donated. If you're laughing at the idea of me running in any sort of road race at all, please donate $100 now. Don't I entertain you ENOUGH? To donate, click here.

If I take time off from running consistently, I automatically go back to square one where I can only go a half-mile. So, as you have calculated in that brilliant little head of yours, that's not anywhere close to the 3.1 miles I need to build up to. Therefore, this week has left me feeling a little defeated and so I'm not feeling especially bloggy. I shall keep you posted - I'm going to be running after work today so I have NO EXCUSES. We'll see how that goes!

Since I'm in the defeatist mind-set, I need to once again celebrate a small victory! I completed a little knitting project - a Mug Cozy! (We're Just That Awesome Cozy from Sweatshop of Love)

I was testing the pattern out for a swap I'm participating in via Ravelry. My partner lives in Canada and loves pink & purple, so I felt bad forcing my favorite color on her:

Verdict: I'll just keep this little winner for myself and modify the pattern for a larger gauge to use up some of my pink Lion Brand Cotton ease left over from the baby blanket I made my cousin. Hey, it's the little things!

Uh-oh

I'm super swamped at work... which can only mean one thing: I MISS BLOGGING.

Hey, it's cheaper than buying yarn and sundresses on e-Bay. Whatever, ya'll know ya'lls JEALOUS. 

What's new with me? Quick hits:

More knitting:

This will be a cardigan. Just in time for summer!

For a very tiny person or stuffed animal of some sort

It's a 'cowl'. For warming your neck. Only it just kind of lays there and is not warm. Oh, well.

New Relationship:

His name's Brian. He's a nice young man.

Same dog, same job, same house.

There. I think we're all caught up. Want to see what's on the docket for impulse online shopping?

The swimsuit I've always wanted:

Mod Cloth FTW

Shoes that remind you to call your mother:

Rangs:

I'll never own this, but a girl can dream

Knitting a version of this:




More to come, because I miss my two readers on the five blogs I've started in the past five years.

Don't Watch Lost? Didn't Catch Lost? Don't Read This.

Spoilers?

** I made a pact with a dear friend of mine who promised she would watch The West Wing if I would start watching Lost again. I need to coordinate my thoughts, so I'm using this web space I have let go to the proverbial weeds to regroup. **


What did I learn?
- Locke is not Locke but is a physical manifestation of The Smoke Monster which is the non-corporal form of The Man In Black.

- OMG HIROYUKI SANADA IS NOW IN THE CAST OF LOST. There was an audible squeal of glee up in my house. For those of you didn't see The Last Samurai four times during finals week of your junior year in college in the same movie theater as now-NFL-quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, he played Ujio - right hand man to Samurai Leader Katsumoto and a man who beats the HELL out of Tom Cruise repeatedly (as we are all wont to do). Long story short, Sanada-san is awesome and it made the whole six seasons of craziness worth it.

He'll cut a bitch. (Or a Tom Cruise)

- The Temple has healing water.

- The healing water is broken? Or diluted somehow? When Sanada cut his and and dipped it in the water - it did not magically heal right away. This is probably because Jacob is "dead" (which I still don't buy 100%).

- The Smoke Monster has an ash aversion.

- There are two stories playing out, one where everything is reset and one where they're still stuck on the island in Present Day.

- The issue of fate is coming up again in the "back on O815" story. Things that happened to people on the island are still happening to the passengers. The Marshall still got hit in the same spot on his head - it was just by Kate in the bathroom this time. Jack still can't find his dad's body. Charlie says that Jack "should have let him die". Maybe it is all supposed to happen?

Did you notice?

- The hourglass at the Magic Water had light and dark sand in it?!?

- I bet the hourglass is 1 minute and eight seconds... or not.

- I'm bad at picking up subtle things in this show.

New Questions:

- The Man in the Dark Shirt can only be one dead person at a time, right?

- Since Sayid got up from the mat in his own body, does that mean that the water has to kill you to heal you?

- What is the water? Is it water? What does it do?

- Does Dark Shirt have an army? Or are the Temple People just fighting him as The Smoke Monster?

- Are the temple people a mixture of The Others (who had to hide there on Ben's orders) and other people that already lived there?

- Is the "back on the O815" story happening simultaneously or is it another time travel thing that plays out beforeafter the temple shenanigans?

Old Questions:

- Is there a reason that they buried so many 'stunned people' alive early on in the show? Can they be reanimated somehow?

- What's the name of the Man in the Dark Shirt?

- What is Jacob and the Man in the Dark Shirt?

- Why is is there so much Egyptian iconography? Did the island start out in the Nile?

- What's up with Team Ilana?

- Why does the island kill pregnant women? Is it because of the electromagnetism?

- Why doesn't Richard age?

- How did Richard et. al. get on the island?

