The Loony Bin

Mile high Farm

2011-10-29T22:59:00.001-07:00

It was really cold so my hands were hidden inside my gloves- not taking pictures.

It cost $34 for two adults and one child. The best thing was the hay ride through some pretty scary looking trees. Other than that it seemed really bare. Their pumpkins were frozen so there were very few. The corn maze was a little lame since the corn wasn't very high at all!

Overall, disappointing :-/

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Blogger Update

2011-10-27T13:45:00.001-07:00

So I really like the new template for Blogger. Hmmm.

so long and thanks for all the fish

2011-09-20T16:00:00.001-07:00

Dear Blogger,I have really enjoyed you these last few years but alas, our time to part has come. I wish you would have given me more space! I would have been more than happy to stay with you. Anyway.Fare thee well. :)Love,Aissa

2011-08-19T14:29:00.001-07:00

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Mom and Dad visit :)

2011-08-18T15:11:00.001-07:00

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Boys

2011-08-17T19:37:00.001-07:00

Sweet summer. I am going to miss you so much :(

These boys are so sweet. I love watching them have fun and grow up together.

I am putting these faces and their laughter in the pockets of my memory. Before I know it they will all be grown up. Soo I'm cherishing these moments of childhood :)

Ethan, AJ and Ethan

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First grade!

2011-08-15T09:15:00.001-07:00

Lola walking Ethan to school:)

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Ethan's 6th Birthday

2011-08-07T19:50:00.001-07:00

Well birthday party. He doesn't officially turn 6 until August 9th.

Ethan had a lot of fun which is always good. I must also add that Chuck E Cheese pizza is now under edible things to eat.

The girl said they changed the ingredients- maybe from cardboard to actual dough, sauce and cheese.

My little guy is going to be six soon and going into first grade. I think when he turns seven is when I'll worry about him growing up too fast :D I'm really proud of him :)

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Deathwing

2011-07-20T10:03:00.000-07:00

This is my first encounter with Deathwing. I get done with my instance and zone out and before I knew what was going on I was dead and standing in fire. At first I was like oh noes where did I irresponsibly leave my character before the dungeon? And then I saw the achievement ^-^

Explore Colorado: Co Rd 67

2011-07-11T14:15:00.000-07:00

This weekend we drove around to find a river and we ran into the South Platte River alongside Co Rd 67.

Christmas in July

2011-07-11T12:39:00.000-07:00

I recently acquired Lightroom 3 which is incredibly awesome! Anyway, I finally edited these photos from last Christmas. I guess it is safe to say that I have really slacked on taking pictures and such with my Canon but I have a feeling that I may be taking more pictures now. Yay inspiration :)

Ethan's Soccer Pics

2011-07-11T12:33:00.000-07:00

Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch

2011-07-11T12:26:00.001-07:00

Welps for some reason blogpress isn't posting my pictures when I blog from my phone. What gives? I'm not about to redo previous posts to get those pictures back up. I am too lazy. Besides I don't think I kept any of them anyway :( However Since I love Tattered Cover Bookstores and since I still have those pics on my phone I'm going to re-post.

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Fireworks

2011-07-02T23:00:00.001-07:00

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Location:Bandimere Speedway

Speeeeed

2011-07-02T22:57:00.001-07:00

YouTube Video

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Bandimere Speedway 2011

2011-07-02T22:51:00.001-07:00

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What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee

2011-06-28T10:22:00.000-07:00

This is one of those songs that can cheer a bloke up on a particularly cloudy day. Cheers.

What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee
By Trout Fishing in America

Click to Play Song

A Sultan sat on his oriental mat
In his harem in downtown Persia
He took a sip of coffee, just a drip
And he said to his servant Kersia

"Ah, Kersia, Kersia, Kersia
That's the worst cup of coffee in Persia"

"'Cause all I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee
In a proper copper pot"

"Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots
They are no use to me
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea"

In days of old when knights and men were bold
And whiskey was much cheaper
Burt Turpin rode to a coffee shop
And showed his pistols to the keeper

He said, "Stand and deliver!
Can't you see that I'm all a quiver?"

"'Cause all I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee
In a proper copper pot"

"Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots
They are no use to me
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea"

When Bonaparte found that he was in the cart
And he lost that Waterloo fight
He gave his sword to Wellington, my Lord
And he said, "Those British can't half fight"

"Now you've had your Waterloo, sir
Tell me what am I having with you, sir?"

"'Cause all I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee
In a proper copper pot"

"Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots
They are no use to me
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea"

Now king Solomon and his queen would carry on
So we heard in the ancient scandals
He bought her lots of silver coffee pots
With diamond legs and handles

And said the Queen of Sheba
"I'd rather have any old tea-bag"

"'Cause everybody, all I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee
In a proper copper pot"

"Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots
They are no use to me
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea"

"All I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee
In a proper copper pot"

"Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots
They are no use to me
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea"

"All I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee
In a proper copper pot"

"Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots
They are no use to me
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea"

Creek

2011-06-25T16:37:00.001-07:00

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Les fleurs du jour

2011-06-25T15:58:00.001-07:00

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Soccer Practice

2011-06-09T09:15:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was Ethan's first soccer practice. He is doing the soccer summer program with ymca. Hopefully he will like playing soccer :)

Their first game is this Saturday. We will have to get Ethan out on the field and explain to him about goals and such before the game. He has no idea.

There are three Ethans on the team. Fun stuff! And the couch is really nice so I'm excited overall!

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D Bar Desserts with Ron and Kelley

2011-06-09T09:11:00.001-07:00

I am now just getting a chance to post these pics.

Last weekend Ron, Kelley, Mason, and Baby Eli came to visit us! It was really great to spend time with all of them.

We went to D Bar which I guess is featured on some cooking channel. The food was incredible. I recommend just going there for desserts if you want to keep your tab reasonable.

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Amg

2011-06-08T09:29:00.001-07:00

I realize this is infinitely in the realm of dorks material. While
I was watching episodes of Damages (like all day) yesterday, I recognized a shirt my sister gave me on one of the characters.

Since that never ever happens I figured I would blog it.

Damages
Season 1 Episode 4

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Scenic Colorado Springs

2011-05-08T20:36:00.001-07:00

These photos were taken right off Highway 24 West by Pike's Peak and Garden of the Gods.

Notice the heart graffiti <3

Mildred's Homemade ice cream shop

Pike's Peak

Garden of the Gods

This is a really beautiful park with incredibly easy access. If you are looking for an intense hike up a mountain, this isn't the place to go. It is great for almost everybody because the entire thing is paved.

Also if you are a technical rock climber, there are some great spots to hang from.

Kissing camels

I think this black and white picture of this rock resembles a sad baboon.

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Bangkok Tokyo Review

2011-05-07T19:40:00.001-07:00

Bangkok Tokyo
6020 S Gun Club Rd Unit E5
Aurora Co 80016
303-627-6328

This place is freaking awesome!

It just opened a couple months ago and we finally got the chance to try it out tonight.

Great atmosphere-I recommend sitting at the sushi bar for extra treats- wonderful customer service!

As for the sushi.. Everything is amazing but I recommend ordering the special rolls on the back of the menu.

Also, save room for dessert! Can I say fried banana ice cream?!

Yummz.

Love this place!

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Location:E Alamo Dr,Aurora,United States

Blah blah randomness

2011-05-06T09:24:00.001-07:00

I spent yesterday hanging out with Kindergarteners. They are so squishily cute. It almost makes me want to be a kindergarten teacher. Like Arnold Swarshehowdoyouspellit.

These little munchkins were my crew of kids to watch. I like being a chaperon.

I had a lunchable with Ethan at the field trip. Pretty good surprisingly. I love how they give you juice and a little dessert as part of the lunch. Needless to say I was still hungry after my lunchable.

Today is technically my day off because there is no school. And no homework for Ethan over the weekend so it should be a nice break.

But I can hear the neighbors already starting work on the fences.

I am completely worn out with all this fencing stuffs. I'm so glad mixing cement isn't part of my daily routine but if it was I would be super strong and stuff. We are at the much easier stage of putting up studs and pickets. I'm actually a little excited about this because I love using a hammer.

I might shower before I go do hard work with the neighbors. It makes no sense. Nah I'll just wash my face and brush my teeth. Who needs showers?

Last night we went and got late night burgers with Matt at brothers pub or something like that downtown. Best burger I've had in a long time.

After burgers we got to see Matt's bachelor pad.
To sum up Matt's house:

The weather is all sorts of lovely. I am excited about summer. I really hope I get to see some light bugs this year. I miss them. I think that was the only good thing about living in Iowa. They were all over the place.

Before I forget: We just got done putting together our pool table downstairs. And last night at like midnight Robbie forced me to play our first game of pool. I am extremely terrible at pool. I think my record before last night was like getting ONE of my balls in. Well let it be recorded in history and such through this blog that I have somehow won a game of pool! Haha. It will probably nevereverever happen again.

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#beautifulday

2011-04-16T18:48:00.001-07:00

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Castlewood Canyon

2011-04-14T08:27:00.001-07:00

Yesterday Ethan and I decided to go hiking. It was rainy and a little chilly but we had a lot of fun! I can't wait until he is old enough to do some rock climbing with me.

These pictures were edited with the iPhone app recommended by Bradly caller Camera+. Lots of fun for 99 cents.

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Rock climbing

2011-04-05T14:57:00.001-07:00

We were able to experience our first taste of indoor rock climbing the other night. Very fun! Looking forward to doing it on the weekends and hitting some outdoor sites.

I'm pretty sure I died at least twice. Thank goodness for ropes! :D

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Why I love Asian Markets

2011-03-26T16:07:00.001-07:00

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Location:S Parker Rd,Aurora,United States

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

2011-03-17T10:41:00.001-07:00

This post has nothing to do with wearing green of course. I only ever blog about my runs really.

So the reservoir isn't as impossibly big as I thought. I ran around it today.

I tried to "sprint" to the finish. I ended up slowing down a lot.

That is the marina in the background. That white post is where I collapsed for 5 mins.

Maybe this summer I'll dip my feet in the water.

Hopefully Jamba juice later!
Good day to ya!

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a sorta fairytale (Cover)

2011-03-11T14:13:00.000-08:00

A Sorta Fairytale By Tori Amos (Cover)

It has been forever and a half since I've heard this song. I heard it today and wanted to sing it. I just used GarageBand using Live Performance.

If you've never head this song you need to listen to Tori Amos- A Sorta Fairytale. She is absolutely brilliant.

Frozen Lake

2011-03-10T10:29:00.001-08:00

It's actually a reservoir. I'm walking back to the house after my run. I thought I would be able to run some on the way back but I'm pretty much defeated. Walking feels so good right now and Pandora is playing some amazing songs. The wind is cool and fresh on my face and it's making me happy.

I literally love living in Denver! What does that mean? *oatmeal reference to *literally*. I can see the Rockies with its snow tops and I am fantasizing of rolling around in the snow and like eating it. I need to remember to bring some sugary syrup when I attempt that.

So I've been staring at tree branches and willing them to move with my mind. Also. I really felt like an alien back there when I tried to mind control these dogs to stop barking. Needless to say it didn't work very well. Maybe it almost worked but I gave up way too soon before I could see it working.

