the maples that will never be

bring down the april flowers

if you do not invite me to your baby shower. Really. Especially when you know i hate them. Hate playing the games, always involving diapers for some reason. Hate acting like this is where i want to be when i do not see why we can’t just go play pool instead. That is a game, why can’t we play pool as the baby shower game?

If you would not invite me to these baby showers, then i wouldn’t have to come up with some enlightened statement as to why i will not go to post on the evite. All i have now are “no”, “oh god, no” or “are you insane?”. Somehow i do not think any of these are the response you desire. Perhaps the ever popular, “Sorry, i’m washing my hair that night”?

i haven’t been posting. Why? Well…

1. i’ve been training for this
2. which made me buy this*.
3. so icould listen to more of this**, this*** and this when running over 2 hours.
4. then i found this to help me plan and track my runs, and more hours were lost
5. but i have also been doing a bit of this:


yes, they really are that orange

6. and sop has been doing plenty of this:



7. and i even did a little of this:

* not sure how i feel about this, actually. So very ‘branded’. But, it can serve as a memory stick as well, and that is always a bonus. I don’t want to rely on it - I doubt i’ll use it for runs less than 12 miles or so, but i also hope i use it enough to justify spending any money at all on it.
**we went to see Zachary Ross and Barclay Martin at a friend’s house (well, at the house of a friend of a friend, actually) last friday night. Very enjoyable live. Listen to a couple tunes and see what you think…
*** Guster is one of my favorite bands - live or otherwise (by that i mean recorded, not dead).