August 2011
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all that matters is we live appreciatively
Just like the song says.
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Today I’m using you guys as my sounding...
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the next four months
4 classes 3 assistantships 1 internship co-president of the student organization playing in a band training for a marathon
Have I forgotten anything?
All good things, but sometimes it’s stressful and exhausting trying to be Superwoman
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this week, a little reflection
Sometimes I’m torn between just wanting something so sweet and wanting something that fits into all of my little boxes. There are so many things I try to tick off each finger that I imagine I simply couldn’t settle without. Maybe it’s a weird way of comforting myself; someday everything will be perfect and I will find just what I’m looking for and it all will have been worth it. But this is life...
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Newest song, first demo
This really is hot off...
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Running through the cemetery
Yesterday I ran out to Stevens Ave and wound around Evergreen Cemetery. It was breezy and cool and there were barely any people there. The best part about no one being there is that when a fun song comes on my ipod I can bust a move in the middle of my run. Oh ya.
In other news I ran 9.25 miles on Sunday and 10 miles yesterday. So fingers crossed, maybe this whole IT band nonsense is mostly...
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This is what I did last night. I see it as most...
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Grateful Friday
I haven’t done one of these for a while, but today I felt that swelling of gratitude in my chest and wanted to share. Today I’m grateful for:
My college girlfriends Last weekend I got to see “my girls” from college. We haven’t been together like that probably since college. It’s amazing to be around people who make you tick and know every inside and out of you...
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you should listen to your heart it’s gonna tell you what you need
-Tristan Prettyman
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the bouquet
last weekend was my dear friend Saly’s wedding to her boyfriend of 10 years (!). It was nothing short of completely lovely.
When it came time to throw the bouquet the DJ asked all the single women to come out to the dance floor. There were only four of us, and all of us had gone to college together (Lesley University). We looked around at each other awkwardly and realized there was one...
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The best kind of nights
It’s 10:30pm and my apartment smells of fresh dill, vinegar, mustard seed, and garlic. I’m making refrigerator pickles. I have done enough pickling over the past few summers that I’m not going by a recipe, I’m going to wing it. It’s all the more exciting because you don’t know what you’re going to get. I took a flashlight out to my raised bed here at the...
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you know you're from Maine when
You get an email from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife announcing that any-deer permit lottery applications are NOW DUE!
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rough spot
I don’t think most people get it. I have been training for a marathon that is almost two months away, since May. My life has revolved around this training. Every part of my life right now is compared to how I need to prepare for that day’s, or the next day’s, or the end of the week’s run. My longest run was 17 miles and I felt great. This entire process has made me feel...
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random song lyrics I wrote and found on my dresser...
this morning is like gold it does something to my soul now if only i could clear these streets change the buildings into evergreens i think that i could finally see clearly
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full steam ahead
I’m looking forward to the unexpected in life
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I think I want Tristan Prettyman's life
For a few months anyway. I want to travel around the US with my acoustic guitar playing music at lively summer festivals, and doing yoga, and wearing leggings everywhere I go. She makes it look so good!
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Here it is my friends. People have been asking to...
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The weepies: so cute it makes you gag (in a good...
Read the About section of their website.
“Deb Talan and Steve Tannen began writing together the night they first met and soon formed THE WEEPIES. “We were fans of each other. When we met, there was an electric connection that made us both nervous. After the show, when everyone went home, we stayed up all night playing songs for each other, drinking a bottle of wine and trading an...
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runner's knee
I had a feeling this was going to happen. Things did not go well this morning.
Friday I started feeling it a little walking around town, that sharp pain in the knee. I had it off and on last summer, but at that time I could afford to take a few days off. I probably need new shoes, but my training schedule doesn’t stop while I wait for them to arrive in the mail.
You may have seen me...
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“Maybe you won’t be a successful novelist, or even a good one. At least you are...”
– Piers Anthony (via writingadvice)
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friendship
me: but I have you
Tawny: That is the TRUTH!! Amen
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dont push so hard against the world
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the tub
I have been without a proper bath tub for far too long. When I finally have a house of my own there is going to be a nice big bathroom with a deep, full tub, and I’m going to have a long soak.
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whatta weekend
This is how it goes
Friday I drove to my parents in time for dinner. Mom cooked up some fish and rice for me. It was a beautiful night. I wrote a new song, and am in love with it. Slept soundly for 9.5 hours. It was bliss. In the morning my dad and I got breakfast at this small local diner. I knew everyone else there eating, so I got to catch up with some people. Then we drove to an independently...
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