Stupid movie preview. I think the movie is called Limitless. From what I saw there's some sort of pill and like the guy either steals it or whatever but anyway he probably eats it. And then it makes him super cool it looks like. They showed him making out with hot girls and driving hot cars and being crazy rich. So he unlocks his mind's potential and those are the perks he gets. Hmmm. Lame. IMO it would be much cooler if he used his mega mind powers to move tree branches and mind-silence dogs but whatever.

Seriously though. Why are we too stupid to use our full potential. How stupid!!! It's our brain! Why can't we just unlock it ourselves?

Probably has to do with fast forwarding our impending doom as a human race. Meh.

I wanted to give up here.

But I decided to keep going. Mind over body in works considering how out of shape I am.

So the lake/reservoir whatever is bigger than it appears. I thought about running around the entire thing. It's probably like 6 more miles from where I turned around:

All the wheat we live by is kind of pretty. I would much rather have tall green trees surrounding us. That's like 30 mins west of where we live. I really need to find a river and stand in the forest soon. Maybe this weekend!

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Scenic Howling Fjord

2011-03-09T15:03:00.000-08:00

So while farming some cobalt ore on my Paladin, I decided to be touristy and take snapshots of Howling Fjord.

I'm scerd

2011-03-02T15:40:00.001-08:00

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Stuffs

2010-10-19T12:02:00.001-07:00

It's been forever since I've posted any of my runs. I'm too lazy right now to hunt for them in my photo album. Hehe. Anyway. I wanted to post the pictures I took on my 7 mile run yesterday. Some of them are blurry because I was running while taking them. Also gonna post some random pics too.

My long hair is no more. I was compelled to cut 2 and 1/2 inches off. No idea. The best excuse was to get rid of the last of my unhealthy hair. I miss those 2 and 1/2 inches terribly.

Ethan and I had fun at his field trip! I love kinders.

My three autobots

Crazy boys!

Biggest jar of nutella I've ever seen! It was brought here from Europe by the owner of Crepes n crepes.

Table view from a new restaurant we tried. Food was great but our waiter was an idiot.

This morning <3

The sun rays look like flower petals :)

These trees are so fiery beautiful.

I love this tree!!

Badges for my coffee bean bag purse. There are like a gazillion more I wanna get! :D

I'm now at tattered bookstore in colfax.
I had a date with Arthur in the children's section.

Taking the bus is fun but some people smell really bad.

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Runs for the week

2010-10-01T14:25:00.001-07:00

Hello October!
October is prolly my favorite month out of the entire year. It's because I love pumpkins and Halloween and feeling change swirling all around me; the leaves in their brightest most vibrant hues, the hint of coldness in the air; the thought of scarves and fireplaces and hot chocolate, the anticipation of the first snowfall..it makes me feel really alive. Plus like Thanksgiving is just awesome. I'm already craving yummy Thanksgiving foods..mmmm.

All riighty then. This post is mostly to record my runs for this week.

Monday: 3 miles

Tuesday: 5 miles

I decided to run outside since it was really pretty out.

This was a great run. I didn't get cramps or anything and most of the way it was very relaxing.

Wednesday: 3 miles

Thursday: skipped

Friday: 3 miles @ 26 mins 29 seconds <--new PR!

I wasn't going to run today. Last night I went to bed at 11 but didn't sleep until almost one in the morning. I was probably just beyond exhausted and willing myself to sleep wasn't working. So I was ready to admit defeat and just rest my body today. But when I woke up this morning I didn't feel as tired as I thought I would.

Anyway. Happy October!

The end.

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Wake Me Up

2010-09-30T19:58:00.001-07:00

I am exhausted. I'm trying to stay awake so I can help Ethan do his homework that's due tomorrow. This week went by so fast. We had from Monday until today to get it done but we used up all the days making practice copies of his homework. Silly us. Lesson learned.

I got to visit my favorite bookstore today. :) Which means I skipped the gym and my run this morning. I plan on sleeping early tonight so I have enough energy tomorrow.

It was a beautiful day so I decided to ride my bike instead of taking the bus.
Here are more fall pictures- most of them are from yesterday and the rest today.

I had the unfortunate luck of finding my back bike tire completely flattened. So I walked to Walmart and bought myself some green goo and a small portable air pump. Embarrassingly enough it took me an hour to figure out how in the world I use the inner valve "tool" provided with the goo to remove the inner valve thingie. After several curses and wishing I wasn't a helpless girl, I googled it and looked at the instructions again. Righty tighty lefty loosey. I finally figured it out and was able to repair my tire. I should probably get new inner tubes..

It was definitely worth all of my efforts to reach my destination: Tattered Cover in Colfax. I tried one of their empanadas for lunch with a raspberry mocha cappuccino. It was delish.

After filling my tummy, I was drawn over to the section where the piano sat in silence. I sat on the steps sipping my coffee and stared at it for awhile. It's a very cute piano. xD

The one thing that made me hesitate from playing it was this small clever sign on top of it.

"don't over estimate your talent"

Finally I decided to risk being yelled at and timidly and as quietly as possible played Canon in D. It's the only song I have memorized.

After a few oopsies I decided to step away and seek cover but a few people had actually gathered wanting to listen to me play.

It's definitely an excellent motivation to practice. I haven't spent as much time on the piano as I've been wanting to.

One of the people in the audience was an old man who started talking to me. So I sat next to him and talked with him for a bit. He was a crazy old man from NY. Definitely an interesting conversation..

I was so excited to get home and do my dailies for brewfest. I would finally have enough tokens to buy the outfit and then return them to the vendor for a refund and buy the membership to complete my brewfest achievement. I had researched all of this weeks before the holiday started so I was ready. Booohoooo. Blizzard has changed achievement requirements and the clothes are no longer refundable. aKA I am screwed with getting the brewfest achievement this year :(:(:( **tear**. Oh well at least she looks uberly cute in the outfit.

Goodbye September.

p.s.
I have strong doubts about the public education system.

Too tired to delve into it tonight though.

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Mile

2010-09-26T12:54:00.001-07:00

Technically the weekends are my days off from the gym. But I'm glad I went today.

Best mile time so far. Still want to get it closer to 8 mins flat.

I warmed up on the elliptical while this guy wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled over his head and long pants ran on the treadmill. I was sweating in my shorts and shirt so I have no idea how he pulled that off. After he was kicked out of the treadmill ( it died on him and he didnt know how to fix it-I wasn't sure how it died either) I decided to see if I could get it started again. He was doing intervals and somehow flipped the switch off. It's very light to the touch so I guess that's possible. So I took it over being the person that turned it back on and decided to run just a mile. It felt surprisingly good.

Then because my Ob doc recommended I do weights- something about bone density and being almost 30 (Pssh) I decided to do some assisted pull ups and dips.

The end.

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Mileage

2010-09-24T16:07:00.001-07:00

I'm having a grumpy pants day! >.< Ugh!! <--current mood.

Oh well. I'll get over it.
This entry's entire purpose is document my runs from the last few days.

Today:

Yesterday was skipped.

Wednesday:

This run felt amazing :)

Tuesday

Monday

Last Friday

Last Thursday

Getting better with my times. Must sleep earlier and drink more water.

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To Breathe

2010-09-23T16:00:00.001-07:00

I know I say this alotalotalot but today was such a beautiful day! A kind of day where you can't help but smile. Smile at strangers, smile at no one, smile to yourself. And there's really no other reason for the smile other than the fact that you are breathing and outside enjoying the beautiful day right that very minute.

I decided to skip the gym and go on a bike ride this morning when I saw the forecast.

So I got on the cheery creek trail and followed it all the way downtown. It's such a beautiful ride. I took a lot of pictures!

I love rusty bridges.

This guy who owns this hotdog stand has the right idea. He had the perfect setup. My sister wants to do the exact same thing. But she would be a lot cuter selling hotdogs than this guy hahaha. I definitely wasn't the only person on their bikes who stopped at this little stand to grab something to eat.

It was a lovely lunch Heheh.

So this Arizona green tea is like the best drink ever. It's my favorite right now.

Totally kosher!! xD

That is the REI building with the Starbucks. It's my favorite place to stop while on the bike trail.

Best Starbucks ever :)

There's always plenty of parking for bikes.

A nice spot. For the purposes of staring at the sky, listening to the trees and listening to heart beats.

I decided to climb this rock and sit on top of it. Despite being a rock and not being a soft plump chair, it was rather comfty. I almost fell asleep on it.

Starbucks called and wanted me to come over. Pumpkin spiced latte with two squirts of chocolate syrup and a plug for recharging my phone near a soft squishy leather chair.

This didn't match the actual time btw. But still an awesome clock.

Sea turtles mate.

Life isn't always pretty. There are many people some are good honest people who are dirty and who are hungry- who have no houses, no place to rest their heads besides the hard ground --who have been brought down lower than we can imagine by our society. You see a lot of them outside on a beautiful day like today. And you take a moment and look at their faces. And they have a smile on their faces. And it's inspiring.

A beautiful day belongs to everyone.

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:)

2010-09-15T11:08:00.001-07:00

I'm in a really great mood. Sleepy, a little tired, but content.

Current location:
Middle of the forest. Feeling a slight breeze and watching the sun playfully moving through the trees. Playing the piano or reading a book all by myself except for maybe cute little squirrels and other cute foresty animals..maybe a bear too as long as it doesn't want to eat me.

Actual location:
My couch. It's still nice. I'm listening to Regina like a free bird. The sun is playing with the blinds. And Choco is staring at me desperately willing me with her dog powers to take her for her long walk.

Ethan is bringing so many cute stuffs home from school. I'm thinking of making like a trunk or something to put it all in. I don't know what I'll do with it. It's like I wanna keep them forever but we will run out of apartment soon at the rate these are coming in! Hmm. I might just send them to the grandparents hehe.

Yesterday I ran at the gym. It was good. I took it really easy because I was afraid of the pain. But it went well. Seems like breathing through the nose pretty much fixes it :)

I ran again today. There was a girl on the treadmill when I first came in and she totally motivated me. She was awesome. This run didn't feel quite as good. It was kind of painful. I know it will get better sooner than later though :)

So today's time is a minute better than yesterday's. A minute makes a huge difference when you are talking about comfort levels. I think I ran yesterday mostly at 5.8 mph so it was a lot more relaxed. Today I tried to run around 6.2 and sprinted the last lap to about 7.5. It will be nice to keep improving my time:)

I got a picture of Ethan's cute little waving hand this morning. He's so cute with saying goodbye from the bus. I think they are taking yearbook pictures today. He really needs a haircut even though I'm kind of fond of his long hair.

I got a free shirt the other day! It's really cute. Robbie told me it was a droid shirt- which almost made me not want to wear it..but the cuteness of the green guy overcomes.

Anyhoos. I'm gonna take Choco out! I hope everyone has a fun Wednesday :)

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Morning run

2010-09-13T09:20:00.001-07:00

I was very lucky this morning. The sun was hiding and the air was cool and crisp. Perfect for running. So I decided to run my usual route.

