Feb 05 2010

Quickie Post

Category: Life — GeekGirl @ 9:02 am

I’ve seriously got 5 minutes until I need to hop in the shower and get ready for work. I figured I’d do a post since I haven’t had much to say this week.

School is going ok though I think Spanish will be the death of me. I just don’t get it. This weekend will be devoted to trying to get it together and make sense of the different verb tenses and when I should use “estar” vs. “ser”. I might have to call in a favor from one of my many Spanish speaking friends.

My running is going ok, but I’m still having some issues with my piriformis when I run. Fortunately, it’s not to bad and I can run through it. I’ve ordered a Sacro Wedgy to see if it will help since I can not really afford to see the chiropractor at this time. I figured $25 is better than $50 per visit. My half marathon is up in the air for the time being. I’m going to try to run 11 miles and see how I feel on Saturday/Sunday. If that goes well, then I’m in. For sure. I’ve managed all of my runs so I feel ready though my speedwork is nonexistent due to my back/piriformis/hip.

I’ve got a bunch of stuff to post including a few interesting IM messages from OKCupid and hopefully a review of my sacrowedgy.

ETA: I already flubbed my photo a day thing, but I’m going to continue. I missed a couple of days because I forgot. Yeah. I suck.

Feb 01 2010

Can I Do It?

Category: pictures — GeekGirl @ 8:37 am

It’s February. Yay…not really. I don’t care about February. However, one thing I do like about February is that it’s a nice short month. That makes it the perfect month to try new things. This month I have a challenge that should be pretty fun. I want to take more pictures. In fact, I’d like to take a picture a day.

I constantly marvel at everyones photo prowess. They seem to really get great pictures. I, on the other hand, NEVER take photos. A few people even complained that I didn’t take enough pics while in Peru. The main one being my mom, of course. Heh. Part of the reason I don’t take any photos is that I think my life is just to freaking mundane. I get up, go to work, come home. I run, but it’s nowhere too interesting…or at least that’s what I tell myself. Then when I really think about it I realize I life at the freaking beach. I see the sunrise almost everyday of the week over the water. I work in downtown where there’s neat architecture and weird people. My world is interesting, I’m just not really paying attention to it.

I think if I just start taking pics in general I’ll start to see more and more reasons to take pictures. Most of these photos will be super boring, I’m sure.  However, maybe somewhere in the 28 days I can get 1 photo that will make me happy and show me that I do have stuff to take photos of. We’ll see. I’ll try to post some of the more interesting ones and will add my flickr thingy. I’ve never used Flickr, so I’ve got to get it all set up.

I have a couple of other projects and stuff I’m working on, but I’ll detail those out later.

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Jan 31 2010

That’s My Man Throwing Down

Category: politics — GeekGirl @ 7:46 pm

Just in case you’re on another planet and didn’t know it, Barack Obama kicked all kinds of ass last week. He had an interesting SOTU that made me think he’s at least getting some balls again. But, the highlight of last week? Him completely spanking the Republicans during a Q&A on Friday. It got so bad that the completely “fair and balanced” Fox News cut away from the coverage.

This is why we elected Obama. He is, indeed, the smartest man in the room. Period. He has a great grasp on the issues and is able to make great decisions. I’m hoping they broadcast more of these Q&A’s. The public needs to see how inept the Republicants are. It needs to be shown.

Obama’s spanking made me think of this:

Yeah…Obama schooling a bunch of Republicants took me back to nasty, dirty, Miami booty bass! Just go with it, yo!

Jan 30 2010

Pain in the Ass

Category: running — GeekGirl @ 8:33 pm

The past couple of weeks, I’ve had a problem with my piriformis. La de da. I thought I got a grip on it last week, but it started to rear it’s ugly head again around Monday. All of the usual feelings were there. Tightness starts in my ass, moves up into my back and radiates down my leg. It even got to the point that the small of my back was hurting when I wasn’t running.

I found some interesting stretches and started slowly working out the issue. However, I figured I needed a little extra help. This morning, I went and got a nice deep tissue massage. He was very good and did some stretching along with the massage. I was pretty sore immediately after the massage. I also was very nauseous and a bit light headed. That all seems to have subsided and I feel great.

Hopefully, I’ll not be sore tomorrow morning on my run and the pain in my ass will be gone. We’ll see!

Jan 26 2010

My Date with the Wizard

Category: adventures in online dating — GeekGirl @ 9:44 pm

Due to popular demand (that totally means 2 people on Twitter), I’ve been asked to dish the details of my wonderful first date last night. So, pull up a chair, grab a drink, and lets get to it.

Duue to being a glutton for punishment, I decided to sign up for OkCupid again. Of all of the sites I’ve been on, I seem to have the most luck there. (Meaning: The men are far more literate and I don’t roll my eyes anywhere near as much on this site.) Once I got my profile up, I was contacted by a guy. He seemed semi-sane, had a humouros profile, and could write in complete sentences without LOL speak. I hate LOL speak. OK. Time for a HUGE disclaimer here: This guy is nowhere near the type of guy I usually go out with. But, I’m trying to expand my  horizons. Pretty much if they’re nice, sane, etc I’ll give them a shot.

