is this thing on?

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.