Tag: jetta

  • My Jetta is dead.

    I didn’t find out until today, although in all honesty I’m not sure I could have admitted this until I heard it for real. Jetta, my 2003 Volkswagen Mark IV Jetta GLS, is dead. She was killed on Wednesday night by a Hope College student who didn’t check her blind spot before changing lanes, and…

  • How a month flies by

    I knew I hadn’t posted in a while, but a month? Really? I feel like that’s a bit on the extreme side. Calendars don’t lie, though, so I suppose it really has been that long. So it’s been a busy month. Work has been crazy busy; Friday was the quietest I’ve seen things in weeks.…

  • Runfos and Carfos

    I’ve been getting into the whole running thing a bit lately and last night I decided to take a chance and go on a run with a friend. I hadn’t gone for a run in a couple of years now, and I had never attempted a 3 mile run before; I figured that since I…

  • Birch Run and Relativistic Speeds

    Today was the epic Birch Run adventure. I had been planning to go on a trip like this since last September and had used it as a motivator to get my ass to the fitness center when it was cold outside at 5:30 in the morning. I chose the outlet mall at Birch Run over…

  • There’s no denying it anymore.

    I woke up this morning to find three inches of snow on the ground, and went to Weather.com to find a staple of Decembers in Michigan along the lake: a Lake Effect Snow Warning. Lovely. I really do like the snow. It’s pretty, it helps make the day a bit brighter, and it gives the…

  • In case you were wondering…

    …I’m still suffering from CMS.  Except on mornings when I have to get up and go to work.  Those mornings I’m a little less motivated, but I’m starting to have trouble remembering which day it really is. IKEA day was today.  I didn’t have access to anything big enough to move the larger pieces of…