Thanksgiving travel totals

Driving days: 4 out of 5
Miles: 926 plus
Hours spent in the car: 14
Money spent on gas: $115.80
Spending time with our family: Priceless

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Christmas shopping begins!

I’ve already nailed down two presents, many more to go. In all my previous years I’ve been working copy desk shifts which means I’ve been able to do my shopping during weekdays. It’s the best time to shop – nobody’s out on a Tuesday morning. Since I’ve joined the realm of normal working folk I’ll [...]

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Thanksgiving tour

We’re heading off for our annual holiday tour of eastern Missouri this weekend. We can’t wait to see everyone!

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Christmas list

I know it’s kinda tacky but I’ve been creating a Christmas list since I was EB’s age, so it’s tradition. And it makes me very easy to shop for. However, this is the first year I go web, which may make things easier! ALSO, I know I usually pass on whatever everyone else wants [...]

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Yum

So I found out an interesting thing about my name a few days ago. So my running partner, Didi, who’s from China, was telling a coworker how Mike was cheering us on at the race “Go MoMo, Go DiDi.” I walked in on this and the coworker thought that MoMo was the funniest thing ever. [...]

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My final column

My final music column ran on Tuesday. I started writing “In the Groove” in August 2001. It’s run almost every week since, except when I’ve been on vacation the last two years (I had to write one ahead of my vacation time the first four years). I figure I’ve written more than 300 columns in [...]

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My arms hurt!

1/2 marathon

Originally uploaded by mike.and.mo

I ran the Springfield half marathon Sunday!
Didi and I have been training since late spring. Each week we’d extend our training runs – our longest was 14 miles. Training was no fun at all. We ran when it was 100+ [...]

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Mo’s time

Mo finished her first half-marathon this morning! She and her friend Didi ran together and got a very good time — 2:11:09. That’s almost exactly a 10-minute mile pace.
I’ll let her blog more about it later. Right now she’s relaxing and recovering.

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Race tomorrow!

Oh dear ..

Originally uploaded by mike.and.mo

So I’m not allowed to go out tonight because of the race tomorrow. I’ve been instructed to rest and eat, which I can do very well. Since I’m bored and at home, I cleaned out my closet, inspired by Eileen. [...]

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