It started out amazing. Then it started sucking after about 2 miles. The familiar sharp pain under my right rib cage hit me all of a sudden. Before I knew it I was doubled over on the trail. I tried several ways to contain it. By putting pressure on it I found that it became bearable. But then I just felt silly running with one hand holding my stomach like I was falling apart or something. Then I figured out that breathing through my nose made it almost entirely go away. But after a minute of that it felt like I was running while holding my breath. Bleh.

This getting old business or whatever the hell this is sucks.

Bah I'm determined to beat this stupid side stitch.

Prolly gonna try this again on wednesday if weather permits.

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Rerun

2010-09-07T13:49:00.001-07:00

This run was basically really painful the entire time. But it was still a good time and I got to enjoy the beautiful morning :). I wanted to stop at mile 2 and actually made it to 5 miles so all in all I can't complain! Yay!

Side note: if you are a runner and want an easy way to carry your house/car key just use a hair tie! All those times I would tie my key to my shoelaces back in cross country just makes me feel silly..

I am already mourning summer..but I'm uber excited for fall and the snow will be beautiful too.

Forest fire in Boulder. Maybe that is why the sky looks a little brown today. :(

Had lunch with Ethan! He's so cute :) I love kindergarteners. They are the best. They are so sweet and pure..even when they are grumpy. I love looking at them eat their lunch lol.

It's kind of warmish today. I made Ethan wear long sleeves because it was chilly early this morning. Oh well.

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US-285

2010-09-04T20:12:00.001-07:00

Slices of heaven.

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Trails

2010-09-01T08:50:00.001-07:00

So I am walking the last part of my workout-heading for home. I guess I'm on cool down. :)

On impulse I decided to run outside this morning. It's very sunny out but the air is so nice and cool and refreshing. I'm hurting. I guess this just tells me I need to run longer more often.

I regret not wearing a hat. The sun was glaring at me half of the time. The trail I found is pretty sweet. It goes all the way around so there's no need to backtrack. And most of it is on a trail and very scenic.

I really wanted to make to 5 miles. But I was dead and got caught on a stoplight so I decided it must be a sign to just stop and walk the rest of the way . :) At the light this lady kept looking at me. So I turned my music off so I could hear what she was saying. She wanted to know how far I ran. I told ger 4 miles..and smiled and stated te obvious: I'm dying haha. She said I did good. She was really sweet. Then she asked how old I was. And my brain did like a quick search and couldn't remember my age! How embarrassing! I just blurted out 26 then realized with dismay that I'm actually 27.

Sigh.

So Bob the blister is back. And perhaps a little cousin.

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Location:E Kent Pl,Aurora,United States

Lunch

2010-08-31T13:09:00.001-07:00

Today was lunch with Ethan at his school! Little kids are too cute!

YouTube Video

He has a pin number he has to remember to pay for his lunch hehehe :)

Hmmm. I think he forgot it. Luckily the lunch lady knows it for him! If only lunch ladies still existed always! :)

He picked the burrito. Didn't know he liked burritos.

Time to head back to KEP.

One of the kep teachers asked me to stay in the classroom for a bit. That was a treat!

I give major props to kindergarten teachers out there!!

I'm pretty tired. I went to the gym this morning and did some assisted pull-ups which is gonna kill my arms tomorrow! I think i reached muscle failure. I also ran and did the elliptical.

It was such a nice day. Fall is becoming more and more present. I rode my bike to Ethan's school and it doesn't take very long from the apartment. And the way back cutting through the park is even faster. Probably comparable with driving!

One of the kindergarten moms was at the gym. She told me her name last week and I can't remember for the life of me what it is! Anyway she seems pretty awesome :)

Well it's that time of the year again. Time to find a not creepy doctor. I hate being a girl sometimes.

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Location:E Kent Pl,Aurora,United States

Bicycle

2010-08-27T16:51:00.001-07:00

Today was a perfect summer day to pedal everywhere. I am so thankful for my iPhone and google maps. I would have never found this trail by myself. Anyway I will share my day through pictures. I am full from this --->>>

Dish I made a few minutes ago<----
and sleepy and I don't really have too much to say :)

He is like a pro bus-taker now.

Part of the bike path was under construction.

But they did so awesome guiding you through the detour. :)

^^This homeless person has a lot of stuff!^^

It was fun to ride all the way to cherry creek mall :)

It was so nice out and I was enjoying the trail so much- I decided to skip the mall and keep going on the trail.

Until I saw this^^

Hehehe. I am weak when it comes to this store. Idk why but for some reason I never really buy anything when I visit it. It's just awesome because their stiff always make me giggle..

^^giggles^^

Puma store was right next door.

Sigh.. Cute running shoes. Next month they will have more in stock.

Cute silly hats :D

I managed to walk away from the hats heheh

Refill on face lotion :)

Old people at the mall
Watching old people news and stocks and reading old people newspaper. They are soo much cooler than me :)

Powering up! +5k health and mana. It looks like poop but it's really pretty good.

Pit stop! Hahah.

Now where did I park?!
Oh yeah right in front of urban outfitters next to the uberly cute scooter. I <3 my bike :)

I decided to go to city park. It was pretty but the way there was soo annoying I don't think I'll ever ride my bike there again. The google maps for walking is awesome but that disclaimer is there for a reason. (beta):use caution. They had me crossing major intersections and roads without any pedestrian crossing. Just like frogger..

City park and its huge trees.

A perfect place to stop and rest from the summer sun.

You can sense the coming of fall!
Here are a couple of cute leaves I found yesterday.

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Trains and school busses

2010-08-26T16:01:00.000-07:00

Today was hot. And it was a good day.

Ethan's first day on the bus. He is my hero. He waved to me and blew me lots of air kisses from his bus seat. I had to tip-toe to see him since he is so tiny and I'm not that tall :) I know it won't last long but I will never forget these days where I'm his princess and he openly loves me. He calls me his pretty butterfly princess. I love it. I missed him a lot today.

I went downtown to turn in applications and goof off. Forever21 is hiring. But I don't know if my brain can handle retail. I might just shoot my foot. I wish Starbucks would just hire me already. Sheesh. Beggars can't be choosers. I'll fill out the app for fun and turn it in and see where it goes. Maybe I should leave out being edumacated or being a military freak of any sorts.

It was a day of splurging. I bought myself a cute case for my iPhone. I love it. Then I stood in line for an hour or so for $5 pad Thai from this little food stand run by this tiny Asian lady. She's the greatest. There were 5 other people in line who waited as long as I did. And now I know why. The food is just ridiculously delicious!!!!

I took my long awaited pad Thai and headed over to Starbucks ( not hiring) and ordered my usual and sat there using their plug to charge my phone and eating pad Thai. I felt sorry for the people around me. I bet they were all jealous of my yummy food.

I love taking the train. I almost fell asleep a few times. I got to read some of The Magicians too. It's so useful having something to look at on the train. You don't have to avoid staring at people. At first I didn't really care for the book but it is making me giggle. I'm excited :)

I don't know why I'm so tired. Part of being old I suppose.

Here is a picture of this old man. He lives in our complex. We have been watching him since winter. He is always walking and he has a very cool hat. He looks a little thin and I worry about him. I said hi to him today and he said hi back for the first time ever. I have no idea what his name is but his face reminds me of John Locke.

For the train.

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First day of school

2010-08-25T11:30:00.000-07:00

Ok. I was pretty certain I wouldn't get all emotional today. And while at school I did really well. I was so excited and nervous for my little bugger and so proud.

I'm at home now looking at his pictures and smearing my eye liner all over my face. I'm so proud of him. He is such an amazing kid and he is going to do so well in school! I guess I just miss him. I had the sudden urge to give him a hug and give his cheeks little kisses while looking at his pictures earlier today and I realized with a pang that I can't. It hurts a little :)

This is his classroom.. It was so cute in there and smelled soo good! I wanted to stay and learn too!

The backpack area makes me happy.

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Location:Kindergarten, first day of school, 2010

The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follet

2010-08-20T22:17:00.000-07:00

After 912 pages of reading on my iPhone, I can only think of a few sentences to say. Not because the book failed to capture my mind and enrich my soul. I suppose the amount of pages to this book is tribute enough to its awesomeness, for I cannot imagine what reader would place such painful punishment on themselves if it was 912 pages of crap. This is going to be quite a feeble representation of the book, but I feel like I needed to write something down.

When I started reading this book, I really wasn't sure what it was about, or what it would amount to. It was about cathedrals, it was about war, the church versus government?, suffering, violence, love, vengeance, evil, perseverance, humanity...on and on 912 pages later. The book was about the human soul. The human capacity to love, to endure, to hate, to survive, to forgive, to live and die. The good guys don't always win. In fact, the good guys suffer. Especially in times of war when justice simply doesn't exist. The characters in this story are all very memorable and alive. Some are poor and die poor from starvation. Others persevere the greatest tragedies, where once upon a time they lived on top of life with power and wealth and then in an instant are reduced to poverty, humiliation, and hopelessness. There are characters who scheme and scheme and represent the epitome of selfishness, wickedness, and evil. And you see them triumph over the helpless. Trampling over others and gloating in their victories. Toward the end of the book, you are then convinced that life doesn't care. That evil and greedy men will always manage to desecrate the hard work of honest people and that everything is going to rot and decay. Sometimes such is life. Perhaps evil will destroy lives, but always there is good that survives it somehow. The next generation offers new hope and in that generation perhaps good overcomes evil and all is right with the world. But not always. There is not always a miracle that rescues a wonderful woman in child birth from freezing in the forest. The "good" people do not always survive. They have as much of a chance of dying as anyone. No one is immuned to death; even the bad guys who strike fear in many hearts-who seem unstoppable, cannot always escape death.

I sometimes wonder whether life's journey- life's adventures, our trials, our tribulations, our laughter and happiness, whether it is meant to prepare us for death. To be old and able to face death with acceptance. But then there are so many that die young. Is there really a point in understanding anything, outside of the sheer joy of knowing for knowing's sake? Basically we share knowledge and experiences to the next generation so that they may prosper even more. So they may learn from our mistakes. So they may create better lives. I guess it's like recycling in a way. Our lives intertwine with those before us and those after us. And the point is so that we can live better. So we can teach our young ones to live better. To be happier. Accept that in life there can be happiness. If you are able to find it and keep it. But also with happiness can come tragedy. And it doesn't give a warning. Think ahead to your 70 year old greying self if you are blessed to live that long and imagine what you will think of the time you have now. Of the choices you are making now. And perhaps a smile will cross your lips and you will be content with life. Or perhaps you will have deep regrets of the things you can never be and the things you can never do and the things you can never have. And then what?

I wish I could capture the story more eloquently, but since I can't, I suggest you read it and experience it for yourself.

In other news..

I ran today. It was a decent enough run, 2 miles. Hope to run tomorrow too.

On days of grey

2010-08-19T12:18:00.001-07:00

It is one of those beautiful summer days. The breeze feels nice and cool against my skin. I can feel tiny raindrops coming from the masses of grey clouds hovering over me. I hope it rains and rains and storms big!

In less than a week Ethan will be starting school. I am anxious. He will be on his own. This year he only has half a day. Next year will be different. Will he eat his lunches? Will there be bullies. I'm so afraid of the bullies that might go to his school.

I went to the gym today and it kicked my butt.

