Archives for August 2009

map my run.

August 24, 2009

So while I was trying to figure out how long our bike ride was yesterday I came across this awesome website Map My Run. You can put in any starting point and then map your route, seeing how many miles you competed in total. Awesome! I’ve always heard about websites like this, but I’m not the most fitness driven person and so I haven’t even tried to find a website like this until now. I hope to use it often though… it’s really cool! Go ahead and check it out for yourself!

Here’s the route Zan and I did today (almost 8 miles!!!):

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Chatham Breeze

August 24, 2009

Here we are back in Chatham for our third year in a row. I just love this place. All summer I look forward to coming here, where I can kick back, relax, and soak up the end of summer. So far, we are only on day 3 so there is not much to report. We are renting a new house this year, which is absolutely GORGEOUS. It’s a little bit farther from the center of town, but I think the quality of the house makes up for that. There are high ceilings and a seashells/mermaid theme that is just adorable. The house is equipped with cozy couches and chairs, a back porch, a huge grill, bikes, a pool table, a variety of games and movies, and an outdoor shower (dream!). Zan and I took the bikes out for a test run yesterday and we ended up biking almost 5 miles– pretty good for someone who hasn’t been on a bike in YEARS. We rode down through main street, up to lighthouse beach, then over past the Chatham Bars Inn to the fish pier before heading back home. It was long and sometimes hilly but I felt like a champion when it was all through. GO ME!

Here’s a view of the house from the upstairs:

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Running of the Brides (and bridesmaids!!).

August 21, 2009

Today might have been the craziest day of my life. We did the famous Filene’s Basement: “Running of the Brides” with Hannah to try to find her a dress for the big day. WOW. It was insane, but also very fun! I will try to describe the morning’s craziness: I arrived at the site around 6AM and Han and the other girls had been there since 5:15. The doors of the event don’t open until 8AM. Some brides and their posse’s arrive as early as 3AM, some even camp out! There was already a ginormous line when we got there, and it continued to get longer as the

morning went on. Eventually they let us inside to wait where it was air-conditioned, which was nice because of the humidity! Hot, hot hot! Around 7:30 you can feel the energy building up amongst everyone inside. People go all out for this event. Our team went pretty casual with matching teal beaters but some people wore custom made shirts, balloons and all kinds of funky headware. At about 7:45 people are so anxious to get inside to where the dresses are that everyone ends up pushing forward and mashing up against each other. I’m not even kidding. My heart stared to race I was so nervous I might get trampled. People die doing stuff like this. You know it’s time when everyone ahead of you in line starts screaming and then everyone literally starts running,

I mean like, SPRINTING towards the doors. Now at this point I started laughing because I just couldn’t get over how ridiculous it all was, but I also started running as fast as my legs would carry me. Heck, I wanted to grab some dresses too!!! Move over, people! I ran through the space like a crazy person, grinning like a fool and trying like mad to find some dresses. But as soon as I got to each rack other girls were pulling them down and taking them. Every single dress (around 3,000 total) was off the racks in less than 2 minutes!! Running of the Brides is riiiiiiDICULOUS. People were hoarding dresses and sitting on them. It was NUTS. The other bridesmaids luckily were able to grab some dresses and we traded with other brides for dresses that were Hannah’s size and style. After about 10 minutes the insanity dies down and then you can finally get to business. In the end she found 2 dresses she really loved, and at $250 each, she bought them both!! Might even make more $ on the one she ends up giving to a bridal consignment shop. Super! Looking back on it all I would say it was a pretty great day. We found a dress, had a blast, and most importantly– WE SURVIVED!!!

The bride, bridesmaids and moms

getting lunch after a morning of hard work!

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my so called life.

August 20, 2009

My love for this show is so HUGE. I cannot even spread my arms out wide enough to express how much I love this show. So last year for Christmas my mom gave me the box set of the complete series (shown to the left). I love how my mom gave me this gift, because we used to watch it together when it was on TV back in the day. (I just looked up when this show aired and it was back in 1994. That was 15 YEARS AGO. I was a mere child at the age of 10. Could this be right? I think it’s true!) I remember being in elementary school and not being able to watch 90210 and Married with Children like everyone else in my class, but I was allowed to watch My So Called Life because I believe my mom thought it was quality (and how right she was).

Now it is hard for me to pinpoint one exact thing that I love about this show, because I love everything about it. But one thing I think I love most is Claire Daines and her character Angela. I think she is one of the best actresses EVER. And I think this show is some of her best work EVER. I love how she narrates the beginning of each episode and the end (and sometimes here and there in the middle). Everything she says about life in high school is just SO true. When she cries, I cry. When she laughs, I laugh. When she loves Jordan Catalano, I love Jordan Catalano.

All the characters are just so classic. They’re all just struggling to figure out who they really are and it’s just so fascinating to watch. Whoever wrote this show was a real genius and whoever took it off the air was a real dunce. It’s one of the best shows ever and I am proud to own the series so I can watch it whenever I need to get my fix. If you’ve never seen it, come over and I’ll watch it with you. The quotes are excellent and they will never, ever get old… in my humble opinion.

Here are some of my favorite Angela Chase quotes:

“People are always saying you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster. Like you know what it is even. But every so often I’ll have, like, a moment, where just being myself in my life right where I am is, like, enough.”

“There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there’s not even a word for it. There’s the people who you’ve known forever who know you in this way that other people can’t because they’ve seen you change. They’ve let you change.”

“It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it’s even you?”

“If Jordan Catalano is nearby, my whole body knows it. Like one of those dogs that point. I’ll keep talking and stuff, but my mind won’t even know what I’m saying. I keep wondering if there’s a term for this.”

“It’s good to get really dressed up once in a while. And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they’re actually… beautiful. Possibly even me.”

“Love is when you look into someone’s eyes and suddenly you go all the way inside, to their soul, and you both know instantly. I always imagined I’d fall in love nursing a blind soldier who was wounded in battle. Or maybe while rescuing someone in the middle of a blizzard, seconds before the avalanche hits. I thought at least by the age of 15 I’d have a love life, but I don’t even have a like life.”

“Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart.”

AND for the best scene EVER that will leave you cheering and grinning from ear to ear, check this out: