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September 29 can’t come soon enough.
You see that PDF? That’s my training schedule for a 5K in a few weeks. I’m taking my fitness/weight loss challenge a step further now.
It’s very humbling to admit a need for a training schedule to run three miles, but I needed one, and I’m sticking to it! Many thanks to my friend Shaun Nordgaarden for the inspiration and help in creating the calendar.
First day is done: one mile, 10:05 minutes, weighed in at 204 lbs today.
Onward!
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Flames crawl through the Maplewood Richmond Heights Family Dentistry at 3004 Sutton Blvd. in Maplewood, Mo., during a four-alarm commercial fire on Thursday night. The dentistry was stocked with decades worth of family heirlooms and priceless sports memorabilia.
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The lunch of a man who has given up fast food in 2012. Lettuce, chicken, peaches, raisins, croutons.
My colleague called it a “social media shower.”
On my Patch Twitter account, I stopped following about 300 people who were completely irrelevant to what I do as my site’s editor. Sure, I liked a lot of ‘em, and some had plenty of interesting things to tweet about. But, in the end, they simply clogged my feed, which made it difficult to find the gems from residents, business owners and more.
Being smarter on social media is a professional resolution in 2012. This was the first step. Now I need to identify a second one.
Seven years ago, I couldn’t have predicted where I am right now. Then a 17-year-old in a tiny town of 900 people, I spent most days playing baseball with the same group of guys since little league or working at the movie theater with my three best friends.
But seven years is a long time. Now I’m a 24-year-old living in Maplewood, MO, with an entirely new life.
I moved to this city after graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism. Now, I’m the editor of a local news website and I share a home with my beautiful girlfriend Gwendolyn and our two hilarious dogs, Shelley and Molly. We have a fenced-in backyard, big TV and toaster oven that can bake a large frozen pizza.
In short, I feel so grown up. And beyond fortunate.
So it’s time to start documenting some of our experiences. What better way than through a Tumblr?