Blue Lollipop Road

frozen pavement thoughts

During my run just now, the usual 56,000 things per minute flood my brain. Here are some fun ones I will share:

1.) When there is massive credit card debt in America and people claim they can’t pay their bills and never have any time off, why have they gone out and purchased plastic reindeer, giant bows and blow-up snowmen costing god knows what to fill their front yards?

2.) Of those homes with enormous displays of holiday yard art in attempt for lovely decor, why have they then left dilapidated cars, boxes/bags of trash and rotten old plants littering their yards too?

3.) If the “American Dream” is so dreamy, then why is the divorce rate in this country above 50%, why are homes still being foreclosed left and right and why do so many people say they hate their jobs or bosses and if they “had the chance” to quit and do something- anything else, they would?

4.) Boy I’d like to get a pedicure sometime soon.

5.) Running in frigid temperatures sucks. This is why I vowed I’d NEVER complain about the heat. 105 degrees with 100% humidity? Bring it.

6.) I can’t help it. love that Mariah Carey song; All I Want For Christmas Is You

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meet ben

Ben is a friend of a friend. When I was in Seattle this summer, our mutual friend put us in touch, so he and I met for lunch. After lunch he was kind enough to tour me around the city (Have you seen that amazing library?!) Ben just so happened to have blue hair (how cool is that?)- so naturally we had to take a photo next to the BLR Mobile:

Blue hair and Blue Lollipop Road!

People like Ben make me happy. He volunteered to take a few hours out of his work day to show off his city to me, a perfect stranger. This is what awesomely generous, cool and fun people do because they appreciate adventure and curiosity a much as I do.

To Ben:

1,000 apologies for being incredibly late on this post! Thanks for offering yourself to be in the story of my great 2010 Alaskan adventure. I’m still smiling.

Is the hair still blue?

To E.V.:

Thanks for the introduction. When are we having hot chocolate?

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blue lollipop road~ phase two

*Blog writing for over two years…check.
*50 states, 13 countries and a million adventures…check, check.
*Goals, ideas and other forming as all of this was happening…check, check, check. (You didn’t think this was all for nothing did you? 🙂

The construction vehicles are coming out, face lifts are happening as we speak and surprises are around the corner.

See you soon to fill you in…

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method to the madness

I love it when the word of the day that pops in my inbox fits impeccably into what I’m living at the moment. This just in:

Word of the Day for Friday, December 3, 2010

divagate DAHY-vuh-geyt, verb:

1. To wander; stray.
2. To digress in speech.

But, vague vagabond, you will seem to divagate, while in reality you will keep both eyes open and your ears pricked.
— Umberto Eco, William Weaver, The Island of the Day Before

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