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Charlotte’s Thunder Road Marathon: My first barefoot 26.2

November 19, 2012By y2kemo

Two runners post marathon — *My sister and I post marathon*

If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don’t have enough goals.
Lou Holtz

At the beginning of the year I set a handful of running goals: run a 5K a month; set a new marathon PR; and run a barefoot half and full marathon. Up until this past weekend I’ve knocked out 10 of 12 5Ks via Anywhere5K, set a marathon PR in Chicago (3:31:25), and ran a barefoot half in Indianapolis.

Since the NYC Marathon fell through, I decided to make Charlotte’s Thunder Road Marathon my first barefoot marathon. As an added bonus, my sister was going to run with me, and I was going to help pace her to a new PR.

How-To: Make the Perfect Greeting Card

July 20, 2012By y2kemo

Trying to find the perfect greeting card is a pain in the dark side of your moon. You’ve got to stand in the greeting card aisle looking at card after card with all the other losers trying to get your names in the relationship history books.

Look moron, it ain’t gonna happen. Not that way. If you want the perfect greeting card, one that will blow the mind of the one you love, hate, is sick, or who did something nice for you, then keep reading.

When you’re done you will share this post. Why? Because this post will make you look like a genius.

Bluegrass Camping at Hagan Stone Park

June 6, 2012By y2kemo

I enjoy camping in “the nature.” Pitch a tent, start a fire, and wait for darkness (and s’mores). On a recent trip to Hagan Stone Park in Pleasant Garden, NC something interesting accompanied the sound of owls hooting and crackling wood—music.

Off in the distance we could hear the makings of a bluegrass band: a mandolin, banjo, 2 acoustics, Dobro, and a
bass fiddle.

Wedding Anniversary Gift Guide by Year

April 18, 2012By y2kemo

Presumed married couple exchanging gifts

Each year for the past six years I’ve been Googling “wedding anniversary gift guide by year” and each year I have to wade through a fillion websites to find the list. Not any more. I culled the Internet and created this post as a reference. More for me than for you, but you’re welcome to use it. And if you have no idea what this whole buying of wedding gift business is, here’s the short version.

Some time ago you got married. Be it last year or 50 years ago you are obligated to buy your spouse a gift. Thankfully, there are options. You can follow Emily Post’s etiquette guide created back in 1922 and get your hubby a traditional gift, you can opt for a more modern approach, or you can go with jewelry and/or flowers.

Bottom line. Ladies and dudes, you need to get your lifer a gift and here’s a list to make it easy.

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