I went the other day too- I don't think I posted it so just in case I didn't:

Anyway. I want to see the river again. And it's only Thursday.

Mhmf

2010-08-15T00:13:00.001-07:00

Here are some photos from the mile high music festival. Saw some great bands today!! Rusted Root, Mayer Hawthorne & County, Phoenix, and Jack Johnson.

Mayer Hawthorne & County

Phoenix

Jack Johnson was soooo unbelievably amazing! It was like magic. And Paula Fuga compliments him perfectly! She rocked my socks tonight!!!

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Smell ya later

2010-08-13T23:54:00.001-07:00

Tonight we decided to take the train downtown and walk around and have dinner at the cheesecake factory to see our friend Steve, a.k.a. Will Ferrell's twin brother. As always the food is awesome and the service completely hilarious. The restaurant was really busy but we didn't have to wait long for some reason. Steve was stationed out in the patio and it was a beautiful night to eat outside.

Ethan made lovely conversation with the table next to us. They were intrigued by him reading his little book (which Ethan got from some random people handing them out on the streets)

It's actually a nice read :)

Here are some shots of dinner:

Mmmmm delish.

As always whenever you carry leftovers, you must be prepared to protect them from the people on the sidewalks. They will ask for your leftovers and they always make me feel guilty. If I was carrying the leftovers I would have given them up.

The best part about walking downtown are the crazy people. And the people playing music. Sometimes people will make drum beats with pail buckets or like tonight- someone got creative and was using a wood saw? I think that's what it's called. The one with all the teeth.

My other favorite is smelling everyone's cologne and perfumes.. And with that comes other odors that are not so pleasant. Mostly urine and body odors of imaginable days without proper showers.

There were a lot of sleepy people on the benches. And for some reason people like to walk their tiny little dogs at night. Tonight the most prominent sound came from a man wearing a kilt and playing his bagpipes.

Our night ended with these two little girls sitting behind us on the train dropping bombs the whole way home. It was smelly.

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how old are you, Moon?

2010-08-12T18:45:00.000-07:00

Last night we went to the movies to see Steve Carell's new movie, Despicable Me. Usually I try never to figure out who does the voices in these animated movies. It somehow ruins the character for me, because I'll end up sitting there imagining what the actor looks like while they are doing the voices. But for this movie I really didn't have a choice. Luckily for me, Steve Carell is pretty awesome. Because even though his face kept morphing with Dr. Gru's, it made it even funnier. He is just hilarious.

While he was stealing the moon, I realized that I never thought about the Earth without the Moon. Sadly enough I wondered whether they were always together, and if not, what it was like being Moonless.

After a few google searches, most scientists think that the moon is as old as the earth. So for all purposes the moon and the earth have always been together. They were a lot closer together in the beginning but the moon is slowly moving away from the Earth. Slowly as in less than 4 inches per year. Something very scientific to do with Tidal pulses and what not. The Earth could probably exists just fine without the moon. We would still have tidal waves from the sun. But the moon makes the sky happy and the fishies jump. And solar eclipses are totally amazing and that would just be sad if we never had one, ever. And where would cheese come from?

I like the Moon very much and I'm glad we have it. :)

Today is like any other day

2010-08-10T13:32:00.000-07:00

Except I actually made it to the gym. And I ran outside too, even though it was pretty sad.

We are going to the dog park because Ethan wants to shoot his water gun.

And choco has way too much energy.

For some reason I can't stop sneezing.

So because this is a blog and not a tweet I feel I need to ramble.

I should probably tweet my runs and just tag the mileage so I can still add up miles for the year.

Meh.

We were driving up to the Rockies- grand lake area the other day and on the way back we stopped on the side of the road and looked at the sky for awhile. It was filled with twinkling stars and we could see the Milkyway. It was a little overwhelming actually. How beautiful and incredible and surreal the night sky was. Everything and anything always seems possible when I look at the sky and see the stars. And it always gets me to thinking about time. Because it's not just how faraway they are physically, but how old they are. How weird to be looking at something- and not really seeing what it looks like right that very minute. But seeing the past. Is it even still there?

I saw the coolest shooting star I've seen in awhile. It was huge and it had a reddish glare to it and it also had a tail. It probably lasted less than 2 seconds. I wonder if they have some sort of calculated data on what the odds of more than one person seeing the same shooting star are. I bet it's pretty slim.

Hmmm. I wonder what it would be like to be the person calculating such data. Some people have the coolest jobs.

My right eye is red. It could be from reading. I got purple eye drops for it last night.

Today was a bad day for drinking. I was drinking water and somehow I missed my mouth and the water landed on my shirt. A little later I was drinking Arizona sweet tea and swallowed it wrong or my pipes malfunctioned and I started coughing.
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Location:E Kent Pl,Aurora,United States

Seconds

2010-08-02T10:55:00.000-07:00

My new PR.

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Fireworks

2010-07-31T21:21:00.000-07:00

So tonight while we were sitting in the living room, we heard fireworks. So we looked out the window and it was pretty spectacular.

I took some pictures..
Hahah. These are the remainder pics I took after deleting like hundreds of them :D

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Chimis

2010-07-28T19:52:00.001-07:00

Today I had the best chimi :)

And we took a picture with the sun:) it was using this special paper that reacts to uv rays.

We also got lost downtown but it ended up to be a nice pretty walk even though it was a little hot out.

Good day :)

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Rain

2010-07-28T07:44:00.000-07:00

I went running outside yesterday. It was nice and rainy and really pretty. My run was a little painful at some points but I enjoyed most of it!

Aujord'hui, nous allons au musèe des enfants.

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how to fail an interview

2010-07-26T12:37:00.000-07:00

1. So why did you choose the teller positon?

Uh I don't know. I have no experience in banking stuff and isn't that where you start?

2. Do you have any questions?

No. I really don't.

3. What kind of salary are you looking at?

I don't really know. 30K? *sheepish smile*

Well actually the starting point is 10k.

Oh ok. Well I guess 10k- 18k?

4. What do you see yourself doing in 5 years?

Working. I just really want a job. Hmm. I used to have a career goal. But right now I just want a job. And hopefully in five years, I'll have a job and I'll be happy doing it.

5. How do you define good customer service?

hmm. Just make people happy. Treat them like they are important and try to help them as much as possible.

6. Do you have any experience with cash registers?

My first job was at Harkins movie theater. I sold popcorn and stuff. And then I worked at retail which I hated. That involved a cash register. Other than that no, not really. *smile*

7. *light bulb*
I have a question! What is your hiring process like? Do you do second interviews? ( because I hate interviews)

Yeah. I have a few more interviews to go through (ahem loser you're not getting this job hint hint) And it will probably be next week until I can get the general branch manager to do a second interview with me- his schedule is really busy (aka you're not getting this job EVER!)

8. *all hope sinks down into my shoes and through their brown ugly carpet*

9. Thanks for coming on such short notice (but no thanks)

10. Bleh!!!!!!

Clouds

2010-07-26T12:27:00.001-07:00

I hate writing something and then the app quits and it doesn't save any of it and now whatever I will write won't even come close to what I wrote in the first place!
Haha. Argh.

Yesterday was really nice. We went for a really long scenic drive on the 285 (which I nominate best road ever to go on scenic drives). It was a nice and stormy afternoon. The clouds were heavy with rain. The air smelled amazing and the mountains were majestic. Colorado is such a beautiful state. The sharp peaks and gentle slopes, the golden fields, the flowing and moving rivers, the playful streaks of light peeking from the beautiful ominous clouds- you can't help but quiet your soul and be at peace with yourself.

It also helps that you can find random BBQ stands along the side of the road. Which happens to also be next to a creek and surrounded by good smelling pine trees. :)

And one's feet can always use a dip in the ice cold river water.

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Summer

2010-07-16T14:12:00.001-07:00

So blogpress is being a punk.

Ugh.

I wrote this yesterday and couldn't get it to publish. It is so frustrating. We are at the best Mexican restaurant and their crazy music is making it hard to be angry. Hahaha.

I wish life was a movie and you could just get up and start dancing in a restaurant and people would join in including the kitchen staff. And it would end happily ever after. Alas.
***
Thursday July 15th 2010
I love summer. :)
I rode my bike and pulled Ethan on his bike trailer today. It was hot, the hills were a little hard, but overall we had so much fun!

The beach at the lake is about 4 miles from the apartment but the scenery is really pretty filled with wild flowers, huge grown trees, green fields and yellow butterflies.

We splashed and swam in the lake. The water was perfect :)

Location:S Holly St,Southwest Arapahoe,United States

PR

2010-07-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

So best time for one mile in a long time. Not sure if this is sad or not.

After I ran this mile I stopped for 40 seconds to breathe and ran my second one :). It's usually against my religion to ever stop but I'm glad I did :)

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Location:S Holly St,Southwest Arapahoe,United States

Fare thee well

2010-07-04T13:36:00.000-07:00

So last night I decided to say goodbye to my fully customized and hacked iPhone and upgrade to ios4 unhacked. This was mostly due to the seemingly ever-increasing task of keeping up with updates. I guess apple wins for this!

I could also not stand all of my outdated apps and not being able to update them without getting error messages because some of them were hacked. I realized that I never really used the hacked applications anyway. And ios4 has the functionality I need (folders and multitasking) that wasn't available except for the hack version.

Ios4 is awesome. My phone is sooo much faster!!

I miss my unique little mods but I was able to keep one-how, I'm not sure!

Instead of saying AT&T on the top left, it still says Pirate! Heheheh.

I will miss you old phone, but I'm happy with my decision :)

Unhacked:

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Location:S Emporia Way,Aurora,United States

Ruby Sanctum

2010-07-01T13:08:00.000-07:00

Last night I got to try out WoTLK's newest and last instance addition, The Ruby Sanctum.

It was deadly fun. I was with a 10 man pug that sounded like they were all from England and Australia and it was really amusing to hear them say "what's with the purple things" with their accents during the raid. There was a lot of talk about purple. hahaha.

We got Halion to Phase 2. That was all. We had a hard time getting into the portal-mostly with bad landings like right in front of the dragon and getting cleaved. If it wasn't that, it was everyone dying because of being in the purple thing. Or getting creamed by the lazers from the orbs or wherever those lazers come from. After about 7 wipes someone nicely said "I've got to go-I've important real life stuffs to do" so the group disbanded and there was no downing Halion. It was a really great experience and my tree had tons of fun waving her branches around. I am looking forward to getting this boss. It's a nice change from icc. And a nice addition to getting more frosties and loot. My trinket!

From Pàndora's Box

after our first wipe..

From Pàndora's Box

the end. Next time I will get more pictures..especially of Phase 2, and hopefully Phase 3. :D

selfish

2010-07-01T12:38:00.000-07:00

So update on the car:
Geico is sooo awesome. They took care of it. So I didn't have to call the lady anymore or get stressed out or feel guilty about her sick daughter or whatever. She actually called me a few times and I didn't answer. Oh well. Hopefully she's not pissed. Her insurance is going to fix our car and provide us a rental so it's all good.

On June 22 2010 I wrote this blog and forgot to post it.

While I was at the DMV yesterday getting my Co drivers license, I was confronted with a short question. It is painless enough, whether you answer yes or no, no one is going to go after you or make a big deal about it. But the decision weighs heavily on the heart, and thus requires some thought.

