is this thing on?

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.