Tracey's Space http://www.traceysspace.net/ A place to find "thick-headed imperviousness thoughts..." Copyright 2008 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:04:56 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.12 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It's On. I signed up for the Milwaukee Race for the Cure!

It's not until the end of September but color me hyped.
(And expect emails from me about donating.)

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/08/its_on.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/08/its_on.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:04:56 -0600 Ready. Set. Go. My knee injury is a thing of the past! I'm so happy. It's been touch and go for some time but this past week I've started running 2-3 miles outside again with no pain (except for the sweltering heat.) Let me say it again: I AM SO HAPPY! I can sign up for the Komen Race for the Cure now without any anxiety. Not to mention I can work out the way I want to again and hopefully slowly raise my mileage so the same injury doesn't happen again. I'm inspired by the upcoming Olympics and really want to get into top form in the coming weeks. It's been almost a year since I started my last full-body overhaul and though I'm a bit disappointed that I couldn't keep off the second ten pounds of the twenty I lost last fall I'm trying to be happy that I could at least keep off ten for this long. (Plus, I will be re-tackling the second ten pounds with a slightly less mountain to climb so yahoo!) Of course, I need to keep reminding myself that Olympic athletes have no other obligations other than to train all day so tranforming myself into 41-year old Olympic swimmer- and overall pillar of awesomeness- Dara Torres is kind of unrealistic.

So... I'm hyped to be a running machine again (if only a puttering slow one) and after nearly a week in to my new regimen I'm feeling fantastic.

Now I just have to figure out a way to stay healthy on our vacation next week where I will visit THREE 5-star restaurants in three days. I have spectacular timing don't I.

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/ready_set_go.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/ready_set_go.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:56:05 -0600 I'm Dying To See Some Hipster Sport These Around Milwaukee This Summer stoopid_fashion.jpeg
RUBBER leggings! You can thank Urban Outfitters for these babies.

Dy-ing.

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/im_dying_to_see.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/im_dying_to_see.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:21:29 -0600 You Go Girls! Even I can appreciate something like this:

3 Catholic Women To Be Ordained Priests

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/you_go_girls.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/you_go_girls.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:35:19 -0600 Ask and Ye Shall Receive Except you didn't ask and you will receive anyway.

Vacation Photos! Click on any of them to see the whole gallery.


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My kitchen is waaay too awesome.

(Click the photo for the whole gallery!)

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/somebody_pinch.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/somebody_pinch.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:49:55 -0600 The Gessners at the Golden Gate Bridge
The Gessners at the Golden Gate Bridge
Originally uploaded by Billyterr Billy took this photo of us on vacation in San Francisco. (Click on it to see a larger version of the shot.)
]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/the_gessners_at.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/07/the_gessners_at.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:19:15 -0600 Face Painting Fun DSCN0810.jpg

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Scary.

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/06/face_painting_f.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/06/face_painting_f.html Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:10:26 -0600 Decompressing... The girls and I got back from San Francisco last night (Jason will be back on Friday.) I'm still decompressing from the trip, catching up on laundry and plant watering, spending time with the kitty kats and such. Hopefully I'll get a few photos up here in the next few days and the whole set on Flickr this weekend. Until then!

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/06/decompressing.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/06/decompressing.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:48:10 -0600 :-( russert.jpg
For me, one of the highlights of election nights.

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/06/post_12.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/06/post_12.html Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:53:15 -0600 Up Up Up! I'm finally able to run two miles again with no pain! (19:38- not too shabby for being off my game.) And that's even after my 30 minute slog on the elliptical so considering that, I'd say things are finally getting back on track. I think I'll try 2.5 miles tomorrow and slowly work my way back to where I was before the crankiness with my knee.

So, there's that bit of good news, summer vacation starts on Friday, we've got a family trip to San Francisco planned for next week and a road trip for me and Jason to Minneapolis next month. Everything's coming up Millhouse!*

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*This joke will never get old for me. Just like jokes about South Park and the movie Billy Madison. Because I am secretly twelve years old.

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If I were a 23-year-old Welsh pop singer I would be Aimee Duffy.

]]> http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/05/current_soundtr.html http://www.traceysspace.net/archives/2008/05/current_soundtr.html Wed, 21 May 2008 08:15:38 -0600 It's Back!





Originally uploaded by Tracey Gessner

After not blooming at all last year, we nursed our crabapple tree back again. I wish it would stay like this all summer.

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Barack and 75,000 people in Portland, Oregon yesterday.

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