Christmas present from the Boy: a starburst clock, with tiny mirrors. I like how in this photo you can see the reflection of the plants and paintings across the room.

New Years Resolution: more of THIS!

Speaking of resolutions, we went on our very first run together Saturday morning. That’s right, after 6 loooooong years: running together. “We stiiiiiiiiiiill together!”

By running I mean we walked (with the dogs) and every so often we’d jog very slowly for a minute. This is how you start running, if you are not a runner.

The Boy is a very good coach–he kept telling me to run slower (I like that) and there was no pressure, none at all. Nothing like running the mile in high school, which always brings to my mind side stitches and shortness of breath and dizzy spells and lower body pain. None of that!

To compliment my interest in running + interest in mental health without the aid of prescription drugs I picked up the Boy’s copy of “The Athlete’s Way“, which I skimmed before but never read in depth. “Sweat and the biology of bliss” is the tagline…yes please!

Ah, here’s an article the author of the book, Christopher Bergland, published today on “Psychology Today” called “Let’s Not Get Panicky“. Gee, is that timely or what?

The Boy told me to act like Greg the flamboyant kid for this photo, so I did. That comes easily.

“Vampires” is an unusual and witty Belgian mockumentary about a family of vampires–the patriarch George, his wife Bertha and their two teenage children. The teenage daughter dresses in pink, files down her fangs and wants desperately to be human.

Their son, Samson, has an indiscretion with the lead vampire’s wife and the whole family is forced to move to Canada, where they find life extremely hard except Samson, who thrives as a street performer. I won’t give any more away–you just have to watch it. It’s rare to find a good mockumentary, and we’ve seen a lot of bad ones–but “Vampires” gets it right. I had zero interest in watching yet another vampire movie but this one sucked me right in. Get it? Ah hahahhaaa.