is this thing on?

i've taken to writing blogs on my myspace profile instead of here on blogger because people actually read them over there... therefore, i can't say i'll be writing much on this thing in the future...and honestly, i'm not sure anyone will notice, or care. but if you DO care, join myspace. find me.

having an ad in the paper proclaiming $2 games and $2 shoes for the local bowling alley followed by the hours of operation = 5:00pm-midnight Friday night. getting to the bowling alley at 6:30pm to find the doors locked and 2 of the employees calling their boss to see if anyone with keys is going to come open it for the evening. double-checking the hours in the paper and seeing the words "subject to change" in small print next to the hours. basically, what it SHOULD have said is this: "Hours: Friday 5:00pm-midnight unless the boss finds something better to do with his time".

i've always thought i had "fat arm" genes and there was absolutely nothing i could do about it. i have worked out consistently before and have seen no definition form in my arms no matter what i did. i even had a personal trainer for a while and still, nothing. well, i found this article saying that no matter what genes you have, you can always have thin arms...for some reason, that was the hook for me. i know every magazine article says they have the answer to all your body problems but this one seemed do-able. there are 4 or so exercises that you are supposed to do for an allotted amount of time equaling 15 minutes in total. what's 15 minutes of my day, right? easy. and then you are just supposed to do that 15 minute work-out at least 4 days a week. still, i can do that. i tried them out the other day (wednesday night) and they honestly kicked my butt 30 seconds into the thing! you start out by doing push-ups for 4 minutes. 4 MINUTES . that's a long time to b...

brian drove his '79 mercedes up a few weekends ago, we were pretty excited to have two cars again but when he went to take it to work it wouldn't start. he took the battery down to napa to get it tested, they recharged it and the car started. we drove it around for a while and the next day, it wouldn't start again. brian decided it's the starter. he also decided he's going to fix it himself. really, his only other option is to have it towed to denver as we don't have a lot (if any) specialty car places up here. he did some research online and went to go unscrew one of the bolts on the starter and it was so corroded, the entire bolt just broke off the starter (leaving a big hole in his starter...so if it wasn't the starter before, it sure is now). in his efforts to get the bolt unscrewed despite the massive corrosion he did some research online and was told to soak it in some good old soda pop for 10 minutes. so, is that a good thing or a bad thing for our s...

so, we got a delivery of 3 large boxes on monday and i volunteered to keep them at my desk until the professor needed them. today, another faculty member came in and said, "would you like me to take the dead cats upstairs for you?" not cool.

just going through some pictures. here's my great family on our trip to see janson in his play at pepperdine university in malibu. and yes, it is november and 77 degrees. (and no, my brother is not that hairy...just stage make-up)

so i got these really cute GAP wool capris from the thrift store and i always feel lucky when i find namebrand items for cheap. well, whoever designed these pants wanted to make damn sure that they wouldn't come undone throughout the day. there's a clasp, a little button inside (hidden from view), a zipper, AND a drawstring (also inside, hidden from view). it really does take me about 7 minutes just to undo all that to go to the bathroom. plus, that setup is really just asking for trouble. i get so focused on remembering each thing, i tend to forget all about the zipper. trouble, i tell you.

i finally get recognized on a day other than my birthday! woot woot! i even got flowers and a box of chocolates... apparently, i've finally "made it" in the working world. (i guess it's "forget your diet and eat a lot of chocolate" day, too.)

you know you're from colorado if... 1. You switch from "Heat" to "A/C" in one day. 2. You know what the "Peoples Republic of Boulder" means. 3. Your sense of direction is: towards the mountains and away from the mountains. 4. You're a meat-eating vegetarian. 5. The bike on your car is worth more than your car and you have your own special bike lane 6. You're able to drive 65 miles per hour through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without even flinching. 7. You take your out-of-town guests to Casa Bonita even though you would never go there otherwise. 8. You think your major food groups are granola bars, tofu and Fat Tire Beer. 9. You design your kid's Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit. 10. You think that sexy lingerie is wool socks and flannel PJs. 11. You know all 4 seasons "almost winter, winter, still winter and spring blizzards 12. You've been tear gassed in a riot to celebrate a CU/CSU's victory. 13. You c...

