Newsy Update!

Other than my ceiling collapse, what’s new with me?

Still jobless, which kind of sucks, since I think Brian is starting to tire of my constant be-slippered presence in our house.

I started running. I know, people. Marie? Cardio? WTF? My preferred form of exercise is yoga, and apparently there aren’t any places looking for dedicated bathroom-swabbers in exchange for free classes that I can find (Boston peeps: Karma Yoga Studio in Harvard Square is always looking for reliable cleaners/desk people in exchange for some free/super cheap yoga classes and gym use. It’s one of the places I miss most, full of great people, great baked goods and all-around positive energy. Patronize!). We went to a class with Alex, a fine young lady I met while training for an SAT-prep gig (coincidentally, she spent some time in Boston and was also a Karma devotee. Small, teeny world!). Anyway, I’m out of shape and my hammies were reminding me of that fact for DAYS after we finished the class. So in the interest of returning to an exercise routine that makes me look good in a bathing suit, I took up the Couch to 5k program I read about over at Whoorl (go! Sarah is cute and awesome!). It’s an interval program, where a guy on a podcast encourages you to go! speed up! slow down! brisk walk! over some really cheeseball club music.  Anyway, it’s pretty easy, and I have the time, and also it would be nice to be able to run 3 miles. So, I’m giving it a shot. I’m telling you in the hopes that if I  make this knowledge public, someone is going to hold me accountable, say to me, gosh, how’s that running thing going?

We’ve been taking a few day trips here and there, and went to Palo Alto this past week. Such a cute little town, with an absolutely breathakingly awesome bookstore, Bell’s Books (70 years!), where I got this super-cute reusable book bag and a vintage volume of Emily Dickinson:

I love Emily Dickinson, and may, just MAY, get some verses added to my Harper Lee/Sylvia Plath tattoo love fest. 3 Cheers for awesome lady writers! I want to get a Flannery O’Connor one too, girlfriend is working with a theme up in here.

Brian was good about letting me browse the shops there (so many things to touch!) and even made a special pit stop into Anthropologie, where his head didn’t even explode with all the cute/expensive things!

Palo Alto has a lovely little downtown with lots of fun restaurants (try Sprout if you’re there, AMAZING salad). I think it’ll probably become a destination for when we have people come visit. We checked out Stanford University, which didn’t make me long for the hallowed halls of academe like Berkeley does, but sure was pretty:

I did some baking (satisfactory but not stellar blueberry muffins), and am going to attempt another round of homemade pizza crust, sure to make your mouth water.

My goals for this week are to get some artwork up on the walls, and hopefully to get our ceiling replastered. We may get some visitors this weekend too, which would be the absolute tops.

Seacrest out.