Me: I don’t get the difference between figure skating and ice dancing.
Sam: Well, figure skating is smooth with a series of elements that have to be shown, with dramatic air-type things and turns and jumps and stuff. The ice dancing is more dancey, if you will, with dance moves and lots of those close choppy [...]
In Life, Love, Marriage, Mental Health Break, Sports on
15 February 2010 with 3 comments
I was in the kitchen, setting out the frosting and the jimmies for the cupcakes Ruby and I had just put in the oven, when I heard a couple of heavy thuds come from the front hallway. It was pouring rain, Sam was away for the weekend and my heart had already exploded into a [...]
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8 February 2010 with 9 comments
I decided to go into work a little later than usual because I’d stayed late the day before and because, with imminent pay cuts, my attitude is sour and because I needed to blow off a little steam and, frankly, because I could.
I dropped my kid at school and headed to the gym, where I [...]
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8 July 2009 with 5 comments
Poor Michael Phelps. The guy can’t get a break since he was caught making out with a bong. I find the whole thing to be so utterly ridiculous that I almost want to friend him on Facebook. And I’m not even a fan! Sure, I was enthralled with him back at The Cube. But each [...]
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3 February 2009 with 8 comments
Okay. So. Let’s say that Sam fires up his Mini this weekend, scoots to Las Vegas and places a bet on the Green Bay Packers game this Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. He may drop a few quarters in a slot machine or enjoy a lap dance on the way to the betting office, but [...]
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29 October 2008 with 6 comments
I’m sort of ashamed to admit it but I’ve been sucked into the vortex that is the Olympics. Normally, I skip it because the coverage is too much blatant thought control for this girl. And while I’ve enjoyed much of what I watched this past week and am now officially in training to become Dara [...]
In Sports on
18 August 2008 with 6 comments
Did anyone else spend at least part of their Sunday leaping from the couch while maniacally screaming at their television set?
I watched sports for a better part of this weekend—the second stage of le Tour and the Wimbledon finals—and all I can say is that I was in freakin’ heaven! Give me tennis or give [...]
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6 July 2008 with 7 comments