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#97. Buy Another Leash and Walk the Dogs Simultaneously

April 23, 2009

I’ve let my dog Cleo get fat. There’s no getting around it; she’s gained a lot of weight since I got her a year and a half ago. This is what she looked like then: And this is what she looks like now: She’s a good couple inches rounder, and look at all that back fat! It’s embarrassing. Back then she could run 5 miles with me no problem, and now when I try to take her on a run she can barely make it around the neighborhood. (Full disclosure: I can’t run 5 miles anymore either.) I chalk this change up to two things: 1) I live with David now, and one of his favorite things is giving dogs…
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#97. Buy Another Leash and Walk the Dogs Simultaneously

April 23, 2009

I’ve let my dog Cleo get fat. There’s no getting around it; she’s gained a lot of weight since I got her a year and a half ago. This is what she looked like then: And this is what she looks like now: She’s a good couple inches rounder, and look at all that back fat! It’s embarrassing. Back then she could run 5 miles with me no problem, and now when I try to take her on a run she can barely make it around the neighborhood. (Full disclosure: I can’t run 5 miles anymore either.) I chalk this change up to two things: 1) I live with David now, and one of his favorite things is giving dogs…
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shoo fly

April 22, 2009

The other day there was a fly buzzing around in our bathroom. My first reaction was to be annoyed and swat at it, but then I remembered the scene in The Hiding Place where Corrie is locked up in solitary confinement for weeks and comes to regard the ants in the cell as her friends. She was just grateful to have a living being nearby, no matter how diminuitive. So I started to think of the fly as my companion, and it made me less annoyed. Today, I saw the fly’s smushed body on the bathroom floor. I was sad. Just a few days ago he was happily buzzing around. When I told David this story he admitted to me…
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101 in 1001: The List

April 21, 2009

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” ~Helen Keller Here is my list of 101 goals in 1001 days. To find out more about the project, read other people’s lists, and learn tips to starting your own, visit the Day Zero website. This specific post will not be updated, but I have added a link to a page above where I will update as I complete tasks. I’ll also be posting about them as…
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case of the mondays

April 20, 2009

Well my original goal was to finish my list of goals last night so as to post it bright and early this morning, but when 8 p.m. rolled around and I was still searching online for inspiration and yawning quite a bit I decided to put it off until today. Then I had about a 20 minute lull at work this morning where I thought I would be able to finish it, until I got slammed with orders to give blood and chemo, and a patient is pulling her NG tube out, and needed a CT scan, and oh by the way we have a new admission for you! and I remembered that, right, today is Monday. Nothing happens in…
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