1. My new van which I love and is everything I wanted, my new van which I have made exactly ONE payment on, was brutally rear-ended on Wednesday night. Lord knows if/when I will get it back.....

2. My dog, my show dog, has these little spots all over the insides of his ears and is losing more and more hair on the sides and back of his ears. I can add or subtract weight and groom for this or that, but I cannot create the illusion of hair where there is none!

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I'm staying home this summer with my son. It's the first time we've been together nonstop since he was about 6 months old. Usually, given any chunk of time together we drive each other crazy.

The first 4 weeks were fine. Then we went on vacation together, which was fine. When I came back, I started to go a little stir-crazy, like I've got this extra appendage or something I just can't shake. Yes, I'll say it: I was sick of spending time with my son. I was sick of not having...

All I ever seem to write about, whenever I bother to update this thing, is exercise. That's pretty much the only interesting thing in my life right now.

On May 31st I did my 3rd 10k of the year. I can't believe I've done 3 of them so far! I was totally unprepared for that run, so I didn't have any time goals. I just wanted to finish. It was one of the hottest days of the year so far, so I was totally sweating even before the race started. It was a gorgeous day, and we...