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Growing Like a Weed + Actual Running

Lucy is now 15 months old. When the hell did that happen? We had her well baby visit yesterday and she’s good on all fronts. 32″ tall (95th percentile) 22lb 11oz (50th percentile…happy to see her put on some weight) and 75% in head (she must have gotten some of Jason and some of me [...]

A New Running Life

Look over there on the right and you’ll see that its’ not 0 for the week or the month. YAY. Small. Small. Teeny. Tiny. Steps.

I used to be able to run 3 laps around the ring at Fermilab. Sometimes I would do that run at like 2 in the morning. Ok, so what. So I [...]

The End of an Era

Well. Lucy is weened. 100% done.

Holy crap.

Do you know that she will be a year old next week. I found out I was pregnant at the end of March last year, so really for the past 20 months or so I have in some way been physically connected to her. Lucy has always been more [...]

Working Remotely, Knitting and Other Stuff

So Fermilab is cool right? It’s also about an hour away from my apartment. And so part of the deal of this new jobs is I get to work at Northwestern some days a week which is a very nice commute for me. No more shoving myself onto the el like a sardine! Yay! Win!

However. [...]

Changes

Everyone says, “It’ll change when the baby comes. You’ll see.” I get a lot of “You’ll see”. I don’t like it. I’ll see what? Why won’t people let me figure it out for myself. I’m sure they are right, and I’ll see whatever it is they are talking about. But maybe I’ll have a different [...]

Mother’s Day!

What a wonderful weekend! Saturday was pretty relaxed…or must have been because I can’t really remember what we did. I think we went running….but yeah don’t really remember. So let’s just talk about Sunday. Quickly because it’s almost time for working time.

Sunday I woke up at 5 and tried something new. Instead of waiting for [...]

Weekly Roundup

So what’s all this talk about software and knitting and baby Lucy and whatever else? Isn’t this a running blog?

Wait…what is this blog?

I started this blog back in grad school when Jason and I had desks in the basement of the D-Zero detector building, right next to the machine. Seriously. We had nothing, no phone, [...]

The Schedule I'd Like to Keep

So. I’m a busy person. I have a ton of hobbys, obviously a new mom and then of course the 9-5 job. SO since I’ve come back to work I’ve been trying to fit in all the following things:

photography
knitting
work
practice for work
parenting
running
reading
blogging

That’s eight things that really could be full time work (well maybe not running…well if [...]

Busy Awesome Weekend. Plus Pictures!

Wow. What an incredible weekend. On Friday afternoon my Dad and Sue brought Lucy downtown and met Jason and I for lunch. Which was awesome. Lucy liked the park and the big fountains. And we liked seeing her in the middle of the day.

The three of us. On a wonderful Friday afternoon.

Grids, Socks and Cleaning!

So today is Friday, by far my favorite day of the week. At work there is talk of some redesign for our site. Where this time we will for real follow a grid system. I hopefully will really be able to work on this and then I can get my, “NO.” on when people are [...]