I just spoke to the lady that hit me yesterday. She finally called me back. The entire conversation pretty much had two points.

1. Be thankful that no one was hurt.
2. The damage is so minute, let's move on with our lives.

I am thankful that no one was hurt. It would have been pretty ironic if I ended up getting hurt and needed an organ and couldn't get one because of a whole lot more people like me around the planet checking No for donating their organs. But in any case, it was her fault, she admitted that it was her fault, stated that she would fix my car and that is that. Shitty things happen to good people. At least for her, I was stupid and nice enough not to call the cops and she didn't get a ticket.

Yes, the damage is almost insignificant. But there is damage. To our new car. And I want it fixed. That is why people get insurance. Because accidents happen and that is just part of life.

Do I feel bad for demanding this much money from this lady, who seems like a nice and decent person? Yes. Especially after hearing about her daughter who is in the hospital. Her 11 year old daughter getting endoscopies. Of course. This makes me feel even more selfish and shallow.

Will I reconsider letting this accident slide by for the sake of helping this family out? Part of me wishes I could just let it go, but a stronger part wants it fixed.

Yes or No

There are signs all over the DMV that encourage people to help save lives by becoming organ donors.

It really shouldn't cause people to pause. You're dead, you have no use for your organs, so why not let some little kid, or a husband/wife with kids, or whoever have another chance to enjoy being alive?

Perhaps my mind is so narrow to even believe that paramedics wouldn't try everything they can to save me if they saw that I was an organ donor. Perhaps I don't have faith in people. But that is one of the fears that emerges when my organs are in question. The other, more predominant one is the fear of being mutilated. Of being cut apart and distributed. It's really very silly because again, when you are dead none of those organs really matter to you anymore. But my mind cannot let go and out of pure selfishness, I have chosen No.

I guess I'm a selfish person.

:-/

2010-06-22T10:25:00.000-07:00

I had a really creepy dream last night. It was about this fat lady who came to me wanting help with her missing son. Not sure where this dream came from. Anyway, I was listening to her and I told her she should talk to Allison DeBois. I guess my brain can still make sense while dreaming. I haven't seen any Medium lately either so I'm not sure where my brain is getting all this weirdness from. The really creepy part though was when the fat lady started like snickering and telling me that her son died and that she was dead too! Then she turned into this ghost thing and was laughing at me the whole time.

Yesterday was sort of a bad day. I spent a lot of time waiting in line at the dmv. And then before I could make it home, this asian lady hit me with her van. It was the lightest bump ever. I was stopped at a red left turn lane that accesses the freeway. Before the light changed, I feel and hear a tiny bump. I was pretty pissed. She hit our new car!!! Anyway. I was by myself with Ethan in the back and my brain started to sort of panic. It turned into this unfunctioning mush. I put the car in park and got out to see what sort of damage I had to deal with.

Her van wasn't damaged at all. Her front license plate was a little bent but other than that she was fine. At first glance it didn't look like our honda was damaged either. Then I noticed the indentitation on our bumper from the screws on her front plate. And part of the bumper was lightly bent. The damage felt so insignificant, it felt like the lady just wanted to forget anything happened and leave. She kept telling me that we should go to a parking lot and talk about it.

I called Robbie since I wasn't sure what to do. He said I should call the cops. I actually dialed 911 but he called me back so I hung up. He then tells me to call Geico. Geico is ridiculous. There are so many options and you can't just press zero to talk to a person. So I hung up on them too and decided to talk to the lady and get her information.

She was like let's move the cars because we are in people's way. And then she was like I'll fix your car. I sort of looked at her trying to decide whether or not to trust her, still feeling disoriented and pissed off. I finally told her fine we can meet at the first exit coming up and to give me her insurance information. She handed me her geico papers. So I drove off, feeling a bit stupid and hoping she wouldn't drive away.

We get to the parking lot of like a seven eleven and she decided that I needed to take the honda to a body shop and she would pay for it and if it was too much she would have her insurance take care of it. I got her contact information and drove away still feeling stupid..

So. We took the honda to one of the body shops that our Honda dealer recommended. After waiting some more they told us that the rear bumper needed to be replaced. And quoted us a ridiculous $960 some odd to fix it and the process taking two days. Two days without our car. I called another body shop to get a second quote and the guy emailed me a quote for $200 less and 5 hours to get it done. So much better. I called the lady with the info last night and I received a voicemail. She hasn't called me back :-/ I think I'm going to call her again now. :-/

You must be this tall

2010-06-21T10:55:00.001-07:00

Trying to drown out Horrible 80's music while waiting for my cheeseburger. We are at Heritage Square. It's like this mini amusement park with rides and old style buildings. And horrible music.

It's a beautiful day. There are some darker clouds in the sky and the air feels cool against my skin. These hills are so green. It puts me in a really great mood. There's like a huge slide on top of the hill where people get lifted up- like ski lifts.

Mmmm my burger is here.

Well that was this Saturday. It's Monday now. I took some pictures with my camera which needs to be synced so I'll probably get those up sometime. Maybe soon maybe not.

Here are some I took with my phone.

-- Post From My iPhone

fun times in azeroth

2010-06-19T09:14:00.000-07:00

Today is a day I have been waiting for for a few months now :) I just turned in my last stealing puppies quest and I am quite relieved. I was becomming extremely agonizing doing those two dailies. There were days and even weeks when I just didn't feel like doing them anymore because it seemed to take an eternity! But I have persevered and I now have Pengu and the Kaluak Fishing pole which totally rocks my socks. So yay!! Now I can work on argent tournament stuffs to get my little tree companion. It never stops! :D

I also wanted to mention that I had a really fun night in WoW the other day. Due to the raid group missing a few key members, we decided to do Kara just for fun. I've never been to Kara so that was a treat. My most favourite part was playing "Wizard's Chest" like in Harry Potter!!

From Pàndora's Box

Me and my shadow

2010-06-17T16:28:00.000-07:00

So Pebbles and I got to work out today :). Which is awesome. I haven't been to the gym in ages so it was a really great thing. Did one mile on the elliptical and one mile outside since the treadmills were taken. I am probably a lot darker now compared to 30 mins ago and that's only 11 mins in the sun. This summer is gonna transform me shades darker I'm sure. Oh well.

My run went really well despite my fears of cramps. I stared at my shadow a lot. And the trees and wind and cottonwood puffs in the summer breeze encouraged me. I can't wait to do this again tomorrow!

I did stupid little 5 lb weights and now my shoulder is being retarded. Yay me. D: I also did flutters. 3 sets of 50 and they killed.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Thursday!

Tonight- mimiron is going down! Hopefully..

-- Post From My iPhone

Shutter Island

2010-06-17T09:18:00.000-07:00

I have not seen a good "scary" movie like this in awhile.

We watched this last night and I really enjoyed it. Leonardo DiCaprio is just getting better as he gets older. I still laugh when I remember him as Jack in Titanic (I'll never let go Jack), but all joking aside, he really is a wonderful actor.

We were hesitant to see this movie-not sure why really. Maybe the title. It sounds a little hokey.

I will try not to write any spoilers because I highly recommend this movie :)

It's kinda funny. There were scenes during the movie where I expected something silly like the lady to bite his neck off or the wife's face to turn like a predictable undead/possessed laughing corpse. It just shows how much of the ridiculous is present in movies nowadays. Like the only way to scare an audience is to present them with these silly transformations or just an insane amount of blood and gore. There are definitely some very disturbing images in the movie. But the movie is scary and terrifying beyond the imagery.

It strikes you to the core. It makes you reflect on humanity and really reminds you of the things people are capable of. History's most brutal acts-were they all done by the insane? Does commiting heinous acts make a person insane or are they truly evil. I believe that perhaps the line between sanity and insanity is very thin. It almost seems like insanity is the brain's way of coping with a devastating event or situation or a deeply regretted action. Sometimes it takes years and years to re-wire how the brain functions and builds up defense mechanisms. But maybe what we label as crazy or insane comes from things we don't understand. I am referencing Spiderwick actually. The old lady from Spiderwick. She was thought to be crazy because she spoke about monsters and had cuts on her arms that people thought were self-inflicted. Of course you realize that she isn't crazy and it makes you wonder.

What if people said you were crazy? How in the world would you prove that you are not? Back to the movie. It was brilliant how they demonstrated that "facts" can easily be manipulated by people with means. Reality can easily be distorted if you are alone. It makes you wonder whether other people make reality. If other people recognize the sames things you do, then it is outside of your head and must be real. But this can also be an illussion!

The search for truth sounds like it only exists in movies and books and fiction. That is a largely careless statement but I'm trying to make a point. Because we are surrounded by people and society, it seems like we all know what is really going on. And perhaps for the most part we do. We have a government and social standings. We have social norms. But there are still universally known disagreements. There are still universally known "facts" for a group of people that other large groups of people disagree with. I am talking about religions. I am talking about theories. I am even talking about relationships. Because every now and then people find out that what they thought was real wasn't really real at all. That how they perceived someone or something was completely different from how that person perceived it. The truth is hard to get to. In some cases impossible. Sometimes, we can only then cling to faith, and belief.

I'm so predictable

2010-06-16T21:44:00.000-07:00

We got to hit the tennis courts this afternoon and it was so fun. My serves are horrid though. Most of them do not make it over the net and the ones that do go on the other side. Bleh. So I was analyzing my form and I think I figured out what I'm doing wrong. I will have to test it out the next time we play which will hopefully be soon.

In other news..

I am getting old. My back really felt strained from all of my power hits. hahaha. Maybe it will get better the more we play. I must get my tennis out of the embarrassing state that it is under so that when Kimmie comes in November she won't laugh at me. She might still laugh but at least I can feel better about myself if I practice before she comes. Seriously considering joining one of those cultish tennis groups to get more play time in. Nah.

I got to run around the park too. It was probably only half a mile but it still got me energized. My shoelaces were untied the entire time. And a little girl on her bike almost ran me over.

It's windy. And the summer nights are so lovely. I love Colorado :)

breakfast, birthdays and such

2010-06-10T17:04:00.000-07:00

birthday breakfast

is it enough to breathe.

2010-06-08T10:44:00.000-07:00

10:33 a.m.
It's been awhile since I've written anything down. Today while I was walking with E while he rode his bike, all I could think about was writing something. I have no idea what I want to write but here it is.

Today is such a nice reprieve from the heat. The clouds are gathering up rain and the breeze is nice and cool. Everything smells so fresh and the grass smells very sweet. It is a very pleasant day.

I have been slacking on keeping my body in shape the last few weeks. I wanted to get up and spend some time on the stair climber or elliptical at the gym but I have no key today since it ended up on Robbie's keychain due to my lack of using it. I am hungry, but maybe I should just stretch and do a quick mile. That would really make me feel better. I think I'm going to. Maybe it will settle the agitation building up in my mind. I know a lot of this restlessness is due to not working out.

more later maybe.

11:30 a.m.
I feel a lot better. Considering how pissed off I was before my run.

I go to put my shoes on and was assaulted in the face by a most foul smell. I was a little shocked my shoes would smell remotely close to that bad! Upon further inspection I was disgusted to find that I had stepped on dog poop earlier when I was walking with Ethan.

