Hug your pets and listen to this song

Jason Lytle - Ghost of My Old Dog

Yesterday: ran 3 miles

I forgot my watch so I didn't time it, but I felt pretty good.

Left to do this week:
- 3 mile run
- 4 mile run

I did my first 2 training runs for a half-marathon I'm running in February to support a local center that helps Sudanese refugees in Phoenix. (More on that in an upcoming post.) I might start posting about my training runs as a motivational tool for myself.

This week I did:
Fri - 3 miles, not timed
Sat - 4 miles, 37:42

The goal is 10 minute miles or faster for the race. So far so good. I should have done another 3-mile, run but something came up the day I planned to run and it was too close to the end of the week to make it up. So I already skipped my first run. Oops. This is why I need to try to get them done earlier in the week.

Next week is 3 miles, 3 miles, 4 miles again. I'm thinking Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

I'm using this training schedule but doing the runs on whatever days they're convenient.

I feel so good when I'm running.

Tonight we're hosting a screening of "At the End of Slavery," a documentary by the International Justice Mission. They're an awesome organization that works with local law enforcement to rescue young girls from brothels and to rescue men, women and children from forced labor. They do a lot of work in south Asia. The screening is to help raise awareness about the problem and about IJM's work. You can see the trailer here.

You'll also notice I've changed my LiveJournal user name. Time to finally drop the horrid old moniker from high school. Thanks to LiveJournal for allowing user name changes. Last FM needs to get with the game on that one.

How did I miss this amazing Beyonce cover? And could I get away with that haircut?

New post on my Wordpress blog:

how one blogger raised $30,000. yesterday

(At the time I wrote it, he had just raised $30,000 in 18 hours to build a school in Vietnam. Now he's decided to build two and the funds are almost up to $40,000. Very cool.)

Fanfarlo covers Neutral Milk Hotel

Feisty friday fun, part 2 (another of my favorite songs ever)

Feisty friday fun, part 1 (one of my favorite songs ever)

A nice folksy tune to start your week.

This is the first Raveonettes song I ever heard. It got me hooked.