I love Thanksgiving because it combines two of my favorite things. Food and being thankful. I am always thinking of things to be thankful for no matter what time of the years it is. For starters, I realized the other day how thankful I am to live in such a beautiful place where I can ride my bike any where. I am thankful daily for my family and my belief in God. It is good to be thankful always and not just at thanksgiving.
I some time feel like the holiday of thanksgiving has been corrupted over the years. We eat food together and then look forward to going shopping the next day with the rest of corporate American. I don't want to go shopping this friday. I want spend my time reflecting at the climbing gym in Colorado and perhaps doing a little slack lining. any way, Im off.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
It's been to long
I haven't bloged in over a month! I've written in my journal but I haven't had the time or energy to blog in a while.
The past month has been good. October was good to me I must admit. I went homeless for a week to see how Ben lives. I took up dumpster diving and bought a membership to the Rock Hause.
I've been trying to climb at least three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday if any one wants to come) to stay in good climbing shape. I go alone to the gym most of the time so I end up only bouldering which I am ok with but when I went on Tuesday I met up with marathon Woman who convinced me to top rope with her. I thought to myself "I haven't top roped in a month. I'll hop on a 10." That 10 schooled me!! Not only physicaly but on my last move to the top I tore open my freshly healed knee. My poort knee is never going to heal! I did two more climbs. One more 10 with an overhang and then a 9. I am not in shape for top roping. Benion was right when he said "When you top rope you fall off the wall because you don't have the strengthe. In bouldering you fall off because you can't do the move." I can do the move, I don't have the strengthe. So I am adding more top ropeing to my regimend.
Halloween was exciting this year. I had a few trick or treaters come by and I went to a killer dance party where I got to ipod DJ the whole night. I had three ipods and a zune (my zune.) to work from. I had a good mix of songs to choose from but still managed to party foul 9 times, Switching songs in the middle of one. Im still new at this! I also dressed up as a woodland nymph this year (aka a fairy) which was fun. my costume cost $15.00. I can't believe people are willing to pay more than that for a damn costume!
Any way. I sold one of my bikes. My yellow colapsable named Sherry. She and I were old friends but she needed to go. I am down to three bikes. I will most likely sell my moutain bike and buy a fixed gear. No I am not a scenester. I just love the fixed gear. I have been riding Kaji a lot lately but have realized that Lazer is better for grocery shopping since he has a basket on the back of him. I wrecked on him early in October and have been scared to ride him since. I'll get over it soon. ;) any way. Im off to do homework.
The past month has been good. October was good to me I must admit. I went homeless for a week to see how Ben lives. I took up dumpster diving and bought a membership to the Rock Hause.
I've been trying to climb at least three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday if any one wants to come) to stay in good climbing shape. I go alone to the gym most of the time so I end up only bouldering which I am ok with but when I went on Tuesday I met up with marathon Woman who convinced me to top rope with her. I thought to myself "I haven't top roped in a month. I'll hop on a 10." That 10 schooled me!! Not only physicaly but on my last move to the top I tore open my freshly healed knee. My poort knee is never going to heal! I did two more climbs. One more 10 with an overhang and then a 9. I am not in shape for top roping. Benion was right when he said "When you top rope you fall off the wall because you don't have the strengthe. In bouldering you fall off because you can't do the move." I can do the move, I don't have the strengthe. So I am adding more top ropeing to my regimend.
Halloween was exciting this year. I had a few trick or treaters come by and I went to a killer dance party where I got to ipod DJ the whole night. I had three ipods and a zune (my zune.) to work from. I had a good mix of songs to choose from but still managed to party foul 9 times, Switching songs in the middle of one. Im still new at this! I also dressed up as a woodland nymph this year (aka a fairy) which was fun. my costume cost $15.00. I can't believe people are willing to pay more than that for a damn costume!
Any way. I sold one of my bikes. My yellow colapsable named Sherry. She and I were old friends but she needed to go. I am down to three bikes. I will most likely sell my moutain bike and buy a fixed gear. No I am not a scenester. I just love the fixed gear. I have been riding Kaji a lot lately but have realized that Lazer is better for grocery shopping since he has a basket on the back of him. I wrecked on him early in October and have been scared to ride him since. I'll get over it soon. ;) any way. Im off to do homework.
Friday, September 21, 2007
The ending of a week
I went camping last night with Spider woman, Matt, Mazy, and Kelli in Logan Canyon. We had a Dutch oven dinner and steaks. Mmm… It was delicious. I wasn’t really digging the steak just because it seemed impossible to chew but besides that it was good.
We shared good conversation and talked about dating, our quarks and why it isn’t nice to call people weird. Annie and I also had a good 15 minute tangent on why it pisses us off that people go to national parks and never get out of their cars to look at the beautiful scenery. It was a ran, let me tell you! It was so nice to get out of Logan and be in the wilderness for a night. We picked a great spot to camp, so good that we didn’t wake up till 9:30. After packing up camp Matt, Annie, and I went back to our apartment and ate German pancakes. Then Annie and I retreated once again to the canyon to do some climbing. Annie muffed her big toe up pretty good and was having a hard time climbing but she belayed me on my first lead climb. It was a 5.7. slightly embarrassing since I top rope 11.A on a good day. But I’ve been to scared to lead till now so I am glad I took that leap of faith and did it.