I know I can't possibly mean this. But I thought it over and over. I hate dogs. They are cute in movies and like when other people own them but I hate being around them. And I know that as I type this, it's not true because there are times and more often than I will probably care to admit, that I really do enjoy Choco's company. There are only two dogs in the history of dogs I've crossed paths with that I have a very fond memory of. And that is Shep and Freebie. When I spent the summer in Minneapolis with them. So.

I guess it's a little funny. To step on dog poop and not know it, and then have it really get you by surprise. I spent the next 30 minutes scrubbing it off my running shoes with fabric cleaner. I don't know if I can wear those shoes again. I have half a mind to toss them in the garbage. They do have over 100 miles on them so maybe it's time for a new pair.

I only ran a mile. And most of it felt good, but my time wasn't great (meh 10 minute mile). I am determined to start running more frequently again. Even if it's just a mile. It really kills me to make them so short but I don't know what else to do to avoid the stupid pain in my ribs. I did some flutters when I was stretching. Maybe that will help strengthen my abdominal area.

Well the sun came out but it's ok because I really like the sun. I hope it still rains though.

I'm going to go shower and think about making the spinach noodles for lunch. Today will be a good day to finish my book and maybe start a new one and maybe write a letter to my friend Meg. I need to close the windows now though. The maintenance guys came as I was leaving for my run and yelled at me for having the air on and the windows open. It seriously is 10 degrees cooler outside than in the apartment so I don't know what they are yelling about. Ugh.

some pictures

2010-06-01T12:25:00.000-07:00

These are pictures that have been ignored in my camera from the last couple of months. :)

april may 2010

Flying colors

2010-05-20T09:33:00.000-07:00

So today is Ethan's physical for kindergarten. We are waiting for his doctor to come in.

I was surprised that they gave him a vision test.

Those test always scared me. He did perfectly well naming all the right letters! I'm really proud of him!!!

He read the one with the red line under it...

All the way from this far!

He's so great! :)

He had to cover one eye at a time. He kept wanting to peek. Hehee.

-- Post From My iPhone

Just singing in the rain

2010-05-13T17:07:00.000-07:00

-- Post From My iPhone

:D

2010-05-09T11:41:00.000-07:00

I'm being extremely spoiled today with breakfast and hugs and special treatment :D

I looooooove his hand writing :). Soo.cute.

Today is one of my best days. :)
My run was exhilirating. I haven't been able to run past one mile without being in pain for a long long time. The white blooming trees smelled really good and it was easy to pretend that the wind coming from the lake was from the ocean!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there and of course to those who are expecting :D. Hats off to all of you!

Thanks to my guys for making me feel like a princess :D

-- Post From My iPhone

I am smiling

2010-05-05T09:44:00.000-07:00

Perhaps it was easier since I told myself only one mile. Perhaps it was also easier because choco kept pulling me to go faster. Perhaps, it is just a beautiful day and the trees and cool air gave me energy. :)

-- Post From My iPhone

Please return to sender

2010-04-29T10:12:00.000-07:00

After my short run, I found this bench and hung out for awhile to catch my breath. My ears were ringing. Whether from the cold or my music blaring through my ear phones I'm not sure. Anyway. It's a beautiful day.

This squirrel was eating flowers! Silly squirrel. See picture below.

-- Post From My iPhone

All about Nothing

2010-04-27T08:26:00.001-07:00

I haven't blogged in forever. I suppose I am going through a blogger drought. Mostly because I haven't ran as often and when I do run, it's been outside and it gets too multi-steppy to blog my runs when I am using the every trail app. Basically I'm lazy.

I don't really have anything relevant to talk about. So I'm going to talk about whatever I want.

My arms feel like they wanna hang from the pull up thingie in the gym. My legs feel like running too. It's my body telling me to beat it up.

I've been daydreaming about those camelback water thingies. I think they are sooo cool. They even have one mini sized for Ethan. I really want to go on a long all day hiking trip. It would be even cooler if it was like an all nighter for several nights type of trip. That would be cool. Summer is coming right around the corner and it has started me thinking about my hike up Long's Peak. I don't know how to get there. I can't tell which one Long's Peak is and it's been bothering me a little.

Last weekend we went to the Rockies. I still have to upload those pictures. Maybe I should do that today.

I played around with the iPad at best buy the other day and I can't type on it! Pish posh. It took me forever to type "my iPhone pwns this". And it totally does.

Ethan still has a cough but he is getting better! I am thinking of taking him to the childrens museum this week and painting.

The clouds are puffy, the sun is out, the trees are blooming and the world is spinning very fast as always.

-- Post From My iPhone

27

2010-04-07T09:22:00.000-07:00

birthday

I am feeling the need to document my miles, and so I am writing this blog. I don't know why I've been so lazy about blogging my runs lately.

Actually I've only not blogged 2 runs. So I guess that's not too bad.

This might not go on very well this morning. I feel like I have blogger's block and I'm all out of words. Or the words will be nonsensical if I keep on typing.

The birthday was good. We got to see Ingrid in concert! It was a long long long drive and we were late so we had to squish amongst all people and steal a ledge to sit on but it was still wonderful. I even got yelled at by one of the peoples with a flashlight. If I could go back in time at that very moment when that @ss was shining that light on my face, I would definitely have slapped him. But I didn't because I didn't want to be booted out of the concert on my birthday. That would have been lame. I've never felt so tiny in my life. hmmph. So I don't really want to explain but since I started talking about it, now I feel like I have to.

We were on the floor area by the stage and we were trying to squeeze through to get closer. I suppose it's a bit annoying for the people that already got there to have someone squeeze through them. Now I feel rather silly. Anyway. One of the guys in black went through the crowd and I thought it would be smart to follow right behind him and get in further. I was able to stand like less than ten feet from Ingrid. I felt so smart, for less than 30 seconds. This other guy aka jerk face, spotted me smiling and looking out of place so he came over to where I stood and told me I had to leave. I wasn't blocking the hallway, or really in anyone's way. I was just squeezed into the crowd. I must have taken up like 3 cubit ft of space. Does that even make sense. Anyway he wouldn't leave me alone! He said, you need to leave since you didn't get here first. So I played stupid and I was like "hey buddy where do you want me to go?" I looked around at the closed wall of people (who were enjoying Ingrid's music and could care less that I took up that tiny space) and shrugged and told him, "where am I supposed to go? There is nowhere to go." Then he gets right in my face with his stupid little flashlight and says, "I don't care where you go. As long as you're not here. Anywhere but here." <-- moment when I wanted to slap him.

So yes, I was late and didn't get there in time. Whatever. I paid as much as those other people did. And I drove like half across the country to get there. Bleh. Maybe that guy had a really bad day and he was feeling like a piece of cowpoop and it made him feel better to treat someone else like cowpoop. Maybe he just realized that he was a worthless piece of cowpoop. I'll never forget his face. It's like a nightmare now.

So! I feel much better. Hooray for rants in cyberspace.

Hello wind. Hello sun.

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Shall we dance?

2010-04-01T09:19:00.000-07:00

-- Post From My iPhone

dedicated to you :)

2010-03-31T13:05:00.000-07:00

For my little sister, who really isn't so little anymore! May your heart always be filled with Love.

Everybody
by Ingrid Michaelson

We have fallen down again tonight
In this world it's hard to get it right
Trying to make your heart fit like a glove
What it needs is love, love, love

Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants be to loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants be to loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Happy is the heart that still feels pain
Darkness drains and light will come again
Swing open your chest and let it in
Just let the love, love, love begin

Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants be to loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants be to loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Everybody knows the love
Everybody holds the love
Everybody folds for love
Everybody feels the love
Everybody steals the love
Everybody heals with love

Oh oh oh
Just let the love love love begin

Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants be to loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants be to loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

I played pretend between the trees

2010-03-31T09:54:00.000-07:00

Day 3.
Still at just 2 miles but I'm happy with it. Making slight improvements on my time at least.

I climbed this tree yesterday. It is a wonderful and magical tree filled with magical wonders. I sat on this tree, by myself. I didn't have my phone or a book so I sat there staring at the branches and paying attention to each breath, each second, enjoying the moment for what it is. It is a favorite memory now.

We went to this park called bear creek park looking for a place to fly ethan's kite. The park was beautiful but there was hardly any open grassy areas to fly a big kite with and the trees were abundant and huge. Ethan was still happy dice he got to go down the hat slide over and over again with all the other little monsters..erm kids. Who am I kidding they are all monsters. ;p

I found this time capsule! I couldn't help but wonder what the world would be like in 2059. What the kids will be like. What the trees will be like. What the music will be like. Will people live on moons? Hehe. Will there be flying cars like in the Jetsons? That would be kick SSS.

Just a day. Just an ordinary day. Farewell to the month of March.

-- Post From My iPhone

Telling strangers..personal things

2010-03-30T10:16:00.000-07:00

It's Spring degrees outside!!!!
Today was better.
Still felt the cramp pushing. But I stopped running like a scaredy cat.

"Pull yerself together man. Yer going into the dark woods. Gotta have yer wits about ye.."

-- Post From My iPhone

This is what I get

2010-03-29T10:54:00.001-07:00

Epic failsauce.

This blog is going to be whiny. You have been warned.

First of all.
The Bose headphones I use to go running is retarded atm. The comfty buds fell and the left speaker crackles. I had no idea what happened. It will be weeks before Bose replaces it :(

So for slacking on my runs foreverandeverandever I can only say that I deserve this.

Cramps are stupid and annoying and they destroyed me. I ran it so slow it was ridiculous. Then to make it even better, while I was trying to wiggle the left ear piece so it would stop crackling, I pulled my phone off in the process. It tool a dive on the treadmill and there went my music. Some kids were in the gym earlier and there was this weird cheerleader show on Nick. I wanted to off myself.

I barely made it to mile 2. As punishment I am going tofirce myself to run everyday this week.

-- Post From My iPhone

It's been awhile

2010-03-23T09:34:00.001-07:00

And I really shouldn't make a Habbit of this.
I was a little scared of how painful and depressing this run was going to be.

It's supposed to snow today. The sky is covered with dark masses of clouds. It might rain. Snow? It might be too warm today.

This was drawn by Ethan a few nights ago. He is too darn cute. It's the three of us with like bunnies on our heads, I forget exactly what he called them. I think we look great.

-- Post From My iPhone

Afraid of failing

2010-03-16T10:58:00.000-07:00

This picture is a day maker!! Ethan gave it to me while we were driving around the other day. He is so cute! I love how he used red and how he took the time to color each little heart. ::giggles::

I was uber careful during this run. I felt the cramps tugging so I kept a fairly slow pace until I passed the two mile mark.

I suppose this is what I get for not running for 4 days in a row. I also really liked running on the treadmill today. It's so good for my feet. Running on the sidewalk really takes it's toll on your feet..what with the concrete pounding on your feet for miles and miles.

It's another beautiful day. I think I will take choco and Ethan to the dog park. Hehe.

-- Post From My iPhone

one more time with feeling

2010-03-16T09:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went for a run and this is what happened.