We exchanged witty emails back and forth for about a week or so and decided to meet up.  While we were chatting on IM to set everything up a few red flags popped up. First, he tells me that he plays Magic the Gathering….Ruh oh!  I didn’t even know that shit was still around. Who the hell plays that?  Dude does tournaments and stuff. I decide to stop being a bitch and keep chatting. Everyone needs a hobby.

He then tells me that he loves LOL cats. I hate those things with a passion. In telling me that he also uses the word “macho”. Hold the fuck up! No one that plays Magic the Gathering can use the word “macho”. And ewwww….macho. Bleh. The final straw was when I told him I had to go do something he said, “Get to it, Little Lady.”  As we all know I am a feminazi bitch. I do not like being called Little Lady. Period. Also a bit off putting is the fact that women put testimonials on his profile. Something about that struck me as odd. Why would anyone do that? If you’re that great/hot/nice, why wouldn’t you be together. Weird. I should’ve called the whole thing off then, but I figured I could at least get some food out of it.

It turns out that we’re going to meet at Pannera. I’ve never been there and would much rather head out for sushi, pizza, tacos, or coffee at one of our cute indie shops around here. He chooses Pannera. Whatever.

The day of the date, I take a shower and get all nice and cute. I wear a little v-neck t-shirt and my military looking jackeet. I was kind of rocking a little rockabilly style tossed in with hippie chic.  (That is how I roll bitches!) My hair was doing amazing things, yet I’m super casual. Since I’m going to Pannera.

When I pull up, I see him across the parking lot. He’s got a blonde gross ponytail and a heinous goatee. Ew. And…wtf is he wearing? All black with some weird redshirt underneath. All completely odd fitting and shoes that are possibly bowling shoes.  Who the hell wears bowling shoes? I call the entire outfit a wizard suit. It’s just what it reminded me of. I’m not super into clothes, but this was heinous.

Once inside he gets himself water and offers me nothing at all. I have no problem paying for my own food, but…he didn’t even buy himself food. WTF?!?!?! I order a smoothie since it’s fast and I might need to make a clean escape.

We sit down and I ask him, “So, what’s up?”. Biggest. Mistake. Ever. I get 15 minutes explaining why he’s broke (thus the ordering of water) and then another 10 minutes about some chick who’s house he was staying at or something and she freaked out on him. Wow do I not care. I asked what’s up more in the…so, what’s up sense. As in how’s your day.

He asked about my travels and then told me he’s never been out of Florida. Really? Wow, I’d never guess that.  I then decide that I really need to shake this guy. I decide to tell a bunch of my heinous drunking stories. Seriously, I’d never  go out with a guy that does the type of shit I’ve done while drunk in the last year. (See:  Fall in Peru, fall in New York, the Animal Collective Concert, and the Tater Tot incident.) Sadly, I think that made him like me more. Either way, I was planning my escape.

I finally use Gio as an excuse to leave. Something about him needing to be walked.  After hugging me (ew!), we get to my car and he explains that he has to drive to Jupiter (that’s a city non Floridians) that night unless he finds somewhere else to “crash”. (He has a super long commute to work, which is about 20 minutes from where I live.) Fortunately, it was only around 8:45, so I was like you have plenty of time to make it to Jupiter. Then I peaced the fuck outta there. Squealing tires and everything.

I haven’t heard from him today and I am quite glad. I am going to go back to being a picky bitch. At least the men were hot and could afford their own dinner. (I’m not even concerned with mine!)

Jan 25 2010

Weekend Roundup

Category: Life, running, school — GeekGirl @ 8:19 am

So, that super ambitious to-do list that I have? I bet you’re all wondering how much of it I accomplished. The sad, sad answer is not very much of it. However, I did get the most important things done. I got Gio over to the vet and got in my 10 miler. Woot!

Last week was rough for me running wise. I was having some crazy issues as well as my back hurting. I lost all confidence in my abilities. Fortunately, I stuck it out and did a lot of stretching and a little bit of resting. My back and pirformis feel much better now and I was able to salvage the week and finish it with a strong, comfortable 10 miler. Furthermore, I ran my highest weekly mileage in ages. Seriously! I don’t think I’ve seen this type of mileage since my PE.

I ran a total of 25.7 miles and my body feels good. I’m really proud of myself for working through the issues that I was having and not just folding and not running. That was my initial reaction, but I kept chugging along. I dropped the speedwork (again!) and walked up and down the bridges. By Friday, I was feeling really good.

This week is a rest week and I’m going to take it very seriously. I think I really need it. I’m going to skip the intervals and opt for an “easy” fartlek. I don’t want to push anything here. Sadly, I’ve done very little speedwork this time around but I’m ok with it. I’m supposed to run a 15k this weekend, but we don’t have any in the area. If I can find a 10k I’ll run it, but most likely I’ll just run easy that day. Since I’ve been toying with injury, I don’t want to push.

Other than that, school starts today. My Spanish teacher seems like she hates life. So much work. Of course my books aren’t here yet. My Arthurian Lit class already put me to sleep just reading the syllabus. Ha!

