The Tao of Me

I’ve seen this video about a gazillion times, watching at least 20 times a day (I’m not kidding either): But I am digging this acoustic version of it too: 2 more days…

Its barely after 8 pm and I’m already ready for bed. Actually, I’ve been dozing for the past 2 hours already. Waking up before 4 am will do that to you. I *almost* skipped writing this post, but since I committed to being back to blogging only yesterday, I have to write something! But since [...]

As the Winter Olympics nears, I have been anxiously awaiting to see what Lululemon had in store for the Olympics. If you didn’t know, Lulu is headquartered in Vancouver, BC so I knew that they had to have something great planned to celebrate the Olympics being in Vancouver. I’ve been so anxious that I’ve been [...]

Yesterday was a bad, bad day and it got progressively worse as the day went on. It got to the point where everything just annoyed me. Usually when I get like this I’ll listen to music as a pick-me-up, but I just wasn’t interested. I started to feel better when I volunteered at the House [...]

Every year I get to spend the holidays with my relatives in Vancouver (WA, not BC), my home away from, away from home. And with every holiday season comes 2 Christmas traditions: 1. The Christmas Eve Ping Pong Tournament 2. Breakfast at IHOP Big Rich’s Christmas Invitational We’re a pretty competitive bunch which makes the [...]

* Race clothes? check * Running shoes? check * Garmin 310 XT? check * GU? check * Back to Nature Dark Chocolate Granola (for breakfast)? check * Phone charger? check * Mini foam roller? check * Arnica, Naproxen, Biofreeze? check, check and check Looks like I’m all packed and ready to fly out to Vegas [...]

My two BFF’s (Mik and Chris), and I are die-hard Green Day fans. American Idiot is probably my favorite album of all time. Its a rock opera, so we knew at some point, it HAD to be made into a musical show. Sure enough, the musical is now playing at the Berkeley Theatre, and I [...]

I had a great, great run at the Bridge-to-Bridge 12K race. And it almost didn’t happen…. All week I had this internal struggle about doing this race. I’d had a cold and my right foot was still bothering me. Part of me thought I should just rest, yet the other part of me felt that [...]