Everything smelled so wonderful outside. You could see tiny green sprouts of grass breaking through the golden ones and it was undeniable that spring was just around the corner. The air smelled so good. A mixture of damp earth and sunlight. Maybe that is why I was breathing too much. I think I bolted at the very beginning, then realized I was breathing too much and had to slow down. Right before the end of my second mile, I was overcome by the same cramp as before. :'( I had to stop. I stopped for a few minutes staring at dew buds on bushes. Then decided I didn't run far enough and wanted to do more. I ran it much slower and the cramps were there but were manageable. I lasted two more miles until they returned again, fully intent on being mean. I hate those cramps!!!!!!

Anyway, I am going to attempt to run 3 miles this morning.

Spring

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Destiny Calls

2010-03-10T23:25:00.000-08:00

! For those who are not caught up with Lost Season 6, this entry contains spoiler alerts.

Destiny is quite accurate.

Wow.

I don't even know where to begin. My mind is all over the place, but I think that finally I have some theories about where they are going with the final season of Lost. Until now, I have been a little frustrated with Lost because they seem to be throwing in more questions than answers. But that is what makes the show so freaking awesome. The suspense, the movement, the feeling.

The Oceanic Six
aka The Candidates

Jack

(I really can't figure out how Jack's face got all

messed up..)

Jack has been very skeptical and largely clueless. But who isn't. I am convinced that Jacob has enlightened Jack and has given him a sense of purpose. We can't underestimate the power that a sense of purpose gives us, or how the lack of it can quickly destroy us. Great example is Richard. Richard, the mysterious guy who never ages. He lost his sense of purpose when Jacob died. But thankfully, Jack was crazy enough to have a talk with him.

(ladeedah this is Richard thinking of offing himself)

Alternate Reality Jack is also making progress. It seems that he didn't have the best relationship with his son David, whose mother hasn't been revealed yet. Prior to getting stuck on the Island after the plane crash, Jack was divorced and was quickly following the footsteps of his dad...I think he liked to drink a little too much.

Before going back to the Island for the second time, Jack was with Kate, until (and I forget the reasons -although I think Sawyer might have been involved? I don't really remember) they broke it off and then Jack quickly spiraled down with alcohol binges and no purpose.

Present Jack on the Island has awakened and he has realized what Jacob thought he needed to realize. Alternate Reality Jack has bonded with his son David and life for him looks promising.

Overall, Jack seems to be a very good candidate. He has always had leadership qualities, even if his decisions have made people mad-such as Sawyer wanting to kick his arse.

Kate

Alternate Reality Kate, is a fugitive albeit a good person. She was there when Claire needed her.

Present Kate on the Island wants to rescue Claire so she can be with her son Aaron. Kate has no idea that Island Claire went a little cuckoo.

I'm sure that they will dive further into Kate, but right now, she has been in the background. She realizes that whatever she had with Sawyer is lost. Sawyer fell in love with Juliet. So there is no love triangle between Kate, Jack and Sawyer as of right now. Her entire purpose for coming back to the island seems to be Claire, but of course there is a hint of nostalgia and chemistry still between Jack and Kate.

(the creepiest villains...seriously what a match)

Kate should not be underestimated. She is smart and tough. I think she is still in the running for being a good candidate.

And I really thought Claire died. Now she's just possessed or psychotic or both. It's sooooo deliciously creepy.

Hurley

Hurley has never really been the leader type. He is the guy everyone loves because he doesn't make stupid decisions or really any sort of decision-up until recently. Hurley has developed a sort of rebel/independence that makes me giggle. He listens to Jacob completely. Jacob even referenced how easily Hurley was persuaded to go back to the Island...all Jacob had to do was pop in the back of his cab.

There is a lot more to Hurley. He wasn't stupid enough to stay with Jack and Richard at their fireworks party. Does this mean that Hurley lacks conviction? I think not. I would have done the same, except I would have been like more than a mile away from that ship!

I don't think that Hurley can really run the Island or do Jacob's job, but hey you never know.

Sun and Jin
How odd that both of them are candidates. Sun and Jin remind me of Yin and Yang but maybe it's because they are Chinese? Japanese? I don't know these things. No. I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm just silly. I don't really know what to think of Sun and Jin. I know they love each other and that is why they are back on the Island.

I don't think their marriage is doing so hot in the alternate reality though...

As for being candidates...I really don't see them being chosen yet.

Sayid
The last episode about Sayid really confused me. Historically, we have always been confused about Sayid. Is he evil? Being able to torture and kill people-and he is soo darn good at it! Wow. I'm surprised how scared I was of Sayid while he was sitting by the pool holding that bloody dagger with a sort of creep smile on his face.

ouch!! "Now why did you do that?"

You can't really blame the guy. In hindsight...those idiots tried to kill him twice! And they couldn't even do it themselves. The leader guy never answered Sayid at all when Sayid asked him why he didn't just kill him himself. Instead he told this really sad story about his son, but it had nothing to do with answering Sayid's question! I'm not trying to dignify Sayid killing those two guys..ok maybe I am. But who's to say that the leader guy whatever his name is wasn't going to try and convince someone else to kill Sayid in the future? And really, he sort of wanted to die. Not that it makes him being drowned justifiable. But he was going to stay in the Temple nevertheless. Surely the Smoke Monster would have eaten him?? I suppose my point was that Sayid's actions were sort of in Self Defense-if you can stretch it that far. But I guess when it gets down to it, he really likes to kill people.

(these two idiots really had to die they were so annoying)

Sayid's alternate reality life isn't so great. His dream girl ends up marrying and having kids with his brother. She still has the hots for him though. Even her kids like him. So once again, she is placed in a situation where she begs him to choose the right path and not go on a psychotic killing spree. And I think that he actually listened to her...he was on his way to pick the kids up from school, not to go seek vengeance on the bad guys. But stupid bad guys didn't know any better and thought they were all tough and kidnapped Sayid and took him to the boss guy who was cooking breakfast. Because that's supposed to be really intimidating. I loved that scene when Sayid took them all down and the boss guy practically begged him to spare his life...he even said "heyfohgetaboutitt" hahahahaha. I almost split a gut. Not really. At least Sayid saved Jin's life.

As far as being a good candidate, I'm not so sure. I think Sayid may have gone to the dark side. Who knows heh. It seems he may have taken a deal with the devil.

Sawyer

I'm not sure about Sawyer. Technically, he wasn't one of the Oceanic Six since he was left behind on the Island, but I think his name was scribbled down either in the cave or someone said that he couldn't be killed because he was one of "them". But my memory is hazy on this detail since I've only watch these episodes once and that was a few weeks ago with Sawyer.

(he is very angry with the world)

Sawyer isn't afraid of anything. Because he has nothing to lose. If he only knew all of the good things that Juliet's death did for everyone. I don't think they showed what how his alternate reality life was like...

Jacob
Jacob had to die. Otherwise, what would be the point of picking out a replacement? Which brings me to my theories on Jacob, the Island, and what the role of "candidate" entails.

(he even looks like an angel...)

My theory is that Jacob is some sort of angel, or protector. I think that's obvious enough. He obviously isn't a mere muggle. What is Jacob protecting? Probably humanity in general. My guess is that the Island is some sort of special place to keep the Smoke Monster trapped. A sort of prison for the Smokie. And Jacob's job is to take all the time in the world, to oh so carefully pick his replacement. He knew that he was going to die- I mean he had to. And so was born Oceanic Flight 815.

Locke/Smoke Monster aka Evil Incarnate

I really liked Locke. I can't believe they are using him this way. But he makes an awesome villain. You can't help but like him still, even if he is creepy and evil-ish.

the real Locke is dead ;-(

Locke's alternate reality life wasn't going so well...he lied to his jerk of a boss about going to some boring conference in Australia, only to end up being rejected to do his walkabout. It breaks my heart. But then he meets Hurley, this powerful and rich owner of his company who ends up giving him a job. I suppose it's not too bad for him. AND he gets to be with the love of his life.

The Lockeness Monster is recruiting people and telling them that he is getting off the Island. He was kept on the Island as prisoner for a reason...probably the whole Evil Incarnate deal. It seems that all he wants to do is get off the Island...is that so bad??

hmmm. Something tells me that Jacob thinks it's bad.

Dr. Ben Linus
The last episode titled Dr. Linus had me wiping tears from my eyes. I am so glad that they redeemed him. I kept yelling at the TV, what are you doing, you idiot!? Stop digging your own grave. If she's gonna kill you fine, but don't dig your own grave!!! Geez. I was feeling so disappointed with Ben after he tried to make a last minute deal with Miles. Die with dignity at least! But what would you do if faced with your own death? Wouldn't you spin your little wheels and think of whatever you can to try to save your life?

They have almost always always portrayed Linus as a lying, selfish s.o.b. But the sun is shining on him and it makes me happy. This last episode was like a second chance for him to do things better, to do the right thing for once and not think only about himself...both on the Island and his alternate reality life. He was able to help Alex and give her a bright future instead of being responsible for her death and watching her die. So that is a definite plus. It was so moving. It rocked my core to see such a phenomenal change in a character.

Even after he didn't shoot the girl (I have no idea what her name is) who was making him dig his own grave and who told him she was going to kill him, I kept waiting for Linus to be his old predictable self and shoot her at like the last minute or something. But he didn't :) And that girl has a huge capacity to forgive. But of course, she had a gun pointed at her. She is one brave person! To be able to turn around and walk with her back to the guy she was going to kill who now had a gun aimed at her...

I really like how they ended this last episode. It was like the biggest Déjà vu only a lot of people were missing :( But still. It's nice to watch everyone hug.

*hug*

I think everyone stories will slowly unfold and in a way, I think they will try very hard to end Lost in good spirits. They will make right with the world. That is my hopeful opinion.

I'm going to be very sad when this season is over :((

"free"

2010-03-10T19:13:00.001-08:00

What does "Free" in quotes mean? O.o
In case you can't figure it out since it's hard to see- this sign has the word FREE with quotes around it.

I wonder if I should go for giggles? I really enjoyed kick boxing freshman year at LUC...hmmmm

In other news...
I am now one of the writers for waranvil.com!! I'm super excited about this.

Lights.camera.action!!
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Dum dee dumm

2010-03-10T19:04:00.000-08:00

The other day I received snail mail from my wonderful sister :). It was so fun to open. She sent me the cutest::card ever!! Hehehe that's me! Quincy the cat eyeing the yummy cupcakes!!

I should really write her a letter back. I was at the post office the other day to mail stuffs for my dad and I had to fill in this form. My handwriting was so awful! I was like what the heck? Where did my pretty handwriting go? I realized that I never really write anything anymore. Everything word comes from either my phone or my MacBook.
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It has been two days since I've ran! I didn't want to make today day three so I decided to set aside my fears of pain and torture and faced the treadmill. My head was already complaining that this run was going to suck and my body chimed in too easily. I ignored them both. I wonder how you would distinguish that which is separate from your mind and your body? I think I would like to call it will. Maybe that's why they say, "fire at will!". Perhaps Will is just a really bad guy.

