August update: Cto5K

I was thwarted a few times when starting this goal – I seem to injure myself every time I want to start running. Oddly enough, the injury is never concerning the actual running.

SO now that I seem to be healed and illness free, I’ve started the Couch to 5K program. I have no idea if I’ll be able to keep it up, but the first two walk/jogs went very well, and left me feeling great afterwards, and even into the next day. And while I feel like I should be able to actually do intervals on my own, having a nice lady in my ear telling when to walk and when to run seems to be the ticket to getting me moving.

See more progress on: run a mile

August update: not yet

I haven’t even been to karaoke at all for months. It just hasn’t lined up in the right way yet. I still have my fingers crossed.

See more progress on: Sing karaoke 7 nights in a row

August update: 25 books

Not as far as I’d like, but two of those books were doozies that took me quite a long time. If I were really uptight about it, I’d do it by page count, but I’m really not that uptight.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination – Atwood, Margaret
Kafka on the Shore – Murakami, Haruki
Bicycle Diaries – Byrne, David
Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy, #2) – Grant, Mira
Olive Kitteridge – Strout, Elizabeth
Feed (Newsflesh, #1) – Grant, Mira
The Quality Improvement Handbook – Bauer, John E.
Sure of You – Maupin, Armistead
Ghosts of Albion: Accursed – Benson, Amber
Packing for Mars – Roach, Mary
Then We Came to the End – Ferris, Joshua
Unfamiliar Fishes – Vowell, Sarah
Significant Others – Maupin, Armistead
Babycakes – Maupin, Armistead
1Q84 – Murakami, Haruki
Fifth Avenue, 5:00 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman – Wasson, Sam
Welcome to Utopia: Notes from a Small Town – Valby, Karen
Further Tales of the City – Maupin, Armistead
More Tales of the City – Maupin, Armistead
Tales of the City – Maupin, Armistead
Huntress – Lo, Malinda
A Visit from the Goon Squad – Egan, Jennifer
The Year of Magical Thinking – Didion, Joan
Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute Revised – Chapman, Jack
Happy Accidents – Lynch, Jane

See more progress on: Read 50 books

Movie #11 of 2011: Eat Drink Man Woman

Viewed at home on DVD

I’ve been meaning to watch this for a long time, after seeing the lackluster Hispanic remake, Tortilla Soup. It’s charming and sad. The food prep, for once, did not leave me hungry.

(4 of 5 stars)

See more progress on: 2011 – Watch 15 movies, at least 5 in a theater

Movie #10 of 2011: Babies

Viewed at home from the library

Oh Babies. An enjoyable way to spend a lazy afternoon. I have to admit that my favorite person in the movie was the Mongolian baby’s older brother. Sure, he was kind of a jerk, but the scene were he’s sitting in front of his lego creation, drinking out of a coffee mug and sighing? Even thinking about it now makes me giggle.

(4 of 5 stars)

See more progress on: 2011 – Watch 15 movies, at least 5 in a theater

Movie #9 of 2011: Bridesmaids

Viewed at the Kabuki Sundance Theater*

This movie was sweet and funny and hit several nerves in my own personal storyline. That, plus the drinks, made me switch between laughing and crying the whole time.

• This was a 21+ only show, and I could bring my wine in with me, making this my new favorite theater ever.

(4 of 5 stars)

See more progress on: 2011 – Watch 15 movies, at least 5 in a theater

Movie #8 of 2011: Top Hat

Viewed at home on DVD

The Astaire/Rogers love continues! Super funny, fantastic dancing, incredible costumes.

(4 of 5 stars)

See more progress on: 2011 – Watch 15 movies, at least 5 in a theater

Movie #7 of 2011: Midnight in Paris

Viewed at the Embarcadero Theater (3rd theater movie)

In one word? Charming! The plot bounced along nicely, it was funny (and I’m pretty sure I missed a few jokes), and Owen Wilson makes a good Woody Allen. I liked that they didn’t make Rachel McAdam’s character unlikable, just not entirely compatible with our hero. Definitely worth watching.

(4 of 5 stars)

See more progress on: 2011 – Watch 15 movies, at least 5 in a theater

More Nocturnal Conversation

So this happened last night, and I have no memory of it. According to the awesome guy I share a bed with:

I rolled over in my sleep and my pinky finger hit your face and you went AARAOOAAOOOOOAAHAHGHAARGH!! I apologized and you were like “you need to be more careful in your sleep” and I was like “how can I be more anything when I’m asleep, I’m asleep” and you said “zzZZzZZzZZzz.”

I’m really looking forward to his dramatic re-enactment of this, so I can find out how some of these things are pronounced.

Also, hi! Thanks for sticking around.

The radio wants me to cry.

I was listening to the radio on the way to work this morning, and KFOG played the following songs back to back:

Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby, Stills & Nash
(a song about the end of a relationship)
The Old Apartment – Barenaked Ladies
(such chipper music for such a downer song)
Beg Steal or Borrow – Ray Lamontagne
(so good, so sad)

By the end of this, I wanted to drive my car off a bridge. Luckily, there are no bridges on my commute.