- Does Ben have any redeaming qualities? Is he just a pawn?

- What do The Numbers mean?

- Why did Jacob have to touch the certain Losties at different parts of their lives?

- Is Locke perma- dead?

- Is there more significance to Ann Arbor where Dharma seems to have an HQ station?

- CLAIRE WHERE ARE YOU?

Theories at this point:

Paradise Lost plays into this some how. The title "Lost" really doesn't make sense for the show since they really haven't been lost so much as 'brought' to the island. Also the whole Light/Dark thing and the people buried in the caves with the light stone and the dark stone.


Upgrade/Downgrade:

Locke: DOWNGRADE. You're not even Locke - you're possessed with the dark side! o815 Locke was the Locke I knew and loved, but still, you can't recover from being the face of evil at the start of a season.

Hurley: UPGRADE. He's pulling himself together in Back on the Island World. He still gets freaked out, but is able to regroup much faster when visited by a spirit no one else can see.

Sawyer: DOWNGRADE. So sad now! He's an open wound and it's going to be dangerous. I think he whitened his teeth even more in the Season hiatus.

Kate: UPGRADE. She's doing what she does best: support staff work.

Juliet: UPGRADE - but I'm still really sick of watching you fall down that hole in the ground to your death, but not quite, but to then hit the bomb and then to not quite die, then to be rescued and die. Bye, Juliet. Maybe?

Jin & Sun: PERMAUPGRADE because I love them.

Jack: HOLDING. He's floundering, but at least he's not his overly-sure self that is committed to one course of action that screws everyone over every single time.

Sayid: HOLDING. What are you? Who are you? Are you going to kill us all?

Desmond/Charlie/Boone/Claire: UPGRADE. Hey, you're back - in an alternate universe at least...

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Except to remind you of a my past thoughts about Ms. Carly.

Haters to the left

Alright, so let's talk about it.

The Fashion Show.

After a wacky week at work, I wasn't able to watch the premier on Thursday. I consulted the DVR this weekend and came up with the following thoughts:

1) I'm going to watch it

2) It's no Project Runway

3) You should watch it with me

Because how you can you NOT have an opinion about this:Meet Adam Ant

Sadly for you, I don't have much to say about this first episode other than (ugh, I'm going to actually say it out loud!) I agree with Issac 100%. The crap these people put out was incredible. Maybe it was the team challenge aspect or something, but all I can tell you is that satin harem pants WON. They won. And they actually made harem pants look even worse than the celebrities called out by The Fug Girls.

All I know is there's Adam Ant, a man in wooden sandals, pink and white Barbie hair and no Sheer Madness in sight. Ergo, The Fashion Show will be my crappy summertime show. Let the games begin!

I'm still deciding on if I'll turn into that turncoat Project Runway on the dreaded Lifetime Network: Television to Scare/ Placate Woman, but maybe this show will turn out to be so bad that I'll have to run screaming to my Tim Gunn once again.

So where's the love?

My life has been super frantic lately, so I don't have time to ponder and write introspectively these days. This is why I keep serving up videos, as they are the internet's bright, shiny distraction for us all. That being said, this is one of my favorite songs and I had never seen the video before, so... here you go!



In other news, I'm heavily considering applying to a graduate program but I need to come up with an essay topic. Any thoughts from my four readers?

Olympics: Heck, yes.

Sometimes, I try to be witty - but it's usually just stolen from other people. This, I truly believe, is how 89% of America gets to be funny, by quoting something to get a laugh. Not that I'm better than that... because I pretty much want to copy and paste the following post from BestWeekEver.tv's Magnificent Sara Schaefer re: the Opening Ceremonies.

Human rights?! More like human LIGHTS!

The Olympics are my favorite thing ever, so much so that I went out and got the whole HDTV set up just to enhance my viewing abilities. This turned out to be the most wise and auspicious choice as I now get a network that airs 24 HOUR OLYMPIC COVERAGE. Move over Bob Costas - China v.s. Russia Women's Handball is on!

That was a joke. Bob Costas shall never be moved over and pretty much IS the Olympics for me - that jaunty demenor teamed with encyclopedic knowledge and the ablity to grill the president long enough to make him late for swimming events... a true American idol. (TOTALLY something Bob would say, by the way.)

This One Goes Out to My Fans!

After two year of no blogging, I'm delving back in. In that time, I have become an avid blog reader and lost the power to compose my own pointless thoughts. I don't feel that blogs are ruining news, entertainment or our culture, but I want to state that I am aware of just how self absorbed one needs to be to write down every little thought and inkling to share with the world.

But I'll be honest...I need a hobby again. I'm getting a bit of tunnel vision and I want to really open my eyes again and truly appreciate the absurdity of everyday life. And I used to have a handful of fans back in my day!

So, in honor of them, here's some of my old "work":

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