is this thing on?

View of Glenwood Springs from the adventure park. We attended the kick-off "Music on the Mountain" event. The sunset was amazing. I couldn't do it justice with my phone. We hiked Grizzly Creek. It was 7 miles round trip and it sufficiently wore me out. Everything is lusciously green right now. Snow run-off = amazing rushing water.  Brian and the little bean.  At times I wanted to join her. It was HOT. Looking back from whence we came. Snack time. We finally made it to the end. Brian said I should smile.  The clouds dissipated  for a bit on the way down and the sky was nice and blue. Happy Memorial Day!

sen·ti·men·tal [sen-tuh-men-tl] adjective 1. E xpressive of or appealing to sentiment , especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song. 2. Pertaining to or dependent on sentiment: We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons. 3. Weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender: the sentimental Victorians. 4. Characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling. I’m a pretty sentimental person (the 7-8 boxes in our bedroom labeled Jaime’s Memories will attest to that) and today I’m feeling sentimental about tonight being the last episode of The Office. Brian and I had just been married & I can’t remember what the occasion was but Brian bought the first season of The Office. If I’m honest, I remember a lack of enthusiasm on my part because I’d only seen the British version and as much as I realized it was a funny show, I always had a hard time keeping up with their accents. How...

Guess what, everybody! On this day in 2003 (i.e. 10 years ago), Brian and I had a our DTR (Define the Relationship) talk. We had been dating/seeing each other for a couple weeks and had gone on a couple dates but I was graduating soon and was planning to move back to Colorado Springs. Really, we hardly knew each other. It was not at all one of those scenarios where we had known each other forever before we started dating- this dude came out of nowhere. Therefore, the big question on both of our minds was, "How do we leave this?" I didn't really feel all that confident that we could survive a long distance relationship with such a small foundation to build upon and Brian still had 2 years of school left, so it would be a pretty extensive time frame. And then what? Would he move to Colorado? I had no idea what this virtual stranger would do and I honestly couldn't see how it would all work out. After discussing it, we agreed that it was too bad the timing didn...