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Two Hundred Fifty.
“Yeah, you should totally try it – it’s a lot of fun!” In January 2012, I was down in the dumps, over-stressed, overweight, and trying to look for a way to get active again. I was tired of not working...
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Two Hundred Fifty One.
Speaking of my love of Pilates, which I mentioned yesterday, here’s a funny story. SIDENOTE: Sometimes my “funny” stories were awful when they happened, but funny to look back on. This one was...
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Two Hundred Fifty Two.
So on Sunday I did something I never really saw myself doing. It’s not something I would have even deemed safe if not for my crazy (loveable) dermatologist telling me to. “Yeah, yeah! Just wait 10 days...
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Two Hundred Fifty Three.
I was totally going to write about something else today, but sometimes the most important lessons in life just walk up to you and smack you in the face. What can I say? I was having a totally normal...
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Two Hundred Fifty Six.
A couple nights ago, I was with my BFF Jo at the gym for a weight-training workout. She wanted to start with a prolonged chunk of time on the elliptical, which I was cool with. It’s been a while since...
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Two Hundred Sixty Three.
I’m in the last couple days of my trip to Toronto, which means that I’ve been digging to the bottom of my tiny little suitcase in haphazard attempts to put outfits together. It’s crazy hot here, so I...
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Two Hundred Sixty Five.
In the near impossible case that you haven’t realized yet, I’m not always the most easy going person in the world. I don’t mean that I’m difficult to get along with or anything, but to use the example...
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Two Hundred Sixty Six.
Wow. Talk about a wild 24 hours. And it hasn’t even been 24 hours yet. Last night was a bit of an adventure, with torrential downpour in Toronto actually causing very serious flooding. That was...
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Two Hundred Sixty Eight.
You know when you plan what you’re going to wear the night before so that you don’t have wardrobe-related meltdown in the morning and then when the morning comes, you basically just force the planned...
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Two Hundred Sixty Nine.
They like to snuggle them. They like to smush their faces into them. They like to sit on top of them, or between them, or just anywhere near them. They like to lick them (which can get weird). On the...
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Two Hundred Seventy.
The other day (like a month or two ago), I was watching that episode of New Girl where everyone “outs” everyone else’s “pogos.” Not sure what a pogo is? So basically, it’s that annoying thing (or...
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Two Hundred Seventy One.
Here’s something I learned last night: don’t watch Girls right before you go to bed. Especially not the end of a season, or better yet, the end of the last season that aired. SIDENOTE: There may be...
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Two Hundred Seventy Two.
So there’s some major construction going on one building over from where I work. It means that in order to get to my office, I need to walk through a wooden tunnel/pedway thing. At the end of the...
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Two Hundred Seventy Three.
Two nights ago, I was at the movies with a friend and decided to flip through one of those magazines they have at the cinema. I got to a page of upcoming movie previews and stopped on one called The To...
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Two Hundred Seventy Four.
You know when you’re walking down the street with friends or something, just doing your own thing, and you walk by another person or group of people and hear someone say something really cliched or...
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Two Hundred Seventy Five.
Look, I’m the first to admit that I have authority issues. Did I ever tell you guys about my awful university drama instructor who called me a “natural dissident” during a yelling match we had? I did,...
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Two Hundred Seventy Six.
As part of my job, I help scientists write papers. It sounds kind of crazy because I have zero knowledge of the science, but on the flip side, a lot of the scientists have zero knowledge of the...
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Two Hundred Seventy Seven.
Here’s the thing: I’ve never really thought about what an MRI is. Maybe that seems crazy, but it’s not something that’s ever really applied to me. So I just assumed it was sort of like an X-Ray. -ish…....
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Two Hundred Eighty.
I’ve been in a bit of a writing slump. “Wait a second, Andrea,” I hear you saying, “don’t you have a 365-day blog?!” Yes. Yes I do. And it’s some of the only writing I’ve found the time to do lately....
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Two Hundred Eighty One.
I promise to read my really terrible novella and divulge the life lessons I glean from it, but… THIS JUST IN. In some ways, I am a super girly girl. In others, I am not. So I was at the drugstore on...
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