Anyway, it was an amazing game. Here are some photos:
Stars Shan (pronounced "Shane") Foster and Andrew Ogilvy after the game.
The MAGICAL Memorial Gymnasium
Shan with the fans... :)
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Go DORES!!!
In case you haven't heard (and I can't imagine why you haven't, my dearest blog reader...who is probably my mom or my aunt and not the least bit interested in sports), Vanderbilt beat #1 ranked arch rivals Tennessee in basketball on Tuesday night!!!! No, I'm not exaggerating, that's the color of the Tennessee jerseys.
Anyway, it was an amazing game. Here are some photos:
Stars Shan (pronounced "Shane") Foster and Andrew Ogilvy after the game.
The MAGICAL Memorial Gymnasium
Shan with the fans... :)
Anyway, it was an amazing game. Here are some photos:
Stars Shan (pronounced "Shane") Foster and Andrew Ogilvy after the game.The MAGICAL Memorial Gymnasium
Shan with the fans... :)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Why I miss the midwest!
My mom sent me these pictures this morning. New York NEVER looks this pretty with snow!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Coffee addicts, I have big news....
Starbucks offers refills at the same store within an hour for $0.30!! Who knew?
Taking on on cue from a homeless man that I saw do this last week, I returned to my friendly 81st and Colombus Starbucks this morning after having gotten on on coffee just on on while earlier. Since I had just finished the first glass and was needing on on second to keep me warm, I took my used cup up to the counter. I explained that I had just bought on on cup about an hour ago and was wondering if I could get on on discounted rate. The kind barista informed me that I could if it was the same store within any hour. Well, I had just estimated an hour (it had actually been an hour and a half) but he still gave it to me. So here I sit on the subway (I'm typing this blog on my BlackBerry) sipping away at $0.54 worth of Starbucks, for once not conscious that every sip is worth on on quarter!!
Another interesting story that evolves from this new discovery. I was so focused on drinking my discount coffee and reading my People Magazine that I somehow failed to notice that I got on the 3 rather than the 1 train at 79th street (the 3 isn't even supposed to stop there, may I add) and took it all the way to the end before I realized it. In fact, I only figured it out because after the train arrived at the last stop, the other passengers all got off, and the doors closed me in, some kind woman knocked on the car window to tell me Id end up in the train parking garage if I didn't get out!! Luckily any MTA worker was walking by and rescued me!
And so now I'm late for the Vanderbilt basketball game...ugh.
Go Dores!
Taking on on cue from a homeless man that I saw do this last week, I returned to my friendly 81st and Colombus Starbucks this morning after having gotten on on coffee just on on while earlier. Since I had just finished the first glass and was needing on on second to keep me warm, I took my used cup up to the counter. I explained that I had just bought on on cup about an hour ago and was wondering if I could get on on discounted rate. The kind barista informed me that I could if it was the same store within any hour. Well, I had just estimated an hour (it had actually been an hour and a half) but he still gave it to me. So here I sit on the subway (I'm typing this blog on my BlackBerry) sipping away at $0.54 worth of Starbucks, for once not conscious that every sip is worth on on quarter!!
Another interesting story that evolves from this new discovery. I was so focused on drinking my discount coffee and reading my People Magazine that I somehow failed to notice that I got on the 3 rather than the 1 train at 79th street (the 3 isn't even supposed to stop there, may I add) and took it all the way to the end before I realized it. In fact, I only figured it out because after the train arrived at the last stop, the other passengers all got off, and the doors closed me in, some kind woman knocked on the car window to tell me Id end up in the train parking garage if I didn't get out!! Luckily any MTA worker was walking by and rescued me!
And so now I'm late for the Vanderbilt basketball game...ugh.
Go Dores!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Yes, I know, another post in the same day...it gets old
If you've followed my blog at all you know me...when I post once, I usually post about 3 times. Well this will be a quick one...
I just wanted to let you all know that I am about to start doing something again that I'm pretty sure I promised you I would never do...and I'm so excited!!! I can't believe how quickly it has come again, but today I signed up for an information session to become a mentor with Team In Training.
That's right, I'm running another Marathon!!!
