Keeping Pace

Keeping Pace

Archives for June 2010

apple-a-day (make that year)

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As I type this, many are waiting in line to get their hands on the latest from apple. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs’ most recent tweet indicates that there are more people in line than there are iPhone 4’s in stock. It’s no surprise. This has always been the way with apple launches.

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While there are many features of the new phone that excite me, my love will remain with myPhone 3Gs. We have a year of bonding invested in our relationship and I’m just not the kind of gal who drops the old just because there is a young thang flaunting its features at me. There needs to be a falling out so-to-speak.

I know what you’re thinking. I did replace my original iPhone (the one who helped pull me out of depression on the 1 year mark of my husband’s passing). Yes, I did replace him. But this was only after he started complaining about my music and constant picture taking. He hid behind his limited memory and refused to even try to keep up with my requests. In short, he stopped trying and we fell out of love. And so we both moved on.

myPhone, on the other hand, loves my varied taste in music. He even helps me to find new music sometimes. He claims to have a huge capacity for remembering all that I ask him to and loves to keep my pictures in safe keeping for me. It’s a good thing.

Besides…I hate lines.

My Son The Entrepreneur

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Last night, YaYa decided to go into business making friendship bracelets. This came after someone offered to pay him a small amount for a single bracelet. That night, he made two more bracelets.

By morning, his business was booming. He arrived at the office with one order pending and, by the end of the day, was taking orders for lanyards as well.

He’s even posted signs, advertising his prices:

Up to 10 inches:
· $1.00 = 3 strand
· $1.50 = 5 strand

Up to 20 inches:
· $2.00 = 3 strand
· $2.50 = 5 strand

Up to 30 inches:
· $3.00 = 3 strand
· $3.50 = 5 strand

It kind of makes me wonder what the future holds for him.

How do you grip your world?

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While on vacation, I took a few moments to check in on the blogosphere. On Running & Rambling, Donald posted about Vibram’s Grip Your World contest. I was jazzed and, with one day left before the contest deadline, I trekked out with my own Vibram’s to create my own entry for the contest.

Well, I did a little hiking out in Squamish, British Columbia wearing my five fingered (or toed rather) footwear, took a few pictures along the way, and promptly forgot about the contest until it was too late. I’m not sure that it matters much anyway.

My grip-your-world perspective, though wonderful in my own mind, is probably not exactly what they were looking for. None-the-less, I shared it with them anyway — AFTER the deadline.

I do love my Vibram’s.  I love the way they provide a heightened awareness of the world beneath my feet. While wearing them, I feel more grounded and in touch with the earth. But that’s not what I wrote about.

I wrote about how running (in general) is how I deal with the feeling of my world slipping away from me, how running reminds me that life is good and to hang on to it — to “grip my world.”

It’s not profound but, for me, it works.

Vibram’s Grip Your World site is still taking entries.  The contest, however, is over.  Whether you entered the contest or are only now pondering the question, how do YOU grip your world?  Do tell.

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