I’ve got a job now! Working for campsaver.com, the online store for the Trailhead. I am really excited to start. I know it will be a good experience for me to learn more about gear for backpacking, climbing, camping, and pretty much anything outdoors.
This week has been good, if not great. Stressful yes but good. I feel this eternal need to stay focused on school. There is so much to distract me. Some good distractions, some bad. But I know that I MUST put my nose to the grind stone. It is so easy to do the wrong thing when I want to but I need to start doing the right thing.
The living situation with Spider woman is still good. We will see how things change once she isn’t working weekends and we are around each other all the time. Lets hope things stay happy.
Homecoming game tomorrow! The marching band will be playing so come out and see us shake it on the field. My rents are coming into town for day, I am very excited to see them and hang out. I miss my parents a lot when I am not home. I use to hate being around my parents right after I graduated from high school, now I sometimes wish I lived at home because I don’t see them enough.
Well I’m out. XOXO
P.S. I rode Lazer to citrus and sage.
We shared good conversation and talked about dating, our quarks and why it isn’t nice to call people weird. Annie and I also had a good 15 minute tangent on why it pisses us off that people go to national parks and never get out of their cars to look at the beautiful scenery. It was a ran, let me tell you! It was so nice to get out of Logan and be in the wilderness for a night. We picked a great spot to camp, so good that we didn’t wake up till 9:30. After packing up camp Matt, Annie, and I went back to our apartment and ate German pancakes. Then Annie and I retreated once again to the canyon to do some climbing. Annie muffed her big toe up pretty good and was having a hard time climbing but she belayed me on my first lead climb. It was a 5.7. slightly embarrassing since I top rope 11.A on a good day. But I’ve been to scared to lead till now so I am glad I took that leap of faith and did it.
I’ve got a job now! Working for campsaver.com, the online store for the Trailhead. I am really excited to start. I know it will be a good experience for me to learn more about gear for backpacking, climbing, camping, and pretty much anything outdoors.
This week has been good, if not great. Stressful yes but good. I feel this eternal need to stay focused on school. There is so much to distract me. Some good distractions, some bad. But I know that I MUST put my nose to the grind stone. It is so easy to do the wrong thing when I want to but I need to start doing the right thing.
The living situation with Spider woman is still good. We will see how things change once she isn’t working weekends and we are around each other all the time. Lets hope things stay happy.
Homecoming game tomorrow! The marching band will be playing so come out and see us shake it on the field. My rents are coming into town for day, I am very excited to see them and hang out. I miss my parents a lot when I am not home. I use to hate being around my parents right after I graduated from high school, now I sometimes wish I lived at home because I don’t see them enough.
Well I’m out. XOXO
P.S. I rode Lazer to citrus and sage.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Eggpant caprice, gingersnaps, queen, the mini bike, and geting semi stood up
I am not known for being on time. Im on time for class, on time for work but never on time for a date, party, movie, or event. My bad habit has caught up with me. I was going to see this famous guitarist play and perhaps write about his performance because My trombone lover had an extra ticket. We were going to meet at 7 in front of the concert hall but I was making eggplant caprice (more on those later) and lost track of time. I realized it was 7 pm as I sat down to eat so I scarfed my food down, took 2 minutes to long to pick out shoes and road Kajii up to campus only to find that my trombone lover had called his room mate to come to the concert so I couldn't go. yay. But thats ok because now I can go to the hip hop dance class instead. But did I mention that I dressed up? I never dress up any more. It's just T-shirt and jeans these days. Non of this fancy business.
So I made eggplant caprice. I've been wanting to make them for ages and I did tonight. only, the recipe needed a little adjusting. I had to add 1 extra table spoon of olive oil and 1/2 table spoon of balsamic viniger. Whats the deal with that?
The two high lights of my day:
I got up and realized that the Baking soda fairy was not coming to save my life so I went out and bought baking soda and realized that I was having a serious Queen attack and needed to buy some Queen. I went to hastings and got a double CD of all of their hits which made me happy. I then went home, rocked out to Queen and baked Gingersnaps.
High light number two was riding Lazer to campus and having a few laughs with Dusty at Quadside cafe where the asshole working the front counter told me he couldn't heat up my beans and rice because I might accuse him of tainting them. WTF? it's beans and rice! what the hell are you going to do them? Crazy baristas, that place has gone down hill since Jonna and I quit. well Im out.
So I made eggplant caprice. I've been wanting to make them for ages and I did tonight. only, the recipe needed a little adjusting. I had to add 1 extra table spoon of olive oil and 1/2 table spoon of balsamic viniger. Whats the deal with that?
The two high lights of my day:
I got up and realized that the Baking soda fairy was not coming to save my life so I went out and bought baking soda and realized that I was having a serious Queen attack and needed to buy some Queen. I went to hastings and got a double CD of all of their hits which made me happy. I then went home, rocked out to Queen and baked Gingersnaps.
High light number two was riding Lazer to campus and having a few laughs with Dusty at Quadside cafe where the asshole working the front counter told me he couldn't heat up my beans and rice because I might accuse him of tainting them. WTF? it's beans and rice! what the hell are you going to do them? Crazy baristas, that place has gone down hill since Jonna and I quit. well Im out.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Citrus and Sage Jazz night
First blog! Oh the excitement. I think people never know what to write on their first blogs so Im writing about where I am. Jazz night at Citrus and Sage hanging out with the wickerman. My day has been long and full of Rugby and climbing.
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