Filed under: Mousetraps
While browsing in Barnes & Noble on Saturday, I happened to notice this:
Normally, I’d make a big thing about how someone could write a business start-up guide specifically for ”girls” and how exactly that guide could be any different than that written for general audiences (which, last time I checked, included women… or girls, if you will). I’d also point out that the title is grammatically incorrect and then get really snarky and say that that if you’re going to put two business girls on the cover, they could at least be a little more stylish.
But I don’t have time to build all that out.
Instead, I just want to remind everyone that it is, in fact, 2009 and I think everyone should just get on board with that.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: capoeira, nyc, Physical Fitness Rampage 2009
A few months back, I conducted a poll about whether capoeira was a good or bad idea.
Most people suggested that I just try it.
But one person said it was the “worst idea ever.”
First of all, thanks for the hate.
Second, I took a class in it tonight and I hate to admit it, but you’re probably right.
I’m going to give myself at least another week to prove you wrong.
Filed under: Mousetraps | Tags: blogs, I have mice, Lord of the Pests, Mousesnaps, mousetrap, Mousetraps, news, PR
Aw. Mousesnaps is in the cutest blog yet. It makes sense since they’re the cutest mousetraps out there.
Check out www.mousesnaps.com for more on hand-painted mousetraps.
This past weekend, my mother – having noticed that I didn’t update my blog in several days – asked me if I began writing in a “secret blog” that she didn’t know about.
Fortunately, there’s no blogging conspiracy here at mytwothousandnine. I’ve just been sort of lazy about some things – like digging out an extension cord so that I can plug in my router and get Internet access at home. That really puts a damper on writing.
But other things are happening none-the-less. Like with Mousesnaps – Tuesday was a great day and we are thisclose to signing up our first online retailer! It’s unsurprising – Mousesnaps are the prettiest hand-painted mousetraps in town and it’s about time someone appreciates.
And Physical Fitness Rampage 2009 hit new heights last week. Thanks to the contributions of family, friends and coworkers, I reached my fundraising goal for the City to Shore bike race in just two days!
So things are moving right along. And once I get my hands on 20 feet of electrical cord, I will be unstoppble.
Filed under: Fitness | Tags: dating, New York, Philadelphia, Physical Fitness Rampage 2009, SheROX, starbucks, swimming, YMCA
Last night, I celebrated the passing of the triathlon by taking a walk after work, ordering the most fattening drink on the Starbucks menu and watching 48 Hours: True Mystery. Or in other words, I did the exact opposite of planning my evening around the pool schedule at the YMCA.
It was delightful. Especially when the barista at Starbucks asked me if I had a boyfriend. Twice. I thought he was going to ask me a third time when he ran out of the store and chased me down the sidewalk, but it turns out that he just didn’t notice that the gift card I had used to buy my drink didn’t have enough money on it and I owed him $1.89.
I don’t have a boyfriend, but I don’t have any interest in dating the overly forward or the seemingly desperate. But at the same time, I don’t mind if they want to appreciate the obvious benefits of Physical Fitness Rampage 2009.
Filed under: Fitness | Tags: biking, danskin, New York, Philadelphia, Physical Fitness Rampage 2009, running, Schuylkill, SheROX, swimming, triathlon
So in the end, the swim portion of the triathlon was canceled due to bacteria and debris in the water – which is kind of funny since I’m pretty sure the Schuylkill River is chock full of an unhealthy amount of bacteria and debris every day – but what do I know?
The event organizers really did their best to try and let us swim. At the orientation on Saturday, they even announced that they were trying to clean the portion we’d be swimming in with giant skimmers – and as much as I would have liked to see that for my own entertainment, I didn’t think it sounded like it was going to work. Unfortunately for everyone, it didn’t.
Instead, the event was turned into a run-bike-run duathlon – and it was going shockingly well for me until a massive thunderstorm hit and they cleared the course during the second run.
It was uncontrollable turn of events, but disappointing none the less.
Especially since my time for the first two legs were pretty great and I had plenty of energy left to finish.
Oh well. Better luck next year. For now, I’ll just be happy that I learned to swim, I ran the first leg at a pace of 8/minutes a mile and managed through the bike portion despite having not been on one in at least ten years.
I didn’t actually do a triathlon. But I could have. And that will just have to be good enough.
Yesterday, I spent the better part of my evening trying to track down a bike to use in this weekend’s triathlon.
Nothing like waiting until the last minute, I know, but I was really counting on using my brother’s bike if worse came to worst. What I wasn’t counting on was his bike actually being a glorified death trap.
“Oh sure you can use it,” he told me. “I’ll just put the seat down. It only has one gear though, is that ok?”
I didn’t have many other options at the time, so I figured it would have to be.
“OH!! And this is important – are you listening? You can’t stop pedaling AT ALL!”
I said, “And why the heck not?”
“Oh you just can’t! The pedals are connected to the chain, so you can’t stop. Oh, and if you pedal backwards, you actually go backwards.”
Now. I don’t know much about bikes, but I know enough to realize that that’s not normal. Either that, or my brother actually lives in a cartoon.
I said, “I have to ask – does it even have brakes?”
“Of course it does,” he told me. “Don’t be ridiculous.”
I wouldn’t dream of it.
In the end, I settled on borrowing a friend if a friend’s. I probably owe her my life.
