Books I Read in 2013

Because of school, I didn’t get to do as much fun reading as I would like to have in 2013, but I did manage to read a few during my breaks (i.e., before classes started in January, over the summer, and this Christmas). For school, I did a lot more reading of journal articles than […] →Read more

Can Someone Explain Instagram To Me?

I joined Instagram in April 2011 and have posted a grand total of 4 pictures to it so far, including the one that I posted just now to take a screen shot of this for this blog posting. I just don’t get the point. I put all my photos on Flickr and if I want […] →Read more

More Adorable Things My Nephew Said

Before I went to visit my family, my sister Facebooked something adorable my nephew had said. She’d told him that it was time to go to Vaia’s (Vaia is the lady who runs the daycare that Thomas goes to) and he told her “I am not going to Vaia’s. I am going to a meeting. […] →Read more

Would I Ever Go Back To Being A Vegetarian?

This is one of the suggestions for a blog posting and my answer to it is “I don’t think so.” Since becoming unvegetarian, I’ve enjoyed experimenting with trying (and cooking!) different meals that I hadn’t ever had before, as well as eating a few things that I remember enjoying in my pre-vegetarian days ((See: Mini […] →Read more

175 of 365

So 175 days ago I started doing a second 365 photo challenge when I realized that I had it on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days and I only had 365 left of those 1001 days, so it was now or never. As with my previous 365 day challenge, a lot of the photos are […] →Read more

#26 – Consider Yourself Done!

As of yesterday, I completed #26 from my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days: do some kind of exercise (anything really, even if it is just a set of pushups, as long as it is beyond just incidental stuff like taking the stairs or walking to a store) every day for a […] →Read more

At The Airport

How does 2 weeks go by so fast? Seems like I only just got here and now I’m back at the airport waiting for my flight home. On Christmas Day, I said to my sister, “I can’t believe I’m still here for 6 more days!” That feels like 2 minutes ago! But I did see […] →Read more

10 Meals

Clearly, I’m on a roll of blogging about my goals for 2013, so now let’s look at this one: Make 10 meals that I’ve never made before. This one I made a concerted effort to achieve, with a spreadsheet to track ideas of things to make and then to track when I made them. Cornish […] →Read more

Pushups!

And while we are talking about my exercise goals, let’s take a look at how I did on my pushup goal! Goal: 1,300 Completed: 1,385 Success! I completed 107% of my goal! Luckily, I did a *lot* of pushups early in the year (see Figure 1 ((I haven’t yet graphed my running and biking numbers, […] →Read more

Biking Fail

To every yin there is a yang and the yin to my successful running year is the yang of my epic failure biking. I had grand plans of biking 500 km this year and I managed to fail that in spectacular fashion. I’d figured that between some fun bike rides and spending some time on […] →Read more