I really wasn't expecting to ever do this again, but watching the New York City marathon last year totally gave me the bug. So...starting late this spring I'll be the leader of a little mentor group (much like my mentor Deb, aka Den Mom was for me last year) of 12 or so folks training for their first marathon!! I'll be raising money (though not quite as much, don't worry!) again and training while helping others raise money for a great cause: The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!!!
Stay tuned, I'm sure you'll be hearing much more about this!
I just wanted to let you all know that I am about to start doing something again that I'm pretty sure I promised you I would never do...and I'm so excited!!! I can't believe how quickly it has come again, but today I signed up for an information session to become a mentor with Team In Training.
That's right, I'm running another Marathon!!!
I really wasn't expecting to ever do this again, but watching the New York City marathon last year totally gave me the bug. So...starting late this spring I'll be the leader of a little mentor group (much like my mentor Deb, aka Den Mom was for me last year) of 12 or so folks training for their first marathon!! I'll be raising money (though not quite as much, don't worry!) again and training while helping others raise money for a great cause: The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!!!
Stay tuned, I'm sure you'll be hearing much more about this!
Vacation to Miami!
Whew! It's been a busy couple of weeks for me and I'm sorry for not blogging!! It started a couple of weeks ago when Taylor and I headed down to Nashville for the weekend of the 9th to attend the wedding of our friends. In fact, and I don't mean to brag, I actually introduced the happy couple! That's right, my friend, Helen, married Taylor's friend Jim (whom I knew through Taylor at the time) at a bar our senior year of college. Well they through a fantastic wedding and reception in Nashville and it was so much fun to go down there and see all our college friends (on both sides of the relationship...mine and his).
THEN...no sooner did I get back on Sunday then I left again Thursday night (after a brief, but very enjoyable Valentine's dinner with Taylor) for a weekend in Miami!! Some of my best friends from Nashville met up down in Miami where our friend Brittany is a teacher for a weekend of fun in the sun. I guess the real purpose of the trip was to run a half marathon on Sunday morning in Ft. Lauderdale. Brittany and I were running and our friends Kim and Candace came down to cheer us on. It was a delightful surprise though that the weather was gorgeous (80 and sunny) every day and we had time to lay out on the beach and go out at night without a winter coat (a nice switch from New York!).
The race was a lot of fun, although I didn't get quite as good of a time as I would have liked. Currently, my half marathon times (in order of when I did them) are:
1:57:54
1:55:48
1:55:53
1:58:33
and now this one was 1:56:19. Not awful, because it certainly wasn't my worst, but I had really felt like it might be my best. The course was really flat and it was a beautiful route along the beach in Ft. Lauderdale, but some pain in my toes (cause...of all things...by a dreadful parking experience the day before that left my toes a little blistered) and some pretty insane wind in the last 2 miles really slowed me down. Not to mention they hadn't really marked the 13 mile marker...which is key when you have to do 13.1...oh well...it was still fun. I have to say my biggest complaint is that because the race had a marathon and a half marathon component, they had to start it SUPER early to look out for the marathoners who would be out into the late morning in the Florida sun. The race actually started at 6am!!!! Yeah....so after running 13.1 before 8am, we hit the beach and proceeded to go out the next night until 3:15am. THEN, I had to get up at 5:45am to catch a plane back to New York. So my 26 or so hours looked like this:
4:45am Sunday - wake up
6:00 - 8:00am - 13.1 miles
8:00-10:am - cheer for other runners
10:00am-12:00pm - eat!
12:00pm-3:00pm - beach
3:00pm-6:00pm - rest, shower, get ready for the evening
6:00pm-3:00am - OUT in Ft. Lauderdale (many beers, but also a lot of water was consumed, resulting in surprisingly little headache/hangover)
3:15-5:45am Monday - sleep
5:45am - UP again for a 7:10am flight to New York
Yeah...so needless to say I was a smidge tired (read: completely out of it!) on Monday when I arrived home and spent most of the day sleeping at Taylor's house. In fact, I was so out of it (and had no voice from being out the night before) that I decided to stay home from work on Tuesday to recover. I called in Tuesday morning and then proceeded to get sicker as the day progressed on Tuesday! WHAT? So here I am Thursday night, finally getting over a little cold and hoping to go for a run in the morning.
But New York is supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow in the next 36 hours so that might not happen....welcome back from Vacation, I suppose!!!
