Wait, it's March already?

Well hello there, 2012.

I’m still here, still working, still running, and still grateful. And still committed to keeping up with the blog. For the first post of the year, I give you these fine moments that have happened since we last spoke:

From the mouth of Senior Sign Designer:
bebe Me, you are like the little sister that I never wanted.

An exchange with my marvelously marvelous father. Oh my, but everybody should have a father like mine:
HIM (looking as if he’d been thinking about asking me this for a while): So… how exactly do you send a text?

ME: Oh, well. I mean, it’s like an email. You know. You just type a message and hit send.

Long, thoughtful pause (same look as above, slightly intensified)

HIM: But, do you have to use a-

Thoughtful pause.

HIM: different language?

At dinner with my parents:
I'd just confirmed with the server that what I ordered was indeed vegetarian. Not 10 seconds later, my mother said, "Yes. I'd like the Foie Gras, please."

In a meeting, after giving out MAD LIBS valentines at work:
ME: I can’t BELIEVE how many people don’t remember what an ADJECTIVE is. WHO? Doesn’t know what an ADJECTIVE is?

About 5 minutes later:
SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIALIST: So March 14th. 3/14. It’s National Pi Day. I thought it might be nice to have fun with that on the 14th.

Appreciative giggles around the table.

ME: Pi Day? Hmm. So they just pick a totally, completely random day to celebrate Pi?

Astonished silence.

And yes, I knew that we were speaking of Pi and not PIE. The Universe didn’t waste any time putting me right back in my place.

From one of my training buddies, who has only seen me during training runs and in my basic running gear:
“You need get yourself a 13.1 sticker. A PINK one.”

Just as I opened my mouth to ask him how he knew I liked pink, I looked down at my pink running belt, my pink-trimmed running jacket, the pink trim on my shoes, and my pink LED reflective armband (pink bulbs, of course). Oh, right. I closed my mouth and agreed.