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May 16th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | 16 May 2008

Hooray! It’s Friday! I have had a crazy week. I started out in a funk, had some awesome snuggle/tennis time with The Shock, had a date with the hubby, ate great Mexican food (always a mood booster), and was smacked around by all the cool things God is doing in my life and in my friends’ (especially Heather, Heather, Amy, and Betsy) lives. And I read some gravy stuff, too. If you only read one thing this week, check out "How To Hug a Baby."

  • How to Hug a Baby. OK, this is by far my favorite post of the week. And since so many of my friends and acquaintences are preggars (11: Holly, Ashlynne, Summer, Priscilla, Katrina, Christa, Angie, Michelle, Amy, Nicole, and Stephanie), I figure I should get educated in this department. You should, too…and your dog.
  • Cat Personality Test? Shelters Try New Tactic. You all know that we have two very ornery cats whom we adopted. By our estimations, Ravi is a personal assistant, and Mowgli is a leader of the band. What about your cats?
  • Cna Yuo Raed Tihs? I can! And apparently only 55 people out of 100 can. Interesting.
  • Popping Good Pimples. This, my friends, is why Linden and I get along oh so well.
  • Analyze This. I love that I’m not the only one who over prepares for upcoming races. And it’s good to know that others are as obsessive-compulsive as me.
  • Group Blogging Project: Featuring Your Articles About Blogging. I know not all of you are as passionate about blogging as me, but if you’ve written anything about blogging, I encourage you to submit. It’s great exposure and experience! I submitted three!
  • Best Sports Blog! Vote Here. I realize that I don’t write about running as much as I did last summer and fall, but I’m a finalist at Best of Blogs in the Best Sports Blog category. I realize I’m a long shot, but I’d appreciate a vote!
  • Photos of Panda Bear Growing Up, First Three Months . Who does not love baby animals? Can you say CUTE!?

Wanna know what I else I was into this week? Check out my Google Reader Shared Items and my Delicious page. Have an excellent weekend!

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April 23rd, 2008

Seven Random Things You Didn’t Know About Sarah

I’ve been tagged yet again. (Thanks, Sarah!) This time I’m supposed to share seven random things about myself.

  1. I hate monkeys, especially chimps and gorillas. It’s not that they scare me, so much, but I just hate them. It’s completely irrational.
  2. I have had horrific acne since I was a teenager, and I have a zit-popping point system. I understand that I am disgusting, but when you spend so much time in front of the mirror, you have to figure out some way to pass the time. Thankfully, the acne is sort of phasing itself out, but I have a feeling that I’ll deal with it my entire life.
  3. I talk for my cats. That’s right, for my cats, not to my cats. When they “speak,” I use a specific voice (each cat has a different intonation). I have always done this with my pets, and I didn’t know it was weird until Chris and I got Ravi. My best friend Jenny had to explain to him that it was totally normal, and now Chris talks for the cats, too. It’s pretty funny.
  4. I don’t let Chris fold clean towels because I have a very specific way I like the towels to be folded, and it’s much easier to fold the towels myself than it is to teach Chris every time we do laundry. My mother is to blame for this because she was adament about how all the towels in her house were folded; if I folded the towels incorrectly, she made me redo them!
  5. I also don’t let Chris load the dishwasher. And again, my mother is to blame for this. I must absolutely cram as many dishes as humanly possible into the dishwasher before I run it. I sort of turn loading the dishwasher into a weird game of Tetris to get it all to fit. And this week, I was talking to my brother on the phone, and he has the same weird obsession about the dishwasher!
  6. I can’t eat potluck. I think I’ve watched too many 20/20 specials about food poisoning from food that sits out, and I also don’t like eating food that doesn’t match. Seriously, who can eat lukewarm lasagna and fried chicken in the same sitting? It’s just gross.
  7. I love a good chick flick/Disney movie. I’m a sappy little girl, and I love watching movies like That Thing You Do, The Princess Diaries, The Cutting Edge, and The Holiday.

That’s the randomness about me. Any questions?

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December 13th, 2007

Sarah’s Three-Point Zit-Popping Scoring Guide

I had a three-point zit last night. When you’ve had acne as long as I have and have spent as much time as I have in front of the mirror squeezing blackheads and popping pimples, you have to make it fun, so I have a zit point system:

  • 1 pt.: Black heads
  • 2 pts.: White heads
  • 3 pts.: White heads whose innerds hit the mirror

(This is what I’m condemned to write about when I can’t talk about running. Pray for recovery.) I’ve had acne since third grade. Well, I don’t particularly remember my first pimple, but I remember that my mom took me to a dermatologist in third grade and that afterward I had a whole regimen of washing to do. Personal hygiene isn’t high on the to-do lists of any third-graders I know, so you can imagine how thrilled I was by this new discipline.

My acne was totally out of control by my sophomore year of high school despite my efforts to keep it at bay with over-the-counter remedies, so Mom and I visited the dermatologist once again. I came home with some vengeful zinc soap and two kinds of powerful ointments. The acne cleared up within a week.

I maintained that regimen through college but put it aside when I got engaged to Chris. See, the ointments tasted awful, and I didn’t want it to interfere with married life, so I switched to Arbonne International’s Clear Advantage products, which are expensive but do the trick, especially when paired with Arbonne’s Exfoliating Masque with Thermal Fusion. I haven’t used them in about six months because money has been tight and insurance doesn’t pay for the Arbonne stuff. Thus, last night’s three-point zit.

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