I started really slow.- at like 5.5 for almost an entire lap. Then I felt ridiculous so I upped it to 6 and then 6.5. I ran most of it at 6.5 and did a few laps at 7 mph. It was a really good run. Everything was working prolly. My nose wasn't stuffy and neither of my feet were really complaining. So yeah! Good run today :). Makes me want to visit the gym again tomorrow. It's supposed to be a really nice weekend coming up. I feel The Rockies calling me to hike. :))))

We are watching the Lost episode titled "Sundown" now. We watch the lighthouse one last night and Hurley had some very funny moments. I wonder who Jack had a kid with? Couldn't be Kate? Since the whole alternate universe thingie.

I really want to rewatch all the previous seasons!!!!!

Yay this episode has Sayid!! I Looooove Him! Okies.

Time to watch Lost.
:))

/sigh
The Nadia chick is sooo pretty!! :D
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you are worth hundreds of sparrows

2010-03-09T00:58:00.000-08:00

Today Ethan and I went on a little date. We live within walking distance to a pizza hut and a panda express. I got him his very own personal cheese pizza which he devoured and for some reason I went next door to see how gross the Panda Express was. I knew it wasn't going to be any good but I just had to actually eat their gross food to listen to myself. It wasn't very good. Bleh! hahah. Foolio. Perhaps, I went there just to get a fortune cookie. They are so very delicious and no one can mess them up or make them taste gross.

I'm going to miss the little dude when he starts going to school. But I'm really proud of him. He can spell his name and say the letters and write his name from memory. We are working on his last name next. I'm excited. I think I should be able to teach him how to read some words. We were working on sounding them out. I do need to be more patient and fun though. I got frustrated a couple of times. i.e. What letter is this Ethan? Oh that's the letter H (letter N) or that's the letter T- when he just finished telling me what the letter T looked like and so on and so forth. It took him forever to remember the letter N. We worked on it for an hour before I finally gave up and told him we needed a break. Tonight though he was so cute. He kept saying his letters and emphasizing which one the letter N was. heheh.

On a much sadder note:
One of my favorite singers died a few days ago :( The lead singer from Sparklehorse died from committing suicide on March 6th.

every hair on your head is counted
you are worth hundreds of sparrows
the tree you planted has become fecund
with kamikaze hummingbirds

wings of hundreds of beats per second
of people whose wings are just a blur
afraid our eyes might become impaled
by their sharp and tiny beaks

I'm so sorry
my spirit's rarely in my body
it wanders through the dry country
looking for a good place to rest
your head upon my chest
and I can feel the pillow of your breast

you are worth hundreds of sparrows

Ok. The remainder of this blog is going to sound a lot like gibberish if you don't play WoW..so feel free not to keep reading. You can look at the pictures though! The baby whelping is sooo.uber::cute!!

This afternoon, I decided that I really very much needed a baby azure whelping. I've attempted this before and (/quit) after two hours of nothing. I read some forums on this uncommon companion and according to most people, they got it to drop for them in around five hours. That's because this cute little baby dragon drops in 1 out of 1,000. I started about 5 this afternoon and probably took an hour and a half for dinner and midnight rolls around and still no whelping. :( Needless to say my spirits where down. I was so good at making the rounds around Lake Mennar, I knew exactly where the dragons would be. I actually was feeling a little depressed, and believe it or not, thought about quitting right as I was attacking the mob that dropped him. **smiles** They go for about 500g in the AH but it wouldn't feel right *buying* him.

I am so glad I have the dk to do my slave work for my druid. I feel a teeny bit guilty about having the dk do all the work and giving the whelping to my druid but oh wells :) eeheeee :D Actually it was really fun playing the dk again. It really helped me to get reacquainted with my spells and organize them according to cooldowns. It only took me 2 strikes at some points to knock the L52 elites out. I should practice on those dummies to get a feel for tanking purposes. The cooldowns change when I use aoe spells compared to just my normal ones. I might actually start to do some regular L80 instances using the dungeon tool. It will help my tanking skills for the druid too since I am going to dual spec tank and heals. Tanking is so fun. And healing is fun too. Dps would be fun if I actually had good gear. I'm sick of everyone putting up recount and being like the second to last dps...that's a little embarrassing when the healer has more dps than you. Of course that one particular healer felt so cool about his dps abilities, he forgot to heal sometimes. what.an.idiot.

I really *love* healing on my druid. I am learning fast though that tanks don't like to wait around for the healer to mana up. They are always in a hurry to get through the instance. It's like they are on some sort of race. So that's the only annoying thing. And if for some reason they end up dying (duh, running ahead of the healer or going on an attacking frenzy while you are half health and the healer has like no mana) they scream and yell at -you guessed it...the healer. So far, even with my feral spec, I have been able to heal several instances and it's been so fun. I'll probably wait until I hit L50 (when Jim claims that life as a druid gets easy..huh) to think about dual spec. 1000g is a lot.

The kitty

2010-03-07T11:34:00.000-08:00

His little kitty kube is the newest best addition to my bookshelf!
He is so cute it tickles!!!

*winks*

Good

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2010-03-05T21:14:00.000-08:00

Cumulus

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Free Couch

2010-03-02T15:58:00.000-08:00

Warning!

Do not read under these circumstances:
1. If you have to be quiet
2. @ work and your boss can hear you
3. If you're eating because chances are you'll choke from laughing
4. If profanity offends you.

Do Read:

If you are a vegetable. (Does not include tomatoes).

This is my favorite of the Emails from an A*_*hole. Laughter is the best medicine. If you're not feeling so great, go visit the site...gogogo Diego Go!

FREE COUCH

Free Couch

Posted at: 2009-09-25 14:37:58

Original ad:
I WANT YOUR COUCH
IF ANYONE HAS AN UNWANTED COUCH I CAN COME GET IT. WILL TRAVEL UP TO 20 MINUTES FROM CONSHOHOCKEN. PLEASE SEND PICTURES. THANKS

From Me to **********@*********.org:

Hi there! You can have my couch if you are still looking for one. Let me know! You can either e-mail me or call me.

Mike

From Juan ********* to Me:

HI MIKE

I STILL NEED YOUR COUCH.
HOW BIG IS IT?
DO YOU HAVE ANY PICTURES?
WHY DO YOU NOT WANT IT ANY MORE?

YOU DID NOT GIVE ME YOUR PHONE NUMBER SO I CANT CALL YOU.

From Me to Juan *********:

Juan,

The couch can seat three normal people, or two fat people. I don't have any pictures because my camera is broken (I didn't realize it was in the garbage disposal when I turned on the switch.)

I am getting rid of the couch because my grandfather passed away on it a few weeks ago. Every time I look at it, I am reminded of it, and I would rather it not be in my apartment anymore. Just give me a call and we can set up a time for you to come get it.

Mike

From Juan ********* to Me:

MIKE IS THE COUCH STILL IN GOOD CONDITION. YOU STILL DID NOT GIVE ME YOUR NUMBER.

From Me to Juan *********:

Juan,

The couch is still in very good condition. There are only a few minor blemishes, but you can't really notice them. There is a little bit of blood on the couch and a pool of blood on the middle cushion from when my grandfather shot himself. I tried cleaning it with club soda, but it had really soaked into the fabric by the time I found him. The blood dried though, and now it is kind of a brown-ish color that I think actually makes the couch look better. It is a brown couch anyway so you can't even notice it.

Mike

From Juan ********* to Me:

NO THANKS

From Me to Juan *********:

Why not? I thought we had a deal. Is it because of the blood? You can just turn the cushion over and nobody will have any idea.

From Juan ********* to Me:

THE COUCH IS COVERED IN BLOOD WHO WOULD WANT THAT?
GROSS!

From Me to Juan *********:

Don't put words in my mouth. I never said it was covered in blood - it just has a little blood here and there.

I did forget to mention, I believe my grandfather defecated on the couch when he died (the paramedics say it happens all the time.) I cleaned most of that up, but once again the couch is brown so you won't even notice it.

And this probably isn't a big deal, but he also had a cigar in his mouth and when he died it set part of the couch on fire. On the plus side, it did burn away some of the old urine stains that the couch had on it. The couch no longer smells like urine. It kind of smells like a barbecue, which is great if you love barbecues.

From Juan ********* to Me:

THAT COUCH IS FUCKED
THROW IT OUT!

From Me to Juan *********:

Why would you waste my time if you weren't going to take the couch? I'm sick of having to deal with people like you. I'm just trying to get rid of a decent couch, for free, and still people are wasting my time.

From Juan ********* to Me:

IF YOU TOLD ME UP FRONT THAT SOME ONE DIED AND SHIT ALL OVER YUOR COUCH THAN I WOULNT HAVE WASTED ANY MORE OF YOUR TIME!!
DONT YOU SPIN THIS ON ME BY TELING ME THE COUCH LOOKS GOOD WITH BLOOD OR SMELLS LIKE A BBQ. WHO THE FUCK WANTS A COUCCH THAT SMELLS LIKE BBQ IF I WANTED TO SMELL BBQ I WOULD BUY A FUCKING GRILL

From Me to Juan *********:

Would you be interested in the grill I am selling then? It is a CharCooker 500 and has three burners. Two of them don't work because my grandfather shot at the grill when he was drunk, but the middle burner still cooks food really well. I'm asking $400 for it, and for you, I'll throw in a couch for free.

From Juan ********* to Me:

I DONT WANT YOUR USELESS SHIT GUY!!!!

"hey remember that time when I would only read the backs of cereal boxes"

2010-03-02T15:12:00.000-08:00

My sister and I have decided that a butler would be very useful to have around. We are incredibly silly!

If I had a butler his name would be Gerard. And he would do my dishes and vacuuming. OH and laundry, and his English accent would be contagious.

I am terrified of how boring the treadmill is going to be during cold days. Plus it is making squeaky noises now. I'm extremely thankful that the weather has been nice enough to let me run outside.

Today's run was good overall. The first mile killed me though :( I might need to get new running shoes soon. I am beginning to feel my shin splints coming back. :(

45 degrees

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I made E and I salmon for lunch. He actually ate it. I had to bribe him with ice cream but he ate it. Salmon is good for you if your hair is thinning. It's like Rogaine only yummy.

Last night we went for late night greek food in LoDo. It was so fun. We were really goofy. I kept hearing, heyfohgetaboutitt in my head. I know it's not greek. I might need to watch that movie just for giggles.

I'm so full and sleepy. And I have dishes in my sink.

So. We are playing WoW again and I must say it is tons of fun :) :) :)

Here is a screenie of my druid basking in the moonlight.

The moon was incredible last night!! I felt this sharp pang for not having my canon. Meh! It was perfect against the buildings downtown. I love the moon oh so much.

Downtown Denver reminds me of Gothem City in a not creepy way.

I wish we had a Batman that flew around and rescued people.

2010-03-02T15:00:00.000-08:00

so.
I have been slacking on posting!

this was my run last sunday.

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sunny

2010-02-26T11:41:00.000-08:00

It's beautifully sunny outside. The snow is melting and you can hear the water loudly draining into lower ground. It feels so refreshing to just breathe.

This run was really nice to me. It's so much better to look up and see the intense blue of the sky and see the sunlight hitting the trees than staring at the little red dots on the treadmill. haha. I feel like the ground gives me energy too.

Newhoo. We have been grounded in the apartment the entire week. Ethan still has his cough. Hopefully we can go out this weekend.

We are registering him for Kindergarten soon. Werd.

Sunny

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