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Author: Kris

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Silly Kris. Here I am RATIONING my precious soy sauce for my sushi rolls, when there were two more little plastic fishes hiding in the bag!

    Heaven help us. I have just bought the Glee iPhone app: http://bit.ly/9JRzPk. Knitting camp next weekend is gonna be AUTOTUNED AWESOMENESS.

    RT @venks79: ANZ Bank trials mobile ePOS http://bit.ly/acluXf

    @gilmae Just wait til @randomknits and I start doing iPhone karaoke duets over the Internets. (OMIGOD, IS THIS THE FUTURE OR WHAT?!)

    @gilmae Crap. Must pay off remained of student loan NOW or I’m gonna get screwed.

    @randomknits Holy crap. If St Brigid has one, I’ll lose it too. That’s ridiculously bad!

    @randomknits I was tempted to click Love for you, if only because there’s no EFFING APPALLING button. 🙁

    Dinner: Cincinnati Chili 3-ways. Yum. http://bit.ly/5MgoHr

    Hairdresser. I feel the need for a drastic change.

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Off to the hair salon. I feel a big change a-comin’.

  • Further evidence of my inability to say “no”

    Last night was our building’s Strata AGM. You’ll recall that last year the Snook put up his hand to be on the Committee. He was going to do the same this year, but he caught a cold yesterday and didn’t feel up to going. So I went along without him and put his name forward as before. Then it came time to elect the officebearers, and the outgoing chairperson really wanted to hand over to somebody else. No one volunteered. I eventually called the Snook to see if he was willing, but he really didn’t want to do it. That’s when my neighbour Mark (the treasurer) said, “Why don’t you do it, Kris?” Oh balls. Sure, why not take on ANOTHER extracurricular activity?! So not only did I get put on the Committee in the Snook’s place, I got installed as the bloody chairperson. I’ve never done this before.

  • Fireball!

    Ooh, did anybody in Indiana see the flaming meteorite?

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Runningblog: Week 15. An update on this week’s training, including my longest run in two years! http://bit.ly/aKWfvb

    @FryingPan Unfortunately not! Not my area of town. Delivery will be difficult though; it’s not as prominent here as in L.A…

    No knitting for me tonight; it’s Strata AGM time. Joy.

    Holy hell. I’ve just been elected chairperson of the strata committee. That was unplanned.

    @knitterjp @drkknits @mrs_sockvictim @tinkabel Thanks guys! It wasn’t quite the plan, but I’ll do my best.

    @mrs_sockvictim FATTY-BOOMBA-LATTIES! I don’t think Petey can be more than 4kg!

    @tytana_ The strata is the committee in charge of the building that our unit is in. We had our AGM tonight, and now I’m the boss!

    I weighed Petey this morning: 5.3kg. So heavier than I thought! (Dr Amy came in at 7.1kg.)

    I just unlocked the “Babysitter” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/diwDyN

    I just unlocked the “Photogenic” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/bxoQjj

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Just completed a 6.91 km run with RunKeeper

  • Ebert hated Kick-Ass.

    Ebert hated Kick-Ass. That disappoints me a little bit, but I can see where he comes from. I still want to see it again. It kicked ass.

    Edited to add: But Margaret Pomeranz loved it. HA! I love it when she accuses David Stratton of becoming “this conservative person.”

  • Top 5 Financial Goals

    Top 5: Financial Goals All Men Should Make. It’s good advice for anybody, actually. The Snook and I have made a concerted effort to get our financial lives in order over the past couple years. Once my student loan is paid off (which should be happening very soon), all of our debts besides the mortgage will be gone. We’ve got an emergency fund squirreled away; and we both have superannuation funds. (Not that there’s anything special about that; pretty much everyone in Australia has them.) So that’s 4-out-of-5 right there. Anyone want to recommend some good life insurance?

  • RunningBlog: Week 15

    Less than five weeks til the Half Marathon! I received my bib number (#3516) and timing chip in the mail this week. EXCITEMENT. My training has been going well. I mentioned last week that I had a slight speed increase, and that seems to have stuck around. On Sunday I did my longest run in nearly two years: 19km (12 miles)! That one was slow and steady, but it was also on a very warm and sunny day. Yesterday’s run was on a much cooler morning, and I found my pace naturally picked up a bit. I also managed two workouts at Spudds this week that have left my abs feeling beat-up. In terms of actual injuries, my right arch continues to improve. I had some foot stiffness and pain after the long run, but it was actually towards the outside of my foot (where the bone scan had previously shown some inflammation). I’ve been putting anti-inflammatory gel on that and I’ll probably ice it too. I’ve still got one long run to go two weeks before the race: 22.5km (14 miles). That will actually be my longest run EVER! But I’ve got two recovery/speed weeks in the meantime…

    April 9: 6.02km
    April 11: 19.02km
    April 14: 5.83km
    Total this week: 30.87km (19.3mi)
    Total in 2010: 312.48km (195.3mi)

    To meet my goal of running 1000km in 2010, I should be at 288.5km right now. So I’ve built up another cushion!

    One thing that’s worrying me is that I’ve entered the Sickness Danger Zone. With both of my previous half-marathons, I’ve caught colds a few weeks out from the race. It’s been really frustrating. I’d speculate that the training is causing me to become a little immuno-compromised. So here I am once again, and this morning the Snook tells me he’s got a sore throat. ACK. How do I keep from getting sick? Obviously sleep and being hydrated are important, so I’m working on those. Is it worth taking any extra vitamins? (I’m guessing it’ll probably only be a placebo at best.) Our office flu shot is coming up. Should I get it? I know it’s not supposed to make you sick, but maybe I’m a little more vulnerable than usual right now? And this paranoia isn’t helping…

  • How to Run the Boston Marathon

    How to Run the Boston Marathon (PDF). Great tips for any distance race about finding the sweet spot that will allow you to finish with power and speed.