Like Joe Frazier

During triathlons, I feel like the dude in lane #4 in heat 1:



Is it possible to ever get over the nerves and go from lane 4 to lane 1-3**?

(I know I CAN swim like them in the pool.)

Combating addiction through triathlon

Former drug addicts find new fixation on triathlons

• Story Highlights
• New Jersey man finds solace in exercise after spending youth on drugs
  
• Eddie Freas now member of group that advocates physical fitness in place of drugs
  
• Freas competes in Ironman and also mentors a New Jersey teenager.

Not surprised about this article.  I've always said that triathlon requires an addictive personality in order to do all the training.  Probably explains why I'm not so good at it.

Star struck

i was too busy interviewing** celebrities to take lots of pictures but here are a few from tonight's World Premiere at the Air and Space Museum of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian




Setting Up



Owen Wilson talking to press




Very funny Ricky Gervais:


(bit too much of a flash, sorry)


What an awesome evening .. I hope this is the first of many more big events in DC.




**don't worry.. i have the video to prove it, which i'll eventually post

Hollywood goes to the Mall - and I'll be there to tell you all about it.

Washington D.C. is having the Best Week Ever.

Ben Stiller's new movie features the Smithsonian and it is only appropriate to have a big red carpet premiere Thursday evening at the Air and Space Museum.

I'm one of the lucky few who will be down there covering this event. [Just doing my job! ] But if you want to see Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, and Director Shawn Levy? Well you better get your butts down to the Mall before 6pm to catch a glimpse. If you can't be there? Well that sucks, but I'll be twittering about it. (For those using an aggregator - there's a link on my blog.)



Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian will be in theaters May 22

getting numbered

since the hubby will be officiating and he'll probably want me to go up there anyways, i signed up to volunteer at columbia. as a body marker... which i've always wanted to do.

i'll make sure to have had plenty of coffee and/or redbull by the time i have to write anything :-)

Elizabeth Hasselbeck is detrimental to your health

The Celiac community is up in arms over the publicity Hasselbeck is getting over her new book about a gluten-free diet.

From Karina's Kitchen via. Celiac Foundation:
Celiac Colleagues:

I am writing to call your attention to the current publicity surrounding the
new book, The G-free Diet, A Gluten-Free Survival Guide by Elisabeth
Hasselbeck, co-host of The View. While it is important to call attention
to celiac disease, the information must be accurate - the inaccuracies in
this book are potentially dangerous and detrimental to celiacs and to those
yet to be diagnosed if people self diagnose and start eating GF. Our mission
is to assist in getting people accurately diagnosed and the message in this
book could defeat this mission. It appears that this book is being marketed
as a fitness diet - eat g-free and feel so much better. Celiac is
incorrectly referred to as an allergy not an autoimmune disease.

The GF diet is the medically mediated prescription that controls the
condition for a diagnosed celiac. Several items in the book are misleading
and inaccurate and place further limitations on the GF diet. The
gluten-free lifestyle is a lifelong commitment for the diagnosed celiac, not
an option, not a fad diet - adhering to the GF lifestyle requires patience
and persistence. This lifestyle can not be trivialized.

Thank you.

Elaine Monarch

And from Celiac Princess:

Important Message from the Celiac Disease Foundation about the 'G-Free Diet' Book

Well, I told you it was bad yesterday after I saw Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Good Morning America talking about her new book The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide. Over the last two days, she has appeared on numerous talk shows where she routinely calls celiac disease an allergy. In fact, part one of her book is called "I'm Allergic to What?"  This is a huge mistake. Celiac disease is a serious autoimmune condition that demands serious attention. And, to top it off, she has completely trivialized what goes into managing a gluten-free lifestyle. She can't even explain what gluten is or what it is in.

The gluten-free diet is a way of life. It is the only known cure for the disease and right now, it is my greatest hope for leading a healthy life.

Early Beeping Morning

Early morning beep
Originally uploaded by Scurry&Whirl

For some reason on the weekends a store near us emits this loud friggin beep. Anyone got a clue why? It's a mystery we're trying to solve.
It always happens between 8am and 9am in the morning, and this Sunday I took some video of it.

Quack Quack