the stories

after spending a couple hours in an assisted living space last week, i thought about growing old and the friends you will make when you are 80. i imagine it will be nice to have someone to be with at that point in life. someone you just met - so all you do together is talk about your lives. imagine spending your time with someone, telling all of the amazing stories of life to each other. its pretty much all you can do at that point anyway. eat sleep talk walk (maybe).

we let our hair grow long, and forget all we used to know

this cover by Ane Brun reminds of the time i heard a snippet of the arcade fire, and as a result, was immediately obsessed. i had to have their cd - but i think my ipod was broken at the time, so i had to look for it in CD format - or maybe they weren't on itunes yet? i don't recall, but i do recall finding it very difficult to locate the cd format of the album. i called all of the record shops in manhattan, until i finally found a copy - at that shop down in the east village right by nyu off broadway on like 11th?? it was across from the tower records (no longer exists). anyway - it was raining like crazy that day - it was a friday.
after work i went downtown to buy the album. there were only like 3 copies, and the record store kid was so excited someone had heard about the arcade fire. makes me laugh because they aren't any kind of secret, and never really intended to be a secret. anyway, i bought the cd, put it in my cd player, and rode the M4 bus all the way uptown in the rain, back to my apartment.


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xfit

I never talk about crossfit, but it was one of my favorite things of 2011 - one of the best years of my life so far! Here are a few pics from the other day - it was the last workout in the crossfit games open. I attend the gym in san rafael called Tamalpais Crossfit. If you live in San Rafael, and want to join a great crew - ask me for more info!



ryan, originally uploaded by hellodeer.
one of my crossfit friends from 2011

Obligatory Action Shot

Drew - a real sweetheart

One of my coaches: Michael

Ali & Kevin met at my birthday party last year. I kind of feel responsible for their happiness now. :)

And of course staci - a badass new friend who joined the games on a whim - as you can see its really popular to attend the workouts (only during the open.) 

moleskine dump

trip carpenter

le truck

cutester

rick lee

its weird that people eat things that are stackable

born round

i woke up to giants & twins in overtime, catching flyballs in the streets of minneapolis

count basie lil' darlin'

taming your gremlin

waltons sawhorse

del carnegie

garden secrets

the older i get the more i travel the less i know

duckboy

sloane crosley

limitless

a childrens story about a new york city horse.

dream where it was all a game and i was trying to get something.

i don't smoke in my 30's, 40's & 50's, so i can smoke when i don't care: 20's, 60's, 70's.

8 year olds

a couple weeks ago, I was watching K, E, T & J. lots of little buggers. we were planning on going on a little hike - but the eldest: K - was kind of having a "moment". 

She was hiding throughout the house - as she put it she needed space. 
I'm all about that, and told her I respect her space, etc. but I was babysitting - so every 15-20 minutes, T & J & I would go around the house looking for her just to make sure she was still in the house and everything was fine.

At one point it took us 30 minutes to find her - finally hiding in an attic I didn't know existed.

K: I thought you said I could have space!
A: There are parameters within your space.

E (the 8 year old):  ha ha. you said there are parameters in space.