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Being Playful

June 20, 2013 by Kristin

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I had a completely different plan tonight.  One that went something like skipping a workout, heading to Sound & Cinema at the Long Center, and braving a crowd.  And then I didn’t want to do it.  I wanted to swim.  And then I wanted Dickie’s spaghetti and the comfort of their house in our neighborhood.  I filled him in on the plan I planned and walked the long way, stopping at my favorite gas station to pick up some tall boys to go with dinner.

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I thought a lot of thoughts during this walk.  I thought about why we stop playing and, specifically, when I stopped playing.  I thought about how the younger kids on my block would knock on my door after school and I’d let the dog out and we’d all run around through our yards until we were Florida sweaty.  And then I thought about the point in which that became unappealing and I began to say no.  The point when I had other things to do, fourteen year-old things to do.

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And then I thought about my life since moving to Austin and the friendships here that have become the strongest.  And until this long thinking walk, I thought we’d all become so close because we’re dreamers and do-ers and we find joy in one another’s dreaming and doing.  But tonight it became so, so clear why I’ve fallen fast in love with my friends in Austin and the city itself – I started playing again.

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And Austin makes a darn good playground.

Filed Under: lifestyle Tagged With: austin, barton springs

A Proper Goodbye

December 11, 2012 by Kristin

Welcome to Austin, a place where only mild convincing is needed to get a slew of your best guy friends to eat a Sunday feast at a completely vegan restaurant!  After our last Barton Springs trip of the season, we headed to Casa de Luz for $12 all you can eat vegan goodness.

Picnic tables, a setting sun, and a fast approaching cold front set the scene for our cozy, comfort meal.

We started with carrot ginger soup and salad, which was most everyone’s favorite (perhaps because it was the most familiar of flavors).

Soup and salad were followed by greens, mixed veggies, seaweed and rice.  My favorite were the greens because they were topped with a nutritional  yeast sauce and, because I’m a freak, I totally dig nutritional yeast.

We all decided that this would be a perfect way to follow up our 2013 Barton Spring Sundays.  Until then, it’s been real Barton Springs 2012!

 

 

Filed Under: lifestyle, restaurant reviews Tagged With: austin, barton springs, casa de luz, texas

Cutie Petutie Saturday

June 16, 2012 by Kristin

When you start your Saturday morning with a breakfast this cute, more cuteness is sure to follow.  I gobbled up my favorite eggy breakfast and headed to Target for mission bike basket.  

 

I fully intended on buying a pink milk crate, but the office supply section lured me in.  The logistics of actually attaching a basket to a bike were beyond me, but I assumed bungee chord and I assumed correctly.  I filled the basket with necessary goods and hit the pavement.  I was super happy with my new bike, but I was really intimidated by all the cars.  I rode in the bike lane until I hit the Lance Armstrong Bikeway and rode that until it stopped, which was nowhere near as far as I had hoped.  I most definitely need a riding partner next time to show me the rules of the road for I am clueless!

When I got home, I chopped up some ripe cantaloupe and prepped some PB&J for lunch with Jodie.

 

We’re off to Barton Springs!  Happy Saturday!

Filed Under: lifestyle Tagged With: austin, barton springs, lance armstrong bikeway, texas

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