this face...

... never ceases to make me smile. sometimes when i get a bit discouraged or sad, i look at pictures of charlie and it reminds me that life is wonderful. i love you charlie.

in love...

...with the xx. do yourself a favor and fall in love with them too.

yeah! yeah yeah yeahs!

sunday was awesome. the only thing that could've made it any better would have involved 16 miles, my ipod, water and cliff bocks... i digress, so back to the awesomeness...

yeah yeah yeahs in the venue!!


the photo is not the best, as it was taken with my phone, but the show was outstanding... i love karen o. i love her voice, her wacky fashion, her ability to spew water out of her mouth as if it were a fountain, etc. etc. etc... they played a lot from the first two albums and the is is ep, which are my favorites, so honestly the only thing that i can complain about is the venue. but i'd rather not. it's lunchtime and i'm hungry.

funny

friday night i got this from my home-/hair-girl:


at first i thought it was totally random and way funny... then i remembered that i had texted her a few hours before with this question:


so i went to the salon saturday morning with dirty, dirty hair! and she didn't mind at all...

bummer, dudes...

many of you know i've been diligently training for a marathon. some of you also know that i've been having some serious issues with my knees. well, i went to an orthopedic knee surgeon on thursday and as it turns out, i'm not to run for 4-6 weeks... like, at all... i have moderate tendinitis in both knees, and although they call it "moderate" there's nothing moderate about the pain. it's frustrating and depressing, especially considering i had been doing everything i thought necessary. i think the most frustrating part is that mentally, all i want to do is this marathon. my body and mind are both craving 10+ mile runs... crazy, i know, but marathoners are crazy. it's part of the deal. anyway, my mind is there and my body is not. a few weeks ago i was telling some non-runners that probably the most amazing thing to me had not been the distances i was going or the mileage i was building on a weekly basis, but the mental transformation i was experiencing... watching myself push through these barriers i never thought were possible was not only painful, but also completely exhilarating! i had been reading up on nutrition and discovering the best things to fuel pre- and post-run. i was loving learning and feeling and breathing and moving! ice baths, believe it or not, were motivating! ha!

hmmmph... i know i'll get to that place again, and next time i'll be stronger mentally and physically, it's just frustrating to have to be patient and wait...

sidenote: i did get a confirmation from the long beach marathon registration people that i will be able to roll-over the $100 registration fee to the 2010 race... i'm considering the salt lake full in april, but if not, i will certainly be running 26.2 miles along ocean drive in 2010!!