All Star Day!

I remember back in the summer of 2004 when I was working my summer job at Bob Evans was the first time that I had heard that the All Star Game was coming to St Louis. And I remember thinking how far away 2009 felt (i also remember that same summer, that same job was when I found out that Conan would take over the tonight show in 2009 - my how the time passes).

If you are in St louis right now, you cannot get away from baseball, even if you try. Its really great. They've cleaned up downtown to look all artsy with the addition of a new sculpture park on market st. for what I'm assuming is so all the people coming from all over the country dont think we are a huge trash heap of murder, crime and homeless people.

I really hope the National League can pull this baby out. I really thought they were going to do it last year when they were winning the whole game and then the AL came back and tied it up only to go 14 innings - goo. But this year we are in St Louis. With the Best fans on earth. We love our baseball in the Lou and how fitting is it that the allstar game be in our great city and have them win it for the first time in 11 years! I'm so excited.

So here's the plan. I'm going to take a guess and say that it might be too crazy to even try to get downtown at this point with parking or even the metro. However, Clayton is closing off streets and displaying the game on a huge outdoor screen for everyone to enjoy. I just want to be a part of the st louis atmostphere right now.

Let the Baseball Coma Commence!

Another Year, Another Crease in the Crows Feet

"CHAOS," Picture from Cincinnati Marathon, May 3 2009

So I turned 25 this weekend. Had a pretty good time. Cant complain. Just wanted to thank everyone for the birthday wishes and those who came out to celebrate my immanent demise into adulthood. Goo. So with that, I thought it would be fun to post my 5 greatest achievements/memories of my 25 short years.

5. Attained a College Degree - and not only did I accomplish this, but in a field that I love and will be the most useful for my future. I love design and the past few years using these skills have definitely been a blast.
4. Spent an entire month in Italy - I was an Art History Minor, and the Roman empire is my favorite time period to study (tied with WWII for being wicked awesome) and when in Italy I finally got to see all the things I had been studying the previous 3 years. Not to mention the people I was with made the entire trip legendary. oh, and I got to see Sting in a free concert in Milan :)
3. Getting best artist award in Kindergarden - How can they even tell?
2. Running 5 Full Marathons - After completing number 5 in Seattle in June, I cant stop thinking about it. How many people can say that they've run 5 marathons in their life. I cant explain it, but the feeling is amazing. I must continue this adventure to get to all states out of the way, then I think I might do one on every continent. DC in October!
1. The Night of Dane Cook - will always go down as the greatest day of my life (april 8, 2005). Sure most of it was spent in the car trying to get to Springfield, MO and sure it wasn't my finest hour of displaying intelligence (like going north on hwy 63 and almost ending up in Iowa trying to get to SOUTHWEST missouri) but it was a bonding experience with me and my best friend Adrienne and at the end of it all, we got to meet Dane Cook - once on accident, and then for real a second time - and maybe even scared him a little. Hands down, greatest day ever.

Thanks again for the birthday wishes. From dancing to T.I. on stage at the Piano Bar with Griz, to exchanging stories and antidotes at Kilkenny's, and reliving the story of my birth from my mother again - she tells it to me every year and how when it was all over she looked at my 25 year old father, who was peeking over the doctors shoulder, what it looked like only for him to reply "Have you ever gutted a deer?"

- it was a blast!

Self Promotional Stickers

They're Here!
Just an idea to spread the joy and my name. Since I travel a lot for marathons and stuff. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to get traffic by using these stickers. Kind of a stolen idea from a not so great mandy moore movie, chasing liberty. If you haven't seen it, which you probably haven't, she backpacks through Europe and meets a guy who uses stickers to bring people together and have a connection with people that they dont even know. You take a sticker and place it somewhere and then you forget about it. Then when you go somewhere else, you see the sticker and BAM! are instantly connected to someone you dont know and youre only common interest is this sticker.
Silly I know. But not so much - compared to all the other weird things flying around my brain - this makes more sense than most of that crap :)

If you are interested in spreading the joy, contact me at my website.
J.O.WHY...because we can!