for easter weekend, brian and i went down to colorado springs to spend it with my parents and my nana. my nana just recently moved into a retirement home, only to fall and break her hip 2 weeks later. now she's in rehab and she's so bored there, with all the comotose old people, she got it in her mind to escape. she tried to convince a man named carl to go with her. this turned out to be her biggest mistake because he narked on her and the nurses found her. she has one of those $5000, 1 million ton electric scooters and so far, we can tell she didn't grow up playing video games because she can't seem to figure out how to work the joystick on it. on her mini adventure out of rehab, she ran into a closet door and cut her ankle and had to get bandaged up. the next week, she got bored again and decided she would clean her toilet (with resolve carpet cleaner, i might add) and hit the joystick with her elbow, crushing her foot into the porcelin and she broke her toe. i hope i...

i tend to be intimidated by most things in life. i'm intimidated by every person i don't know. i'm intimidated by every new activity- even to the point that i'm scared to play a game i've never played before or i'm scared to go into a store i've never been in before. i would always, without a doubt, rather sit at home and do my own thing rather than put myself in an intimidating situation. the good thing (and probably the only good thing) about being this way is that when i actually force myself to do something scary, no matter how insignificant it seems to everyone else, it feels like i've conquered the world. i look back at my life so far and feel pretty proud of all the things i've done despite how hella scared i always am. but even though i can look back and see evidence that things aren't as bad as i imagine them to be, i find no solace in it. i'm still scared all. the. time. i've created a new guidline to live by. i know who i am an...

when you turn 25, suddenly your age is written on a napkin instead of with fanciful candles and you have to light your own cake... note : i had a great birthday. i am in no way implying that my birthday was anything less than wonderful.

$599,000 Property Features Area: Frisco # Bedrooms: 2 InteriorSqFt: 748 # Baths: 0.0 PropType: Residential Loft Y/N: Yes Prop Sub Type: Single Family Zoning: Single Family Approx Lot Acreage: 1.46 Water Source: See Remarks Year Built: 1954 yep, this is for real. i was looking at real estate for fun and in the midst of all the million dollar homes, i found this ugly house that doesn't even have a bathroom and has boarded up windows. can you believe it's over a half a million dollars to buy this thing?! maybe it's because it comes with a picnic table. ah...summit county.

a "skier's blessing" at the conclusion of our church service.

i'm dying. will winter ever end? i think the skiers and boarders need to quit being so selfish and quit praying for more snow. they've had a GREAT winter and they need to give it up. i'm a small person and there's only so much willing within me to combat these people's wishes for more snow. it's march for crying out loud. humph.

me and some of my co-workers "with" mike today was my last day as an optomologist's assistant. definitely bittersweet for me as i don't particularly like going to a new place, with new people, with a whole new job to learn. i was pretty comfortable there. one of the people i will miss the most though is mike, our DHL delivery guy. he would often come bearing gifts (well, BESIDES the packages he was delivering) such as olympic collector pins that he stole for us from the competing eye doctor's office, a DVD chock full of DHL commercials, and even jars of his homemade jelly that is quite delicious. he brought me some jelly today as a going away gift and brought in his camera because the thought i might like to get a picture with my co-workers before i go. is your DHL guy as thoughtful as that?! i didn't think so. and when i got home from work, the picture was already waiting for me in my inbox. so, this is a tribute to mike for all his thoughtful words of enco...

so, i'm sick. really, really sick. thought about calling in sick to work yesterday but felt guilty because, i'll be the first to admit, i struggle with putting myself first sometimes. so, i dragged my sorry butt to work thinking that if i didn't feel better i'd just leave early. my boss comes in and tells me that my other co-worker has called in sick. if i left i would be leaving two new people, who don't know bunk, alone to fend for themselves so i stuck it out. i got up this morning and felt like i had been hit by a truck, and a big one at that. i was getting ready for the day with this running through my head, "just call in sick...no, just go...no call in sick, screw them...no, i can't..." then, my phone rings and it's my boss, telling me that my co-worker has called in sick again and that he needs me to stay later and close for her. as he's talking to me and i'm agreeing to do it, he realized that i didn't sound so good myself. by ...