With that I’m out! Have an awesome week peeps!

Ohhhh….I also have a date tonight. All I have to say about that is “meh”.

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Jan 21 2010

Growing To-Do List

Category: Project GeekGirl — GeekGirl @ 9:00 am

I’ve been out of school for well over a month. You would think that my apartment would be clean from top to bottom and everything nice and organized. You would be oh, so wrong. Due to the extreme cold that we had for a couple of weeks I got nothing done. It’s hard to run around doing stuff in your apartment when it’s below 50 in your house. You just want to curl up under a blankie to stay warm.

Due to this, school starts on Monday. Yikes! I really wanted to have a bunch of chores done before that. It doesn’t really look like that is going to happen, but we’ll see what I can do. Here are some of the “fun” things that I will be doing this weekend:

  1. Deep cleaning my furniture
  2. Taking Gio to the vet
  3. Cleaning and organizing my desk
  4. Cleaning out “the closet”. (This is in quotes because I’m seriously scared of what’s going to be found in this closet!)
  5. Do some cooking and freezing for the weeks to come.
  6. Readjust my budget. I need to make some HUGE headway on some debt.
  7. Mop and sweep all floors.
  8. Clean out and organize closet.
  9. Wash Gio
  10. Run 10 miles
  11. Go see the Rockwell exhibit.

I’m not sure if I’m going to get all of this done, but I’m going to try really hard. I have a few days and the first week of school isn’t too exhausting.

There is also a rather large list of things I need to buy and take care of. (Gio’s vet visit is included.) Sadly, I have no money. Thus the reason for some of the jugging of the budget this weekend. I need to drop a few things that I like, but it will only be temporary. I need every penny I can get right now. This is probably a post in and of itself. Maybe I’ll tackle that topic later. I’m off to the showers to get this day started.

Jan 17 2010

Great Link on Haiti

Category: politics — GeekGirl @ 7:11 pm

I’ve managed to bite my tongue here on the entire Haiti situation. I don’t want to stick my foot in it, and now really isn’t the time to get all preachy. HOWEVER,  I stumbled across this link on www.theangryblackwoman.com. The links to some of the basic history on Haiti and information explaining why Haiti is a third world country are great. I also think poining out the different aid coming from other countries is on point. Our media makes it sound like ONLY America is helping them.

I’m also glad that they call the media out on referring to people trying to survive as “looters”. Looters go after tvs and stuff like that during riots. The Haitians are trying to eat and find water. Further, if I have to hear one more reporter worry about violence I am going to scream.  And the showing of dead bodies everywhere? Ugh…All of this reeks of  ”look at the poor black people – we must save them.” Bleh. I’m going to end this now because I do not want to get all stabby/Fear of a Black Planet on y’all. Read the post if you want to be informed and understand some of what is going on.

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Jan 17 2010

5 Week Challenge

Category: running — GeekGirl @ 6:50 pm

My half marathon is 5 weeks out. I ran a 9 miler this morning that really made me question running a half. Everything hurt and I had to WORK to get back home. The last 3 miles were done by run/walking. My back has been hurting along with my hip this week and it started tightening up around 4.5 miles or so.

I got a new pair of shoes on Tuesday. Unfortunately, they seem to be causing me problems. I’m going to take them for a spin on Tuesday just to make sure they’re the problem. If so, I’ll stick to my Adidas. The odd thing is that this is just the new version of the shoe that I’ve been wearing. The Brooks Defyance. It seems like I clench my toe more in these. (I always clench me toes. Thus the weird blisters and black toenails. I’m just figuring this out!)

My weight is back up to 120. I’d really like to get it down to at least 116-117 before the half marathon. (I really wish I was at 112-114, but whatever.) I’ve reigned in my drinking, but I’m still eating lots of crap. I can easily drop some weight if I just don’t eat junk.

So…the next 5 weeks I get serious. No drinking (unless I happen to go out with someone – even then just 1 social drink), no junk food, do all my stretching and strengthening, and hit all my runs (unless I just really need some rest – not sure how this back/right side thing is going to go). This isn’t really that big of a deal, but I need it because I have 0 confidence going into this half marathon.

I’m going to monitor what’s going on with the right side of my body. If it doesn’t feel better around mid-week I’ll get a massage or see the chiropractor. I’m almost positive that everything that’s going on right now is due to my tilted pelvis. An adjustment should get me up and running again. This is mostly my fault since I haven’t been stretching or anything. Bad. I know.

I’ll be blogging my way through this, so wish me luck!

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Jan 14 2010

Not My Tax Dollars

Category: politics — GeekGirl @ 8:12 pm

First and foremost, I LOVE Jay Smooth. Love everything about him. The man is the perfect combination for me. Smart, open minded, loves hip hop. Le sigh…

Anyway, check this video made with a few of his blogger friends:

I love this video and it makes a great point. Many of us are paying for things that we don’t want to support, but we’re not crying about it.

Maybe I’ll make my own video. Maybe Jay Smooth will call me, too. Hmmm….

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