Val
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | School Social Worker |
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Introduction | I'm a school social worker who is also a newlywed (and had a Big Fat Greek Wedding, no less!) living in Chicago. I am starting this blog to talk about the training process I will go through to prepare for the Chicago Marathon, while also raising awareness for Ceasefire, a Chicago anti-violence program. |
| Interests | Friends and family, social work, social justice, volunteering, kids, running, Chicago, reading, cooking and baking, nutrition, vegetarianism (although I DO eat fish...), CHOCOLATE, CHEESE, wine, knitting, pilates, to-do-lists, traveling |
| Favorite movies | Love Actually, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Holiday, Across the Universe, the Groth family classics (National Lampoon Christmas Vacation and Trains, Planes and Automobiles), and most recently - The Hangover is flipping hilarious |
| Favorite music | The Beatles above all!! ... then: U2, golden oldies, The Killers, Christmas music |
| Favorite books | There are too many to type... the ones I'm staring at right now on my bookshelf are The Time Traveler's Wife, all books by Augusten Burroughs, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Glass Castle, The Audacity of Hope, Marley & Me, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Food Revolution and the China Study (the latter two are about the benefits of a vegetarian/vegan diet for personal health and the greater environment) |