Gaper: (pronounced 'gay'-'per') you know those people on the slopes who wear neon, one-piece suits, starter jackets, jeans, etc? those things will qualify you as a bonafide gaper. If you like the idea of mocking those who embrace gaperality and want to find some entertainment, go to this site: www.gaperhunter.com gaper. it's the new mullet. as a warning: when one lets people post their own pictures online, someone is bound to think it's funny to post a naked picture of a girl. there is one such picture on there. don't let it take away from your gaper experience though.

well, today i'm writing as the newest employee of Colorado Mountain College. yep, college of the mountains; where people go to get their degree in mountainman-ness. where all the classes are outdoors and i will work in a cabin.... nah, just kidding. it just a normal college that just happends to be in the mountains. anywho, i applied, interviewed, and just got the job today. i'm excited because i'll be making almost $10,000 more a year than i am now with actual benefits! i've even heard a rumor that i get the week between christmas and new years off...paid! i never thought i'd ever see an inkling of a christmas break again. brian and i are already planning on what we'll do that week. a cruise maybe? florida? i don't care. if i'm going to be staying here through another winter, i just want to be somewhere warm for my break. i don't know how excited i am about learning a new job and meeting new people because i've learned over the years that i real...

i'm just curious if anyone reads this on a somewhat regular basis...i've always assumed that people don't so i don't write posts all that often...but maybe i'd be more motivated to write more if i thought people were reading. if you read this, please just leave a comment. all you have to write is, 'i read'. kind of like in miracle on 34th street and the whole 'i believe' with santa. right. ok. that's all.

for those of you who don't know, i grew up addicted to Jesus and Contemporary Christian Rock. i'm most definitely still into Jesus but have wandered from the Christian Rock scene. I'm not afraid to admit though that those bands i grew up listening to will always have a special place in my heart; especially a band called D.C. Talk. in fact, on road trips by myself i will bust out nu thang and sing/rap along with all my might. anyway, last night brian and i went to a newcomer's dinner at our priest's house. now, we've been going there long enough to know that he used to be in the music business in nashville but not much more than that. last night we got to talking to him and it turns out he was the president of forefront records and then he says, 'have you ever heard of d.c. talk?' i'm sure the look on my face answered his question 10 fold. well, he discovered them and michael w. smith and whiteheart and steven curtis chapman. the third-grader inside o...

wow, i just realized how often i start my posts with 'so,'. sorry if that bugs you but i can't promise i'll stop because i tend to talk that way in real life as well.

so, being in a very expensive place to live, we get quite a few 'low-income' patients at the office. this one patient came in and he'd never had any vision correction in his life and he was well into his 20's. after his exam, we saw that he had a prescription of -6.50. for those of you not familiar with eye talk, a -4.00 can't even see the big E on the eye chart so he's way worse than that. instead of 20/20, he's 20/400-. anyway, we loaned him some free trial contact lenses but they only last a month and then they are supposed to order a box or two. he came back when his contacts expired and he was shaky and sweating and kept rocking back and forth while repeating, 'i need more contacts, how soon can i get more contacts, what can i do to get more contacts? do they make a permanent contact that you don't have to replace?' uh, that's called LASIK. i've never seen anyone going through withdrawl over contacts but i guess once you tast...

so, there's this A&W restaurant in frisco that is apparently owned by christians because they always include a bible verse or inspirational sayings on their reader board. the thing is, they also include some of their menu on that board as well and they don't seem to own any punctuation tiles. my favorite posting so far was at christmastime: "have you any room for jesus chili cheese shrimp ice cream floats" i don't know about you, but a side of jesus sounds great with chili cheese shrimp ice cream floats.

so, some friends and i went to the iron springs chatteau in mantiou springs for our new years celebration. the reason we ended up there? we wanted dinner and dancing for cheap and we got all that and more. we got dinner: family style fried chicken, baked beans, biscuits, coleslaw, and some sort of meat covered in BBQ sauce. then we had entertainment: a short melodramatic skit about canadian mounties and their nemesies and we did the whole boo hiss, ooh ahh, yay, hubba hubba thing throughout. for those who have never experienced a melodrama- go. then we were escorted downstairs for "cold appetizers" and party favors- hats, noisemakers and the like. THEN, they had a d.j. playing some jams for us until 1 a.m.. now, something you should know about manitou springs: it's colorado spring's neighboring hippy town and it's pretty much populated by very eccentric people both young and old. and not necessarily good hippies like haight/ashbury in san fran...these folk are...