Courtenay Brown

I am now relaxing and saying OM and purging myself of all inclinations to rant, bite heads, and cause my face to get red and my brow to furrow.My sister is forgiven. Apparently she was in the car with my mom and had been napping and my mom made her wake up and answer my mom's cell phone since my mom was too busy driving, so I can't say I blame her for being bratty. Shoes arrived. Our UPS lady is nice and in no way emblematic of the occasional mindlessness of her company.Better yet: shoes fit. Thusly I am less worried about having to send back the other new in-transit purchases. HOWEVER, the ...

I still hate everything, including and especially UPS at the moment. But, life must go on, so after biting the heads off of:-Road Runner Sports, for being the middleman-My sister, for being unsympathetic and square and curt and mean and for generally existing-Road Runner Sports again, for not having several models of shoes in my size-My Neighbors, for having a big loud truck and driving it in and out of the parking lot a kabillion times and thus making me leap up from work a kabillion times to see if UPS was really here which they really weren't-Greg, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time (i.e. in ...

I AM SO FRUSTRATED.Incline Village is Stupid.Specifically, it's stupid because the mailmen are either lazy or scared of the snow or too busy skiing/buying cheesy paintings of the lake/taking their dumb grandkids to play on the dumb lobster. Because for some obnoxious reason, the mailmen DON'T DELIVER MAIL to a lot of the houses and apartments here. You have to get a P.O. BOX if you want to get mail.But you can't get other delivery services to put stuff in your P.O. BOX. No way. You have to get that at your house, a.k.a. your SHIPPING ADDRESS, where you can't get mail.To further complicate matters, unless you want to pay ...

Lately, I have been *fighting* the mysterious urge to remove my swimsuit in the pool.Finish workout and cool-down, stop at wall, take off goggles, take off hat, take off swimsuit, get out of pool.That's somehow what my body wants to do. Fortunately/unfortunately for the old folks usually doing water aerobics nearby, I have stopped myself from completing that penultimate step. And yes I stole the word "penultimate" from Phil and Paul's Tour de France broadcasts.

There are several vocab words that I like but that Greg says are downright wrong. I call my "swim cap" my hat, my "helmet" is also my hat, all "shoes" are sneakers, including cycling sneakers, and "uniforms" are outfits. He does not condone my use of these words. Yet recently Greg and I were watching the movie Hoosiers and during one of the scenes...Me: Is that their home outfit or their away outfit?Him: I think they only have one outfit. Me: HAHAHA you said "outfit"!!!Him: Well that's what it is, isn't it? Their outfit?Me: You are a boy, you are supposed to call it a "uniform".Him: -resigned embarrassed silence-And ...

Actually, this post is round 2 of my favourite job candidate responses:I would like to send in my resume for this pay rate….I will travel but not to Tennessee….I prefer the beach work site….I like to look at men….

see more crazy cat picsok for some reason i can't get it to look right on my screen... the full caption is "yup - i'm in hell"

Today I rode outside! Starting from the Trader Joe's in Carson City, which is about 25 miles from our place in Incline Village and about 1,500' lower in elevation, heading South along Jack's Valley Road through Genoa (Nevada's first settlement, established in 1851 - it's actually pretty cute!), down to Fredericksburg Road, Emigrant Trail, and turning around just past Woodford.My plan to find the 7 (or 5) Peaks of Incline this week was thwarted by a couple days of snow and wintry temps and I wound up riding inside for most of my workouts. But my limit on the trainer is not high now that Spring feels so imminent - I already did one hard trainer ...

This is the 500th post I have written since I started this blog in May of 2006... Since today can be summarized in just a few words (overslept, it's snowing, s'posed to snow more, kitty says hi), today's post will instead be a little Courtenay's Blog Recap for those of you who weren't here from the beginning (which is probably everyone except my mom... took me a while to start posting daily with gory details all about my fascinating life!)-I got engaged. (warning: from a gossip standpoint, it's all downhill from here...)-I got famous.-I stopped being engaged.-I started documenting conversations with Mom. (see more ...

For those of you who were on the edges of your seats regarding my casual survey from a couple of weeks ago: I ordered a camera today! The regular kind, not the kind with a phone attached.Price and functionality won out over convenience and flashiness in this debate. And I even did a little research on my own before I made the purchase! It came down to the Fuji Finepix Z100FD and the Canon Powershot SD850 IS Elph, both of which are 8 megapixel cameras and both of which retail for under $250. I went with the Fuji because it has 5x zoom vs the 4x of the Canon, it weighs 135 grams (sans battery and ...