THEN...no sooner did I get back on Sunday then I left again Thursday night (after a brief, but very enjoyable Valentine's dinner with Taylor) for a weekend in Miami!! Some of my best friends from Nashville met up down in Miami where our friend Brittany is a teacher for a weekend of fun in the sun. I guess the real purpose of the trip was to run a half marathon on Sunday morning in Ft. Lauderdale. Brittany and I were running and our friends Kim and Candace came down to cheer us on. It was a delightful surprise though that the weather was gorgeous (80 and sunny) every day and we had time to lay out on the beach and go out at night without a winter coat (a nice switch from New York!).
The race was a lot of fun, although I didn't get quite as good of a time as I would have liked. Currently, my half marathon times (in order of when I did them) are:
1:57:54
1:55:48
1:55:53
1:58:33
and now this one was 1:56:19. Not awful, because it certainly wasn't my worst, but I had really felt like it might be my best. The course was really flat and it was a beautiful route along the beach in Ft. Lauderdale, but some pain in my toes (cause...of all things...by a dreadful parking experience the day before that left my toes a little blistered) and some pretty insane wind in the last 2 miles really slowed me down. Not to mention they hadn't really marked the 13 mile marker...which is key when you have to do 13.1...oh well...it was still fun. I have to say my biggest complaint is that because the race had a marathon and a half marathon component, they had to start it SUPER early to look out for the marathoners who would be out into the late morning in the Florida sun. The race actually started at 6am!!!! Yeah....so after running 13.1 before 8am, we hit the beach and proceeded to go out the next night until 3:15am. THEN, I had to get up at 5:45am to catch a plane back to New York. So my 26 or so hours looked like this:
4:45am Sunday - wake up
6:00 - 8:00am - 13.1 miles
8:00-10:am - cheer for other runners
10:00am-12:00pm - eat!
12:00pm-3:00pm - beach
3:00pm-6:00pm - rest, shower, get ready for the evening
6:00pm-3:00am - OUT in Ft. Lauderdale (many beers, but also a lot of water was consumed, resulting in surprisingly little headache/hangover)
3:15-5:45am Monday - sleep
5:45am - UP again for a 7:10am flight to New York
Yeah...so needless to say I was a smidge tired (read: completely out of it!) on Monday when I arrived home and spent most of the day sleeping at Taylor's house. In fact, I was so out of it (and had no voice from being out the night before) that I decided to stay home from work on Tuesday to recover. I called in Tuesday morning and then proceeded to get sicker as the day progressed on Tuesday! WHAT? So here I am Thursday night, finally getting over a little cold and hoping to go for a run in the morning.
But New York is supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow in the next 36 hours so that might not happen....welcome back from Vacation, I suppose!!!
Going to blog more tomorrow
But I thought I'd post a link to some photos from my fun weekend in Miami last weekend in the meantime!!!
http://vanderbilt.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2094241&l=68356&id=4700966
Enjoy :)
http://vanderbilt.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2094241&l=68356&id=4700966
Enjoy :)
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Giants Win the Super Bowl!!!!
In case you haven't heard: The Giants Won the Super Bowl on Sunday!!
Not only is this very exciting since Taylor is a fan and I have wholeheartedly adopted the Giants as my NFL team (I even drafted Eli Manning as my quarterback in Fantasy football this year, which should earn me some respect despite my many losses this season, attributable at least in part **ahem** to my quarterback's poor performance...but that's water under the bridge). Eli stepped up in the post-season, proving himself to be much more talented and consistent than we ever dreamed possible.
Of course Eli didn't win the Super Bowl himself. There was the go-ahead touchdown catch by Plaxico Burress, a critical first down to Amani Toomer, some sweet pressure by Tuck, Alford, and Strahan on defense, the Shockey-like performance of Boss, and - probably the greatest football play I've ever seen - the almost-sacked Manning's connection with David Tyree, who caught the ball between his hands and his helmet. What a great game!! Here are a few photos:
Monday, February 04, 2008
Change of a dress....
Well, I did as I normally do....I went with a cheaper dress for the wedding next weekend. But...the good news is I really like this one too!
Except mine is navy blue. It's pretty :-)
Except mine is navy blue. It's pretty :-)
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